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Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-04-02
STATE A NATION
IN FARM

Raleigh, April q (AP) North
Carolina leads the nation in its III
crease in farm real estate values
during the past 80 years, according
to estimates released by the Fed
eral and State Departments OF Agrl-
culture.
An average acre of a North Caro-
lima farm real estate worth SlOO 80
years ago is now valued at S224,
California. in second place, shows
an increase of SO per cent.
Curtis Tarleton, Agriculture De
partment statistician, said, AL
though exceptionally profitable
crops of tobacco and cotton have
been a major factor in the sharp
increase in land prices in North Car
DINA, the broader significance Of
these increases must be appraised
in the light of impending postwar
adjustments in the agricultural pro-
duction of the area He said that
there has been a rise of II per CeAt
in the valUe Of farm real estate in
the United States during the past
year, and five percent during the
past four months.
Reports show that prices Of farm
commodities and farm Incomes
reached new record levels in 1914
and prospects for l945 appear bright
in most agricultural areas.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-04-02
Jap Dead In
Philippines
Total $4,000

Manila, April 2.-(AP-Amcr-
lean troops, clearing the japanese
out of the Philippines on q dozen
fronts, counted 1921 additional
enemy dead in the last five days,
This brought Japanese dead for
the entire Phillip mes campaign to
some 307, 000-against an announC-
ed American toll of dead, wounded
and missing Of around 10000,
General - ~ glaS MacArthur'S
Monday COmmuniquc, reporting the
fiVc-day count, said 1875 Japanese
were captured. American losses for
the period were given as $40 Killed,
43 missing and 9l9 wounded.
American gains on all fronts were
announced. Japanese counter attack
Cd clements of the 25th division in
stubborn fighting or northern Luzon
but were beaten off. The 25th con-
tinued hopping up bypassed posi-
tons along the Villa Verde trail.
Thirty-third division troops, push
ing toward the Philippines summer
capital of Baguio. in the Benguet
mountains, advanced two miles from
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-04-02
Mrs. Higham
Found Dead In
Raleigh Home

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h1I'.9', nf Mr.. John V.
ct''. ,I'r,,, g. wealthy and
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i~'o.ui''," |a,,d r2',lv today m
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Hll ''ot'.I - ,,ldnr circumstances
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u mouse 'i'' 0oe'' "'
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h','Ns A'tu i'''' ,,,.Ia i~nu,nIrv box
'''',t' INah, lFrn, j., her bed
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"t' ran, ber tinocr,
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-04-02
$50 Forts
Blast Tokyo
Air Factory

Guam, April ,. - tAPD -
Tokyo wa raiGed early today
by a large force of Supcrfort-
rcSSes-probahiA $50 - which
concentrated explosives and IN
cendiaIic> Oh the big Nahajiina
aircraft engine factory ON the
northwestern outskirts. The
R-29>, flying from Saipan bases
came in at low level in the pre-
dawn darkness, setting
Gus fires. Tokyo said the bonn
bcrS were over the IokyO-Ioka-
hama metropolitan area for an
hour, starting at 2:30 p. m.
ii WAS the first low level at
tack to hit the important \aka-
jima plant, "A major producer OF
Nippon's aircraft engines, al
though it had been a target in
high altitude raids.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-04-02

Macmillan 70 the outskirts of Bur-
gos, The 18Th infantry was led III
this push by 1t. Col. Arthur Collins
Of Boston, Mass.
FIRST cavalry troopers, tightening
a wise on Japaueso-hcld San Pablo.
south of Laguna de Bay IN southern
luzon. used loud speakers and scat
tered leaflets in efforts to get the
trapped enemy TO strren7 er.
On Ncsros island, invaded Thurs
day, 40th division d%oughboys APP
preached the outskirts of Tallsay and
and the TaliSsay ajrStrip, On Cebu.
the American divisions advanced
five miles on the coastal road from
Lahog to Consolidation against
moderate resistance. Other units
reached the foothills Of the central
mountains, northeast Of Pardo and
Guadalupe. japanese artillery fire
from the hills was heavy.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-04-02
Reconversi0r
Director Is
To'TakeRest
Eyrncs Just Filed
Report On Program;
Will Await Vinson

N,vhinuton Nnrii o-(Ap)
"a.
i'Nl'"sfi' hN''N'N''' "01'f''O'
today the resignation Oh James
f.. bNfneS It. director OF W al
N~aLjiiz.+i.n and pnr,nvprsion
H'I ~ I;,.,, -
ditV PISh'V ii'" u nov
succeed nm.
..,
Sym z.,H III Tue l'' -
Ndii>ul' I1'..5t -..5' Ii ! IrtIIN =,
il1 H'l.n1'' t.'''' - ""' 80
\ala''i ."l' Hi~ '" ""'''
1t WAS the second mango OF
jahs tor Nineon ~ less than a
month. On Narch 3 ne was
nominated Federal lean ADMIN
i>tt"tor and pr'cr to 'ha' aa'' ne
was director OF economic s''-
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-04-02
Iondon's \-Bo,nb
Raids \IaN Be Over
As \azis Retreat

London, April .. (AP)-
Hope that Great Hritain'S long
months of N-bonh terror raids
lav" cudcd spraEs up IN Ion
don today.
An official announcement SAID
that rot a single vengeance
weapon had Landed anywhere IN
England since last Thursday
night. and additional report,
poured III of \azi Withdrawals
from northern Holland. location
OF the N-bonu launching sites.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-04-02
HEADQUARTERS Is SILENT
ON PANAMA CANAL CLAIM

Balboa, c. T., April 2.-(AP)-
Headquarters of the Panama Canal
Zone today declined to comment on
a export from Santiago, Chile. that
a Nazi sabotage ricg rad planned to
blow up the Panaca Canal.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-04-02
NNEAE HR
FOR NORTH

Considerable clOudiness and
warm with showers and than
dcrshoWcr> in west portion this
morning, and in east portion
this afternoon. Parity cloudy
and mild tonight and Tuesday,
preceded by a few showers in
extreme east portion early to-
night.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-04-02
E;ight Killed In Storms
That Strike Deep South
Hundreds Homeless
And Property Loss
Is Reported Heavy

tEy The Associated PrcSS.)
Floods, tOrnadGrs and tidal
waves left a toll of at least eight
dead, hundreds homeless and
unCOunted property damage IN
the deep South today.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-04-02

Guam, April :. {APJ -
Thousands of United States
tcnth army infantrymcn and
Marines invaded strategic Ok
naWa, 323 miles from Japan
paper, Easter morning at little
cost and found the going still
surprisingly easy as they
pushed eastward today toward
the important Nakagusuku bay
fleet anchorage.
lank5 went ashore en- the
WtSt coast II $50 a. iii. $3.50
p. N. Saturday, iWT), quickly
CAPTURED two airtie|ds and a
d0zcn virtually deserted villages
and towns. BY n,gntfaii they
had carved out a hcaGhh"ad
three miles deep at point, on an
iSthnuus eight miles wide, Ad-
miral Chester ". Nimitz an
nOuiced today.
Front reports said Il IhIrd ar
strlp-unldcntlflcd- also Was seized,
Tho Nauk invaders walked inland
from the beaches Pee yards or more
without o.ee having IL seek shelter.
Tough fighting is expected,
however, as the Japanese o
eaniztd for defense. The mva-
sion followed a ten-daN bomb
ing and hombardment of his
eastern shore dcienSeS, and the
tnrmN was expected to fight
fanatiCalIy from prepared posi-
tiouS probably in the 10" hills III
the center of the island. Est
mates Of Japanese strength on
OkinaWa ranged from $4,000 to
iU0,b1U troops.
Final. decisive victory is a.
surcd," NmI)l declared as he per
soualiy rcad hi, Sunday commu- l.
que a. mounting the invasion But
he warned that Japan ltsell atIII
must he conquered.
Capture 81 OkanaWa VIII afford
alrliolds for naturalization of the
empires nome ulrtirld, and contn-
ucd devastation of its Wul-NltaI cen
tcrS.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-04-02
Going Easy
For Yanks
On 0kinawa
Heavy Fighting Is
EXPECTED on island
Near Jap Homeland

New York. April 2.-(AiD-
American invasion forces have
Stlrtcu LANDINGS on kumc is
land, about sixty miles west of
Ok!naWa and west of the kcr-
ANA group, Il Tokyo broadcast
reported by the blue network
said today.
Henderson daily dispatch., 1945-04-02
HollandArmy
Threatened
By British
Drive To Interior
Is Not Checked BY
hopping Up Action

ldflS, ApilI -.-tAl)-l ne
American first and ninth az
mics have trapped p divisions
Of 10000 first line enemy
troops in the Ruhr and the
British second army, driving
swiftly northeast, threatened
today to throw a moose around
another whole army group III
Holland, reducing German
strength i'll the west by two
thirds.
Paris, April 2-CAP)-The
American third army drove
today into F'uIda and kassel,
l65 miles from Berlin, and
within 1913 miles Of the Russian
lines, while other Allied armies
grimly mopped up 10000 to
100000 Of GermanE,s best
troops, trapped in the enCirCIed
Ruhr.
General Onla: n. Bradley
sent tank columns far beyond
beth Easel and Fulda. one ar
mored column reaching within
I55 miles of Berlin at a point
three miles northwest of Ei>en-
bach at the northwest edge of
the famous Hungarian forest.
There Ii. Cen. George S. Patfon's
| army Was 95 miles from Leipzig and
closest to the Russian front in its
power drive to blSect the Reich and
bar access of troops in the north
from the BaVarian Alps, where Hit
Ter may be preparing for his last
stand.
Supreme headquarters said all
Of Field Marshal Walther Won
Models army group u, strongest
left on the western front and
containing the last tank army
opposing General ,isenhoWcr's
nine armies charging east of the
Rhine, had been caught in the
Euhr trap, closed Yesterday by
the first and ninth armies.
Evcl as the fate of this whole
fighting force WIS scaled, General
EiscnhoWef's c~p#mUnlGuc, m an
unusual revelation OF the course Of
| the developing campaign, declared
flailv the cleanup VIII not preclude
the advance of Allied armorcd COL
umns farther into Germany.
That swift advance was wei un-
der way, -,
1t. Gen. George s. Patton's third
army had armor less than 1850 miles
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-21
DSR Riders SkepticaH

THE DSR's postwar rapid transit
L plan, announced yesterday, will
be received with skepticism by
many Detroiters.
They have had their fill of trans
poftation plans and programs.
WHAT THEY WANT NOW is
TRANSPORTATION.
Since quarter century ago,
when the rapid transit commission
set to work dreaming up elaborate
subway schemes, Detroit has seldom
been without beautiful transit
plan.
None ever became a reality.
Millions of dollars have been
poured into such futile planning.
lust last February, the city's
- transportation board, appointed
by Mayor Jeffries, paid out $4,000
to engineers from New York, Chicago
and Cincinnati for Detroit Transit
Plan.
1t called for S1O9,OOOOOO worth
of mass transportation improve
ments, spread over 12-year period.
There were objections to this plan
as there were to all the previous
ones.
This time the DSR Was the chief
obiector.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-21
The Death of Maj. Bong

thorough and harsh in It's treatment
of military offenders.
It is not uncommon for an ordi-
nary soldier. accused and convicted
of simple disobedience of an order,
to receive sentence of long impris-
onment or even life Imprisonment.
In recent instance, an American
soldier was given a DEATH sentence
for simple disobedience - although
public protest subsequently forced
review and reduction of the
penalty.
But why is the war department
so communicative, and so unre-
sponsive to legitimate inquiry, when
it is suspected that there has been the
SACRIFICE of national hero's life
in consequence of bad Judgment?
Senator Wiley should continue to
press his inquiry with the war de-
partment.
And he should be ANSWERED.
Ii is to be hoped the war depart
rent can giUe an entirely salts
FACTORY ansWer to his inquiry,
but in any eUent the inquiry is not to
be turned aside rUith silence and
evasion.
The American people were deeply
distressed and shocked by the tragic
death of Maj. Bong.
They are still puzzled about the
circumstances of his death.
They are resentful of the evident
disposition of the war department to
conceal those circumstances, and ap-
parently to suppress the truth about
them.
The American people want the
TRUTH about this tragic matter,
regardless of whom the truth may
embarrass or hurt.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-21

TN DISCUSSING my assigned 81 b Jec I,
Il "State.Local Relations shall do so with
the conviction that the relationship between
the state and its political subdivisions and
citizens is facing now the most critical test
in our country's history.
Indiana with wide variety Of industrial
developments and a quite diversified agrcul-
tural production. may be looked upon as
typical state and may we'll serve as research
laboratory in this connection.
I hope that what we have discovered and
what we are discovering in definite program
for better cooperation between governmental
units will prove helpful.
| have come TO what ! believe 10 be the
very solid conclusion that WE MUST EVEN
TUALLY AND FINALLY DEPEND ON THE
SOUND SENSE AND CAPABILITIES OF
THE PEOPLE WHO MAX f UP THE
UNDERLYING UNITS OF GOVERNMENT,
such as township. the county and the village
and city, for guidance and direction.
In these units there is underlying initiative,
there is close and intimate knowledge OF
what goes on in government. In them con-
tact is direct between the economic life of the
individual and his government. There is
mixing of government and of the all-important
job of making living.
The mixture is IN the raw. Out OF the
mixing comes close knowledge of the relation
ship between government and the people as
government affects their way of life.
And from this knowledge comes under
standing between the people and their repre-
sentatives in government. AND WHERE
THERE is UNDERSTANDING CO-OPERA-
TION IS WELCOMED.
With such fundamental conditions existing
it follows that these home areas are best
equipped TO determine those primary essen
tials which are necessary to improved living
the ultimate goal Of the people and their
governments.
TN 1943 our General Assembly created an
i economic council set up necessary advisory
services and made these services known to the
communities. There was immediate awaken
ing among the more alert communities. Many
came forward aggressively and availed them
selves Of those overall services which they
were not equipped to provide for themselves.
They obtained the benefit of good advice
relative 70 public WORKS and found the expert
ences Of other communities available for
study.
AS soon as the benefits to the most pro-
gressive communities were observed laggard
municipalities began 10 develop much
greater interest in thr own future.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-21
By HON. RALPH F. GATES
Governor of Indiana

The community which has no interest in
its future-and they are rare-is hardly
worth helping If all the leadership and the
money for its development must come from
the state or another governmental unit, it
is likely to become an INDECENT community. II
will lapse into decay.
A policy which fails to encourage and de-
velop resourcefulness and progressiveness
within the community is bound to leave many
communities without the benefits which could
be readily achieved.
TTNHE test is in the spirit of the people them
i selves Those who live within commu-
nifty that will make good use of state or federal
help should have it. They will help to lift the
general economic levels of the state and pay
high dividend on the investment
Here are some figures, brefed down, which
will illustrate my point
More than 500 vital and necessary public
improvement proposals have now been listed
with our economic council and are in or APP
preaching the blueprint stage. Their value will
reach a half billion dollars. Nearly all are
based on sound necessity and have community
approval Most are the product of community
plans. They can be financed without undue
burden on the taxpayers of the respective gov
ernmental units.
These needed improvements, long delayed
by war and other causes, will prove Of tre-
mendous value in forestaling unemployment
in the event we encounter a serious sag in
our economic future
TN INDIANA, in developing other postwar
4 programs, we have stuck TO the belief that
local communities knew their problems best
and it was therefore the duty of the state
TO provide only those overall guidances and
aids which, through lack of facilities, the COM
munity could not provide for itself. This
precept was kept clearly in mind when the
last session of the assembly enacted, with ad-
ministration approval, program giving prac-
tical effect 10 this philosophy.
The aior steps in our Indiana program
are based on the belief that progress is at
tanned through the thought and the labor of
the individual and the pooling of his resources.
GOVERNMENT Is NOT DEPENDABLE
FOR ORIGINAL. THINKING OR PRONID-
ING THE FULL SINEWS OF PROGRESS.
GONERNM y 7 IL HAMSTRUNG BY
NECESSARY RESTRICTIONS
For progress We must look To the indi-
yidual and To the freedom Of action which
he enjoys.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-21

The DSR contended that $780,
100000 was far more than the city
could afford, that it would take too
long for the benefits to show up and
that some features of the plan,
notably AN articulated train service
in center mall of the crosstown ex-
pressway, were not warranted by the
number of possible riders.
60 THE DSR set to work preparing
~ it's own plan which, it says, over
comes all these objections and will
provide Detroit with one of the most
efficient and modern transportation
systems in the world.
The plan calls for non stop opera
tion of large buses on expressways,
and seems good one.
More important, it offers benefits
almost Immediately, if the DSR' ex
perts are right.
If no new objectors arise to block
the plan, it would appear that De
troit, at last, has chance of getting
the kind of transportation Americas
fourth largest city deserves.
But we trust that the DSR will
excuse the plan happy straphangers
if they withhold their enthusiasm
until they see some concrete results.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-21

SENAToR ALEXANDER H.
- WILEY of Wisconsin, home
state of the late Maj, Richard Bong,
top ranking American air ace of the
Pacific, has made pressing but so far
FUTILE inquiry of the war depart,
ment regarding the tragic death of
the young airman.
Maj. Bong was killed testing one
of the army's new jet propelled
planes.
This was a dangerous assignment,
perhaps one of the most dangerous in
military aviation not even excepting
actual combat.
Since Maj. Bong had been re
turned to the United States from the
Pacific combat area for surcease from
the rigors and hazards of active war
fare, his assignment to this extremely
dangerous duty cannot be left un-
explained.
The war department has ex-
pressed REGRET about his death,
which is all very well--but what is
the war department going to DO
about it?
Was his death, in addition to be.
ing regrettable and untimely, also
UNNECESSARY
Maj. Bong was great aviator
and a national war hero.
Was his life lost as a result Of a
careless or stupid order by some SUI
perior authority, without even so
much as a reprimand for those re
sponsible?
Military investigation can be very
thorough and military discipline can
be very harsh in some circumstances,
and often the war department is both
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-21
Knowledge TEST

Prime Minister Attlee's first
name is Ca) Charles; (b)
Clement: (c) Cornelius?
2-The Switzerland of South
America is; (a) Chile; (b)
Uruguay; (c) Bolivia?
ST your sister is married six
years today, would II be
appropriate 10 give her: ta)
a bag Of sugar, th) wooden
tray: (c) a lace handker-
chief7
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-21

4-What is the name Of the
tavern in Stevenson Treas
ure Island: (a) The Red
Horse. tb) the Admiral Ben
bow: (c) the Boar's Head?
5-The only L. S. president who
is a graduate Of Bowdoin Col
lege in Maine is taD Frank
lin Pierce: tb) William Taft;
tcl Calvin Coolidge?
Sill the blank question in
each quotation; they are all
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-21

member Of Congress
recently played The lead IN a
play called Candida writ
Ten by George Bernard
Shaw
the development Of
the atomic bomb what name
was given the project in or
der 10 help insure complete
secrecy? NA
S Would YOU guess that there
is more or less Than a mile
OF thread in a pair Of mems
socks
(Answers on opposite pageD
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-21
By DR.. SABINA
CONNOLLY

about death: (a) Tam dying
-, dying Shakespeare;
fb) sleep the sleep that
knows not---." Scott; (c)
"They/Say ne made a good
." Shakespeare; cd
Death loves a shining
--.--,' Young (eD:
But O for the touch of a
vanished hand
And the sound Of a voice
that is. Tennyson.
(Answers on Opposite Page)
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-21


There is another glorious thing about
being an American that we ought to re-
Joice in every morning and all day and all
night, and never forget
Our Declaration of Independence
claimed for us-and the Constitution set
up machinery to secure for us-this won
derful thing as a right an inalienable
right-the pursuit of happiness. Think of
it 1t is our right to try to be happy
And since nobody can be happy, ex-
cept in his own way according to his own
nature. our beautiful principle Of existence
guarantees us the right to seek each his
own happiness, and interposes only the
necessary proviso that ones happiness
shall not destroy the happiness of others
who have an equal right to pursue their
own happnesses.
Or course, pursuing happiness is one
thing, and capturing it is another. There
Is trghttul amount of unhappiness in
the world particularly iHst-Hew with SO
many millions in torment from wounds
and hardships and so many other mil
lions stricken with grief over the loss
of their loved ones
BUT STILL THE FACT REMAINS
AND WE SHOULD NEVER LOSE
SIGHT OF THE GLORY OF TT: OUR
GOVERNMENT WAS THE FIRST ONE
CREATED BY THE CONSENT OF THE
GOVERNED. 1T WAS THE FIRST
ONE THAT SAID ALL MEN WERE
CREATED FREE AND EQUAL IT WAS
THE FIRST ONE THAT SANCTIFIED
AS A RIGHT THE RIGHT TO THE
PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS
We Americans must take life as a
great adventure, struggle to win and
to keep freedom, to uphold the dignity of
the individual, and while seeking the
greatest happiness Of the greatest num-
ber, never forget that the supreme ~happi-
ness, the rightful happiness is to be free,
and never to let ourselves be made the
slaves of any higher power, however big
bribe it offers us for our holy freedom.
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-21
eSfafe-LOcal Relations


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Detroit evening times., 1945-08-21

Civ. yoursslf 10 fot eAsh souset an.
ssrf throufh qusstion tiI 10 sAh for
the remaining tso questions. Any tVofs
IS o. higher k eHtsllsnt.
You would be likely 10 find a
heliophile Ia) on beach
Cb) in> . hoSpt'al3 tc) IN an
airplsne
What is The name ~ Tho
cruiser on which President
# Truman joutneyeG ~ and
&C The DETROIT TIMES
' Aua. ie45
Detroit evening times., 1945-08-21

n NANOO1NNLI-lH HC ANoIiohoi DAShN
"A casting Company presents Rupert
Hughes 4. . soldier, novelist, historian and
humorist.
Hughes-some people have found fault
with the Declaration of independence be-
cause it was full of old ideas and ideals.
The great thing was that it made them
come true, brought them down from the
clouds and gave our forefathers something
to fight for
AS jefferson wrote to Henry Lee 80
years later:
THE object of the Declaration of In
pendence was not to find out new prin-
ciples, or new arguments, never before
thought of, not merely to say things
which had never been said before; but to
place before mankind the common sense
of the subject, in terms so plain and firm
as to command their assent, and to justify
ourselves in the independent stand we
were compelled to take. Neither aiming
at originality of principle or sentiment,
nor yet copied from any particular and
previous writing, it was intended to be an
expression of the American mind, and to
give to that expression the proper tone
and spirit called for by the occasion. All
its authority rests, then, on the harmonic
ing sentiments of the day, whether ex-
pressed i'm conversation, in letters, printed
essays, or i'm elementry books of public
right, as Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, Sidney,
etc" "==