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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-04
PACIFIC:
Macarthur Disputed

Taking sharp difference with Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's declaration in
Tokyo that only 100000 American
troops may be needed for the Japa-
nese occupation, Pres. Harry S. Tru-
man feared for it's effect on army
rehabilitation plans and Acting
Secretary of State Dean Acheson
said that at this time it was difficult
to forecast the eventual size of the
force.
Basing his estimate upon the Japs'
wholehearted effort at cooperation
with his command, Macarthur S
latest figure of 100000 was a sharp
reduction from the 100000 recently
projected and the 100000 at first
thought necessary. In making his
statement, Macarthur said that the
Japs' execution of his dictates
through their governmental frame
work relieved the U. S. of establish
ing an elaborate military authority
to perform the same tasks.
LII oCSh1lS w O1loCC SApSCCd IlOllS
that Macarthur announcement
might lead to speedier demobiliza-
ton, President Truman declared
that the operation was not depend
ent upon occupation needs. Declar-
ing army plans called for the re-
lease of 1000, 900 men by Christmas,
Mr.. Truman said that by January
the discharge rate will rise to 5000
daily.
Speaking for the state depart
ment, Acting Secretary Acheson as
serted that the ultimate size of the
occupation force will depend upon
the scope of the job of eradicating
the whole Jap war-making econ
omy.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-04
u. S. INCOME:
1914 Peak

Figures compiled by the depart
ment of commerce show that total
income payments to individuals in
the United States in 1914 rose to a
new high record of $148, 100000, OOO
The largest percentage of this total,
or $40, 345, 100000 went to individu-
ais in New York state while the
smallest percentage, or $196, 1000, 900
went to people in Nevada. The
amounts differed among the various
states because of the size of the pop
ulation per capita income.
The average per capita income of
all people of the United States in
1914 was SLIT. The highest per
capita income, or $1,519, went to the
people of New York state while the
lowest per capita income, or 1923,
went to the people of Mississippi.
The per capita income of the en-
tire nation showed an increase CT
1912 per cent during the war period,
1939-1944. Increases among the
states, however, were far from uni
form, ranging from 1913 per cent in
the District of Columbia to 1920 in
North Dakota.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-04
WAR CRIMES:
TRY Nazis

Charged with systematic starva-
ton and neglect of internees at the
notorious Belsen concentration
camp, As Nazi men and women tried
to fight back at their war crimes
trial conducted at British military
court in Lueneburg, Germany.
In seeking to defend themselves,
the accused followed the line that
most of the 100000 prisoners in the
camp were all habitual criminals,
felons and homo-sexuals. Britons
taking over the camp upon the Nazi
collapse claimed that their expert
ence showed it was not necessary
to use force to govern the internees.
In first Selling the camp, the Brit
ish counted $4,000 dead, and another
$4,000 died later because their con-
dition was beyond treatment, med
ical officers charged. Though sup
plies were obtainable in the imme-
diate vicinity Of the camp, no eff
fort was made to procure provisions.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-04
LABOR:
Seek Peace

Armed with emergency powers,
Secretary of Labor Lewis SchWellen-
bach moved into the troubled indus
trial front, where CIO demands for
appreciate wage boosts threatened
to retard the reconversion program
and jeopardize sterilization policy.
Schwellenbach faced no easy
task, what with the strategic oil, au-
tomobile, farm equipment and steel
unions striving for wage readjust-
ments to bring 40-hour-a-week pay
up to wartime overtime levels, and
major producers bucking the de-
mands in the face of rigid price con-
troll.
In all instances, CLIO demands for
substantial wage boosts were predi-
Gated on the claim that the big COM
panies had made stable wartime
profits and could use the money to
defray part of the increases until
peacetime production could be re-
established on volume basis.
While Oil workers already had
walked out of midwest refneries in
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-04

per cent wage increase by walking
out on individual companies and
leaving their competitors free to in
wade their markets.
In assuming command Of labor
department strengthened by the in
clusion of the War Labor board, war
manpoWer commission and United
States employment service, Secre-
tary Schwellenbach planned to pro-
coed slowly before exerting emer-
gency powers, first exhausting ordi-
nary procedure.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-04
RETAIL PRICING:
absorb Increases

Declaring that up to now retailers
have not been squeezed by price
control, OPAdministrator Chester
Bowles reiterated government pol
icy that dealers would have to alb
sorb any increases in manufa curing
costs in the reconversion period.
Rejecting a plea Of retailer
group that such absorption would
be uneeouonaie and unfair, Bewles
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-04
Weekly News Analysis
O Strives to Maintain High Pay Level in Postwar Industry

Popularization of aircraft by the
war, and steady reduction in trav-
ell rates, combined to promise record
postwar aviation travel With costs
now almost at the level of first-class
railroad fares, airliners looked for
speedier flight and comfortable &C.
commodations to help boost bust
ness.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-04

a strike that threat
ened to spread and
imperil the national
fuel supply, princi-
pal interest con-
tinued to center in
the troubled auto
mobile situa ton,
where the United
Automobile Work.
ers headed by r. J.
Thomas laid plans
for enforcing their
@1~ Oh
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-04

AT I'll million head, there was
a slight decrease in world cattle
numbers at the beginning of 1915,
according to preliminary esti-
mates of the department Of agri-
culture. The total was 2 per cent
less than the 1860 average of
1923 million. Further reduction in
world cattle numbers in 1945 is
indicated, partly because of ami
NAL losses since January In CEN
trail and eastern Europe in con-
nection with military operations
and the ending Of the war.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-04

The mother of IS children, Mrs.
Francis StrohPs 10th child ,Uas an Is
ID. baby girl. The infant ,oas one of the
heaviest deIiuered, With Is FOUNDER
born in 1916 topping the record. 38
years old, Mrs. Stroll is resident of
La,Uton, Pa.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-10-04

EDITORS NOTE-When opinions
are expressed in these columns, they
are those of Western Newspaper Union
this newspaper.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-12
No Opposition

Air superiority means that one power at
war is able to put planes in the air to COM
bat any opposing force at any time or place
yithin the zone OF conflict. Air supremacy
means that one power is so much stronger
in the air that its opponent cannot get Its
planes off the ground without swift destruc-
ton. We must take it then that the stronger
term 'air mastery as applied by correspond
ents to the Tokyo area with respect OF the
American air force Whereabouts means that
not only Las japanese air power been multi
fled but also that Japan's ability to combat
air attack from the ground has been ellnl-
mated.
If this is proper definition of the term
we fear it is not fully justified. However great
has been the destruction during these thirty
nine days of unremitting American bombing
it is not probable that Japan's defenses, par
ticularly her antiaircraft batteries. have been
put out of commiss on, or her air force com.
pletely destroyed. If this were true we might
well expect Japan to quit. Rather, it seems
more like., that the Japanese have gone un.
derground and are waiting for our forces to
land, when they will pour out of their shelters
like ants.
We would like to think the japanese, in
Tokyo and the other main centers of popua-
ton and production, had actually given up
but to do so would be unjrstified w:shful
thinking. They are boarding many a blow
against the day of invasion.
What is particularly significant in the latest
dispatches available when this was written
is that Admiral Halsey has sent warshps
within twenty-five miles of the Japanese coast
without opposition. Scarcely more than year
ago an American warship within twenty-five
hundred miles of Japan would have been SUBJ
ected to attack, probably by more than one
Japanese battlewagon. and by warplanes in
large numbers. Now. as we were told yester-
day, Halseys carriers were no more than
two hundred miles from their Japanese home
land targets, and today within twenty five
miles, without single Japanese ship offering
battle.
Japan is not done yet, but it is apparent
that Japan's principal enemy, the United
States, has made tremendous progress in fin
shing japan off.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-12
DailyPrayer
FOR SUBMISSION

Eternal Creator and Ruler Of the
universe, we bow in reverent &C.
acknowledgement of Thy greatness
and goodness. We adore Thee for
all Thine infinite powers; and 70:
thy guiding hand by which our
ia theirs and our Nation have been
led. Now, in an hour of extreme
need, we call Thee by the dear
name of Father, and put our times
the worlds anguish and our own
personal ca-es-into Thy keeping.
We know that Thou carest for us;
and that even the present chas-
tening is born of limitless love,
and for our discipline as Thy chill
oren. We pray for greater faith
to trust Thee fully and love Thee
more. May our dependence upon
Thee be more real than our rell'
ance upon weapons of war. Come
good or come i'll, may we submit
ourselves to Thy holy will. In Thine
own time, and in Thine own way
lead us anew into the life of peace
which is the heritage of Thy chill
dren. Amen.-W. T. E.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-12
Contrast In Conduct

Yesterdays Star contained an impressive
contrast in human conduct. One article told
CT an old woman in Peoria, Illinois, a grand
mother with two sons in the armed services,
delivering a newspaper route up hill and down
dale. The job had been in the family since
1929. When the younger son could not carry
on because he had to leave for high school
too early, she took over in fulfillment of a
pledge to her soldier boys that the family
would protect the route while they were away.
The other article tells of some SIS, 900 grown
men Who refuse to work at their accustomed
tasks because they are dissatisfied either with
their pay or their bosses or the iurisdicitional
labor Unions and as result are importing
the health of babies and invalids or the ma
lions war program. Mlkmen, oil and gas
workers, coal miners, workers in automotive
plants making war tools, bakers, bomb shell
makers workers in rubber plants, printers
newspaper eli S, machinists, grain
Weighers, to the number of 55475 are on
strike.
This would be serious enough in ordinary
times. In these parlous times with peace not
achieved in the Pacific, it is tragic. What we
need is more people, millions more people,
with the spirit of the Peoria grandmother
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-12

# Wilmington is to take its proper place
among postwar North Carolina cities one OF
the projects it should now be at work on is
the development of closer relations with COM
munities in its trade territory.
To cement this relationship Wilmington
must Offer the best of all markets for the
products OF the territory and the best faclll-
ties for making it's markets available to pro-
dLcers.
There is a rich and only partially developed
agricultural area hereabouts. Not only should
Wilmington see that the crops thereof move
through its markets but put money into the
development of additional land that crops
may become greater and the profit OF the
producers increased.
One crop which Wilmington has sadly neg
lected in past years is beef cattle and dairy
herds With twelve-month pasturage to be had
oy proper planting, it is wasting a golden op-
portunity to neglect this industry on a large
scale when the war is over and the OLA
buried in an unmarked grave. From the
Southwest, including Texas with its loag
horns, to Minnesota and the upper plains
country, NJ better cattle, no more milk giving
COWS, can be produced and fed at less cost
than right here in the Wilmington area.
Assuming that full advantage is taken Of
the opportunity to foster agricultural and cat
tie advancement and friendship between the
city and the rural areas of production is
brotherly, the business contact with the trade
territory cannot be developed to the fullest
without adequate highway communication
Existing highways are not at the best Any
state program of highway improvement will
be incomplete that fails to include widening
and resurtacing of many rural roads. One IN
particular ought to be marked on the high
way departments blueprints for complete
overhaul and paving.
1t is the old Niger head road, which taps
q fine agricultural district but, is unuseable
on it's southern stretch. The reopening OF this
road would be valuable asset to Whining
ton in the years to come. The city planners
cannot well omit it from their master plan
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-12

it diffuclt to excuse the editors Of America
Illustrated for not being better acquainted
with the true situation in the Middle-West,
Just as we cannot excuse Mrs. Perkins for
her slur upon the South.
We used to have a slogan, when we were
enjoying peace and travel bureaus were cater.
ing to our wanderlust, which said,- See Amer.
lea First" Lest other areas in America be
subjected to similar Misrepresentation we
suggest MIR. Davis select editors for his dc.
nestle publications exclusively from citizens
who have seen America and know it, state
by state.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-12
Texas Preacher Will
Open Revival Here

Mr.. J. C. Eubanks, ST., minister
of the Church of Christ, of Lued
ers, Texas, is to begin a ten day
revival at the South Fourth Street
Church of Christ here in Whining
ton, July IS.
Mr.. Eubanks has been tns min
lister of the Church in LuederS'
Texas for thirteen years and mas
done evangelistic work in tho west
ern parts of Texas, New Mexico
and Oklahoma. He is Chaplain Of
the American Legion in Stamtoro'
Texas. nome of the annual COWBOY
Reunion.
Eubanks states that this Is his
first visit east Of the MISSISSIPPI
since World War One. He was WIN
the Second Division, U. S. Marn'
Corps then and was stationed az
Paris Island, South Carolina. he
was awarded the Purple HeaEs anu
other citations for his part IN tns
famous battles of World War one
Mr.. Eubanks' son, j. c. Eu'
banks, Jr., who is working WIN
the Churches of Christ in eastern
North Carolina for the summer,
will assist his father in the revival
and will direct the song service,
Mr.. Eubanks is bringing MS
fancy with him to North Carolina
for a short vacation after the re-
vival meeting.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-12
An Unfair Picture

The South extends deep sympathy to the
Middle West for the way it abused and
misrepresented in an article in Owls picture
magazine America Illustrated and widely
distributed in Russia.
The article declared this vast belt had prac.
tically no industry. and in the words of the
Omaha Chamber of Commerce, represented
the region as "drought-stricken, poverty
ddden territory with little hope of economic
salvation"
Such things, and worse have been said of
the South, Mrs. Perkins even going so far
ss to declare the South the No. economic
problem of the country.
Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War
Information, offers apology for the article and
adds that the mistakes, which were gathered
from out-deteu information, will be corrected
in later edition of the magazine. In the
hurry to get the first edition off the press
he explains, the copy about the Middle-West
presented an unfair picture of the prairie and
fountain states and did not take into account
xhe development of war industries and war.
time agriculture in that section of the coun
try.
In his letter to the Wichita Chamber OF
Commerce. Mr.. Davis concludes:
1.-THE Office of War Information regrets any
such error in its publications and regrets it
particularly when such an error seems to re.
fleet upon an area which has been of such
wartime service to the entire United Nations
cause"
That's ali right, as far as it goes, but II
is to be questioned if 1t is possible to &C
far enough in any SUBSEQUENT article to oft~'
the damage done by the first article. We ing
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-12
0KINAWA school,.
WELL ATTENDED
BY BONNIE WILEY

OKINAWA- (R) School atta,,
ance on Okinawa is being enforce.
by the American military Cover,
ment, partly to keep the childr.,
from hampering military trstti.
Young Okinawans quickly Il,
covered that Americans arc traa
handed. They line the roads Nv
less they are kept in school, begg;n,
for candy with outstretched hand'
In school, they are being tausm
to speak English as we'll as JAM nv
nese.
1t. Leroy Brown, former CONT,
school super, ntendent at Hefin
Ala, is in charge of one of fl.
largest schools, located in a thatr1
ed roof building of Kuga VILLAGE
The sides are open. 1t has drv
grass floors and no furniture
Brown said the children We're o,
ger to speak English because thew
like Americans.
They like school so muc1," 10
continued, They want to be hers
all the time.
I'VE have no books, few perch,
little paper and one Blackboard
for 300 pupils. But after two weeks
most of them have learned III.
English alphabet and the names o,
the days of the week.
We have nine native women
teachers and two native men,
One of the native principals said
he thought the American wao Of
teaching was an Improvement over
strict Japanese methods, which had
emphasized bayonet and sword
drills and ju jitsu The principal
who has been teaching 30 wears
declared: Il teach my students re.
spect and to be kind He bow ID
almost to the ground, apparently as
an example.
Writing, reading, arithmetic,
singing and obedience are stressed
under AMG, with bayonets, swords
and ju jitsu discarded.
The little natives are instructed
in sanitation by John w. Fowler
a navy shipfitter of Newport News
Va.
These kids" he declared, are
anxious to learn American ways
and poster me with questions all the
time. They will keep themselves
clean whenever they have the Wa.
ter to wash with"
Children, attempting to show off
their new learning, stumble over
'L' in the alphabet. But, with
some difficulty, they get it out
They are happy at games be.
tween classes but a distant blast
from American construction prof
ects, will send them running Il
the teachers asking if the Japa
nese soldiers are coming back
They don't act as if they WOult
want that.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-07-12

German Generals Knew In 1911
They Could Not Beat Russians

we follow the Germans in every
thing. The revolution will take
place after it happens in your
country Friendly atmospheric"
Entire Convoy
To Libya Lost
NOV. 9-"Since Sept. 10, we
have given up trying to get con-
voys to Libya. Tonight we tried
it again. A convoy of seven ships
left with two cruisers and 10 de-
stroyers. An engagement &C.
Cured with unexplainable results.
All, I mean all, our ships were
sunk, and maybe two or three de-
stroyers. We have no right TO
complain if Hitler sends Kessel-
ring as commander in the south. -
NOV. 11-"Mussolini is exas-
perated and takes it out on the
Croatians from Spalato who thu oW
bombs at our sold ers. I, too, will
begin the system of hostages he
says. I will give orders that for
every one of our men who is
wounded, two of theirs must be
shot, and for every one killed, 20
of theirs But he knows he won't
do it,
NOV. 12-"Relying on some un-
certain information, a bulletin was
drawn up which attributed the
sinking of two steamers of 10000
tons to the submarine 'MalaSpina.
AS far as real sink ngs are con-
cerned, the only one was that of
the Italian submarine which has
been missing for 10 days. The as
sistant head of the general staff.
Adm. Sansonetti, took his pencil
and increased the 10000 to 10000
because 'this would create a
greater effect
From what is said all the navy
knows and repeats that Adm. Rio
cardi (chief Of naval staff owes
his position to the influence o.
Nine. Petacci (mother Of Musso.i-
mis- mistress). This is not destined
to increase his prestige.
NOV. 1--we have had TO
change or system of pay for oul
foreign diplomatic agents, because
we have no more foreign money"
Germans Scornful
Of Italian Labor
NOV. 14-"Alfieri Ambassador
to Berlin transmits a message
from Won Ribbentrop about the be-
havior of our laborers in Ger.
many. We must admit that among
them is a percentage of Inbred
idlers and incorporates. Even the
Germans make distinction be-
tween the northern and the south
ern working men. They say the
first do between so and 90 per
cent of, what a German worker
can do, and the second M more
than 40 per cent
NOV. 17--"The King wants the
Duke of Spoleto cousin Of the
King, chosen to rule Croatia) to
leave Rome and Mussolini will n
form him of this. The behavior of
this young man is absurd. He is
living with the Pignataro girl and
brings her to his private coach,
He frequents restaurants and
drinks heavily.
"A few nights ago in a place
near Piazza Colonna he wrapped
a twisted towel AROUND his head
in imitation of a crown tc the ap-
plause of the walters and the own
err. The owner. a certain Ascensio.
spends part of his time in the
kitchen and part N jail. He is one
Of II Duce's best friends"
NOV. 20-"The G errla ans a.
Frascati are eying the Coliegio di
Mondragone "a famous seminary
and want to requisition it for
barracks The Nuncio has pro-