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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-01
CHERRY is TO PUSH
N. C.. RURAL ROADS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS R. Gregg
Cherry renewed this week a de-
mand for more attention to the
States secondary and county
roads, and said he was determined
"to push this question until some
thing is done"
We've got a job to do on our
county roads, and we're going to
start right now in doing it." He
spoke at the annual get-together
meeting of more than 400 person
mel members of the State High
way Commissions fifth division.
Cherry said he had no criticism
whatever to make Of the present
State highway and public works
organization.
i realize" he said in his sec
ond dirt roads" speech of the
week, that this organization
(the Highway and Public Works
Co1nnoission) has been severely
handicapped during the last
three years by the lack of equip
ment, labor and materials. But,
we've got to find a way to over
come these difficulties and do a
better job starting now on our
county and secondary roads,"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-01
Fleetwood News

Fleetwood boys and girls played
Fleetwood All-Stars, October Is.
The boys score was 48-48; girls
score was 17-13 in favor of the
Fleetwood girls.
We are proud to have former
Fleetwood boys who are now in
service visit us. Some who have
been here are Pvt. Garland Grog-
an, Paul Lemly, Sic, Pfc. Robert
L. Church and MS Walter O..
Hartzog.
There has been some repairs
made on the buildings; painting,
putting in new window lights and
doors. These are few of the
things that have been done.
A big show, Charlie Monroe, is
coming to Fleetwood, on Novem-
Der II. Everybody is invited to
attend. The money raised will be
spent in repairing the school
buildings.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-01

a demand for 100000 passen-
ger car tires and 100000 bus
and truck tires in 1916. Thomas
said he believed that there will
be approximately the same de-
mand in 1947 to meet the great
pen-up market for requirements
and original new car equipment.
BY 1913, Thomas said, the flood
Of tire-buying will subside and
he estimated demand in that year
at 62,O0O,OOO passenger tires and
100000 bus and truck tires.
1--WE are confident the indus
try can meet this demand with
existing facilities, provided it op-
crates full blast" he said. THAT
is, it's got to keep going "a hours
a day, six days week."
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-01

Editors note: This is the Sec
0nd part of a story written by
Sgt. Mamie Miller Carlan, former
Ashe county girl, about some of
her experiences i'm the WAC. Last
week she told of her arrival in
Australia.
Soon we were whisked away in
army buses, and we were still
wearing the full pack and he'll
met we started out with. We
were very excited passing through
the streets en- route to our camp
The civilians waved at us and the
C. is howled. We saw posters
advertising American movies
most of which we had seen months
before, but it gave us a good feel
ing to see them over there. We
noticed that drug stores were
called chemists" an ice cream
parlor, a "milkbars, and a hard
ware store, IAN ironmanger" anC
we noticed a 'casket agency Il
sounded so strange we didn't
know what to make of it, as there
seemed to be one on every corner
We later discovered it was c
gambling agency run by the gov
eminent.
When we arrived at camp in the
afternoon, we found seven heavy
wooden blankets on our hunks ir
addition to the two we had beer
issued before leaving the States
We wondered why, but by morn
ing we were using all of them
and wishing we had more. We
had forgotten Australians winter
comes during our summer months
so we were not adjusted physi-
cally or mentally to the climate
Having travelled across the equa-
tor and through the heat of the
Central Pacific, we found the
damp. penetrating air just a bit
too cold. 1t was amusing to see
the girls preparing for bed; they
looked as if they were going on
a skiing party. There was no
central heating, or air-condition-
ing, either. Most of the homes
are built of wood and are high off
the ground. Practically all of
them have red roofs and are
painted light or dark brown
The Australians differ greatly
from us in style of dress, enter
tainment and customs of home
life. AS far as I am concerned,
the difference is, they simply
lack 'oomph.'
Soon we were thoroughly orr
catated to our headquarters, the
U. S. Army Services of Supply,
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-01
MACARTHUR HAS NO
PLANS OF RETURNING

Tokyo General Macarthur
has mo immediate plans" for Wis
iting the United States, his head
quarters said this week.
War Department officials in
Washington said they assumed
Macarthur would come home for
a visit "in the near future" There
was speculation that he might ar
rive at the capital between No
vember l and 8.
Although the House and Senate
have passed resolutions inviting
Macarthur to address a joint
congressional session, the head
quarters source said the General
has received no official notifica.
ton of the invitation.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-01
Automobile Tire RatiOnino Is
Expected To Be Ended Soon

Akron, O-E. ]. Thomas, pres
ident of Goodyear Tire and Rub
Der Co., said this week that he
had learned from washington
sources" that tire rationing would
end by Dec. 81.
He would not identify the
sources. Thomas made the state
ment during an interview with a
group of 16 correspondents who
are making tour of reconvert-
ing industry.
even with the end of tire ra-
tioning," Thomas said, "the con-
sumers will still have to scratch
for tires. However, the supply
situation will get better early
next year."
He predicted that there will be
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-01
RUSSIA SEEKS GERMAN
INDUSTRIAL PLANTS

Berlin-Russia has asked for
about 40 of the best industrial
plants in the western zones of
Germany. including q number of
!. G. Farben factories, for repara-
tons, a high American military
government source said.
The official, however, refused
to give out list of demands sub
mitted by the Russians, who. &C
cording to the Potsdam agree
ment, would get Is per cent of
the areas industries and capital
equipment not needed to main
tain German standard of liv-
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-01

evidence of talent in the finer
arts. The Manila symphony
could easily be placed beside our
own symphonies.
On VI Day, I was aboard ship
en- route to the United States. All
of us regretted that we were I'M
able to celebrate victory in the
jubilant manner those at home
were celebrating, but due to ship
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-01

ing" economy.
NATURALLY the Russians would
ask for the best plants the Off
cia4 declared. ANYBODY would.
But whether they get what they
ask for when the Preparations
commission makes ALLEGATIONS to
the various claimants is another
question:"
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-11-01

The United War Fund Drive
is now going on. Give generous
ly to this worthy cause. You will
be helping all men in service.
Evening star., 1945-10-21
PorIey
Continued From Page C-1.o

obtain vast concessions from this
country without having to resort to
such drastic action. Their amaz-
lngly efficient intelligence services
In America are keeping Moscow well
informed and doubtless have told
the Kremlin that our Government
has become very peace minded.
Lessons of the past do not apply
to the present. After Munich, Hit
Ter pushed his luck until he got into
a world war. He failed because he
did not realize the strength of the
U. S. S. r., the enormous capacity
OF America and the doggedness of
Britain. These elements no longer
exist. Britain is tired and breath.
less after six years of war. Western
Europe is so weak that a portion of
the Red Army could overrun it to-
day. The United States, the only
opponent which could be taken into
serious consideration, is tired of war
and anxious to get back to business
and constructive work.
Premier Stain and the new mill
tary caste which has been formed il
Russia feel that there is no need
for any compromises which do not
suit them. Russia also is tired. The
wounds inflicted on her by the war
are deep. But, unlike the Americans
and the British, the Russians are
not consulted when it comes to
saber rattling.
The Kremlin realizes, as well az
the State Department and the For
eign Office, that there can be. no Sc
curity in the world without ths
Soyiet's participation. The Russian
leaders are inclined to the aims Of
peace so long as they have it their
own way.
Evening star., 1945-10-21

By Apne Miller DoUnes. Zip
pincott; s2.50.J
Reviewed by
CHILD.

pincott;; s2.50)
Reviewed by
MARGARET CHILD.
Sixteen-year-old Sammy Crocker
came down from his beloved Ver-
mont forests and hills for the book
learning he so desired. The anbi-
ton to better himself made Sammy
unmindful of the jeers evoked by
the sight of his gangling frame Sit
ting with children much younger
than himself in the village school,
or of the gossip about his past.
Behind him in the quiet noun
tains Sammy left his father, gentle,
philosophic man broken by life with
a degenerate second wife. In place
of the sloven house he had known,
the frequent beatings and injustices,
Sammy found a new life with well
fixed" Aunt Seba. A Yale education
and marriage with the minister's
cosmopolite daughter, Dorothy. were
at the rainbow's end. But faithful
ness to Pap Crocker and to the
mountain girl, Lin, who refused any
goal in life but Sammy ("Every
night ask God to keep me good 4.
then bring you back to marry me")
Heightened the rainbow consider
ably.
In spite of the many setbacks he
suffered, most of them through his
own often misguided loyalties,
Sammy's story has an ideally happy
ending-the weak point of the book
In her determination to make the
mountain lad triumphant over all
adversities. the author contrives
series of situations that are patiently
just that. With this exception, her
book is simply written and tightly
knit. The passages depicting Ver-
mont mountain life in the 191O-1919
period and those dealing with for
estry show firm knowledge of SUBJ
ject. ,
The characters are we'll drawn.
The supergoodness of Sammy, his
excessive tolerance and fealty, if
handled less skillfully could have
produced an adverse impression.
Martyrdom raised to the extreme
power sometimes becomes pointles-
instead of noble. Stopping Just
short of this, Sammy emerges as an
extremely likable American youth,
determined to make not only a
worthwhile future for himself but
for those he loves. OF the lesser
figures in her story, Mrs. Downes'
other mountain folk are the best,
created with knowing pen.
Evening star., 1945-10-21
Most Secret

By Nepil Shute. (MorroU, ,
$780,
Here once more Nevil Shute
excels in showing us World War II
as a background for modest ro-
nance. I have nothing against it.
1t was for long, indeed. we'll
established tradition that war
novels should bring lovers together
no matrimonial agency has ever
approached the record set by our
own Civil War, for instance, in the
business of uniting the desirous
twains. But in recent years war
fiction took on grievously sober
tone and the tender side of battle
to the death began to be neglected.
You could almost say it went out
with the glorious cavalry charge for
the guns. I have long regretted
this, as I wade weekly through the
realistic version, so Mr. Shute's little
opera of love among the Mills
grenades always find me in well
coming mood.
In the present novel he does not
disappoint. To be sure, two of his
brave Britains are killed, but their
hearts have already been so bruised
by life that we know that they are
glad to go. Two others survive and,
with the help of the kindly COM
manding officer, as is the rule in
Mr.. Shute's gentle tales. they find
their loves at last.
The action which forms the back
ground for this happy business is
decidedly picturesque. Some enter
prising pioneers among Britain's
Evening star., 1945-10-21

more conventional fighters take
over a French fishing boat, arm it
with flamethrower. and slip out
into the Channel. There they en-
counter German craft which, un-
suspecting, allow them to approach
quite close. And then the flame
thrower does it's dire work. The
idea of using this dreadful weapon
in such way comes from the mind
of Breton priest who says that,
in the Middle Ages. the devil was
fought with fire. The Germans
being devils, why not apply the
logic?
There are some fine battle scenes
as this original notion is put into
effect and some excellent suspense
stuff when British agents go ashore
in France and move about under
the Gestapo's unpleasant nose. In
short, the book is very satisfac-
tory war novel. NC. r.
Evening star., 1945-10-21

the high minded profession of run
ming de luxe gambling he'll.
Charley's creator, Edward Harris
Heath, writes like an Ernest Hem
ingway choking on a copy of Para
disc Lost" but Charley himself is
something straight out of George
Barr McCutcheon. When read of
his many sterling qualities,
thought of the Francis x. Bushman
of the old silent movies and said to
myself in tender reminiscence,
That was the man."
Well, anyway, Charley is an ador-
ing husband, yearning father, a
true-blue friend, an intellectual
among intellectuals, a dreamer, a
great lover, a philanthropist, a
fighter who never says dies, a boon
to the humankind. He runs the
biggest joint in his city and there
amt no cheating. But against poor
Charley and his equally virtuous
friends, the madames, the prostitutes
and his fellow gamblers, there are
the mean. nasty forces of law-abid-
ing society, and they finally do him
in. Charley has to close up. 1t
just about breaks every honest heart
In town. And it makes poor Mr..
Heath simply break down and cry.
Evening star., 1945-10-21
1874 tons,

395 vehicles, weighing 1884 tons,
in World War /.
Materials and equipment assem-
bled for the Rhine crossings in
cluded 1900 boats and more than
100000 tons Of bridging supplies.
The Paris signal center operated
50 teletype and 13 radio circuits, ex-
changing about 1000 messages day
with the War Department in WASH
ington alone.
More than 125, 900 900 maps were
printed for use In the Normandy
invasion alone.
Engineer forestry companies, CO.
operating with French civilians, pro-
duced 10000, 600 board-feet of lum-
ber a month.
The complete ordnance catalogue
contained $4,000 separate items.
ranging from watch springs to 40
ton tanks. Every soldier in the in
vasion was backed by 1900 pounds
Of ordnance. This initial supply was
augmented at the rate of 35 pounds
per man per week.
Tribute From Eisenhower.
Within six months after D day
10 times as much ammunition had
been brought into France as had
been used by the American Army
In all of World War 1.
On August IA Gen. Patton said
that If he could get 80 trains of
ammunition and POL petroleum,
Oil, lubricants) in IA days he could
take Paris.
/ A railway operating battalion ar
rived at Mayenne on August IS.
Almost Immediately long trains
began rolling toward lie Mans.
Shippers peppered the cars. Shells
punctured locomotive boilers. Some
crews went five days without sleep,
/ But Gen. Patton got 36 trains in
five days.
DISTRIBUTED by the Associated Press,
Evening star., 1945-10-21

thing but modern. 1t Is in the
pure tradition of windy and senti-
mental id-Victorianism.
1t gives us little story about a
wicked old Bolivian land owner who
has lot of wives, tortures his poems
and abuses his fine, noble son-in
short regular Bolivian Terrible
Turk. The son puts up with it as
long as he can and then rebels. His
papa hunts him down as if he were
jaguar, driving him to the edge of
a cliff from which he perforce
jumps down. It is assumed that he
is dead and papa goes back pleased
to his wicked life. But a few years
pass and then the good son, who
had not died after all, returns lead
ing company of poems and papa
gets paid That is all
1t is bombastic, over-written and
completely uninteresting story.
NC. r.
Evening star., 1945-10-21
Brief Reviews
MYSTERIES

M . EfLlEI0.
Calamity at Harwood, by George
Bellairs. (Macmillan.) A mystery
which sports ghost. Lively.
The Crimson Feather, by Sara
Elizabeth Mason. Doubleday, Do
RAM Murder in setting of family
life in small Southern town. Pretty
good.
The Curse of the Bronze Lamp, by
Carter Dickson. (Morrow) One of
those things in which archeologists
open tombs and die of mysterious
causes. Pretty good.
FISHING.
Currents and Eddies, by William
Schaldach. (Barnes.) An informal
book, charmingly illustrated by the
author and treating of stream fish
ing with the fly rod.
PEACE. r..
The Anatomy of Peace, by Emery
Reeves. (Harpers.) A work designed
to show that war results from un-
regulated relations between sover-
eign states. Seems reasonable.
Evening star., 1945-10-21
The Lonely SteepIe
By Victor Woltson. fStmon &
Schuster, S2.50)
Reviewed by
RICHARD D. MONTGOMERY.

RICHARD D. MONTGOMERY.
The Lonely Steeple" is a first
novel by a playwright and is an
interesting piece of work. In its
form it moves slowly to a punch
like throwback scene and then
rapidly to a tremendous climax
which is tragic and filled with ter
ror. 1t is stark. realistic theater,
broadened to the scope of the novel.
Addie Etheridge Purdy tells the
story in her own words from an
asylum where she has been for 18
years. 1t is one of inbred horror
and self-pity centering on three
weak people, with its foundation on
a sordid experience of Addie as a
girl of IA. After her marriage to
Ed, Addie discovers that he only
married to escape his father and
that he is no help to her and she
none to him. An affair with Halsey
proves of no assistance to Addie' S
mental state.
Her love for Ed, turned to hatred,
becomes thing which lives within
and beside her at all times. 1t comes
between her and Halsey, it drives
her to physical excess, and when di-
vorced she will not marry Halsey
Her obsession is Ed, who returns
improved by the strong personality
of new wife and when a child is
born the movement of madness
mounts to Adde'S horrible revenge.
This is Greek tragedy implanted
once more in New England. AS told
in Adde'S words it is strange writ
ing and yet forceful, the madness in
her causing her to repeat phrases
until they become impressed on the
readers mind. It is not a pretty
story, but Mr.. Wolfson won't let you
forget Addie. She'll remain with
you for long time.
Evening star., 1945-10-21
New Books

The Manatee: Nancy, Bruf, October 90.
baiiad Of the Bones, Byron Herbert
tober 23 -
- Home Is one-way Street, william
.,, None So Blind, Mitchell Wilson. oc-
Judd Rankins DauThter. Susan Glaspell,
The short Stories Of Henry James. oc-
Heritare Of Fire. Friedelind WAGNER 4,
Page Cooper, October "a.
The yellow Room, Mary Roberts Rine-
tober 25
Reluctant Millionaire, Maysie ories. oc-
An Invitation 20 French. Margarita
Msdrisal & Pierre Launay, October s3.
Bright Star or Dark, Ruth Peabody
Hsrnden. October 22
= Arnhem Lift Louis Hagen, October rs.
Evening star., 1945-10-21

action on D day, two weeks before.
It tells that the German counter
offensives of December, 1914, resulted
in American losses Of 22,259 rifles
and other small arms, 7,0l2 mortars
and machine guns, 1872 pieces Of ar
tillery. both towed and self-pro-
PEELED; 1890 binoculars, compasses
and watches; 10,478 trucks and
trailers, and 1,349 tanks, armored
cars and half-tracks.
1t tells how one night in early
August. 1914, the stock Of reinforce
ment infantry riflemen on the con-
tinent got down to one solitary man.
Only the arrival next morning of a
shipload of riflemen saved what
might have become serious sit
uation.
Supply Service Carries On.
But it tells also a story of proud
accomplishment-of heavy tasks
generally prosaic and often mis-
erable"-
Members of the port battalions
men piling ammunition ir
dumps scattered through lonely for
ests +" men moving masses oi
supplies in and out of bleak ware
houses : men building camps ane
staging areas in muddy fields ,"
Men driving KUKWs, lighters
barges, rhinos men going with.
out sleep on all sorts of transports
ton runs.
Chemical mortar experts
wire men, switchboard operators
line builders, radio relayers
combat photographers pharma
cists.
Skilled physicians and surgeon
and nurses, tending the wound
/ eC. >"
/ By April 30, 1945, the strength o
SOS in Europe had grown to NOR
than 100000 men and women. Ye
what they accomplished makes thei
number seem comparatively small
l Nearly six times as much ma
terial per man was needed In Worl
War II as in World War I. Tn
supply tonnage of the First Worl
War was 8,346, ,342, of which ap
proximately half was shipped fror
the United States. The remainde
was procured locally.
Story Of Ingenuity.
OF this wars total of 47,641 80
tons, 1896 ,094 were shipped fror
: the United States and Centrs
America and 9,815,788 from Gree
, Britain. Only an estimated $500
600 tons were procured in Franc
, Unlike World War 1, there were n
ports to receive the first shipment
Railways, tunnels and canals wei
sabotaged. highways bombed.
. How SOS accomplished what
! did is the story of American ingenu
? ity, as demonstrated on the IA,
miles of highways over which role
, the Red Ball, White Ball, Gree
! Diamond, Lions and ABC motor ea
, presses, in reconstructed railroad
: redredged canals. in more than
900 miles of pipe which formed
petroleum network extending frol
. the Channel to Germany, from Mai
seille to Holland.
The book also tells such statistic
p as these:
. The storage tanks of the five pipe
lines held on a normal day as man
n barrels of oil products as wei
. required for the American Arm
5 during the entire period of Worl
War I.
n Military police handled 3,239 A
/ German prisoners up to We day
against 49,969 in World War l. E
f Deaths from disease in Wor
: War II were less than 1f30th tt
q number in World War I.
eI The American Army operated 71O
= $50 vehicles, weighing 3,964,92 tor
in World War II. It operated &c
Evening star., 1945-10-21
The Wind Is Risinq
By Jules ROMANS. Translated
from the French by Gerard
Hopkins. (Knopf: S3.)

By Jules Romans. Translated
from the French by Gerard
Hopkins. (Knopt;; S3J
This is Volume IL of Jules Ro-
mains everlasting Men of Good
Will" chain novel-Volume IL, divid-
ed into Books % and "a. 1t reads
just like any of the other volumes
as far as I am concerned. 1t, too,
is elaborately lifeless.
The title of Book % is THE Gath
ering of the Gangs" and the theme,
ferretted laboriously out from under
an avalanche of irrelevant matter
is that in the late '20s the disor-
ganization of European society had
progressed so far that young people
everywhere were forming gangs to
give themselves the sense of COM
panionship and security which the
OLD institutions had ceased to hold
for them. Specifically, it tells us
how a young French degenerate
undertook to form a gang which
had all the germs of Naziism in it.
While the youth are shown en-
barking on such ill-conceived ven-
lures we also see the politicians dis
cussing the unhappy temper of the
Evening star., 1945-10-21
Any Number Can Play
By EdlUard Harris Heath. (Har

By EdUard Harris Heath. (Har-
per'S; S2J
The central episode of this novel,
taken by itself, might have made a
good short story. 1t describes the
stand made by a professional gam
bier to fight the luck of two crap
shooters who are threatening to
break his bank. 1t is dramatic bit
of action which stirs the readers
excitement irresistibly. For the rest
of the book, however, there is very
little to be said.
1t is piece of sheer glorifcation
of the species gambler, the honest
law breaker, the pure hearted ban
dit, beloved by romancers since long
before Robin Hood. 1t tells of one
night in the life of a certain natures
nobleman named Charley King,
who has enjoyed a brief career in