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The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-03-29
Disabled Veterans Urged to Use
Inter- Regional Recruitment Facilitie

InteT-heElOuA NeCIuitnucut roCAhaSsco
Disabled veterans are urged by VINO
to take advantage Of the int~er-regional
recruitment facilities offered by the U,
S. Employment Service. thereby avoid
ing travelling great distances to find
work only to learn trat no suitable Jobs
are available in q given locality. Re
ports reach z the Veterans Employ
ment Service of USES lave shown that
veterans attracted By "hslp wanted"
advertisements in other localities have
discovered that the work is not per.
manent or Is only for q few days q
week. VINO also pointed out that in a
number Of cases no housing has been
available, and veterans have been Fore
ed to leave their families behind. Al
though veterans are not subject to job
controls, USES is concerned about their
future jobs and has provided . job
program and a system Of
selective placement, in addition to which
the regular, int~er-regional recruitment
provides material assistance
officials stated. When a community is
o~vercrowded and work prospects are
poor, USES ear suggest alternative
places to which veterans may go and
be certain of maximum employment
opportunities, VINO said.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-03-29

farm products. says ODT, posesserious
difficulties for the NATIONS farmers and
agricultural h~aulers unless further ef-
forts are made to educe and conserve
trucking mileage. Manpower, equipment
and tire shortages will be increasingly
felt because of inductions into the arm
ed forces, the. steadily advancing age
and deterioration of trucks and trail
ers and the tread-worn condition of
large numbers of heavy duty tires
Less anpower and a reduced number
of older trucks. ODT emphasized, will
be available to haul approximately the
same, and in some products, larger
tonnages than were hauled in 1914. Thu
VIA 1945 production goals call for the
planting and harvesting Of SOC, 900 900
acres of cultivated crops and 81 900 900
acres Of hay. 1t is also expected that
1856 900 900 head of livestock will be
slaughtered. During 1914, ODT said,
the greatest harvest of agricultural pro-
ducts ever produced by the American
farmer: Livestock pouity, milk, fruit,
vegetables, grains, etc, was successfully
moved from producing areas without
any loss due to lack Of trucking trans
portation.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-03-29

them in your headlights beam at night.
You may see him in the day time il
you drive in the country more than q
very little. Frank Vestal, one of the
best informed writer's Of sports topics,
has an article in the Sunday CONNER
cial-Appeal in which he opines that the
showdown is pretty close. He recalls
that not so long ago IS to 40 covies Of
Quail would be found in a days run
when that section had few foxes. Now
a good days find is ten covies. A COM
parable condition exists at Suqualak,
where the National Free For All Cham
pionship was recently decided, and at
Grand Junction where the National
Championship for bird dogs was just
run. There Is plenty Of evidence that
the fox is largely responsible for the
devastation. AS for the f~ox-chase lover
they are aware that there are too many
foxes. A pack Of fox hounds will start
but before they can level off for q
real chase other foxes are jumped and
there will be several chases going at
the same time. Something should be
done-and quickly. The foxes might
very we'll be much thinned out and
still leave plenty for all the races" any
one can want and let the quail shooter
also have his favorite sport in season.
Bob White Is . gallant little fellow and
he holds top place as q game bird. 1t
would be a pity to see him exterminated
bv the predators.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-03-29
Program To Provide Longer Wear
For Shoes

For Shoes
WPB announces an i-tensified pro-
gram for the conservation Of shoe leath-
err and for sole leather treatment to
provide longer wear. The sole treat
ment program, which has received wide
support from the shoe manufacturers
will be extended to retailers and ON
sumers in order to assure their under
standing and cooperation. Shoe retail
ers and solesmen, as well IS the public,
will be informer Of the extra value Of
shoes with soles treated with oil, war
or equivalent materials. Tests have
shown that such treatment prolongs the
life Of shoe soles substantially. The
program will cover all types Of shoes
adaptable to sole leather treatment,
since stress previously had been placed
on mems work and dress shoes.
Methods of treatment Of women's shoe
soles for use in the cemented type Of
shoes are the subject Of re-
search in the conservation program,
and important results are expected, w
p. B. said.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-03-29
Iron Castings Up-Rated To Aid
Farm Machinery Production

To insure delivery Of essential farm
equipment, a limited volume Of mslle-
able iron castings needed in the produc-
ton of farm machinery and equipment
will be up-rated to All, WPB announc-
ed. Production of farm equipment Eek
elusive Of repair parts) is at present
about 20 percent behind schedule, and
shortage of malleable iron castings is
one of the chief factors retarding pro-
duction, wPB said. The ~up-rating to
AA-1 is expected to result in q consid-
cradle Improvement in meeting produc-
ton schedules for the year July l, 1914,
to June 80, 1945.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-03-29

IL hope no one will be mislsd about
the food situation" says War Food Ad-
ministrator Marvin Jones. N 10 has
sone hungry in this country. No a 10
going hungry. In 1943 the American
farmers produced 90 pefcsnt more food
than this or any other nation ever pro-
duced before the war. In 1914 they up
ped this by s percent, making . record
incfease Of 81 percent above prewar
production. This record wa made in
spite Of the handicaps Of war. This year
the farmers. themselves set goals that
call for an even greater crop acreage.
Our armed forces will continue to be
well-fed. We will continue to help our
fighting allies. Our own people will con-
tinue to have plenty Of good, wholse-
som food. and we will contribute our
share to the relief Of starving people,
even II II means q new hitch In our
belts. This Is . practical matter and .
part Of the war itself. Anyone who sells
the American Farmer short makes q
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-03-29

Transportation Of ls45 Crops Calls
Truck Mileage Reduction
Transportation Of 1946 crops an
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-03-29

Rsmiaders
Meats, Fats-Red Stamps o., Rb, Sd
March 81; Red Stamps T5. US, We, Wb'
and Ks, April %; Red Stamps Yb, 70
and Az, BIZ, CO, DE-, June 2; Red Stamps
E2. F2, G2, H2, J2, June 80; New Stamps
will be validated April /.
Protested Foods--Blus Stamps Xb,
W, rs, and AZ and BIZ, March 81; Blue
Stamps CT, DE-, E2. F2, and G2, April 2s;
Blue Stamps H2. J2. K2, LIZ. M2, June
3; Blue Stamps NJ. P2, OF. RI, 81. June
90; New Stamps will be validated April
/
Sugar Stamps-Stamp So, June 2.
No new stamps will be validated until
May 1.
Fuel Oil-Period 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 coupons,
good for ten gallons per unit, continue
valid throughout the country FOR the
rest of the heating year.
Shoes-Airplane stamps No. ]. 2, 3,
IN book three continue valid indefinite
II.
The Durant news. (Durant, Miss.) 1882-1985, 1945-03-29
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Civilian &C Wa

Civilians at War
The Government needs and asks its
sitisens in this l73rd week OF tho wal
to.
1. Play fair with the available sup
ply Of meat by paying ration points IN
fall, and by paying no more thar cell
ing prices.
3. Give two special Easter gifts to
our men on the fighting fronts q pint
Of blood and an extra dollar to the Red
Cross War Fund.
8. Search closets for clothing, o
and bedding to send to millions of war
impoverished people through the Uni
ted National Clothing Collection Com
mittee Drive, which starts April /.
Evening star., 1945-03-16
On the Record
By Dorothy Thompson


this plan, for 1t excludes the 100000
Arabian Christians.
This plan will put the Zionists In
a dilemma: Whether to reject what is,
on the surface, considerable conces-
sion, with the probability, if it is re-
Jected, that all concessions will be with
drawn; or. for the sake of immediate
aid in solving the refugee problem, for
mally to abandon the millennial Jewish
hope.
There always have been two schools
Of thought in Zionisn-that of the west
ern Jews who supported the Palestine
movement as an opportunity of new
life for their oppressed co-religionist,
and that of the Eastern European Jews,
who saw in it messianic. restorationist
idea. 1t Is from these groups that the
great Palestinian impulse has come.
80
The war has radically changed the
Jewish situation In the world The
European Jews have been decimated
The greatest number of Jews live today
in Soviet Russia and the United States,
neither Of which countries furnished
immigration to Palestine. There lately
has been tendency of Zionist Jewry to
accept as an accomplished fact that the
position of the Jew In Europe will be
untenable even after this war. There
fore, they believe. since neither Russia
nor the United States is going to be
open to immigration, there is no other
place for them than Palestine.
If this presumption were true, it would
be terrible comment on our power to
eradicate Naziism. The right of every
Jewish citizen of a European state to
live on terms of equality with his COM
patriots should be established in the
peace terms. If this cannot be settled,
no Jew will be safe in Palestine or any,
where else.
So. after the debacle of European,
Jewry, permissible immigration of
100000 would be considerable con-
tribution.
But 1t Is a shame to attempt to settle
matters of this kind forever, or confine
them forever within such artificial
rieidities as parity OF population.
The offer of 100000 is immediate relief
for the most desperate Of all the Euro
pean peoples. And if true United Ma
tons world emerges, many things that
seem incapable of settlement now should
have another and more cooperative
aspect only few wears hence
Evening star., 1945-03-16
Signs on Western Front
By Maj. George Fielding Eliot

On the western front signs still
seem to point to gathering Allied
major offensive on the northern sector,
The built-up area of the Ruhr indus
trial district is not very hopeful To-
cation for an offensive, for every build
ing would be fort. The rough country
south of the Ruhr Is also not too
favorable. But north of the Ruhr, the
country is flat and open. Here the
only barrier other than the Rhine it
self is mud, which suggests that the
great attack may come soon, for the
ground is far harder in March than
1t Is likely to be in April
Very likely the instrument for the
attack will be the British I'd Army,
coupled perhaps with the 1st. Allied
Air-Borne Army, as already suggested
in these articles.
The German radio has long insisted
that the British I'd Army is pre-
pairing for crossing of the Rhine in
the vicinity of Emmerich; and the
Germans may be right, just as they
were right in their predictions that
the United States 9th Army was pre-
pairing to cross the Roer.
\ -
Lie StdTI TIlllS gun illdy Ue III JLe
hand of the weather man. It would
not be desirable to wait too long; the
spring equinox is approaching, which
means rain and soft ground. But it
would certainly be desirable to try to
pick the beginning Of stretch Of good
weather. This would be especially true
If air-borne troops are to play q large
part, but it would be true In any case
because of the need for extensive em-
ployment OF tactical airpower.
Another consideration may be pos
sible shift of German reserves south-
ward to the area Of the Remagen
bridgehead. There Is some indication
that such shifts may be In progress,
though this cannot be said to be defi-
nitely established as fact. But the
German commander whether he is
still Won Rundstedt, or whether Won
Model now has the job as some re-
ports ASSERT cannot ignore the Re-
magen drive. If he does SO, and II our
LIST Army lunges forward across the Co
logne-Frankfurt superhighway, broad
ems its base on the Rhine, puts over
more pontoon bridges and makes itself
fully secure on the east bank, American
troops can then drive up the east bank
to Kalk, opposite Cologne.
Once there, there should be com.
pasatively httls dtmculty. = a nsi-
Evening star., 1945-03-16
This Changing World
By Consfanfins ByotDn

The veto power already has been es-
tablished, even on matters Of procedure.
before the International peace organ
tzation has been set up according to q
note presented to undersecretary OF
State Joseph c. Grew by Jan Ciechan-
owski, Polish Ambassador here.
The Polish envoy called at the State
Department to present, on instruction
from his government In London, COM
plant against Poland being excluded
from the San Francisco Conference be-
cause Russia, one of the inviting powers,
refuses to sit at the same table with the
Polish government in exile.
He pointed out that the Polish gov
ernment, which is recognized by all
members of the United Nations except
Russia. and by all the neutrals, as
Legitimate" government. was one Of the
original signatories OF the United Ma
tions declaration OF January /, 1912.
Poland, the Ambassador stated in q
written document, fulflls all the re-
quirements necessary to participate at
the San Francisco Conference. It is
member OF the United Nations at war
both with Germany and Japan. 1t has
an army, navy and air force actively
fighting Germany on the western front
and in Italy and possesses an under
ground force which has fought the Nazis
In Poland. Moreover. 1t has been Afi-
ctally given the Dumbarton Oaks pro-
posals and has been asked for comments
and suggestions, which were presented to
the State Department last February IL.
In spite of all these qualifications
Poland will not be allowed to be repre-
sented at the conference Nations such
as Turkey. Saudi Arabia and others
which have hoped on the United Ma
tons band wagon at the 18th hour to
qualify for admission have been invited
and will send delegations tc formulate
plans for world security organization.
The note presented by Ambassador.
CiechanowsN has been sympathetically
received and will be filed among many
other historical documents in the ar
chives Of the State Department Never
theless, the chances of the Polish gov
ernment in exile being allowed to sit
with the other 43 United Nations men,
bers at the conference table are nil.
President Roosevelt, Premier Stain
and Prime Minister Churchill reached
compromise at Yalta in regard to the
Polish question and the new Polish gov
Evening star., 1945-03-16
Curfew Troubles

The curfew experiment, designed
primarily as means Of conserving
coal, is proving to be something less
than a spectacular success In New
York City. Perhaps this is due to the
peculiar If not extralegal enforce
ment methods employed in Mayor
La Guardia's bailiwick, but the fact
remains that New York's coal-saving
benefits, If any. seem to have been
more than counterbalanced by the
undesirable consequences Of the
curfew.
At the outset the curfew appeared
in the form of a request" from
Mobilization Director Byrnes for a
midnight closing hour in all places
of entertainment. In New York, by
some unexplained process. the re-
quest became mandatory. and the
police began arresting both the oper-
ators and the patrons Of any estab-
lishment-even private apartments
in which the lights were not out
at the stroke of twelve A recent
case brought the arrest of seventeen
men who were playing cards, but not
gambling or drinking so far as the
evidence showed, in a private apart
ment. They were charged with dis
orderly conduct. which seems to be
the customary official. complaint
against individual curfew violators,
and offered to plead guilty. In most
instances that has brought S. fine.
The judge in this case, however. re-
fused to accept the guilty pleas
Denouncing what he described as
the current hysteria" attending
curfew enforcement in New York, he
ordered the men to plead not guilty
and then dismissed the case. A Sur
vey by the New York Times also
casts doubt on the benefits of the
curfew, the findings indicating that
the principal result of its enforce
ment has been a revival of condt-
tions comparable to, If not worse
than, the evils which developed dur
ing the speakeasy era
Whether these conditions will be-
come general remains to be seen.
But it would be interesting to know
whether, in New York, enough coal
or manpower is being saved to make
the curfew experiment worth while.
Evening star., 1945-03-16

ernment. A committee composed Of
Foreign Commissar Molotov, United
States Ambassador Hartman and Brit
ish Ambassador Clark-Kerr was set up
In Moscow to deal with this matter.
1t was supposed at Yalta that by the
time the invitations to San Francisco
were issued the three diplomats would
have settled the matter of the new gov
ernment. Unfortunately, because Of the
British Ambassadors illness, which has
confined him to his quarters for the last
three weeks, the Big Three Committee
has not met and no one knows when 1t
will begin its sessions.
~
On the other hand, Archbishop
Sapieha, the candidate of America and
Britain for the new premiership, Is not
likely to accept the job. There has been
friction between him and the Red
Army authorities in Krakow who have
angered the 72-year-old prelate. 1t ap-
pears that even during the German
occupation of that city, which also Is
the seat of his archbishopric, he was
able to do limited amount of relief
work. He expected his activities to be
greatly increased after the liberation Of
tIic Guy. 1LStGdu, dCCOTQlUB 10 available
reports, they have been drastically cur
tailed, apparently for security" reasons,
by the Red Army officials.
Thus six weeks before the opening Of
the San Francisco Conference no prog
ress has been made by the representa-
tives of the Big Three on the formation
of new Polish government as provided
In the Yalta agreements.
In the meantime, the government in
exile is still officially recognized by
Washington, London and all the other
United Nations governments with the
exception of the u S. S. r. The con-
ference, which will open on April 25, will
not deal with boundary settlements. 1t
will discuss only the question of last
ing peace. Hence there can be no valid
reasons why the present legal govern
ment of Poland should not be invited on
the understanding that when another
administration is formed it will take
over and subscribe to what has been
done by the overwhelming majority OF
peace-Ioving nations.
While in some of1cial quarters 1t Is
admitted that this would be a solution,
1t is pointed out that the Kremln is
adamant in its refusal to have the
London crowd" at San Francisco.
Evening star., 1945-03-16
The. Fundamental Remedy

A more efficient discharge by Con-
gress of it's constitutionally derived,
exclusive legislative control over the
District of Columbia would undoubt-
edly accompany voting representa-
ton of Washingtonians in Congress
and the electoral college.
It is gratifying that this fact-for
1t is undoubtedly fact-was dis
cussed with manifest approval at the
meeting yesterday of the joint COM
mittee on reorganizing Congress.
Representative Summers of Texas,
the respected chairman OF the House
Judiciary Committee, and a veteran
in Congress, expressed the same
thought recently in his argument
for the Sumners-Capper resolution.
In explaining the resolution Mr..
Summers pointed out that 1t gives
to the Congress, which has, the con-
stitutional responsibility for provid-
ing the government for the District,
an opportunity to use the additional
facility which sthis resolution. if
adopted, would provide. -" 1t would
be a valuable aid to the Congress in
the discharge of that responsibility.
It would make it possible for the
Congress in it's judgment to have the
people of the District send up to the
Congress, to become part of the
Congress, their selected representa-
tives to be spokesmen for the people
of the District in the council that is
to determine their government.
That is the proposition from the
Congress- standpoint. When some
propositioA comes up affecting the
people of the District Of Columbia,
I would like to have somebody here
who is part of the District of Co.
lumbia. who represents the people,
who is spokesman for the people
of the District. would like to have
him handy-handy all the time to
consult with about these things"
Members of Congress are finding
1t increasingly difficult to meet the
complex problems of municipality
as large as Washington and at the
same time to discharge their obliga-
tions to their own voting constitu-
ents. The present system is admit
tedly cumbersome and, as Senator
La Toilette pointed out yesterday, at
times borders on the ridiculous In
the necessarily detailed considera-
tion by Congress of essentially trivial
local matters.
Some improvement undoubtedly
would follow a more specific delega-
ton of authority to the Comnis-
sioners, and Chairman Randolph of
the House District Committee is
sound in his suggestion of a joint
committee on the District of Colum-
bia. But the paramount objective is
voting representation for the Wash
ingtonian in his government, which
Is the National Government. From
that would follow, in the natural
course of events, the remedy for
most of the things that are wrong in
the relationship between Congress
and the Washington community
For that is fundamental to all
Improvement.
Evening star., 1945-03-16

Apparently one result of the confer
ences that have been held in the Mid
die East is the reopening of the Pales-
tine problem. The leading Arab anti
Zionist among the Arab princes Is Ibn
Saud, one of the three Kings whom the
President met at SueZ. In a recent
statement the President remarked that
he had learned in five minutes talk with
Ibn Saud more about the Arabian and
Jewish problems in Palestine than he
could have acquired from the exchange
of dozen letters. Following the Presi-
dent, Mr.. Churchill spoke with Ibn Saud
and the other Arabian leaders, and in
his report to the House of Commons
said that the solution Of the Jewish
question In Palestine would nave to be
postponed until after the war
So it is obvious that both the Presi-
dent and Mr.. Churchill discussed the
Palestine problem as 1t affects Arabs
and Jews. Mr.. Churchill is the heir
to the Balfour declaration establishing
a national home for the Jews in Pales-
tine. and Mr.. Roosevelt Is committed
as are the Republicans-by the party
platforms, to the establishment Of
Jewish commonwealth there.
Now, the Arabs have taken the in
itiative and made compromise offer.
The status of the Jews in Palestine is
at present determined by the White
Paper British, which would have
halted all Jewish immigration after
March, 1914 or limited it to $4,000 since
1889 This quota is now all but exhaust
ed. Against this the Zionist Jews have
been vigorously campaigning.
Arabs, ever since the last war, have
been attempting to create a pan-Ara-
bian federation to include Syria and
Palestine. Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
There are two difficulties to be over
come: The rivalry between the Arab
states and princes over leadership and
the problem Of Palestine. Arabian OBJ
jections to Jewish state or homeland
there are the cause of the White Paper.
Immediately following the talks Of the
Arabian leaders with Roosevelt an all
Arabian conference took place in Cairo.
1t seems that the rivalry has been, to
some degree, subordinated to the pam
Arabian aim, in favor of loose confed-
Grafton. To solve the second dtfficulty,
the Arabs have offered to permit an
additional 100000 Jews to enter Pales-
tine, with the object of keeping the
Jewish and Moslem- Arab populations
there at parity" Actually the Arabs
always would have a majority under