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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.
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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.
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Buffalo Grange To
Meet Monday Night
The Buffalo Grange will meet
Monday night, September 11th, at
the Buffalo school house at 8:45.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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Yi ADMISSION: Adults, 30 cents; Children up to 12,
^2 cents; Children 12 to 15, 18 cents, including lax.
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“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.
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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
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"’-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-
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