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Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-07-05
FoodNot Money
Remains Scarce

not a matter of financing. The coun.
tries Of western Europe have their
own financial resources and are
seeking in vain to buy - particu.
larly such items as canned meats,
dairy products, fats and oils and SUI
gar. The liberated countries of east
ern Europe which do not have the
foreign exchange resources to pay
cash for their supplies are receiv-
ing them from the uninvaded United
Nations through UNRRA. UNRRA
has financial resources contributed
by the uninvaded nations. The
trouble is that supplies are not
forthcoming in the scarce food lines
at desirable rate.
Incidentally, the director general
Of UNRRA, in somewhat justified
didactic vein, has lately pounded
home in his public utterances the
fact that if UNRRA fails to provide
supplies, it is not because of
UNRRA's shortcomings, but be-
cause the member nations do not
come through with the supplies.
There is one bright spot amid the
encircling gloom of the food stu
alton. This is the fact that the world
has plentiful supplies of wheat. This
member of the bread grains has
been produced in bumper quantities
for several years in succession by
the farmers in the u. S. and Cana
da. The crops have been average in
other exporting countries. The re-
suit is that wheat is not even under
ALLEGATION and the full amount
needed for a normal diet can be
supplied to the people Of liberated
Europe. But man doesn't live by
bread alone. For health and vigor,
you and I and everyone need some
fats and proteins in our diets. Will
we be willing to cut down on our
by the standards of Europe-rather
lavish consumption of these things
SO that our liberated Allies can come
through the next winter with a mini
mum loss of health and strength?
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-07-05
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Screws have a habit of disap-
pearing when you need them, and
dropping from your fingers when
you use them. This can be avoided
if you put each screw in strip
of heavy paper. They are not only
easy to find, but also are easy to
hold in place when you start
them with a hammer.
If you treat your new baking
tins kindly they will repay you.
Before you use them for the first
time, rub them all over with
lard, then bake in warm oven
for half an hour. In the case of
enamel pie dishes, fill them with
boiling soda water and allow to
get cold. Then wash in hot, soapy
water and rinse very thoroughly.
IL an electric cord becomes
damp, place it on fiat surface
and do not use it for several days
until it has dried.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-07-05
Spelter Of Starvation
Stalks Liberated Europe
Hunger Already Rampant in Many Nations;
Relief Dependent on Sacrifices of
United States and Canada.
BY BAUKHAGE
Ne,Us analyst and Commentator.
WNU Service, Union Trust Building

WNU Service, Union Trust Building
Washington, ID. G.
The size and shape of the postwar
food emergency which the world has
been generally anticipating and
fearing Is now beginning to take
shape. AS this is written in mid
June, swelling cry is coming
across the Atlantic, Were hungry.
Send us food" In one days issue OF
the New York Times there were
special dispatches stating:
/. That the liberated European
nations were meeting in London to
hear the facts Of the world food stu
alton from British Food Minister
Llewe1lin. He had spent three
months in Canada and the United
States surveying the world picture.
1t was said that he would inform
the delegates of the liberated coun-
tries that there is in prospect a
world shortage Of 100000 tons Of
meat, 100000 tons of fats and oils
and $4,000 tons Of sugar. A short
age, that is, in terms Of what is re-
quired to maintain a quite frugal,
though fairly health-giving diet.
2. That European nations were be-
ing urged to produce to the maxi
mum in order to Offset the lack of
imports for their winters food sup
ply.
3. That the new food minister of
France christian Pinaud) was
coming to the United States to urge
the American food industry to sell
food to France.
4. That the Bavarian food ration
was down to the low minimum of
1,150 ca1ories a day (the average
American diet contains 5000 calo-
ries).
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-07-05
Holystones From Broken
Monuments, Hence Name

In the navy, holystones were, I'M
til recently, used to scrub and
clean wooden decks. But the term
goes far back into the antiquity
of naval lore. The stones were
originally so named because frag-
ments of broken monuments from
Saint Nicholas church, Great Var
mouth, England, were used to
scrub the decks of the ships of the
British navy.
In the British service they were
also known as Ecclesiastical
bricks"
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-07-05
Showing Some New, Practical Uses
For That Old Fashioned Knife Box
By Ruth Wyeth Spears

working enthusiast an advantage over
the long-drawn-out methods used in grand.
fathers day.
NOTE-Pattern 281 gives actual-size
patterns for all parts of the knife box
and for the sides of the stand. illustrated
assembly directions, a complete list of
materials and directions for an antique
finish for both pieces are included. To get
Pattern 281, send IS cents with name and
address direct to:
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-07-05
Mount Plasna

Mount Plasma is volcanic
mountain on Two Jima, formerly
called Mount Suribachi. So much
plasma was used on the slopes of
this mountain that after Old
Glory was hoisted to it's top, our
rechristened the
place Mount Plasma.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-07-05

Sharpening the difficulties is the
breakdown Of internal transpor-
tation to move what food is pro-
duced from the countryside into the
cities and towns. In the final phases
Of the war the Nazis Systematically
destroyed railroads and rolling
stock behind them as they re-
treated; the Allied air forces sys-
tematically blew bridges and burst
locomotives. The result is that in
Greece, for example, there were
for months no railway lines op-
Grating. Even now, when some of
the tracks and bridges are repaired,
there are less than 20 locomotives
and less then 500 good cars in the
country. More are being rushed
there, but the railway transport will
be far below even the wartime nor
NAL. The highway service has dis
integrated and the bridges are
blown. Trucks are so scarce that
they are number one priority in
the relief schedules of UNRRA and
Of the countries which pay for their
own imports.
An UNRRA worker in Yugoslavia
reported that he saw girls II and Is
years old carrying hundred pound
sacks Of grain on their backs for
five kilometres. In Greece, women
and children hitched themselves
to carts Of supplies and hauled them
over mountain roads that were so
full of bomb craters that trucks
could not travel them.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-07-05

even to rather low minimum level
for full health and strength - would
bring the civilian food supplies In
the major nations down consider
ably from their present level.
A good part of the answer to the
plea Of hungry Europe and the Far
East depends on how much sac
rifice the civilians in the United
States and Canada are willing
to undergo. President Truman, in
issuing the report of Judge Samuel
Rosenman on relief needs in west.
ern Europe, pointed out that the
American people need to under
stand the dire plight of the people
in these, Allied countries in or
der to be prepared to accept con-
-tinued control on our consumption
here. The coming months will give
the answer to the extent and severi-
ty Of controls that are imposed.
Dickenson County herald. [volume] (Clintwood, Va.) 1939-195?, 1945-07-05
100 Million People
Hungry on Continent

In the face Of this situation, It is
evident that, as Colonel Llewellin
told the British House of Commons
on June 10, ''There are hundred
million hungry people in Europe
today" Hope for relieving hunger is
in imports this summer and next
winter. Will the imports be forth
coming from the world outside?
The best answer that can be
given at present seems to be ''not
in the volume desired" To provide
enough food to bring the populations
Of liberated Europe and the Far
East up to the prewar level or
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Slaughter Plan Studied
For State Institutions
BY the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April 16.-If the
meat supply situation doesn't i'm
prove quickly, the State of Maryland
may go into the slaughtering busi-
ness to insure adequate supplies for
hospitals and other institutions.
Walter N. Kirkman, State budget
director, said yesterday that there
was a general shortage" of meats
at the States 81 penal and corrective
institutions, mental hospitals and
sanatoria and teachers colleges, a
situation aggravated by the recent
scarcity of poultry.
Oficials representing these insti-
tutions, he said, decided that if
meats did not become more readily
available, application should be
made to the Federal Government to
permit the institutions to purchase
and slaughter animals themselves,
or have the work done by COM
mercial packers.
Baltimore Hospital Conference Of
ficials, finding themselves in the
same boat, appealed to the War Food
Administration to set poultry quotas
for hospitals. They said action was
taken after survey showed nine OF
its 26 members were unable to buy
any poultry last week.
Evening star., 1945-04-16

said. His head went down a little,
but didn't ask him to look up. He
was extremely absorbed.
Il couldn't paint his face while he
was out of pose, so I was doing this
and that, particularly making notes
of the color and light on his face.
Then he raised his left hand to
his left temple, then to his fore
head. and his hand went back to the
arm of the chair. Then slowly he
lay back, reclined in the chair,
slipped slightly to the left, with his
head more to the left.
Then the two cousins rushed to
him just as the butler was coming
into the ROOM"
Mrs. Schoumatoff said she then
asked one of the Secret Service men
to call a doctor. She left the Lit
tie White House without knowing
how serious was the Presidents ILL
ness. She called back from Macon,
Ga, to speak with Miss Grace Tully,
the Presidents private secretary, but
before the can went through, the
operator asked her:
did you hear, the President is
dead?"
She said at her home that she
would work two more days to COM
plete the unfinished portrait, and
expressed the hope that it might be
placed in Mr.. Roosevelts library at
Hyde Park.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Alexandra School Plans
Music Festival Friday

The music department of George
Washington High School, Alexan-
dria, Va, will present its festival
concert at 8 pm. Friday in the
school auditorium.
The junior and senior bands will
be under the direction Of Philip
Lester and the high school Or
chestra will make its debut under
the direction of Miss Lucie Landen
in the andante from Haydn's Sur
prise Symphony" Miss Landen,
who is also the director of the
Alexandria Civic Orchestra, will
direct the George Washington
chorus, the q cappella choir, the
boys quartet and the girls sex
tet. The boys glee club also will
take part.
Guest conductor will be DR.. Har-
old Walters, who will direct his
Victory Garden Suite" with Joyce
Freeman as narrator. A band COM
poser, DR.. Walters was for several
years an arranger for the Navy
Band.
Tickets now are being sold by high
school students.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
28 Hurt in Baltimore
Truck-Sfreetcar Crash
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
BALTIMORE, April 16.-Twenty-
eight persons were taken to the
South Baltimore General Hospital
today in ambulances, cabs and pri-
vate cars after a bakery truck and
southbound trolley collided on Han
over street, south of Reedbird
avenue.
Traffic was snarled more than IS
minutes, with cars lining up for 2
miles on each side Of the accident
scene.
The collision demolished the bak-
cry truck and severely damaged the
front of the trolley.
Most seriously injured we're Harry
O. Becker and Vernon c. Klaegs,
who were in the truck. The streetcar
motorman, Eugene j. Swami, was
treated for cuts, while Is passengers
in the car, which was crowded with
persons standing in the aisle, were
treated for hurts ranging from minor
cuts to serious fractures.
Police said Mr.. Becker told them
his truck skidded on wet rails and
careened into the front Of the
trolley.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Budget Hearing Set
For Prince William
Special Dispatch to The Star.

Special Dispatch to The Star.
MANASSAS, Va, April 16.-A
public hearing on the tentative
budget for Prince William County
for the fiscal year beginning July !,
has been scheduled by the county
board of supervisors for 10 am.
April Is. Estimated expenditures
amount to SITS, 1850; an increase
Of approximately $3,4o0 over last
year.
The budget includes the following
outlays: County administration,
$2997; assessment of taxable prop
critics, $3.50; collection and dis
bursement of taxes, $5,915; record
ing of documents, 1886; police
1862; fire protection, 5000; public
welfare, s19,120; public health
$4,700; advancement of agriculture
and home ecopomics, $2,400; main-
tenance of buildings and grounds,
$780,. county schools, $97 ,655; !;
County Planning Commission, 81 600;
debt service, $10,150; special sani-
tation project, $4,000.
The school appropriation is larger
than the current outlay because of
a $120 per year teacher salary in
crease and a $4,000 increase for
transportation.
In addition to the county appro-
priation, the school board antici-
pates $111,700 from the State; $10,-
$50 from district debt funds; $2,290
from miscellaneous funds, and S., 600
from capital outlay to finance the
total school budget amounting to
$3.50, O,O85.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
1ls!NRst'eniing
&Remiinde,y6,

Meats, Fats, Etc.-Book 1, red stamps
T-5 through KS good through
April %; stamps VS., Us, A-2
through D-2 good through June 2;
stamps E-2 through J-2 good
through June 30; stamps K-2
through P-2 good through July 81.
Canned Goods, Etc.-Book 4. blue
stamps CO through Ga good
through April %: stamps IA
through M-2 good through June
2; stamps N-2 through S-2 good
through June 80. Stamps T-2
through X-2 good through July 81.
Points for Fats-Your meat dealer
will pay two red ration points for
each pound Of waste kitchen fats
you turn In.
Sugar-Stamp IS valid for s pounds
through June 2. Next stamp
scheduled to be validated May /.
Gasoline coupons are valid
through June 81. B-6, C-6, B-7
and CT coupons good for S gall
Ions each.
Shoes-Airplane stamps l, 2 and .
In Book No. 3 good indefinitely for
one pair Of shoes each.
Fuel Oil-Periods one, two, three
four and flve coupons good for 10
gallons per unit through heating
Evening star., 1945-04-16
tobacco Sales
May Be Delayed
ByPriceProtest
Growers Ask PorIey
With OPA OfficiuIs
On Lowered Ceiling

Southern Maryland tobacco ware
housemen, scheduled to begin the
sale of the 1914 tobacco crop to-
morrow, today prepared to delay
the opening of markets pending an
appeal to the Once Of Price Ad-
ministration against a reported 55-
cent ceiling price.
Frank Hall, president Of the
Southern Maryland Looseleaf Ware
housemen's Association, explained
today that newspaper stories are the
only indication tobacco men have
had that the ceiling price has been
lowered from the 62-cent top Of last
year to SIS cents this season.
On the strength of this announce
ment, Mr.. Hall said, growers repre-
sentatives from the five major to-
bacco producing counties of South.
ern Maryland met yesterday to pro-
test the lowering of the ceiling and
urged markets to do no business un-
til an appeal could be made to OPA.
Warehousemen Meet Today.
Warehousemen will meet today to
decide whether to open tomorrow,
Mr.. Hall said.
Markets were scheduled to open
tomorrow at Baltimore, Upper
Marlboro, La Plata, Hughesville and
Waldorf, and Mr.. Hall commented
Evening star., 1945-04-16

with others, DR.. Spire organized the
Crawford-Spire Theater Corp, and
operated theaters in Mount Rainier
and Hyattsville.
He was past president of the Mary
land Pharmaceutical Association
and of the District Veteran Drug
gists' Society. He was member OF
the Mount Hermon Masonic Lodge,
Hyattsville.
Surviving are his widow, Mrs.
Katherine E. Spire; a daughter, Mrs.
Emily S. Steinberg, and two BROTH
ers. DR.. R. Lee Spire and George w.
Spire, both of Washington.
Funeral services will be held at II
am. Wednesday at the home. Men,
bers of Mount Hermon Lodge will
ofhciate at the rites and burial will
be in Fort Lincoln Cemetery.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
LOCUST VALLEY, N. Y, April 16.
"A dramatic description of how
Franklin D. Roosevelt was fatally
stricken while sitting silently for
his portrait was given by Mrs. Eliza
beth Schoumatoff, Russian-born
artist, on her return from Warm
Springs, Ga.
"He slipped slightly out of pose
his head went down a little
he raised his left hand to
his temple, then to his forehead
. slowly he lay back, reclined
in the chair" the artist recounted
yesterday.
She was one of the last persons
to, see the late President alive
making preliminary sketches of him
at his little White House in Warm
Springs. In the room with her and
the President were his two cousins,
Miss Laura Delano and Miss Mar
garet Suckley, and his secretary,
William D. Hassett.
HE never looked better than when
he greeted me-" Mrs. Schoumatoff
recalled. He had on a dark gray
suit, and had worn his red Harvard
necktie, a perfect blend with his
navy blue cape"
She said he was working over some
official papers while she painted.
He became so engrossed that he
slipped slightly out of pose" she
Evening star., 1945-04-16

that, even if the ceiling Is to re-
main the same, some official notice
should be in the hands Of ware
housemen before the opening.
Yesterdays meeting requested
Senators Tydings and Radcliffe and
Representative Sasscer, Democrats.
Of Maryland TO ask for a meeting
with the OPA'to appeal the 55-cent
ceiling.
Mr.. Sasscer, present at the meet
ing, went on record as favoring the
same ceiling price that applied last
year. THE idea of price control is
to stop prices from soaring, not to
press them back from year to year."
he asserted.
Ceiling "in Channels"
OPA officials explained that the
adjusted ceiling price is now in sig
nature channels and is to reach the
Federal Register division today,
when official notice will be sent
warehousemen.
The OPA said this years ceiling
adjustment was made because Of the
unusually high quality Of Maryland
leaf" which should bring growers
an average Of 48 cents pound, with
a ceiling cents lower than last,
years. The crop last year averaged
45.3 cents with 62-cent ceiling.
It was further pointed out that
the new ceiling will hold prices re-
ceived for type 80 tobacco in line
with those paid growers of hurley
and f1ue-cured types.
The opening scheduled tomorrow
is about three weeks earlier than
usual, due to the fact that growers
have a greater portion of their crop
ready for market this year than in
former years, according to the War
Food Administration.
Mr.. Hall said that in Upper Marl-
boro alone about $4,000 pounds Of
tobacco is on warehouse floors ready
for sale. He estimated that the crop
is above average, with a high per-
centage suitable for cigarette manu-
facture.
The total 1914 crop was estimated
by VIA officials at about $4,000, 900
pounds, or 11,000,0 900 pounds larger
than the 1943 crop sold last year.
Growers realized approximately $9,-
500, 900 from the 1943 crop.
Evening star., 1945-04-16

Of Common Prayer, the identical
service that was read at the funeral
in the East Room of the White
House Saturday.
Comdr. Clifford M. Drury, a naval
chaplain, conducted memorial
service at the Stage Door Canteen.
Another memorial service will be
held at $50 pm. tomorrow in Cafritz
auditorium at the Jewish Commu-
nifty Center. Eulogies will be deliv-
cred by Rabbi Norman Gerstenfeld
of the Washington Hebrew Congre-
cation and Rabbi Solomon H. Metz
of Adas Israel Congregation. The
Jewish War. Veterans, Post No. So,
will take part.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Women Voters to Discuss
Dumburton Ouks Plan

A discussion of the Dumbarton
Oaks proposal will be sponsored by
the Parkfairfax branch of the Ar
ungton-Alexandria League Of Wom-
en- Voters at q Parkfairfax Com
munity meeting at 8:15 pm.
Wednesday in st: Clements Episco-
pal Church on Seminary road.
A film. will be presented in con-
nection with the discussion. The
program is a part Of the leagues
work for an informed public opinion
Evening star., 1945-04-16

Park, following
a long illness.
A native OF
Brewerton, N. Y,
Mr.. Spire was a
pharmacist here
for a number of
years, and In
1917 opened a
drug store in
Mount Rainier,
Md. He la t e I
opened branch
stores in Brock
land, H y a t t S.
vile and College
Park.
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Maryland Educators
To Confer in July on
New School Program
By the Associated Press.
DAT TTNENDr


BALTIMORE, April 16-A
lengthy conference of State and
county education officials to plan for
activation of the five-point school
program passed by the recent Gen.
eral Assembly will be held at Tow
son State Teachers College this
summer.
DR.. Thomas G. Pullen, jr. super
intendent of the State Department
Of education, announced yesterday
that the meetings would begin July
2 and run three weeks.
Some of the major points of the
program are to establish a 12-year
system of public education through
out Maryland; reduce the maximum
size of classes from 40 to IS; expand
use of auditory and visual aids, and
develop adult education, vocational
rehabilitation and other courses.
To Expedite Program.
"The purpose of the meeting" DR..
Pullen said, "is to put the new pro-
gram into effect as rapidly as pos
sible and to develop a unified sys-
tenn Of operation in the country
schools.
while each county will organize
it's own program under the new law,
the State Department of Education
will have to approve the individual
county's plan before it can become
effective"
He estimated it would take about
four years to make the complete
changes needed in all counties.
Major problems involved, he said,
were the construction of additional
school buildings and hiring Of more
teachers.
Ten counties requested and re-
ceived bond issue authorization from
the legislature for new buildings to
cost about $5,000,000.
About 400 additional teachers
would be needed throughout the
State.
The General Assembly also ear
marked more than $4,000 900 of State
money for aiding in the program
during the next biennium, while the
counties themselves will put up about
the same amount. The great ma
jority of the counties now provide an
11-year curriculum only.
Want Basic Principles.
1--WE aim to establish basic prin-
ciples for the new systems opera
tions but will make allowances for
the varying conditions in different
counties" DR.. Pullen said.
For instance, in some counties
there may be a Junior and senior
high school and in others there may
be established only a junior-senior
high school to provide the six classes
following the elementary grades.
"The present indiactions are that
children finishing the eighth grade
next June will not be asked to re-
main more than three years, al
though those desiring to remain the
extra year may have the opportu-
nifty to do so.
"Unquestionably, all students fin
bhing the sixth grade will be told
they have six more years and in
several counties those students fin
ishing the seventh grade will be
told they have five years more"
Evening star., 1945-04-16
Naval Academy Visitors
Begin Inspection Today
BY the Associated Press

BY the A8SOclAte0 Pf0&6.
ANNAPOLIS, Nd, April 16.-The
Board of Visitors Of the Naval Acad-
emy, comprised Of 18 members, will
start its four-day annual visit today.
The members of the board, who
are appointed by the President, Vice
President and Speaker of the House
include: Senator's Walsh and Salton-
stall of Massachusetts,, Eastland of
Mississippi, Mcclellan Of Arkansas,
and Robertson of Wyoming.
Representatives Vinson of Georgia,
Sasscer of Maryland. Price of
Florida, Mott of Oregon and Keefe
of Wisconsin.
The four-day program at the
Academy will be crowned with in
spection tours and will conclude
with a report by the board on Thurs
day.