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TRUMAN PROPOSAL
GETS BAD START

WASHINGTON, Aug. s0.-(P-
Chairman Doughton O-N.Co Of
the House Ways and Means com
mite declared today legislation
embodying President Truman S
proposal for greater unemployment
nenefits-up to $25 a week for "a
weeks-''puts a premium on loaf
ing"
The legislation encountered Wig
orous, and possibly fatal, opposi
ton on it's first appearance before
the House Ways and Means com
rnittee.
Doughton told Arthur J. Alt
meyer, Social Security Board
chairman, he introduced the ad.
ministration jobless pay bill only
''by-fequest,,,' and he declared that
if the government is going to pay
man to sit down in one place he
is not going to another place to
look for work.
II don't know 4 single business
in my part Of the country" he
said, that is not in dire need o.
help. We need farm help, carpen'
tiers, bricNayers, painters, mechan
les. Until this need is met how
90 you have an unemployment
problem?"
Doughton added he did not mean
to say there are many men in the
country who would rather loaf
than work, but he voiced vigorous
opposition to adoption of govern
ment policy that he said would
encourage men to loaf.
Several other members of the
committee joined in critical ques-
tioning when Altmeyer ard john
w. Snyder, Reconversion Director,
went to Capitol Hill to plead for
liberalization of jobless-aid, ad'
monishing that 100000 may be
unemployed by January and g.
000,0 by spring.
Rep. Knutson (R. MIMI, Senior
Ways and Means Republican, ask
ed Snyder: ''If we pay a man SIS
a week for not working, what will
we have to pay to get him 10
work."
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bOOTS KENT HURLS
ME-HIT GAME FOR
SHELBY VICTORY

ou ua1AslRLo o Aug. so.-R-
H Hae,nlt pitching by Roy Boots"
iha '' ~ moved Shelby, N. c., into
sn,, ilhal round of the national
lucy "ais OF the American Legion
toai baseball tournament here
b tO.lg q as the Tar Heels squeezed
inn;, YAK Park, ILL.,, 81, in a TO-
sine Inc victory was shelby's second
its sa si' while Oak Park, in losing
to ' 1. a game in two starts, moved
via s .a test tomorrow night
w iul trenton N. J. Tomorrow S
n rnlnef and Shelby meet Saturday
t1snt; A Shelby win would give
OAK OaFoIlnlans the title, but if
tbrou. Fask or Trenton comes
ba o SI the deciding game will
y Td Played Monday night.
,t lonlght's game was patterned
s Az: Mondays opener in which
to 1A ta park' outhit by Trenton, eight
Ag. touf' second a 81 victory.
tb s'4n the Illinois lads scorned
in in ST. statistics and stayed right
co,,s me ball game by virtue OF
stou SIN, as .. pinch pitching and a
A' defense in the clutch.
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Denmark Obtains Loan
OF $4,000, 900 From
Export-lmport Bank

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-(P)-
Inc Export-Import Bank today an
hounced the signing of a loan
agreement extending $4,000, 900
credit to Denmark to finance pur.
cnases Of United States agricuI-
'ufal and manufactured products
and services.
The loan is the first made by
me Bank since wars end and
.ne ilrst since Congress increased
.ne Banks lending powers this
100000. " '
IVA wayne c. Taylor, Export-1mport
Daih president, said the $40, 1000, 600
e ,nea will be available through
a .s10: 1t is 7epayable in 80 equal
s selnl,annual instruments, the first
ossolhlng due December IS, 1851,
anu anu me last on June IS, 1866. The
n rvaii is TO bear interest at 8 IL
pe1 cent on balance due.
,,n aurchases financed by advances
t snuel inc credit will be made
nh. ousI American private trade
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SWIM
TO ESCAPE FIRE

PORTLAND, Ore, Aug. 30-R)-
Hundreds of worknoen leaped and
swan to safety today as the most
costly fire in Portland's history
roared through the Quitting basin
of Kaiser's Oregon Shipbuilding
Corporation.
About four and a half hours after
the blaze broke out, fire officials
said they believed it was under
control. Firemen and coast-guards'
men battling with pow r.,
acetylene and water lines OUT con-
tinued patroll;ng the area.
The blaze, caused by welding
sparks, destroyed the QUILTING
dock and adjoining buildings, and
seriously damaged several Of the
seven completed ships - valued at
S., 500, 900 - lying in the basin.
The vessels, some still smoking,
were towed to safety in the Villa
mette river. --
Workers leaping from the burn
ing ships reported one cabin paint
err drowned, and an asbestos work
(Cnnt;ruod nm Pare Two. Col. ~
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Allies Will Tap Nazi
Production Six Years

WASHINGTON Aug. 30.-(P-
Edwin v. Pauley, American mem
Der of, the Preparations Commits
sion, disclosed today that the Allies
plan to keep tapping German
production to meet war claims for
perhaps six years.
That is in addition to PREPARATIONS
already being extracted in the
form Of machinery and other
equipment and through Selling
German assets in other countries.
Russia is to get about SO per
cent of all Preparations and share
with Poland. The other Allies will
split the other half.
How much the claims will total
has not been determined, Pauley
told news conference in the White
House. But IA or Is nations have
been asked to file claims and send
representatives to a meeting to be
held somewhere in Western Europe
Continued on Page Five; Col. ~
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TERRIBLE GASES
READY FOR ENEMY

lockwood ARSENAL, Nd.
Aug. 3O.-lRAThe story of terrible
gases - prepared for the United
States armed forces to ''blister,
choke and poison the blood and
nerves. of enemy troops had the
Axis initiated gas warfare - was
told today for the first time by the
Army's Chemical Warfare Service.
Brig. Gen. R. L. Avery, Edge.
wood Arsenal commanding gener.
al, said today in disclosing some
of the gas secrets that "the fact
that our troops were so adequate.
ly prepared for offensive and de.
fensive 6 warfare, undoubtedly
deferred the Axis from challenging
us on that score"
He said in a statement that the
CWS had 'the men, the weapons
and the gas-filled munitions ready
to turn loose huge clouds Of any
of a dozen deadly gases by NOR.
tar and artillery shells, airplane
spray tanks, bombs, grenades and
land mines"
Planes with large spray tank ca.
pacities were ready to spread the
deadly loads.
"A single plane fitted with these
tanks can contaminate an area
1,500 yards long and 300 yards
wide. Coming in at tree-top level,
low flying p can spray
hundreds of m within seconds.
before protective measures can be
taken.
COR, high-flying bombers can re.
lease their burdens OF toxic vapor
thousands of feet in the air, with.
out the knowledge of the enemy
troops. Minutes later the invisible
and practically odorless cloud Of
chemicals descends upon the
troops as though out OF nowhere.
producing casualties before the
victims realize the cause"
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 80 = az
President Truman told Congress in
effect today that lend-lease already
has been repaid in victory and
limited strongly that most OF the
gigantic American outlay should be
written off.
He reported United States ex-
penditures in the mutual aid pro-
gram as $42, 020, $4,000 through
last July l, plus $78S, 100000 in
goods assigned to commanding
generals in the field, for total OF
approximately $4,000, 900, 900. A
partial offset appears in reverse
lend-lease amounting to $500, 900,
600 through last March.
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 80 - R-
Little Finland went back today on
the list Of nations officially friend
ly with the United States.
The State Department announc.
ed re-establishment of diplomatic
relations as of midnight tomorrow.
Pending appointment of a min
lister, Benjamin II. Hulley, First
Secretary of the American Lega.
ton in Helsinki, will be charge
D'Affaires.
Thus another complex chapter in
diplomatic history comes to a
close. It is a chapter filled wit,
expressions of American sym.
pathy when Finland fought Russia
in 1889 and 1910, and with some
measure of continued sympathy
even when Finland was at war
with Britain and again with Rus
STA in the conflict that spread over
all Europe.
For Finland had built up tire.
mendous good will here by being
the only nation to meet her pay
ments on debts arising from the
First World War.
But official relations deteriorat-
ed after Germany attacked Rus
STA.
Finland again went to war with
the Soviets in June, 1941. And in
December she declared war on
Britain. However unwillingly she
may have acted, she still was a
belligerent against Americas two
most powerful Allies.
And Germany had the benefit
of Finnish raw materials and a
friendly coast at the back of Ger
man sea and air forces hitting sup
ply lines to Murmansk.
The late President Roosevelt
tried repeatedly to arrange some
sort e peace between Finland,
Russia and Britain. But by the
middle of 1914, this government
decided it no longer could remain
on technically friendly terms.
Relations were broken off on
June 80, but there never was a
declaration of war. And under the
surface. of diplomatic GOODNESS
Continued on Page Three; Col. y
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Macarthur
Surrender
Plans Click:
PROCEED SMOOTHLY
Supreme Commander Now
CHARTERED In Grand Ho-
tel AT Yokohama
BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

BY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
YOKOHAMA, Friday, Aug. 81
The American flag waved In tri-
umph today (Thursday. U. S.
time) over the ruins of Yokosuka
naval base and Tokyo's once-proud
port of Yokohama, now General
headquarters for his
occupation forces pouring In by
sea and air.
"From Melbourne to Tokyo was
long road" Macarthur told
cheering parachute troopers short
ly after his silvery transport plane
landed at p. m. yesterday Il a.
m. Eastern War Time) at Atsugi
air base, 10 miles from the Impe-
rial Palace in the heart OF the
bomb-ruined capital.
The Supreme Commander de.
c1ared:
1T has been a long, hard road,
but this looks like the payoff, Sur.
render plans are going splendidly.
In all outlying theaters fighting has
practically ceased and every area
is preparing to capitulate.'
Without deigning to see Japan.
csc liaison officers freta the I'm,
perial General Staff, Macarthur
drove by automobile the Is miles
from Atsugi to his headquarters in
the unchanged New Grand motel
in Yokohama.
There, as the first alien boss II
Japan since it became 4 modem
nation and embarked upon the
ruinous career of conquest, the SUI.
preme Commander will confront
his old enemies Of the Imperial
Staff and give them orders which
henceforth will supercede those Of
Empero Hirohito.
Then Sunday will come the SUI
preme moment for the fighting
general who vowed to finish
the war in Tokyo - and made
good his vow.
He will board the battleship Mis-.
souri, in Tokyo Bay and as SUI
preme commander for all the AL
lies, sign the surrender articles
sealing for Japan the loss of war
and an empire built by bloodshed
and terror.
Macarthur way into Yokoha-
ma, once Japan sixth greatest
city but now a bombed-out shell
with at least half of it in ruins,
was prepared by Airborne troops
who landed eight hours earlier at
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Hangover Will FoHow
Prosperity Mayor Says

WASHINGTON, Aug. 80 = Up =
The mayors of the nations. two
largest cities told Congress today
that the Federal government has
a definite responsibility to pre-
vent the American people from 90.
ing hungry.
Looking to the immediate post
war years, Mayor Fioreno La
Guardia of New York cautioned
Senate Banking subcommittee 1--WE
are in for spree and then the
damnedest hangover we've ever
had"
Both LaGuardia and Mayor Ed
ward ]. Kelly Of Chicago endorsed
the principle of the Wagner-Mur-
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AMERICANS SHOULDER
THEIR WAY FROM JAP
WAR PRISONER CA MP

ATsUG1 A1RDRoME, japan,
Aug. 80. up Five American
prisoners of war who liberated
themselves from japanese camps
by "shouldering" their way out
arrived at this occupied Tokyo
area field today after boldly rid
ing train. ''..'.
They got off the train two miles
from the Airdrome and liked the
rest of the way despite the fact
that one, Pvt. David Granger OF
Bellingham, Wash, has but one
leg.
Granger walked out of an Oska
prison. brushing aside protesting
guards. They apparently were
afraid to detain him forcibly.
At Kobe he was Joined by four
who had pushed their way out
of prison there. They are Cpl. Otis
Hayden of Chicago, ILL.,, Pfc. Will
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News,
Good News.
On 'front.'
SPENDING CURTAILED
President Abolishes 48.
Hour Work Week; More
Meat Next Sunday

WASHINGTON, Aug. sa-(R-
News of the speeding change t,
peacetime-some rosy, some good
some sober-burst over Washing
ton late today.
Here are the big pieces,
1. Chairman J. A. Krug of the
War. Production Board made q
glowing forecast Of production
whipping back fast and outdoinf
itself.
2. President Truman abolished
the 48-hour work-week. At least
48 hours a week had to be worked
in war plants. This means a big
crimp in workers earnings.
3. Because its war needs dropped
gigantically with Japan's su-ren
der, the government chopped $18,
5OO,OO0,O0O off its 1916 budget fol
spending.
4. A record number of men
thrown out of jobs, have signed
up for unemployment pay till they
find other work.
5. To get the help of consumers
in fighting price increases, OPA
is issuing 'anti-inflation shopping
lists for housewives.
And-You can get more meat
cheese and buter-sts1ting Sunday
for OPA is reducing the rec
points on them. Canned milk be
comes ration-free the same day
By the end of the year, Krue
said, the production rate of peace
time manufacturing industries
will be IL per cent higher, ii
dollar value, than in the normal
pre-war years of 1884.
But-and it's a big but - this
doesn't mean that men thrown Out
Of jobs now and in the months
ahead will all be pouring back into
jobs by December and that unem.
ployment will disappear.
Krug said it may take industry
ten months or longer to absorb
if they are absorbed - the people
thrown out Of jobs by the end Of
the war.
His statement was based on q
survey of ~ industries by WPB
He said this survey gives us our
Continued on Page Three; Col. II
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JAP SCRIBE SAYS
FLIERS FRIENDLY

SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 30.-(R-
The humility and friendliness Of
American pilots who landed at At
sugi airdrome Tuesday was noted
by japanese newspaperman who
called on the Nipponese govern
ment nd people to note this
friendly attitude" Tokyo Radio
said today in one of it's last broad
casts free of American super
vision.
The fliers, who brought in the
technicians to prepare Atsugi field
for today's mass arrival of 18th
Air borne Division occupation
troops, Ibid not reveal the naughty
attitude of VICTOR" said the
Domei, Japanese News Agency,
dispatch.
The broadcast, monitored by the
FEC, quoted the Nipponese news
man, identified only as Akimine
formerly connected with the Uni
versity of Tennessee research lab.
oratory, as saying the Americans
exhibited a "chummy manner"
1T is hardly safe to consider the
impressions g a IN e from these
young American fliers as repre-.
senting the general American feel
ing toward JAPAN" Akamine eau.
toned. However, the friendly at
titude shown by the fiers of the
frontline pla es is something
which should be given special con-
sideration by our government and
by the people. :"
The broadcast was among the
last made by Tokyo radio before
control of this medium, which has
been the channel for nearly all o.
formation to the outside world con-
corning conditions in Japan, was
taken over by General MacAr-
thurs technicians.
In many operations during the
Pacific war Tokyo Radio supplied
the world with the only informa.
ton of impending Allied invasions
Some of this matter was factual,
much of it was mere fishing for
official information, but it often
preceded h e Allied communique
announcements of invasion by one
or more days.
The broadcasts, monitored by
the FEC, were digested and serv-
iced to American news agencies by
the Office of War Information. But
in Washington today the domestic
branch of the Owl said that with
the change in the status of Tokyo
Radio this service appears to be
no longer necessary"
The last Japanese broadcasts in
cluded reports t h a t five Allied
prisoners of war, including a won-
an, were killed when struck by
packages of supplies dropped by
American planes to various POW
camps in recent days. ~
Tokyo Radio also said that an
American Superfort crashed into a
hillside of Honshu, main Japanese
island, Tuesday during a storm,
killing 10 of the II crew members.
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SET.ASlDE ORDER
ON PORK NOW OFF

WASHINGTON, Aug. S0.-P-
Park loins and shoulders will be
removed from a government set
aside order September 2.
All cuts of beef, veal, pork hams,
lamb and mutton had previously
been removed from similar set
aside orders, which gave the gov
eminent priority on purchases.
Lard remains the only pork
product still subject to govern
ment requisitioning under set-aside
orders.
The Agriculture Department said
todays action was made possible
because of reduced military re-
ouirements for the pork products.
Further government purchases
vii be made in the open market in
competition with civilian buyers.
Prior to today's action, Federally
Inspected slaughterers were requir.
ed TO set aside the following per-
eentages of the live weight Of hogs
slaughtered: shoulders SIS per cent
and loins As per cent.
Lard produced by Federally In
spected slaughterers - equivalent
10 four per cent of the live weight
be set aside in 10 states. This
states are:
Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, ILL
nois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michi-
gan, Minnesota Missouri, Montana,
Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico,
Ohio, North Dakota, South Dakota,
Wisconsin and Wyoming. These
states produce more than their
requirements under the rationing
program.
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Old Glory Waves In Triumph Over Japan;
PZ</rl Harbor Controversy At Fever Heat;
100000 Sign For Unemployment Pay
Congress Makes Move
To Release Doctors

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-E
"A move was launched in
Congress today to speed the
transfer of doctors from the
armed forces back to civil
liam practice.
The House Military commit
tee set hearing for tomorrow
on this subject as several men,
bers declared the nations
health will be greatly impair
ed unless action is taken i'm
mediately.
They asserted that nearly
all communities are short of
doctors.
Eve have been very FORUM
ate that we haven't had q
major epidemic during the
war;" Rep. Arends (R-IlD told
a reporter.
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ray Job Budget bill, designed to
assure full employment for the
country, by use of Federal expen-
ditures if necessary.
The New York mayor, arms
waving and fingers swapping, said
a gigantic public works program
Of five or six years" is necessary
as backlog against unem-
ployment.
The American people, he said
have learned that you can't feed
surveys to children and ticker tape
amt spaghetti"
Kelly said the lesser-privileged
Confined on Page Five; Col. y
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HISTORIC AMERICAN
FLAG NOW IN JAPAN
FOR NEW CEREMONIES

AsSUGI, Japan, Dec. 30-R =
The American flag that flew over
the capitol at Washington on Dec.
:, 1941, has arrived in Japan and
no doubt soon will wave somewhere
over this conquered land, PROP
ably Tokyo.
General MacArthur's staff is
known to have the battle flag,
which as the fortunes of war shift
ed was taken to Europe and was
raised in turn by the Americans
over Rome, Paris and Berlin.
A flag was flying when the first
planes landed here today. 1t had
been raised over Atsugi Air field S
CONTINUED on Page Three; Col. 81
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Truman Hints Americans
Should Write off Debts

Mr.. Truman set up the frame
work of a case for writing off
most of the dollar balances with
these statements:
In letter accompanying the re-
port with the defeat of the Axis
powers, whose ruthless plan for
world conquest and enslavement
came so close TO succeeding, the
United States has realized the
major objective for which lend
lease aid has been extended"
Also in the letter-"each of our
principal fighting partners has con.
tributed to the pool of armed might
Continued on Page Two; Col. II
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PACKERS WIN, 1877

CHICAGO, Aug. 3o.-R,-Green
Bays Packers, champions of the
National Football League, upheld
professional supremacy over the
nations collegiate all-stars In
flood Lighted Soldier Field tonight
by defeating them, 10 to I, before
4 sell-out crowd of 92,753.
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YANK TROOPS
mEND CHINA
STAY BY MAY

ou,rnGKING, Aug. 3o.-tA-
u sric,n troops may be out OF
t easa' by next spring il sufficient nh y,
t 1using is available, 1t. Gen. Al
"pp = We5emeyer said today as
!. PEI. y minesweepers sped the job
T. ..s.1earing mines from the
ss.,st7e and Whangpoo rivers and
HI, tsDs area around the great port OF
shanghai ~, ,ndor ~
rl;na also declared his headquar-
s WV was making efforts to move
chinese ri, troops by air into key Chi
s.,s cities to speed tn occupa'
'V pritish fleet headquarters in
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sydney said "a strong British Ma
val force entered the port
OF Hong Kong today to reoccupy
Britain's Crown colony.")
Japanese ENJOYS were expected
soon at Kaiyuan in Yunnan Prov
lnce to arrange the surrender of
their forces in northern Indo-Chi-
ma. Gen. Lu Kan will accept the
surrender on behalf of China, and
send troops to .disarm the enemy
and set Up a military government
in the northern half of the Frenc.,
colony.
Wedemeyer said shipping had
Continued on Page Two; Col. 81
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Little Finland Returns
To Good GrQces Of U.s.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 - up -
Little Finland went back today on
the list of nations officially friend
1y with the United States.
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Worth Carolina Fair with little
oasAse IN temperature Friday and Sat-
wsday.
The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1945-05-25
Paspoini Theatre
Considers Comedy
For Initial Play

Claudia" a popular comedy
nit is under consideration as the
initial production of the Paspoint
Theatre of Pascagoula and Moss
Point according to an announce
ment made by Mrs. Lahore
K%leisner, chairman OF the play
reading committee of the organ
ization, at a meeting of the char
ter membership group at the
Pascagoula High school Tuesday
night.
E. r. Hammett, president Of
the group, announced that the
board of directors had appoint
ed the following committees:
play-reading committee, of which
Mrs. Kleisner is chairman, in
cludes Mrs. Saul P~eterzell, Miss
Eariine Bell, Fred Handy, Mrs.
Roy Wingfield, Mrs. T. K. SWAY
re, Mrs. Ed Crane and Miss Mary
Guest; a finance committee, made
up of L. A. Watts. chairman. Ed
Crane, A L. Bresemann, Harold
Brock and L. l.. Stigler; and a
membership committee comDos-
ed of Mrs. Sydney Swan, chair
man, and Mrs. Charles Smith.
Mrs. Easton King, Mrs. George
Steele, Mrs. L. A. Watts. Mrs.
George Field. Misses Amelia
Pickett. Shirley Hillman, Cath
crime Rhodes and E. A. Khayat,
Walter Johnson and T. o. Green.
Selection OF a casting commit