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engw / Washington, D. C. (NWNS)-Why did President Roosevelt decide to send Donald Nelson, head of the War Production board, on an ex tended secret mission to China? And what are the real facts behind the resignation of Charles Wilson, the No. 2 man of the WPB? Washington correspondents have been prying into the WPB shake-up ever since it took place—have given dozens of interpretations of it—but it is doubtful if a clear picture of lust what happened will come to light for some time. On the surface, Washington news paper men are accepting the Presi dent's statement on the Nelson situ ation—that Mr. Nelson is being sent on a mission of great importance and that his position with WPB is the same as ever. But most of them end it impossible to think that there isn’t something more behind it—-for they cannot picture any possible mission to China which needs the services of Mr. Nelson as much as he is needed in his tremendously important job on the home front. They also feel that there may be some tie-up with the coming elec tion, since, according to the an nouncement, Nelson may be kept in China until the election is over. As for Mr. Wilsoh, he stated that he was resigning because of unjust attacks made against him by some of the WPB executives under Mr. Nelson. He denied emphatically that he opposed Mr. Nelson’s plan for starting reconversion to civilian production while the war is still going on. But it is believed that arguments and disagreements over some of the attitudes toward recon version have had a lot to do with the trouble in the WPB. Many members of congress are seriously alarmed over the WPB fracas fearing that it may weaken the organization which has been the backbone of our war production rec ord and which will be depended upon to steer industry into peace time production with a minimum amount of unemployment. Reconversion, and plans for the disposal df probably $100,000,000,000 worth of surplus goods expected to be in government hands when the war ends, are two problems to which Washington is devoting a great deal of study and debate to day. Congress is considering a bill for the disposal of these vast quan tities of goods and is trying to in- clude provisions to protect the American farmer and businessman from suffering any losses when these goods are released. The sen ate has written an amendment into the bill which would specifically ban the sale of any government-owned farm product below the price being obtained by farmers. Leo Crowley, chairman of the for-- eign economic administration, has suggested that a large part of the surplus products could be delivered to foreign countries and sold on a credit basis. But many congress men object to extending additional credit to our Allies, to whom we already have sent large quantities of lend-lease goods, unless some agreement can be worked out which will insure payment. ' School Lunch Program Approved The South Carolina State Board of Education has released applica tor.* for 1944.45 school lunches. McCormick County expects a larg er number of schools to participate in the program this year . than last. Schools will have the choice of one type of lunch out of five types. First type: Type A (a com plete lunch with milk). Second, type A (a complete lunch without milk). Third, type B (an incom plete lunch with milk). Fourth, type B (an incomplete lunch with out milk). Fifth, type C (milk on ly* The Federal appropriation makes it possible for all children to have a well balanced meal composed of wholesome foods. It also help; the fanner to market his surplu; foods. These foods are included in the suggested menus sent out by the state food consultant each month. The program stresses the im portance of health education in the schools, teaching better eating habits, correct table manners, food values and food selection. Each school expecting to serve lunches this year, may call at the supervisor’s office and file applica tion. HOLLYWOOD THEATRE McCORMICK, S. C. FRIDAY and SATURDAY September 8th and 9th, 7:15 P. M. and 9 P. M. .Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. BETTY HUTTON EDDIE BRACKEN in “Miracles Of Morgan’s Creek” Also CHAPTER 6 ‘ TIGER WOMAN” and SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS • Matinee Saturday 3:30 P. M. Adults 21c MONDAY and TUESDAY September 11th and 12th, 7:15 P. M. and 9 P. M. KAY FRANCIS—CAROLE LANDIS MARTHA RAYE C. C. Burdette Claimed By t)eath Charles Cullen Burdette, 67, died at the Anderson County HospTlal Sunday evening at 9 o’clock, fol lowing an illness of two years. Funeral services were conducted from the Iva Baptist Church Tues day afternoon at 3:30 o’clock with Dr. S. W. Reid, pastor of the Press- iv M p rPo r if’ 1 Cnu r ch. officiating. Interment followed in the family plot of the Iva cemetery* Mr. Burdette was a native of Anderson County and nrior to movine to McCormick five years ago, had lived in Lincoln Countv. Ga . for about 30 years. He was a member of the Lincolnton Bap tist Church. Surviving him is his wife, the former Mi^s Mavme McMahon of Anderson County. Six children al so survive: Captain John M. Bur dette, with U 8. Arm" Italy; Specialist Seaman (third class) Charles C. Burdette, U. S. Navy; Jeff B. Burdette Smvrna. Ga.; three daughters, Mrs. J. S. Deese, Monroe. N. C.; Mrs. James D. Deese and Mrs. T. Caudill Deese, McCormick; also one sister, Mrs. Reben Todd. Iva: two half- sisters, Mrs. Luther Scott and Mrs. Emma Garner, Williamston; two brothers, Robert M. and C. R. Bur- ‘tett®. both o f tv?** and one half- brother, Ira Burdette, of Calhoun p a lls J. S. Strom, funeral director, in charge. _—x- Mrs. Frank Deason Attends Meet Of S. C. 1 Florists Association Nantex Plant To Open Here Sept. 11 Nantex Manufacturing Com- oany plans to open the McCormick Plant Monday, September 11. Those who have made application for work are requested to call at the United States Employment Service office in the court house Friday morning between 9 o’clock to, 12:30 p. m. X Buffalo Grange To Meet Monday Night The Buffalo Grange will meet Monday night, September 11th, at the Buffalo school house at 8:45. X Modoc News MrS 'E’r'vnp 'T>oq i <!r<i*» rvf thP D°a- son’s Florist Shop, McCormick, has returned f^nm a pleasant two-dsv in Columbia where she attended the South Carolina Florists Association’s.annual meetr- Ing and school of floral design. Mrs. Deason renorts that the school was mo 0 * instructive, with florists from all .sections of and neighboring states in atten dance. The finest floral artists in the ISouth were present as in structors and as each artist fin ished his or her creation, it y/as handed to the school master who described the finished work, com menting on its finfe points. Then the students were free to ask questions with the discussions bringing out many valuable sug gestions. During the two days from nine until dusk the classes went on, with time out only long enough to eat. Each session was packed with helpful ideas and many a note book was filled with descrip tions and sketches to carry back home and pass on the finer things to the student’s home community. When it comes to studying their profession, the florists are at the top of the list, for there is scarce ly an up-to-date florist nowadays who does not attend such a school once a year with many going to not only their state schools but to the regional and national ones, striving in every way to further their floral knowledge in order to give their clientele the very latest in flower trends. X Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Brown from Spartanburg were week end guests to Mrs. Brown’s mother, Mrs. Mat- tie Key. Mr. E. F. Bussey and daughters. Misses Lucy and Rosalie Bussey, were dinner guests Sunday to Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Howie. Mrs. G. E. Dukes is spending a few days with relatives in Augusta this week. Messrs. Thos. J. Stone and E. F. Bussey were business visitors to Augusta on Wednesday of this week. Miss Etoile Clem is spending a ‘few days with friends in Augusta this week. Miss Lucy Bussey left Tuesday for Atlanta, where she will spend a couple of weeks with her aunt, Mrs. L. B. Guillebeaux. Mrs. Mattie Smauley and Mrs. Davies and daughter, Dorris, and Mrs. Clarence Howie spent Mon day in the home of Misses Lucy and Rosalie Bussey. Mr. Charley Bussey of Charles ton spent a few days here last week with homefolks. X Requests For Over seas Soldiers To Be Returned To This Country Must Be Made To Red Cross Symptoms of Angina Pectoris By Dr. J. B. Warren : x m 46' FOUR JILLS IN A JEEP A Iso SELECTED SHORT SUBJECTS ami LATEST NEWS EVENTS Generally speaking if you get a “gripping” pain in the heart region — under breast bone— which may go up the left side of I chest to shoulder and arm it is I angina pectoris—breast pang. If you stop still and pain soon goes away it would be definitely called angina pectoris. Other evidences of angina pec toris are (a) suddenness of at tack, (b) attacks last but a short time, Cc) usually brought on by work or exercise particularly in the cold. Most cases of pain in this re- ) »;ion, however, are due to pres sure of gas in stomach or in testine. ABoveT?A> H ■&V LYTLE HULL What Price Peace on Earth Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 5.—Many War Department agencies have been receiving requests for overseas soldiers to be returned to this country due to an illness in the family or for some other reason which might iustifv an emergency furlough if the militarv personnel were in the United States. Pre viously the procedure has been for the substance of the correspond ence to be transmitted to the theater of operations and request a report as to the action taken by the theater commander. There have also been thousands of requests for information re garding the physical condition of soldiers overseas, and many of these messages have been relayed by radio and letter to the theater cc^mand^r for a report. Major General Frederick E. Uhl, Commanding General of the Fourth Service Command, states that the procedure for such cases has been changed and that here of t.^r reouests for the return 01 individuals will be made directly through the local chapter of the American Red Cross. All the facts > in the v case should be presented toj th° Red Cross. The local chapter ■ ,T, ill investigate the case and make. its recommendations through nor- ! mal Red Cross channels to the ap- ' propriate commander for conside ration. General Uhl also stated that War Department agencies will not request theater commanders to report on the physical condition 'f mdiv’ H, ials serving overseas. Persons filing such requets will b'' advised that the War Department will r^oort, serious illness and sub sequent change in physical con- ctiuon to the next of kin as a matter of routine procedure im mediately upon receipt of such report. It may be assumed that the absence of such a report in- J dicates that the individual’s con dition has not changed material ly* General Uhl explained that the i-eason it is impossible for the War 1 Department to take favorable ac tion on the thousands of reouests for special reports on individuals overseas, is the heavy load on a- vailable channels of communica tion. j X 1 Tbf» great war of 1914-1918 (CaHcd the “War to End Wars.” The present war is called the “War to End Aggression.” Let us hope that those who make the peace this time will be more successful than were their predecessors. A glance at the record of blood and death between these two tremendous con flicts will demonstrate how unsuc cessful was the named objective of the first global war. 1918- 19. The Poles and Ukraini ans started the ball rolling by fight ing for control of Eastern Galacia. It was finally awarded U Poland for a period of 25 years. 1919. The White Russians, led by Admiral Kolchak in Siberia, Gen eral Denekin in the south and Gen eral Yudenich in Estonia—and as sisted by British, French, Ameri can and other Allied troops—were defeated by the Bolshevik armies. 1919- 21. Guerrilla war in Ireland between “Irish Republicans” and British troops known as "Black and Tans.” The Irish Free State came into being under the terms of the peace treaty. 1919-22. Spanish war in Morocco. 1919- 26. War in Arabia between Ibn Sa’ud and King Husain. 1920. Russia attacked Poland and threatened Warsaw but was finally defeated by the Poles. 1920. War between Turkey and the Arhrienian Republic. 1920- 26. Continuous fighting in China between rival war-lords. 1921- 22. Greeks invaded Asia Mi nor but were driven out by the Turks. Smyrna burned and many inhabitants were massacred. 1925. Druse rebellion against the French in Syria. 1925- 35. Long and bloody war be tween Bolivia and Paraguay over claims to Chaco territory. 1926- 28. Fighting between Chinese Communists and Nationalists. 1931-32. Japan invaded and con quered Chinese province of Man- chukuo and set up a puppet em- peror. 1932. Bloody fighting In Shanghai between Japanese and Chinese. Fearful destruction in city. 1935- 36. Italy invaded and con quered Ethiopia. 1936- 39. Long and bloody civil war in Spain between armies un der General Franco and those of the Spaqish Republic. 1937. Japan invaded China and the struggle is still in progress. 1939. Italy invaded and over-ran Albania. What a record! Eighteen small and large wars following each other in rapid succession and overlapping each other; starting almost the mo- ment the “war to end wars” was over. Do the people of the world have to go through the same thing again? Are there no politicians in this whole world smart enough to prevent other, and more aggres sive, politicians from dragging their own and other people into misery and destruction? Will the people of the Eastern hemisphere—where 99 per cent of wars originate—have to wait until some future war wipes out half the population of the earth before they take into their own hands the power to make war? Smart men from Britain, Russia and Yhe United States are meeting in Washington at the present mo ment in an attempt to devise some formula which wiU prevent war. The whole world is hoping and praying that they will hit upon some logical solution; but the world should remember that this same sort of thing has been attempted time and time and time again with little or no success. However—the fact that we have never discovered a solution does not jnean that it cannot be done. It can be done and some day Will be done. Let us pray that that day is dawning now—be fore the coming of a war so terrible that the world will be reduced to a state of anarchy and degradation from which it may never recover. Would Prevent Unnecessary Ab senteeism Among War Workers Paul V. McNutt, Chairman of the War Manpower Commission, to day called for the extension throughout the nation of shopping and professional services in order to prevent unnecessary absentee ism among war workers. Mr. Mc- plant feeding facilities. 3. Establishment of personal shoppers in plants who, upon the request of workers, order by tele phone commodities from stores for delivery to a central collection point. The goods are then sent by truck to the plant before the shift leaves or delivered direct to the workers’ homes. 4. Scheduled time off as a means of avoding unpredictable absentee ism. 5. Extension of store hours, with compensatory time off — for in- tance, on Monday mornings — for store clerks. Opening on at least two evenings a week was urged by Mr. McNutt in order to make a- vailable the services of depart- Nutt urged the extension not only __ of services in communities, but the menT^stores,“~nfelihborhood~Vo% installation of some services in war cer i es barber and beauty shops, plants, such as pick-up laundry. laiJrid ’ ry and dry cleaners, public services, facilities for the payment offices, banks, and doc— of insurance premiums, gas and ^rs’ and dentists’ offices, electric bills and automobile reoair| q shopping services in stores establishments on plant parking through shoppers hired by the larger department stores to fill orders telephoned in, to be deliv ered to the worker by mail. WMC said its utilization con sultants would gladly assist plant managers in the collection of in lots. The WMC chairman announced a six-point shopping extension program, which calls for the ad justment of commercial and pro fessional services in order ade- quately to meet the needs of war f orma ti on on worker, preferences w .°^ er , s '. ^ r * McNutt said that f 0r type of plan to be used, difficulties war workers are expe- and ^ interviewing merchants as- rienumg in obtaining good service sociations > and ot her groups in an in stores, laundries, garages' ! effort to. adopt a feasible plan to other establishments have a defi- alleviate shopping difficulties as a nite effect on the workers’ job at-1 cause of absenteeism, tendance. Unnecessary absentee-, “Absenteeism,” Mr. McNutt said, ism is caused by the maccessiOie seriously injurious to the war locations or insufficient number effort and an s teps possible to of stores, inconvenient hours of el i minate it through the adjust- ^ueration. difficulty in getting men t 0 f commercial and profes- laundry delivered, trouble paying sional services to war workers' the gas or electric bill or the m_ r needs should be taken. Fuller util- surance nremium, he said. ; j za tion of workers’ time has been Mr. McNutt said he hoped achieved in performing production managers and merchants would device s, but we are still hindered cooperate with WMC in its P r °“ bv absenteeism, which to a conskN cam to extend shopping facili- era bie extent is due to workers* ties * .... v,* v, inability to obtain needed ser- The six-point program, which, V j ces » Mr. McNutt said, is being sent to * v , °11 WMC utilization consultants ^ in the field, calls for cooperation. ytt 1 9 with pant managers, chambers j \V OLKCrS v <0111101 commerce, better-business bu-1 reous. r**ts»il tred* 3 associations, lo- 1 cal medical societies, and other lo cal agencies. It includes several suggestions, some already partial Holds Meeting ly "adopted, to be worked out ac- • - Coureil of the cording to varying local needs: . po .a School rnet ^ n- ! ArHii«tment nf shift hours so r!f,v eveni"" of las* week at the that Workers wHl be Vee to shop ^e of Mr. and Mrs. James M. at times when large stores and Dor i 1 - 0 , , __ . _ neighborhood shops, ort> - ^ p nf * av School T r small ga- Yi ADMISSION: Adults, 30 cents; Children up to 12, ^2 cents; Children 12 to 15, 18 cents, including lax. & -.j\ j “Cotton growers are learning to produce more cotton per acre, thus making more acreage available for other crops t ?uoir’emcnt r.ott n in a balanced farming program.” —Educatim-al Servlc*'. National Ccltcnaccd Pr.dneis Ajaeciatien. tup mu mu rm (•(•i 14 i •< ^ i mfiv'I'liiy d 11] V f races, laundries, dry cleaning es- ? n ?S™l_Winning;; the mi*-f irhii^pients hanks, physicians’ , ’ M and dentists’ offices, gas and elec- guley and 1 earl foi her by trio offices are open. T. t Sibert. Jr. - Establishment of stores in Following rep-rts by each ' ’d to b^ alive vhen the 0 “ ^ * "’-ts for the salp of a limited r;r*P-^°i ’ ' range of goods; establishment of :-”r—v!y r.Lendance was d ai’tomobil? service stations on —* ^or- visitation nr- ri. marking lots: setting up of laun dry and dry cleaning pick-up and delivery services on plant premi ses; providing facilities in the shop °'*t "os and ojectric p.-v- insurance pvp m nims: es- taLlis , ' i ment of sub-post offices in war plants and supplementing in- During the social h' , ’”\ ’ ' \ c,cr'i.-.«- 1 - d j ;i servin'- ’'- ■-i"- ?--» r’-'o’hT "•'*> d r"^ iv’ ’ "' W. J. T .l v '°'* 0 Mim Sallic P c-. '___x nlr:c:A storehouse, the air. mm