Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1945 Page: 4 of 8
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BASTROP ADVERTISER, BASTROP. TEXAS, OCTOBER 25, 1945
Wounded Fly Casters
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"Skip" Parker, one of the ex
pert.* at the Navy ho>pital at Sea-
Kate. near New York's Cone)
Inland, lends a helping hand, and
teeth, to "Crip" (troves, in prepar-
ing his tackle.
Enroute To Husbands
Some of the hundred an<* twenty
brides and twenty brides-to-be of
members of Royal Australian Air
Forces are shown as they airived
in Seattle enroute to San Francis-
co. The delegation will embark
for Australia to join their hus-
bands and fiances whom they met
in Canada.
Kachin Hero Home
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Capt. Charles Coussoule. leader
of the famed Kachin rangers,
which snaked through swampy
Burma jungles to beat the Japs at
their own game, is shown upon his
arrival in New \ ork City.
Musician Hath Farm
Paul Whiteman, insert, and en-
trance to the farm of the erst-
while "King of Ja/z." Whiteman |
has mailo a paying proposition
out of his farm, which he has !
stocked with purebred cattle,
horses and poultry. He does much
of hit own work.
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By PAULhkLLON^
Released by Western Newspaper Union
ATOMIC BOMB CREATES
SUPER-SPY SYSTEM NEED
WASHINGTON—Major General
Wild Bill Donovan bowed out of
the first real American intelli-
gence service (OSS) with a some-
what cool-sounding response from
President Truman to his idea of
developing his line of effort fur-
ther for peace. Mr. Truman cut
up OSS, sending part to the War
Department, but most to State.
The Donovan notion of hiring
someone like Sumner Welles, the
ex-diplomat, to keep intimate and
independent watch on the inner
international world, was left hang-
ing in air—somewhat foggy air.
General Donovan has never been
a glamour boy. He is a rather
crusty soldier-lawyer. Those who
know what he did in the confi-
dential special agent part of the
war say his work in the Balkans
particularly was excellent and
could have been done by no one
else as well. Into his organiza-
tion, however, crept a number of
persons who did not fit the best
nature of the endeavor and gave
it distaste with Congress. I think
this fairly sum3 up OSS. It did
great work, but was not popular.
(I can never learn what accom-
plishes popularity in this era when
a bank robber can possibly attain
it by merely being for the 30-hour
week or some such social innova-
tion.)
In the wake of this peculiar con-
dition, congressmen are ariiing to
shout "There will be no American
Gestapo," and I assume also they
mean no OGPU or NKDV. In-
deed the^e will not. But there is
a grave danger that the first vital
necessity for a secure postwar
world will be ignored and shunted
aside by muddleheudod political
thinking about it
If you thought Pearl Harbor a
surprise and blitz warfare sudden
as lightning, you are already old-
fashioned and obsolete in your
thinking, l'ht next war will start
like a flash—the brilliant blinding
flash of the atomic bomb. If our
defenses were archaic last time,
they will be pitiful next time un-
less our officials know everything
going on in this world. Advance
knowledge is more essential to de-
fense in a future world than a
superior air force, an army or
fleet.
Not the Fascist* or the Com-
munist nations, but the British,
a democratic nation, have the
beat world intelligence. It was
built up through generations.
Their survival depended upon it.
because their little islands had
absolutely nothing to justify
their superior position in the
world, except an awareness of
the facts of national existence*
and a superior shrewdness in
using them. That is what we
need—only a better one.
It cannot be an army enterprise
because the army covers only one
phage of world facts influencing
peace and security. It cannot be
navy, marine corps, or merely all
three together, because diplomacy
must be founded upon such in-
formation. (The British even move
commercially from such realistic
ground news.) It cannot be split,
or you will have each department
performing again the coordination
they showed about Pearl Harbor—
namely none.
INDEPENDENT BUREAU
NEEDED
Consequently it must be an in-
dependent bureau covering at
least these government elements
and probably more (Justice De-
partment and FBI.) Furthermore,
the head must be a man whose
character and personality guar-
antee full pursuit of the business
to be done, and a complete dis-
avowal of any political implica-
tions in the work. He must not
be a leftist or right or even a
professional Democrat or Repub-
lican. That service must lean
over backwards to keep itr.elf po-
litically inviolable, and beyond
even the faintest suspicion of po-
litical use. (The British know-
how to do it.)
The only limit on its appro-
priations Nhould be our need of
information. If "« need the
information—get it. If the
spenders want to let Treasury
money loose, here is one place
where they could get something
out of it. Some interested par-
ties wish to limit the scope ol
activity to foreign information.
It should be limited only by need.
If it is found counterespionage
in this country it requires action,
no political aoftpeddaling con-
siderations should be allowed to
stand in the way of getting it.
Wake Hero Father And Proud Son 95th Division Is
Inactivated at
Camp Shelby
Camp Swift. Texas — (Spl)—The
l 5th Division, the first division to
I be trained at Camp Swift, has
been inactivated at Camp Shelby,
j Miss., to w hich it returned from
I the European theater of opera-
tions.
I Word of the inuctivation, re-
ceived this week by Col. O. 1'.
Houston, Post Commander, was
I carried in a general order dated
October 12.
The oval blue patch with a red
numeral nine entwined with a
i w hite Roman numeral V, became
a familiar one in central Texas
while the OK division was in
training at Swift the last six
months of 1942. It sailed for
Europe in July, 1944, and there
trained acclaim as a hard hitting
•unit of the Third army.
j Its men became known as the
"Iron Men of Metx." after tak-
ing that heavily fortified area
The 95th went on the Capture
Boulais. important communica-
tion center; led the Third army
into the Saar and attacked Sarr-
lrutern, the thickest portion of the
Seigfned line.
i Commanding the 95th through-
out was Major General Harry I..
Tw addle, who was on hand to ac-
cept the division standard when
the Division was re-inactivated at
Camp Swift on July !♦>, 1942. The
old 95th was originally activated
at Camp Sherman, Ohio, in Sep-
tember 191H, but after the Armis-
tice became a paper organization.
Members of the staff upon ac-
tivation at Camp Swift included
Brig. Gen. R. L. Spragins, assis-
tant division commander; Brig.
Wen. Ward Maris, artillery com-
mander; Lt. Col. Fred E. Gaillard,
assistant chief of staff G-l; Lt.
Col. Alexander C. McNaab, G-2;
Lt. Col. Mark. McClure, G-.'i; and
Lt. Col. Samuel T. W illiams, G-4.
Lt. Coi. James P. S. Devereux, hero ol Wake l-land. returned to
Washington. D. C.. and is shown with his t-leven-vear-old son. "Paddy"
James Patrick, as they left the station. It h their first meeting in
four years, during which time Colonel Devereux. a prisoner of the
Japs was unable to send or receive word to hi« proud son
Dickie Gives Toots a Pedicure
"Dickie." eight-months-old pet parakeet, perches atop her canine
pla> mate, "Toots," six-months-old puppy, as they frolic on the rug in
the home of their owner in Detroit. "Dickie" seems to he giting
"Toots" a pedicure by the simple expedient of perking at "Toots' "
claw. This is a daily job which the parakeet has taken «*er for his pal
Starved Allied Soldiers Freed
Ihe physical condition of these two members of the British Royal
artillery, is representative of thousands of Allied soldiers freed from
Japanese prison camps by \meriean troops. They are shown relaxing
on the hanger deck of the USS Black Island, one of the liberation ships
that has been set aside to see that former prisoners ar* rushed home.
Went Into Business for Himself
Hominy-Making
Time Is Here
Hominy-making time is here
again and a few hints on selec-
tion of corn for hominy will help
the homemaker in getting a bet-
ter product, says Miss Iberia
Sturges. county home demonstra
tion agent for Bastrop county.
Hominy is an economical source of
carbohydrate, an energy food, aud
has some protein and a small
amount of iron ami calcium.
Corn with large flat kernels is :
l>est for hominy because the broad
type requires less time for lye I
ing. White corn make^ a whiter
and more attractive hominy, but '
yellow corn may be used. Kernels
should l>e uniform in me. That
i means the butt* etui tips of ear*
! which are usually off shape should
: lw> left out. New corn which has
! dried in the field under normal
weather conditions is best, if it is
| too dry, it takes too long to re-
move hulls and the starchy por-
tion of the kernel is burned in the
long lye treatment.
| Instructions for the making of
hominy may be serured by writing
to the of fire of the home demon-
stration agent in Ba trop. This in-
clude* the preparation and method
of canning the hominy.
Kill Peach and
Plum Tree Borers
The time of year to treat peach
and plum trees for the control
of borerera is here, says Miss I>ena
Sturges, county home demonstra-
tion agent. In this section of the
state, this should be done Itefore
November 20. If gum with fraxs or
sawdust is noticed coming from
a tree just below or above the
ground line the borer is at work.
The tru borer, or base borer,
is the .lie to watch for. It works
underneath the bark of the tree
just below or above the ground
line. If it is not controlled it will
weaken a tree and prepare it for
attacks by other destructive para-
sites.
Control may lie obtained by ap-
plying PDB crystals around the
tree after removing weeds and
gra.-'S for a distance of IK inches
from the trunk. Dosages are one
half ounce (1-2 ox.) of crystals
for u tree under three years of
age; three quarters ounce for a
tree just coming into l>eanng; one
ounce for a bearing or mature
tree, and one and one half ounces
for an old large tree. Treat only
I those showing signs of borer dam-
age.
The crystals are applied in a
circle one inch wide and one r.nd
one haif or two inches from the
tree trunk. If the borer's entrance
hole is above the ground, build a
dirt mound around the tree so
that the crystals will Ik- placed
above it. After the crystals are
applied to the soil cover them with
a few shovels full of dirt and pack
it down. After about HO days, re-
move the mound with the crystals
to prevent damage to the tree.
Borers working in the branches
of peaches or plums can be con-
trolled by painting their entrance
holes with a solution of one pound
of PDB crystals dissolved in one
half gallon raw cottonseed or lin-
seed oil. Remove the gum from
the bark l>efore painting and do
not paint all the way around the
limb or branch because the solu-
tion will injure it.
Gas
HEATERS
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Nicholas Kochek, was given a gun and went into business for h<m
self, lie was given credit for knocking out more tanks nnl killing
more (iermans than many divisions, while he w .is \WOI. and senlnv
with the French underground. He is shown wearing tin- I reivh beret
He said he deserted army as he did not like In peel potato*-- Court
rartial clearcd him of charge.
A Walk in the Woods
And a long glut of Superior Milk when you gel home
how'a (hat for top in October livin ?
Pasteurized Milk
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Standifer, Amy S. Bastrop Advertiser (Bastrop, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 25, 1945, newspaper, October 25, 1945; Bastrop, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth237033/m1/4/?q=+date%3A1941-1945: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Bastrop Public Library.