The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, August 30, 1946 Page: 1 of 16
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1ST 23, 1948
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ESTABLISHED JAN. 18. 1873
THE CLARKSVILLE TIMES FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 194G
Government Has
Loss 12 Million
Last Year On
Crop Insurance
Restoration of
Price Ceilings
On Cattle.Held
Up Few Days
Yugoslavia Tops
Recipients In
Relief Assistance
Of Uncle!
Washington. UP)— United Na-
tions Relief and Rehabilitation
I Administration figures show that
, Yugoslavia has been the chief recip-
ient of aid from the International
organisation whose finances are
borne chiefly by the United States.
In response to questions, a spokes-
man for UNRRA said that the val-
ue of supplies delivered to Yugo-
slavia through June 30 of this year
amounted to $315,778,000 as com-
pared to $313,145,000 for Poland and
$280,675 000 for Greece.
The whole program, as now con-
templated, would put China in the
lead, with total aid amounting to
$535,000,000. Yugoslavia would be
third, after Poland, with $429,500,-
000.
An additional $11,789,000 worth'
of supplies were bound for Yugo-
slavia on the basis of relief ship-
ments cleared through the end of
July, bringing the total for that
country to date to $327,577,000.
This would leave more than $100,-
000000 still remaining to be shin-
ned from the first of August until
the end of this year when the
UNRRA program: for Europe is
scheduled to be terminated.
A report on file with the House
Appropriations Committee listed
the shipments to Yugoslavia in five
categories, as follows:.
Pood—1.1713,655 tons, valued at
$127,228,000.
Clothing—64,645 tons, valued at
$55,711,000.
Agricultural rehabilitation — 74,-
533 tons, $14,396,000.
Industrial rehabilitation — 269-
565 tons. 44.507.000.
Medication and sanitation — 5,-
572 tons, 10 748,000.
money from the go*
he isn’t entitled to
the General Acco
(GAO).
It’s the biggest ao
on earth. It has ttux
of nosing out leakai
Washington —(/P)— OPA an-
nounced late Wednesday that res-
toration of price ceilings on live-
stock will be postponed until Sun-
day, September 1.
The OPA said the higher price
ceilings announced earlier Wednes-
day by Secretary of Agriculture
Anderson required the delay.
Previously the imposition of the
new ceiling had been set for mid-
night Wednesday night.
The agency said the new price
control act “makes it mandatory
for OPA to increase the ceiling
prices in accordance with the Sec-
retary’s recommendation."
Ceilings on retail meat prices wlU
be restored on Sptember 9, as pre-
viously announced.
Ceilings will also apply for the
slaughterers as announced on Sep-
tember 1, and for non-slaughtering
wholesalers on September 5.
The Reconstruction Finance Cor-
poration announced it is reinstating
meat slaughter subsidies on cattle,
calves and. hogs on September 1, at
the same rates that prevailed when
the old OPA law expired June 30.
By PETER EDSON
NEA Washington Correspondent
Washington, D. C. —(NEA)—
Department of Agriculture predic-
tions of bumper wheat and com
crops, with another bad crop of
cotton, again focused interest on the
Federal Crop Insurance Corpora-:
tion,)K»gram It will lose money
4 again this year, the loss on cotton
more than offsetting the profit on
wheat and flax.
L Last year the Crop Insurance
w Corporation took in nine million
dollars In premiums and paid out
21 million dollars in indemnities—
a net loss of 12 million dollars. On-
ly 192,000 farms were covered.
Winter wheat wasn’t included be-
* cause Congress didn't pass the
can war goods to the country which
shot down two non-surplus Amer-
ican planes.
William G. Williams, consulting
ment funds,
or error.
Fifteen women
have learned how
on marital wrong-
married, or said si
WMJIttUl U, WIUIAIIU, UUiiaiUWilfi
1 engineer whose office is across the
| street from the State Department,
got boiling mad when he read about
American planes being shot down
in Yugoslavia. And when he turned
the page and read how his country
had given the Yugoslavs millions
in war aid, he got angrier still.
But he really got burned up
when he saw that eighty ice-mak-
ing machines were being headed
for shipment to Yugoslavia through
UNRRA. Williams started phoning
government agencies and UNRRA
itself. He told them he didn’t like
the situation.
By the time he was through talk- the endorsements at t
tag to the State and Treasury De- looks alike, the cases ar
partments and the War Assets Ad- sometimes with surpria
ministration, plficials decided to Every voucher paid bj
take another look at the Ice ma- tag officer of the govern
chine deal. Sale of the machines to viewed by GAO's Audit
UNRRA was ordered held up. WAA the fiscal year which
is trying to determine whether July. 39,000,000 voucl
priorities were properly handled. rtwflrrd
Williams found out through his GAO filed exceptions
many phone calls that UNRRA also of the vouchers—result
planned to send five refrigerator government's receiving
barges to Yugoslavia They were $43,400,000. The diacre)
worth $44,880 apiece. He got an in- usually the result of en
vestigation started on this, too. fraud, says E. W. BeU, <
GOVERNOR-ELECT OF TEXAS CELEBRATES VICTORY — Beauford Jester, Governor-Elect of Texas,
plays the “Eyes of Texas” for his family In their home at dorsicana, after winning the Democratic second
primary by a margin of 2 to 1 over his opponent, Dr. Homer. P. Rainey. Listening to the music of the Gov-
ernor-Elfct are, left to right, his 7-year-old son, Beauford, Jr., Mrs. Jester, and daughters. Joan and Barbara.
(NEA Photo)
How To Mark Your
Ballot in County
Beer Election
GIs Rush For
Terminal Leave
Payments
Bodies of Fliers
Are Returned to
American Zone
Georgia’s Unique
Unit System Of
Voting Upheld
A copy of the official order of
the commissioners court of Red
River County providing for a beer
election on Saturday. September
7, will be found on the classified
page of today’s issue of The Times.
Aidusslna, on the Morgan Line
—UP) —The flag-draped coffins of
five American fliers shot down in
Yugoslavia were delivered Wednes-
day by motor convoy, and then by
stretcher bearers across the Mor-
gan Line, to American authorities
for the long Journey home.
U. S. Ambassador Richard C.
Patterson, who accompanied the
bodies from Ljubljana, told news-
men that “Marshal Tito assured
me personally and officially that
Extra stenographers have been
on duty at the county clerk’s office
several days to assist in taking care
of the rush for certified copies of
discharge certificates of former
service personnel. Each application
for terminal leave pay must be ac-
companied by the applicant’s dis-
charge or a certified copy. Most of
the men who have come home from
the armed services have had their
discharges recorded at the county
clerk’s offJpe. Those who have n#
are finding it desirable to record
them and then obtain certified cop-
ies to be sent in with their appli-
cations for furlough pay.
Thousands of Red River county
men will be entitled to share in
this fund, made possible by a recent
act of Congress. Of approximately
4,000 who went from Red River
county to serve in the armed forces,
at least 3,000 will be eligible for pay
under this bill. Some who were for-
tunate enough to get furloughs
when in service will not be eligible
to receive more than nominal sums.
Others, particularly that group
who spent years overseas, will be in
line to collect the mlximum. Bonds
bearing two and one-half per cent
interest and due in five years * tMU
be issued, except tax amounts under
$50. .
Local enlisted men and women
eligible to receive this pay- will col-
lect In bonds and- cash several
hundred thousand dbllars.
City Will Vote
On Waterworks
Bonds Tuesday
Atlanta —UP)— Georgia’s unique
county unit vote system, under
which Eugene Talmadge won a
fourth term, as governor without
popular approval, was upheld by a
three-Judge federal court which
said It violated no constitutional
guarantees of equal rights.
Talmadge’s nomination in the
July 17 Democratic primary, tan-
tamount to election in one-party
Georgia, had been challenged by
two citizens of populous Fulton and
DeKalb counties (Atlanta) on
grounds that the unit vote system
denied hem equal voice in the
electorate with citizens of less pop-
ulous counties.
Under the system, the candidate
carrying the county gets the unit
vote and the unit vote determines
the nomination. Fulton county,
with a population of 406.865, has
BeU has 5.000 bookke
in his division, some ol
headquarters in Wasb
some at 250 field stall
Largest field offices i
land, where 500 accaa
lawyers check on pay
under Navy contracts;
.Louis, where 600 more
This order contains a copy of the
ballot to be furnished voters in |
each of the county voting boxes ran
this occasion.
Tliis baUot reads as follows;*
‘tt'OR LegaUzing the sale of malt
and vinous beverages that do not
contain afcohol In excefcs of four-
teen (fourteen per cent) percentum
by volume.”
“AGAINST Legalizing the sale of
Officers Fined in
Cruelty Trial
An election wiU be held in Clarks-
ville next Tuesday. In the turmoil
and confusion which accompanied
there wilt not be any repetition of
this event,” and declared that des-
pite the Yugoslav premier’s expla-
nations. “there can be no adequate
satisfaction for the death of five
Americans.”
The men were kiUed when their
C-47 transport was shot down in
flames by Yugoslav fighters on
August 19.
It was.2:30 p. m. when the motor
convoy bearing the fliers’ remains
pulled up to the Morgan Line—the
boundary separating the Yugoslav-
occupied and American-British-oc-
cupied areas of disputed Venezia
Giulia province.
that phase of the vote-getting
drive involving certain state offices,
a lot of people could be forgiven for
temporarily forgetting a matter of
purely and non-political impor-
tance The proposition to be voted
upon in this city September 3 is
whether the city shall or shall not
Issue bonds in the amount of $75,-
000 for extending sewer lines, en-
larging the sewage disposal facili-
ties and making certain needed Im-
provements.
It is believed that if a majority
of the city’s qualified voters express
themselves the proposition will be
approved by a wide margin, as
there appears to be no organised
effort to defeat the issue and few,
if any of the citizens of the com-
munity talking against it.. Many
who could be expected to vote af-
firmatively will fail to go to the
polling place.
City officials are hopeful that
the turn-out is heavy. If the bonds
are voted they will be more at-
tractive to buyers if it can be shown
that hundreds showed enough In-
terest in the matter to vote.
cultivated, his coverage increased,
up to lay-by time If the crop was
picked full coverage was given. If
the crop was abandoned the insur-
ance went down.
Premiums aren’t payable In ad-
vance. as on other Insurance. Crop
Insurance premiums become due at
harvest time. Premiums aren’t paid
in cash, but in bushels of grain or
pounds of cotton or tobacco. Prem-
iums average out to approximately
10 per cent of yield.
eay the crop is cotton and the
fanner’s yield is 1000 pounds -below
hts average. If he has one-half
coverage, the fanner collects a cer-
tificate for 500 pounds of cotton as
his tadergnl& He cah sell this (Jfer-
tificate. Just like a hale of cotton,
{at cadi. Or he can get a Commod-
ity Credit Corporation \oan and
hold his cotton in the warehouse,
gambling a little on a rise in price.
Federal crop Insurance was drop-
ped after 1943. Biit It was reinstated
in 1946 on wheat, cotton, and flax,
with authority for the experimental
coverage of com and tobacco. (
For the 1947 crop year, with wint-
er -wheat in'’ the "program, about
MQ.000 farmers have taken out
land, guardhouse. He was fined
$200.
Lobuono, former provost marshal
at Lichfield, was acquitted on
charges that he “aided and auth-
orized” the cruelties.
In a concurrent trial, CoL James
A.' Kill an of Highland Park, 111.,
told a court trying him on charges
of cruelty to soldier prisoners that
“I have a clear conscience about
what happened at Lichfield.”
The unauthorized punishments
. which Lobuono was found guilty of
permitting guards to administer
were: Striking prisoners with hands
and fists, forcing them to stand
with nose and toes against a wall
for protracted periods, and forcing
them to double time for protracted
periods.
He was cleared of charges of per-
mitting guards to strike prisoners
with clubs and rifle butts and also
of sanctioning several other unusual
punishments.
Still Wider Scope
It also can make an i
mination settlements”
tracts which the govern
n a ted at the end of tts
performance had beer
Another GAO unit, t
tion Audit Division, hi
Minister Held
In Fatal Crash
rial audits of all wholly-own
emmeht corporations, now a
tag about 96.
It has submitted to OongM
its of Federal Prison lad
Inc, the Virgin Islands 09
the Federal Deposit Dm
Corp.; Tennessee Valley l
tion Cooperative Inc J and tfc
Spruce Production Corp. .
• * * ' .
For Begins to Fly ? .
It has begun the-audit of
other government corporate
■ each voter should have equal v<#r
lng influence, though that ’ might
seem an ideal of democracy.
DETROIT TO GET
SEWAGE SYSTEM
Wants $105 For
1946 Cotton Seed
Washington,—The Federal Works
Administration Tuesday announced
advances of funds to a number of
Texas communities for preparation
of plans and specifications for local
public works.
Listed among other towns and
cities is Detroit, Texas, Which will
be allotted $45,082 and $1,870 for a
new sewer system and disposal
plant
JAP WHALING FLEET READY
Texans Ask Cut
Yugoslav Aid
eluding the
thority and; the
Washington. — Cotton seed
should bring $105 per ton for the
farmers to break even, on the basis
of the seed paying the cost of gin-
ning, picking, bagging and ties,
Tom Linder, ■ Georgia Commissioner
of Agriculture, said here. . ^
Linder protested against W. H.
Jasspon being used as a consultant
for the Decontrol Board in fixing
prices on cotton seed products. He
called for someone to represent the
farmer producing cotton seed and
s%ld the celling put on cotton seed
products will automatically act. as
a ceiling on cottonseed but will put
no floor under cotton seed.
ISSUE OF VETS’ JEEP '
CERTIFICATES HALTED
Washington —Uf)—• The Justice
Department announced that a
Rockdale county, Ga., farmer had
been .arrested on a charge of keep-
ing fire negroes in Reonage.
Officials Identified the farmer as
Roswell Pierce Diggers, about 65.
He was said to be the owner of a
3000-acre plantation.
Biggers was arrested by an FBI
agent. He waived hearings when ar-
raigned before a U. S. commission-
er at Atlanta. Bond was set at
$4600.
Washington — Cutting off all
relief and other economic aids to
lovernment Asks
ewer Chickens
Tokyo, (JPh- Japan's whaling
fleet of 14 vessels and 1,000 men is
ready to put out from Nagasaki for
the Antarctic on Nov. 7. They will
fish until March 14, and expect to
catch 1,300 whales which would
produce 15,000 tons of whale oil
and 13,000 terns of whale meat. Al-
lied headquarters has authorized
the voyage.
ngton. UP)— The Agricul-
wrtment asked farmers and
ien to have 7 per cent few-
and pullets next Jan. 1
the same date this year.
I a laying flock of 435.000,-
1—7 per cent fewer than
hand at the start Of this
>uld be sufficient to meet
rently tatown requirements”
Australia has a 13,000-mile coast-
NAVY UNVEIL8 WORLD’S
LARGEST HELICOPTER
Washington —(JPh- The agricul-
ture Department reported that this
year’s turkey crop is expected to be
nine per cent smaller than last
year’s record crop.
The department said in a state-
ment that a preliminary survey in-
dicates 41,013,000 head will be raised,
compared with 44,991,000 last year.
flat size could be ex-
lartment said,-to pro-
ite of 360 eggs per
year. This would al-
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