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ALEXANDRIA DAILY TOWN TALK, ALEXANDRIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 10, 1945 PAGE NINE ATOMIC i pushed rapidly into its final stages PnriQ' since it appeared that the atomic I lUllv bomb and Russia's entry into the war might end hostilities sooner (COVriMLK ROM PAGE ONE) Laglen's firm belief that prevention is better than cure is demonstrated by the fact that on hb 1000-acre California ranch he spent heavy money to convert one of the only three buildings within miles into an air raid shelter Russell D. Leas, treasurer of the Arkansas Republican state committee, after begging the studio to resume the westers, touched off his letter with this paragraph: "1 liked Hopalong. I am a little boy along such lines, although I reached the age of 76 on the 4lh of June." far Reconversion Li Planned 20 Men Called for Examination Darryl Zanuck, wise man. Mr. Zanuck has said that finding a girl to till Betty Grable's shoes, in the event of her would be simple, but to find one to fill Betty's stockings would be' something else again Ava Gardner, girl with a problem.

Miss' Gardner, who was born on Dec. fir De wreaked by the second atomic bomb dropped on the Nipponese. Results "Good'' The results of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki were described as "good" by General Spaatz, chief of the U. S. Army strategic air forces, but he said that three and a half hours after the devastating weapon was dropped at noon yesterday, smoke still obscured "the damage from a photo reconnaissance plane.

The new reports on the Nagasaki assault came as two flights of B-29s hit the Tokyo arsenal and Amagasaki, important oil refinery adjoining Osaka on Honshu. With radio Tokyo totally silent on the atumfzing of Nagasaki, there was no other information on the awful fate of the western Kvushu Twenty white men have been called by selective service board No. 1 to report for premduction 24, never been able to decide "'--4 than had been expected. WPB withheld details until it could be approved by John W. Snyder, director of war mobilization and reconversion.

But offiei-; als familiar with it said the plan is designed to cushion as much as possible the impact of sudden surrender on industry. 'There is no plan that would eliminate all the industrial aches and pains that inevitably will re- suit from the end of the war. whether it comes now or in six months," said one official. 5-loint Plan Is Key He added that keystone of the program will be the five-point re- conversion program laid down yesterday by President Truman in a letter to WPB Chairman J. A.

Krug. This called fur removal of production and materials controls "as soon as they are no longer needed," Mr. Truman stated, howeverthat some restrictions will have to be continued in order to achieve in the end "uprccedentcd civilian nf sudden government to-dtS touches on whether she was left by the stork or Santa Claus. plan. reccnv ot cum- 2 the Pacific rt-itn Board put in nrogw" to speed examination on August 24, 1915.

Five have been transferred from out of town boards for prc-' induction. Called Dy the local board were Marvin Ail'crs N'tment, Milburn Thomas Voorhies. Gilbert Adolph Broussard. George Washington Hard well, John Benjamin Frank-' 3 in, James Hardy Brosset, L. Dcn-j ins Hickman.

Edward David Rusk, James Junior Duprec, Byron Lester Price. Man in Dcwilt Thompson, Louis Roscoe Wihon. Lyoncl Trenton i Horace. (Mho unlock Nallcy, a Clark Gable told me a yarn about an incurably optimistic producer who, no matter how bad a picture or a performance or business in general might be, always found a bright side. If the picture was dull, he'd say "They'll like it in the sticks," or if a performance smelled, he'd say the performer photographed well.

During the depression, (said Gable), when theaters were closing and studios were going bankrupt. peacetime output. tion some time for use nlan has been rut. yivi ereher, James Allen Milton Patrick O'Neal. every one thought the optimistic i Willis nroducer would at least reach the Manuel end of his rope.

They were wrong. The day his own studio closed for six weeks, he met a group (if glum-looking friends in the Brown Derby. "Thank goodness," he said with a weak grin, "things are not always this bad!" INTERNMENT VFTS Trainees in the 130th Battalion, lARTC, Camp Livingston but veterans ot Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler's internment camp brutalities arc the Dzicngicl brothers, Eligius (left) and (U. S. Army Signal Photo).

Robert George Drouct, James Jolly, and Alvin Price. Called from other boards were William Ingraham, Kilgore, Bert James Bowman, Shrevcport; Hansen Dudley Bordelon, New Orleans; Robert Henry Thiels, Winnsboro; Donald Wayne More-head. Many. Swimming Pool production." Mr. Truman set forth two main reconversion principles in directing that private business be given "every opportunity to exercise its ingenuity jnd forccfulness in speeding the resumption of civ ilian production These were: 1.

WPB has a clear grant ol authority to use its wartime priorities to help track any bottlenecks that may develop to impede consumer goods production. 2. In removing production and materials controls the agency should make sure that such action will have no adverse effect on the price-wage stabilization program. OPEN DAILY seaport of 253.000 population. First reports from Hiroshima.

which later was shown to be 60 percent destroyed, also were mere- 1 ly that that military city of 343,000 was blanketed by smoke and dust. The world's first atom bomb; smashed 4.1 of Hiroshima's 6.9 square miles Monday. Radio Tokyo added that "practically every living thing" there was destroyed. Superforts Strike Spaatz' Superforts carried their devastating blows against Japan into the fifth consecutive day with a 7ll-plane strike that poured 2.000-pound demolition bombs onto the Tokyu arsenal area. Crewmen's radioed reports said results were excellent.

More than 6(1 Mustangs and from Iwo accom-: panicd tiie B-29s, which bombed I both visually and with precision instruments at targets hit only two days before by 67 Superforts. Many vital military and industrial plants make the Tokyo arsenal area one of Japan's biggest concentrations of war productive power. Eleven square miles was burned out there by a 350-Super-, fort incendiary raid April 14. General MacArthur's communique today said that Far East Air News About Central i i I got a chuckle out of a letter written by a cowboy picture fan lo Paramount studio, which used to release the "Hopalong Cassidy" movies, but discontinued them about a year ago. The writer, Mr.

The marriages of smnc African natives arc inevitably tied up with cattle, so many being paid for each maid. Louisianians in Service JIMMIE FIDLER in Hollywood Copyright IU41 Dy McNauum syndloi fill Beg S. latent Office IIICE! Libuse Hall Libuse, Louisiana AUG. 11th TODAY AND SATURDAY Adults 21c 4c Tax Soldiers 17c 3c Tax Children 9c and North African campaign, rc- turning to the states a year later. He wears the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal, Distinguished Unit Badge, and American Defense, American theatre and Euoipean African Middle Eastern theatre ribbons.

Aboard I'SS Suwaner Hillery J. Duplechian, Obcrlin, Wilbert B. Kimball, Plauchev ille, S. J. Chance and Jesse J.

Patree, Leesville, all seamen lc, USNR, helped the escort carrier, USS Su-wanee, send her planes against the enemy at Okinawa. Receives Purple Heart Elvhus Jaby Lassiter, aviation metalsmith, 2c, USNR, son of Mrs. Marie Lassiter, Jena, was recently awarded- the Purple Heart for wounds received in ac- 1 tion in the Pacific at impressive ceremonies held at the Naval Hospital, Aiea Heights, Oahu, T. H. Aboard LSS Mobile I Edwin A.

Juneau, 2c, USNR, son of Mr. and Mrs. Octave N. Juneau of Echo, is a veteran of 1 nearly every naval engage- i ment in the Pacific aboard the USS Mobile during the last It months His wife and three chil- dren also reside in Echo. Survives Sinking: of Destroyer Roy Marcantel, 1c, USNR, Mission $1-00 Couple Dwcing 9 p.

m. to 1 a. m. MUSIC BY THE RHYTHM MAKERS" College was never tf00" JL cill lohnston Hwards Weaver Employment Data for Alexandria Area Announced Civilian employment in non-agricultural establishments in the Alexandria area, including Rapides and Grant Parishes, increased from 13.800 persons April, 19 to, to 20,100 in September, 19 according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U. S.

Department of Labor. Most of the increase was represented in non-manufacturing establishments where employment went from 10,300 in April, 1940 to 16,700 in September, 1941, BLS said. In manufacturing establishments, after employment increased from 3,500 in April, 1940, to in November 1943, it dropped off to 3,500 in May, 1944, and in September, 1944, was 3,400. An increase of from 400 in April, 1940, to 5,500 in September, 1944, was recorded for civilian employment in "selected industries," which included manufacturing, military, or naval. Civilian population in the Alexandria area jumped from 89,303 in April.

1940. to 104,078 in November, 1943, BLS said. In a foreword to Bulletin Number 82S containing the data, BLS said the figures, although preliminary, "arc believed sufficiently reliable tn serve as useful background against which to judge changes required to reconvert from wartime to peacetime HOLLYWOOD Almost daily, I hear criticism of Joan Crawford because she has retired so completely to the privacy of her home. Her critics say this is foolish of Joan. They say she is established in movie-goers' minds as a glamour girl, and folks expect to see her in night clubs and at public affairs.

To be honest, I also miss meeting Joan in the old familiar places. No sight was more entrancing than Miss Crawford dancing the tango or the rhumba with Ceaser Romero, for example. A highspol of premieres was her breath taking arrival in jewels and furs. As for Joan reclining beside a swimming pool in a form-fitting bathing suit oh, brother! But even though I miss her, I realize lhat she has at last achieved the happiness she sought so long to find. Throughout her life, Joan was constantly egged onward by burning ambition.

She didn't take time to seek out the real pleasures of her life, yet somehow, I always felt she yearned for those pleasures. Well, she has them now. A devoted husband, two delightful children, who are as charming as they are well mannered a home which she finds time to manager personally. Instead of rushing from one picture into another, Joan is milking lew films and is thereby finding time to enjoy her personal happiness. I have complained because Miss Crawford doesn't make more movies.

I have lamented the luct that she doesn't pursue the gay night life as of yore. But my calls of "Encore! Encore!" die in my bam SLUE HOON CLUB Training in Germany Pfc. Jerome Bordelon. son of Mr. and Mrs.

Jerome 32 Pine street, Alexandria, is stationed in Germany where he is attending school while taking jungle training. Entering the service in December, 1942, he took his basic training at Camp Howze, and went overseas in September. Pfc. Bordelon has three battle stars, a Combat Infantry Badge, and a total of 52 points for discharge. He is connected with the 84th Infantry Division.

Receives Silver Star Cpl. Hewitt J. Fontaine has been awarded the silver star for heroic achievement against the enemy in Germany. Cpl. Fontaine is the son of Mrs.

Florence Fontaine, Mo-reauville. Convalescing at Hospital Tfe. James T. Davis, 2525 street, Alexandria, has arrived at the Army's Ashburn General Hospital, McKinncy, Tex from overseas. Before being returned to this country Pfc.

Davis served on Saipan. Awarded Army Citation Pfc. John C. Quinn, son of Mr. and Mrs.

D. C. Quinn, of Lake Charles, now living in Chcney-ville. lias been awarded an army citation for meritorious service in combat with the 87 Mountain Infantry on April 14, 1945 near Torre Iussi, Italy. Part of the citation reads as follows: "During an advance across a heavily mined draw, Pic.

Quinn accompanied his squad leader through a hail of small arms fije. When the remainder of the squad was unable to advance, the squad leader advanced to pound the enemy positions. Of his own initiative, Pie. Quinn went forward to cover the actions of his squad leader, incurring this action a serious wound." Entering the service August 1, 1943, Pic. Quinn wears the Purple Heart, the Bronze Star, and the Combat Infantry badge.

He is now in the ETO, but hopes to be home soon. Maj. Lawrence Promoted DcQuincy. survived when the destroyer USS Drexler on which he was stationed, was sunk in an attack by three Japanese suicide bombers off Okinawa on May 28. Honorable Discharge ttn ami, ft.

iBifvvw uf a i Forces and Seventh Fleet planes 1 sank or damaged more than 60 1 Japanese vessels and 47 planes and maintained their daily heavy' 'pounding of Kyushu's "factories, railroad installations and airfields Tuesday and Wednesday. Tampblets Dropped i Although radio Tokyo was silent regarding the A-bombing of Naga- saki, millions of American pamph-! lets, dropped by B-29s. warned, that "the awful fact (of the atomic I bomb) is one for you to ponder and we solemnly assure you it is grimly accurate." Ninety Superforts early today created explosions at Amagasaki! that illuminated the whole area, The Nippon oil refinery, once the chief source of Japan's aviation fuel, was the prime target. i "The target looked like a giant torch. Heavy clouds of smoke' billowed up 20,000 feet." said Lt.

E. A. Bcrris, Waltham, Mass, I Although some planes encoun-! tered heavy antiaircraft fire, all of the B-29s returned. Spaatz' communique reported that Monday's B-29 raid on thc! Ubc coal liquefaction plant on' Honshu left that source of enemy fuel totally inoperative. Seawall Broken "All of the refinery units were destroyed or damaged and a sea-', wall protecting the plant was1 broken in several places, flooding; the plant site," he added.

MacArthur said that of the 47 planes, knocked out by the FEAF, nine fighters and one bomber were shot out if the air and 37 aircralt, were destroyed or damaged on the1 ground. Heaviest attacks were marie, against Kyushu's Tsuiki airdrome. 1 I ALSO CARTOON BUNKIE Presents EVERY Paul Spera, shipfittcr, 2 'c, of; 2015 Lee street, Alexandria, has i been honorably discharged from the Navy seabees in which he en- i listed in September, 1942. He: has served two years in the Pacific about which he says, "after all the building we did out there, it's a wonder there is one island in tho Pacific that isn't built up." Spera was on duty at bases on Guadalcanal, New Caledonia, the1 Treasuries and Okinawa. His wife, SATURDA1 BOITON AVE.

DIAL 4926 NIGHT "THE Mrs. Jewel Spera resides in Alex- andria and he has three brothers serving in the Army. Two are inj the ETO and the other is on duty in this country. i SHOWING MATES" Bunt MWitDviu lvhw. 1 FOIL PLAY DALLAS, Tex.

OP) Practically everyone ate fried chicken yesterday in a certain sec! ion of Dallas everyone, that is, except Lee Myers, the chicken man himself. Lee left his farm early in the morning with 180 chickens, bound for market, lie sold everyone he he had. Then, returning home with an appetite all his own for a dinner of fried chicken, Myers went to a coop to do a re-count on the 20 prize fryers he had stored away lor his own eating. But thieves had been to the Myers chicken ranch. The story has a "mother hubbard and her cupboard" ending.

The promotion of Major Rollo where 000 fragmentation bombs; were dropped and a nitroglycerin plant at Yatsushiro was reported probably destroyed. Other FEAF missions attacked shipping off; Korea and Honshu and ranged to! the Indies and Solomons. i I thoat, every time 1 stop bv her house and witness the picture of serenity that she and her loved ones are painting together. Idol Chatter: Pome: Many cinematic eggs are caused, by over-stressing legs. for sore eyes: Titian-haired Jeanettc Mac-Donald in her blue gray AWVS uniform Has any one thought of calling that chill master, Boris I have never seen (Jinny Simms that she didn't look like she was fresh from a beauty parlor Comedians like Bob Hope only come once in a laugh ln-a-worri description of Eddie Bracken; Fun-damentalist.

to think of it, few actors dress as natiiy as alter Winchell. The Hollywood Parade: Vietoi McLaglcn, Mi. Mr- 12-Piecc College Band flaying From to 2A.fi Delicious K. C. Steaks and 'BQ Chicken Six Nights USE i TOf i 111 eel Maj.

Shultz Named Salvation Army USO Club Director The staff of the Beauregard USO Club, operated by the Salvation Army, today announces the appointment of Major Amel Shultz as director. During his thirty-three years of service in the Salvation A Major Shultz has served in nine states. In 1934 and 1935 he in charge of Salv ation Army operations in New Orleans. His appointments include nii? years in "I'cxas, special wink o.i the Mexican border, Chicago, Springfield. Sedalia.

St. Louis, Nebraska, Mississippi, West Virginia, Maryland, Oklahoma and C. Lawrence, 29 years old. of Pineville. to the grade of licu-, tenant colonel was announced this week by the War Department.

He is the supervisor of flying training at the Fourth Air "Force B-21 combat crew training station at Tonopah Army Air Field, Nevada. the base which recently passed the 73.00(1 flying hour mark without a fatal aircraft accident more than double the former Fourth Air Force record of 33.500 hours. The son nf and Mis. Pol- In C. Lawrence, of Pineville, i Colonel Lawrence is a graduate Jladio engineering departments have covered as much as 10 years of normal development in two wartime years.

I'er Week SOLDIER'S RETLRN MIRAMAR, Calif. For nearly two ye; is overseas Marine Corp. Douglas F. Denny, 20, (797 Ocmec St.) Athens. had dreamed of cat.ng a sirloin steak.

During a tour with a Marine lighter at Midway. Enn-rau, the Philippines bombing at Lcyte. shclhng at Zamboanga lie never forgot the scak. Finally on his return to the Marine depot here he got his first liberty in nearby San Diego. It was meatless Fridav.

Lou- Louisiana. of Bolton High School, and SUNDAY TODAY THRU His previous appointment was at Lawton, Okla. For two and one-half years he has encouraged servicemen and women to continue with painting and sculpturing. Cll FAIR Chas. Starrett Jane Frazee isiana State University.

While at LSU. he was a member of "Scabbard and the honorary mil-! illary fraternity, and had four I years of officers reserv corps training with a commission ol first lieutenant in the infantry, In April, 1911. he came on active duty and applied for avia-Ition cadet training with army an 1 forces. He won his wings at Brooks land Randolph Fields, Texas, and became a first pilot on a B-21 I Liberator. He went overseas with ja B-24 group in July, 1942, and flew all through the Middle East IE Benefit of CATHOLIC CHURCH Erected if Mr-i i A( FATl ATF.

THE POSITIVE CAMP UPTON. N. Y. Russia settled a hot debate here Wednesday i'mong army rehab, Illation patients attending an orientation course. Discussion subject: "Why Russia hasn't declared war on Japan." Words were flying last before an officer arrived with the news that Russia had obliged.

"COWBOY CANTEEN" I I I'reiulrl in A Rookie's Cookie 1 'qf 4 I THE i NAUGHTY' NINETIES i 1)1 A I. iffl Aug. 11th 5 to 11 P. M. HAM FASHIONS STANLEY.

Kans. A pork chop may still be a pork chop, but the body it comes in can vary with the seasons, and that's official. The national Hampshire swine registry, at its annual hog type conference and sale here, has stated that ehangu.g appetites (and shifts in food rationing rules) force farmers to grow hogs "tailor-made" for the occasion. Once, when demand for lard as heavy, farmers grew small round "chubby" hogs. This season, the style in boss will lie a "mid.lle-of-'he-road" model a special number described as a combination of baron and lard produar, with thick round hams.

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