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AND FEATURES DAILY "Iredell's Leading Newspaper" Statesville Daily Record INC. 11 Cast 44th Street MW CITY Except C. K. 117 Nmfc ORTH, Publisher 2M Elteral Claw Matter at the at SUtwville, X. mmdex Ut Act March S.

Subscription Rate (By Carrier) Weekly (By Mall) 1m Iredell. Wilkei. Rawai, Dam, Alexander aiil Catawha per year Elwwbere IB United KM per year FULL LEASED UNITED PRESS WIRE SERVICI, NEA SERVICE AND IMTED FEATURE SERVICE MEMBER OF Nortk Carolina PreM AaaeciatUm Southern Newipaper Publitheri' Carellmai' Adrertislnj Eiecutiyef' WEDNESDAY, MAY 17, 1944 Thought For Today Blessed is that man that maketh the Lord his trust, and respecteth not the proud, nor such as turn aside to 40:4. Congratulations We extend congratulations to the volunteer nurses' aides who graduated and received their certificates last night. They have devoted a great deal of their time to this and are to be commended for this unselfishness and fine spirit.

This is one of the most outstanding projects of the American Ked Cross principally because the training secured by the aides is something lasting while at the same time they arc relieving the vita! shortage of nurses which is prevalent everywhere. The Battle Of Germany Today One of the strangest ami most crucial battles in the history of warfare is going on inside Germany. The opposing -armies" are Allied bombs tnd the Nazi military and secret police. The "battlefield" is the German people. The prize of victory is their morale.

This is made clear in a Swiss newspaper story by a man who returned home in March after spending months in Germany and undergoing 60 air attacks in Berlin. Even before the pulverizing attacks of the last six weeks, he reported that 70 or 80 per cent of the Nazi capital's factories were destroyed or damaged. He also disclosed that residential bombing had knocked out tens of thousands of small home workshops serving armament production. But of equal military importance is his story of the terror of Germany's war-sick of the bombs and of the Gestapo. "Fifty per cent of the German population is already demoralized." he writes.

"It is unthinkable that the German people can bear the existing conditions for an indefinite period. People now say quite frankly that if the air offensive is further intensified, a way out must be found. There can. however, be no thought of a revolution. The Gestapo and the SS are too powerful for the whole German people to dare to rise up against the Nationalist-Socialist system." It is obvious that the air offensive has been tremendously intensified.

And as we attack in growing strength, the and the SS surely are finding that their also tremendously intensified. First of all there are the physical difficulties. Each attack adds thousands to the dazed and weary homeless, deprives sections of a city of light, gas and water transportation. But there must also be a weakening of morale. Each Allied plane Berlin another harbinger of German defeat.

Euch expiuMiin echoes the ever emptier ring of party ar.d promises. As late as January. 5 writer says, the faithful Nazis were boastm? 'hat Berlin could never be attacked by day. But the daylight raids came. and party precise fallen even more.

Against fear, discouragement and weariness, Hitler's brutish police are fighting a grim battle but a losing one. are still strong, but a losing one. They are still strong, but we are stronger. Even the Gestapo's guns cannot delay forever the German people's desperate search for "a wav out." Another Delinquency Remedy We have had a great spate of juevnile delinquency cures recreation, more home life, more understanding, more spanking-, and CO on. All have probably been given local tr.unit-.

but none has been generally adopted. The problem to still with us. This isn't going to be another prescription, but going to suggest that there may be temporary in sight. We are going into a third ar- ceason of maximum food production and inini- farm help. And preparations are going i-jr- to recruit a million or more city boys and girls another summer of farm work.

That is more youth help than has ever been required from the cities. And if the need is met. to be a notable drop in delinquencv can't be a much better ruie tor mischief of hard, physical work out of doors Most going to be too weary to do anything ifcOr auuclci and tun-toasted bodies down to sleep. It's probably too much to hope that such a cure would be permanent. But it ought to be awfully good while it lasts.

Political Illness Congressman Martin Dies, top congressional publicity getter who spent a lot of the people'? money smelling up what proved to be blind alleys in instances and succeeded in overlooking many things perilous, to national safety, has suffered an attack of political illness. Mr. Dies announced he would retire from Congress and devote his attention to private law practice down in Texas. A story telling of the decision sneaked in the information that the announcement was made after the Democratic convention in Dies' home county had rein-eel to endorse him for renomination. During the past week also it was published that Congressman Starnes.

rated as second in command to Dies on the best known snooping committee of recent years, had been decisively beaten for renomi- nation in his Alabama district. It cannot be charged this time that any political power outside the home districts of these two veteran House members used the purge on them. It was purely a home front job in both instances, insofar as current information would indicate. The big fault of Dies and his pals was that the only subversives they could see turned out to bo on our side while the subversives they couldn't seem to locate have been against all the Lexington uV Dispatch. Drive To Unionize Management An audacious move on the part of labor unions to "unionize management beginning with foremen" is charged by Alvan MacAuley.

president of the Automotive Council for War Production, an organization of 550 companies employing 1,200,000 workers and delivering 20 per cent of the nation's war effort. A Montgomery Ward case in reverse apparently is offered with foremen striking in 13 munitions plants. The Charlotte News comments: "Here, apparently labor is taking an ill-advised production of munitions is obviously affected during every moment of the strike." Mr. MacAuley asks this per inenl question: "Can union leaders unionize management and take over control of war production?" and also a companion question: "What kind of collective bargaining is it when union leaders sit on both sides of the table." Congress can do no better service to America fighters abroad and on the home to set limits beyond which organized labor cannot encroach upon the rights of employers. It is obvious this can be done by clarifying and amending the necessary laws, particularly the War Labor Disputes Act.

Apparently the time has already come when unions are arbitrarily running the affairs, through Federal Government indulgence, of various enterprises ranging from coal mines to automotive plants. In the interest of one of the principles Americans are fighting for, it is time to call a hall on such (X. Daily Tribune. Help For Family Farming A certain school thought has predicted a shrinking role for family farming in America's agricultural economy. Such predictions do not give adequate consideration to four factors which, in the future, may vitally affect the Nation's 3,000,000 "family farms." First, when victory comes, farm-machinery manufacturers will be ready for production of machines to handle small acreages.

Experimentation has already taken place and plans are ready. small machines will enable most family farms to dispense with horse and mule power. Moreovei, machine power will free from three to five formerly set aside for grasj and grain. Second, co-operative buying and selling group-, in rural areas should help farm families to overcome one great economic handicap. With a few notable exceptions, small-scale food producers have bought supplies and equipment at retail price levels and sold their products at wholesale.

It has been demonstrated that a correctly organized and efficiently managed co-operative can materially reduce this spread in Third, the new science of chemurgy Ithe utilization of farm crops for industrial purposes) has already advanced to the point where cereal crops, timber, legumes, fruit, and nut crops are increasingly flowing into other channels than food consumption. This should mean increased demand and farm income. Lastly, the spread of electric power lines over the secondary roads and byways of rural areas will nut only improve farm homes but will give the general farm, with its dependence on a small herd of cows, hens, and pigs, a chance to thresh and grind homegrown grains. Many a family farm might Had (lie dillcri-nce between a lair income a bare living in this one item alone. Obviously it does not yet seem time to bid farewell to farming as a way of Science Monitor.

Views From The News II would lake all of the 10000 urclutt-clb in private practice live years to prepare plans for reinstating the bomb-damaged buildings of London Walter 0. Hudson, secretary Institute oi Architects. London. Yeli, But Who Keeps Him Alive? THIS BIRD? T5I6HTOFFA THE FYffft I I6HT "OH, Peter Edson In Washington By i'ETER EUSON Daily Record WathingtM Cvrretpondeit U. S.

AGENCIES IN WICHITA WICHITA, U. S. city of any importance has become a little Washington, and Wichita is no exception. It has ''one of each" of all the Washington alphabetical agencies, and the citizens have come to know them familiarly by the correct initials. to give them deserved credit, begrudgingly, or to damn them just as roundly as anyone in Washington.

U. S. Employment Service is praised by the industrialists for helping to recruit the war plant labor that raised Wichita's population from 100,000 in 1939 to 200,000 in 1944. In the words of ex-Gov. Henry J.

Allen, the town has changed from a bucolic center to a place with night clubs and labor racketeers all around. He admits they're a little bit backward on the labor racketeering but assumes that by the next world war. Wichita on that score will be as along as any place else. Wichita was as much interested in the Montgomery Ward case as Chicago or Washington because the city had been through a similar experience of its own, and the plight of Sewell Avery struck home. ONLY 4000 UNION MEMBERS Boeing Airplane the city's largest employer, had a National Labor Relations Board election to select a bargaining agent in July 1943, with 18,000 out of 25,000 employees eligible to vote.

A.F. of L. won the election, and in October Boeing signed a year's contract with a War Labor Board-imposed maintenance of membership provision. Today, the company's check- off records show that only 4000 of their 15,000 eligible employes are members of the union. Those of the 4000 who want to resign from the union can't, because of the maintenance of membership clause.

Between now and expiration of the contract, the company faces the decision of whether to ride along with its contract or to petition for a new election on the grounds that the union does not represent a majority of its same issue as in the Montgomery Ward case. Boeing operates a Defense Plant Corporation government-owned factory in Wichita and the contract calls for maximum utilization of facilities. That was taken to mean a three-shift, War Manpower Commission 48-hour week, but after the draft had taken 5000 Boeing employes and the labor supply had Side Glances COCH. 1X4 NEA 8EHVICE. WC.

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S'lH "Being valedictorian is quite an honor, Johnny! 1 can still sec old Bill Join our class un orator 1 lie's train caller now Vet Is Too Young (USAAF photo from NEA) Grounded and facing retirement from the 'S. Air Forte since the Army found out he is only 16 years old, Sfit. DC Sales A Glover of Pittsburgh, sits oil a bomb at an English base and ponders his fate. Enlisting at 14, he has served as waist guniTcr on six missions over Europe and holds the Air Medal. been thinned out so that it was difficult lo man full shifts, WMC alternate 50-and 60-hour weeks on a 10-hour 'shift basis.

The result was that production went up. The company a third more man-hours from the number of people, and the take-homo pay of I he em- ployes was increased an average of 35 per cent a week. WLB OPENS HEARINGS The Kansas City regional Wai- Labor Board has just conducted an interesting experiment in Wichita, in an effort to popularize itself and familiarize everyone with its problems and methods. The 12-man tripartite board came to town for three days. On the first day, it met with employers and gave them a chance to file their bellyaches and have them talked over.

In the evening, it met to hear the beefs of the labor organization leaders. On the second and third days the hoard held public hearings on Wichila cases before it, inviting the people in to see how it worked in its goldfish bowl, and how and why it marie its decisions as it did. Office of Price Administration is, of course, the most cussed of the government war agencies, but I lie feeling that OPA programs and the need for rationing not understood, frequently heard (rum other parts of the country, was not found in Wichita. The city had its troubles at first with professor-type administrators, but business men have now taken over. The Better Business Bureau has tried lu l.t-rp down irilmg price violations.

Landlords complain about the rent ceiling and the competition from 600 family units of war housing built by the gov- TODAY'S AMERICAN HEROES Todsy'i American Hero. Another Amerlcnn whose rniiragt and liprolo are bringing closer the dn.v of peare. The of Today's American Hero. by Peggy Rhodes of Hie lulled Press radio feature itaff. Hours after its scheduled landing time, the Fortress "Carolina Queen" still circled over the airstrip.

Other pilots back from Germany gathered anxiously below. They know the plane's fuel supply must be dwindling. But the landing gear had jammed, and the pilot was unable to bring her in. Suddenly, the skipper of the ship, Lieutenant Leslie Bond of Chickasha. Oklahoma, turned the nose of the big bomber down toward the field.

"Holy cats!" one member of the ground ercw cried out. "Looks like he's trying, to make a crash landing!" Tension mounted as the pilot maneuvered the damaged ship. Over the loud-speaker came orders to clear the field. Grease monkeys raced about. A first-aid truck drew near, to be ready.

The plane was circling the field nearly enough. But as the Carolina Queen descended, the fliers on the ground became more and more worried. The ball turret was in the way. "If he tries to bring her in now," one airman exclaimed, "that turret will crack her in two!" "Bond must be tired of living!" somebody else muttered. But Lieutenant Bond wasn't tired of living.

And he wasn't taking any chances on cracking up his plane, either. As a matter of fact he wasn't figuring on a crash-landing at all. Ho was coming in low because he wanted help sent up. And a moment later the boys on the ground heard his plan. "Look, you guys," Bond's voice came to them over the radio, "I've got to get something to knock this blasted turret off.

We haven't any heavy tools up here. How some handy gadgets that might do the trick?" Lieutenant Colonel Conway Hall of Little Rock, Arkansas, volunteered for the ticklish job. A hasty conference was held, and a number of stout tools were chosen. These were tied to a rope. Then Colonel Hall hurried into his plane and went aloft.

But there had been a miscalculation. Only a slight one, but it almost proved disastrous. The rope was too short. When it was tossed over the damaged plane, it nearly yanked out the top turret gunner. Hall brought his plane down.

He returned with some 300 feet of rope and a heavy sandbag to weigh down the tools. The top turret gunner played safe, just the same. He tied himself securely into the Fortress hatch. For almost half an hour, the two planes jockewey delicately, in mid-air. Sometimes there would be a distance of four or five hundred yards between them.

But there were times when they World War If A Year Ago Today MAY 17, 1943 BY UNITED PRESS British RAF crinnles two big Orrman dams in the Ruhr night fif May 16; 4,000 killed. 120,000 homeless by release of flood waters, resulting in explosions that swept away power houses and bridges. U. S. bombers heavily attack Lorient Harbor and the adjoining U-boat base at Keroman, In France.

U. S. Navy communique reports against the Japanese on Attu Island are continuing." Australian hospital 'ship, Centaur (plainly marked and illuminated and carrying 383 persons) was sunk by an enemy submarine off Brisbane, Australia, morning of 'May 13; 64 persons rescued. were only a few feet apart. At these tense moments, the boys on the ground held their breath prayed.

Then a cry of relief went up. The top turret gunner had'hooked the swinging bag. The rest was up to the ball turret gunner. He severed the rope and went to work at dislodging the ball turret. It took him almost an hour to do it.

Meanwhile, Lieutenant Bond was heading the plane out toward the sea. Somewhere over the North Sea, the tricky operation was completed. The ball turret that almost had cost the lives of the crew was clumped into the swirling waters below. Just four and one-half hours behind schedule, Lieutenant Bond landed the Carolina Queen at the field. Said Bond, with a grin: "Now I know what they mpnn when (hoy talk about 'threading a needle in DETAIL TOR TODAY Shelter Half A SHELTER HALF is what civilians know as a pup tent.

A soldier cannot have the dubious pleasure of sleeping in one alone, for he has only one-half of it, and must find a comrade with the other half or sleep with the sky as a roof. Putting up a SHELTER HALF is it down ridiculously It's not so bad if the soldier is allowed to pick his own campsite, but more than often a "formal bivouiic" is in order mid the G. find themselves putting up and taking down with aggravating repetition, until the straight line desired is achieved. SHELTER HALVES have an odor all their own, a result of many nights on the ground. Curious World THE WORLD NEEDS IS FEWER BOB WALN, ARE ALLOWED TO FISH IN NEAL'S CREEK, A TRCUT STREAM IN NORTH CAROLINA.

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