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Evening star., 1945-12-15

Light Maintenance Company, seth
Signal Company, 1920 Infantry Reg
iment, Headquarters and Headquar-
tiers Battery, 36th Division Artillery.
Miscellaneous personnel on E. A.
Peden, 30 Originally due yesterday.
At San Observation-Disclosures
personnel on following - Carrier
Lexington from Japan, 1,014s in Navy,
204 Marines, 1854 Army. Carrier
Intrepid from Japan, 379 in Navy,
1,961 Army; transport Darke from
Pearl Harbor, 2,175 in Navy; trans
port Bingham from Manila, 1856 in
Army, 80 civilians; carrier Jacinto
from Saipan, 1925 in Navy and Ma
rines, 694 Army; transport st. Croix
from Manila, 1913, mostly from
Army; transport Napa from Manila
l 800, mostly from Army; carrier
Natoma Bay from Manila, 1,150 in
Navy; transport Catron from Ma
nila, 1,131, mostly in Army; Ken
more from Guam, 986, mostly in
Navy; Adrian Victory from Manila,
809 in Army; Maria Sanford from
Manila, ITO in Army; others with
few each, including Impeccable, Tri-
umph, John Hibben, William P. Nc
Arthur, Tucson Victory, Cape Lam
bert, Margaret Fuller.
At Los Angeles - Miscellaneous
personnel on following: Valeria from
Saipan, 432 in Army; Raymond In
gersoll from Manila, 81 in Army;
Lunga Point from Saipan, 1,067 in
Army, 143 Navy; Long Island from
Yokohama. 952 in Army; Takanis
Bay from Honolulu, 1904 in Army;
White Marsh from Honolulu, 224 in
Army, 4 Red Gross; Grant from
Honolulu, 1856 in Army, u civilians.
IL Red Gross: War Hawk from Man.
lila, 1929 in Army, 81 Navy, 10 civil
ians; Kota Ageong from Lingayen,
1,766 in Army, mostly of 37th Divi-
sion; Independence from Two Jima,
l,706 in Army, 206 Navy; Yugoslavia
from Honolulu, u in Army: Astoria
from Honolulu, SO in Navy, Is Ma
rines; Lee Fox from Honolulu, 1913
in Navy, Is Marines; Rolf from
Honolulu, 68 in Navy, Is Marines;
Bombach from Honolulu, 145 in
Navy, Is Marines; Thistle from
Honolulu, 167 Army. Army Nurses;
Tanamo from Honolulu, 10 in Navy.
At San observation-disclosures per-
sonnel on following: Catskill, It'll
in Navy, Marines and Coast Guard; !;
attack transport Hampton, 1910 in
Navy and Marines; feet tugs, Nip
muc and No. 211, and 2 passen-
gers respectively: LMSs, 156, 327. 1872,
1888, 435, 443 and 496 with total of
300.
At miscellaneous person.
mel on following: Sitka from Manila,
1890 in Army; La Porte from Ma
mia, 1895 in Army, and Aztec from
Honshli 40 In Arrnv
Evening star., 1945-12-15
Editors 10 Meet Here
In April; Name World
Free Press Committee
py the Associated Press.

Directors Of the American So
ciety Of Newspaper Editors yester-
day set April 18, 10 and 20 for the
first spring meeting of the society
since 1914. 1t will be held here.
John S. Knight, president and
publisher Of the Knight newspapers,
who presided over the directors
meeting as ASNE president, also
announced appointment Of a new
standing Committee on Freedom Of
World Information. AS a continu-
Ing body 1t will be the committees S
duty to report at least once a year.
Wilbur S. Forrest, and editor of
the New York Herald Tribune who
served as chairman of three-man
committee which recently toured
the world in the interest of the free
exchange of information, was nam
ed chairman of the new 11-man
committee. The other members:
Roy A. Roberts, managing editor
of the Kansas City Star; Alfred H.
Kirchhofer, managing editor of the
Buffalo News; John H. Sorrels, ex-
ecutive editor of the Scripps- How
ard newspapers; Donald J. Ster-
ling, managing editor of the Oregon
journal; N. r. Howard, editor of the
Cleveland News; B. M. McKelway,
associate editor of The Evening
Star; Edward E. Lindsay, editor of
the Decatur Qll) Newspaper, Inc;
George w. Healy, jr., managing ed
itor OF the New Orleans Times
Picayune; j. R. Virgins, managing
editor of the st. Paul Pioneer
Press; Stephen c. holland, editor of
the Indianapolis News.
The Executive Committee of the
directors paid a courtesy call on
President Truman at the White
House during the day.
Evening star., 1945-12-15
Good Roods Disappeared

After the collapse of the Roman
Empire good roads disappeared
from Europe for some IL centuries.
Evening star., 1945-12-15

EDITORS MEET WITH PRESIDENT TRUMAN-The Executive
Committee OF the American Society of Newspaper Editors
shown with President Truman during meeting the White
House yesterday Left to right Alexander Washington
Post Nathaniel Howard Cleveland News; David Lawrence
United States News: w s. Gilmore Detroit John
Evening star., 1945-12-15
Baer, Anti-Nazi, Ordered
Deporfed 10 Germany
--AP Photo.
BY the Associated Press.


PORTLAND, Oreg., Dec. 15.-
Walter E. Baer, At, Portland civil
engineer and outspoken anti-Naz
who was on the verge of deportation
throughout the mid-thirties, has
been ordered to leave for Germany
with the next deportation party.
The famed Baer case was fought
through Oregon and New York
courts from 1894 to 1887 by friends
who claimed he could not remember
Germany nor even speak the Ian.
guage.
A group of 12o Portland attorneys
appealed yesterday to Gov. Ear
Smell to pardon Baer for two Is.
year-old check forgery conviction.
on which the deportation is based
Baer's attorney, Irwin Goodman, sale
Baer served sentences on the charge.
In 1919 and 1921, but had been 6
good citizen since. He came to thi.
country from Germany in 1907. Bael
has an Oregon wife and three
children-One in the Army.
Evening star., 1945-12-15
Eddie Contor's Daughter
Files Suit for Divorce
81 the Associat, d Press.

LOS ANGELES, Dec. 15.-Eddie
Cantor's daughter, Edna, filed suit
yesterday for a divorce from James
McHugh, jr., musical composer. who
is in the Army.
She charged he treated her SO
cruelty that she became i'll. She
asked for custody Of their 5-year-old
daughter, Judith, together with $500
monthly alimony and more than
one-half" their community prop
erty. They were married in 1898
Evening star., 1945-12-15
De MoIoy Sends Truman
Portrait of His Mother
3y tho Axxociated prass

BY the Associated Press.
KANSAS CITY, Dec. 15.-A life
portrait Of President Truman's
mother, Mrs. Martha Truman, SO
scheduled to be presented to the
Chief Executive at the White House
Wednesday, was sent from Kansas
City yesterday.
The portrait, picturing Mrs. Tru-
man seated in rocking chair at the
family home in Grandview, Mo-, was
commissioned by the Order Of De
Molay and was painted by Jerry
Farnsworth, Truro, Mass.
Evening star., 1945-12-15
Barley in Hong Kong
Ito See Buckmuster
BIZ the Associated Press.

by llIe hSSUCIdteu E1eEs,
HONG KONG, Dec 15.-Vice Ad-
miral Daniel E. Barley, commander
of the 7th Fleet, flew here yester-
day from Shanghai to confer with
Rear Admiral Elliott Buckmaster.
commander of American naval
forces in South China.
En- route in a seaplane, Admiral
Barley gave hitch-hike lift to
Mrs. George D. Hopper, Chippewa
Falls, Wis, wife of the American
consul general at Hong Kong. She
had been temporarily stranded at
Shanghai after a 20-day boat trip
from San Francisco en- route to
| China.
Evening star., 1945-12-15
Gen. Dentz, Leading
IVichyite, Dies in Jail
By the Associated Press.

PARIS, Dec. 15.-Gen Henri Fer
nand Dentz, former French high
commissioner in Syria and one of
the most prominent figures in the
Vichy regime, died in Fresnes prison
Thursday Of a heart attack.
Gen. Dentz was serving a life
sentence, commuted from death. for
permitting the Germans to use air
bases in Syria in 194l in their effort
to support Axis-inspired, anti-Brit-
ish forces in Iraq.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-05-24
178 TEACHERS IN
COUNTY THIS YEAR

Continued from Page One)
number of men in this profession
continues to decrease. This year
there are As men teachers to the
1872 women.
In the central schools, West JEFF
ferson and Lansing have the larg-
est group of teachers with Is each.
jefferson has IA; Riverview and
Nathan's Creek, IA each; Healing
Springs and Fleetwood, II each;
and Elkland, 9.
A complete list of teachers in
the central schools of the county
is published in connection with
their respective school activities
in this edition. The other elemen-
tary teachers of the county
schools are:
Orion, Mrs. Clyde Bare Dill
lard; Wagner, Mrs. Orville Bare;
Glendale Springs, Delmar Rose,
Mrs. Nell F. D. Sheets, Mabel
Blackburn; Big Ridge, Mrs. Re-
becca Miller; Buffalo, Thomas c.
Hardin, Mrs. Alma F. Hardin.
Rich Hill, Howard Graphical;
Trout, M. H. Eller, Mrs. Jewel R..
Miller; Mill Creek, Clyde Hart
soc; Rash, Margaret Davis; Roar
ing Fork, Ina Mae Oliver; Ash
land, Mrs. Beulah w. McNeill;
Parker, E. L. Stuart; Rye Cove.
Grady Robinson; Hemlock, Emo
jean Wilson.
Flatwoods, Mrs. Vina X. Love;
Thaxton, Mrs. Alice E. Denny;
Stages Creek, Floyd Jones. Mrs.
Edna McNeill; Warrensville, w.
Lee Jones, Mrs. Lena Penning-
ton Burkett; White Oak. Bonnie
Baldwin; Fairview, Lenna Stu
art; Osborne, Mrs. Opal Elliott
Stansberry; Meadow View, Mrs.
Harriet E. Powers, Mrs. Matte
King Shunate; Sugar Grove,
Mrs. Wayne w. Smith; Graham,
Guy Spencer, Mrs. Kate w.
Spencer; Hurricane, Alice Reeves;
New Hope, A. A. Perry, Mrs. A.
A. Perry.
Helton, John M. Burkett, Alta
Virginia Perkins, Mrs. Bette
Moore; Chapel, Mrs. lola Blevins
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-05-24

and care Of tools, the repair and
maintenance of farm machinery
and simple construction on the
farm.
Machinery Repaired
Another type Of work done
through the Jefferson department
is the supervision of farm machin-
cry and other war productive food
training courses in the county.
Much money and time have
been sawed farmers of the coun-
ty through this work.
Another important part of the
program is that the services Of the
agricultural teacher are available
to any farmer in the community
any afternoon after school and at
any time during the summer
months.
Home Projects
In addition to- their classroom
and shop work, the students must
carry on one or more projects at
home. This year, 9 students have
corn projects; II, bean projects; 7,
cabbage; 2, potatoes; 7, beef cat
tie; l, tobacco; Is, dairy cattle; l,
sheep, 6, feeder pigs; 2, brood
soWs. IF,
Thus the students are encour-
aged to put into practice their
classroom knowledge. Com
plete reports must be kept on all
farm projects and progress noted.
In this way the students learn
by doing.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-05-24

the schools and is particularly
anxious to see a vocational agri-
cultural department in every high
school of the county.
The school has been fortunate
in having a county man, Vaughn
c. Eller, a graduate Of State Col
lege, who has long been inter-
ested in vocational work, as head
of the department.
Practical Training
Including the eighth grade stu
dents, there are around 40 boys
taking the course this year and
their work in the agricultural de-
partment consists of about 70 per
cent class room work and Is per
cent shop work. In class the boys
are given an opportunity to learn
improved methods of farming and
livestock raising.
In the shop, the boys are en-
couraged to learn the proper use
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-05-24
Results Being Achieved In Vocational Agricultural Classes Count,

department clinics held in the
schools. Eye clinics are also held.
Hundreds of children are vac
clnated for communicable dis
eases and this not only helps to
maintain a high standard of
health, but helps to keep up the
attendance of the schools.
A series of pre-school clinics
are now being held in which it
is estimated that around 700 chill
dren will be vaccinated for COM
municable diseases in order to be
ready to enter school next fall.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-05-24
Jefferson Has A
Successful Year
With Large Class
More Departments Of This
Kind Needed In Schools
Of County

While it is practically a new
course, this being the second
year in operation, the vocational
agricultural class at Jefferson is
now completing another success
full term.
This is the only department of
its kind in the county and even
with limited facilities, due to war
time conditions, this department
has enjoyed a marked success
from the beginning. Tangible re-
suits can already be seen and in
the years to come it should pay
big dividends to Ashe county.
And it is hoped that this will only
be a beginning of training in this
field.
This paper has long advocated
more vocational training in all of
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-05-24
SOME EQUIPMENT is
ADDED TO SCHOOLS

Continued from Page One)
the smaller schools. Water has
also been added to some of the
schools that were without it.
In spite of the high cost of
materials and labor, surplus of
several thousand dollars remains
to the credit of the county school
fund. AS result of good man
agement this leaves funds avail.
able for postwar work.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-05-24
POSTWAR PLANS MADE
FOR NEW BUILDINGS

CONTINUED from Page One)
deserves even more attention
than most of the high schools is
providing better facilities for the
children, who attend the smaller
schools of the county.
Many of these buildings are in
bad repair and very poorly
equipped. Due to the war condi-
tions, the amount of repair work
on these buildings has been very
limited. while no definite plan
has been worked out, several of
these smaller schools should be
consolidated so that more ade-
quate facilities can be provided
in order that the children, who
attend these schools, may have
every advantage that is possible
for the county and state to furn-
ish," Mr.. Hurt declared.
In the past, the statewide plan
of consolidation, primary atten-
ton has been given to the large
central schools where more at
tention is given to instruction.
With the exception of Elkland
and Fleetwood, the county now
has seven large, modern high
school buildings, which are val
ued at nearly $3O0,000.00. In
Guiding Elkland and Fleetwood,
the valuation of the nine central
schools is 1925, 100000.
Valuation of the So one and
two-teacher school buildings in
the county is around $1OO,OO0.00;
thirty-one school buses around
$4,000, making a grand total
school property valuation in the
county of over $45O,000.00.
The high school valuations are
estimated as follows: West Jeffer-
son, $4,000; Jefferson, $4,000;
Healing Springs, $35,O0O; Lansing
$45, 900; Riverview, $4,000; Vir-
ginia Carolina, $4,000; Nathan's
Creek, $4,000; Fleetwood, $751;
900 and Elkland, $4,000.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-05-24
Jones; Little Helton, Wade

Jones; Little Helton. Wade
Wood.
Silas Creek, C. M. Dickson;
Landmark, C. F. Dickson.
Burnt Hill, Alma Coward;
Peak Creek, Magdalene Darnell;
Low Gap, Mrs. Ida Virginia Bare;
Laurel Fork, Mrs. Gladys Woodie
Cox; Friendship, Mrs. Lucy K.
Dixon. -
Baldwin, Mrs. Vista Hartsoe
Dollar, Mrs. Eula M. Johnson;
Boggs, Onna Darnell; Obids, j.
c. Crawford, Vivian Parsons;
Othello, Virginia Dare Goodman;
Duncan, Mrs. Mamie C. Good
man, Mrs. Verona M. Wither-
spoon.
Oval, Mrs. Matte Goodman
Parsons; Idlewild, Mrs. Myrtle
Fletcher, Louise Fletcher.
Mill Creek, James R. Houck,
Mrs. Beulah S. Houck; Toliver,
Wade Norris, Mrs. Minta Grubb.
Green Valley, Mrs. J. M. Bar
low, Mrs. Mayme w. Donnelly;
Rock Creek, Mrs. Pauline J. Mar
tin, Miss Esther Osborne; Suther-
land, Mrs. Grayce E. knight.
Colored: Bristol-Dorothy Jean
Gilmer; Creston--Oddie J. Cox;
Crumpler Inst.-Corene Bass;
Pine Swamp-Mrs. Lennie w.
Grimes.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-05-24
LIBRARY SERVICE IN
SCHOOLS INCREASED

CONTINUED from Page One)
supplementary readers now avail
able in all of the schools. These
are so distributed and circulated
that the majority of the children
have the advantage of them.
In cooperation with the Ashe
county library, 1,408 new books,
suitable for smaller children,
have been purchased and have
been distributed through the Of
flee of the county superintendent.
Many of these have been used by
teachers in the smaller schools,
where library facilities have been
limited. Since this system was
started, the total circulation Of
these books has reached 10000.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-05-24

Ralph Coward left, who has beef cattle his home
project shown with old calf that already
tips the scales at $50 pounds Calvin Blevins above stand
between two of his prize dairy These typical
farm projects of the boys taking vocational agriculture at
Jefferson high school this Many of the students have
field their projects These include tobacco,
beans and potatoes. (Staff PhOto)
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-17
Swiss Movement

If the class win kindly to order, shall sider the Swiss relation imitation and nterna iional trade But first a about imitation. The United States fears imitation Its greatest danger told. arises from demand whipped up by pool of spendable savings, which exists n time Of great scarcity of consumer goods.
 To save ourselves from that danger have set up restraining bureaus like the OPA. But those only emer gency The best of preventing maon the economists is o make available ample supply of goods that the public won't have o plunge into of desperate auction sale, bidding for limited commodities with unlimited funds.
 Now about that 7-jewel SWISS movement New American watches everyone knows have been all but noneXsen shipped enough watches and watch movements to take of pressing demands for tmepeces. There was black market in watches.
 If really fear imitation, and get rid of tenn porary prce-xing expedent and really have faith in the competitive system might proper thank the Swiss for helping curb imitation in this field at least. But we don't. Quite the contrary.
 The State Department sends note in polite diplomatic language, complaining about the number of watches and watch the Swiss sending here and ask ing them please down these exports and do it quickly. Things little upset here and the Amer watch industry is still reconvertng from work But apparently just without watches until supply needs.
 The is polite, of course only because diplomats usually polite but also because shall want the Swiss buy from the automobiles and other things that manufacture efficiently the Swiss fabrcate watches The notes text hasn't been published But we'll bet that doesn't tell the Swiss how, without exporting they going get the dollar exchange pay for all those automobiles and things that we hope to sell them.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-17
We'll Fed at Least

Prof Harold Lask stepped out of character just before he stepped aboard plane for England the other day and said good word about the United States. That usual for the voube eff unoffca spokesman of the Brit ish Labor Party seldom says good word in public for thing except state socialism and the Soviet Union
 Probably the professors momenary weakness was due feeling of webeing which other occasions has sweetened rebels than he The fact that Professor Laski had eaten we'll He admitted it. He said he hadn't eaten plenteousy in And he officially enthusiastic about American Ice cream.
 We're glad that the professor enjoyed his food And glad to learn that his gloomy view of things in gen. era doesn't upset his digestion though his particular for coming here to make a speech scoldng for economic sins and predicting for rghtfu uppance.
 The professor told Americans that free enterprise American form of economy he direct road to serdom He had bitter things to say about big business and big businessmen You'd have thought he'd be worked up by it all that he wouldn't be able to eat a bite.
 But he was and we're sorry that he hadn't eaten well in the last few years. We know that he and his fellow Brtons wouldn't have fared any better during the under Labor government than they did under Mr. Churchill and the coalition cabinet We know that it's the direct fault of their national social system that millions of Frenchmen Poles, Russians Greeks Italians and others aren't farng well these days either.
 And we aren't snug about and other deca- cies But Professor Lask ought to realize that in peacetme the American serfs also eating pretty we'll Not always well they should of them but better than almost all their neghbors in the world
 Much of the time their innards have felt as well as Professor Lasks did after few days of American table dhote And it's always been hard to convince them feeling that way, that their system grinding them down to slavery and leading them to Even the most earnest radical likely to doze off when he attempts take heavy Marxlan harangue on top of a full stomach.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-12-17

While mlstakes happen in wartime. $ is incEm- bent on tho Army 70 clean up ihe source oi those mistakes especially before saocllne The nation with new pcaoeiime militarasm. Thc War Department ss nos Waglng fierce campaign noi only to swallow ihe Navy bui io adopt peaotiime oantfspon for she nrsg time in history. Before ths N Gone. iic same healthy sp0lRht nov focused un Pearl HarDor bunging ourht 10 oeive into other errors costly n American lives.
 Unfortunately the Army has long followed a policy of covering up military mistake apparently to preserve thC regulations pf hiRh-rankng gen. erals No, only the mistake oi World War I. but even some blunoers of the Civil War stl are under lock and key. Furthermore. the Army seems 10 fol- low ncxpcable policy of promoting many cf those who err while those who were right either get no promotion. or are eased out Of the Army.
 fin the Battle oi the Bulge. for instance. the one who consistently and cmphaiically warned his superorS that the Germans going 10 attack was Col B Abbott Dickson. Chief Of Intelligence for the Second Army. Based on interviews with German prisoners he wrote a report on December 10. l94s, six days before the attack, warning that t was coming His report labelled "No. ST. is in the files Of the War Department
 But on December l2 Col Diekson's superior in- teigence officer in the l2th Army group wrote 8 report saying that such attack was possible The man responsible for this report was Gen Edwin l.. Sibert.
 If the gallant lO6th Division had had warming SHAEF had sent endorsements opposite the Ger man lines. the 60000 U S. casualties might have been a different story.
 Today Col Dickson the man who was right. is out of the Army He retired because he wasn't get ting anywhere He didn't know the right people And Gen. Sibert the man who wrong, has been pro- noted to be top-rankng intelligence officer for the entire U. s. Army in Germany.
 Again Col. Otis K Sadtler and Col. G R. s. Bratton, the two colonels who urged and begged that something be done about warning Pearl Harbor just before the Japs struck. never got one single, solitary promotion Other coonels and lieutenant colonels all around them promoted to be gen. erals Col Bedell Smith who did not act on Sadtlers s and of Staff But the colonels who were right stood still
 The Army owes it not only to the men who were pushed aside but to the public to rectify this favor- ism before asking Congress to vote peacetlme con- scription or the swallowing up of the Navy.
 During the first few months of popular Tom Clarks regime as attorney general Capitol Hill back sappers sized him up as a push-over. They figured they could get anything out of him they wanted.
 They have ruefuy discovered, however, that behind Toms genial smile and eaSy-golng manner