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The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27
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BY James Preston

AS a boy on a tenant farm in the
sand hills of Webster County, Georg-
ia, Walter Franklin George learned
in a hard school how taxes can
cramp the lives of farmers, business
men, property owners and renters.
Now 81, chairman of the Senate
Finance Committee, Sen. George is
working on legislation to Tighten the
burden of wartime taxes. His friends
consider it ironical that to him, a
consistent opponent of high taxes,
fell the duty of serving as a key
legislator in working out wartime
levies of more than $40 billion a
year-more than any other nation in
history had ever tried to raise.
Medium build, with gray hair
turning white, Sen. George sub
scribes to the theory that, in the long
run, reasonable peacetime tax rates
give government more money than
high rates because they encourage
production, more jobs and larger
pay envelopes.
Even before the atom bomb forced
Japan to surrender, the Georgian
favored reducing 1916 taxes on both
corporations and individuals. He
believes lower rates will aid read
justment in the period when more
and more former war workers are
seeking new jobs. With the House
Ways and Means Committee begin
ming work on the new tax program
now, he hopes it will be ready for
Congress in a few weeks.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27
"MARTHA'S" GIFT Is
TOPS IN CHARITY

SAMPSON, N. Y.-Martha, val
ued member of the staff at the Naval
Hospital here, may never have
heard of the expression, give the
shirt off your back" but she has
gone that old adage one better in
her recent contribution to the Red
Cross.
Martha is a sheep who works for
the hospitals laboratory. Her pri-
mary value lies in her willingness to
be experimental upon by the medi-
cal authorities. Recently, however,
she found another way to serve-by
donating her last years coat of
fluffy Grade GAP wool to the Red
Cross. A clip of ten pounds is wait
ing to be washed carded and spun
into yarn by the workers of the
Finger Lakes N. Y, Camp and Hos
pital council. The processed yarn
will be utilized by the patients of the
hospital in the weaving and knitting
projects which are part of their rec
reational program.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27
Radio Man Finds
Tokyo Exciting
Mutual's Bob Brumby Has Fig
ured In Three Adventures.

Ever since Mutual war correspon-
dent Bob Brumby landed in Japan,
he has lead a believe it or not" eX-
istence. In less than a week he (D
was tossed out of Radio Tokyo, when
grim Jap soldiers at bayonet point
prevented him from interviewing
Tokyo Rose; (2) had more than 35
battered JAPANESE combat ships sur
rendered" to him and Clark Lee of
International News Service and (3)
led a party that captured Joseph AL
bert Messenger, notorious Nazi
Butcher of Warsaw" in a small no.
tel IS miles inside of unoccupied ia
pan.
A Japanese Vice-admiral surren-
dered all that remained of the once
powerful Jap fleet to Brumby and
Lee. Thus Brumby found himself
with sizeable fleet, no crews, "and
not even a compass in my pocket"
The following day, Brumby, Lee,
two American officers and a Japan
csc interpreter chased down a tip
that the Nazi war criminal Messing
er, was in hiding near Tokyo. What
happened reads like a story from
the Rover Boys.
Brumby and Lee entered the hotel,
demanded lunch, served by shaking
German refugees, then blandly an
nounced they wanted Messenger to
surrender to them, cor we'll tell the
Russians where he is" That did
it. The Warsaw Butcher" was Civ
en- half hour to come out of his
rooms, with his hands in the air.
With grim officers covering the door
with revolvers, Messenger, a 250-lb
six footer, opened the door and sui
''as meek as a lamb" He
had threatened to shoot Brulnby
and the entire party, before killing
but changed his mind.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27
Then The Fight Began

Doctor t'Iuke-How did you get
the terrible abrasion of the shins?
Victim-I led back my wife's weak
suit at bridge.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27
Sunday Night $3.50, WJEJ, ct
Happened During The Week."

In Overlea, within the city limits
of Baltimore, the Maryland School
for the Blind has opened its doors
for the ninety-second consecutive
year. Here children afflicted with
blindness are offered an education
from kindergarten through high
school. Funds have been lacking and
a new building is desperately need
ed; so it is hoped the people of the
state will take more active interest
in this school.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

Items of Interest
From Entire State
The War Department has cancelled
contracts for 257,OOOOOO chocolate
and candy bars intended for over
seas.
Three former Montgomery coun-
ty policemen were recently convict
ed of stealing three cases of beer
from the Dixie Pig lunchroom, at
Silver Spring, Md.
A Maryland woman, Mrs. Doro-
thy D. Chamberlin, near Taneytown,
Carroll county, is the first WAC
veteran in the nation to buy farm
under the guaranteed loan benefits
of the CT bill
Third Service Command head
quarters announced 121 men have
been recruited for the Regular
Army since the last of August at
Maryland Army Stations. 80 were
reenlistments.
Annapolis, home of the U. S. Naval
Academy, has been selected for the
first issue of the three-cent stamp,
honoring the United States Navy.
The stamp will be issued on Navy
Day, October 81.
Western Maryland College, at
Westminster, has opened for its 10th
year of service with total enroll
ment of over ATS. This was re-
ported by Miss Martha Manahan,
Registrar at the college.
The Mayor and City Council of
Cumberland accepted $4,000 grant
from the State of Maryland and will
match the sum with an equal amount
to make further engineering studies
for the proposed crosstown viaduct.
More than one thousand Maryland
farmers have applied for Federal
crop insurance, protecting their
wheat crop against unavoidable
losses, Joseph H. Blandford, State
AAA committee chairman has
stated.
Ships bearing the flags of seven
foreign nations were recently
anchored in the Baltimore harbor.
Represented were vessels flying the
flags of Greece, Norway, Panama,
Argentina, Portugal, Holland and
Great Britain.
Its assembly line clear of landing
craft for the first time since the
war began, the Owens Yacht Com
pany at Dundalk, has laid the keel
of a cruiser, and also a cruising
sailing yacht, which will be built on
a mass production basis.
Ocean City experienced one of its
best years in history, Mayor Daniel
Trimper, Jr., stated as he toured the
resort to view the Labor Day
crowds. Over 100000 was deposited
at the bank following the big week
end, which surpassed other years by
over $4,000.
Merle E. Towner, long associated
with the organization and develop
ment of conservation activities in
the State, has been named by Gov
ernOr Herbert R. O'Conor to the
vacancy on the Board of Natural
Resources caused by the death of
Edwin G. Baetjer.
Sale of kindling wood to the gen
eral public at the Redistribution and
Salvage Branch of Edgewood
Arsenal has been authorized by the
Third Service Command. The wood.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

Merle E. Towner, long associated
with the organization and develop
ment of conservation activities in
the State, has been named by Gov
ernor Herbert R. O'Conor to the
vacancy on the Board of Natural
Resources caused by the death of
Edwin G. Baetjer.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27
Items of Interest
From Entire State

The War Department has cancelled
contracts for 257,OOO,OOO chocolate
and candy bars intended for over
seas.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

Sale of kindling wood to the gem
eral public at the Redistribution and
Salvage Branch of Edgewood
Arsenal has been authorized by the
Third Service Command. The wood,
which sells for $3.50 a short ton,
may be purchased by both military
and civilian personnel.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27
That's Nothing


Broker-"I put friend of mine
on his feet three times in the last
five years."
Jones-"Oh, that's nothing! l put
friend of mine on his feet fourteen
times last night"
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

ut Happened During The Week
Sunday Night At 8:3O-WJEJ.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

Four firemen were injured in a
blaze which swept a paint and grain
warehouse of F. L. Watkins Co..
Seat Pleasant. The fire apparently
started by spontaneous combustion
in paint locker, and spread to
several tons of grain and loose
lumber, causing an estimated loss
of 100000.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

Third Service Command head
quarters announced 121 men have
been recruited for the Regular
Army since the last of August at
Maryland Army Stations. 80 were
reenlistmentS.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

The Navy has just released figures
which show Maryland was well
represented in World War II. Pro-
viding 6,143 of the 1884 officers,
and 44,846 of the 3,06O,12 enlisted
men in the service during the war,
nearly two and half per cent of
Maryland's population was in the
Navy.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

The Board of County Commits
sioners for Allegany county author
lied Horace P. Whitworth, attorney,
to take action in Circuit Court for
an injunction against the Baltimore
and Ohio Company to prevent the
blocking of Mexico Farm crossing.
The action is the result of repeated
complaints from residents in that
section, who say trains stand on the
crossing for hours at a time delaying
school children and workers.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

Three former Montgomery coun-
ty policemen were recently convict
ed of stealing three cases of beer
from the Dixie Pig lunchroom, at
Silver Spring, Md
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

suit at bridge.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

Hancock apple orchardists will OBJ
serve with interest the experimental
spraying of 10000 apple trees from
a low-flying plane in the orchard of
H. w. Miller, on Martins Mountain.
Mr.. Miller said small plane will
be used with attachments under
meath the fuselage. The draft from
the propeller spreads the spray, and
covers two rows of trees spaced
forty feet apart. The plane will fly
just above tree-top height, and the
experiment will take place about
October /.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

A Maryland woman, Mrs. Doro-
thy D. Chamberlin, near Taneytown.
Carroll county, is the first WAC
veteran in the nation to buy a farm
under the guaranteed loan benefits
of the CT bill.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

Annapolis, home of the U. S. Naval
Academy, has been selected for the
first issue of the three-cent stamp,
honoring the United States Navy.
The stamp will be issued on Navy
Day, October 81.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

In declaring the new dual highway
between Frederick and Hagerstown
a freeway, the State Roads Com
mission has assumed rigid control
over all roads, lanes and highways
leading into the highway Entrances
to filling stations, cabins and other
highway business places will be con-
trolled by the Commission.
j. A. Krug, chairman of the War
Production Board, commended Gov
ernor O'Conor and the people of
Maryland for their cooperation in
collecting critical materials during
the war emergency Maryland led
the nation in the collection of tin
and later established a high mark
In the collection of rubber and paper.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

The landing crafts were the last
of nearly 1000 such boats built for
the Navy at the Dundalk plant,
which before the war was making
pleasure boats.
1t has been disclosed that engines
for the new series of boats will be
produced by newly formed COM
pany known as the Flagship Engine
Company, with Merle E. Miller, of
Altoona, Pa, chief engineer. Mr..
Miller announced the company Will
set up an engine-building plant in
the Baltimore area.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

Ocean City experienced one of its
best years in history, Mayor Daniel
Trimper, Jr., stated as he toured the
resort to view the Labor Day
crowds. Over 100000 was deposited
at the bank following the big week
end, which surpassed other years by
over $4,000.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

Its assembly line clear of landing
craft for the first time since the
war began, the Owens Yacht Com
pany at Dundalk, has laid the keel
of cruiser, and also a cruising
sailing yacht, which will be built on
a mass production basis.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

Western Maryland College, at
Westminster, has opened for its 18th
year of service with a total enroll
ment of over AIS. This was re-
ported by Miss Martha Manahan,
Registrar at the college.
The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-09-27

Ships bearing the flags of seven
foreign nations were recently
anchored in the Baltimore harbor
Represented were vessels flying the
flags of Greece, Norway, Panama,
Argentina, Portugal, Holland and
Great Britain.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-22

tary tacticians tear their hair when
armchair generals talk glibly of ia
pans fall this year. The coordinated'
sea-air strikes and the Smelling of ia
pan by the Fleet against only token
resistance set off domestic tidal waves
of such heartening rumors.
Military men admit the possibility
of surrender but expect VI Day to
come the hard way-by invasion. 1t
will be much more difficult than Nor
mandy. 1t will mean troop conveys
travelling over 1000 miles across open
seas, under attack by naval and aerial
suicide units. 1t will mean fighting
fanatic defenders, including women
and children, and waging a campaign
without mechanical equipment which
blitzed the Wehrmacht but is poorly
adapted to Japan's rugged mountains.
Sea-Air Strikes Mount
The mounting fury of naval and air
attacks may suggest preparatory OPP
erations for invasion, but D-Day in
Japan probably is pages away on the
war calendar.
R. Adm. Oscar c. Badgers super
battleships of the Third Fleet which
attacked Hokkaido with point blank
fire were not necessarily blasting an
invasion path. In demolishing iron
and steel production at Muroran on
Hokkaido, the fleet was pounding the
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-22
Charter
A Pocketbook Test

A Senate drive to have the United
Nations charter signed, sealed and
ready for delivery to President Tru-
man when he returns from the Big
Three conference appeared almost
certain with the virtual collapse OF
isolationist opposition.
Meanwhile the pocketbook test OF
Americas widened role in world al
fairs-approval of U. S. participation
in the Breton Woods monetary
agreements drew fire in the Senate.
Under Breton Woods, the U. S
with So other nations would try to
stabilize world currencies and provide
credits for reconstruction and devel-
opnaent as. an international RESPONSE
bility. The u. S. would contribute
S3,175, 100000 to the World Bank and
$2,175, 100000 to a credit fund.
Sen. Taft .(R-Ohio) charged thai
the u. S. had the only good currency
in the world and that to attempt to
stabilize foreign currencies at this
time of world chaos would mean
pouring $4,000, 100000 down a rat
hole" ..
Other Republicans attacked Tafts
implication that the Allies would not
live up to their obligations. One
quoted an Australian as saying that
while the U. S. would entrust the
fund and bank with its dollars "we
entrust them with our very existence
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-22

v IN Stamford, Conn.,, an ice cream
manufacturer was frozen to death
Wnen trapped by defective lock in
SIDE a freezing compartment. There
was evidence he struggled frantically
10 get out, tried to set fire to a 1O-inch-
mick door by igniting cardboard car
IONS used his fountain pen in futile
enaeaVors to manipulate the lock,
oattered the door with fve-gallon ice
sream cans. The temperature was 40
below.
o More than IS Lehigh Valley, Pa,
NoVel and restaurant owners voted to
sloSe their establishments seven days
I IacA month. One proprietor said he
tao oeen unable to serve ANYTHING
put bacon and eggs for dinner but
-'o" ne couldn't even get bacon.
In New Haven, Conn, store WIN
I ,' pore this sign: Going out of
BUSINESS until we MEAT again"
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-22

. Spectators have staked out more
than 1000 land claims in the Province
of Almeria, Spain, where radium or
some other rare mineral is reported
to attract fire from the sky. The fires
come without warning and have ig-
nited clothing of more than 80 peas
ants. The phenomenon, first observed
last month, was confirmed by scien-
lists; one group reporting rain OF
fire" ignited its instruments.
. At Emmett, Idaho, Mrs. Walter
Dalton angrily chased "dog" out of
her chickenyard, almost tainted when
it turned out to be ive-months-old
bear.
q In Madrid, Generalissimo Francis
co Franco promised Spanlards he
would restore the monarchy sometime
in the future.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-22

Preliminary exchanges of view took
place on a coordinated occupation
policy for Germany, the economic and
political destiny of Germans, treat
ment of displaced persons and iber-
ated countries.
President Truman's main objective
is to expedite winning the war with
Japan and he has potent arguments in
Lease-Eend and postwar economic
commitments for reconstruction.
Bronzed and refreshed after an
eight-day Atlantic crossing on the
cruiser Augusta, the President flew to
Potsdam from Antwerp. Prime Min
lister Churchill flew in from Hendaye,
France, where he had been vacation
ing after a strenuous election CAM
paign. Stain arrived by train from
Moscow over wide gauge Russian
tracks laid to Berlin.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-22
Nation
Crossing The Ways


The government moved to ease the
housewives burden by cutting the ra-
ton value of butter from "a to is
points. OPA said the reason was re-
duced military shipments and the
peak summer season in butter pro-
duction, coupled with a shortage of
storage facilities.
At the same time, Agriculture's
Secretary Anderson handed out good
news on meat and bad news on sugar.
Shipment of meat to shortage areas
was begun and non-federally inspect
ed slaughterers were permitted to
move meat across state lines provided
they met sanitary conditions.
The sugar situation will be sour
during the last three months of this
year, Anderson said, with less than
100000 tons available compared
with 1,833,O0O tons used for civilian
use in the same period in 1914.
Congress got itself embroiled in a
battle of the sexes when the House
Judiciary Committee urged adoption
of legislation proposing a constitu-
tional amendment granting equal
rights to women in pay scales and
right to jobs.
Protesting vigorously, minority
members charged it would take away
many privileges of women, be "mis-
chief breeding" and that it posed the
question whether a wife might not be
held equally liable with the husband
for family support or alimony.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-22
Aerial
3,OOO-PIone Raids A Day

U. S. land-based air power in the
Pacific can hurl 5000 planes day at
Japan by coordinating the tactical
and strategic air forces, now being
realigned
The first Eighth Air Force B-29s
under 1t. Gen. James H. Doolittle will
arrive by August Is, according to
Gen. Barney M. Giles, new Strategic
Air Forces deputy commander under
Gen. Carl A. Spaatz. Giles said that in
Japan itself there is nothing left as
an individual target" worth even a
1,000-plane raid.
Pilots of the Okinawa Tactical Air
Force shot do wn 625 Japanese
planes during conquest of the island
and flew 1892 combat sorties. All
Army planes in the Ryukyus have
been placed under command OF Gen.
George c. Kenney's Far East Air
Forces while the joint Army, Navy,
Marine Air Force which supported
the 10th Army's campaign has been
. disbanded.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-22
In Short

Ordered: BY California Superior
Court, Charles Chaplin, worth $3,000,-
900 by his own admission, to continue
paying SIS week for support of
child born to Joan Berry, once his
protege.
Decided: BY King Leopold, neither
to abdicate nor return to Belgium at
present.
Left: War Manpower Commissioner
Paul V. McNutt, to survey, for the
President, health and economic needs
in the Philippines where he was
u. S. commissioner before the war.
Permitted: By U. S. Military Gov
eminent, German workers to form
trade unions.
Thawed: 5000 remainder Of $4,000
1912 automobiles by OPA to clear
dealers stocks before new models
start coming in.
Ordered: Fingerprinting of 100000
Germans in U. S. occupied zone by
Military Government as crime pre-
caution.
Apologized: U. S. government to
Japan, for sinking of Japanese hos
pital ship off Formosa by American
sub.
Declared: BY Italy, war on her for
mer Axis partner, Japan.
Annulled: BY British Court of APP
peals, marriage of a British couple on
wife's plea that husband practiced
birth, control and refused to allow
her to have family
Improvised: BY 18th Air Force
fighter pilots covering Borneo inva-
sion, "belly tank fire bombs of jellied
gasoline to burn up the Japanese
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-22

WITH a minimum of formality,
w the son of a Georgian cob
bier, a British aristocrat and an
ex-haberdasher from Missouri
conferred this week on Europe's
fate for years to come. The heads
of the three biggest world powers dis
cussed over a big circular table in the
palace of Kaiser Wilhelm the prob
lens of victory achieved in Europe
and victory to come in Asia.
Premier Stain arrived a day late
and Prime Minister Churchill and
President Truman utilized the time
by touring Hitler's bomb-razed CAPT.
tai and comforting on last minute de-
tails with their technical aides and
chiefs of staff.
President Truman presided at the
first session Tuesday, by invitation.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-22
POT POURR|: Round TheWor|d

. At Pocatello, Idaho, Shoshone In
dians postponed the start of their an
nual three-day sun dance until braves
could come off warplant night shifts.
Then IL hours late, the ceremonial
rites started with eight tribal dancers,
far below the usual quota.
0 At San Jose, Calf, a civilian
pilot ran out of gas and made an
emergency landing on city street.
Police helped him get fuel, then
cleared the road of traffic so he could
take off.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-22

the homeland against the stepped-up
air attacks. Between July l and Is
B-29 pilots reported seeing less than
100 enemy planes, most of which
veered away without attack.
Gen. George c. Kenney, command
er of the Army's Far Eastern Air
Force, says the foe may be boarding
his planes for the fat American troop
transport targets on D-Day. More
likely, the general thinks, is the pos
sibility that vital shortages have
grounded the Imperial air force.
Long Blockade
The long blockade which cut ia
pan off from her southern empire
must have depleted aviation gasoline
stockpiles. 1t may have taken Japan
a year, Kenney says, to rebuild the
Borneo refneries and American SUBJ
marines began to blow her tankers
out of the water soon after that.
Lack of trained pilots conceivably
can be traced to the Kamikaze theory
which has in it the seeds of its own
destruction" the general says. when
you send experienced pilots out in
suicide planes, your trained person
mel is gone. When you send out STU
dents or half-trained men, you throw
away your future aces"
Gen. Kenney reports some captured
pilots were sent into combat in planes
they knew very little about-some
with only few hours flying time.