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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14


emy's sea base of Palau, AGO miles
from the Philippines, but the Nips
once more withdrew. On New
Guinea, New Britain and Bougain-
vile, Allied ground forces continued
to press the Japs, as U. S. airmen
impeded reinforcement of their bat
tered troops by shooting up shipping
and bases.
Seeking to capitalize on their sur
prise of the Allies in India when
they burst from the Burmese jun
gle from three points to converge
on Imphal, the Japs maintained
heavy pressure in the face of stiffen-
ing British resistance. Beyond I'M
phal lay the Bengal-Assam railroad,
supplying Lieut.. Gen. Joseph Still
wells U. S. and Chinese troops push
ing the Japs down the Mogaung val
ley in far northern Burma.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14
GERMANY:
Production Efficiency

Striving to stretch their human
and material resources to maxi
mum, Germany's production cars
have reached into industrial and do
mestic activity alike.
In industry, the Nazis have spared
men and metal by reducing locomo-
tive models from 119 to Is, and they
have economical on shipping space
by extensive dehydration of foods.
More efficient methods repeatedly
increased steel, copper and alumni
mum output while decreasing man
hours.
To keep working women from per-
forming house tasks at home, the
Nazis have organized groups to
mend their stockings and attend to
other domestic functions. Persons
from IS to 70 have been enlisted to
assist service men at railway de-
pots.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14
HIcHLIcHTs /. !. ... week. ....

DAIRY SUBSIDIES: Charles Hoi-
man, secretary Of the National Co
operative Milk Producers federation,
told q senate committee that sub
sides on dairy products would have
ito be increased by $500, 000, 900 a year
to give farmers a fair return. This
would raise the total paid to milk
producers from $3.50, 600, 900 to $780,
O00, 900. Holman Is opposed to the
whole dairy subsidy program.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14

SAVINGS: In the first two years
of war, savings of the American peo-
pie have increased by more than so
per cent, represented by war bonds,
bank deposits and life insurance. The
total of these three items on Janu-
airy Of this. year was 81 billion
dollars. About II per cent of in
dividual income goes into these
forms Of savings, according to the
Institute Of Life Insurance.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14
Wrap Overseas Supplies
To Withstand All Chimes

To the packaging industry goes
the credit for wrappings which
protect American food and sup
plies in shipment to the front lines
through sub-zero temperatures,
blazing heat, and penetrating hui
Nudity. Great quantities of war
material are delivered in contain
ers which can be immersed in wa
ter for days without damage.
Goods are often unloaded at re-
mote points where there are no
docks. 1t is simply dumped onto
the surf to be carried ashore by
the waves or the tide.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14

Under existing legislation all vet
Grams of World War II who were
citizens of Illinois when they en-
tered military service are eligible
for University Of Illinois scholar
ships.
Berlin radio told Latin America
that the: German tourist movement
in 194S was only 8 per cent lower
than in years before the war. ~
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14

India, Adm. Louis
Mountbatten rallied
Allied forces to a
stand to hold this
key to land cornnu-
nications all along
the 600 mile Bur
mese front.
In the Southwest
Pacific area, strong
U. S. naval forces
again challenged the
japanese fleet to
come out and fight
hxy offarE;y, - %ho ~.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14

Ohio's six State universities,
through their Inter-University Coun-
Gil, have asked the director of edu-
cation of Ohio, Kenneth S. Ray, to
call a state conference on problems
relating to the rehabilitation Of re-
turning servicemen.
u. S. civilian supplies of sugar
will be 6 per cent less than 1913 con-
sumption, according to VIA.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14

Taken to st. Petersburg, Fla, by
his master and then given to a resi-
dent there, an Irish setter, Duke, SO
l0nged for his old home that he trav-
eled 1900 miles back to it at Roam,
Ind, where an old friend, Rev. Rob-
ert Collins, found him bl0ody-footed
and exhausted.
Informed of Dukes plight, his
master wired Rev. Collins funds to
care for the dog until he should re-
turn.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14
RATIONINC:
announce Changes

More gas, freer use of fuel oil and
food coupons and ration changes in
vegetables, fruits, meats and oils
were announced by OPA. Go
To maintain the distribution bust
ness, it was announced drivers hold
ing "B" cards will be allowed an
additional 100 miles a month, while
expiration dates for fuel oil coupons
will be eliminated before the fall
season of heavy consumption gets
underway.
Because many shoppers cashed in
their red and blue food coupons for
tokens at expiration dates, OPA took
off all time limits on the stamps.
While all frozen fruits and vege-
tables were taken off rationing, beef
flank meat, pork liver, lamb and
mutton hearts, liver, sweetbreads
and tongue, beef tongue, cooked and
barbecued pork spareribs and pork
tongue were cut point. Shortening,
salad and cooking oil were slashed
point. Points on canned carrots
and tomato juice also were reduced.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14
DRAFT:
Eve 4-Fs

To fill up the industrial and agri-
cultural ranks left vacant by the
drafting of all men except key work.
ers under 26, the government called
for the induction Of all ATS not en-
gagged in essential occupations and
a congressional committee moved
to shape special legislation for such
q program.
At the same time, it was revealed
Selective Service was scrapping its
unit system of deferring agricultural
workers, only giving consideration
to mans regular employment on a
farm and the problem of replacing
him.
Under the governments proposal,
ATS doing nonessential work would
be enlisted as reserves and directed
to essential occupations at regular
civilian pay, or they would be en-
rolled in labor battalions for en-
ployment at army pay if they re-
fused to accept the assignments.
Of the nations $500, 900 ATS it was
estimated that about 1,000,00 were
engaged in non-essential work.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14
AGRICULTURE:
Food Subsidies

To peg consumer costs, War Food
Administrator Marvin Jones ordered
the $4,000, 100000 Commodity Credit
corporation to use its powers and
funds for substituting food prices.
In addition, the CCC was ordered
to purchase, sell, store and trans
port food and farm products involved
in the WAS price-support and lend
lease programs.
Strongly bucked by the farm bloc
in congressional debate but upheld
by administration forces, the food
subsidy program will cost the CCC
between $3.50, 900, 600 and $500, 000, 1000,
it was estimated.
Farm Prices
Increases in returns on meat ami
mails, feed grains, hay and oil bear
ing and fruit crops resulted in one
point advance in the general level
of farm prices from midi February
to mid-March, the agriculture de-
partment reported.
Boosts in the above commodities
more than offset declines in food
grains, truck crops, and milk and
egg prices, and brought the general
income level to 1876 of the 1909-'14
plane. A rise of one point brought
prices paid by farmers to 176 Of
the 1909-'14 standard.
Prices received by farmers aver
aged lis of parity, with only wheat,
rye, faxseed, cotton, hay, peanuts,
cotton, lemon and oranges below the
fair exchange value established by
congress.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14
NetU Construction
WITHOUT COUNTRY

A bill has been passed by the
house which would make men who
fed the United States to avoid the
draft linen without a country"
These expatriates would be forever
barred from reentering the United
States. The bill was sent to the
senate for action.
The house immigration committee
reported that many men have gone
into Mexico to avoid induction. In
the vicinity of Ell Paso, Texas. alone,
more than 300 evaders are known to
have crossed the border.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14
PACIFIC:
Threaten India

AS bold Japanese forces thrust to-
ward the highway hub of Imphal ii
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYS
Increased Activity in Pacific Sector
Marked by U. S. Blows ON Jap Bases
And Heavy Fighting in Burma, India;
4-Fs Get Study in Manpower Crisis

NoTE opinions these columns they those
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14
Occupation Plans

From London last week came re-
ports indicating Allied plans for
postwar Europe shaped by the U. S.,
Russia and Britain.
With the reich's collapse, the au-
thoritative London Sunday Observer
said plans called for British occupa-
ton Of western and north central
Germany, U. S. control of the south
ern and south-central parts, and
Russia of the eastern section. Sym
Dol of Germany, Berlin would be oc-
cupied by all three powers.
Before establishment of stable gov
eminent, the Big Three would also
occupy Austria, and any movement
for that country's union with Ger
many would be discouraged, with
closer economic ties with the Bal
kans suggested.
Looking toward eastern Europe,
information leaking from sources
consulted on perfecting details of
the Teheran agreements indicate
Moscow will annex the Baltic states
and eastern Poland and Balkan ter
ritory considered additionally Rus
sian, and exercise influence over
Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14
ARMY AND NAVY:
FurLOughs

Because Of shipping difficulties
and preparations for campaigns, the
army will continue to grant fur
loughs on an individual basis rather
than to whole units, Sen. Guy Gil
lette Towa) was advised by the war
department.
With other midwestern senator's,
Gillette had queried the war depart
ment about the possibilities of fur
Laughing the 34th division, which has
been overseas for more than two
years and is made up of men from
Minnesota, South Dakota, North Da-
kota, Nebraska and Iowa.
While the war department admit
ted many empty cargo ships were
returning to the U. S., it added that
there was a problem of shore ham
ding once the vessels reached here.
Ne,U Construction
Heralding an intensification of the
war against the Japanese, the u. S.
navy asked for ~ billion dollars for
the construction Of shore facilities,
principally on the West coast.
Plans call for the building of feet
and cargo piers, supply depots, avi-
alton training bases, harbor i'm
provements and repair depots.
Expansion of present hospital IA
cilities from 10000 to 10000 beds
and provision for malaria recupera-
ton centers also were included in
the plans.
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Broken Machine

Hannegan is a young, energetic,
open-faced Irishman, and it is good
thing he is young and energetic and
optimistic because he has had to
start his job of organization at
scratch. Anyone at Democratic
headquarters will admit that.
The reason is revealed in this SIM
pie chronology:
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1944-04-14
EUROPE:
In Balkans

While their lines held in northern
Russia, German troops fell back to
the Carpathian mountains in the
south, where they were looked upon
to make a stand with Hungarian
and Rumanian forces recently in
corporated into the Nazi armies.
AS the Germans drew back in the
east, Allied bombers headed over
western Europe to drop their ex-
plosives over the expected invasion
routes and hammer at Nazi produc-
ton centers. In Italy, both sides
traded punches at Anzio below
Rome, while action tapered at Cas-
sino, where Germans chung to their
defensive posts.
In pushing the Germans back to
the Carpathians, the Russians adj
vanced to within 80 miles from the
old Czecho-Slovak border, while far
Their to the southeast, they crossed
the Prut river to lunge into Ru-
mania.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-24
NEW ROTARY CLUB

LAGRANGE, April 23.-LR)-
The Lagrange Rotary Club will re-
ceive its charter at a program
here Friday night. It will be the
54th club in the 10th Rotary Dis
trict.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-24
DE Honoring Naval
Hero Is Christened
By His Army Wife

NEWARK, N. j., April 23.-R
The Destroyer Escort Charles E
Brannon slid dowr the ways o.
the Federal Shipbuilding and Dry
Dock Company, Port Newark, to-
day.
The sleek vessel was christened
by the Navy hero's widow, Army
1t. Dorothy M. Brannon, who was
flown here from somewhere in
England for the occasion.
After her husband was killed in
action during the Battle Of Mid
way while flying a torpedo plane,
1t. Brannon enlisted in the army
as dietitian nearly two years
ago.
Ensign Brannon was born in
Montgomery, Ala, and attended
University of Alabama. For his
heroic action at Midway he was
awarded posthumously the Navy
Cross "for extraordinary heroism
and meritorious devotion to duty
as pilot of Navy torpedo
plane,'
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-24
Lassiter Suggests Dual
Use For Tobacco Beds

COLLEGE STATION, Raleigh,
Apr 23.-Tobacco farmers in East
ern Carolina can convert their to-
bacco plant beds into frame gar
dens, when they finish pulling
plants and grow abundant supply
of leafy vegetables for the table in
July and August, says Johnny Las
sitter, Extension horticulturist at
State College.
He suggests that the soil Of the
plant bed be reworked and that
such crops as snap and bush lima
beans, beets. New Zealand spinach,
Swiss chard, mustard, tomatoes
and leaf lettuce be planted.
He also suggests that Stats or
brush be placed over the bed, rest
ing on the logs or boards that sur
round it, so as to provide about
half shade until the plants have a
we'll developed root system. This
will enable the plants to get a
good start during the hot weather.
After the plants have begun to
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-24

make good growth, the Stats or
brush can be removed.
For supply of fall and early
winter vegetables. Lassiter recon-
mends beets, carrots, winter spin
ach, mustard, kale, Chinese cab
bage, radishes, and leaf lettuce.
Old tobacco cloth can be used in
the place of Stats or rush during
the late fall and winter as a pro-
lection against freezing weather.
Since most tobacco plant beds
are located near a we'll or stream
Lassiter suggests that the beds be
thoroughly wet to depth of about
6 inches when the surface soil be-
comes comparatively dry during
the prolonged periods of drought.
Even though the plant bed has
a large amount of residual ferti-
izer, it will pay to topdress the
vegetables literally with COM
plete fertilizer" Lassiter conclud-
ed. 1.-The fertilizer should be ap-
piled in row about inches deep
and inches from the plants"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-24
The Tar
Heel
Gardener
By John H. Harris
N. C. State College

For a continuous supply of ten.
der spring greens, 1t is now time
to make a second planting of ten.
dergreens or other mustards, kale
and leaf lettuce. This is especially
true if these greens were grow.
ing during the cold weather ir
March. This cold weather may
have checked the growth of these
plants, causing a rest period ir
their growth. This rest period,
when followed by warm weather,
will usually cause these plants to
60 to seed.
In order to have greens during
the hot summer months, l woulc
suggest that New Zealand spin
ach and Swiss chard be planted
as soon as possible. Both these
vegetables should be thinned c
stand two feet apart in the row
with the rows around three feet
apart. The Swiss chard seed will
terminate quickly, but the oppo.
site is true of the New Zealand
spinach. The spinach seed should
be soaked around twenty-fou1
hours before planting. They should
then be planted in moist soil and
mulch two to three inches deep
applied to the top row. This mulch
should be removed when the
plants start coming up. The Swiss
chard and New Zealand spinach
are both remarkably resistant to
insects and diseases. They botf,
produce well during the hot sum-
mer and will also stand severe
cold weather.
In cooking these vegetables, care
must be taken not to cook them
TOO long. Many people have been
turned against the use of these
TWO vegetables because thew were
improperly cooked
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-24
-four OPPOSING
| BACKER OF FDR
By WAYNE OLIVER

| JACKSONVILLE. Fla. April %.
I-P)-Senator Claude Pepper and
his four opponents have made his
outspoken support of most of the
Roosevelt administration objec-
tives the chief issue in the May 2
Florida Democratic senatorial nom
| ination race.
Peppers opponents are Aston
Cockrell, Jacksonville attorney;
Willard Conklin, Daytona Beach
attorney; Judge Ollie Edmunds OF
the Duval Jacksonville county
criminal court of Record, and Fin
ley Moore. Lake City real estate
man.
AL four have made campaign
speeches attacking Bureaucracy
in the Federal government and
Edmunds and Conklin have voiced
sharp criticism of Peppers record
of support for administration
measures and his speeches praising
President Roosevelt's program.
Pepper in his campaign speech
es says many of his opponents are
trepublicrats,' who he describes
as voters who are republicans at
heart but register as Democrats
to participate in our Democratic
primaries because Democratic
nomination is the equivalent Of
election in Florida. He charges that
they are trying to defeat him "as
- 1+o
Roosevelt
The racial issue has not become
a major one in the campaign, all
five candidates having expressed
themselves as favoring all steps
possible to retain white supremacy
in the party.
The fourth term question also
will be put sharply up to Florida
Democrats in selection of candi-
| dates to the party's national con-
vention. In poll by the Associat-
| ed Press of delegate candidates,
j22 said they favored Roosevelt
again and II gave Senator Harry
Byrd Of Virginia as their first
choice.
None of the 10 delegates elected,
however, will be bound by his ex-
pressed choice as the delegation
will go to the convention unpledg-
ed. State party rules require that
the entire delegations vote be cast
as unit if two-thirds agree on a
candidate.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-24

Erosion has ruined for any fur
ther cultivation some so million
acres OF cropland in the United
states. 1t has damaged more than
two flfths of the total land in
crops, according to surveys.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-24

The largest tobacco acreage
SINCE 1899 is in prospect this wear.
growers plan an ID per cent in
crease in flue-cured, 81 in Bur.
iey' 4 IN dark fired, and 80 in
dark air-cured.
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-24
LABOR POOL

RAEFORD, April %. Many
Hoke county farmers are making
plans to pool their labor resour.
ces in the cultivation and harvest
ing of crops this year because they
fino that this is one of the most
practical ways of helping solve
the farm labor shortage, reports
J. L. Warner, farm labor assist
ant of the State College Extension
Service. John Parker of the Way.
side community is cooperating
with four of his neighbors in tax
ing care of the tobacco and grain
crops" Warner said. "Ira Newton
of Red Springs, Route l, is also
pooling his labor with three of
his neighbors. ]. w. McPhaul, F..
+. McPhaul, and Carlton Gibson.
combine operators, have worked
out a schedule for the harvesting
OF the grain in the Antioch and
Allendale communities"
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-24
Farmer Reduces Herd
From Is To 6 Cows;
Still Gets Much Milk

sDANBURY, April %. = Cicero
White of Germantown, Stokes,
county, has reduced his dairy herd
from IL COWS to six cows and is
equaling his milk production rec
ord of last year, reports R. c.
Whitaker, assistant county agent
of the State College Extension
Service. Since his production was
very low, White began keeping
systematic records on each, of his
cows and used this information as
a basis for culling the herd. He
also improved his feeding and
management practices, and is, now
getting just about the same milk
as last year 80
The Wilmington morning star., 1944-04-24
Wilt Resistant Varities
OF Leaf Expected Soon
BY THOMPSON GREENWOOD

BY THOMPSON GREENWOOD
N. C. Department of Agricultur
RALEIGH, April % -REGran
vile wilt destroyed 10000 acres o
tobacco in the state last year. bu
wilt resistant varities of Tobacco.
which may produce satisfaction,
qualities of leaf soon will be avail
able for general use, the Stat.
Department Of Agriculture said to
day.
Experiments with wilt resistan
varieties have been underway al
the tobacco test farm in Granville
county for several years. In order
to effect successful control
methods, more than 100 acres OF
field plot experiments have been
conducted on Granville wilt since
1885. "a. :
E. G. Moss, superintendent of
the farm, says that some vii. re-
sistant seed may be released in
time for planting in the 1915 crop,
although further tests on quality Of
the cured leaf are needed and will
be carried out in succeeding years.
According to Moss, the Granville
wilt, which centers on farms in
Granville county, has cost farmers
well over $1,000,0O0 in the last
year.
Included in the direct financial
loss which occurred in 1943 is the
waste of labor and farm supplies.
However, Moss says, losses in real
estate values are even greater.
In outlining usage of the wilt
resistant varieties, Moss explained
that the better strains may be
planted on badly infested soils with
the assurance that a crop of tobac-
co may be expected. However, he
added, "a good workable rotation
should be followed, as there are
ciier diseases which might event
ually destroy the tobacco crop
even on good tobacco land"
He believes that resistance to
more than one disease may event
ually be combined in one variety,
but at the present time research
work has not been carried far
enough to guarantee the success
OF this project.
Granville wilt has been report
ed at one time or another in
virtually every tobacco producing
county in the state. In some areas,
both Granville wilt and black
shank have been found in the same
field. Ceases like this present
complicated problem" Moss says,
''But we think it is not insur-
mountable.'
BY working in close coopera
ton the various agencies supervis-
ing the projects now being carried
on at the Granville test farm hope
to reduce even further the diseases
which tend to cripple the product
ion of tobacco in North Carolina.