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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1945-10-11

Capt. Clyde T. Jones, who is
spending some time here with
his parents, MIR. and Mrs. F. b.
Jones, was recently placed on
the inactive list by the army.
A fter spending AZ months
overseas and collecting a total
of 1O2 points, Captain Jones
has we'll earned the 12O days
accrued leave that he is now
receiving. He was a medical
officer with the 95th Coast Ar
tillery and saw action on Sal
pan and Two Jima. He wears
two stars on his Asiatic-Pacific
Theatre Ribbon.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-02-05

fore forming ballet Of his own and
travelling all over the world.
The japanese government invited
him to dance at the Imperial Thea
ire in Tokyo. BY royal command he
performed whole season there.
The government Of Greece invited
him to lead a ballet Of Delphic
Dancers in the 2,5o0-year-old thea
ire of Delphi.
In his own country he has at
tanned equal distinction. He led a
ballet of sixty dancers with the
Philadelphia Symphony conducted
by Leopold Stokowski. Again he
performed for $4,000 spectators In
the Lewisohn Stadium in New York
with a company of forty, accom-
panied by the New York Philhar
monte Orchestra. He has danced at
the Metropolitan Opera House with
the Chicago Opera Company, The
Philadelphia Grand Opera Com
pany.
He finds however his greatest de-
light in the unique junior programs
he originated seven years ago.
Why not he asks and answers
with the striking statement that no
fewer than 100000 school children of
the United States have annually at
tended his performances the past
seven years. At first the programs
which he brought to the young peo-
pie were based on fairy tales and
folk lore like, THE Princess and
the Swineherd,' "Pinocchio," "A
Mid Summer Nights Dream" But
a few years ago he turned from
these imaginative tales to historical
ones and has brought to life such
characters as Robin Hood and
Daniel Boone" This year he is
vivifying and making to live pic
torial Book of American History.
His ballet this year is being used as
a means of teaching American His
tory to our Children. The program
begins with the early Puritans and
the Indians of New England. Then
the manner of the life of the Tide
water Virginia people is shown. The
manners and customs Of the people
from the state that produced our
first president are quite different as
is their mode Of living from the
same early Puritans. Next comes
the long tramp to the middle west
and the settling Of our great south
west. So the story moves on past
our Civil War to the Gay nineties
and right down to the present day.
In StraWbridge's form of ballet q
narrator stands at one side of the
stage and speaks the lines for the
dancers and so clarifies and makes
easy to understand the progress of
the action.
Strawbridge has brought his pre-
sensations to vast audience S
throughout the country. The great
est audience Of children was one of
some 1000 children in an Alabama
town a few years ago. This audi
ence included many who had not
only never seen a show before but
were making their first trip to town
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-02-05
Ballet To Be
Given Tonight

It Is decidedly on the unusual
side when young man with a plain
American name like Edwin Straw
bridge can in acclaim, in his own
country and all over the world, for
that matter in the ballet.
There is not a Massine nor a
Nijinski in the whole family. He
comes from Pennsylvania Dutch
Stock His family lineage goes back
to Col Michael Smyser, who fought
in the Revolutionary under General
washington in the Pennsylvania
campaign.
Strawbridge brings his company
In "The Adventures Of Johnny APP
pleSeed" to the Roosevelt High
School on Monday, Feb. 5th. For
the past seven years he has devoted
himself to creating ballets for chill
dren which are fanciful and up
roariously funny. He was sup
posed to follow in the footsteps OF
his father who was lawyer, dis
trict attorney, mayor and judge. He
started out to study for the bar
and ended up in the ballet. He was
studying in Lafayette College when
his father died.
Soon after he decided to follow
his own taste and desires. He quit
college and enrolled in a dramatic
school in New York. He was study
ing to be an actor when a friend
asked him if he would like to join
the Russian Ballet. He practiced
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-02-05

five hours. Then auditioned for
Ballet Master Adolf Bolm who ae-
cepted him over more experienced
candidates. He didn't stick to dane
ing and returned to the stage to be-
come identified with such stars as
Edna May Oliver, Margaret Anglin
and Eva LeGallienne.
He was in the ballet Of number
of Broadway musical comedies be-
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-02-05

be brought up and all members are
urged to attend. Members who are
interested in taking up a Nurses Aid
course should be on hand.
After the business matters are
taken care Of, embroidered linen
will be ratified off to all in attend
ance, free of charge.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-02-05
Donna La France
Participates in
Community Project

One Michigan Michigan State
college student from Wyandotte Is
among 1872 members of the Home
Economics club who are participant
ing in a community service project
to alleviate the shortage Of help,
jeanette A. Lee, assistant to the
dean of home economics, has an
nounced.
One group of girls takes care Of
children, while another group assists
busy housewives in making plans for
family dinner and other small oc-
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-02-05
FRIENDLY AIDERS MEET

The Friendly Aiders Group of the
First Methodist Church will meet at
the home of Mrs. Charles F. Pike,
of 212 Biddle avenue. This is guest
day with President Mrs. Nellie
Mozena presiding.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-02-05
DAUGHTERS of ISABELLA MEET

The Daughters of Isabella I'm
maculate Heart Circle 279 will hold
It's regular monthly business meet
ing On Wednesday, February 7 at
500 ut st. Patricks hall.
Important business matters will
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-02-05

caSions. The campus helpers work
in pairs on catering projects.
Donna LaFrance, senior and
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Percy
LaFrance, 2087 TWenty-second, is
the Wyandotte girl participating.
The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-02-05
DAUGHTERS OF UNION
VETERANS MEET

The next meeting Of the Daugh-
tiers Of Union Veterans will be on
Thursday, February 8, at TOO In
the evening. 1t will be held in the
American Legion club house.
The department president, Mrs.
Iva Hildretch, Of Granville, Mich
igan, will be the guest speaker. At
ter the meeting, refreshments will be
served to all.
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Surrender Of Million
Japanese in China
Signed al Nanking
Gen. Ho Representative
Of Chang in Accepting
Okomuro's CopituIotion

NANKING, Sunday, Sept. g.
The formal surrender of around
100000 japanese troops in
China was signed here today at
9:04 am. (8:04 pm. Saturday
EWT).
Gen. Yasutsugu Okamura signed
for Japan. The surrender was ac-
cepted by Gen. Ho Ying-chin. dele
gated by Generalissimo Chang
Kai-shek. He arrived yesterday by
plane, completely ignored six Japa-
nese officers waiting at the field and
went to the Central Military
Academy, China's West Point
Troops to Remain at Stations.
The text of the surrender speci-
fled that the surrender to Chang
kai-shek embraces all ground, sea,
air and auxiliary forces within
China, excluding Manchuria, For
mosa and French Indo-China north
OF Is degrees north latitude"
The surrendering forces will
cease hositilities and will remain
at stations they now occupy.
They are now not combatant
troops and in due course will be de-
mobilized,' the document stated.
The Japanese agreed to turn over
to Chinese forces specified by the
generalissimo "all arms, ammuni-
ton, equipment, supplies, records
information and other assets of any
kind belonging to the japanese
forces.
All japanese aircraft, naval
units and merchant ships in the
area will be maintained without
damage.
"All Allied prisoners of war and
civilian internees now under jap
anese control in the areas named
above will be liberated at once and
japanese forces will provide protec-
ton, maintenance and transporta-
ton to places as directed Okamura
pledged.
All surrendering forces will be
subject to control of Chang Kali
Shek,
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Eight British Soldiers
Killed by Italians
BY the Associated rless.


MILAN. Sept 8.-Eight British
enlisted men have died at the hands
of armed Italian civilians as the
result of incidents in Milan during
the last week, official reports dis
closed today.
Six of the eight were killed during
alterations which arose between
Italians and British soldiers in bars
and restaurants. The other two
were slain by partisans who de-
clared the truck the Britons were
driving failed to halt on order and
was not recognized as an Allied
military vehicle.
1t was not revealed whether any
arrests were made.
Todayfs announcement came
shortly after proposed trip of Gen,
Mark w. Clark to Milan Monday
for the presentation of United
States decorations to Italian Pre-
mier Ferruccio Parri and to 60
partlsans was called off, at least
temporarily. Gen. Joseph T. Nc
Narney, theater command, asked
Gen. Clark not to make the sche-
duled visit for security reasons.
This is the first official reaction
to fears expressed here that a left
wing uprising might occur against
the monarchy, high cost of living,
alleged laxity in the prosecution
OF the war guilty and purported AL
lied support of the conservative
government.
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Parisians at Fair Get
Glimpse Of Peace Goods
By the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, Sept. 3-The first Paris
fair in six years opened today,
thronged with Parisians out for a
glimpse of what is to come in the
way of washing machines, radios,
electric stoves-and jitterbug music.
Missing were gadgets and purely
luxury innovations which marked
much Of the past 40 years of the
industrial exposition. This time
most of the displays were the ma
cninery with which France will
make the goods she needs to fill her
depleted homes and shops and with
which she hopes to bid again for
world trade.
Industrial equipment-Centrifugal
pumps, stamping machines, power
saws, diesel tractors with synthetic
rubber tires, industrial sewing and
weaving machines drills and presses
filled most of the space
They were all French made, and
were the first France has had for
nonwar industry virtually since the
German occupation began.
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Moscow Reports Greeks
.SheIIed Albanian Coust
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. 8-The Moscow
radio, quoting Albanian Telegraph
Agency and Belgrade radio reports.
said tonight that the Greeks shelled
and machine-gunned the Albanian
coast recently and made forays into
Albanian territory.
The broadcast listed these specific
incidents: On August 81 three Greek
motor cutters pulled up to the
Albanian coast and towed away an
Albanian barge loaded with timber.
On September Greek soldiers
crossed into Albanian territory in
daylight and that night a six-man
Greek patrol crossed the frontier
but retreated when Albanian troops
fired their weapons into the air.
The broadcast said that on the fol-
lowing day "the Greeks shalled the
Albanian coast twice"
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Stephonie Widow
OF MoyerIing
Victim, Succumbs
Truth of Hopsburg
Scandal Believed
Lost Forever
By the Associated Press.


LONDON, Sept. S.-The Brussels
radio reported tonight the death of
former Crown Princess Stephanie
OF Austria-Hungary Belgian
princess whose Hapsburg crown
prince husband died in circum-
stances that shocked the royalty of
all Europe in 1882
The broadcast said the 8l-year-
old daughter of King Leopold II
died in Hungary a few days ago.
Her death means that the true
circumstances surrounding the
death of her husband, the young
and dashing Crown Prince Rudolph,
and his beautiful mistress. the Bar
oness Marie Vetsera, may never be
known.
In 1885 the former crown princess
published her memoirs in which she
said that her husband and the
baroness, whose bullet-pierced bod
les were found in the royal hunting
lodge at Mayerling. died as the re-
suit of suicide pact.
She charged that her husband,
heir to the throne of Emperor Franz
Joseph, had associated with many
women, plotted political moves and
had threatened suicide.
He didn't want to die alone"
she wrote, land Vetsera loved him
so blindly she went with him"
After the memoirs were published
censors in Austria quickly placed
ban on their distribution Austrian
monarchists feared the story cast
reflection on the Hapsburg family,
(See PRINCESS page Ala
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Committee 10 Deal
With Rubber Problem
Is Created by Snyder
Bott Named Chuirmun
Of Inter-Aeeney Group;
Serious Surplus Feared

b. the Associated pcess.
A top Government committee
to deal with the problems of
rubber-including a likely "seri-
Gus surplus" of that material
was created yesterday by Recon-
version Director John w. Snyder.
William l.. Bait, War Production
Board vice chairman for interna-
tional supply, was appointed head
of the interagency group. He will
represent the Office of War Mobil-
ization and Reconversion.
Mr.. Snyder directed the commit
tee to survey natural, synthetic and
reclaimed rubber problems and
recommend a national policy to
stabilize prices and supply, encour-
age the development of synthetic,
and guard against the possibility
of another crucial wartime shortage.
In letter to the heads of seven
other agencies, each of whom will
name a representative on the COM
mittee. Mr.. Snyder said.
Now that hostilities have ceased
the normal sources of natural rub
Der will soon again be accessible and
it appears that after a few years
there may be serious surplus of
rubber.
The national defense needs of the
United States and the maintenance
of stabilized economies here and in
producing areas aboard require the
adoption of a co-ordinated United
States policy with regard to rubber.
1T is essential that such a policy
provide for an adequate supply of
rubber-both natural and synthetic
to satisfy the strategic require
ments of the United States; that 1t
provide, with a minimum of Inter-
ference to international trade, for
expanding supplies of natural and
synthetic rubber at reasonable and
stable prices, and that it encourage
research and development with re-
spect to synthetic rubber"
Besides Mr.. Snyder's office. the
following agencies will be repre-
sented on the committee:
State, Justice, War and Navy De-
partments, Surplus Property Beard,
Reconstruction Finance Corp. ana
Foreign Economic Administration.
Evening star., 1945-09-09

his request that Mrs. Wainwright
will meet him here rather than at
San Francisco.
Gen. Wainwright will come into a
city gay with flags for its first for
NAL post-victory celebration. His
picture will gaze back at him from
a thousand lamp posts. At the
Memorial Bridge he will get his
first glimpse of the welcome his
adopted" city has in store for him.
From fire ladders extended to form
an inverted v, huge banner read
ing Welcome Skinny" will be sus-
pended
He will hear the music of a score
of bands stationed along the line
OF march. Along the motorcade
route and at the Monument
Grounds-scene of the civic cele-
bration-he will look into the faces
of the people who have come to
tSee WELCOME, Page A-2)
Evening star., 1945-09-09
All but $50 Of 1919 Coptives
Died in Jap Ships and Camps
Group in Philippines
Twice Bombed by
U. S., Denied REFUGE
Ey the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
JINSEN, Korea, Sept. 8.-Less
than $50 survived of the 1919
American prisoners of war whom
the japanese loaded aboard a
ship in the Philippines Decem-
ber 13, 1914.
The Americans were packed in
the hold of the steamer Oryoku
Maru in Subic Bay on December IS
Is when American bombers, attack
ing shipping in the bay, sank the
prison vessel. Nearly 300 died
then.
Five thousand japanese aboard
the ship were rescued by other Nip
ponese, but the Americans we're left
in the holds. Many of the Amer
leans went mad from the horror.
The 1,341 Americans who finally
broke out of the ship and reached
shore were rounded up and kept
for five days in tennis court with
out food. Then they were given
two tablespoons of rice each-a daily
Evening star., 1945-09-09
vandenberg Indorse,
Personal Tax Cuts,
Lower Profit Levies
Senator Advocates New
Revenue Bill Declines
To Estimate Reduction
Ry The Z ssociated Press.

Fly the associated Press.
Senator Vandenberg, Repub-
lican, of Michigan threw fresh
power yesterday behind a drive
to cut Federal taxes.
The chairman of the Senate Re-
publican Conference and his party s
ranking member on the Finance
Committee, told reporters:
Il think there should be a new
tax bill.
Il think it should substantially
remove excess profit taxes.
L think it should bring a degree
of relief in personal taxes, not only
in the conf1scatory brackets at the
top, but also in the mass brackets
at the bottom where the revenue
is scarcely worth the effort to COL
lect."
Senator Vandenberg declined to
estimate the size of the cut, either
in billions of dollars or in the per-
centage of reduction for individual
taxpayers.
Chairman George of the Senate
Finance Committee, however, has
estimated the total cut at $5.0O0,-
100000, with individuals benefiting
by about $4,000 100000 which would
mean an average decrease of around
18 per cent if the individual reduc-
tions were made horizontally.
Il agree with those who say that
we have got to maintain relatively
high tax levels for some time to
come in order to sustain our ma
lSea TAYES -paua Ql
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Capital Ready With Welcome
For Gen. Wainwright Tomorrow
Correeidor Hero Due at Airport
With Son at 1870 for 4-Hour GREETING
Tomorrow will be Wainwright

Tomorrow will be Wainwright
day in the Nations Capital.
From Capitol Hill to the White
House. from the Pentagon to the
Monument Grounds all will be in
readiness to give Gen. Jonathan
M. Wainwright a welcome befitting
the man. who held an enemy army
at bay for four precious months of
war preparation.
Flying from San Francisco with
his son, Comdr. Jonathan M. VAIN
wright, V, of the Merchant Marine
and group of men liberated from
Jap prisons with him less than a
month ago, Gen. Wainwright vii.
land at the Washington National
Airport at 1890 pm.
There he will be met by his wife,
TO begin a packed four-hour schedule
of welcoming activities. 1t was at
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Snakes Handled
Over Cosket at
CuItist's Burial
Sweating, Pushing
Crowd Watches
Weird Rites
By the Associated Press.


CHATTANOOGA, Tenn, Sept.
8.-The faithful few of the Dolly
Pond Church of God, surrounded
by a pushing, sweating crowd of
the curious, buried Brother
Lewis Ford today as he had
wished-fondling and exhibiting
over his open casket the rattle
snake that killed him.
The Rev. Raymond Hayes, one
of the three shirt-sleeved ministers
OF the faith who led the demonstra-
ton, told the crowd that one of
the reptiles taken from screened
boxes sruck him on the ankle dur
ing the service but that the bite
meant nothing because of the pow
er of my belief"
An estimated $500 persons
thronged about the still unfinished
little church, struggling for a
glimpse of the rites which began
in the grove outside and were driven
inside by sudden shower.
Inside a roped-off area, ordered
(see SNAKES, Page A-7.l
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Coptives in Korea
Sewed u. S. FLAG
From Food 'Chutes

By the Associated Press.
JINSEN, Korea, Sept. 8.-The
first American flag to fly over
Korea was made by war pris-
oners at a camp here from
parachutes with which Super
Forts dropped their food pack
ages.
A medical corpsman said the
prisoners sewed the flag to-
gether after patiently cutting
the Stars and Stripes from
parachute silk.
Then, he added, the flag was
raised proudly over the camp.
Most of the prisoners, watching
the flag catch the breeze, wept
openly.
Evening star., 1945-09-09
Two Jap Intellectual!
Preparing Own LIST
Of War Criminals
Prince Konoye, Tojo
And Surrender Sieners
Named Among Accused
Es the Associated Press,


TOKYO, Sept. 7 Delayed -
Two japanese intellectuals who
said they have opposed the
schemes of the empires warlords
are preparing their own list of
war criminals, including on it
Hideki TOTO, Japan's Premier
when Pearl Harbor was attacked.
Prince Fuminaro Konoye, vice
premier of the present government,
Foreign Minister Marnoru Shigemit-
su and 1t. Gen. Yoshijiro Umezu,
vice chief of the imperial staff, who
with Shigemitsu signed Japan's sur
render document, also should be on
the list, the two close supporters of
Premier Prince Higashi-Kuni said.
'"The Allies should announce their
war criminals list soon so the Japa-
nese people can consider and per-
haps add some additional. names,'' -
one of the intellectuals said.
They said that among the Japa-
nese people TOTO and KIDD MAR
quis Koichi Kido, member of the
Imperial household and lord keeper
of the priY,seaD ranked as major
criminals along with leading mem
bers of the gendarmerie."
Another prominent name was that
OF Sotaro Ishiwata, Imperial house.
hold minister and former finance
minister in the TOTO cabinet.
Konoye, as premier when the jap
anese invaded China in 1887, con-
doned that aggression and thereby
promoted the imperialistic dream.
the sources said. He was again
premier when Japan was regimented
in preparation for the Pacific war.
In support of their charges against
other leaders, the two declared that :;
Shigemitsu worked behind the
scenes to help prevent peaceful
solution of the China war, thereby
contributing to Japan's clash with
the United States and Great Britain,
He was a "suave but puppet mouth
piece for the militarists" who
blocked diplomatic settlements.
Gen. Umezu was an influential
member of the Kwantung Army
clique and furthered this militaris-
tic groups aggression plans.
KIDD, long one of the eroup
around Emperor Hirohito, and Ish-
iWata screened the truth from re-
ports reaching the throne.