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Evening star., 1945-01-12
Letters to The Star
Readers Debate Training
for War in Peacetime
To the Editor OF The Star:

To the Editor Of The Star:
Compulsory military training for only
year is worthless because:
!. Any military skill or knowledge
that would be gained In one year soon
would be lost and would have to be
taught all over again from scratch in
the event of war.
2. Physical stamina Is not thing
that can be gained in one year 1t is
built up over period of years, and it is
not necessarily gained in army life, any,
how. Whatever benefits boy could
gain from exercise and outdoor living in
one year, often would be more than
offset by army food which is anything
but well balanced or as high in nutri-
tive value as the average food cooked at
home (all propaganda to the contrary;
by being thrown in with bad company
"a $l0.000,000 annual business in prosti-
tuition is fiourishing in Honolulu alone
by serious strains on his health through
inadequate clothing, heating and So
called toughening processes sometimes
supervised by officers who do not have
good judgment; and by the dangers OF
infections and epidemics which always
are present when many people live in
close contact.
3. The burden to the taxpayers of
feeding, clothing and educating all the
men of the United States as they went
through the specified age would be
enormous. ISABEL MOORE.
To the Editor of The Star:
Believing that universal military
training is not only essential, but of
vital Importance to the welfare of this
country, I urge every one to give
thoughtful consideration to the matter.
BY this training and yearly review
thereafter we would build up the nu-
cleus of defense army, if attacked;
and it would not require eight months
preparation for each man as at present
These men would not take the place of
the Regular Army. The benefits to be
derived from such training would be
invaluable for discipline and physical
development.
There are those who think military
training would invite war. On the
contrary other countries would know
that we were prepared.
Others say it would interfere with
the young mems education. 1t seems
to me military training completes it.
Times have changed, and it is neces-
sary to change with them.
I certainly hope we may obtain uni
versal military service.
EMILY BUCH.
Evening star., 1945-01-12

Philippine President Osmena, back
In Leyte, is said to be encouraging
inhabitants of that island to grow
more hemp for economic independ-
ence. If some of it is used judicious-
ly in Japan it will also insure ma
tional independence in the future.
Evening star., 1945-01-12

Admiral Harry E. Yarnell holds
the unique distinction of having
been three times retired from the
Navy. In the opinion of his friends
and admirers the old rule of "three
times and out" seems regrettable in
this instance.
Evening star., 1945-01-12
And in Perpetual Winter
From the Memphis Commercial

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
AS well as We set CT comment from
the Italian front, lust pe4ce would
condemn thu Axis headers to i've out
THAR lives IN tho Apeunines.
Evening star., 1945-01-12

Remember the slogan OF yester-
year about the advisability of reach
ing for certain cigarette instead of
a sWeet9 They might as well reverse
il now
Evening star., 1945-01-12
"Fireplaces" Appreciated

"Fireplaces" Appreciated
To the Editor of The Star.
Editorial writers cannot know the ex-
tent Of their real service because while
thousands read and benefit from many
excellent editorials, such as those on his
toric places in Europe when warfare
centers around them, few of us take
time to comment unless something is
said which rouses our ire. The things
we like, we quietly enjoy.
But want to say something about
the editorial, "Fireplaces," appearing in
Wednesdays Star
Most OF US are unconsciously carrying
along the burdens of the world. These
are heavy. We are not only "in" the
war. but we actually are struggling. and
the stress and strain is there even
though we may not be aware of It, This
strained feeling will last Just as long
as part of us-a very real part of us
is scattered over the danger spots of the
world
We try to keep an eye on the course
OF events everywhere, do our jobs at
home, grapple with social and economic
problems of America and the world and
follow the various writings which explore
for solutions.
In the midst of all this, what pleas
ant relief it was TO come across Fire
places" 1t was like a cooling shower of
rain on hot and weary summer day.
1t helped to give balance, perspective.
I began to read it apprehensively, with
only half hope. The editor, I decided,
is going to decry some newly discovered
danger in, fireplace; going to point
out some fire hazard, say fireplaces have
no place in our modern age and must
be torn down. Then read on. AS I
read, the scenes Of my boyhood blurred
the page, and was once again before
our own big fireplace But ours had
to be spick and span. To spit in it would
have been the one objectionable sin.
For there was where the ''yaller yams"
were roasted, where the rabbit was
broiled and where Grandma covered the
corn pone with red-hot cinders or baked
the old fashioned ashcake. (You
guessed it: I'm from South Carolina
sahD
So, high, up among my postwar plans
is the building OF d wide fireplace in my
home. Meanwhile, shall keep this
editorial as I may very much need the
suggestions on how to start and tend
the fire. CHANCELLOR WILLIAMS.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-29
Protective Move Is Planned by q
 American Republics

WASHINGTON, Nov 29 = The possibility arose today that the 21 American Republics may act at Rio de Janeiro on the U mi te d States backed Uruguayan proposal for collective aC::on to preserve henispheric peace.
 At present the forthcoming con- ference has only the drafting of an inter- American mutual defense treaty on its agenda.
 But the Uruguayan proposal, which Secretary of State Byrnes strongly applauded, calls for the American Republics to move in col- lectively on any one of their num- bers when essential human rights and international obligations are being violated.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-29
JApANESE-STYLE DEMOCRACY PLAN
 ADVANCED IN DIET
Suggestion for Retention Emperor System Gets
 Slight Approval
Bu RUSSELL BRINES

TOKYO. Nov. 29.-Half- hearted applause greeted a suggestion in the Japanese Diet today that the em- peror system should be perpetuated under a style democracy.
 Premier Kijure Shidehara and one of Japans leading reconstruction politicians, Ichiro Hatoyama, both voiced the opinion in an unpreced- ented legislative discussion in the House.
 Hatoyama, leader of the Liberal party, drew only polite applause when he said the emperor system must be retained" as bulwark against possible dictatorships. Shi- dehara voiced agreement.
 The Premier later ignored a state ment by one member that he pre- stunned the cabinet will resign right after this Diet session.
 The Japanese House of Peers must break with ancient precedent and open it's doors to the press at all sessions henceforth.
 The ruling was issued today by the Japanese Liaison section of SOAP Supreme Commander, Allied Pow |ers) in compliance with the wishes of General Macarthur.
 Brig. Gen. Jen R. Dyke, Chief of the Civil Information and Education section, said the closed doors were entirely unsatisfactory and con- trayy to the aims of the Supreme Commander in fostering freedom of speech and democratic principles
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-29
VERA M. JOHNSON HERE

Vera M. Johnson of Skagway is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-29
FROM THE STATES

Among arrivals from the States yesterday who registered at the Baranof are: Mir and Mrs. Lee O.. Teague, Fl Paso, Texas; Eugenie l.. Williams, Ridgefield Park, N. J.; c. G. Casler, Seattle; Bruce Parker Seattle, and Mir and Mrs. Charles OBrien, East Chicago, Ind.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-29
FROM YAKUTAT

Carl E. Schlicktig of Yakutat is guest at the Baranof.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-29
IMoGENE WARD HERE

Imogene Ward, Ketchikan resi- dent, is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1945-11-29
HERE FROM coRDovA

MT. and Mrs. F. M. Hall ar rived yesterday from Cordova. They are stopping at the Baranof.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-09

They said Meyer now had q Bal
inese wife and two children.
ECCENTRIC MISSING
Missing is Balls famed female
eccentric and owner Of one of
the vanished Koeta Beach no.
tells. She was believed by some
to be American, but she claimed
to be from the isle of man. She
had several names but she was
known to her American friends
as Vannen Manx.
lie Mayeur said she worked
for the japanese as an interpre-
ter for some months. She came
by his house one day weeping
Historically and said she must
leave at once.
Later the japanese came
searching for her and said she
had run away. Still later an Of.
ficer told him she had been re-
captured in Java and placed in
barracks where il bombed she
would be the first person to die.
The Japanese now at Bali pro-
fess ignorance Of her fate.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-09

KOETA BEACH. SANGER,
Bali, Oct. A. (Delayed)- Up
Balls two best known beach
hotels and American owned res
licences, once the show place OF
this island, have disappeared,
Vandals who started making
off with the furnishings the day
the Japanese landed in 1912,
within q week had completely
dismantled buildings. even torn
up foundations, removed flower
beds and filled in wells.
Europeans who remained on
Bali told their first White visi-
tors in four years, however, they
had been we'll treated by both
the natives and the Japanese.
I visited el-year-old Belgian
painter Adrian Jean lie Mayeur
De Merpres at his attractive art
filled Keta Beach home near
SANGER, and found him in good
health utterly content to remain
in Bali with his beautiful 81
year-old Balinese dancer wife.
At a mountain retreat near
Kintaman, go miles inland, was
Karl Strasser. Austrian artists,
novelist, playwright and world
traveller, and his charming Wen
nese wife.
The Strassers said the only
other Europeans on Bali to their
knowledge were two Swiss at
Selat, so miles distant-a man
named Meyer and q DR.. Slayer
who gave up medicine in Swift
erland to study Balinese music
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-09
Comb Capital
for Slayer
Nude, ChovFed
Body is Found

HOUSTON. Texas. Oct. g.
R)-The hunt for the slayer Of
Elnora Collins, whose nude and
burned body was found near
Beaumont last week, has shifted
to Washington.
Police are seeking a 40-year-
old man whose abandoned car,
with Miss Collins purse in it,
was found near Woodlawn, La,
Oct. /.
In Washington, the mans es-
tranged wife told officers Sun
day that he had made two local
telephone calls to her last week.
But yesterday, she said in the
presence of Inspector Robert j.
Barrett. Chief of Detectives, that
she had not heard from her hus-
band recently.
Miss Collins was the daughter
Of Cleveland, Texas, Baptist
minister. According to a friend,
Mrs. o. O. McNealy, she and
Mrs. McNealy were waiting for
a bus Sept. 80 when q man
drove up and offered her ride.
Miss Collins hesitated and then
accepted, Mrs. McNealy said.
Her body was found the next
day.
Mrs. McNealy described the
man as wearing shell-rimmed
glasses. A pair Of broken she'll
trimmed glasses was found in the
abandoned car.
An autopsy Of the body es-
tablished that Miss Collins had
not been criminally attacked,
Detective Inspector c. v. Kern
said. The vital organs have been
sent TO the state laboratory at
Austin for tests for possible
poisoning.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-09
Pfc. SIankSter
Dies While ON
Foreign Service

Word has been received of the
death Of Pfc. Everett ]. Shank
ster, 35, at Chabua in the Bur-
ma-India Theatre Of Operations
on Sept. %.
The War Departments brief
communication state d that
pneumonia was the cause of
death, but gave no other de-
tails. Pvt. Slankster had been
overseas since January with the
706th Engineer Petroleum Dis
tribution Company. Before en-
tering service 10 months ago, he
was an engineer at Selfridge
Field.
The news came to his sister,
Mrs. Frank Carrie, $50 Sharkey
road, Route 7, with whom his
11-year-old aughter Patsy
makes her home. Pvt. Shank
ster's wife died seven years
ago. Also surviving are his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. John Shank
ster of Route 4, and two other
sisters, Mrs. Earl Ehrke of Route
4 and Mrs. Frank Chovenitz Of
Selfridge Field.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-09
Veterans
Placed in
Employment

The United States Employ
ment Service brings more than
ten years of experience into its
new assignment of finding Jobs
for physically handicapped vet
Grams OF World War II, Frank
Christensen, manager Of the
USES office serving South Ma
comb county stated today In
announcing a total of 101 place
ments of veterans through the
service during the past month.
Pointing out that the number
of civilian workers who become
handicapped for jobs annually
exceeded even the wartime mill
tary casualties resulting in oc-
cupational disability, Christen-
sen said the USES has developed
special selection and placement
techniques for matching work
ers with the Jobs they are able
to perform and in which their
physical impairment is not an
impeachment on the job.
1.-THE employment service aims
to select occupations to match
the physical abilities of the appli-
cant and to find jobs which the
handicapped person can perform
despite the physical limitation"
Christensen said. with the
USES given responsibility in all
communities for assisting veter-
ans to find suitable employment,
the only limit to our capacity
for placing them will be the lin
itations placed by those who
have jobs to Offer"
He invited all employers in
South Macomb county to file
specifications Of their Job op-
portunities with the USES office
at $500 urlburt avenue, Detroit,
and to indicate q willingness to
employ physically handicapped
workers when such workers are
qualified for the job.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-09
Balls Beautiful Beach HofeIs>
Residences Looted by vundo/s
vivacious artist

Redheaded, vivacious artist
Jane Foster, Washington, d. C.,
whose parents live at the Fair
mont Hotel, San Francisco, was
on Bali but escaped before the
Japanese came. She later was
with the American Army office
of strategic services in Batavia.
SHOW PLACE DESTROYED
Another American who escap-
ed was Bob Koke, former Los
Angeles tennis player who oper-
ated the hotel adjoining Miss
Manx's near SANGER Village.
A beach home owned by Mr..
and Mrs. Jack Mersons, Ameri-
can dancers, which was carried
away piece by piece-was char
acterized by lie Mayeur as the
show place of Bali and one of
the loveliest in the Pacific. Mrs.
Mersons was a former director
of the Pasadena Playhouse.
lie Mayeur, whom the Japa-
nese once accused of directing
Allied planes to their targets,
said 1.-The Nippons made their
landings right along Koeta
Beach here. My wife and
packed my paintings and went
into the hill to hide, but after a
week the Japanese Cycle Shop
owner, a friend of ours, sent
word it was safe to return.
When we got back we found
that the Balinese had torn down
the Koke. Manx and Merson
places just down the beach ana
had started taking out my win
dow supports. If l had stayed a
few days longer my home would
have been gone too.
Destruction was the work of
a few bad Balinese. AS long as
there was likelihood that the
owners would return they didn't
dare touch anything, but the
moment the Japanese landed
they knew it was safe to 60
ahead"
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-09
Veterans Homestead Tex
Exemption Law Explained

that any person who has been
a soldier during the TI,riods
specified at Groups A, B and c
is entitled to homestead exemp-
ton: in other words, any ex-
soldier.
Applicants in Groups A and B
must file affidavits for tax ex-
emption annually. Those in
Group c, still in service, need
only file one affidavit which
will stand for the period of their
service. plus one year thereaf-
ter.
The affidavits may be filed
with the assessing officer by the
spouse, children. guardian of
minor children. parents, broth
er. sister of other next of kin.
1t is mandatory for the assessing
officer TO accept the affidavit.
Numerous regulations cover
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-09

In order to acquaint all re-
turning veterans who are pro-
perty owners with their rights
10 homestead tax exemption up
TO $4,000 of the assessed val
uation, County Treasurer Will
liam G.. Miller recently distri-
buted to all county assessing Of
ficers a summary of the law gov
erning such exemptions, with
the latest attorney general rul-
ings applying to them.
Veterans may obtain full in
formation regarding their rights
10 tax exemption by calling on
their local assessing officer or
township supervisor, or inquir-
ing at the County Treasures
Office, Macomb County Build
ing, Mount Clemens.
Basically. the law provides a
maximum tax exemption cover
ing the first $4,000 of the as
sessed valuation on the veterans
homestead, providing the veter-
an does not own property valued
in excess of $500. The latter
limitation applies to all real and
pers NAL property owned by the
veteran.
MAY RENT HOME
The veterans exemption still
applies if his homestead is rent
ed or a portion of it rented.
The tax exemption allowance
Is on the assessed valuation of
the property. If a veterans
homestead is valued by the as
SCISSOR at $4,000. and the veteran
qualities for full exemption, he
pays taxes only on $4,000. or
$4,000 valuation less than a non
veteran owner would.
Three types of veterans home
stead exemptions are allowed for
the following classifications
Group A-Veterans of wars pri-
or to World War / and unmar-
ried widows of veterans of all
wars; Group B-Veterans OF
World Wars l and II. and Group
c, persons at present in military
service.
The exemption laws provide
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-09
Social Democrats
Gaining in Norway

OSLO, Oct. 8 - (P) - Early
returns from NorWay's first gen.
eral elections in nine years indi-
Gated today that the Social DEM
ocrat Labor Party would great
ly increase its majority in Par
lament. in which it won 70
seats in 1896.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-09

the various groups Of veterans,
and any person believing them
selves entitled to homestead tax
exemption Is advised to contact
their city clerk or assessor or
their township supervisor.
The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-10-09
Spoon Comes Home

ERIE. Pa.-WH-Carl Sap
per, school secretary, was given
spoon marked School District
Of Erie" The donor was q
sailor, who found the spoon,
the type used in the school eight
years ago, in a Havana cafe.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-25

Chesapeake Bay is the worlds
greatest oyster ground, but in so
years it yield has shrunk from
100000 pounds a year to IS, 00O,-
900.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-25
COMMISSIONERS SALE OF
REAL ESTATE

BY virtue of the power and authority
contained in a decree OF sale made in
certain action pending in the Superior
Court of New Hanover County, wherein
the City of Wilmington, ct al are plain
tiffs, and George P. Hurlburt and wife,
Lula Hurlburt, are defendants the I'M
dersigned will. on Monday. March 26th,
1915, at IL o'clock Noon, at the Court
House door of New Hanover County
sell at public auction for cash, to the
highest bidder, all that certain lot or
in the City of Wilmington, County of
New Hanover and State of North Caro-
lima, described as follows:
BEGINNING at a point in the western
line of Eighth Street 1872 feet north of
Queen Street at r. H. Halls corner,
and running from thence west with
Halls line about 205 feet, more or less,
to Hardin's line, thence north parallel
with Eighth Street about 36 feet more
or less, to Cummings line. thence east
parallel with Queen Street about IA feet,
more or less, to the southeast corner
of lot conveyed by w. M. Cumming
to ]. ]. Jones, thence north parallel
with Eighth Street about SIS feet more
or less. to the southern line of lot
conveyed by M. D. Mott to J. J. jones'
thence east parallel with Castle Street
about 131 feet to the western line of
line of Eighth Street about 83 feet to
the beginning point. being part of Lots
and in Block 49, according to the
official plant of the City of Whining ton,
~ C.
Dated and posted this 23rd. day of
February. 1915
G. c. MCINTYRE, Commissioner.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-25

and the two met at the airport.
Carr has been around the world
as an A.TC. pilot.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-25
18O-Legal
COMMISSIONERS SALE OF
REAL ESTATE


By virtue of the power and authority
contained in a decree of sale made in
certain action pending in the Superior
Court of New Hanover County, where n
New Hanover County. ct al. are PLAIN
tiffs. and Dixie Land & Development Co
corporation, G. A. P. Bowman, and
wife, ct al, are defendants. the under
signed will, on Monday, March 26th 1945,
at II O'Clock Noon, at the Court House
door of New Hanover County, sell at
public auction, for cash, to the highest
bidder, all that certain piece or parcel
of land situate. lying and being in
Masonboro Township, County of New
Hanover and State of North Carolina
bounded and described az follows, to-
wit
lows, to-wit:-
FIRST TRACT: BEGINNING at a stone
on the east side of the new Federal
Point or Wire Road, E. H. Davis corner
said poin. of beginning being located
AL feet North e degrees 80 minutes
West with said road from a point where
the northern line of the Seamen's Friend
Society land crosses said road, running
thence North % degrees 80 minutes West
about SOP feet to the southern line of
the property known as Lake Side Park.
runs thence with said line North &c
degrees minutes East about 4575 feet
to a stone located on the west side of
the old Federal Point Road; thence
with said road South 10 degrees 80 minis.
East about SOB feet to E. H. Davis cor
| ner, thence South 66 degrees minutes
West with E. H. Davis northern line
about 4486 feet to the point of beginning
containing 52.2 acres, more or less, saving
and excepting however. such lots as
were sold.
SECOND TRACT: BEING all Of Lot
Nos. 316 and 317, according to plan of
Lake Side Park, as plated by H. dew.
Rapalje, and recorded in Book 81, page
698, of the Registry of New Hanover
County, to which reference is hereby
made for a full description of said !ots
THIRD TRACT: BEGINNING at
stake in the dividing line between the
lands of G. w. Rodgers and John E.
A. Grissom, deceased, located 6611 feet
westwardly from the Sound. and run
ming thence North 60 degrees 80 min
utes West 745 feet. thence North "a
degrees IS minutes East about 100 feet
to Craigs line, thence with Craig's
line eastwardly about 700 feet to a
stake. thence South 81 degrees so min
utes West 800 feet to the beginning,
containing 10 acres, and being all of
Lot No. II in the division of the lands
of John E. A. Grissom, deceased, and
being the same property purchased by
C. A. P. Bowman from w. H. McEach-
ern and wife by deed bearing date Aug
ust 10th, 1914, of record in the Registry
of New Hanover County in Book 81,
page 461.
Dated AMI ported this 2srd. day of
February, 1945.
G. C. MCINTYRE, Commissioner.