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Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-30

point. For years, Dutch engin-
GERS had been dredging away
river mud that washed into the
harbour. The japanese neglect
ed the work. A large bar form
ed.
The port, where large ocean
liners with drafts of Sc feet could
tie up before the war, could take
only small craft with l6-foot
drafts by l,,t spring. Navy
technicians and civilian workers
dredged the port to depth of
% feet by July. Now a channel
% feet deep has beer cleared.
Ships of 10000 tons can enter.
To clear away wrecked ships,
a 300-ton crane was sent by sea
from Europe in March. 1t was
lost in storm in the Mediter-
ranean. Another crane, with a
200 ton capacity, started out a.
gain by sea and finally arrived
two months ago. Clearing the
harbour has progressed rapidly
since then.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-30
TOWN TALK

Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Hudson
and children were in Petersburg
during the holidays visiting Mrs.
Hudson's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
P. A Sadler.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. T. Morris
from Rocky Mount we're guests
of Mr.. and Mrs. E. w. Smith,
Mrs. Marris is Mrs. Smiths
sister.
Miss Erns sstine Smith,
student of Pan American Bus
mess College in Richmond Va.
is spending Christmas with her
parenta' Mr.. and Mrs. E. W.
Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs. Johnny Little
and children John Cameron and
Ann Carolyn were in Seaboard
Sunday as dinner guests of Mr..
Little's parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
E. 7. Little.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. w. Bone and
daughter, Betsy, spent Christ
mas day in Rocky Mount with
Mr.. Bones mother, Mrs. W. H.
Bone. 7 hey spent Sunday in
Jackson with Mrs. Bones per-
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. H. Bone.
Mrs. Hazel Bass spent Friday, |
Saturday and Sunday in Durham
visiting relatives.
Bill Kidd of Warrenton, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Kidd, held
open house at his parents home
in Warrenton Tuesday evening.
Bill took his first two years of
college work at N. C. State in
Raleigh where he was on the
deans list of honor students.
Bill was in service for So mon
tbs with the navy both in the
Atlantic and Pacific areas DUR
ing the last World War. He made
nine trips across the ocean on
convoy duty.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Brown
Jr. and children from Windsor
n. G. spent Saturday and Sum
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-30
Medan Port
Nearly Ready

Dutch are nearing the end Of
three-year struggle TO clear a.
way mud and sunken ships which
have clogged :heir gateway port
to rich East Sumatra. At Bel
avian, Port for Medan, freight
ers as large as Liberty ships
can slip into the quay one at a
time to lead rubber, palm oil and
fine tobaccos.
Within a few weeks, Dutch
Navy crews expect to finish the
exacting task of cutting and lift
ing underwater -ections of
loaded ammunition ship block
ing an important section of the
harbor. Then five ships can take
on cargo at one time.
The Japanese swept into the
Indies in early 1912, blasting
Dutch ships at Belawan and
partially sealing ct. the shipping
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-30
Sgt. Harris Reenlists.
In Medical Corps

Sergeant Henry E, Harris =,
Weldon, reenlisted for a period
of three years in the Medical
Department of the Regular Ar
my this week at Medical Field
Service School, Brooke Army
Medical Center, Fort Sam Hous-
ton, Texas, where he is assign
ed to duty.
Harris, who has a prior serv-
ice of 9 years and months, was
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-30

day with Mr.. and Mrs. Horace
Hudson.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. T. Rice and
daughter, Barbara. from Rich
mond spent Christmas with Mrs
J. M. Rice.
Cali King from Fort Sill, Okla.
spent the holidays with his pa
rents. Mr.. and Mrs. G. J. King
and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. Griffin and
children left Friday for Emporia
to spend the holidays with rela-
tives. Mr.. Griffin returned on
account of business Monday and
Mrs. Griffin and the children will
be home the last of the week.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-30

awarded the Good Conduct
World War XIX Victory, Ameri
can Defense, American Theat.
er, European American Mid.
die East with 9 bronze stars)
and the Asiatic Pacific (with
l bronze starr Medals. He is the
son of Mr.. and Mrs, William
Harris, Weldon, N. c.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-30

start to open up and give you wonder.
full relief from snifly head-cold distress
Va-tro-nol acts so fast because it Uorks
right Dhere trouble Is. 1t relieves stufIy
congestion, and makes breathing easier
If used in time. Va-tro-nol helps pre-.
pent many colds from developingl TrJ
1t! Vicks Va-tro-nol Nose Drops.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-30

BE WARMER THIS WINTER
by an easy, last-minute fuel
shopping tour of the Herald
Want Ads for what yol need.
Roanoke Rapids daily herald., 1948-12-30
Do This for
Head Gold
Sfuffiness!

Instantly-the moment
you put a few drops
of Vicks Va-tro-nol In
each nostril-you'll feel
YOUR cold nose
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02

woman. The youngest was Q Ave-
week-old French baby girl.
Seventy-eight OF the identified
dead were children under IL.
Farben's officials have insisted
that there were only "a cases in
all OF child labor at Leverkusen and
that the parents in these cases put
the children voluntarily" TO work.
Records Lack Addresses.
The work books" are totally de-
void, however, of any record of par
ents or home addresses, or even of
a cursory medical check such as is
given most workers.
Nor has any trace been found of
children who survived. Leverkusen
became a battle-ground in early
March, 1s45. About the same time,
a train loaded with 1900 slave
workers, including so children. was
sent east into the heart of Ger
many. There Is no official record
that 1t ever arrived anywhere.
The disclosures, including repro
auctions of work books" and pic
lures, have been published in
weekly magazine Sic, which is IL
censed by the American Military
Government and has never been
considered leftist or radical.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
New Evidence Offered
10 Show |. 6. Farben
USED Child Labor

BERLIN. Feb. 2 (CDN) Shock
ing new evidence of the use Of child
labor by the German chemical trust,
II. G. Farberl, which seems to have
escaped American prosecutors at
Nuremberg, has been uncovered by
an enterprising German newspaper
man.
Twenty-three of the firms leading
officials are concluding their defense
before the American military trib-
unal in Nuremberg. Among the
charges which they have denied is
that of slave labor"
The new evidence centers around
the Leverkusen plant in the French
occupied zone of Germany, which at
the same time is the nerve center
for the Farben defense team. Far
ben employees at Leverkusen have
been warned that disclosure of de-
Tense moves would be punished sim
ilarly to disclosure of official secrets.
In spite Of this, four work books"
issued in wartime by the German
labor Office in nearby Opladen to II
and 12-year-old Polish boys and
girls have been uncovered. In each
case, the children we're listed as
workers" of helpers"
Graves Discovered.
A number of children's graves
also have been found in an obscure
corner of Manford Cemetery in
Leverkusen. Ironically, it is the site
also of an elaborate memorial to
Karl Duisberg, one of Farben's
founders.
Fourteen of the children's graves
have wooden crosses. How many
other youthful victims of Farben
are buried there has not yet been
determined. In addition to the
marked graves there are II un-
marked mounds covering 20-foot-
long trenches which are believed to
contain bodies of other children.
Records of slave laborers at the
Leverkusen plant show the burial of
almost $50 persons, of whom So are
nameless. The oldest identified VIC
tim was a 69-year-old Russian
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1948-02-02
WHEN kidneys
WorkToo0nen

Are you embafTASsed and OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
by too frequent elimination during the day
or night? This symptom az well as Smarting
Passages Backache, Leg Pains Nervousness,
Rheumatic Pains and Swollen Ankles may
be due to non-organic and non-systemic
Kidney and Bladder troubles. In such cases
the very first dose Of the scientifically
compounded medicine called cYstsx usually
eoes to work right now helping you these
! ways: /. Helps nature remove irritating
excess acids, poisonous wastes and certain
Derms. 4. This cleansing action helps nature
Alleviate many pains, aches. soreness and
slt6ness 3. Helps reduce frequent night and
ny calls, thus promoting better sleep.
Get cystex from your druggist today. otvs
= fair trial as directed On package. Money
haak gueSantsed unieeB exVtU8 sa$i&6os 20
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-07-15
Ring-Rot Symptoms
Slow to Appear

UNEXPLAINED OUTBREAKS of
ring-rot may be due to the fact that
it sometimes takes from one to two
years for the symptoms to appear,
even in susceptible varieties, after
the potatoes are infected, it was re-
ported by the Wyoming state ex-
pertinent station.
In a summary of research under
way since 1915, G. H. Starr of the
Wyoming station staff points out
that Bliss Triumph tubers given a
very light incubation of ring-rot
bacteria in 1916 produced plants
and subsequent tubers having no
disease symptoms that season. When
these tubers were planted again in
1947, the resulting crop showed no
symptoms in some cases and only
slight symptoms in others.
DR.. Starr went on to explain that
while these inoculated potatoes
showed no visible symptoms, the
stems of the plants carried ring-rot
organisms which could be seen I'M
der the microscope.
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-07-15

6NAL - NJ wv OANA III OAAS ~
me-"
There is no use killing me-" the
lawyer said. CPL give you a receipt
and / promise not to protest it."
"Your PROMISE" said Uncle Billy,
faint worth no morn a receipt taken
at the point of a gun, Bub. Come
again."
The lawyer pleaded for five min
utes. He tried every trick he had
v e used before a jury and in re-
turn got only that cold impersonal
look from the old man.
Presently, in the midst of his
plea, he heard Uncle Billy's voice.
Gall right" Uncle Billy said. "Give
me the receipt. Just write it out in
your own hand and no monkey bust
ness, or I'll blast the top of your
head off"
THE LAWYER WROTE. Uncle
Billy took the receipt with his left
hand, still holding the gun on the
lawyer.
"This paper amt foolin' me non
Bub," said Uncle Billy. 81 know jest
as well as I know my name that
quick as I get out of this office
you'll grab the telephone and tell
the sheriff all about it."
The lawyer said nothing.
"But it won't do you a speck of
good" continued Uncle Billy, back
ing toward the door. For jest as
sur as you do, I'm goin' to kill you"
He backed out of the door hur-
riedly.
Two short blocks brought him to
the marble steps of the courthouse.
He was not surprised to see Sheriff
Jimmy Fox standing on the top step
"Howdy, Uncle Billy" the sheriff
greeted.
"Howdy, Mr.. Sheriff." said Uncle
Billy.
"Uncle Billy" the sheriff said
Lawyer Bellinger called up about
you, a minute ago."
81 fingered he would" said Uncle
Billy.
"He claimed" the sheriff told him
"that you extracted a receipt from
him at the point of a hawg-laig. HI
said you promised to kill him if HI
protested the cancellation of tina
mortgage"
That's right" said Uncle Billy
Come in and sit" the sheriff in
vited. miss Nettie is hunting III
the book that the mortgage is re
corded in. She'll copy the receip
alongside it, and charge you a dol
lar.
Uncle Billy climbed the steps
"What'd you tell him?" he asked.
The sheriff smiled. "I told him
figgered you'd do it."
Montana farmer-stockman., 1948-07-15


Judge Erickson organized
the first Rural Electrifi-
cation Cooperative in
Montana.
Judge Erickson has aided
many Montana R. {. A.
Projects and will work
as Governor to e~lectrify
all Montana farms.
Judge Erickson owns his
own farm in Richlond
County.
Judge Erickson believes
one-holf the cost of
schools should come
from the State to inn
prove schools and re-
duce property taxes.
Judge Erickson opposes
any ottempt to take
from the farmers the
gas tax refund on gas
used for non-highwoy
purposes.
Judge Erickson will fur
nish aggressive leader
ship to build farm to
market roads.
Judge Erickson will sup
port the continuance of
q sound national farm
program.
Vote for
|LEIF ERICKSON
for
| Governor
political ad paid for by the Erick
son for Governor Club, Box 804
Helena, Mont. w. G.. Montgomery
Chairman. 81 w. Broadway. Butte
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-09-01
News in Brief

Scientists from many countries
attended the observance in Stock
holm on September 20 of the hun
dredth anniversary of the death of
ions Jacob Berzelius, famous Swe-
dish chemist. The memorial, which
took place in the City Hall, was
arranged by the Swedish Academy
of Science. Among those present
were two former Nobel Prize WIN
ners, the Finnish chemist, A. l..
Virtanen, and the Indian physicist,
Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Ra-
man, from Bangalore. From the
United States came Professor j.
Holmboe, meterologist of Berkeley,
University.
Twenty-three American teen-age
boys and girls have left for Den
mark, Finland, Norway, and Swe-
den wheresfor six weeks they will
live in the homes of private fam
lilies to get an inside view of ac-
tual conditions in Scandinavia. The
trip was sponsored by the Metro
politan School Study at Columbia
University and the transportation
was arranged by the Scandinavian
Airlines System. Some of the
group were hosts last year to
twenty-one young Scandinavian
students who took part in an in
ternational youth congress here.
Electric power will again be ra-
toned this winter, according to
Folke Petri. of the Water Power
Board. Electric radiators and wa
ter heaters may not be used, and
the illumination of store windows
will be cut. 1t has not yet been
decided whether general ration
ing will be necessary.
INF Paine, noted young member
of the repertory company of the
Royal Dramatic Theatre. Sweden's
national stage, is soon expected
in the United States. where he will
make a study of the American
theatre. After watching the OPEN
ing of the Broadway season. he
will proceed west, spending in all
some two months in this country.
A novel type of program will soon
be inaugurated at the Royal ORA
matte by Professor Ragnar Joseph
son, newly appointed director. 1t
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-09-01
Oslo University Opens Its Doors

and looked twice last week when
University freshman Johan Land
mark decided to take his personal
housing problem to the people.
Though some 800 of his fellow stu
dents are in similar straits, Johan
was the first one to paint up a
sandwich board reading What
Can You Do to Find Me A Room ?"
and take out through the streets of
the capital. At last report, this
American-style direct action tech
nique had paid off, and there was
one less homeless student in Oslo.
Others of the university's 1000
new students were not faring so
we'll, however. Two of them pitch
ed a tent on the campus and de-
cided to take up the hunt from
there. Still Others were quartered
in sleeping bags on the floors of
city gymnasiums. Student and uni
versity officials predict that many
weeks must yet pass before hous-
ing can be found for out-of-town
students arriving in the crowded
capital.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-09-01

OSLO.-On Wednesday,, Septem-
Der LIST, the University of Oslo,
Norway's largest single academic
institution, opened it's doors to
1000 entering freshmen. The COM
ing weeks promise to be difficult
for the new arrivals, from all cor
ners of the land, who must find
housing, secure books and work
out schedules in line with over
taxed teaching facilities.
A d dre n G the traditional
assembly of young men and women
in University Square, University
President Otto Louis Mohr extolled
the enlightened individual in mod
ern society.
1--WE have seen," noted tn e
speaker. chow on grandiose scale
the appeal to this impressional
horde mentality has served the
cause of lies and mass-suggestion.'
He reiterated the place of the uni
versity and how it's respect for
truth, reason and objectivity pro-
vided a defense against "all of
these classifying tendencies"
CAN YOU SPARE A ROOM?
Oslo pedestrians turned around
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-09-01

consists of a series of low-priced
afternoon performances at which
only one-act plays will be given.
They will be put on twice a week
between 4:3O and p. m.
The famous Silver Bible" eco
dex Argenteus"), in Upsala Uni
versity Library, has now been
three hundred years in Swedish
possession. 1t was toward the end
of 164s, at the termination of the
Thirty Years War, that it was
brought from Prague to Upsala.
1t contains fragments of a transla-
ton of the Four Gospels from the
Greek into Gothic by the Gothic
scholar and Bishop Wulfila, or Ul-
filas, who lived between 81 and
3S3. 1t received its name for hav-
ing been written with silver ink on
purple-tinted parchment.
Swedish ships in foreign waters
will be able to keep in better touch
with their country with the open
ing of new shortwave radio tele-
phone and telegraph transmitter at
Onsala-V allda, on Swedens west
coast. Experts running the new
plant state that a considerable i'm
provement in audibility will result,
especially in the regions lying in
the shade" of the magnetic North
Pole, such as the Caribbean and
the Gulf of Mexico. The new unit
has a special shortwave antenna
for transmissions to the Pacific.
1t is wholly automatic and oper-
ated through a remote control sys-
tenn from the receiver plant.
Well in advance of the influenza
season, which in Sweden usually
begins in January, preparations
are being made for Sweden's par
ticipation in a large scale inter-
national anti-flu campaign. Svens-
ka Dagbladet reports that regional
laboratories all over the world will
cooperate in handling the bacteri-
illogical end of the fight against
the disease. DR.. Gunnar Lofstrom,
of the Royal Board of Medicine,
will act as special observer in Swe-
den. He says that the aim of this
global campaign is to coordinate
the worlds influenza research ia
cilities. The regional laboratories
will isolate the virus as soon as
feasible and send them to a CEN
trail laboratory in London. Reports
from observers all over the world
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-09-01

will enable scientists at the Lon
don center to study how the di-
sease is spreading. A special vac
cine will also be produced in Lon
don to check the growth of the in
fluenZa.
Courses in air raid protection
will be held shortly all over the
country under the auspices of the
Swedish Civilian Defense Associa-
ton and it's sub-organizations The
training will concentrate on home
protection, with special emphasis
on fire fighting and first aid. 1t is
estimated that by next year fifteen
to twenty thousand persons will
have attended these courses.
The YMCA in Sweden will act
as sponsor for those brother or
CARNATIONS in Germany that are
most in need of help. Gunnar
Jansson, YMCA secretary, recent
ly returned from a three weeks
trip through the most distressed
areas, and it is his report that
has led to the decision. There are
twelve associations primarily con-
cerned, and the intention is not
only to give material aid but also
to establish personal contacts.
Thus German boys will have a
chance to spend a part of next
summer in Swedish YMCA camps.
Queen Ingrid of Denmark, only
daughter of Crown Prince Gustaf
Adolf of Sweden and his first late
wife, Margaret. who was a daugh-
ter of the British Duke and Ouch
ess of Connaught, attracted much
attention on the occasion of the
recent visit to Copenhagen of King
Haakon VII of Norway, because
she was wearing a skirt of the
old length, Danish newspapers
were flooded with letters from
persons who expressed their APP
prevail of the Queens stand
against the new look" and the
impractical dictates of fashion in
times of economic need.
The Swedish Theatre in Helsing-
fors will send company to Stock
holm this month to give two per-
formances of Hamlet" at the
Royal Opera House in connection
with FINLAND Week" which will
be observed at $50 places all over
Sweden. The week" is being
sponsored by the Adopted Cities
Movement and the Relief Com
mittee for Finnish children.
The sale of German assets in
Sweden. confiscated by the Swed-
ish Government. has so far yielded
215 million kronor. The total sum
is expected to reach $40 million
kronor In addition to the big in
dustrial concerns. which main
tanned offices in Sweden, German
assets have been unearthed i'm
many different guises and places.
Secret safety deposit boxes. rented
by Germans, have brought to light
small fortunes in jewels. bank
notes. and stock certificates. In
one was found 10000 Russian
rubles dating from the Czarist re-
gime, which had been deposited
by German.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-09-01

pended to prevent the establish
ment of the Missouri Valley Au-
thority.
American Veterans Committee,
Seattle:
1.-THE Canwell Committee, by set
ting itself up as the arbitrary judge
of what shall be orthodox and
"American;" by making it punish
able in fact to hold unpopular So
cial, political, economic, moral and
religious views, has employed the
very methods of totalitarianism
that it alleges to combat.
The CanWe Committee has
dangere academic free
dom by unjustly and recklessly
injuring the regulations of inspir-
ing and constructive educators; by
sitting free intellectual inquiry in
our schools; and by jeopardizing
the status of the University of
Washington as an academic insti-
tuition.
The American Veterans Commit
tee, whose motto is Citizens First,
Veterans Second has circularized
a stirring appeal for freedom of
thought and expression and espe-
cially for academic freedom, and
recommends the dissolution of the
Canwell Committee on Un-Amer-
lean Activities.
Rev. c. p. Bradley, Saskatoon:
Think this over: A farmer killed
his neighbor. He was convicted
The judge in summing up said:
Here we have a murder, as a re-
suit of which, we have a widow,
a family without a father, and a
farm that needs a man to work
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-09-01
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it. If we hang this man, we have
two widows, two families without
father, and two farms without
men to work them. 1 sentence
this man to plough his neighbours
farm before his own, sow his
neighbours field, and reap his
neighbor's harvests before his own,
for the next seven years."
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-09-01
What Other
Folks Say

Prof. Albert Einstein: I don't
know what kind of weapons will
be used in the third world war,
assuming that there will be one,
but I can tell you what the fourth
world war will be fought with
Stone clubs.
Judge william O. Douglas, Sc
attic: Disagreement among judges
is as true to the character of de-
mocracy as freedom of speech it.
self. The dissenting opinion is as
genuinely American as Thorn
as Jefferson's briefs for civil liber-
ties.
Joseph and Stewart Alsop: If
national policy is ever dominated
by the sort Of Republicans who
raided the farm cooperatives,
pared down public power, and
otherwise tried to revive the
Harding era in the Eightieth Con-
gress, these Republicans in Iowa
and the others like them else
where in the country will react
with real violence.
Gerald w. johnson, Editor Bal
timOre Sun: No people can pur-
sue a bad cause with more fright
full enthusiasm than Americans;
the immense intellectual
and spiritual energy now being ex-
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-09-01

Mrs. Finn Moe. wife of the Min
lister Plenipotentiary and Envoy
Extraordinary and Norway's per-
manent delegate to the United Ma
tinos, sailed for Norway via Goth
enburg, Sweden. recently in t h e
Sw d i S h American motorliner
stockholm.
Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958, 1948-09-01

Polish apples dumped in an outdoor bin
mission of and Agriculture Organization FAO)
reports supply In state Of and mas
sweeping reforms to raise food prooucon
the suggested home and
processing Of fruits and vegetables and system OF