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Laurel outlook., 1945-06-20
CANNING SUGAR IN
MONTANA SET At
8LBS. PER PERSON
Denver and Helena Offices Of
OPA Declare There Is Not
Enough For All Demands

To explain why there is less sugar
this year for canning purposes, the
office of price administration at
Denver has issued a statement,
Facts About Sugar" The facts
may be summed up this way: The
1945 production will be a million
and a half tons less than the con-
sumption last year, brought about
by greater military demands, need
of the liberated countries, drouth
and hurricanes in Cuba, loss of the
Philippine, supply, labor trouble in
Puerto Rico and broken factories,
ruined beet fields and not enough
coal in Europe. In France alone the
sugar production is down 10 per
cent. Here in the States there is
a manpower shortage. These, says
OPA, are the reasons for the acute
sugar shortage.
A paragraph of the Denver of
fees statement is as. follows:
1.-THE United States has always
been a sugar importing country.
producing only 25 per cent of its
requirements. Per capita coHsump-
ton of sugar in both. the United
States and Canada. was just under
100 pounds per person prior to the
war. In the United, Kingdom it
just over 100 pounds. Last
year, civilian consumption in the
u. S. averaged SO pounds a year to
Canada's 85 pounds and the United
71.5 pounds, This year,
if sugar supplies r divided evenly
the population of the three
countries, per capita poundage will
be 70.8 pounds. This includes sugar
consumed in bakery goods, candy,
soft drinks and ice cream"
The Montana OPA office at Hell
ena said this week that the. maxi
mum amount of home canning SUI
gar to be issued by Montana war
price and rationing boards will be
light pounds per peprson. District
Director Wass said similar action
lad been taken in all other Rocky
Mountain states. After declaring
hat applications for canning sugar
Ills year have lar tSCetOeU Jne
period in 1914 and that local
boards are swamped with applica-
ions, Wass said:
"Since we know positively we can
ssue a certain number of pounds
Der person right now, we are doing
hat so home Gamers will have
sugar to use for any fruit they
nay wish to process in the early
,art of the season. Any additional
ugar that may be issued later de-
,ends largely on how rigidly appli-
ants refrain from asking for home
aiming sugar they don't need. 1t
S the responsibility Of the individ-
Ial housewife to determine whether
he uses all of this allotment for
arly fruit crops or retains part of
/ for the canning of fruit coming
the market later in the season."
Laurel outlook., 1945-06-20
DeMOlay Mothers
Entertain At Cards

Twelve tables of bridge and five
hundred were in play when the De-
Molay mothers club entertained last
Wednesday in the basement rooms
of the Masonic temple.
Winners of the first and second
scores for the women in bridge were
Mrs. R. G. Brown and Mrs. w. H.
Hatfield, and in five hundred Mrs.
James o. Speare and Mrs. Christina
Keck. Winning for the men in
bridge were o. K. Chapman and
Peter Thomson and in five hundred
were F. w. Graft and M. P. Renner.
Laurel outlook., 1945-06-20
Soldier Sees A Session Or
San Francisco World Conference

PFC. James Cusick, Fort Win
field Scott, Calf.
San Francisco.-In the service,
one finds association with three per-
sonages to be of the utmost in ad-
vantage to him. They are a mess
sergeant, the supply sergeant, and
the special service officers. 1t was
through the latter that 1 was able
to acquire a ticket to the evening
session on June 13 of the Public
Commission of the United Nations
Conference for International Organ
ization here in San Francisco.
The Conference opened on April
25 and in all appearances it has hit
its stride. Gaining admittance has
Laurel outlook., 1945-06-20
Wedding Anniversary
OF Shays Celebrated

To honor Nh. and Mrs. Roscoe
Shay on their thirtieth wedding an
~niversary a group gathered at their
home Sunday as a surprise and
served a potluck dinner. The honor
guests were presented with a num-
Der of gifts during the afternoon.
Those attending were Mr.. and
Mrs. William Winkler and daughter
Minnie Belle of Edgar, Miss Kay
Sweeney and Miss Marjorie Shay
of Billings, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. o. Void,
Mrs. Carrie Erb, MI. and Mrs. A.
l.. Grubs, Miss Valma Shay, Mrs.
William Schwab, Norwood Shay,
leila Grubs, Calvin Grubs, Mrs.
Kenneth Shay and son Norman and
Mr.. and Mrs. Roscoe Shay.
Laurel outlook., 1945-06-20
GUT FOOD ALLOTMENT
RESTAURANTS, HOTELS

Hotels and restaurants that have
been getting somewhat larger rat
toned food allotments than house
hold consumers, will have their
rations reduced beginning July 1.
It is necessary that the ~rationing
program for restaurants and other
institutional users be further tight
ened just as it has been for con-
sumers, the OPA said.
The concerns will get approx
mately the same per meal allow
ance as the housewife.
Laurel outlook., 1945-06-20
PVT. BENNIE SM|DT
IS KILLED IN ACTION
Loses Life May 81 On Minda.
naO-Had Been In Army
About Seven Months

Word was received from the war
department Saturday that Pvt.
Bonnie Smidt, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Walter Smidt, was killed in action
on Mindanao, May 81. He was in
Quoted into the army Nov. 10, 1914,
and came home on furlough March
10 of this year. He had been in
the Pacific three weeks.
Private Smidt's wife, the former
Miss Evelyn Rodgers, resides here.
Evening star., 1945-12-24
Chinese 10 Receive
Six Liberty Ships
By the Associated Pres.

BY the Associated Press.
NANKING, China, Dec. % de-
layed Vice Admiral Daniel z.
Barley. retiring commander of the
7th Fleet, conferred with Generals
simo Chang Kai-shek today ION
shipping" and was decorated by the
generalissimo.
The nature of Admiral Barbey's
conference with Gen. Chang was
not announced, but there were indi-
cations the two discussed possible
American naval aid in moving
Chinese troops northward to Man
churia. Admiral Barley said only
that he discussed shipping and re-
lated matters"
He added that six Liberty ships
now finishing troop movements in
North China will be turned over to
the Chinese, along with several
LISTS at Shanghai, through the War
Shipping Administration.
Admiral Barley received the Or
der of the Cloud and Banner from
Gen. Chang There are only 10
such decorations outstanding.
Admiral Barley arrived a few
hours after President Truman's en-
voy, Gen. George c. Marshall. had
departed for Chungking. Two hours
after Admiral Barley visited Gen
Chang, Paul V. McNutt, High Com
missioner to the Philippines, came
by plane for short conference with
the generalissimo. 1t was the first
time since the war that so many
dignitaries have gathered in this
prewar capital.
Evening star., 1945-12-24
Hess Begins 10 Show
Interest in Religion
Py the Associated Pres.

Ey the Associated Press.
NUREMBERG, Dec. 24.-Rudolph
Hess, one of the four war crimes de-
PENDANTS who had professed no at
tachment for any Christian denom-
ination, is beginning to show in
terest in religion.
AS preparations were completed
for Christmas services in the grim,
graystone Jail, Hess indicated to
chaplains that he was interested
but had held back until now be-
cause he felt he would be subject
to criticism if he began attending
religious services after going on
trial for his life.
The prisoners will dine tomorrow
on ordinary prisoner of war fare
served in CT mess kits. They will
not be allowed to receive packages.
A field organ has been set up in
the chapel cell where Capt. Henry
Gerecke, chaplain from st. Louis,
will conduct Lutheran services to-
night for 13 of the Nazi defendants
processing that faith. Some of the
Nazis informed the chaplain they
were not interested in singing carols
Capt. Sixtus r. O'Connor, Oxford
N. Y, will say mass tomorrow and
Wednesday morning for the three
Nazi defendants who are Catholics
Franz Won Papen, Hans Frank and
Arthur eyss-Inquart.
Evening star., 1945-12-24

America were very much inter-
ested" in the forthcoming political
council at which Chinas multiple
problems will be up for settle
ment.
The United States Government
and people have a natural, intense
interest in the Chinese people" he
continued. That interest-almost
affection-was overrun and brutal
ICED by the Japanese armies"
He has not yet considered making
a visit to Yenan, ths Communist
capital. nor was he certain he would
travel about China
"I1l try to orient myself here"
he stated, making no estimate how
long he would remain in Chungking
Negotiations Continue.
Meantime, the government and
the Communists continued their
battle of words. each accusing the
other of fighting or preparing to
fight in North China. The Com
munists included an unconfirmed
charge that government troops used
poison gas November 27 in an en-
gagement near Paoting, Hopek
Province.
At his headquarters in Yenan
Gen. Chu Ten. Communist COM
mander in chief, said he had with
drawn his forces from Paotow
Kweisui and Tatung, Inner Mon
golia, as IAN earnest gesture of the
Communist desire for peace"
From Peiping, Associated Press
Evening star., 1945-12-24
Arctic OwISpotted in Anocostio
During Audubon Bird Census

A big, pure white snowy owl from
the Arctic regions has been seen in
the Oxon Hill-Anacostia section and
reported in the Audubon Society's
bird census.
The owl was said by DR.. John w.
Aldrich of Alexandria, Research
Committee chairman OF the society,
to be rare in this part Of the coun-
try.
Unlike the traditional owl which
sleeps in the daytime and hunts at
night, the snowy owl hunts in the
daytime and roosts at night on top
of an apartment building in Ana
costa.
Snowy does much OF his daytime
hunting, observers reported, in
dumps in outlying sections. He likes
nothing better than big rats-which
are his principal source of food.
One of the most picturesque
feathered hunters to revisit the city
is the duck hawk" which has taken
Evening star., 1945-12-24
Batt|eshipWashington
Docks After Delay
Due 10 Hurricane
BY the Associated Presx

BY tnc Associated Press.
NEW YORK. Dec. 24.-The bat
tleship Washington. her decks, guns
and superstructures covered with
ice, arrived at New York Harbor
today, three days late, after wealth
ering Atlantic storms which reached
hurricane force.
The $4,000 ton Washington
brought 1926 GIs from Europe
Many will not reach home fol-
Christmas because Of the delay.
I'VE encountered the worst storms
I have seen in all my years at sea,
Capt. Francis x. McInerney, the
battleship's commanding officer
said.
There were seven storms, and
twice the winds reached hurricane
force. The waves ran from rs to
100 feet high. loosening RATS, dam
aging the superstructure and injur-
ing several seamen," he added.
However, Capt. McInerney said,
the morale of the troops was splen-
did. They knew they were headed
home and we fought our way
through the seas to make certain
those boys would arrive"
Gen. George S. Patton, jr, who
was buried today where his Sd Army
fought to victory, was to have been
a passenger on the Washington. His
reservations had been made at the
time of the motor accident in which
he was injured.
Gen. Patton's naval aide, Rear
Admiral Frank J. Lowry of Cresco,
Iowa, returned on the battleship as
arranged and left Immediately for
Washington on official business.
Evening star., 1945-12-24
Trinity Lutheran School
Slated to Open Soon

The new Trinity Lutheran School,
now under construction on Lega-
ton street between Twenty-seventh
and Twenty-eighth avenues in the
Clearwood area of Hyattsville, will
open within a few weeks. The
school will be dedicated formally
later
Instead of the two classrooms
originally planned. the school will
have four, and later it is proposed
to add two more. The building has
been designed so it can be extended
to 10 or more classrooms. There
also will be an auditorium with a
stage. Three teachers, all men
have been engaged.
A feature of the building will be
a lighting plan designed by Paul
H. Kea, Hyattsville architect. The
streamlined windows have long pan
els of glass block set in brick to
af1ord . maximum of light.
Evening star., 1945-12-24
.We||es Urges Jewish
State in Palestine
BY the Associated Press,

BALTIMORE, Dec. 24.-Former
Undersecretary Of State Sumner
Welles yesterday urged establish
ment Of Jewish Commonwealth in
Palestine and declared the Interna-
tional Trusteeship Council of the
United Nations should be charged
with setting 1t up.
Mr.. Welles, in a statement accept
ing the Craftsmanship for Maryland
of the American Christian Palestine
Committee, also advocated unre-
stricted immigration into Palestine.
He asserted that President Roose-
welt never believed that establish
ment of Jewish commonwealth
there was in any sense hostile to the
Arab peoples.
Mr.. Welles said the United States
Government was committed to es-
Of a Jewish National
Home in Palestine, and failure of
the United States to assume its full
share Of responsibility Cor the reali-
zation Of this ideal could only dan
generously increase existing interna-
tional tensions.
Maryland members serving with
Mr.. Welles are william j. Casey,
Joseph P. Healy, Francis A. Davis
DR.. Lena G. Van Ribber, DR.. Ger
trude c. Bussey, the Rev. Don Frank
Fem and Prof. William Foxwell AL
bright, all of Baltimore.
Evening star., 1945-12-24

up his roost again in the old Post
Once Building tower on Pennsyl-
vania avenue. This bird, observed
yesterday by one Of the Audubon
Society researchers during the bird
census, Is the American representa-
tive Of the Peregrine falcon, the
most famous in the history Of fall
conry. He Is spectacular hunter,
DR.. Aldrich explained, and always
catches his prey In swift flight.
Principal victims of the tower fall
con are the pigeons in the vicinity
although he is supposed also to
catch other birds.
Twelve bald eagles were counted
yesterday in the Potomac River area
by the researchers. This is more
than the number found in past
years. One unusual visitor in the
Oxon Hill region is the rough
legged hawk from the far North.
About 40 members of the Audu-
bon Society made the census yester-
day.
Evening star., 1945-12-24
Gen. Marshall PAYS
10 Patton;
.Chiangs Sent Note
AP Wirephoto by radio.
BY the Associated Press.

Ds tuc hSsOCldLeu fIeSb.
CHUNGKING, Dec. 24-Gen.
George c. Marshall said in a state
ment yesterday that news of the
death of Gen. George S. Patton, jr.,
was great shock.
He was one of the greatest mill
tary leaders in our history" Gen.
Marshall said.
Text of his statement:
The news of the death of Gen.
Patton comes as a great shock to
me, had been told his condition
had shown much improvement. We
have been friends for many years.
Since his action in the Meuse- Ar
gonne battle in 1918 I recognized
him as determined and utterly
fearless battle leader. This was one
OF the reasons selected him to
lead our troops in landing at Casa
blanca in November, 1912.
I'm the fighting in Africa and
Sicily he was conspicuous for the
driving energy and tactical skill
with which he led his troops.
THE break-through of the Sd
Army in Normandy and its dramatic
Of Central France was
indicative Of the man who led it.
But it was his counterattack
toward Bastogne and the tre-
mendous thrust to the Rhine at
Coblenz and into the center and
rear of the German armies In the
Saar Basin, followed by the sudden
crossing of the Rhine, that estab-
lished Gen. Patton as one of the
greatest military leaders in our his
tory"
NANKING. China, Dec. % de-
layed P).-Generalissimo Chang
kai-shek today sent condolences to
Mrs. George S. Patton, jr., on the
death OF the fighting general.
Informed OF the death by 1t. Gen.
Albert c, Wedemeyer, the generals
slmo turned and whispered in Chi
nese to Nine. Chang. She quickly
dictated the message, transmitted
by army channels. The text was
not made public.
Evening star., 1945-12-24
Firm Pays YuIe Bonus
To 564 in Silver Dollars
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
DOLGEVILLE, N. Y, Dec. PA
hundred thousand "cartwheels" were
rolling in three Herkimer County
villages today, after a shoe company
paid off Christmas bonuses in silver.
The Eastern Footwear Corp. and
two afiiliates paid bonuses in silver
dollars to 564 workers in plants at
Dolgeville, Herkimer and Newport.
The bonuses represented 10 per
cent Of individual l945 salaries.
The shipment of silver. which
Railway Express Co. official said
filled 80 money bags and weighed
5000 pounds. was brought from the
Federal Reserve Bank in New York
City by express to Little Falls and
transported here with State police
escort.
Evening star., 1945-12-24

and Col. Loren T. jerks of Michigan
officiated at the services.
Col. Frank Fraser, Phoenix, Ariz.,
chief of the American Army mission
to Belgium, said Gen. Patton's grave
in Luxembourg will be tended by
that little duchy's royal family.
In a statement given through Col.
Fraser, Grand Duchesse Charlotte
said:
Luxembourg and my people have
been greatly honored in being
charged with the care of the last
resting place of the beloved Ameri-
can Gen. Patton. We will do every
kling we can to keep this trust"
Col. Fraser said every American
buried in the hillside cemetery at
Hamm marked by 10000 white
crosses has been adopted by some
one in Luxembourg who is charged
with care of the grave.
Evening star., 1945-12-24
UNRRA Names Cohen Head
OF Displaced Persons Unit
By the Associated Press.

Gs tne ASsoClate1 PTess.
Appointment of Myer Cohen Of
Washington as director of the Dis
placed Persons Division of the
United Nations Relief and Rehabili-
tation Administration was an
nounced last night.
Mr.. Cohen, formerly acting chief
of UNRRAs Australian displaced
persons operations, succeeds Fred K.
Hoehler, who is resigning December
81 to become director of the Chicago
Community Fund.
Director General Herbert H. Leh-
man of UNRRA, asserting Mr..
Hoehler has had "one of the heavi-
est operating responsibilities in the
administration" during the last
three years, said he was releasing
him with great regret and a keen
sense of personal loss"
Mr.. Cohen, native of the Dis
trict, lives at 100 Dale drive, Silver
Spring, Md. He has been with
UNRRA since its formation. Pre-
viously, he was in charge of the
migratory labor group program of
the, Farm Security Administration
for the West Coast, with headquar-
ters at San Francisco.
Evening star., 1945-12-24
New Data Prepared
while UAW Awaits
Wage Talk Renewal
BY the Associated Press.

6y the AssOClhteQ fTesS.
DETROIT, Dec. 24.-The CIO
United Auto Workers took advan-
tage of Christmas holiday truce"
to prepare new data today for a
renewal later this week OF its 80 per
cent wage increase demands on auto
manufacturers.
Picket lines around nearly 100
General Motors plants throughout
the Nation are due to be aban-
doned temporarily to allow the
strikers manning them a. holiday
with their families.
Approximately 200 900 employees of
the largest of the automotive big
three have been idle since November
81 in Americas greatest postwar
labor walkout.
Meet Again Wednesday.
Prodded by Government fact
finders, the UAW-CIO and GIN will
meet again Wednesday in their first
conference since both sides were
called to Washington last week.
The Government has promised
that 1t will intervene further unless
the two parties adjust their differ
ences.
On Thursday the union will hold
its second meeting with the KAISER
Frazer Corp, latest firm to enter
the car manufacturing field.
The UAW-CIO already has out
lined its demands on this corpora
ton, including proposal for a wage
scale 80 per cent above that now in
effect at the Ford Motor Co.
The company has said it may
have some details of its own case
ready for presentation at the next
conference.
To Begin Arbitration.
The Ford Motor Co., its plants idle
during the holiday, is not scheduled
to meet with the UAW-CIO again
until January 8. The union has
turned down the firms offer of a
l5-cent-an-hour wage boost.
Across the Detroit River, in Wind
sor. Ontario, c. I. Hand, a Justice
of the Canadian Supreme Court, will
arrive Wednesday to begin arbitra-
ton OF dispute over union security
demands that closed the Ford Mo-
tor Co. Of Canada for SO days.
The 10000 UAW-CIO employees
voted last week to return to work
and are now awaiting recall by the
company.
Employees of the other member of
the big three, Chrysler Corp, are
working without a union contract,
but the UAW-CIO has said it will
withhold any strike action for the
duration of the GIN dispute.
Evening star., 1945-12-24
National Guard Units
Slated 10 Take Over
Old AAF AirfieIds
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Postwar National Guard air units
are expected to use a number of
the airfelds now being abandoned
by Army Air Forces as wartime re-
quirements shrink.
War Department officials, PLAN
ming for participation of State units
in the national defense system, said
yesterday that operation of a Ma
tional Guard Air Force of perhaps
1000 first-line planes would require
facilities far more comprehensive
than those of prewar days.
Planning has not yet reached the
point where specific fields have been
selected, officials said, explaining
that this is being worked out with
State oficials.
Every Active Component"
Oficials Of the War Department
National Guard Bureau said the
postwar aviation sections of the Ma
tional Guard would be very ac-
tive component of the Nations air
defense"
Present plans contemplate Ma
tional Guard Air Force almost
double the size of the prewar force
in number of units and far more
than that in planes and men. About
80 squadrons, compared with A be-
fore the war, are planned.
Prewar National Guard air units
generally were observation units.
Postwar emphasis will be placed on
fighter and flghter-bomber types.
The War Department Is UNDER
stood to have been in communica-
ton with several State executives
and National Guard officers on the
plans.
To Be Kept Up to Date.
While State air forces will have
surplus aircraft stocks of Army Air
Forces to draw upon, planners en-
phasize there is no intention OF
letting the equipment of the Guard
become obsolete. The replacement
program for the AAF is being CO.
ordinated with plans for keeping
the National Guard aviation units
on a modern, efficient basis.
Almost every State has ace pilots
from this war to call upon in get
ting the National Guard units
started, Training facilities of the
regular Army Air Forces will be
made available.
The AAF has advised the War
Department that to meet expected
postwar strategic requirements a
regular air force of 5000 planes,
including 5000 combat aircraft, will
be needed.
Evening star., 1945-12-24
Door Key in Old Place
Aids Veterans Reunion

B9 the Associated Press.
TOPEKA, Kans. - Leaving the
front door key "in the same old
place" accounted for surprise
breakfast reunion at the Paul Ed
gar home here recently.
Returning home from service.
Thomas Richard Edgar didn't want
to awaken his parents at 2 IN. and
found the door key in its old famil-
lar place. He tiptoed through the
house, went to bed and later an
peared at breakfast.
He was most surprised of all when
he found at the table his three
brothers, also in the service, who
had preceded him home.
Evening star., 1945-12-24

Correspondent Spencer Davis re-
ported government liaison troops
were moving toward four objectives
in Manchuria. Unsettled conditions
prevail in parts of that province,
according to the Tientsin newspaper
Ia Kung Pao, which printed story
saying there were as many as 10
murders nightly in Mukden alone.
The local newspaper Kuo Min
Kung, commenting on Gen. Mar
shall's mission in China, said I'VE
should solve our own problems our
selves.
Any begging gestures would i'm
pair our national prestige