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GALLUP POLL SAYS: Republicans Hold Lead In Mid-West Farm Belt AccordingTo Vote Today Democrats Face Hard Task To 'Win Back Farmer Support, Bpt Can Still Fall Back On Agricultural South following is the second of a series of news reports by the r.jr poll on political sentiment throughout the country By GEORGE GALLUP Director, American Institute of Public Opinion PRINCETON, N. J., January 22—Although Democratic party leaders are going after mid-west farm votes this year with renewed i tensity, all evidence to date shows that the Republican party is hi nine its own in the farm areas. The Democrats will have to turn me near-miracles if they expect to walk off with a majority of farm votes in 1946 or*-— l9fatest soundings of farm senti bv the Institute find that .lightly more than four farm °n J in every ten in the mid-west e ' .av they would vote Demo cJaUc « a presidential election *TrnetheldsolidaSouth it is a differ nt oicture, of course, with the Southern farmers still strongly Democratic, in fact, more Demo nic now than they were in 1944^ Farm sentiment was measured the following question: U “if a presidential election were being held today, which ,rtv would you vote for—the Democratic or Republican?” The vote of rarmers in the mid west states-states which are of emcial importance in the electoral college—follows. MID-WEST FARMERS Rep. Dem. Percent 1936 Election -44 56 1940 Election -55 45 1944 Election -57 « TODAY - 58 *7 The percentages represent the average for farm sentiment in the combined area of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota, and Missouri. .... THE TRUMAN administration can count as usual, however, on a strong backlog of Southern farm votes. With the Southern farmers counted in, the picture of tot^I farm sentiment is more favorable in the Democrats. ALL FARMERS * Rep. Dem. Percent 1936 . —41 59 1940 46 54 1944 —52 48 TODAY _ 49 51 The increase in Democratic per centage this year as compared to 1944 comes about because of a rise in Democratic strength among Southern farmers. Whereas the vote among Southern farmers in 1944 is estimated at 66 per cent Democratic, today the survey find's approximately three out of four Southern farmers favoring the Democrats if a presidential elec tion were held. This gain, however, is of no particular value to the Democrats in a presidential election, because increased strength in the solid South does not bring any increase in electoral votes. A relatively small Democratic gain in mid-western states could yield much richer political divi dends in an election year than a very substantial gain in states where a Democratic majority has always been assured. SURVEYORS TO MEET RALEIGH, Jan. 10.— (IP) —The North Carolina society of surveyors will hold its annual meeting Thurs day in the civil engineering build ing at N. C. State College, it was announced today by Prof, C. L. Mann, secretary of the society. Dr. J. L. Stuckey, head of the college’s department of geological engineer ing, will be the principal speaker. During the history of volcanic mountains, there may be long Periods 0f inactivity. I % r • ’r",TTo [republicans holding their IF A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION WERE BEING HELD TODAY. MAJORITY OF MID-WEST FARMERS (58% WOULD VOTE REPUBLICAN Bladen &an Gets Five - Year Term WHITEVILLE, Jan. 22.—David Jacobs of Bladen county was sen tenced to five years in prison for burning an automobile to collect insurance, Insurance Commission er William P. Hodges of Raleigh stated. Jacobs was sentenced in Elisa bethtown on January 10th by Superior Court Judge Clawson Williams. Jacobs was given five years for burning the car and an additional five years to run con currently for preparing a false proof of the law. Also Thurmon Patrick, also of Bladen county, charged with being an accessory to the burning re ceived a three to five year sen tence. The automobile, a 1938 model Ford was rebuilt and equipped with new tires by a Whiteville garage and insurance was placed to cover the note for the repairs. The car was found burned in a secluded spot of woods and evi dence showed that a fire was built under each of the four wheels. There was evidence also to show that the new tires had been re moved from the car and other tires had replaced' them, also the car was stripped of generator, bat tery, carburater, and other parts that could be taken off before it was burned. It was claimed by Jacobs that the car caught fire while he was driving same and that he and the other occupant jumped out of the car, also this was claimed to be a different time of the day from the time the car was discovered burn ing by two game wardens late at night who were going through the woods looking for violators of the game law and found the car burn ing with the parts missing from it. SCHOOL TO END SPEED-UP STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (U.R) - Pennsylvania State College will re convert from a wartime accelerat ed program of three semesters to a normal schedule of two semesters a year beginning next fall, Presi den Ralph Dorn Hetzel announced. .. i JAP GOVERNMENT WILL CRACK DOWN TOKYO, Jan. 22.—(A*)—1The Jap anese government got ready today to crack down on the black mar ket in rice—basic food crop of this hungry nation—by withholding fer tilizers and farm machinery from farmers sabotaging the legal food marketing program. Farmers currently sell rice to government purchasing agents on a voluntary basis, for resale to the public in rationed quantities at fixed prices. But only 32 percent of the crop has been reaching the consumer in this way. The rest is sold on the black market at prices many times the official rate. Wataru Narahashi, chief secre tary of the cabinet, said the gov ernment was forced to take strong action to prevent “a serious crisis” ; in food, and to make possible the importation of supplemental food stuffs from abroad. The Ministries of Finance and Commerce meanwhile collaborated on a plan to force wealthy Jap anese to sell hoarded stocks of goods accumulated in an effort to evade taxation. General MacArthur ordered the government to provide detailed in formation concerning 14 Zaibatsu (family monopolies) and 18 major holding companies, including the names of major officers and of per sons holding more than one percent of the stock. The purge of Ultra-Nationalists from Japan’s administrative ma chinery also continued as more than 2Q prefectural governors and 33 top members of the home minis try resigned. CAPT. P. V. H. WEEMS STOPS OFF IN CITY ENROUTE TO NORTH Captain P. V. H. Weems, USN, former convoy commodore in the North Atlantic who is on his way from Florida to his home at An napolis, Md., visited Wilmington yesterday. Captain Weems who commanded 2,000 ships crossing the Atlantic to European theatres without loss of a vessel is on terminal leave and is retiring from the navy, it was learned during his visit at the U. S. Navy Port Director’s office. The captain, a former instructor in navigation at the Naval acade my, described his Atlantic record as ’lucky.” “We didn’t lose a single man to enemy action, either,’’ he said, “al though we did lose 71 men near the end of the war when the French carrier Bearn crashed in to the stern of one of the vessels in my convoy.” To pilots and navigators, both air and sea, the ruddy-complexioned, white-haired captain is probably better known for his work on navi gation. An inter nationally-recognized authority in the celestial an$I dead reckoning branches of the science, he is a prolific writer and has turn ed out numerous books on naviga tion used by the services during the war. He also designed many cal culators, and other mechanical navigation devices used by airlines, ships, and the armed forces. As he expressed it, “I design an instrument, manufacture it, sell it, then teach you how to use it.” An income of $1,475 was enough in 1941 to cover current living ex penses of an average city family of three in 1941 but in 1944 an in come of $1,950 was required. Dial 2-3311 For Newspaper Service STEEL STRIKERS 'JUMP GUN' IN PITTSBURGH FRIGID COLD AND FALLING SNOW meant little to these former workers in the giant Irvin Works of the Car negie-IUinois Steel Corporation at Pittsburgh, Pa., as they formed their picket line before one of the plant gates in advance of the midnight deadline. Warming themselves at a roaring fire, they shouldered their self explanatory placards to begin one of the nation’s most serious strikes. /*-, (International Soundphoto) The New World Almanac Records 1945 Events In the year 1945, when ever} day’s newspaper was so packed with momentous events that i: seemed too precious to destroy, a group of experts in news selectior was preparing a handy, complet* and permanent record that woulc take up only a few inches on yoin desk. This was the staff of “The World Almanac and Book oi Facts,” headed by E. Eastmar Irvine. Few lexicographers, ir other years, had faced such s challenge; when men turned ir future to their book they woulc want to know the details of the final bloody battles that won vie tory for us in Europe and Asia V-E Day and V-J Day, the disap pearance of the Nazi empire amic fire and rubble and the abjec surrender of the Japanese; th« epock-making atomic bomb; the difficult negotiations among the victorious powers to conserve the peace of the world, and the com plete readjustment of policies anc personnel in the United States government made necessary by the sudden death of its President, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the succession of Harry S. Truman. “The World Almanac and Book of Facts for 1946” marks the 61st year of publication of what has long since become the most widely consulted book of information in the country. It is published by the New York World-Telegram, a Scripps - Howard newspaper. It offers, in addition to the chron ology of the war, the specific text of the surrender documents and' such important state papers as the statements on the occupation of Germany, the Potsdam Dec laration and the Berlin-Pctsdam conference. It gives the full text of the charter of the United Na tions organization adopted in San Francisco and the record of ratifi cation. It gives a compact account of the atomic bomb and its effect on international relations. These matters alone give his toric weight to this year’s Al manac, but the GI Joe who con sults it probably will turn just as eagerly to the records of his battle and' casualties. From the services in uniform the Almanac progresses to the vast business of governing the United States. Here is a vast range of specific and general information; the texts - of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence: the substance cf the Monroe Doctrine and other historic acts; a description of every state and territory in the union; a special article on Frank lin Delano Roosevelt and bio graphies of all other Presidents; information on elections, taxation, the judiciary. The Almanac also gives special attention to the or ganization of New York City and . state. Interpreting The News By JAMES D. WHITE Associated Press Staff Writer SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22.—(JP) —A speckled hen in.Hiroshima has laid an egg. It was her first since the advent of the atomic age last August. This is according to the Tokyo Asahi Shimbun. It might mean that the Japanese are thinking bet ter of such widely-spread yarns as the one about Hiroshima never being habitable again because of lingering radioactivity—yarns de signed to strengthen the Japanese reaction that the atomic bomb was a crime against humanity. But it could be that the Asahi doesn’t want its readers to forget Hiroshima, which it’s doubtful they ever could anyway. While the Asahi is publicizing the Hiro shima hen, the Kyodo news agency notifies its member newspapers that American censors “are wise to Japanese attempts to evade cen sorship and are very displeased.’’ Now this censorship was clamp ed down by General MacArthur early in the occupation after the Japanese press printed a rash of stories, never proved, charging the first occupation forces with as sorted criminal assault, looting and murder. TJius, although they probably would have got a mili tary censorship of a kind for some time, the Japanese in effect asked for what they got. Kyodo says Japanese papers now are evading it by mentioning in accounts of current crimes such as “large men” (most likely to be Americans) and “small-type automobiles” (which could be jeeps.) The recent death sentence of an American soldier convicted of kill ing two Japanese is described by an Associated Press dispatch as “the first of its severity for a crime against a Japanese.” This clearly suggests that there have been other crimes committed and punished. Apart from its implications to Americans, this situation hints that behind the censorship there still is much resentment and prob ably elements of the super patriotism which got Japan where she is today. After the surrender there was much beating of breasts by Japa nese politicians in the democratic manner, blaming Japan’s bad luck upon the militarists. Some of the higher militarists rent themselves with cold steel to show their re morse at failure. But the lamenta tions were for failure. Few Japa nese saw anything wrong with Japan’s international behavior and aims. The Japanese myth has faded only by degrees, and then only in the hot light of truth. It has faded most, perhaps, in the minds of repatriated prisoners. Originally destined—under Japa nese military custom—to be out casts because they had been cap- : tured alive, they found that an American directive had fixed things so they could return as ac cepted citizens. They’re -actually sore now be cause their people, instead of | scorning them, merely ignore :hem. They think more attention should be paid to them because of heir “sacrifices.” They aren’t Japan’s policy mak ers. They are just clodhoppers and clerks stuffed into uniforms some years back to do the fighting. Given g chance, they learn luickly. MENTAL HYGIENE CLINIC PROPOSED Support of a proposed mental hygiene clinic was given by mem bers of the Community Chest and Community Council at their joint meeting in St. Paul’s Lutheran parish house .Monday night when it was pointed out to them that — within ten years there will be 10, 000,000 children reguiring assist ance of such a clinic. The discussion was held in the absence of Dr. David A. Young, state psychiatrist, who was to have spoken to them on the subject of "Mental Hygiene.’’ Leaders of youth agencies in the community stressed the need of such a set-up in the community life of Wilmington saying in substance —it will be a direct aid to the youths with whom they work. Ex pressing their support of the plan were Mrs._ Helen Jones, Girl Scouts; Courtland Baker, Boy Scouts, and Walter Bess, Sea Scouts. A Miss Barrie, an employe of the State Department of Voca tional Training, informed the gathering that similar clinics have been set up in other cities, and are working directly with many cases, especially in the cases of returned veterans. Miss Virginia Herrin, New Han over High school, stressed the value of the work, especially among children and youths of school age. Rabbi Samuel A. Friedman, of B’Nai Israel congregation, quoted figures and facts revealed in cent national survey. He declared figures and facts revealed in a recent months point to a total of 1,000,000 children alone who will be mental patients or will need the resources of a Mental Hygience clinic within the next ten years. Possibilities of the once-proposed domestic relation’s court becoming a reality were discussed by the Rev. Walter B. Freed. He explain ed the court was proposed here more than a year ago. At the present time, he pointed out, there are no such courts in the state, although several cities are trying to establish them. Greenville Woman Suffers Heart Attack At Bus Depot Hospital attaches at James Walk er Memorial hospital said last night the condition of Mrs. W. K. Lea, 62. a resident of Greenville, who suffered a heart attack yesterday, was “favorable”. Mrs. Lea was admitted to the hospital yesterday afternoon after the attack which she suffered while in the ladies lounge at Union Bus station here. She was enroute to visit her son, Marshal Lea, who re sides near Bolton, according to J. G. Hall, policeman, who made the report. The State Highway radio patrol, Elizabethtown was signaled by City police radio patrol to contact Lea about his mother’s condition. The Star broadcast at 6:25 p.m. car ried the message, but hospital at taches said last night he had not been contacted about his mother’s illness. DEATH OF 150,000 NUERNBERG, Jan. 22.—(A3)—A French prosecutor charged today that a starvaton diet and privations resulting from Nazi looting had caused the death of at least 150,000 Frenchmen, contributed to thous ands of other deaths and under mined the nation’s health for years :o come. Hie Frenchman, Charles Gerth iffer, told the International Mili ary Tribuna 1 trying 22 leading ^azis that the crime of starving mtire populationns “is not less )dious” than those of deporations, nurders and massacres. He quoted reports showing that he daily ration of food in France fill as low as 850 calories daily at i time when millions of ons of oodstuffs were being shipped into Germany. Dwellers in the mid-western and nountain states may soon be dis :overing the delicious flavors of •eally fresh ocean fish, in the !irst experiment with cargo planes j' is carriers, fresh fillets loaded in 3oston at 10 a. m. appeared on ;ale in Chicago stores as early as l d. m. the same dav. HIGHWAY COMMISSION OPENS REPLACEMENT BIDS FOR BRIDGES The State Highway commission yesterday opened bids for the re placement of the Alligator and Brunswick river bridges on High way 17 in Brunswick county. Also included in the opening were bids for the replacement of several structures in Pender coun ty. Low bidders on each project will be determined and announced later in the day, according to an Associated Press dispatch from Raleigh. The Pender projects were bid on last fall but quotations were deemed “excessive” and rejected by the commission. In anticipation of the replace ment of the Brunswick bridges, telephone and telegraph wires al ready have been moved from the structures. New Hanover residents awaited announcement of the contract awards with great interest as the two bridges, as well as several other Brunswick structures, have for several years been termed traffic hazards due to their nar row width. Also opened in Raleigh today, according to the Associated Press, were bids on projects in Martin, Perquimans, Jones, Lenoir, Cum berland, Sampson, Durham, Per son, Caldwell and Graham coun ties. The pansy has been deveoped from the vioet within the past 300 years. j Josephine Keith Seeking $3,000 Injury Damages A suit had been filed yesterday with A. L. Meyland, clerk oi Superior court, by Josephine Keith against Tide Water Power com pany. The plaintiff seeks recovery oi $3,000 for injuries she claims ^|i« sustained while she was a passea> ger on a Tide Water bus Septe^ ber 28, 1944. She claims she st>| tained permanent injuries whi^ have prevented her from pursuing her ordinary duties as a domestic servant. Department of Agriculture chem, ists have found that from 90 ti 95 gallons of liquid motor fue! can be obtained from a ton ol corn cobs or cottonseed hulls an« that about half of this is in th| form of ethyl alcohol. It is estimat ed that something like 100 million tons might be available for us» in this new process. _ FOR — CORRECT TIME CALL 2-3575 — FOR — Correct Jewelry VISIT The JEWEL BOX Wilmington's Most Popular Jewelry Store 109 N. Front St. FIVE DROWN AS CAR TAKES PLUNGE FOUR GIRLS AND A FORMER MARINE were drowned when the car in which they were riding tore through a bridge railing and plunged into the Bellamy River at Dover, N. H. The body of John Shimkonis, New Hamp shire University student, is shown stretched out on the ice after being recovered from the river by a diver (front, center). Six survivors, a girl and five ex-GIs—all State University students—who were in the car when it crashed, were being treated at a nearby hospital. (International) ( FOUNDED 1840 PARK & TILFORD RESERVE I i Turin HCTiiifH IB.. MEW TIM . 1t% KM MtlWM. tPIWTI » Ul FMI THE straight whiskies in this product are five years or more old. 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