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clude such matter in gift parcels,
with the exception of hard candies,
nuts, caramels Including those COW
cred with chocolate, cookies, fruit
cake and chocolate bars individual
ly wrapped in wax paper.
Prohibited articles include intox-
%icants, i~nflammable materials, pois-
Ons or compositions which may xiii
or injure another, or damage the
mails.
Addresses must be legible, in
typewriting or ink. The complete
address should also be shown on a
sheet of paper inside the parcel in
order to permit Identification of the
addressee in the event the outer
wrapper becomes torn, mutilated or
destroyed in transit. Not more
than n Christmas parcel or pack
age shall be accepted for mailing
in any one week when sent by or
on behalf of the same person or
concern to or for the same ad-
dress.
No requests from the addresses
are required in connection with
Christmas parcels mailed to army
personnel during this period only.
Packages mailed to fleet post Of
fees never need a request.
Persons should endorse each gift
parcel christmas Parcel"
Christmas parcels for members Of
the army personnel leaving home
stations en- route overseas shortly
before or subsequent to October 16,
1914 will be accepted after October
Is, up to and including December
10 upon presentation by the sender
of a change of address notification
from the addressee received sub
sequent to September 80. This is
change of address card received
when army personnel are sent over
Christmas greeting cards for SOL
diers overseas must be sent in seal
ed envelopes and prepaid at the
first-class rate. It is advisable to
send greeting cards to any member
of the armed forces as first class
mail as then forwarding and return
to sender will be taken care of.
Mail your Christmas parcels and
cards as soon as possible. Begin
shopping now so your packages
will be ready to mail September Is.
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SPEAKER DEFINES
NEGRO PROBLEM"
Pennepacker Tells ROtarians
Of Experiences and Obser-
vatiOnS In South

There really is no Negro problem
said ]. E. Pennepacker of Billings
an educator who had spent tw,
years as an instructor in a deep
south Negro college before recent!
returning to Montana to serve al
a Methodist church district super
intendent-when he addressed Lau.
rel Rotarians Tuesday. What ap.
pears to be a single problem is {
combination of causes that viii
require good thinking, good mo.
tives and tact on both side
to untangle and solve. The
Negroes are Americans, a perman-
ent part of the population. AS such
they will remain, as will the other
races represented in America.
In close. contact with Negro stu
dents for two years, ~Pennepacker
said those he taught in college were
as intelligent and as good students
as white people of similar age and
financial standing. He acknowledge
ed he had come in contact with the
cream of the crop, but their capaci-
ties were identical with others.
There is a certain amount of re-
sentiment at abuses of the past and
present, but despite that the Neg
roes he knew, Pennepacker said, are
willing to work for and defend
America in the same measure as
whites. This is their country too;
it has been so for some hundreds
of years.
AS a race, American Negroes are
longer Africans. There has been
a mixture of bloods and from the
mixture has come a new brown
race, different from any other in
the world.
One of the roots of the problem"
is in the field of economics. Poor
and Negro workers are COM
p~etitors for scanty livelihoods, but
as the amount of financial indie
pendence increases on both sides
the tension lessons, Pennepacker
said he had observed. Affluent
white and Negro citizens can and
do get together quietly to attempt
of their respective peoples
problems, and the speaker mention
ed one such conference he had
known about. Race clashes are
more common between the low in
bracket groups on both sides.
AS a people, American Negroes
have contributed to the country's
agricultural and industrial wealth
and also have made cultural con-
5ributions that in some respects are
different from all others.
The problem" is a long way from
,eing solved; it will require intelli-
gent action in the present and fu-
,ure, and northern people may find
t brought to their doors. The
,rend is that way now.
The speaker was introduced by
Fred w. Graft, August program
Committeeman.
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SUGAR BEET CROP.
TO AVERAGE $3.50
WA Announces 1916 Sugar
Beet and Sugarcane Price
Support Program

The war food administration an
inc a price support program
for the 1916 sugar beet crop and
for the 1915 Louisiana and Florida
sugar cane crops which will assist
growers to increase production.
The price support program for
the 1915 sugar beet crop will be az
least as favorable as the 1914 pro-
gram, under which growers will
average about $3.50 per ton of
beets, including payments under the
sugar act of 1897.
Under the price support program
for the 1915 Louisiana sugar cane
crop growers will receive a payment
of about SLIGO per ton of sugarcane
of the average quality of recent
years, or $1.53 per ton of standard
cane, subject to downward adjust
ment in case of an advance in the
market price of sugar. The 1914
price support program will be ad-
justed to provide for full payment
on frozen cane, used either for
sugar or molasses, in order to aid
growers in clearing fields promptly
and thus insure greater sugar and
m%olasses production IN 1914 and
succeeding years.
Under the price support program
for the 1915 Florida sugarcane crop
growers will receive a basic pay
ment of SLIGO per ton of average
sugarcane, the payment to be
graduated upward or downward on
the basis of the sugar commercially
recoverable from the cane and sub
ject to adjustment downward in
case of an advance in the market
value of sugar. The price support
payment will apply on a straight
weight basis to frozen sugarcane
which can be utilized for either
sugar or molasses.
Announcement of the price sup
port programs is made at this time
to enable growers to plan for 1915
production, particularly in Califor-
mia where part of the sugar beet
crop is fall-planted and where there
is a good opportunity for increasing
production. Sugar beet growers can
make an important contribution to
wartime food needs by substantially
increasing their sugar beet plant
ings. Increased sugar production is
necessary to meet needs of the
armed forces, civilians, and allies.
The price support programs will
help growers to meet wage rates
necessary to obtain sufficient work
ers. 1t is feared that lowered pro-
duction of sugarcahe in Louisiana
and Florida, due to scarcity of
labor, may continue unless growers
are able to obtain an increased
number of workers.
The price support payments, like
the payments under the sugar act
of 1887, are contingent upon an ap-
preparation by the congress. The
extension act of 1914
authorizes such appropriations.
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The phenomenal wartime contri-
button northwest states are making
to the job of feeding America, her
Allies and liberated peoples is re-
vealed in a Northern Pacific rail-
way graph showing wheat produc-
ton for the past "A years in North
Dakota, Montana and Washington.
The graph shows:
That North Dakota in "A years
has produced in excess of 40 mil
lion bushels in only seven years
four of them in the past four years;
That Montana in Al years has
exceeded 60 million bushels in only
eight years-four of the eight ii
the past four years, and
That Washington in the same per-
iOd has produced in excess of so
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million bushels in 10 of those years
-four in the past four years.
"This fOur-year record produc-
tion," Mr.. Haw of the Northern
Pacific general offices said, "has
been accomplished by favorable
weather aiding the herculean effort
of northwest farmers who have re-
fused to be licked by drastic short
ages of manpower and machinery.
Contributing to their achievement
are the residents of towns and cities
in the wheat areas who have backed
mp the front line of production even
to the point of helping harvest the
crops.
cts too bad that the farmers Of
the northwest are not eligible to
receive the army and navy "E"
award. They certainly have earned
it."
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FARM UNION TEAM
GOES To TOP IN
LEAGUE STANDING
Laurel Wins Here From Ideal
Bakery, Gives Carter Oil
Seasons First Defeat

Laurel Farmers Union baseball
team, a member of the Billings
American Legion league, played
two games here in the past week
and in the second, which was Sun
day, the Laurel team went to top
place in the league.
The Farmers Union beat the Ideal
Bakery in a game of four innings
Thursday evening on the Laurel
diamond. The score was 8 to 2.
Speare pitching and Johnson catcn-
ing constituted the Laurel battery,
while Perrigo and Lawson pitched
for the Bakery and Lawson and Nc
Cranie caught.
The short game began at 8
O'Clock, delayed by the late arrival
of the Bakery team from Billings.
Score by innings:
r H E
Farmers Union 600 2 8 6 l
Ideal Bakery 200 0 2 8 1
Speare got three hits in three
times at bat, including a home run.
ldhtS League LedueTSnEp
Laurel took a strong lead in the
first inning Sunday with Carter Oil
by making eight runs. The game
was important for it determined
which of the two teams would oc-
cupy first place in the league stand
ing. Each had won three and lost
none.
Carter Oil was strong competition
and after two goose eggs for the
opening, and marked up 10 runs to
Laurel's II. Laurel's victory was
the first Carter had sustained this
year.
This was the score for the full
nine innings:
Farmers Union 800 10 COX II IL Ia
Carter Oil 001 214 10 10 8 s
Johnson pitched for the Union
and Shoop caught. For Carter the
battery consisted of W~orthington
pitching and Palmershien catching.
Johnson struck out 16 and Worth
Is.
Norman Johnston and Fellows
the Farmers Unions heavy
n~itters. Johnston got three hits,
1ne of which was a home run, and
Fellows got two singles and a dou-
Die. Johnson and Whitson each hit
double and a single.
For Carter, Perry hit a home run
when the bases were loaded with
men.
American Legion League Standings
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Ask Cafe Operators
To Attend Meeting
Thursday, Aug. 24th

The war price and rationing board
at Billings has announced that Har-
old F. Gum, regional food special
ist from Denver, will hold an i'm
portant meeting for restaurant and
cafe owners Thursday, Aug. "a, at
the Commercial club in Billings.
The meeting will be at g p. m,
and all restaurant and cafe owners
are requested to attend.
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Mr.. and Mrs. Rex B. DeAtley had
as guests Tuesday Mr.. and Mrs. W.
P. Prewett of Nampa, Ida, and
their daughter, Mrs. Waldo Gray of
Gooding, Ida, who were en- route
to their homes from a visit in
Bridger with Mr.. and Mrs. Henry
Foust.
Laurel outlook., 1944-08-16

Mrs. Arnott Boyd and her guest,
Mrs. E. F. Burson of Livingston
spent the week end at Camp Sonia
with their sister, Mrs. Carl Francis
and family of Billings at the Fran
els cabin.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-31
Matthew Smith Gets
Gas Hearing Delay

The gas rationing hearing Of
Matthew Smith. secretary of the
Mechanics Educational Society of
America. 10 be questioned by the
OPA in connection with an alleged
trip 10 Florida. has Deen post
poned until Monday
The hearing originally Sched-
uled to be held tomorrow, was
postponed al the request OF Smith,
who pleaded pressure Of union
business etef the week -efaeai .
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-31

Detroit and Wayne County Of
ficials are seeing eye TO eye today
- at least two representations
building a joint county-city air
port and a county-city admin,stra-
tive building, to house the offices
OF both
Agreement on the need FOR CO.
operation in both projects was
reached at "A meeting in the
mayors office ong Mayor
JeffrieS, County Auditor Hafeli
County Road Engineer Smith and
members OF the county airport
committee.
The only remaining question "a
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-31
County, City Unite in Plans
For Airport, 0ffiCeBui|ding

be decided before the county and
city agree TO finance an airport
Jointly is the selection Of a site,
which may be settled within the
next 10 days by the Michigan
Supreme Court in a decision on
the city's efforts 10 secure a
square mile al Eight Mile and
Dequlndre in Macomb County.
The group agreed TO meet again
Monday, April 10.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-31

Mrs Helen Muntean. mother Of
Pfc. Earl Muntean. %, a former
Dearborn Sandlot ball player, was
notified by the war department
today that her son was killed in
action recently in the south
Pacific.
Muntean, a graduate Of FordSon
High School. enlisted IN the ma
rines IN January. 1912 and had
been overseas since August 1912
Surviving him are his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs John Muntesn; a
brother, George h. Muntean, and
sister Mrs. Flora Julvazan, all
OF Dearborn.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-31
U. S. Launches Sub

GROTON, Conn. March 81
+ 1NS1 The submarine Calman
was launched yesterday AT the
Electric Boat Co. yards here.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-31

.DeadIine Set

War plants i'm the Detroit area
have until April 10 10 save their
key men. age p through 25. from
the draft with the aid of the War
Production Board.
Under the plan announced
yesterday, WPB regional offices
will endorse all requests for de-
ferments in this age class in 13
vital war programs
WPB representatives have until
April s 10 contact the plants and
their reports must be in Wash
ington not later than April 10 if
the younger key men are 10 be
kept on their Jobs.
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-31
NUMBER SMALL

While the number Of men in the
- 10 Is group in the Detroit area
is comparatively small. IL includes
men who are so necessary and
irreplaceable that their loss would
peril the entire war production
program here. Their special skillS
and knowledge make them valu-
able in keeping production in
balance.
As an example, the WPB cited
a company in Ann Arbor which
makes lenses for the bombsights.
1t is one Of the two firms in the
entire country able 10 turn out
tins type of lens and the technical
work in the plant is being done
almost entirely by group Of
younger men. barely out OF col
lege Their loss would mean the
closing OF the plant.
"The WPB will limit requests
for deferments 10 men Of this
TYPE Was said
Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1944-03-31
VITAL ARMY PROGRAMS

The programs in this region
which have been claSsed as vital
include the manufacture for the
army OF ID uck $" amphiblous
trucks. tires and tubes; tire fab
RIGS and molds radar: critical
.components for light and heavy
trucks: truck trailerS Class ! and
= tractors, and planes Also in
cluded is research and develop
ment work specifically assigned
by The services.
For the navy. the vital pro-
grams in the Detroit area include
landing craft. high-capacity am
munitiOn. radar and planes. In
addition production Of component
parts I'M critically-Short supply for
the programs is included.
Evening star., 1944-09-29
Another Band Concert
To Be Given al Capito|

A fourth Sunday afternoon iii
tary band concert will be given for
visitors at the Capitol Sunday, on
the east side of the building from
to S, when the Army Air Forces
Band from Boiling Field plays.
An original schedule of three Sun
day concerts at the Capitol ended
last week. The concerts began after
such a program was suggested sev-
eral weeks ago in The Star, by
Maury Maverick, former House rep
resentative from Texas, now chair
man of the Smaller War Plants
Corp.
The Air Forces Band was asked
to play by the Capitol Police Board
which scheduled the first three con-
certs. David Lynn, Capitol archi-
tect, said yesterday that no concert
had been scheduled definitely for
October 8, but that 1T was under
consideration.
A 4O-piece WAVE band, from
WAVE quarters D." composed of
girls who practice and play during
their off-duty hours, said yesterday
that they would play for a concert
October 8, if they we're asked. Off
cial approval has been given for such
a concert, in case the invitation
comes
Evening star., 1944-09-29
Son, Daughter Receive
Mrs. Whitney's Estate
Nv the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Sept. 29.-Mrs. Payne
Whitney, turf enthusiast and widow
of the flnancier, named her son, Col.
John Hay Jock Whitney, and
daughter, Mrs. Charles Shipman
Payson, as principal beneficiaries
and executors of her estate, the
filing of her will showed yesterday.
The petition formally valued the
estate at more than $4,000 in real
property and more than $4,000 in
personal property" When her hus-
bands estate was distributed in 1929,
its net value was estimated at
0,973 1853. Mrs. Whitney died Sum-
day of a heart ailment.
Col. Whitney, now with the Army
Air Forces in the Mediterranean
theater, was left his mothers Fifth
Avenue home, her Manhasset IN. "
estate and one-half of the reAduary
estate. Mrs. Payson also received
one-half of the residuary estate, the
Saratoga IN. " estate and property
in Kentucky, plus jewelry and per-
sonal effects.
A sister and brother, Alice Hay
Wadsworth of Genesee, N. Y, and
Clarence L. Hay, New York, were
left equal shares of their sisters
real property in Ohio and in
bequest of 100000.
Evening star., 1944-09-29
Father Held in Attempt
To Drown Two Children
BY the Associated Press.

COSHOCTON, Ohio, Sept. %
Warren Patterson, a slender 81
year-old machinist whom Prosecutor
Russell E. Lyons said admitted in q
signed statement that he stood on a
bridge and dropped two of his four
sons into Michigan River because he
had no home for them, was held in
Jail here today.
One Of the boys, Larry, Ia,
drowned, and Mr.. Lyons said he
would file murder charge this
afternoon. Common Pleas Judge j.
G. Daugherty said he would call a
special grand judy to meet Monday.
The other, Raymond, 7, crawled
from the stream, wandered most of
the night in a cold rain and finally
was picked up by a motorist, Mr..
Lyons said.
The two other boys, Gene and
Glenn, 8-year-old twins, were put
out of their fathers automobile a
half mile from the bridge and left
with a blanket under a tree. They
stayed there 16 hours in a rainstorm
before being found, the prosecutor
added.
Mr.. Lyons said that Patterson told
him that he intended to push the
twins into the river, too, but hadn't
the heart" to 60 on after dropping
the first two.
Evening star., 1944-09-29


state of preparedness of the avia-
-tion units of the Pacific Fleet for
the Central Pacific campaign.
Admiral Sherman formerly COM
manded the aircraft carrier Wasp.
and for his services at the time 1t
was sunk was awarded the Navy
Cross and the Purple Heart.
First 1t. De Witt c. Smith, ir., son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Smith of Edgemoor
lane, Bethesda, Md, has been
awarded the Silver Star for heroic
achievement and gallantry In ac-
tion," his parents have been in
formed The action took place July
l8, scarcely a week after he had
landed in France.
1t. Smith is a member of an ar
mored division which spearheaded
the break-through in Normandy and
cut off the Brittany peninsula. At
one time the division was completely
surrounded by Germans.
A graduate of Bethesda Chevy
Chase High School. 1t. Smith was
attending the University of Mary
land when he left home in January
1910. to join the Canadian Army as
private in the Essex Scottish Reg
ment under the name of John Hare
He was released from the Canadian
Army in March, 1910. after a Joint
appeal with his father, who is vice
chairman of domestic services for
the American Red Cross.
Before entering the United States
Army in 1941, 1t. Smith was en-
ployed at The Star as an Office boy
His wife is the former Miss Marga- =
ret Bond of Chevy Chase
Pvt. Wayne v. McGrady, 10. son
OF Mrs. Annie McGrady. 1926 Upton
street NV, and Wayne McGrady.
Alexandria. Va, has been awarded
the Silver Star for gallantry in &C
ton in France July 7, where as a
lineman with a naison party he ran
through enemy fire to re-establish
communications with a forward ele-
ment Of an infantry regiment which
had been cut off by enemy action, it
was learned today.
Pvt. McGrady, who attended Will
son High School and was graduated
from Mount Vernon (Va.) High
School, entered the Army in Oc-
tober, 1943, and was sent overseas
last March with a field artillery
regiment of the 29th Division.
Evening star., 1944-09-29
Sixth War Loan Campaign
| Quota Set al a Billions

The Sixth War Loan Drive Is
scheduled to begin November 20
with q national goal OF $14,O00,-
000, 900, Secretary of the Treasury
Morgenthau announced yesterday.
The tentative closing date for the
campaign has been set at Decem-
Der 16.
Washingtons quota has not been
established, the District War FL
nance Committee reported.
Mr.. Morgenthau explained that
new subscriptions for bonds through
payroll deductions will be counted
toward the drive II they are
processed through the Federal Re-
serve Banks between November 1
and December 81.
The goal for the Fifth War Loan
Drive last July was SIG 900 600. .OOO
Evening star., 1944-09-29
Portraits Of Leaders Symbolic
America to Emit Kaufman

man all mixed up within him." she
said, adding that he was one of her
toughest" assignments. She tore
UP five pictures of him before she
was satisfied. In the final picture
he stands before a background of
trees, flowers and corn.
She found Wendell Willkie a real
ist, Norman Thomas an idealist,
Cordell Hull "a mixture of Voltaire
and Machiavelli," Paul Robson "a
father to all peoples" Gen. Mar
shall, she said, would be a great
person even If he were not military
man."
She is painting Henry Kaiser now,
and Gov. Dewey is next on the list.
What she finds in the faces of. the
President and Gov. Dewey will de-
termine her choice for President
when she votes for the first time
this November. She became an
American citizen last year. She
would not say which candidate she
favors now.
Asked If she thought she would
Evening star., 1944-09-29
Ny|on Hosiery Charge
Holds Man 10 Grand Jury

George M. Toney. %, of 3349 Clay
street NE, charged with using the
mails to defraud by sending out
post cards advertising sheer nylon
hose at $744 per dozen pairs, pleaded
not guilty and was held for action
of the grand jury by United States
Commissioner Needham c. Turnage
yesterday.
William Quay, postal inspector
testified Toney already has received
almost 81 900 from various would-be
clients who hoped to take advantage
of the offer. Between 900 and 1.OOO
post cards we're sent out, it was
alleged.
Mrs. Sally Muchmore, assistant
director of the Better Business Bu-
reau. said last week that Toney told
her he had no hose but was relying
on an ad in a theatrical publication
offering such merchandise.
Toney's bond was continued at
$1,000.