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The Alamance Gleaner V?L LXXI GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, MAY 10, 1945 " Na 14 WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Allies Mount Drives to Smash Nazi Pockets for Early Win; Guerrillas Pare Jap Strength _____________ Released by Western Newspaper Union. ?????J (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and net necessarily ef this newspaper.) Forced to view emaciated bodies of atrocity Victims near Weimar, German civilians register conflicting emotions. Stories of brutalities have ltd congressmen to call for barsb peace. EUROPE: Trap Closes With Adolf Hitler himself directing the city's defenses, Berlin stood as a burning symbol as combined U. S., British, Russian and French armies anight a speedy knockout of Ger aaan remnants to bring the war to an early conclusion. Of all the savage city fighting of World War II ? fighting which left aach historic centers as Warsaw and Vienna in ruin?none approached the ferocity of the battle for Berlin, ahere German women and even children reportedly joined the 500, Wt army defenders in a fanatical attempt to curb the Russian steam mfler. With both Germans and Russians Bghting with a burning hatred for ?ech other, the battle swirled from baaae to house through rubble Jfecwn streets, with massed Red artillery and air fleets steadily re dwing enemy strongpoints. Said Bnssian correspondents: "Each Wane of the city, each meter of street, is against us. We have to toke them with our blood." As the Reds' vise closed on embattled Berlin and Hitler ex posed himself to one of the most dramatic captures in history, elements of the two Russian armies attacking the city swept beyend it westward for a junc tion with American troops along fee Elbe and Mnlde rivers. Meanwhile, still another Red leree smashed past Stettin to drive westward along the Bal Gc coast and join British troops whittling Nazi pockets in the north. Working together to finish off the Germans in the north, the allies also cooperated to K. O. them in fee south, with two drives aiming Id smash the Nazis' vaunted na Gonal redoubt in the Bavarian Alps and pinch off the great arsenal of Czechoslovakia. In the first instance, the French 1st army, the U. S. 7th and 0th and die Russians rode hard on the ene my's mountain hideout from the west, north and east in an attempt fe enter it before fanatical SS men could steady themselves for a stand. In the other instance, the U. S. 3rd army pushed into Czechoslovakia from the west while Russians moved in from the east, with the Tanks also swinging southward into Austria for a hookup with the Reds. Thus w. s a solid ring of steel forged ar.und Hitler's last impor tant i drstrial area. In Italy, fast U. S. and British motorized columns and low-flying planes shot up retreating Nazi troop columns falling back on the Alps to the north. Italian partisans fast took over administration of this last stronghold of Mussolini's. POSTWAR SECURITY: Discuss Terms As delegates from 46 United Na tions fashioned a postwar organiza tion to keep the peace at the San Francisco conference, they pon dered amendments to the Dumbar ton Oaks plan, serving as a basis tor such a body. Foremost among the amendments were those proposed by China and supported by the U. S., Britain and Russia calling for the applica tion of justice and international law la settlement of disputes; the re ferral of changes or development of inch law to the assembly of the security organization, and the addi tion of educational and cultural co operation to the postwar body's re ^wnsibili ties. With the U. S., Britain, Russia, Quna and France dominating the organization through permanent membership on the executive coun cil, and with any of the five big nations able to check the use of force or economic sanctions for ag gression, many of the smaller coun tries strove for greater representa tion of the smaller states in policy making. PACIFIC: Guerrillas Help Effective in harassing enemy strength in Europe, guerrillas are playing an equally effective role in the Philippines, where their opera tions behind Japanese lines are helping to reduce their position. While regular American army units tightened their hold on the Baguio district in northern Luzon, where the Japanese were putting up a last stand, Philippine guerrillas sallied far behind the front lines to capture the big port of Vigan and adjacent airfield and clean up the entire province of Ilocos Sur. Meanwhile, Japanese defenses on bloody Okinawa crumbled under the terrific weight of U. S. naval, low flying aerial and artillery bombard ment, with the Yanks fighting for ward through battered entrench ments. Japanese dead far outnum bered prisoners, again indicating the ferocity with which they resisted. FRANCE: Bombshell With Marshal Henri Petain still commanding a large following, France seethed as the 89-year-old hero of Verdun of World War I and collaborationist of World War II voluntarily returned to his native country to stand trial on charges of plotting against the state. Famed for stop ping the Germans at Verdun in 1916 when they threat ened to break the back of French re sistance. Petain Marshal Pelaln gained notoriety after his country s downfall in 1940 for a cooperative policy with the enemy which his fol lowers aver was necessary for him to obtain fair treatment for the stricken nation. Declaring that at his age one had only to fear a failure to perform his duty, Petain said he was re turning for trial not only to clear his own honor, but also to protect all of his followers. The peculiarity of the Marshal's position is ex emplified by the fact that some of his reforms have been carried over by the De Gaulle government. MEAT: Supply Cut Ringing true to predictions that the meat situation would grow even tighter, OP A revealed a 2Vi per cent cut in supplies this month from April, with slightly more veal, lamb, mut ton and pork offset by about 9,000, 000 pounds less beef. At the same time, OPA announced that rationing would be extended to cover 99 Vi per cent of all available meat items, with only about 5,000, 000 pounds of mutton left on a point free basis. Cull and utility grades of veal and lamb and the breasts, shanks, necks and flanks of those meats were put on the red-point list. So that the amount of red points would jibe with the available sup plies of meat, point values were upped, with increases of from one to two points a pound for most cuts of all grades of lamb and veal and one point a pound on most beef steaks. Utility grades at veal and lamb will possess the same ration values as the better types. SHOES: Tight Fit Forced to renege on lta promise of validating another shoe stamp for children this spring, OPA found It self compelled to go one step far ther in conserving the tight supply of footwear by limiting vets to two stamps in a book and new babies to one?in the latter case, to prevent use of more stamps by adults. Though OPA later backtracked on its promise to increase children's shoe rationing in recognition of their greater use of footwear, it said 150, 000,000 pairs of part leather or com position shoes would be produced for sale to both youths and adults with out stamps. However, few of these shoes have reached dealers' hands. Factor in the continued shoe shortage, OPA officials said, was the under-supply of full grown and fattened steers, which produce the best leather. Because stockers have trimmed their feeding of these ani mals on complaint of unfair ceiling prices, decreased amounts of this leather is available. Happy Czar When burly, bubbly, 46-year-old Senator Albert B. (Happy) Chandler was appoint* ed commissioner of organized baseball to succeed the late Judge Landis, the game obtained not only an able executive but an enthusiastic sportsman as well. Graduate of the Harvard and Kentucky j university law schools, and former state legislator, lieutenant ? governor, governor ana senator of his native Kentucky, Chandler had played professional baseball in his youth, then coached high school | basketball before en tering politics. Plea* ?. ?j i Happy Chandler "< '"?*!? """I soon made his mark as a politico, being first appointed to the U. S. senate after losing a close race to Senator Alben Barkley. Indicative of Chandler's disposition is the story of his stopping off to uatch a sandlot game in Washington, D. C., while on his way to see ex-Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Jumping into the game tchen one side became short-handed, Hap py stayed to the finish, then rushed to keep his appointment, sweated and dusty. WAR SURPLUS: Wallace's Baby Charged with the welfare of both domestic and foreign business, the department of commerce was given the responsibility of disposing of consumer and miscellaneous sur plus war property formerly handled by the treasury. Although over-all policies are de termined by the Surplus Property board in spirit with the surplus prop erties act, administration of the reg ulations will lie with newly appoint ed Secretary Henry A. Wallace's commerce department, thus afford ing him the opportunity of proving his executive mettle on a difficult job which must be timed so as not to disrupt the normal economy and accomplished to obtain the maxi mum return for the government. Surplus goods entrusted to Wal lace's commerce department In clude machinery, automotive equip ment, textiles and wearing apparel and hardware. WHEAT: Big Carryover With surplus wheat stocks of the U. S., Canada, Argentina and Aus tralia expected to total approxi mately 950,000,000 bushels on July 1, the Bureau of Agricultural Econom ics reported that this amount would be sufficient for world trade without compelling any of the countries to draw upon carryovers for 1945. In the U. S. alone, the bureau said, surplus may reach 350,000,000 to 375,000,000 bushels in view of the difficulty of exporting sizable quan tities because of the shortage of freight cars for shipment to ports. Unless a great many more cars are available for movement of wheat which has piled up in country elevators and on farms during the last five months, it was said, not 1 only the export program for lend lease and foreign relief may be hampered but also the handling of the prospective large 1945 crop. ARMY DISCHARGES: Limited Releases Even should German resistance continue through the summer, army plans call for the release of some vets with Ave years of service re gardless of age, military officials disclosed. At the same time, congress moved to preclude the use of 18-year-olds in combat without six months of training. Under the army's plans, some men who volunteered as the mili tary expansion program got under way in 1940 or were among the first inducted would be discharged, with releases dependent upon the avail ability of the individual from his unit. Man About Touin: Ban Franciscans are talking about: The more than 200 G-Uen (not including the numerous state department confidential agents and New York City, Chicago, New Or leans, etc., ace detectives) to guard the delegates and diplomats. The Big City "dicks" are assigned to spot well - known pickpockets, "dips," rogues galleryites and "can nons" ? as big-time crooks are called by the gendarmes. . . . The heaviest protection is for Russia's Mr. Molotov. . . . As one John Ed gar Hoover man put it: "He'll be guarded by nearly 200 Russian se cret servicemen so an FBI agent won't get within 200 yards of him." FDR's pal, Charlie Mlchelson (he was 75 the other day), raising eye brows with the prediction: "Mayor LaGuardia may be the Democratic nominee for governor of N. Y." . . . John Metcalfe, the Washington correspondent, here for a New York gazette. He's finishing a book called "Tin Cup Diplomacy," which will please the underpaid working in our state department. . . . The re turn of Joe Rosenthal (this is his home burg). Joe is the AP hocus focuser who took that wonderful picture of the flag being jJTanted on Iwo Jima. . . . Kent Cooper, the AP boss, is offering reproductions of the famed photo at $1?the profits to go to the Marines via Navy Relief WALTER WINCHELL IN SAN FRANCISCO The renowned rivalry between Los Angeles and the San Francisco correspondents, which George Polk carries on from his Washington beat for his L. A. paper. George won't refer to it as the San Francisco con ference. He calls it the California conference. . . . The "real reason" Cong. Clare Luce returned to Italy. They say she wrote a book there in which she does "a job" on Edda Mussolini. Mike MeDermott, the popular special ass't to Sec'y of Statetenius. He arranged hotel rooms for over 600 newspaper men, newsreel cam eramen, colyumists and radio prima donnas and then wound up with no "decent" space in which to sleep himself. . . . The musical show, "Watch Out Angel," which folded at the Curran theater Satdee night after a three-week run. Too bad. Some of the score was very good and several people in it are tal ented. . . . The Alcazar theater re named the United Nations theater. Its new marquee was arranged via the War Production board?via re quest of the state department. Glenn Allvine of the Will Hays zoo is in charge. The Hollywood films there will be changed daily for the dele gates. "Going My Way," frixample, will be heard in Czech for the Czechs. In Portuguese for the Bra zilians, etc. Jack's for Big Town food, better than most spots in New York. . . . The two Stork clubs. And S. Bil lingsley can't do a thing about tho natpe piracy, either. Seems they registered the name in Calif, before Mr. B. got hep. . . . Barbara Burke, ex-Follies dolly, recently di vorced, who becomes a bride again shortly. She's the prettiest gov't worker in town. . . . Ralph Ober's comment: "The passing of FDR was the shock heard around the world." . . . Ernie Pyle, who died with the Americans he loved. But he will live in the hearts of Ameri cans who loved him. The plight of 8. F. restsuranteurs and swank hotels trapped between OPA rules and the confabbers. No butter, no steaks, etc. . . . But you have little trouble getting what you want in the small restaurants along Market street. Breakfast Club Appeals To Millions of Air Fans Audiences and Events Make Program of Ever Increasing Interest By W. J. DRTDEN Released by Western Newspaper Union. Radio stationa and network* throughout the country revised their programs, cancelled outright or drastically revised all commercial broadcasts, when word was re ceived of the death of President Roosevelt. Topical of programs undergoing complete revision was the Breakfast Club's broadcast on which Don McNeill, master of cere mony, paid tribute to the president: "One of the qualities about Mr. Roosevelt that I always admired," said McNeill, "was his sense of hu mor. In the tremendous job in which he gave his life he needed a sense of humor for balance. In fact, if he could speak to us now, he might say something like this: "Never mind the flowery lan guage about me ? when my time had come the Lord knew I was not an indispensable man, so get back in there and finish off the job in a hurry, and make a peace so binding, so secure, that this may never happen again. Get back to the ' days when you can quit worrying 1 about your loved ones and when you ' can laugh and smile. Your face looks so much better that way.'" Radio's favorite daytime variety show, the Breakfast Club, owes its popularity to its ardent fans in ev ery city, hamlet and nearly every farm in America. It has been adopted and considered as a part of rural America. By making an appeal to those in rural districts as well as in metropolitan areas, it proved that a morning hour vari ety show could achieve immense popularity. Scripts have been entire ly dispensed with and the cast de pends on native wit rather than on gag writers. Like the program following Presi dent Roosevelt's death, each pro gram is created by circumstances and the audience itself. There is no monotony, for the program is life itself, the life as played fey its many fans. They create the pro gram, play the parts, give the ques tions and answers. Audience's Contributions. There are other reasons tor this radio program clicking. Don Mc Neill, the genial m.c. of the pro gram, which is carried over Blue Network stations of the American Broadcasting company, would say that the audience's contributions are what makes for the remarkable success of the program'. Many fans find other reasons. Some 876,000 of them applied for charter membership in -the club in one week. , i Each program from Monday through Saturday at 8 a.m. will find 600 fans watching the program. Hundreds are turned away daily from the Chicago studios where the broadcast originates. Tickets are now required two weeks in advance. These people come from all the states in the union. They come to see Don McNeill, who has served is master of ceremonies on more * network broadcasts than any other man, woman or child in radio. He f, nas spent more than 4,000 hours nefore the microphone, and still f, gains in popularity. & They come to see Nancy Martin, ii the singing schoolma'm, or song iter Marion Mann. They come to y jee Sam Cowling, the heckler, or J Ed Ballatine, the orchestra director, ^ or Ray Grant's Vagabonds. 1( They come to see Fran Allison's tl oharacterizations of genial, gossipy, c gauche "Aunt Fanny," which are so v realistic that Fran's mother, back in I Iowa, is in a perpetual dither for t Fear that kinfolk might be offended. 1 They come to make the program, g their program. t Memory and inspiration time on the broadcast has reached the t heartstrings of the Breakfast Club's v ? ? < II # RADIO GARDENER Don MeNeiH, M. C. of the Break lit clnb program. u?. The prayer and impromptu as ignmenta for D-Day will go down i radio as a classic of the year. When the program was started IX ears ago, no visitors were allowed, his rule was first broken in 1937, 1 response to a letter from a hope sssly tubercular marine, who wrote hat seeing a performance of the lub was chief among the things he ranted to do before his final hour, n 1938, the doors were thrown open o all comers. Since then half a mil ion people have seen the pro ;ram and watched the "gang" go hrough their paces. The program has attracted ne ional attention in its effective war vork. They are given credit for hav When the entire cast takes the stage, things begin to hum over the air. i I inc started the waste naoer salvae* Hybrid Hogs Produce Super Meat Development of * super meat yielding hybrid hog by the appli cation of the aama inbreeding meth ods that produced hybrid corn is the goal of farm authorities. Thirteen state experiment stations are cooperating in what is known as the Regional Swine Breeding laboratory, George A. Montgomery writes in Capper's Farmer. They are inbreeding some of the more popular breeds with the hope of establishing superior types. In this they are following the methods of those who developed inbred parent stock for modern hybrid corn. "The hog men are little further advanced in their program than corn men were 15 or 20 years ago," Mr. Montgomery points out. "They have their inbreds, but the work of main in his herd: 1. Sows must be able to produce large litters of live pigs. 2. A high percentage of pigs born alive must survive to market age. 3. Pigs must gain rapidly from birth to market weight. 4. Feed re quirements for each unit of gain must be low. 5. Body form must be such as to produce high yields of the most desirable cuts of pork. "He has succeeded in fixing the last three characteristics so some of his lines and crosses of these lines excel purebred Polands that have been propagated by ordinary breeding methods. However, in breeding lowers vitality and, to a lesser extent, fertility; and crossing two unrelated inbred lines of the same breed does not produce the hybrid vigor that comes when two breeds are crossed. Winters ex New type Minnesota hybrid hoy. combining them to see which ones nick has hardly started. Minnesota and Iowa, for example, have crossed inbred lines of Poland Chinas, with certain elements in the results highly encouraging; others distinctly disappointing. "At the Minnesota station. Dr. M. L Winters, working with Poland Chinas, has saved only individuals that best combine Sve economical ly desirable characteristics. To re plains that this is because the base is too narrow. "Work done at the Minnesota station with ordinary purebred boars bears out this theory. A cross of a purebred boar of one breed with a purebred sow of an other gave pigs that were superior to either parent breed. The cross bred gilts, mated to a purebred boar ef a third breed were still bet tar than ? ? ?? drive in the United States. They fo cused national attention on the cru cial manpower shortage in war in dustries ? and early in the war re ceived the government's thanks for this work. At one bond auction Mc Neill sold (1,114,000 worth of war bonds at the swank Winnetka dis trict. For this he received a treas ury citation. M.c. Don McNeill is an honor ary sergeant major at Fort Sheri dan and a reserve recruiting official in the marines. He was recently awarded the degree of Doctor ot Frustration by the Boswell institute. His greatest honor, however, he says, is the thousands of letters re ceived from his fans. The host of the Breakfast Club waa born in Galena, 111., December 23, 1907, That should make him 38 years old, but he insists that he is only 28. Several years later the Mc Neill family moved to Sheboygan, Wise., where Don attended high school. There is no record of any previous schooling. He gained fame in high school by winning a fly swatting contest. In 1925, he found his way to Milwaukee and enrolled in the college of journalism at Marquette university, where he edited the student newspaper and tooted a snazzy saxophone. His per sonal representative, Jimmy Ben nett, says that the success of both ventures can be determined by the fact that he is no longer employed as a tooter of saxophones or a news paper editor. In 1928 he secured a job on a Mil waukee radio station, announcing programs, directing programs, rid ing gain in the control room. rouDd ing up guest speakers, editing the station's publicity releases and an swering the telephone. He was paid $10 a week, which was later in creased to $15 a week. When he re cently signed a new five-year coo tract with the Blue Network, it wag at a figure slighly above what ho was getting at Milwaukee. After receiving his Ph.B degree be decamped to Louisville, where he became one of the Two Profes sors, a comedy team over WHAS, In 1933 be went to Chicago, took over the not-too-well-known Pepper Pot program and developed the nreeert Rntslrfatt Dak.
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