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TO ALL RETURNING NOLAN COUNTY SERVICE MEN:
At no cost you may run a classified ad in the Reporter as long as necessary to land that job you have in mind.
10,000 G-Is Home
BOSTON (UP) — Two transports docked In Boston Saturday.
a the vanguard of eight vessels arriving from Europe In the next
w Hve days currying neurly 10,000 Ola.
The Olbbona carried membera of the Headquarters and Head-
quarters Battery, 14th Armored Diviaion Artillery with Medlca,
the 500th and 50lat Armored Field Artillery Itattniiona with
Mediea, the 150th Armored Ordnance Maintenance Battalion with
Mediea, the 04th Troop Carrier Squadron and miHcellaneoua and
f Navy personnel. The Tyson carried men for reassignment and
discharge.
Sweetwater Reporter
DEDICATED TO SERVICE
48th Year
“West Texas’ Leading Newspaper”
Sweetwater, Texas, Sunday, September 23, 1945
BUY IT IN SWEETWATER
No. 224
Up Pensions
AUSTIN (IT) — Tin* ronslltullonal amendment to permit
increased old age granis now Is effective without additional action
by tin* stall* legislature*.
Attorney (ii'ncral Grover Sellers makes this announcement to
the public welfare department.
The attorney general's opinion was requested at a meeting?
of the piddle welfare hoard hist Saturday when Executive Direct-
or John Winters estimated that it will he possible to begin in-
creases by No vein In r.
MacArthur Orders Complete Japanese Financial Report
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★ ★
* Violent Italian Laborers Attempt To Mob Premier Parri
0 Employ Nazi Labor;
* Port Natives Idle
*•
Idea of employing 1
left without work I
ROME (I’l*) — Italian dissatisfaction with Allied labor poli-
cies has broken out in open violence.
Italian labor, in Naples, doesn't like the
German prisoners of war while Italians are
and food.
Six-thousand labor demonstrators have attempted to mob
Italian I'remler Pnrri, who is visiting Naples to confer with local
labor leaders on the employment problem.
The premier escaped from the labor federation headquarters
In a police ear. However, the ear carrying his secretary and the !
• Naples police prefect was overturned by rioters. Italian poller re-
R infoeremeiits hate been rushed to Naples to guard against further
disturbances.
The demonstrations were In protest against the Allied policy
of employing German prisoners of war on the Naples dorks. Amerl- |
ran authorities estimate that about 21,nun Germans are employed
at the port, compared with only 4,0tm Italians. These authorities
indicate they are going to continue using German labor.
I'urrl told reporters he intends to file another petition with
the American port authority asking that the Germans be replaced
by Italian labor.
In I .All (Ion, the big five council
tif foreign ministers is deadlock-
m ini over the proposed Balkan
* peace treaties. Anglo-American
delegations are reportedly con-
cerned over Russian moves in
Hungary. Sources close to the
council say Russia has refused to
t discuss a United States proposal
Jp for the internationalization of
Europe's inland waterways in
connection with the proposed
treaties. The situation threatens
to bring aix.ut a crisis which
may end the conference on a
♦ sour note.’ ' —'.it —
Today’s scheduled session ofl°l»<ning session of the institute
the foreign ministers was jsist- E or the present the classes are
poned at the last minute. Later 10 >•*• "ie i'ssembly room
in the day It wus called into ses- "f the Hoard of ( ity
sion unexpectedly. As yet there >nent office in the municipal
rm has liecn no explanation of the ' building. H. A Walker, promt-
poNtjKinemont and later call. nent Sweetwater real estate deal-
At the same time, an offl- I1'1' ta 10 hav'' char*f ,,f lhe Tues'
First 0( Eleven
Home Planners
Programs Start
“Selecting a Home Site” the
first of eleven lectures to lie
given during the Home Manners’
Institute, sjionsored by the
Sweetwater Junior Chainlier of
Commerce, wdl he presented at
o'clock Tue...'.r.y .fight in the
JAPANESE TRADITIONAL KITES— Aniericn 11 soldiers, right, outside the Imperial Palace
grouiiits In Tokyo, watch traililloiial Jap ceremon) curioit*l)
humbly to the Imperial presence within. (NKA Telephoto.)
as three natives liow low and
rial British eommentator
has announced that his gov.
eminent Is exandnlng a Hot-
iel-llungarian economic pad
on three scores. One — Is It
proper for one government
on the eonfrol commission to
sign such agreements with-
out the knowledge or roil-
sent of the other nations rep*
resented? Two — has the
provisional government of
Hungary the power to sign
snt'h an agreement? Three—
is the agreement eotnpallhle
with Intei-nalional agree-
ments eoncerning the Dan-
ube, the eommentator says
the agreement between Rus-
sia and Hungary gives l(us.
sla control of the Hungarian
reaches of the Danube river.
' In Purr . France's arch traitor
—former I’remler Pierre I-avid
—Ih attempting to delay hit
trial, for treason which is sehc-
See EMPLOYEES Page I
Sgt. Riley Released
From Osaka Prison
E Riley, brother
The course 1- open to rural
families a well as urban fami-
ne During the Institute home
I-' (See of 1201 l.amur building objects ueh as design-
Itdcv of Sweetwater ing the home, contracting and
construction, financing, building
material, landscaping, planning
tin- kitchi n, home appliances and
others are to Is- discussed by the
See PLANNERS Page 4
Expect Surge Of
Building Will Aid
Mass Unemployment
.1.1 DALLAS (UPl — A report on
I ‘he J">’ situation In the south-
west I* made today by I nited
Press Staff Correspondent Wil-
lard Haselhush.
Haseihush reports that thous-
ands of men and women are
without work throughout the
muss unem-1
pioymont apparently is a tetn-
(xtrary shadow in <1 bright recon-'
version picture.
From the Rio Grande to the 1
Ozarks. bankers manufacturer .
federal and tale officials, mer-
chants and the man in the street
agreed that a period of pro-peri- ;
tv lies Just ahead.
War plants started closing
down In the Southwest only
11 few hours ntli-i- Japan slits
rendrred, and today in Tex-
as, Oklahoma and Arkansas,
reconversion Is In high gear.
The southwest pins Its hopc-
for the future on an upswing in ,
Industrial development, on a i
surge "f building eXIss-teil toj
last for year: and on a return
to the farm of thousands of for
mer war workers
Texas i aid to I"- ccnltd
only to New York In the I"1 !
war con ■iruet’ou lotah compiled
by engineering new record,
fourth in tlie amount < t prop"
See SURGE Pag. 8
A
day night lecture. Other real es-
tate dealers are Invited to attend. wlinoui wlll R ull,
T he lecture will Is- followed by |«oUthwo t. |„it that
a round (aide discussion during
which the prospective home
builders and others will is- invit-
ed to ask questions.
Approximately fifty prospec-
tive nome builders, or persons
planning to remodel their homes
are expected to attend the open-
ing session. H the classes grow,
tin- place of meeting wlll be
changed to larger quarters.
Tilt- Home Ituildi-rs I usl I-
ulr Is being offered by the
Jayee.s as a eoniiuuiilty ser*
vice. There Is absolutely no
cost to those enrolled, no
(barge, no obligation, no
catch, no forfeiture no
•‘strings" attached. The pros-
pective home builder signs
no contracts of any kind.
Thi re Is no obligation to
those who conduct the ln*tl-
lull, nor to the various auth-
orities who lecture.
i
Sgt prowls
of Mrs. It
0 and A. It
has been relea-ed from the Osa
ka prison camp in Japan, ...........
ing to word received here yester-
day
The message telling of hi
^pfrcid'-in was tin- first tin- family
iiad had from Itilcv since early in
1943.
Sgt Rile.v is the son of Mr and
Mrs. a .1 Riley of Snyder.
The me: age said Sgt Riley
awus in fair health and that he
would tie home soon.
FOOTBALL SCORES
Texas A A M 51. Ellington
Field (I
W Texas 13, Herg-trom Field 7
Ohio Wesleyan 0, Ots-rlin 33.
Michigan 7. Indiana IT
West Virginia Vi. otterhein 7.
Great Lakes 0, Wisconsin 0
Luckiii-ll 7. Vlllanovu l’t
<% Purdue 11, Marquette 13
Minnesota 31, Missouri 0,
Georgia l*», Murray (Ky 1 State
Teachers 0.
t'rslnus 0. Franklin Marshall 7.
Syracuse 14. Cornell 2ti.
9 Illinois 23, Pittsburgh 11.
Northwestern IH Iowa Slate ti.
Rensselaer I’oly 30, Worcester
Tech 0
Wesleyan 0, Mlddh-hury 0.
Swart more 2H. Muhlenberg H
9 Duke lid, South Carolina 0
Barksdale (1, Arkansus 12
Depauw 13, Wabash 7.
Iowa State Teachers 3H, Iowa
Central 14.
Virginia 39, U 8 Coast Guard
.Academy 0.
Cotton Loans May
Be Arranged For
Nolan Farmers
Loans on current cotton crops
are now available ar the rate of
20.92 cents |icr pound for 15/1*5
middling slope either for ware-
house or farm storage, It was an-
nouneed Saturday by Demp
Kearney. AAA representative
lu-ie
Tlie government purchase
rale at the moment Is 2IJW
cents per pound, for Ihul
grade cotton, he said.
Farmers desiring to make cot-
ton loan- should send samples to
the Abilene office for classifica-
tion. lie also pointed out that in
the event loans are obtained, the
purchase price will increase .05
cents per month until June of
next year.
There has lieen. Kearney said,
some difficulty In obtaining ade-
quate storage space In the
Sweetwuter area. However, he
said, the farm storage und ware-
house storage rates are the same,
so the storage problem should
nut be serious.
135 Avenger Men
Get Promotions
One hundred and fifty five > n
listed men at Avenger Field
Were advanced lit grade by ........
al orders published Wednesday
morning. Four 1 nv.it> got tin -ir
first stripe- while sx were upp
ed to corporal and rt to ergeant.
Promotions were also given
to 163 men station at Abilene
Army Air Field
This Is the fir t large calc pro-
motion in three month on the
two field
The walled-in Japanese Imperial Palace at Tokyo, tor ret tunes
the sacrosanct home of the "Son ol Heaven.” isn't . > private now.
A group of sight-seeing Ill’s is shown heading Into the giounds
thi 1,ugh one ot the open gates. Through nichway mav U- seen
•tome of the Jan Diet building.
No Immediate Gas Shortage Expected In
Texas In Spile Of Growing Oil Strikes
HOUSTON (Ul’i In -pile of
j ttit- growing oil refinery strike
in Ti-xa . Indications are that
| gasoline will Is- available to
tin- general public until ilpplu-
are exhausted.
At Port Arthur, the oil Work
or- International Union > I the
(To and tin- management >>( tin
j Texas Company have agreed
to di-trlbute ga-olim to station
for general public -ale a long
a- tne supply lasts Neither will
! estimate now long that will In-
in the meantime. Job oil Work-
ei al tin- Sinclair Refinery in
t'orpn- Christl have voted B0
per cent to trike, a have almost
two-liuiidrcd at tin Taylor Re-
fining company.
Itcpm-ls • 01 ulali d to lb'll-
stun ini- that if lliinihlr
workers do not Join the
walkout, all llunitdc stations
.-Hid idl rcfini-rli s will he
piekelteil and boycotted.
At llou-toti. In the Hr-i actual
•-trikes of the oil dispute In the
city, the Sinclair refinery and
See SHORTAGE Page X
MUST PASS
TEST FOR
NEW OFFICE
WASHINGTON (UP) — Act-
ing Secretary of State Dean A Ja -
son may have to pass a written
test to win senate aprpoval as
Undersecretary of State.
Republican Senator Wherry of
Nebraska ha -ent Ache-011 ten
written questions and ha asked
him to have the an.- wen 1 ■
by Monday.
Wherry apparently plan to
make the answers public on
Monday when the senate aga n
I meet to consider Acheson fur
j the -tate department post.
Monday's session is ex-
pected to lie an explosive
one. The hot natiotud dispute
over dciiiohili/-'ition and our
treatment of Japan guined
new moment uni w hen Ache-
son criticized General Mai •
Arthur's estimate of occupa-
tion force rcquiri-tnrnf. How-
ever, I’lilted Press President
Hugh Haillie’s exclusive in-
1 el-view with MacArthur yes-
terday answered a lot 1 f
questions concerning the oc-
cupation and a lot ot Ache-
son's ciitieisms as well.
The general’s firm assurance
to Itaillie that the surrender
terms will lie imposed, however
harsh they may lie, is expected
'o figure in the controversy over
At heson us -tatv department un-
dersecretary. It may prove a
I nwerful weapon In the hands of
In- republican opponents.
Acheson may clarify his posi-
tion if he answers the questions
which Wherry put liefore him.
I Wherry u-ks Acheson, for one
thing, if the real ground for the
I quarrel were not the fact that
| the general did not use the nor-
mal channels to transmit his es-
timate- of the future needs in
I Japan to the nation.
Is the government not the nc-
<-u| ation force determining
j American policy tow u-d Japan'’
Ha the state depat intent
made a decision for -octal and
j economic revolution In Japan”
Are you —that is, 1 Ache-on— j
wholeheartedly In agreement
with the Potsdam d*- .ai'ation
And is General Ma. Arthur ml- '
ing a representstvi inly of 1 !i*
1'nited States, or 1 the Allied
governments as wt .map yum
tin- terms of the Put am agn «■
inent
Munn Resigns As
Old Age Director
Satu A Munn ha r*--igt,*-d ids
Ih 1 iiion with the state Depart
| inent ot Public Welfare Old Age
As-istance divi-i >11 effective
October 1.
He has accept. 0 1 j -iii'-n 1
fiHid and drug ln-potor with the
; State Departmenr f He oih and
{will lake over his new dutie-
ioct. 1 Mr. and Mrs Munn will
! continue to live in Sweet water
Sbe 1 an elementary education
ti idler in Lewi: -cliool
No successor ha- been appoint-
cd Valllc Hoff wn- recently
1 named to succeed the late Mr
Gano who died while a.-signed
to the local office
To Clamp New Control
On Imperial Treasury
TOKYO (UP) General MacArthur has ex-
tended his control over the finances of Japan.
The supreme command has told the Japanese
government he wants a complete accounting of
its finances—of the imperial treasury, financial
regulations of the government, banks and even
the expenses of the imperial household.
MacArthur has given the Japs just two weeks
to draw up and turn over to him that information.
He in turn will turn it over to the newly-constituted
economic and scientific section, whose job it is to
see to it that all Japan's economic war-making pos-
sibilities are destroyed
Another of MacArthur's directives—ordering
the arrest of Lieutenant-General Doihara, com-
mander of the Japanese first general army—has
not yet been carried out. Doihara appeared as
usual at his office this morning, despite the order
for his "immediate arrest". Spokesmen at MacAr-
thur's headquarters say it is not known definitely
v it-n Doihara will i* brought
in V- . -apposed to iM .apprp-
hende*. by the Jap ami then
1 turned over to United State* .k--
c-u|»tlon authorities.
Incidentally. Gen MacArthur
ha- "i-dered the arrest of annth-
> r high Jap leader— General Ai>e.
the ( ii-ted governor general of
K r>-a He’ll lie turned over to
> the Eighth Army
As the
supreme
commander
moved t<
> bring the
Japs to heel.
nuin
President
Truman ap-
pointed -
(is MaeArtl
lur's political
adviser *
arrived in
Tokyo. He is
tial envoy
George Atch-
wl
lan bet wee
a a sort of
n MacArthur
and the 1
•Jtate del jar
tinent. Atrhe-
onee to Mac-
Arthur's
r for a eon-
Home From 6500-Mile Japan-Washington Flight
S'water Man Staff Navigator On Gruelling Hop
ity j. 1 miss
Is it nice to l>«' back home?
Ask (’apt J R (Johnny or
Hluntnn to hl« friends 1 Hrown of
210 Hell Street
He can tell you in no uucnr
tain fashion
III the first place, Ihe
I'aplaln has seen enough
action on liolli the European
anil I’ai-lflc fronts to ln«l him
for quite a spell.
And in the second place, travel-
ing Is well and good, but when
you travel practically all the
time, and over cm-nty targets
when you do travel, too much
of a good tiling is enough.
Cupl Hrown latest exploit
lias been in tin- headlines fur
several days now lie was navi
|gator on one of the ll-2t)s that
flew from Japan to Chicago, ami
from there on to Washington,
I) ('
A native of Sweetwater, Capt.
j Hrown entered t in- army air
force June 10, lull Since that
time, licHdcs tilling tip mort
I than 1.300 hours of flying time,
he has collected four battle stars,
the Distinguished Flying (’ro-
und the Air Medal with four
clusters
And, Just for the record, he
made llic iirst and last major
bombing runs over Japan
(if course there were a few
others between.
However, ('apt. Hrown isn’t
>>ut of tlie armed force- yet. and
probably won't lie for some
time. Currently he Is on a short
leave and will return to Wash-
ington within the next lew- days.
Dili) Mien wlin made the
night could Kite an ttdcquatr
picture of tin- rccoi'd-mitkitiK
illuhl from Japan to the
I 1 nited Stale*, hut Ihe essen-
tial story i« this:
Capt. Hrown, as a member of
tinned on Saipan aid the crews
slated to fly (he aerial giants
hark to the states wore selected
there The planes were stripiied
of all non-essential gear and fitt-
ed out for the gruelling bop
They were then flown to
!w>> .lima and from there to Hok-
kiado In Japan proper where
the record-making flight started.
The planes tisik off ut 5:10
' ( Japanese Time) Wednesday and
I landed at 5:43 p m . (EWT Wed
j nesday) in Chicago After re-
! fuelling the Superforts flew on
to Washington.
Capt. Hrown was navigator of
the 890th Homber Squadron gta-1 See NAVIGATOR Huge i
t Itossl s I II IN M l. (s.
time*, l*f(. < lyde Melton, sen-
ilia a* a medic with tin I . H.
\i iii.x K.nh'o.ol shop It.ill.ibon,
wdl sunn be home from < 1-
m as (buy on tin 11 >11li. >011 ot
Mi. .mil Mi*. 11 s. Million, who
11 \ 1 spun miles nmih of
town, he *pi 111 21 month* 01
I iiul.inil, I 1 .no > .1 tul lli Loin
I'art time In- was u**iaiii-(l to
a ship. Ill* *1*1*1 'll*. I ilw oil
llayes liios In snoi t».a* 1
President Will
Speak Nov. 19th
In Oklahoma City
OKLAHOMA CITY <1 l’i
President Truman - vj-it to ok
j lahotna City November lBth will
‘highlight (ho third annual n.i*
j wn.il av nit wn clinic for which
plans already arc in an advainv
I stage
The |0(*lilinl will .iililii--
(lie opening session ol the
aviation clinic oil Mondai.
No.cmlii i- IBtii. Itiri Inin h
Mr. tiiimiiii will go in I oit
”* i 11 where lie will see ., ip-in.
onslration ot ticlii artilliiy
iHClies. Fort sin iiiitliorlllcs
will In. lie Mi Truman to
lire one of the lag gun*, lie ,
nil* a field artillery oltlcer
ill World \\ ar Uni .i*id
spent some time al I oil
MIL
in connection with the avia
Ition clinic, the army ha civ, an
that time for official dedicat’on
lof Tinker Field, one of the ling
jest air depots In the world l.t
; Gen Ira Faker — the former
| Durant, Oklahoma, officer who
was commander of Allied .ir
Forces in the Mediterranean —
will make the dedication -pei-ch
Faker Is now deputy command
er of Army Air Forces
i Governor Kerr, who I gener
al chairman of the Aviation clin-
ic, was Insirumental in olitain-
i ing President Truman for the
I clinic.
\(> heson say» hi* duties
are to a**isi tii'iternl Mar-
ti thin in all) wo. possihle
aiol pro. idi- ad.lce .. henev-
ci lo ici|i|i'*t* it. III* office
wdl hi estalilished near su-
pi eme lieailqiiarters.
>t
bur- head-
\inc-ri> an ar-
- land in Jap-
•cupat of
.*■-(• Island of
r tomorrow,
ran- of the
von their bat-
on.! a and the
crowded on
.iki Harbor,
ire With the
commander,
a Japanese
given the
i tlu* .lup&ncse
ready for iren
nuary F’rlnce
Japanese pre-
iment was re*
r Tojn'a war
tlie .latones*
it. have <i'
Conoye sb
nv poliUca
v s Januar;
uld not ti
live the n;
the necet
1 parties
or to brin
they Ih*
81)988 |H)|
carried oi
Remove i
^ays. .lap*
now—the c
lg that they
i democratic.
a miniate
in the pres
nment, sav-s
- rulers
nly diffi
would
r without
mt la|>an-
that in his
•■pinion Emperor Hlrohlto will
ot abdicate.
In territories newly freed
I will Japanese rule, pnlitliol
strife l» growing. In Korea,
the leader of Korea’s left-
wing pari) ha* hern forced
to go Into hilling, anil cluinge
Id* ilwi-iling place every
night. Tin-re ha* been street
lighting among the illtfi-ri-nt
parties In Korea uinl twice
the left*Ing leader has hern
nllacki-il Aind severely brut-
ell. I'.ilh i- report that both
lilt and right-wing parties
in Kori have threatened to
break of1 an) meeting of op-
position eh-ments.
in Javii, it - tiic Japanese who
I See KEPbilT I’age 8
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