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p— WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS——.
Nazi Bigwigs Await Sentence;
Dewey Faces Mead in Strategic
Race for Governor in New York
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Searching for mines of the type that blew up transport scheduled
to carry illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine to detention camp os
Cyprus, British combed seaside settlement of S’Doth Yam, Tommy Is
shown tapping floor of nursery in quest for hidden cache.
WAR CRIMINALS:
Germany
Defiant to the last, Nazi bigwigs
awaited sentence on war crimes aft
er a 10-month trial at Nuernberg.
Winding up the lengthy case, in
which 3,000 documents were intro
duced and 5,000,000 words of testi
mony taken, former Reichsmarshal
Goering denounced the allies for ac
cusing the German leaders alone of
violations of international law; ex
t'oreign Minister Von Ribbentrop
ripped the prosecution for refusal
to admit as evidence an alleged
warning by Churchill that Germany
would be destroyed if she became
too strong, and Finance Minister
Bchacht pleaded he had tried to
avert the war.
Japan
Counsel for 27 high Japanese lead
ers on trial for war crimes in Tokyo
was thrown into a dither by the rev
elation that officials of the war de
partment had misused confidential
information to tip off the prosecu
tion on its strategy. Knowledge
that counsel would claim Japan was
forced into the war by America’s
diplomatic moves and economic
sanctions was radioed to the prose
cution and accidentally fell into the
hands of the defense.
Philippines
Concluding three days of fiery ora
tory before the people’s court for
his release on bail, Jose Laurel, Fil
ipino puppet ruler under the Jap
anese charged with collaboration,
declared everyone had worked for
the enemy out of fear or other mo
tives. Mentioning Japanese money,
Laurel shouted that it was in gen
eral circulation throughout the na
tion and therefore everyone who ac
cepted it had assisted the Nip
ponese.
AUTO OUTPUT:
Hits Lag
In calling a press conference in
Detroit, Mich., C. E. Wilson, presi
dent of General Motors corpora
tion, presented the company’s case
against both the government and
workers for the serious lag in auto
production.
Pointing out that G.M. had turned
o\jt only 400,000 cars and trucks in
the year following V-J Day instead
of the 1,400,000 scheduled, Wilson
charged the Truman administration
with having attempted to appease
labor unions by taking the lid off
Wages while at the same time
stating that price increases were
unnecessary. As a result, manu
facturers were “put in the nutcrack
er,” he averred.
Although G.M. has 88,000 more
employees on its payroll than in
1941, production is about half, Wil
son said. Tests on relative jobs
have shown that worker productiv
ity is about 80 per cent of the pre
war rate. Refusal of employees
to extend themselves, a high ab
senteeism rate, inexperience and a
large turnover partly due to the
ease in collecting unemployment
compensation all have contributed
to the inefficiency, Wilson declared.
HOUSING:
Fear New Obstacle
Having trimmed commercial
construction and tightened alloca
tion of materials to speed up the
veterans’ emergency housing pro
gram, Housing Expediter Wilson W.
Wyatt feared a prospective labor
REDEVELOPMENT:
Big problems of small towns re
cently assumed the limelight in Ok
lahoma where technical aid and re
search facilities are being centered
on rural redevelopment by the new
state Institute of Community Devel
opment.
The institute is helping small
towns build a new economy to fit
the changing times since the tradi
tional pattern of rural life in the
state is affected by soil erosion and
a growing manpower surplus.
shortage as a new obstacle to the
rapid erection of dwellings.
Revealing his apprehensions in
his August report on the vet hous
ing situation, Wyatt indicated that
the government would strive to
head off the latest bogeyman with
an intensive recruiting and appren
tice training program.
Despite a pickup in new building
in July, Wyatt disclosed in his re
port, the emergency housing pro
gram is lagging behind the an
nounced goal of 1,200,000 homes and
apartments for this year. During
the first seven months of 1945,
607,100 new dwellings were start
ed and 287,100 completed.
NEW YORK;
Election Battle
Gov. Thomas E. Dewey’s renoml
nation as the Republican candidate
for re-election in
November, and
Sen. James M.
Mead’s selection as jp
the Democratic JL .!»
choice for the of- r*?
fice, promised to
make New York
one of the strategic
political battle- f H Mmn
grounds for the
1948 presidential Governor
race. Dewey
In naming Mead,
the Democrats
pushed one of their strongest stand
ard-bearers into the fight to capture
the governmental apparatus of the
all-important empire state and at
the same time
t squelch Dewey’s
aspirations for the
White House. The
son of Irish immi
grants, who got his
start in life as a
water carrier for a
railroad section
gang, Mead has
made an impres-
Senator sive record in the
Mead senate, particularly
as head of the war
investigating committee.
That Dewey hoped to make the
impending gubernatorial race a
springboard for the 1948 presiden
tial run was seen in his strong casti
gation of the Truman administration
for “bungling and confusion” in his
renomination speech. As the par
ty lines were being drawn for battle,
Dewey stood as the favorite to win
because of his administrative rec
ord in office.
NAVY;
To Provide Comforts
One could almost have heard the
rattle down in Davey Jones’, locker
when the navy announced that it
was air-conditioning the new cruis
ers, Salem and Newport News, to
determine the best kind of equip
ment for eventually cooling all of
its ships.
In announcing the navy’s plans
for providing additional comfort for
crews on the bounding main, Vice-
Adm. Edward L. Cochrane, chief of
the bureau of ships, emphasized
that air-conditioning had proved in
valuable in boosting morale and
fighting efficiency in combat.
Various types of new air-condi
tioning equipment will be used in
the tests in the new 17,000-ton
cruisers, with the cool air transmit
ted into all living and working com
partments save machinery areas
where the heat is too intense. Sim
plified coils will be shockproof and
easily cleaned, it was said.
Farm Co-Ops Grow
Business volume and membership
of farmers’ co-operative associations
showed a substantial increase in the
1944-45 marketing season over the
previous season, according to Farm
Credit administration.
Estimated membership in the ag
ricultural co-operatives operating in
the year ended June 30, 1945, was
4 505,000, an increase of 230,000.
Business handled by the co-ops went
from $5,160,000,000 to $5,645,000,000.
THE HOUSTON HOME JOURNAL, PERRY. GEORGIA
VFW:
Ask Vet Aid
Adoption of resolutions calling for
increased benefits to World War I
vets and satisfaction of domestic
needs first before providing for
those of other nations highlighted
the Veterans of Foreign Wars na
tional encampment in Boston, Mass.
Congress was urged to authorize
pensions for World War I vets for
old age and disability, with pay
ments made for the latter regard
less of whether the disabilities re
sulted from military duty. Such
payments are made to Spanish
! American war vets.
I The government was asked to halt
shipments of food to former enemy
countries as long as any American
was unable to obtain sufficient food
1 stuffs to maintain proper health. A
protest was raised against deliver
ies of grain abroad at the expense
[ of U. S. brewers while beer was
being imported from England, Bel
gium and Holland,
Other resolutions called for the
trial of Yugoslav airmen who shot
i down American fliers; support of
| the Anglo-American recommenda
s tions for admission of 100,000 Jews
• to Palestine, and condemnation of
| the practice of awarding actors
i combat awards for troop entertain
| ment.
FOREIGN RELATIONS:
Russ Rap Envoy -
From Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the
Federated Press dispatched a story
s which read in part:
‘lnformation has reached
1 here ... of a sensational war
mongering speech delivered , . .
t in Buenos Aires by George S.
> Messersmith, U. S. ambassa
-1 dor to Argentina. Messersmith’s
speech, a so-called “off-the-rec
ord” affair at a meeting of the
r American Legion post in Buenos
Aires, pictured war between the
U. S. and Soviet union as in
evitable. ...”
1 Quick to respond to the alleged
1 address, Pravda, the Communist
, party organ in Moscow, opined that
- the state department had sanc
tioned Messersmith’s talk, thus di
rectly charging this government
with a hostile attitude. Pravda
declared that Messersmith had said
that his views were shared by high
- er-ups.
'■ In Washington, Undersecretary of
State William L. Clayton asserted
that Messersmith had denied cate
gorically that he had said war with
Russia was sure to come.
MARITIME:
Big Walkout
Government authorities pressed
hard to settle the walkout of 43,000
AFL seamen and avert a crippling
strike of all 500,000 members of
AFL and CIO maritime unions in
sympathy with their protest over
a wage stabilization board ruling
- nullifying substantial wage in
- creases.
T The trouble developed when the
WSB ruled that ship owners were
? entitled to apply for rate increases
® only on the basis of monthly wage
2 boosts of $17.50 as established in the
5 settlement of the threatened CIO
" walkout. The operators had grant
-3 ed the Seamen of the Pacific a
1 monthly hike of $22.50 and the Sea
-1 farers International Union $27.50.
1 In backing the AFL walkout, Big
s Joe Curran, CIO maritime leader,
’ was quoted as saying wage boosts
2 for any union were good for other
f workers in the industry. CIO big
r wigs were said to feel that success
of the AFL organizations in crack
- ing the industry’s wage pattern
i would lead to readjustments of their
- own contracts to iron out inequali
- ties.
J INDIA:
Showdown
1 Ominously the Moslem new?
. per Dawn of New Delhi lamentc
“India finds itself turned into
a prison house for Moslems.
The prison keepers must be
overcome. The art of gentle
persuasion having failed, the
2 hard road of resistance alone
r remains.”
t Even as the words were being
- written, bloody rioting, engendered
3 by the initiation of a Hindu-dom
inated interim government, raged
f in Bombay. Following the pattern
of costly outbreaks in Calcutta,
s mobs of Moslems and Hindus in
r vaded opposing neighborhoods,
i- knifed and beat their victims,
f smashed shops and homes and loot
i ed property.
With such violent riots long pre
-1 dieted by the British in the event
of their surrender of political con
- trol of the country, leaders of the
i large Hindu majority welcomed the
i outbreaks at the very inception of
- the new independent government as
-a test of their ability to maintain
s order. The Moslems, on the other
,- hand, appeared equally determined
i to press the issue for “Pakistan,” a
Moslem state within India.
VOLUNTEERS:
Local volunteer groups that
performed valuable wartime serv
p ices are “reconverting” to peace
g time activities in many cities,
e In Philadelphia, 500 auxiliary po
i licemen, virtually all with experi
ence in the civilian defense organi
r. zation during the war, have been
n sworn in to serve in time of emer
s gency and whep major events are
i. staged. Columbus, 0., recently cre
t ated a volunteer police force of 200
i. members.
WOMAN'S WORLD
Make Ready for Winter Now by
Giving Windows New Drapery
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IF YOU’RE one of those clever
*■ homemakers who change drapes
in spring and fall to make the
house either cool or warm during
the seasons, then it’s time you were
considering what draperies should
go on the windows for winter.
It may be that last year’s drapes
will give you another season of
wear; if not, make your selections
now with new fabrics coming out,
and do your window beauty treat
ments before cooler weather really
comes upon us.
The heavier fabrics should be
used for cooler weather, and it’s
preferable to have these draperies
lined. You’d be surprised how much
help it is to have heavy draperies
which really can shut out drafts
from windows.
When making and choosing drap
eries for your home, play up sim
plicity as much as possible, both in
line and design. The textile and
weave of the fabric should be sim
ple, and of course the drapery treat
ment should be considered with the
room as a whole.
Study the room carefully and de
cide what would look best in it be
fore you do any purchasing or sew
ing. The lines of the windows, the
size of room and windows, the color
of the room and its other furnish
ings will all give you a guide as to
what the drapery treatment should
be.
Skimpiness Is Worst
Drapery Fault
You’ve all seen draperies count
less numbers of times which look
as though they were made from ma
terial that wasn’t half enough
for them. You also know the im
pression of skimpiness it gives to
the room as well as to the occu
pants.
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If you want to save heat . . .
Don’t make draperies unless you
can afford to have a luxurious full
ness to them. This is not quite as
true for bedrooms—especially grow
ing boys’ and girls’ rooms, but it
definitely applies to living and din
ing rooms.
Whether you gather the drapes
or have them hanging in precise and
tailored folds, make sure there is
enough material available for such
a purpose.
How shall you decide whether to
have full length draperies or win
dow sill length? You’ll find that
most windows require the full length
type unless the house has windows
far removed from the floor. In this
latter case, short drapes will look
better.
It’s not necessary to have drapes
dragging the floor to look nice and
to avoid skimpiness. In fact, you’ll
probably find that it makes for eas
ier cleaning if the drapes are about
an inch or so from the floor. Hem
lines, of course, must be just as pre
cise as possible to prevent the
drapes from looking sloppy and giv
ing the room a slightly askew ap
pearance.
Before you cut the drapes, look
over the fabric carefully so that you
know how the pattern should run
and whether you should have val
ances.
Steps in Cutting,
Sewing Drapes
If you have tested the fabric for
shrinkage or know that this par
ticular fabric which you are using
does shrink, make any allowance
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Fashion Forecast
The three-eyelet oxford featured
by some should be very popular
with the smart and mature business
woman. It’s an elegant looking
shoe.
Girls who go to school ought to
buy clothes for classes with this
idea in mind, say the experts:
Choose things which are easy to slip
into, and not too much bother to
keep looking nice.
Long'Jacheted Suit
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For tailored smartness, here’s
a green gabardine suit with ar
row-designated collar and pock
ets. Marguerite Chapman, now
appearing in Columbia’s '‘The
Walls Came Tumbling Down,”
wears accessories of pink and
white candy striped pique, a felt
casual hat of matching green and
a sable scarf.
for this in the sewing. A tuck may
be run across top or bottom on a
long stitch, or basted, to be let out
later. However, if there is just a
little shrinkage, shrink fabric be
fore sewing or make the drapes a
little longer or wider.
If you are slightly short on ma
terial, then this will be taken care
of by lining or by facing at the top
and the bottom.
Allow for a two-inch hemline at
the bottom and more at the top so
that there will be ample room for
hooks or rods.
The lining and interlining, if that
too is used, is basted to the drapery
material itself.
When you start sewing, sew the
top first, then the sides, always
sewing from the top down. Make
your stitches sure and even, mark
ing the lines with a chalk if you
are apt to get confused sewing on
so much material.
If you are making pleats at the
top, then measure carefully before
putting them in. You can’t get the
spaces too even, so use a ruler and
mark and pin generously.
If your drapery material is on
the light side, it may be necessary
to sew weights in to make the
drapes hang properly. Make sure
that this is done securely, and that
the weights are covered.
To finish the hem properly, let the
draperies hang for a day or so be
fore attempting to mark the hem
line. This will give the material a
chance to fall into the proper posi
tion and help the fabric straighten
itself out. When this is done you
may mark the hem, baste and press
before stitching into place.
If you want to hide the drapery
and curtain fixtures, you may use
a valance of the same material as
the draperies, selecting whatever
style is best suited to the fabric, as
well as to your room.
Fabric Facts
Fibers that are smooth and
straight reflect light on their sur
faces and produce a lustrous ef
fect. This process is usually
called mercerization, and is used
often on cottons. Silk and rayon
have naturally lustrous fibers.
To deluster rayons, colorless
pigments are used in the spin
ning solution. This is used fre
quently in rayon stockings, and
prevents that shiny surface.
Rough surfaces on fabrics
catch dirt and hold dust more
easily than smooth-surfaced fab
rics. Smooth-surfaced fabrics,
however, will stain and spot
more readily. Consider these
points in selecting fabric for spe
cial uses.
Wool fabrics dye well and
evenly, too. The ease with which
a fiber absorbs dye has a bear
ing upon the appearance and du
rability of a fabric.
Chrome dyes are used often on
wool to give it increased fast
ness to light and washing.
Colors that capture attention:
bright red, kelly green and royal
blue. They’re also warm, cheerful
colors for cool weather.
Another memo to mothers; see
i that your daughter has plenty of
; sweaters if she attends school. They
really are less expensive than
i dresses and can be combined with
i skirts to give her many different
I outfits.
'IMPRQVED
UNIFORM INTERNATIONAL
SUNDAY I
chool Lesson
By HAROLD L. LUNDQUIST. D. D.
Of The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago.
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
Lesson for September 22
Lesson subjects and Scripture texts se
lected and copyrighted by International
Council of Religious Education; used by
permission.
JESUS AN!) TIIE LAW OF THE
STRANGER
LESSON TEXT—Exodus 22:21-23; Deuter
onomy 24:14, 15; Matthew 25:34-41.
MEMORY SELECTION—TIie King , shall
answer and say unto them. Verily I say unto
you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto
one of the least of these my brethren, ye
have done it unto me.—Matthew 25:40.
There is as much need today
for the words of counsel and ad
monition regarding strangers which
we find in our lesson, as there was
in the days of Moses, for there
seems to be an almost complete
breakdown of neighborliness both
between nations and individuals.
I. The Law Required Neighborli
ness (Exod. 22:21-23; Deut. 24:14,
15).
Our heavenly Father as revealed
to us in his Word is a Father in
deed, one greatly concerned about
his many children; but especially
docs he care for those who are weak
and needy.
The laws of ancient Israel mane
provision for the feeding of those
who had no fields. The corners of
the field were left uncut at harvest
time, some of the grapes were to
be left on the vine, etc., so that the
poor could enjoy the sense of self
respect as they picked for them
selves what God had provided (see
Lev. 19:9, 10; 23:22; Deut. 24:19-21,
and other passages).
The poor man who found work
was to receive his pay when need
ed. For the one who hired him to
do otherwise was to bring upon
himself the judgment of God. He
listens to the cry of the hungry
worker and his family (Deut. 24:15).
Strangers were in a peculiar way
subject to the possibility of extor
tion. They are even today the easy
mark of the one who lives by his
wits, the “confidence” man and
sneak thief.
If any such person reads these
notes let me warn him solemnly to
keep his tricky hands off the stran
ger, for God is watching and will
hear their cpr (Exod. 22:23).
The same is true of widows and
orphans. God is their keeper and
their defender.
Someone may say that all this, is
Old Testament in its background
and principle. What about the fol
lower of Christ in our day? The an
swer is that
11. Christ Expects Neighborli
ness (Matt. 25:34-41).
This is a prophetic picture of a
great judgment scene. It is not, as
many suppose, the same as the
judgment of the Great White
Throße of Revelation 20.
The scene here is not in heaven,
but upon the earth. It is not individ
uals who are being judged, but the
nations of the earth. They are not
being judged regarding per
sonal salvation, but for their treat
ment of Christ’s brethren.
Who are his brethren? First we
think of his brethren, after the flesh,
the people of the Jewish race. Scrip
ture reveals again and again that
God is watching over his chosen
people, even though they are now
scattered in judgment for their un
belief. He will not hold any guiltless
who harm his people (Gen. 12:1-3),
The word “brethren” is also used
in such a passage as Matthew 12:
46-50 to include all who do the will
of God. That suggests a broader ap
plication of these words.
Our attitude toward God ex
presses itself in our attitude toward
our fellow man. That which we do
toward those about us is not a mat
ter of indifference, but is the basis
for God’s judgment of our lives.
Each of us must answer for the
deeds done in the flesh whether they
be good or evil. That is true even
of the believer (II Cor. 5:10), whose
salvation has already been deter
mined by his faith in Christ.
Here in our lesson, however, the
failure to do that which shows forth
God’s law of love is made the
ground of eternal judgment. This
is Dot because an act of kindness
itself can be regarded as the
ground of division, but because the
failure to give it or do it reflects
an attitude of heart toward our God
and his Christ which is in reality a
rejection of his way of salvation.
Judgment is thus a revelation of
the attitude of the heart, which
marks a man or woman as being
either saved or lost. It may be pos
sible to so becloud the thinking of
our friends and neighbors that we
may go through life looking some
thing like a Christian, but when
Christ judges, it will all be revealed.
Notice the importance of a proper
attitude toward those who need our
kindness and help. All too often the
only concern of men and women is
to look out for “number one” and
let the rest of the world shift for
itself.
Observe also that the Lord identi
fies himself with his brethren
what is done to and for them is
counted as done to and for him.
Compare the experience of Samuel
(I Sam. 8:7) and of Paul (Acts 9:5).
Touch God’s people and you touch
him. Fail them and you fail him.
Serve them and you serve Kim
