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Brief Review Of State, National And World News During Tlie Past Week STATE APPLE CROP TO BE LOW THIS YEAR Raleigh — The 1945 State com mercial apple crop is estimated fey the State Department of Agri culture at only 315,000 bushels— less than one-fifth of last year’s production of 1,782,000 bushels, and even smaller than the poor crop grown in 1943. Some or chards in the Brushy Mountain area of Alexander and Wilkes courities report a^fiir setting of Apples. The crop in other moun tain sections, however, is excep tionally spotted and generally ex ceedingly light. North Carolina’s peach crop, now at peak harvest, was set at 2,370,000 bushels—the same es timate given a month ago. Al though this year’s crop is approx imately 300,000 bushels less than the quantity grown last season, commercial production in the Sandhills is reported higher than for last season. Commercial rail shipments are new expected to total about 2,300 cars as compared with 1,700 in 1944. NAPS ON TRAINS FOR G. I.’s WILL ROTATE Washington — The army is go ing to experiment with “sleep shifts” on Pullmans in an effort to relieve the shortage of sleep ing cars, it was learned this week. Under this system, a soldier will occupy a berth eight to 12 ncurs and then relinquish it to another soldier for a similar period. The remainder of the time will be spent in day coaches. The first test train, made up of coaches and Pullmans, will leave Camp Kilmer, N. J., at 9 a. m.. Sunday for Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Hybrid corn acreage has been expanded at such a rate as to make up nearly two-thirds of America’s corn acreage today, ac cording to Federal statisticians. NAZIS MUST PAY 20 BILLION DOLLARS New York—The Herald Tri bune said a secret agreement was reached at the Yalta conferencs whereby Russia, Great Britain and the United States would split $20,000,000,000 to be supplied by Germany in reparations. In a dispatch from Washington, the newspaper said: “ . . . Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin agreed extract $20,000, 000,000 in reparations from Ger many in five years. "... The agreement was that Russia would get the bear's share, or 50 per cent; the United States 20 per cent, Great Britain, 20 per cent, and the minor vic tims of the Nazi aggressors in Eu rope, a total of 10 per cent.” The Herald Tribune added: “ . . . Russia is now going on the theory that what was said then (the Yalta conference last Febru ary) by the President, the Prime Minister and the Premier, still goes—Senate or no Senate.” The article said that at Yalta, Stalin said, in effect: “If you leave the situation to me, I’ll get $30,000,000,000 out of them.” GENERAL BRADLEY IS HOME FROM EUROPE Washington — Gen. Omar N. Bradley arrived by plane from Europe last week and left im mediately for a vacation prior to taking over as head of the Veter ons Administration on Aug. 15. Bradley’s destination was not disclosed and the War Depart ment said he would be “incom municado” until ready to assume his new duties. The former commander of ground forces in Europe, Bradley flew here by way of New York. His plane landed at 12:19 p. m. at the Washington National Airport. A military aide said the gen eral’s vacation would be his first in 12 or 13 years and that he was “badlv in need of rest.” HOUSE MEMBERS ARE NOW ON VACATION Washington — House members took off last week for their long est vacation since 1938 after a listless final session in which they boosted the pay of a group of leg islative employees and discussed fhiS pfalat^jility of horse meat. Barring emergencies which might recall them to work sooner, they won’t return to business un til October 8, the 11-week holiday being the most extended unbrok en surcease from official work since the six months vacation of 1938. There was no fanfare or cele bration as the adjournment bells rang the end of a six-month ses sion with only about fifty mem bers in their seats at the finish. Quitting time was 2:22 p. m. east ern war time. House action included adoption of a resolution giving raises of from $500 to $1,500 annually to a group of miscellaneous House employees who failed to receive increases several months ago when the House voted each of its members $2,500 expense funds. FINISH SHORT COURSE IN HOME NURSING A short course in first aid and home nursing, conducted by Miss Ainslee Alexander, associate FSA j supervisor, for FSA and other in I terested families, has recently I been completed in the Laurel ! Springs section. i Discussions centered around first aid tratment which would be of practical use to mothers in the home, as bandaging wounds, how to stop bleeding, treatment "or burns, snake bites, poisoning, and other first aid measures. Special diets for the sick person, daily care of the sjck, and pre WANTED! IVY and LAUREL BURLS Briarwood is coming now from North Africa and Italy in ever increasing quantity. Dig your Ivy and Laurel stools now while the price is at the highest in the market. OFFICE AND SAW MILL WEST JEFFERSON, NORTH CAROLINA Purchasing Agents: ' TODD DRUG CO ' West Jefferson. N. C. BBOWNWOOD W. H. Brown Fleetwood. N. C. Carolina Briar Corp. BUT WAR BONDS! Young Engineer With Old Idea t George A. Bucher gives his son, David, a helping hand to complete the latter’s idea of building a sidewheeler at their home at Lake Mo hawk, N. J. The boat is 14 feet long and driven by a two-horsepower gasoline engine, connected by a belt with a shaft on which are mounted two 304-inch paddle, wheels. 2,000,'000 Will Soon Lack Jobs In War Production Work 44th DIVISION HAS COME HOME AGAIN New York—The 44th Division came home aboard the mighty Queen Elizabeth—14,766 of the men who sailed for Europe 10 months ago and drove all the way across Germany to Austria for their part in the final kill of Na zism. i fi |: SSk The world’s largest hospital ship, the Francis Y. Slanger, also arrived. The Slanger docked a* Staten Island with 1,561 litter and ambulatory patients for Halloran General Hospital. Other ships which docked were: The Monticello, with 7,037 men including the 23d and 38th Regi ments of the 2d Infantry; the Le .ieune, with 4.621 men of the 11th Regiment of the 5th Infantry Di vision; the Bret Harte, with 353 reassignment troops, and the Nishmaha, with 12 liberated air force prisoners of war. There are some indications that the downward trend in the farm labor supply may have ended, ac cording to the United Sthtes De partment of Agriculture. cautions necessary to take in car ing for a person having a conta gious disease were; discussed. Much interest was shown in the demonstration of various impro vised equipment which could be used in caring for a sick person. The nurse met with the group and gave some helpful demon 1 strations during the last meeting. Washington — The War Man power Commission reported this week that cutbacks in war pro duction since V-E Day will lift the nation’s unemployment total to the 2,000,000 mark by August 1. This will be an increase of 1, 000,000 over the June 1 figure. On that date, only 1,000,000 men and women were out of work in the entire country. WMC is not worried about the sudden increase in unemploy ment, however. It expects most of the jobless to be absorbed ini reconversion production. From August until Nov. 1, about 700,000 . unemployed are expected to re- j turn to work in reconverted in dustries and expanded civilian activities. Unemployment is not evenly sDread throughout the country. Some areas, like Portland, Me.. Evansville, Ind., Jacksonville, Fla., Detroit, Mich., Houston, Tex as, and Fresno, Calif., have a sur plus of manpower But other ci ties such as New Bedford, Mass., Baltimore, Md., Akron, Ohio, Mo bile, Ala., and Portland, Ore., have a shortage. In the past two months the Mid west has suffered the greatest i number of cutbacks in its war in dustry and consequently has the most widespread lay-offs. Heavi [ est cutbacks have been in Michi gan and Ohio, where thousands of people have been laid off in air craft, ordnance, and small-arms war plants in Detroit, Grand Hap ids, Muskegon, and Pontiac, Mich., and Lima, Toledo and Mansfield, Ohio. American Heroes by WOODY COWAN "If" 1 J BUYING War Bonds to support such men as Sgt. Walter D. Ehlers is little enough. Acting as spearhead against an enemy strongpoint, he killed four in a Nazi patrol, put a gun crew out of action and put to flight a mortar section. Again he advanced on a machine gun and knocked out its crew single-handed. All that he did while machine gun bullets and mortar fire poured upon him and his men. U. S. Trtasury Department ~-y tr»g~tF’rtfF,c ' S THE Alleghany News PRINTERS AND PUBLISHERS SPARTA, N. CAROLINA LETTERHEADS ENVELOPES STATEMENTS ROLE FORMS . > v:#t BOOKLETS State College research workers ire busy trying to discover new, mproved methods of agriculture ind are attempting to find better control measures to curb crop tind . livestock diseases- v" '"fi hamper the progress of Tar ti.eel , farmers. The USDA is offering for sale to the orginal processors 1.90& caseS of canned tomatoes. lOUR REPUTATION IS YOUR PROTECTION A Luxurious Style! Here is an aristocrat among1 Livingroom Suites. 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