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The Omaha guide., 1945-09-29

Draft Tou(hy Issue
For Nation Po|iti(oes
Fear Strong Reaction Against Military
Service Even as Occupation Needs Point
Up Requirement for Large Army.
BY BAUKHAGE
NeDs Analyst and Commentator.

WNU Service, 1916 Eye Street NV,
Washington, ID. C.
One Of the administrators hottest
political potatoes is a matter that
nobody likes to talk a~bout-even the
opposition. 1t is military service. Not
universal military service next
month or next year but any old kind
Of military service today and tomor-
row, right up to election day, 1948.
The problem has many facets but
1t has one, awesome nub = the vet
eran vote. There are several danger
signals which the Democratic adj
ministration is watching with some
trepidation: the criticism over con-
tinuation of the draft which the
President has given his complete
and unqualified support; recurring
complaints of discontinued soldiers
and their families appearing in ra-
dio, congressional, national commit
tee and other Washington fan mail,
which add up to a resounding de-
mand for more and quicker dis
charges. and finally. a growing fear
that the feeling which used to be
called isolationism is cropping up in
a new form-"anti-militarism."
The administration doesn't dare
make any move to permit a drastic
reduction in the armed forces now.
Military experts think it will be the
middle of October before any such
move can be contemplated. By that
time they think the danger of any
serious outbreak in Japan will be
over. or there will be evidence that
one is coming.
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Shape Italian Treaty

While the British talked dollars
in Washington, D. c., the Big Five
council of foreign ministers con-
tinued discussions in London con-
corning the future political and ter
r~itorial makeup Of postwar Europe,
with the diplomatists occupied with
drawing up an Italian peace treaty.
Foremost of the problems associ-
ated with an Italian treaty was the
disposition of the country's North
African colonies, with the British
repeatedly frowning on the Ameri-
can proposition for permitting the
Italians to retain their territories
under a United Nations trusteeship.
As the eternal ~jockeying for
protective boundaries and rich
interests cropped up, the Brit
ish were said to favor Italian
retention of only western Libya
while taking for themselves
eastern Libya covering Egypt
and Italian Somaliland fronting
the gateway to the vital Red sea
leading to the Suez canal. At
the same time, the French re-
portedly sought a slice of north
western Libya from Italy to
strengthen their own Tunisian
holding.
But if the disposition Of Italian colo
MES posed a big problem, so did the
readjustment Of Italy's European
borders, with France out for a re-
adjustment of the Alpine boundary
and Yugoslavia hot for annexation
of the strategic Istrian peninsula
with its rich port of Trieste. AS the
meeting progressed, the Big Five
were said to have considered a com
promise under which Italy would re-
linquish the peninsula jutting into
the Adriatic sea but retain Trieste
itself.
With U. S. and British pressure
for free and open elections in Ro-
mania and Bulgaria already having
forced the communists hands in
those countries, Yugoslav and
Greek rightists next came to the fore
at the foreign ministers conference
to request Intervention in the
political affairs Of those Balkan
states to assure a fair and peaceful
democratic representation.
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RELIGION:
Courses CHALLENGED

Traditional American separation
of church from state was the issue
Mrs. Vashti McCullom Of Cham
paign, ILL.,, raised against the Cham
paign school board in her suit to
halt voluntary religious instruction
in the public schools in the COM
munity.
With both Mrs. McCuIlom and the
board prepared to appeal to the Su-
preme court in event of their loss
Of the decision, the suit promises to
affect similar instruction in 1856
communities in as states. North Da-
kota and New Hampshire are the
only states without such rel gious
courses.
In bringing her suit as the inter-
ested party, Mrs. McCullom stated
that as the only pupil in his class
not enrolled in the voluntary 80 min
ute per week instruction in the Prot
estant, Catholic and Jewish faiths,
her 1~0-year-old son Terry had suf-
fered acute embarrassment. AS a
result, she said, indirect pressure
had been brought to bear against the
youngster to take the course, regard
less of his inclination, on public
school property maintained by tax
payers funds.
In countering Mrs. McCullom's
charge, the school board pointed out
that the courses were outside Of the
school curricula and purely volun-
tary, with the representatives Of all
OF the principal religious denomina-
tons conducting and financing the
instruction.
Aside from the state constitution
and statutes involved, federal inter-
vention hinged on the first amend
ment to the U. S. Constitution, which
provides: Congress shall make no
law respecting an establishment Of
religion or prohibiting the free ex-
ercise thereof and section
l Of the 14th amendment to the Con-
stitution declaring mo state
shall make or enforce any law
which shall abridge the privileges
or 1mmunities of the citizens of the
United States; nor shall any state
deprive any person Of life, liberty,
or property without due process of
law, nor deny to any person within
its jurisdiction the equal protection
Of the laws"
Mother Of three boys and wife of
a University Of Illinois professor, 80
year-old Mrs. McCullom said that
while she realized the suit might
harm young Terry, her deep con
viction on separation Of church from
state inspired her action.
The Omaha guide., 1945-09-29
American Ship Losses Small in Pacific

A total of 200 .058 ship IONS of cargo
were lost at e by the army in
the war against Japan, with 81
vessels sunk and 2 vessels damaged
while en- route from the United
States to the Pacific theaters.
Army cargo shipped to these
areas in the A months of the war
totalled 43, $50, 900 ship tons. Those
supplies lost at sea, therefore,
represented only o.46 per cent Of the
The Omaha guide., 1945-09-29
AWait Jap Reaction
To

The full impact of the occupation
of Japan will not be felt until
American soldiers are deep in the
heart of the country. Before that,
the reaction of the Japanese people
and the influence of the military
leaders as opposed to the influence
of the emperor, cannot be gagged.
Suffice it to say that the surrender
terms as well as the surrender it.
self came as a shock to the Japa-
nese people.
Many Americans fail to realize
that a relatively small American
army landed in Japan in an area
in which there were no japanese
except those permitted to be there
by the authorities who arranged the
surrender. There was no contact
with the general population or the
military. Scattered over the rest Of
the country is a powerful Japanese
army, as yet fully armed, in defense
positions, strengthened when the
JapS completely reorganized their
home defense against invasion
after the capture of Okinawa. Dis
regarding the thousands of jap
anese sailors now on shore, the air
force, the supply troops and others,
it is known that on Hokkaido there
were two full divisions. GA Jap divi-
sion is between 49, 900 and 20, 600
men, On Honshu there we're "A
divisions and 7 brigades Ia brigade
is roughly half a division). On Kyu-
shu IA divisions and 7 brigades.
1t is estimated that we would have
500, 600 men in the islands by the
middle of September. That is
against a Japanese army (not count
ing the sailors, airmen and others)
of well over a million. That is why
there can be no sharp reduction in
American troops until we know
what, if anything, is cooking under
the cherry trees.
And then when that question is
answered we have the question of
occupation. 1t has been estimated
that to police Germany, Japan
and Korea and perhaps parts Of
China will take 1.20G, 900 men.
Where will they come from?
Where will 300, 900 come from for
that matter? Already a sharp re-
version against military service has
begun and if it follows the curve
after the last war recruitment on a
basis Of voluntary enlistment is
hopeless. At its low point the army
after World War 1 numbered $780,
600 e 1 well recall the story Of
n of my officer friends whose regi-
ment, stationed in the middle west,
dropped so low that men themselves
voted to spend their post exchange
funds for a recruiting campaign.
With a band and a company he
paraded the countryside for a week.
He got just three recruits and two
Of those were rejected as physically
unfit.
AS one officer remarked bitterly to
me: How are you going to get a
man to join the army for S21 a
month (the basic peacetime pay)
The Omaha guide., 1945-09-29

out most of the Pacific conflict be-
fore enemy reverses forced his re-
tirement, eX-Premier Hideki TOTO
led off the suicide wave by attempt
ing to take his life as American
troops arrived at his country resi-
dence outside Tokyo to arrest him.
Though TOTO misfred, former war
minister and. army chief Sugiyama
used better aim to kill himself, and
ex-welfare minister Koizumi also
succeeded in taking his life.
Having first protested full respon-
sibility for the war before trying to
shoot himself, TOTO shut up tighter
than a clam following an improve
ment in his condition under the
watchful eye of American medics.
Refusing to talk on his sick-bed,
the ashen 61-year-old former Japa-
nese kingpin declared that he would
not answer questions without docu-
mentary reference.
Meanwhile, capital circles re-
vealed that TOTO and other u.s.
pected japanese war criminals
would have their unhappy day in
court before a four-power military
tribunal similar to the one trying
Nazi overlords in Germany.
Representatives of the U. S., Brit
ain, Russia and China will comprise
the tribunal, which probably will sit
in Tokyo and, as in the case Of its
European counterpart, try foreign
government leaders on the unprece-
dented charges of conducting wars
of aggression.
In addition to trial on the novel
count of carrying on aggressive
warfare, Japanese will be tried for
such crimes as racial persecution,
torture Of helpless people, and muir
der of captured military personnel.
Though not questioning the goal
of bringing Nazi and japanese over
lords to justice, many eminent
American lawyers have opposed the
procedure for trial, declaring that it
establishes a precedent for kangaroo
courts which might be used against
Allied personages in the future.
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total amount shipped.
When losses in the Pacific are
added to the previously announced
537,656 ship tons of cargo lost on
outbound moves from the United
States to the European, Mediterra-
mean, Middle East, North and
South Atlantic and Latin American
areas, a total war loss Of outbound
army cargo at sea of 1877, TIA ship
tons is obtained.
The Omaha guide., 1945-09-29
BARBS.. . by Baukhage

Business Week magazine saws it is
rumored that Kaiser is going to turn
out prefabricated moving picture
theaters at $4,000 complete. Holly.
wooden frames?
According to YANK, the army
magazine, Jap chow is worse than
that served in American outfits
where the cooks are recruited from
the motor pool.
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Favorable Outlook

Secretary Anderson in a recent
address before the New York Cot
ION Exchange pointed out, however,
some favorable factors in behalf of
the postwar future Of cotton. He
pointed out that during the war thou
sands of cotton farmers had started
soil conservation practices and di-
versiied farming; there are con-
stantly being discovered new uses
for cotton; the department has just
announced discovery Of a new cot
ton fabric which will not mildew nor
rot which will be used extensively in
yards, threads, p~ackaging and bag
ging; demand for cotton in other
countries will be at a new peak, al
though world carryover is at an all
time high; in the U. S.. despite a
cancellation of 80 per cent Of war
orders for cotton products, slack
will be taken up by the tremendous
backlog of civilian demands.
American cotton will face not
only large stocks on hand it will
face as well the need for better farm
practices if it is to hold its place
In the world market" Secretary An
derson warned. He said, however,
that he is depending on cooperation
and American 'fknow-how'' and an
increased export market to bring
cotton marching home from war"
In this connection it will be inter
esting for cotton farmers to note
that the Commodity Credit corpora
ton has been placed under the new
Production and Marketing admins
tration in the new U. S. D. A. set-up.
The Omaha guide., 1945-09-29
DOT:
Urges Careful Use

Housewives who find use for DOT,
the powerful new insecticide known
to chemists as dichlorodiphenyl-
trichlorethane, are cautioned against
placing the poisonous powder where
it might be mixed with kitchen sup
plies, by DR.. Morris Fishbein of
the American Medical association.
In large doses DOT is poisonous
to human beings and to a good
many animals" DR.. Fishbein said.
When DOT is properly used, these
poisonous effects are controlled"
The Omaha guide., 1945-09-29

The Mexican government has
turned its German prisoners free
and invited them to become citizens
If they wish, with a thousand peso
stake in a plot of land if they want
it. roct
And now they pick cranberries by
machine. But it still takes a deft
human hand to roast the turkey to
60 with them.
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began to tighten
around them, the
Nipponese govern
ment of Premier
Higashi : Kuni as
sumed the RESPONSE
bility for rounding
up suspected war
criminals in an eff
fort to head off a
a suicide wave.
] a p a S N l
xryor How'd fI-4,,-L
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when Uncle Sam will pay him SIS
a week for not working at all?" (He
referred to the unemployment COM
pensation called for in pending legis-
lation.)
That's the position the administra-
ton is in when the cry to end the
draft arises.
The Omaha guide., 1945-09-29
JAPAN:
Round Up Var Lords

With high Japanese war leaders
taking their own lives as the Ameri-
nnn nat nrad11n1lu
The Omaha guide., 1945-09-29
Tough Competition

While the department of agricul-
ture is not pessimistic over the fu-
ture of cotton in the immediate post
war years, it is obvious, they point
out, that great care will be neces-
sary for cotton to hold. its own in an
increasingly competitive field.
In the first place cotton produc-
ton in this country has decreased,
whereas foreign production has in
creased. In 1920 for instance, we
produced IL million of the Fl mil
lion bales of cotton produced in the
world. In 1910, the last yea for
world statistics, we produced only
IL out of 20 million bales, and our
production in 1943 dropped to IL mill
lion bales. In spite of this drop in
production other competitive COM
mOdities have scared in common
usage replacing cotton. Ray0n, n.y.
lon, spun glass and other newer de-
velOpments of textiles are boring
into the cotton market. u. S. rayon
production 10 years ago amounted to
only 10 million pounds, whereas last
year rayon had grown to 724 million
pounds or the equivalent Of LOO, 900
bales of cotton. Paper products en-
tering the market formerly held by
cotton towels, tissues, napkins,
window shades, plastic and Irvine,
in 1929 was equivalent on a pound
for-pound basis of a million bales
of raw cotton.
The Commodity Credit corpora
ton in the department of agricul-
ture is the godfather of the cotton
crop and the haven Of cotton crop
farmers. 1t is the Commodity Credit
corporation which supports the mar
ket price for cotton, by buying up
surpluses, and providing substitutes
for cotton exports. Through August
18, 1945, the CCC had purchased on
its Cotton Purchase Program (sup-
port price program) 2,465, 087 bales
of cotton of the 1914 crop at an aver
age price of about 22.31 cents a
pound, involving approximately
$3.50, 600, 900. In addition it had pro-
vided a 4-cent per hundred pound
subsidy for its export program in
volving 592, 176 bales of the 1914
crop.
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WHAT is going to happen tc
~ King Cotton, mainstay of more
farmers than any other crop? And
more farmers are affected by what
happens to cotton than by what hap
pens to any other crop. Up to one.
third of all farm residents in the
country live on cotton farms and
they're the lowest income group in
agriculture.
Not only these cotton farmers, but
every farmer, every resident of the
thousands of home towns from the
East to the West coast and from top
10 bottom of the country, is interest
ed l n cotton for cotton in peace
time accounts for four-fifths of our
total textile yardage.
According to recent statistics re-
leased by Secretary Clinton p. An
derson of the department Of agri-
culture, the gross average farm in
come of cotton farmers in the 10
years ending in 1912 was only $685.
a year, as against more than So, 900
In other parts of the nation.
Why, then, with cotton an all-im-
portant crop and selling at prices
well above parity should income of
these cotton farmers, a third Of all
farmers, be SO much lower than the
average of other farmers? The an
swer is found in the agricultural
practices of the South for the past
hundred years, and includes ID a
one-crop system of farming, 90 lack
OF conservation practices which has
driven the center of the cotton king
dom from the southeastern states
across the Mississippi to the South
west and 80 cotton SURPRISES which
have in the past demoralized the
market.
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zAee4oAse
7ou4ts
Rp@zea
hin WASHINGTON
BY Wolfer Sheod
I WNU Correspondent
Future of Cotton

WNU Washington Bureau
1916 Eye ST., N. w
The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1939-1949, 1945-02-01
SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION
No. 1920

In the Superior Court Of the
State Of Washington in and for
Benton County.
Alice Gibbins, Plaintiff, VS..
Bruce r. Gibbins, Defendant.
State of Washington.
To the said Bruce r. Gibbins.
defendant:
You are hereby summoned to
appear within sixty days after the
date of the first publication Of
this summons, to-wit, within sixty
days after the 18th Of December,
1914, and defend the above en-
titled action in the above en-
titled court, and answer the Com
plant Of the Plaintiff, Alice Glib
bins, and serve a copy of your
answer upon the undersigned at
torney for plaintiff at his office
below stated; and in case Of your
failure to so do, judgment will
be rendered against you accord
ing TO the demand Of the Com
plant which has been filed with
the clerk Of the above entitled
court. The object Of this action
is TO obtain a divorce from the
Defendant upon the grounds of
desertion and cruel treatment.
Kenneth Z. Serier, attorney for
Plaintiff. Office and p. o. Ad-
dress: Kennewick, Benton County,
Washington. l2:28-2:l
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SUMMONS FOR PUBLICATION

In the Superior Court OF the
State of Washington in and for
Benton County.
Raymond c. Moore, plaintiff,
VS.. Floyce Clark, Moore, defend
ant.
State of Washington to:
Floyce Clark Moore
You are hereby summoned TO
appear within sixty days after the
date of the first publication OF
this Summons, to-wit: Within six
ty days from the 18th day OF
December, 1914, and defend the
above-entitled action in the Su-
perior Court of the State Of Wash
ington, aforesaid, and answer the
complaint of the plaintiff and
serve a copy of your answer on
the undersigned attorneys for
plaintiff at their office below
stated, and in case of your fail
ure so to do, judgment will be
rendered against you according to
the demand of the complaint,
which has been filed with the
Clerk of the said Court. The OBJ
iect of this action is TO obtain
a decree of Divorce in favor Of
the plaintiff and against the de-
PENDANT on the ground of cruel
treatment of the plaintiff by the
defendant rendering life burden
some.
Ivan Merrick, Horrigan & Hor-
rigan, attorneys for plaintiff. p.
0. ADDRESS: Pasco, Franklin Coun-
ty, Washington. 12:28-2-1
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SUMMONS
Cause Number

In the Superior Court of the
State of Washington, in and for
the County Of Benton.
Lawrence Fugelberg, plaintiff,
VS..
Nettie Fugelberg, defendant.
The State of Washington to the
said Nettie Fugelberg, defendant:
You are hereby summoned to
appear within sixty (6O days after
the date Of the first publication Of
this summons, to-wit: within sixty
900 days after the 18th day Of jan
uary, l945, and defend the above
entitled action in the above en-
titled court, and answer the COM
plant of the plaintiff, Lawrence
Fugelberg, and serve a copy Of
your answer upon the undersigned
attorney for plaintiff at his office
below stated; and in case Of your
failure SO to do judgment will be
rendered against you according
to the demand Of the complaint,
which has been filed with the
clerk of the above entitled court
This action is brought to obtain a
decree Of absolute divorce from
you upon the ground of desertion,
as set forth in the complaint.
d. w. Gent, Attorney for Plain
tiff, office and post office address,
Pasco, Franklin county, Washing
ton, 1:11-2:15
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The principal claim Of the plain
tiff herein is for judgment in the
sum Of $77.00, besides interest,
costs and an attorney fee of $500,
and is based upon a promissory
note made by you which is past
due and unpaid.
Complaint filed herein Novem-
Der Is, 1914.
c. F. WINKENWERDER,
Justice of the Peace, in and
for Kennewick Precinct,
Benton County, Washing
ton.
l:25-2:l5.
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NOTICE OF REAL AND
PERSONAL ASSESSMENTS

Notice is hereby given that the
tax rolls, Real and Personal for
the year 1915, levied in 1914, have
been delivered into my hands for
the collection of taxes thereon,
on and after the 18th day OF
February.
Dated at Prosser, Washington,
this 22nd day of January, 1945.
c. w. NESSLEY,
Benton County Treasurer.
1-o5.1-3
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NOTICE BY PUBLICATION

IN THE JUSTICE COURT, KEN
NEWICK PRECINCT, BENTON
COUNTY, WASH.
BEFORE c. T. WINKENWERD-
Err, JUSTICE OF THE PEACE
RICHLAND BRANCH,
SEATTLE FIRST NATIONAL
BANK, a National Banking As
sociation, Plaintiff,
c. v. HARLOWE, Defendant.
E. i. du Point deNemoirs g.
Company, Garnishee Defendant.
STATE OF WASHINGTON)
COUNTY OF BENTON. ) -
TO c. v. HARLOWE, Defend
ant: ..-..
IN THE NAME OF THE STATE
OF WASHINGTON, you are here
by notified that the plaintiff,
Richland. Branch, Seattle-First
National Bank, a National Bank
ing Association, has filed COM
plant against you in this court,
which will come on to be heard at
my office at Kennewick, Benton
County, State of Washington, on
the oath day of February, 1945;
at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M,
and unless you appear and then
and there answer the same will be
taken as confessed and the prayer
of the plaintiff granted.
The object of this action is to
obtain judgment against your in
terest in an Indebtedness admit
tedly due you from the garnishee
defendant in the sum OF $96.54.
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FOR SALE By owner: New five
room home with extra lot in
Morain Addition to Kennewick;
full basement, furnace, electric hot
water heater, laundry tubs, imme-
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payment; balance at $34.85 per
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excellent condition; household
goods: table, chairs, buffet, 9-tube
cabinet radio, dresser, Remington
electric razor used once. See Earl
Arndt after 6 pm. on Sunday,
Foote Trailer Camp, 231 North
Washington st. Asp
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mace, electric hot water heater,
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could have two bed rooms; house
has never been occupied; immedi-
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payment, balance at $32.11 per
month, see julius M. BAIL, Is Adj
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