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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-11
Not Enough Land

There are now about 100000, 900
human beings populating this old
world on which we live, and the ex-
perts predict that at present rate
of increase there will be a billion
more by the end of the century.
These experts further point out that
there are at present only about T.
000,000,O00 acres of arabic land in
use, which is less than 21s acres
per capita. Even in our own coun-
try there is only a fraction more
than seven acres per capita in farm
lands, including woodlands and pas
ture lands. If we would take into
account only the crop lands har-
vested, approximately 321, $50, 900
acres, our per capita acreage would
just about equal the world aver
age.
So without an expanding acreage
of arabic lands, without basic re-
sources in India, in China, in Rus
STA and many other countries, such
as we have in this country, the ex-
perts say that the world will con-
tinue to produce insufficient food to
feed its billions of humans.
What the representatives of
these Al nations what our
own delegation does at Quebec
TO commit Sthis country to . pro-
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-11
WNU Washington Bureau,
1916 Eye ST., N. w.
A World Department
Of Agriculture

livery farmer and rancher, every
~ person connected with the food
and agricultural industry in these
United States from producer to
professor, and citizens generally,
should watch with deep interest the
meeting of the food and agriculture
organization of the United Nations
lin Quebec, starting October 16.
This is the first of the permanent
new United Nations agencies to be
launched after the end of hostilities,
which marks the Importance at
tached to it's deliberations by our
government and the governments of
all the A United Nations. AS this
is written, the list of American dele
gates to the conference has not been
announced. 1t is likely, however,
that the delegates from the United
States will be headed by Howard
Talley of the department of agricul-
ture, who has acted as the United
States representative on the Interim
commission of the organization.
The food and agricultural or
ganization ratified by the A ma
tons at San Francisco is part
and parcel, and most impOr-
tant function of the United
Nations organization. 1t is not
relief agency. Its aim is to i'm
prove world agriculture and to
increase food production; to
provide higher standard of diet
and raise the levels of nutri-
ton and the standards of living
throughout the world all of
which is intended to contribute
to an expanding world economy.
The organization will likely set up
machinery which will function for
world agriculture and production
much like our own department of
agriculture functions in the United
States in an advisory capacity,
passing along scientific development
:. the dissemination of agricul-
tural knowledge technical in
formation and the results of sci
entific agricultural research to
aid in setting up agencies in all the
A countries for combating soil ero-
sion, to improve soil and crops, to
develop better livestock to
take into consideration reforestation
rural identification farm
to market roads exploration of
new sources of food to provide
better tools for primitive farmers
to increase production >. attention
to surplus crops and better dis
tribution of these crops and many
other subjects necessarily attendant
to the huge and complicated task of
providing more and better food for
world and its population ravished
by years Of total war.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-11
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with fright, etc. Ones signed lone
of my fondest heroines, Boris Kar-
loft" The pictures were taken on
every mystery series she's starred
on.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-11

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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-11

Dennis O'Keefe says it's an empty
honor that stole up on him as he
was finishing his co-starring role in
Getting Gertie's Garter''-the op-
tometrists of Westwood, Calf, voted
him the man ''best suited to wear
glasses" -which he doesn't!
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-11

Maj. Allen Martini, whose Flying
Fortress, "Dry Martini" holds the
worlds record for shooting down
Is German planes in 20 minutes,
makes his screen debut as an Of
ficer Of B-29 in "The Bamboo
Blonde" He was production assist
ant on RKO's ''The Falcons AIibi,"
and during his college days was
identified with Little Theater groups
at PalO Alto.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-11

Fast work on the part of actor
soldier Patrick Lee landed him
screen role while enjoying two
week furlough. He took bus from
Camp Roberts to Hollywood, hitch
hiked to Warmers, and by noon was
before the cameras in Her Kind
of Man." with Faye Emerson, Zach
airy Scott and Dane Clark. He said
the best part of the job was wear
ing a blue serge suit for the first
time in over two years.
ODDS AND ENDS - Parkyakarkus
is grateful for the publicity-a soldier
sOrote him from Louisiana army camp
that on certain night recently the
PASSWORD rUas 'Meet Ne at Parky's.".
Best kept secret in HOliytoood's radio
circles ,Uds the recent appearance OF
Bling Crosby's boys on the opening
Frank Sinatra pr0gran,-it ,Cds kept for
ten days before the broadcast. . =. "Mr.
District Attorney" leads the list OF first
fifteen euening NETWORK Hooperas.
ings.". Jerry Colonna's first film role
since his return from an orerseas tour
with Bob Hope is in the Disney Make
Mine Music"-singine Casey at the
Bas."
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-04-19
American Engineer Plans
Great Dams for Asia
DR.. Savage OF U. S. Dept. of Interior Proposes
Extensive Flood Control and Irrigation
Systems for China, India, Palestine.
By BAUKHAGE
Netos Analyst and Commentator.

on the Colorado, he told us for COM
parison, was 730 feet high and had
only four such tunnels.
There will be "a generating plants,
each generating 10000 kilowatts Of
electricity. They will equal five
times the ultimate capacity Of the
Grande Coulee dam and ten times
its present development of 10, $3.50, 900
kilowatts. The average total output
Of electrical energy for one year on
the Yangtze will be 1890, 900, 600
kilowatt-hours.
Within the present range Of distri-
button live more Chinese than the en-
tire population Of the United States
lao millions.
DR.. Savage went into similar de-
tail regarding more dams on tribu-
taries to the Yangtze. The fatal re-
suit, beside regulating the river-fow
SO that navigation can be improved
and ocean-going ships brought right
up to Chungking, would mean water
storage that will irrigate hundred
million acres and make it possible
to double the present production Of
rice.
I will not deluge you with further
figures for I cannot produce them
with such a flavor Of enthusiasm
and admixture of personal delight
as DR.. Savage does, but may add
that he spent four months in India
discovering and planning similar
projects in the Punjab, along the
Gauges, and in Afghanistan, on this
and other trips. DR.. Savage, might
observe, is typical Of kind Of gov
eminent servant Of which the world
knows very little. He is one Of the
highly trained experts who prefer
public service to financial rewards.
These men turn down highly re-
munerative offers from business Or
CARNATIONS.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-04-19
Nazi Stupidity Sank Sub
When US. Airmen Failed

A classic example of Nazi stu
pidity was witnessed by the two
pilots of U. S. navy plane flying
so miles off Iceland in the summer
of 1912, says Golfers. Sighting a
surfaced Nazi U-boat, they dropped
all their depth bombs but none had
any effect on the submarine, or
frightened it into submerging.
AS the pilots circled back, lone
seaman climbed up on the deck
and, finding one of the bombs held
by grating, rolled it over the side
instead of setting it afloat on a
life raft. Within a few seconds,
consequently, the bomb reached
the depth for which it had been
set and exploded, fatally damaging
the German pigboat.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-04-19
Australia Asks for
DR.. Savage's Help

Back in 1910 a cable came from
London asking the United States
government for Savage's assistance
in conjunction with the Burrinjuck
dam in Australia. Before the depart
ment of interior replied, DR.. Saw
age was reminded Of what he al
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-04-19
WNU Service, Union Trust Building,
Washington, ID. G..

Washington, D. G.
Recently I sat with group OF my
colleagues at table and listened to
shy, elderly man, who might have
been professor Of Greek, talk about
dams. Just moment before I had
been in the newsroom reading Of the
terrible destruction which had lev
elled the cities of Europe. I couldn't
help thinking Of the paradox Of CIV
ilization as this quiet man, who is
the designing engineer for the great
est dams in the world, Grande Cou-
lee, Boulder, Shasta, the Norris dam
in the Tennessee valley and scores
of others all over the world, outlined
construction projects for Asia. His
program is the exact antithesis Of
what is going on in Europe.
John Lucian Savage is chief de-
signing engineer Of the bureau Of
reclamation of the department Of the
interior. He has just returned from
IA months in the Far East where he
has conferred with Generalissimo
Chang Kai-shek of China and with
officials in India and Palestine on
construction projects which dwarf
the worlds greatest efforts In this
direction.
DR.. Savage discussed these under
takings as If they were some beauti-
full little works of art which had, per-
haps, a unitarian value, but which
after all were creations of the imagi-
nation, important. in themselves. In
the course of a half hour or SO he
outlined projects which would af-
feet the life of literally millions of
people for untold generations and
might well change the course, not
only Of their history, but the worlds.
He went to the Far East repre-
senting the U. S. government, loaned
by the department Of the interior to
the state department as specialist
under its cultural program. Much
has been said with eyebrows slight
ly raiseO about Uncle Sans effort
to spread American culture and help
import some of that product from
other nations. Most people do not
realize that cultural matters include
100000 kilowatt waterpower
plants.
1--WE went down the (Yangtze) riv-
er from Chungking," said DR.. Saw
age as If he were describing a moon
light ride on the Potomac, "by
steamboat and launch to within Is
kilometers (about nine miles, Of
Ichang." Nater it was explained
that he had to stop because it hap
pened that a war was going on in
that vicinity.) IT had with me all
the Typographical data I could find
and had spotted three possible dam
sites from these maps. ] stayed
with General - (name omitted for
security reasons). I asked him If
he had any topographic maps that
might be helpful to me. He replied
that he had captured an aerial map
from the japanese"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-04-19

ready knew; namely, that United
States officials may not receive
emoluments Of any kind from for
eign governments. Our founding ia
theirs were quite sensitive on that
point.
". no person." says the Con-
stitution, holding any office of prof
it or trust under (the United States)
shall, without the consent Of Con-
gress, accept any present, emolu-
ment, office, or title Of any kind
whatever, from any king, prince or
foreign state"
And so Savage, rather than delay
the project while congress decided
whether such emolument be permit
ted, wired the then commissioner of
the bureau of reclamation: "Any as
sistance given to New South Wales
will be gratis and I shall not accept
any fee or other form of compensa-
ton or any reimbursement"
AS government servant, DR..
Savage, although he cannot accept
titles and awards from princes,
kings or foreign commoners, has
garnered plenty Of honors from
American institutions. They include
his doctorate in science from the
University Of Wisconsin and the
American Society Of Civil Engineers
medal. Also he has that most COW
eted award, the Gold medal for out
standing engineering service, joint
award Of the leading organizations Of
his profession.
If culture can be served by dam
ming rivers, and capital can be
found to pay the bill, they'll be
dammed-by Savage.
The war will wipe out lot Of ig-
norant sneers which so-called "prac-
ticap' men often direct at ''long-
haired professors" Perhaps the sci
ence Of psychology gets the most
wallops from the uninitiated. Says
General Arnold in his second report
on the army air force: 'The Raj
paid the AAF a compliment in 1914
by adopting our system Of air crew
selection and classification. Our psy-
Geological testing procedures were
also adopted by the Free French
There are 20 psychological tests
administered which have proved val
i'd In predicting d cadet chance to
win his wings and his chance for
combat success.
1.-THE aviation psychology program
has paid off in time, lives and
money saved" says General Arnold,
"at total cost Of less than SIS per
candidate"
BRIEFS:
Apparently General Arnold Of the
air force and not Secretary Of the
Treasury Morgenthau is debating
what is to be done with German in
dustry.
Franco has been quite democratic
Of late. Once he was lavish in his
praise Of the Axis. There Is an old
Spanish proverb which says:
Praise the man whose bread you
eat.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-04-19
Studies Map, Selects
Fiue Sites for Dams

The map proved to be excellent
and one could almost see the engi-
neer's mouth water as he examined
it, picking out sights simply crying
to be damned. Then, still as if it
were all a great lark, he said that
he went on down the river to within
three miles Of the battle lines (per-
haps the genial general-host had
called off the war for the afternoon).
Anyhow, DR.. Savage said, smiling.
that he had selected five possible
dam sites.
The dam in the Yangtze gorge.
he told us, will probably be about
$50 feet high and there will be 20
tunnels of about so feet diameter to
divert the river flow. Boulder dam
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-15
BY JACK HAND
ASSOCIATED Press Sports Writer)

Brooklyn again was the base
ball capital of the lat on today
with the glorious Buns riding
blissfully on nine-game win
ming streak and basking in the
sports page headlines.
The team that couldn't beat
the Army nine at West Point
in Spring training had suddenly
turned killers" and hadn't lost
a single contest of five played
against the "toughies' from the
west who were supposed to
knock out their brains. They
were only two lengths behind
the leading New York Giants.
When the Brooks thumped the
Phillies four in a row, the ex-
perts warningly pointed finger
and said wait until the Cards
get here"
The Cards came and lost, so
did the Reds. and the Pirates
arrived yesterday in time TO be-
come the ninth victim. To top
it off, a rookie named Leroy
Pfund, who hadn't been trusted
with a previous starting assign
ment. got the call and caught
the victory spirit.
While obscure personalities
like Pfund, Tom Seats, and Ohio
Nicholas were recording their
names in the pitchers win col
umn. old reliable Dixie Walker
finally began to make his bat
talk.
Hitting trifling .l79 when
the flock first struck gold, the
1914 National League batting
champ has lifted his season mark
to BIS and socked the apple at
All clip in the last nine con-
tests. The team average on the
hot streak was 1903 but Brook
Ign fans needed only one ex-
PLANTATION the old bromide
LAS Dixie goes, so go the Dod-
gers"
Pfund was one Of three rockies
to make his first start in the big
show and none lost. He draped a
seven-hitter on frankie Frisch' S
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-15
Hungry
CRISlER SAYS SOLDIERS
CROWD TO VIEW ANY
SPORTS MOVIES

ANN ARBOR, Mich, May IS
-(R-Sports are really going
to boom when CT Joe comes
home.
That was the prediction made
yesterday by II. O. Fritz Girls
Ter, University of Michigan ath-
letic director, after a 64-day tour
Of military bases in the Panama
Canal Zone, Central and South
American.
THE chief complaint of the
boys is that they d MT &c
enough sport news" Crisler said
in an interview as he told of
seeing CTS wait in line three
hours 70 get in to see a seven
hour show of sports movies.
"The Army sports program Is
great thing for those kids and
It is keeping alive the interests
Of young men whose college ath-
letic careers were interrupted
by entrance into the service"
Crisler observed.
Crisler forecast that many Of
the servicemen would return to
college under the "GI Bill Of
Rights"
Crisler said the men were
hungry for all sport news, from
football, boxing and tennis to
baseball.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-15
Senior Curtain-Raiser Set for Monday
Six-Team League
is Organized at
New Baltimore

The ownriv yer Softball
league, consisting Of six teams.
was organized last week At q
meeting in Verniers Hotel. New
Baltimore, George D. Miller Of
New Baltimore was named
president of the league.
The members of the league
include Gar Wood of Algonac,
Algonac Manufacturing Of Ago
nae, Knights Of Columbus of st.
Clair; r h m o n d; Mcdonald
Manufacturing of New Balti-
more, and Dunlap of New Balti-
more.
The regular schedule will be-
gin May "a with all games to be
played Thursday night. A ban
quet at which trophies will be
presented will terminate the
program at the end Of the sea
son.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-15
The Monifor-leader
TUESDAY MAY IS, l945 PAGE II
Fights
Last Night
Nv the Associated Press

By the Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA - Ray (Su-
gar) Robinson, 1891, New York,
and Jose Basora, l54. Puerto
Rico, drew, 10.
WASHINGTON - Arturo Co.
doy, 1919. Chile, knocked out
Buddy Walker, 100, Columbus,
O., 5.
DETROIT-Tony Olivera, 1872
San Francisco. outpointed Chill
indrina Valencia, l21l2, Mexico
City, 10.
BALTIMORE - Holman viii.
liams, 1877, Chicago, outpointec
Louis (Kid) Cocoa, i59 Il, Puer.
10 Rico, IL.
CHICAGO - Johnny Bratton
1873, Chicago, knocked out Mel
vim Bartholomew, 1421a, New
Orleans, 4; Marion Rhoten, 1872
Milwaukee, outpointed E d d il
(Kid) Carson, 1872, Chicago, S.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-15
Ruth, Cobb Meet
as AII.Siar Pilots

CHICAGO, May l5-R-
Babe Ruth and Ty Cobb, two
OF baseballs greatest performers,
will match managerial tal e n I
when the East meets West in the
All-American boys game spon-
sored by Esquire Magazine at
the Polo Grounds in New YORK
on Aug %.
James Crossett, director OF the
game, said today that Ruth. now
so, and retired from baseball
since 1885, will coach the East
team during It's entire training
period. Cobb previously was sell
ected TO handle the West aggre-
cation.
The two teams will be COM
prised Of the nations best boy
ballplayers as selected by news
! papers in 80 cities.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-15
Newhouser
at
500 Mark

DETROIT, May Is - R -
Rain which inundated Briggs
Stadium today appeared to have
deferred Hal Newhouser's chance
TO bring his seasons pitching
average up TO 500 in sched-
uled clash between the Phila-
delphia Athletics and the De-
troit Tigers.
The 23-year-old left handler,
who beat Connie Mack's charges
four times last season while
dropping one decision to them,
encountered rough going in the
first part of the campaign and
has won two while losing three
games.
The sixth-place Athletics are
expected to start either Russ
Christopher or Don Black, both
righthanders.
Christopher. who lost one
game to the Tigers last season,
has been one of the mainstays
of the Athletics this year. He
has won five games while los
ing only one.
Yesterdays rain forced post
ponement of the first game of
the series. 1t will be played as
part of a doubleheader Wednes-
day.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-15
The Tigers-Athletics game
was rained out this afternoon.

Art Houtteman, 17-year-older
up from the Detroit sandiots, is
due for his first staring assign
ment in one of the Wednesday
games. He has pitched three in
nings in two relief appearances
this season.
Stubby Overmire, who came to
the Tigers via Grand Rapids, will
be out to give himself birth
day present Wednesday when he
pitches the second game of the
scheduled doubleheader. Over
mire. who will be 26, hasn't
started a game since April 20
when he lost to Cleveland.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-15
Racing ReOpens
at Santa Anita

ARCADIA, Calf, May IS
iP)-Some 10000 horse racing
enthusiasts were to give a royal
and remunerative reception to-
day TO the first showing of the
Of the sport Of kings In four
years at Santa Anita Park.
A card of eight races. head
cd by a $4,000, six-furlong sprint
labeled the Anita Chiquita, are
to inaugurate the 40-day meet
ing at the picturesque. one-mile
oval. Clear weather and a fast
track prevailed.
While betting records were
not expected to fall. some OBJ
servers predicted a $4,000, 900
wager total for the day. The
opening of Hollywood Park last
Nov. brought $l,363,52 into
the pari-mutuels.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-15
Jones, Sam Snead
Launch Bond Drive

LAKELAND, FLA. May Is
PA golf match launching the
Seventh War Loan Drive here
today sends Bobby Jones, the
grand slammer, against Sammy
Snead, one Of the games top
pros. over the 18-hole layout Of
the Hutcheson Country Club.
Jones is paired with Earl
Christensen. one Of Florida S
top players, and Snead with Bob
BY Walker, stationed with the
Army Air Forces here.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-15
CuccinellO
Still ON Top

NEW YORK, May 15-(R-
Tony Cuccinello of the Chicago
White Sox retained the Ameri-
can League batting lead today
despite a 28-point drop to 1897
but Manager Mel OFT of the New
York Giants and Tommy Holmes
of the Boston Braves. tied at
400, had replaced Brooklyn's
Luis Dino in the National.
OFT and Holmes, a pair of left
handed hitters. added respective
ly % and 80 points to their
marks in moving past Dino who
fell off 80 degrees to q third
place .377.
Mayo. of Detroit, batted 800.
Human hair grows at the rate
of six inches a year ~pder nor
NAL conditions.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-15
Nations Top Jockey
Will Resume RidinQ

MIAMI, Fla, May 15-(R-
Deferred by his draft board un-
I'll mid-June. Ted Atkinson, Am
erica's top jockey in 1914 with
287 winners, leaves for New
York this week to resume riding.
After having been rejected
three times, Atkinson was class
flied Ia by his Brooklyn, NY,
draftboard and ordered to report
for induction April "a.
The deferment was granted
because Atkinson Is to become q
father shortly.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-05-15
Sports Roundup
~ HIGH FULLERTON, JR.
sv HUGH FULLERTON. JR.

NEW YORK. Moy IS - APP - Mickey WoIker' VINO
.,or,ed ont an six.weeks IT, o and found he wos
bt to elk months nsteod is back the prediction that
the next heavyweight champ going to come out OF me on-
al forces The former mddeweieht boss must hove
seen oentv Of G. boxers between here ond Iran ond ne
sreL stirred no the noknos OF good when he sod
~. News fohters could lick the An1ys But Mickey S
ohsenoons don't toV with those OF other experts
miles, he means ho Joe Louis dodderne old wreck
Of 81 will be coming OF tn TO continue his heoVy
weoht rule.