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Evening star., 1947-04-14
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Evening star., 1947-04-14
Boys to Go Exploring

Hundreds Of British boys, l6 to
10, plan to explore Newfoundland
this summer. with the Public Schools
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-08-14
LEAF PRICES ARE
DOWN IN BORDER BELT

Opening-day prices for sale of
flue tobacco on the South
Carolina and North Carolina Bor-
der Belt yesterday ranged from
Is cents to $40 Der hundred below
last years all-time record first
day sales of $52.48.
MAJORITY of losses for the 1947
opening were from 81 to 81, the
Federal-State Department of Ag-
riculture said. The slight drops
were attributed to inroads of blue
mold and unusually cool Summer
weather.
Biggest declines were for the
better quality Of the tobacco,
with choice orange Tugs and
good orange primings dropping
SO and $11, respectively.
Extreme prices ranged from
81 for the poorest thin monde
script, which was carried with
out Commodity Credit Corpora
ton support prices, to $62 for
good lemon cutters. The range
on 1916 opening-day sales was
from So for nondescript to ST. for
lemon cutters.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-08-14

Come of my so-called pals accuse
- me of getting a lot of corn" in
this column. So Iii give them some
OF the real Mccoy this time.
Weather around the countryside
in spring and early summer was a bit
tough on the corn crop. Much Of the
corn got in late. If this is true on
your own farm and you're worried
whether it's going to make there
a good reason to stop worrying.
The answer is, of course, to
make it into sila9e. Do that and
you'll get back in milk dollars
what you may figure to lose if
the corn does not mature.
This is good time to be thinking
about the question, anyway, and
getting ready by building some sort
of temporary silO, if you need ore
to hold the extra silage. Welded wire
fence and special paper do fine job
of holding extra silage. So do trench
silOs. slat fence sIlos or any one of
several other types.
You can get some help from your
dairy plant heIdman or county agent
if you need aid in getting Supplies, or
suggestions on the type Of sllO to use.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-08-14
ARMY OFFICERS TO
BE RAISED ON MERITS

Washington-All army officers
will have to prove their right to
be promoted, rather than rely on
seniority to advance them, under
a new law signed by President
Truman.
The promotion-by-merit law
also covers admirals. The system
already was in effect for other
grades in the navy.
The law is intended to weed out
the less fit and replace them with
the better qualified.
The legislation, in the words of
the House Armed Services Com
mittee, will offer careers salts
factory enough to attract capable
men, promising enough to hold
in service the capable men al
ready in uniform"
1t provides for promotion of
army officers based upon the rec
concentrations of boards of Of
ficers passing on their qualifica-
tions.
Officers in the grades of first
lieutenant, captain. major and
lieutenant colonel heretofore have
been promoted automatically aft
er specified length of service, and
finally to the rank of colonel as
vacancies occurred.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-08-14
ODOM COMPLETES A
WORLD RECORD FLIGHT

Chicago-Endurance Filler Will
liam P. Odom, who almost crack
ed up in a battle against sleep
over the Canadian Rockies, tri-
umphantly landed the Reynolds
Bombshell here Saturday for a
new round the-world solo flight
record of 70 hours 5 minutes and
II seconds.
The three-day flight, which full
filled the 27-year-old pilots boy
hood dream to circle the globe
faster than anyone in history,
nearly ended in disaster early
yesterday when he dozed off for
an hour and 40 minutes on a hop
from Anchorage, Alaska, to Far
60, North Dakota.
He woke up to find his plane
losing altitude and hurtling past
a mountain whose peak rose a
bove him.
Il woke up with a jar" Odom
said, Fright off my right wing l
saw a huge white mass. I knew 1t
wasn't a cloud. I pulled the con-
troll wheel right straight into my
belly and shot up. I cleared the
mountain by only a few hundred
feet"
While he was asleep his plane
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-08-14

Soil Conservation Service techni-
clans assigned to the district have
assisted 1888 farmers to plan and
begin q n ,ying complete farm soil
and water conservation programs
on 99,024 acres.
Serving with Mr.. Eller on the
board of supervisors are: j. W..
Gambill, J. c. Little of Ashe and
Alton Thompson, Dillon Edwards
Of Allegheny county.
Farmers in the Southeast took
the lead in the district movement
from the beginning" said District
Chairman Eller.
Today, according to reports by
Dr.. 7. S. Buie, Southeastern re
giOnal cOnserVatOr of the Soil
Conservation Service, 3l7 soil
conservation districts cover more
than 206 million Southeastern
acres. These districts contain
more than 80 percent Of the farms
in the nine southeastern states of
Alabama. Florida. Georgia, Ken
lucky, Mississippi. North Caro-
lima. South Carolina. Tennessee,
and Virginia.
In the 10 years since the Brown
Creek Soil Conservation District
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-08-14
LONG HEAT WAVE is
BROKEN: MANY DEAD

Washington The MidWest's
longest and most severe heat was
virtually broken Thursday as
deaths attributed to the heat and
humidity rose to 1873 across the
country.
Cool, dry air from Canada
provided the relief, however, and
the sun-baked Corn Belt still
was in need of general soaking
rains.
The cool air spread from the
Great Plains states to Central
Illinois and Northern Indiana
Thursday and forecasters said it
still was moving southwark and
eastward.
After four successive days Of
100-degree heat, temperatures
were in the mid-eighties in most
Midwest states Thursday.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-08-14
Soft Corn Makes Good Silage

Before very long, many COWS will
be going dry. And that's an impor-
tant time-a time when they need
special feeding and attention. The
care they get during their dry time
and at calving may mean the diff
ference between ordinary production
and good milk production later on.
Extension dairymen are agreed
that the dry COW should get from
two to eight pounds of C-ain daily,
III addition to high grade pasture,
tip quality hay or silage. The ques-
ton of how much grain exactly de-
ponds on the breed and condition
q the COW.
Isu96est you Set in touch with
your county agent or dairy plant
fCldman on the subject. They'll
have some literature and can
give you valuable suggestions on
feeding.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-08-14
Much Progress Shown In Ten
Years OF Soil Conservation

Farmer-supervisors of the New
River Soil Conservation District
this week joined the supervisors
of 1900 other districts through
out the Nation in observing two
major events in soil and water
conservation history.
First is the 10th anniversary
of soil conservation districts; sec
ord is the reaching of the billion
th-acre mark in soil conservation
district organization.
The Nations first soil con-
servation district was created by
landowners in North Carolina
August 4, 1887" said Chairman
Wade Eller of the local district.
That district is the Brown Creek
Soil Conservation District which
includes the farm where DR..
Hugh H. Bennett, now chief Of
the Soil Conservation Service,
was born and reared"
Chairman EIler said that the
soil conservation district move
ment made much faster progress
than the pioneers il soil and wat
er conservation first thought pos
sihle.
We had no idea. when the
first districts were being orgaui-
zed by farmers. that in ten years
We would have districts covering
. billion ceres" he said. Il be
lleVe that here is proof that land
owners, when given an opportun-
i1y. will take the leadership in
solving their own soil and water
conservation problems. Each dis
trict is organized by farmers and
controlled by them under author
ity Of state law"
Farmers in 1911 voted to or
ganiZe the New River Soil Con-
serVatiOn District. Since that time,
sWerved off its course and al
most flew in a circle
Odom set the Bombshell down
at Chicago Municipal Airport be
fore q cheering crowd Of 10000.
But before landing he flashed
across Douglas Airport here -
where ne started II 12:53:29 p.
m. (e.S.tN last Thursday-for
timing purposes.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-08-14
ADMINISTRATORS NOTICE

Having qualified as Admins
traitor of the estate of Mrs. Han
nah Littlewood, deceased, late
of Ashe County, North Carolina,
this is to notify all persons haV-
ing claims against the estate OF
said deceased to exhibit them to
the undersigned at Sturgillss
North Carolina, on or before the
9TH day of August, 1913, or this
notice will be pleaded in bar OF
their recovery. All persons in
debted to said estate Will please
make immediate payment.
This the Both day of July, l947.
JOHN LTTTLEWOOD
Administrator of Mrs. Ham
nah Litt1ewood, deceased.
S-T-6tc
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-08-14

Vou can do yourself andyourcow
l. abig favor bygettlng towork now
on pasture renovation or seeding for
fall Or winter grazing. The work you
do on run down native pastures in
the next few weeks VIII boost your
milk income next year. A few acres
Of small grain seeded at this time
will pay off before winter sets in.
Dollars spent this way bring back
many more dollars in increased milk
volume.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-08-14
SERVICES ARE
ANNOUNCED FOR SUM-

Rev. William C. Crummett pas
tor of the Laurel Springs Meth
odist charge has announced the
following services for Sunday,
Chestnut Hill at II o'clock and
Nathan's Creek at. 800 p. m.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
.Curran Confirmation
Blocked by LANCER

Senator LANCER, Republican, OF
North Dakota today blocked con-
lflrmation by the Senate of the ap-
pointment of Edward M. Curran to
be an associate justice of the United
States District Court here.
The nomination.. favorably re-
ported by the Senate judiciary
Committee, was reached on the
executive calendar of the Senate
but the North Dakotan shouted an
objection. Action, therefore, was
deferred.
Senator LANCER told reporters he
had objected because, shortly before
the Senate met a brief protesting
confirmation had been filed with his
office. He said he had not yet read
the brief and did not know the name
of the person who had filed 1t. He
said, however, it was from a Wash
ington attorney.
| Several attorneys had filed pro-
tests against the Curran nomina-
ton when 1t was referred to the
Judiciary Committee. One OF these
was a defendant in the mass sedi-
ton trial.
A subcommittee of the Judiciary
group, however, unanimously rec
commended confirmation The full
committee gave its Endorsement and
Senate approval had been expected
at today's session.
The nomination will stay on the
Senate calendar and likely will be
brought up again Friday.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Cufeterius
Continued From First Page.)

workers but it subsequently had been
removed from the cafeterias.
He said the dungarees were pur-
chased for male kitchen help but
the war prevented them from hiring
such help, slowing up the use of the
overalls. He predicted all would be
used eventually.
Beef Was Served in Cafeterias.
The 10000 pounds of prize beef
was served in Government cafeterias
a la carte. He said the rice was
assumed to be safe, since it had been
stored in a public warehouse, and
that a settlement for go per cent
of the rice's value had been accepted
by Government Services from the
warehouse.
Another item that Mr.. Matchett
said was unexplained was the pur-
chase of materials from Federal
penitentiaries by Government Serv-
ices although the law provides such
sales should be made only to Gov
ernment agencies. Capt. Hoover
said he thought it was up to the
Federal penitentiaries to know tc
whom they were entitled to sell
materials.
Capt Hoover said Government
Services had bought whisky to sup
ply cocktails to officers at the service
center at Union Station. They
operated bar serving beer only
for enlisted men, he said. The
whisky also is used to entertain
guests of the corporation, he stated
Senator Flanders asked Capt
Hoover to open today's hearings
by briefly giving a history OF
Government Services. Capt. Hoover
said the organization was started
when he made loan for it in 1921
1t was incorporated in 1926 anc
two years later had $3.50 in cash ir
the bank. In 1943 cash in the banl
amounted to $1,428, ,9S0.60. He sale
the gross receipts for 1943 were
S18,990,841, of which the Govern.
ment got 1924 900.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Jones Agrees 10 Testify
In Senate Probe Of RFC

Jesse Jones, former RFC chair
man and Secretary of Commerce,
today agreed to testify in the Sen
ate War Investigating Committees
forthcoming probe of the RFC.
Chairman Brewster, disclosed this
after long distance telephone con-
ference with the Houston banker.
Senator Brewster Stated he ex-
pected Mr.. Jones to be the COM
mittee's "star witness
/. Originally appointed to the RFC
by former President Herbert Hoover,
Mr.. Jones dominated the powerful
agency for more than dozen years.
His willingness to assist the Senate
Committee is understood to be due
to a desire to defend" his admini-
stration of the agency, in contrast
to its management after he was
ousted from the Roosevelt admini-
stration.
Senator Brewster announced the
plan to probe RFC affairs following
his successful Senate battle to con-
tinue the Special Investigating
Committee. The Senator said a
number of formerly prominent off,
cials of war agencies had signified
their willingness to "sing" before
his committee about alleged scan
dals.
(Released by North American Newspaper
Alliance, Incl
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Soviet
Continued From First Page.

he announced that production would
be increased 200 or 800 per cent.
Since this appeared to not be in
conformity with the four power
plan for the level of German in
dustry, the United States requested
an explanation in the Allied Co.
ordinating Committee. The Rus
sian representative replied that the
increases would be only in peaceful
consumer goods and hence did not
affect the level Of industry.
The Russian-controlled Berliner
zeitung. however. published figures
showing increases above the level of
industry set by the Allied Control
Councils plan in heavy machinery,
tool machines and precision instru-
ments, the very industries the Allied
Control Council tried to control in
its level of industry plan.
Bid to Offset Merger.
The Russian move was regarded
among western officials as a Soviet
bid to Offset the economic merger of
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Crash
CONTINUED From First Page,

kow The wreckage was found 80
minutes flying time from the field
Airline officials aboard a search
plane reported the transport was
badly burned. One wing was seen a
half mile from the wreckage.
The crash area Is the same gen.
eral sector being searched for the
Chinese National Aviation Corp,
transport with 10 aboard, including
the American pilot, Jack M. Black
more of West Los Angeles, Calf :,
which disappeared Saturday about
Is miles from Chungking on flight
from Hong Kong via Canton.
Air Tragedy Averted.
Another possible air tragedy was
averted today when two-engined
transport carrying Maj. Gen. Claire
l.. Chennault. one-time United
States 14th Air Force commander
who now heads a China based air.
line, iced up over the Fukien Noun
tains on a flight to Canton, but
returned to a safe landing here.
The plane, piloted by Frank L.
Hughes of Phoenix. N. Mex, an6
with Douglas H. Smithy of Browns
vile, Tex, as co-pilot, was carrying
II other passengers, mainly per-
sonnel of Gen. Chennault's CNRRA
air TRANSPORT line.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Palestine
Continued From First Page. }

a tall blond Jew named Shapiro, who
was identified by witnesses from
photographs as the leader of the kid
nap bands which seized both Britons
An informant said the kidnar
leader was identified from pictures
by both Mrs Ferguson and an at
tache of Judge Windham's court.
The threat of military control still
hung over the Jewish cities of Petat
Tikhvah, Ramat Gan and Tel Aviy
If Mr.. Collins was not returned. Re-
liable informants said the officia
British deadline for invocation ol
statutory martial law was pm. to-
day
Consent to Appeal Reported.
Meanwhile, reports gained cur.
rency in Jerusalem that Dow Bels
Gruner, SO, condemned Irgun mem
ber whose death sentence aroused the
underground, had reversed an ear.
| lier decision and consented to au.
thorize his attorney to apply fol
permission to appeal to Britain.
Privy Council.
| Gruner was sentenced to die fol
participating in an attack on 8
police station He was wounded
and captured during the raid.
| Police and military serached Petal
Tikvah again. but did not screer
the residents of the all-Jewish COM
munity. 1t was reported officially
that 60 residents of the port city
of Haifa were arrested last night
for violation TO the dusk-to-dawI
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Polish Manifesto Promises
Free Speech and Press

WARSAW, Jan. 20 (P.-The gov
ernment bloc parties controlling Po-
lands first postwar Parliament is
sued a manifesto today promising
the Polish people freedom of speech,
freedom of the press and the right
of public assembly.
All three privileges were cardinal
issues in the recent national elec-
ton campaign, during which Vice
Premier StanislaW Mikolaj jczyk' S
Polish Peasant Party bitterly ac-
cused the governement OF using re-
pressive and terroristic measures to
influence the voters.
| The first task of the new Parlia-
ment will be to elect a president
who will appoint cabinet. The Par
lament will then proceed to draft a
constitution to replace that of 1921
'The new constitution, the gov
ernment bloc manifesto said, will
guarantee freedom of speech anG
the press, public assembly and equa
rights of all citizens. It will guaran-
tee liberty of conscience and relig-
ious tenets, particularly the rights
of the Catholic Church.
1.-The constitution also will create
wide possibilities for the develop.
ment of co-operatives and will safe.
guard private property as the basi!
of sound, private initiative"
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Cabinet Reported Set
On Plan for Partition

LONDON, Jan. 20 tP.-A govern.
ment source said today the British
cabinet had decided the partition oi
Palestine into independent Arab and
Jewish states would be necessary to
settle. the troublesome Holy Land
question.
This informant emphasized, how
ever. that the cabinet had not
decided whether Britain should i'm
pose partition on the country OF
refer the Palestine problem to the
United Nations with a partition
recommendation.
The source disclosed that, in the
face of rejection of the idea of
partition by Arab spokesmen at the
British-Arab conference here, the
cabinet had discussed both the
unilateral imposition of partition
and the United Nations alternative.
Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech
Jones favored the first course, this
informant said, while Foreign Sec
retary Bevin favored the second.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Interior Official Rents
Big Rock Creek Park
House, Senator'S Hear

Economy minded Senate civil
service committeeman, delving into
the status of seven-room stone
house in Rock Greek Park, learned
yesterday it is rented to an Interior
Department official for $4,000 a year.
Known as Linnean House and
perched atop a hill at Porter street
and Klingle road NV, the old
structure was bought by the Rock
Greek Park Commission years ago
Until 1889, it was occupied by Ma
tional Park Service employees.
When Marshall Finnan resigned
as superintendent of National Capt.
tai Parks and moved away, the old
house was rented by its present ten
ant, Michael Straus, commissioner Of
the reclamation bureau.
Rental Story Disclosed.
The story of the rental was recited
for the committee by National Park
Director Newton B. Drury, Associate
Director A. E. Demaray and Irving
c. Root, superintendent of National
Capital Parks.
Mr.. Demaray said the NPS Oh
tanned permission from former Sec
retary of the Interior Ickes to ad-
vertise for public bids on the house
when it was learned II was too ex-
pensive for park personnel to main
tain.
1--WE set the figure at 81, 400 annual
rental, advertised extensively in the
newspapers, and received number
of inquiries, but only one bid," Mr..
Demaray said. THAT was from Mr..
Straus then Interior Department
director of information) for $3.50"
Mr. Demaray said the NPS dis
cussed the matter further with Mr..
Ickes and decided to lower the price
to $4,000 and advertise again. In the
meantime, however. Mr.. Ickes talked
to Mr.. Straus and the latter agreed
to take the house for $2,200-or 5000
more than would have been asked in
subsequent advertising, Mr. Dema-
ray said.
Prewar Transaction.
Mr.. Demaray said that the trans
action took place just before the
war, when there was no serious hous-
ing shortage.
The house. which is 116 years old
was on private property before the
Rock Creek Commission bought it
with land needed to develop the
park 1t is the most pretentious of
the houses purchased by the COM
mission, some of which now are
rented by park service personnel
and others serve as recreation
houses.
Seeking comment from Mr.. Straus,
a reporter was told that he is in
Puerto Rico on business for the Gov
ernment.
Completed in 1880.
The house was completed in 1880,
by Edward Pierce, the pioneer who
built historic Pierce Mill in the
park. It has three rooms on the
first floor, two on the second, an
dtGlC, dIlu Iildlu > TOOiu dllu pdtIl
in the basement It has two baths
on the second floor.
I. Edward Kelly, special assistant
to Mr.. Root. said the house and six
acres of land were purchased by the
Government IN 1890 for $9,27S. In
1886, a NPS real estate board ap-
praised the property and land at
$25 900.
The only example of Pennsylvania
Dutch architecture in the District,
the house was purchased for its his
torical value.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Missionaries on First
.Oyerseds ASSIGNMENT

ROCHESTER. N. Y, Jan. 20 P.-
The Rev. and Mrs. Robert A. Wick
Baptist missionaries listed with their
two sons as among rs persons aboard
a crashed Chinese airliner near Han
kow, China, were on their first
overseas assignment.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Wick
parents of the 29-year- old minister
said today their son was a former
pastor of the East Penfield Baptist
Church. He went to China as q
representative of the American
Baptist Foreign Mission Society
after studying agriculture at Cornell
University and the Chinese language
at Yale University.
He and his 25-year-old wife and
their two sons, Theodore, 3, and
Paul, Is months. sailed from San
Francisco last December Is.
Mrs. Wick, a graduate nurse. was
the former Dorothy Flanders of
Baldwinsville, N. Y.
Evening star., 1947-01-29
Bishop and Wife Left
Madison, Wis.,, Oct. ~

MADISON, Wis, Jan. 20 P.-
Bishop Schuyler Edward Garth ooi
the Methodist Episcopacy of Wis.
consin and his wife, who with "a
other persons were passengers in 8
Chinese commercial plane reported
found wrecked and burned 100 miles
west of Hankow today, left Madi-
son last October 20 for China where
he was to make a study of the
needs of the Methodist Church
They have three children.
Last week Bishop Garth, who was
48, was elected president of the
Wisconsin Council of Churches in
his absence.
Bishop Garth, who was born at
Saffordville, Kans., received degrees
from Baker University at Baldwin
Kans.; Garrett Biblical Institute ano
Ohio Wesleyan University, and was
ordained Methodist minister In
1920.
Before being elected a bishop in
1914 he had served Methodist
churches at Welda, Kans; Henning
ILL.,; Miami, Fla; st. Petersburg
Fla; Pittsburgh and Youngstown
Ohio.
In World War I he served two
years with the Army YMCA,