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WtL LXXI GRAHAM, N. C.f THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1945 NO. 47
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS ??
Congress Reacts to Labor Unrest;
Truman Maps Broad Program to
Ease Critical Housing Shortage
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Searching tar wood or food scraps, residents of Nuernberg scour Allied
Despite plans for food shipments to Reich, D. S. reports present
?ritaa af 1>M eateries will not be increased.
LABOR:
Congress Reacts
* '?Caned bf labor unrest retard
teg reconversion, congress moved
fcr passage of an "anti-violence" act
fsaaidteg a maximum penalty of 20
jean Imprisonment for forcible in
terference or threats against inter
state commerce. Labeled, as an
anti-racketeering measure, the bill
Cits eat of protest against the AFL
fchinstiisiiil Teamster union's col
lection of funds from independent
?aieu entering large cities where
tee 1TD is strongly organized.
Wide congress vented its wrath
against the strike wave with the
""wti-vialence'' ' act, it cooled to
me more slowly on President
Tt aw ill's recommendation for anti
strike legislation calling for crea
tisn of fact-finding boards empow
ered to look into both company and
mnaa books to determine merits of
wage disputes.
Body opposed by labor leaders,
tee President's proposal has been
halfheartedly received by industry,
ante both parties continuing to
tans the least possible restraint
V* their full bargaining advan
tages hi adjusting their differences.
VAW Backs Down
Mianiriiili, negotiations proceed
ed apace in the automobile in
dustry. where the powerful CIO
Ihitad Automobile Workers sought
matetenance of high wartime
A break in the UAW's de
?nil far a 39 per cent pay
baaat aaaac in tta dickering with
a wPlingaess to eompromiae on
Ho paaiUaa it the company pro
posed ma aaanai wage and other
?aaoaian like pensions, re
Upaisl compensation and ra
in aa effort to meet Ford in the
argalialkms. the UAW also drew up
4m Mprecedented security clause
testes! wildcat strikes, agreeing on
tee imposition of a $3 a day One
agates* workers found guilty of an
?nihili lied walkout for a first of
fense, and $9 a day for a second.
White the UAW-Ford discussions
piagi i asi il. the union's parley with
Genual Motors lagged a step be
lted, with President Truman seek
ing la actively intervene in the dis
pwte with the appointment of a fact
teteteg board to help speed settle
aaaat <rf the wage issue. Unlike the
amdUnery that Mr. Truman would
bharNFteHb his-anti-Strike legisla
fa, however, the G.M. fact-finding
haaad larks power to force either
paste te tan over its books.
r?4m*wnOff
Cktefted by strikes, parts short
apas, and labor scarcities, automo
hPa production has fallen far below
panteaw expectations, with only
ahatetejMi cars having been manu
teiteu d ap to mid-December out
te a yaas mil goal of 900,000.
?f tee Big Three ta the ta
Ford has achieved
?Mteg^tesatifMrat agar tAjm
has boea ratarteg1 by^tee^dg
atea tertea white Chrysler ae
tedte has saffered from sappiy
aadtehssjhartages after a late
teMte te gorernmeat seders.
Far bard, Nash, Hudson and Stu
dahahar haws aO fallen far behind
aahadtes. white WillywOverland's
, i I II te )eepe has bee. aty
HOME BUILDING:
Seek Speed-Up
Moving to ease the nation's strin
gent housing shortage. President
Truman mapped a broad over-all
program calling for the channelling
of building materials into lower cost
construction, imposition of price
control on new and old dwellings,
and emergency use of wartime gov
ernment shelters for home-seekers.
The President took action as Re
conversion Director Snyder de
clared that a million families al
ready are doubling up in existing
homes and the number may con
tinue to grow as service discharges
mount. With several years of peak
construction necessary to relieve
the situation, the industry will do
well if it puts up 500,000 dwellings
next year, Snyder added.
In excercising its emergency pow
er to route building materials . into
lower cost housing to accommo
date average pocketbooks, the gov
ernment will favor homes under
$10,000, with preference given to
vets. Essential industrial and com
mercial construction also will be
granted priority under the plan.
Witfi housing expected to remain
short for several years despite in
creasing production, the President's
proposal for legislation for ceilings
on new and old structures aimed at
keeping prices within reasonable
bounds to head off an inflationary
spiral.
In providing emergency facilities,
including army and navy barracks
and dormitories, for temporary shel
ter in crowded areas, the govern
ment will move the structures wher
ever necessary. At the same time,
surplus government building mate
rials also will be disposed of, with
70 per cent earmarked for low cost
housing.
To speed the program, President
Truman named former Mayor Wil
son Wyatt of Louisville, Ky., hous
ing expediter to work under Snyder.
PEARL HARBOR:
Testimony Clashes
Divergence of testimony over the
war department's receipt of the
fateful "winds message" disclosing
Japan's decision to wage war
against the U. S. on December 3,
1941, marked the congressional in
quiry into the Pearl Harbor dis
aster.
Whereas a top secret report of
the army's Pearl Harbor inquiry
board stated that the navy had in
tercepted and decoded the mes
sage four days before the surprise
attack and then transmitted it to
the White House and war and state
departments, affidavits later ob
tained through a special investiga
tion asserted that the army had
never received the information.
Copies of the message have disap
peared from navy files, the army
board reported.
Undertaken by the war depart
ment after the army board had filed
its report, the special investigation
was conducted by Lt. Col. Henry C.
Clausen, Bid disputed other tacts
originally presented, besides those
pertaining to the "winds" message.
In completing one week of testi
mony before the congressional
committee, Gen. George C. Mar
shall, ex-army chief of staff and
President Truman's special envoy
to China, backed up the revised ftnd
tag.^denying that he bad seen the
SALARIES:
Report Highest
In earning $808,070, marie mag
nate Louis B. Mayer enjoyed the
top income in the U. 8. for the cal
endar year 1083 or fiscal year
ending in 1944, the treasury report
ed. Far behind Mayer, Charles E.
Wilson, president of General Mo
tors, drew $459,041 to rank No. 2,
with Thomas J. Watson, president
of the International Business Ma
chines corporation. No. 3*with $425,
548.
Fred MacMurray*s $419,106 topped
movie star salaries, with other peak
Hollywood incomes including T)ean
na Durbin, $328,491; Barbara Stan
wyck, $323,333; Bing Crosby. $294,
444, and William Powell, $292,500.
General Motors officials were
among the highest paid of the na
tion's executives, other G.M. big
wigs besides Wilson in the top <
brackets including Ormond E. Hunt,
$359,519; Albert Bradley, $350,432;
John Thomas Smith, $306,310; Don
aldson Brown, $306,160, and Charles
F. Kettering, $306,117.
.NUERNBERG TRIBUNAL:
Faces Test
First great undertaking of its kind
to provide a precedent for the pun
ishment of war-makers, the Allied
tribunal trying top Nazis in Nuern
berg, Germany, will receive its still
est test if defendants press their
efforts to get prominent personages
in the U. S. and Britain to testify
as witnesses.
Under regulations drawn up by
the U. S., Britain, Russia and
France, the tribunal is empowered
to subpoena witnesses in other coun
tries, in which case the latter could
then appeal to their own National
courts against being forced to ap
pear. Upon the verdict of these judi
cial bodies, then, the authority of
the tribunal would be legally de
fined.
Under the tribunal's charter, the
defendants themselves cannot chal
lenge its validity, their early pro
tests having been denied and their
proposals for a mixed court of al
lied, neutral and German judges re
jected. As the case proceeded, U. S.
prosecutors outlined the conscrip
tion of hundreds of thousands of for- 1
eign workers for slave labor in Ger
many.
BIG THREE:
Foreign Chiefs Meet
Simultaneous with Sec. of State
James F. Byrnes' departure for the
meeting of foreign ministers in Mos
cow, the U. S. state department re
leased its plans for the economic
reorganization of Germany, limiting
the Reich's industry to necessities
at the outset and pegging its living
standard to the European average.
Pressing European and Asiatic
diplomatic problems as well as the
control at atomic energy were high
General Flsanhewsr (left) eeM
Secretary Byrnes eft to Moscow.
on the Big Three's agenda as the
Moscow parley took shape. Imme
diate cause of concern lay in the
troubled Iranian situation, where
Russia has resisted proposals for a
withdrawal at its troops from the
north in the midst at a Red-backed
autonomy movement in Azerbaijan
province, aiding the extension of
communist influence in the oil-rich
middle east.
In advancing its plan for the eco
nomic revamping of Germany, the
U. S. said food shipments to the
Reich will be necessary during the
reorganization period of two years.
After that, the Raich should-be able
to supply its mlntamim needs and
also produce enough to export
goods to balance import require
ments.
TROOP TRAVEL:
Claims Rail Cars
With 35 per cent at all coach seats
and 75 per cent of all sleeping space
on railroads diverted to troop use,
civilians faced difficult transporta
tion conditions over the holiday sea
son.
Charged with the task of moving
a million men during December
alooe, with 6(0,0(0 debarking on the
west coast the railroads anticipate
an equally heavy load during Janu
ary.
No less than 40 te SO trains a day
are needed to keep Pacific ports
clear, with 90 per cant of an the
beds and seats for eastward travel
occupied by the military Of the
a.000 men moving Inland from the
west each day, M per cent travel
to destinations east ?( the Missis
sippi river.
Talet of the Town:
la the Actor the other midnight
Homo Vincent got a big laugh toll
ing pale about "the drunk"
ragged into a bar and ordered a
triple martini. . . . After swallowing
two of them he decided the barten
der was his friend. Beaching into
his coat pocket he brought forth a
live lobster and offered it to the bar
tender, who tried refusing it sev
eral times. . . . Finally, the bar
tender decided it would be better to
take the daznb thing than argue
about it.
"Okay," he said, gripping the lob
ster, "I'll take it home for dinner."
"Oh, no, don't do that!" cried the
lush. "He's already had dinner?
take him^to the movies!" ,
A war correspondent back from
Tolvo brought this. You may .re
call that when Tojo shot himself, an
American commentator in Japan
flashed: "Tojo has killed himself!"
. . . When the reporter returned to
Tojo's house he learned thf old so
and-so was still alive. . . . "Oh,
damn it!" shrieked the broadcast
er. "I just told CBS listeners that
he killed himself!"
Tojo was lying on his back and
the blood was flowing. . . . One G.I.
looked at another. Someone sud
denly broke the hush and said:
"What the hell? He's gonna die
anyway, and good riddanci. Let's
turn the So-and-So over on his belly
so the blood will run more freely!"
. . . And they did so. . . . Pretty
soon the doctor arrived and exam
ined Tojo. . . . Turning to the G.I.s
and correspondents the doctor in
quired: "Who turned him over?"
. . . "We did!" they all yelled.
"Well," sighed the doc, "you
saved his life."
Shirley Temple's book, "My
Young Life" (her autobiography),
which was written by a New York
girl at a weekly wage. . . . Made
leine Carroll spuming all screen
and stage offers to continue serving
the Red Cross. . . . Dinah Shore
copping every popularity poll this
year for gal thrushes. . . . Die way
Pres. Truman has "aged" in his
first season at the White House.
Not physically?but over his unhap
piness at the way "my old friends
in the Senate have let me down."
Earl Browder (former chief of the
Americommies) is being investigat
ed by a special board of the Nat'l
Committee of the Communist Party.
They suspect him of organizing an
opposing faction within the party.
. . . June Haver has called oiff her
romance with Vic Mature. He's so
busy squiring Cleatus Caldwell, any
how. . . . Ruth Hogg, who vocals
on some Harry James recordings,
is Betty Grable. . . . Wm. Eythe is
coming here to visit Margaret Whit
ing, which debunks the tritems of
a parting.
Lindbergh Intermediary Irving
Bitz ia back?worldmf (or an eve'g
paper. . . . Norma Richter, one of
the 3 top models (making $1,000
weekly), has chucked it all to mer
ry Chas. Rose, coast gem merchant.
. . . "Oklahoma Gin" is tha rage.
Players get ten cards each?tha
next card is turned up. Players
can't knock with less than ten points
than the value of that card. It's the
newest short cut to ruin. . . . Art
craft Hosiery (one of the biggest
firms) win bet any amount that ny
lons win not be available (in retail
stores) until some time in 1947. . . .
After twenty-four years' service to
our country, underpaid G-Man Hoo
ver is broke,
Flddle-Faddle and Pi?e: Winkle
win be on a stamp aeon. . . . James
Melton may get the role of "Curly"
in the film version of "Okla." . . .
John Roosevelt, recently libeled in a
syndicated col'm (from Washington)
as a "conehie." will be interested to
learn that the author has since been
fired. . . . John W. Raper, the age
less Cleveland philosopher, has put
his pepigrams between covers. It
is titled: "What This World Needs."
. . . Joseph E. Da visa may auth
another book to clear up matters
since Potsdam. . . . John Gunther
has visited 47 states to compile data
for his next book, "Inside U.S.A."
He wUl visit Delaware as scon ss
he is completety mended from the
flu. He is sunning at the Rooey- .
Pleasure Cabana Club.
Talk a beet gall! In an interview
with an American newsboy, Musso
lini's spouse defended the policies
and the Romeoing of her two-timing
hubby. 8he than added that she
wished to coma to America to give
licturct.
What! And give Lb Dilhng com
?titioi>T
4-H Girls Win Scholarships
Through Skill With Needle
College Education Assured
F6r a Dozen Lucky Ladies
T TSING needle and thread,
I ingenuity and persever
^ ance, 12 girls from as
many states each won $200
scholarships at the National
4-H clothing achievement con
test held at Chicago in connec
tion with the 24th National 4-H
club congress. The scholarships
were awarded by the Spool Cot
ton company of New York.
The winners were Dixie Lee Nut
tall, Dragoon, Cochise Co., Ariz.;
Mae Cagle, Canton, Cherokee Co.,
?a.; Meta Marie Keller, Streator,
La Salle Co., HI.; Marl* Lorena
Weisheit, Petersburg, Pike Co., Ind.;
Doris Clopper, Hagerstown,' Wash
ington Co., Md.; Rhus Ethel Sla
vens. Molt, Stillwater Co., Mont.;
Ruth B. Erb, Hudson, Hillsborough
Co., N. H.; Kathryn Johnson, Mara
thon, Cortland Co., N. Y.; Gerry
Keathly, Marland, Noble Co., Okla.;
Eleanor Zaharis, Portland, Multno
mah Co., Ore.; Billis McCoy, Jas
per, Marion Co., Tenn.; and Bonnie
B. Christison, Elkhom, Walworth
Co., Wis.
In casa any of the above do not
take advantage of the scholarships,
some of the following alternates
may go to college instead:
Alice Word, Oak Grove, Christian
Co., Ky.; Lorraine Miller, Fair
mont, Martin Co., Minn.; Nancy
Brittingham, Marsha 11 ton. New
Castle Co., Del.; Car ley Jean Van
sant, Richfield, Lincoln Co., Idaho;
Lyda Jean Smith, Boas, Etowah Co.,
Ala.; and Helen Ochsner, Madison,
Madison Co., Neb.
Each 4-H clothing achievement
girl had a personal story of how she
started sewing, of her progress and
of her final triumph as a national
winner.
Dixie Lee Nuttall got her start mak
ing doll clothes. After dressing the
doll in the bast of faahfcw, Dixie
knew she had overcome moat of the
pitfalls of a beginner. She has
completed a total of 77 articles and
has knitted or crocheted 15 more.
Bonnie B. Christisod admits she
always liked to sew, and recently
proved it when she made 10 gowns
for a formal wedding when ber sis
ter was married.
Doris Clopper discovered that
shortage of piece foods during war
time made remodeling almost a
necessity. She first aelectad a blue
serge suit of her father's, took it
apart, placed it on a pattern, and
set to work. A fine two-piece suit
for herself resulted. A black coat
with a big fur collar, discarded by
her mother, was revamped into a
stylish garment by Doris. Her magic
now turns all sorts of eld garments
into attractive^ ensmnblas for bar
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Sewing isn't difficult if you have
patience, says Rhua Slavens, who
has made numerous hats and bags,
a winter coat, and a coat and suit.
She admits, however, that she start
ed sewing by making a tea towel!
Ruth Erb thinks it is a crime to
let good material go to waste, so
she takes out-of-date clothing and,
using her style sense, creates many
fashion sensations. Ruth thinks ev
eryone should go through the rag
bag or the pile of discarded cloth
ing from time to time to get mate
rid for skirts, shorts, jerkin, blouse
and other garments.
Special occasions do not bother
Kathryn Johnson, for she makes any
outfit she wants. Her father's old
silk shirts, discarded 20 years ago,
provided her with a blouse. She re
shapes old hats into stylish modes
and creates other wearing apparel
that will stand the test of any fash
ion editor's eye. <
Billie McCoy estimates that she
has saved over $300 by making her
own clothing during the last few
years. Evening gowns, blouses,
skirts, suits, dresses and other needs
were produced by her searing skill.
To list all her sewing achievements
would make a news story in itself.
In seven years of project work la
the 4-H club, Mae Cagle progressed
from making doll dresses to slips,
dresses, house coats and other Hems
of apparel. If she likes "a drew
shown in a newspaper or magazine,
she makes one like it far herself.
Eleanor Zaharis has woo many
prizes for her exceptional sewing.
She starts first with good material,
tests it for wrinkles, chooses a pat
tern carefully and sets to work. She
refuses to rush through the sewing,
but takes extra care to assure an
attractive and satisfying result.
Before she became an expert at
sewing, Marie Weisheit made many
mistakes, but you would never guess
it now. Along with making her own
clothes, Marie does most at the
mending and darning for her family
of six people.
Another who started sewing by
4 -"M
?t
making a tea towel is Garry Keatb
ley. "If you've never sewed, yaw
don't know what you're missing.**
she declares now. Hairing dresses,
or suits, is now easy for her, aotd
her favorite pastime is darning!
Meta Marie Keller finds she cm
now make all her own clothes aad
still have time for fun and other
work. It wasn't easy at first, she
admits, as she looks back to the
time she made her first cotton dross.
SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS . . . Pint row, left to right: Dixie Lee Nuttall, Arisooa; Gerry Keetkiy, Okla
homa; Rhea glavens, Montana; Bonnie Christison, Wlaeonain; Roth Erb, New Hani yah Ire; Flame Zaharis,
Oregon. Second row, left to rifht: Mae Cafle, Georgia; Meta Mario Keller, IUiaoia; Deris Oeyyer, Mary
land; Kathryn Johnson, New York; Marie Weiaheit, Indiana. IBUUe McCoy, Tennessee, net shown, was aha
a winner.) '
Visitors from Foreign Lands
Come to Learn at 4-H Congress
Other nations an learning from
the 4-H clubs of America, it was
revealed at the Mth annual 4-H club
congress held in Chicago. As their
guests the 4-H members of the
United States had 66 boys and girls
of other nations who had come to
share the event
Eighteen young Chinese, who
were sent to the United States by
their government to study 4-H clubs
and agricultural methods, are among
foreign friends who will take home
a report of their experiences.
These young Chinese passed No
vember on American fartna. As a
climax of their American visit
they attended the congress with dele
gates of their "adopted" states.
Typical of them is Shih-Ch*Shen,
who will describe the rongraaa to
Chinese youth on shortwave broad
casts soon. He is learning to drive
a tractor and operate other farm
machinery on the Owen Perry farm,
Malcolm, Neb. Mrs. Perry is teach
ing him English?and he's looking
forward to Christmas?the Ameri
can tood
The "good neighbors" who at
tended included T Venezuelans, I
Costa Rican, 1 Peruvian, 35 Cana
dians from Ontario and 4 from Que
bec. To get acquainted they visited
with different delegations. For in
stance, one Canadian boy had break
fast one day with Oklahomans,
lunch with the Oregon delegation
and dinner with Georgians.
Mario Perei of Venezuela hta
been living with his pal, Gilbert H?
cock of Connecticut. He is actios
in the S-V dubs of Venezuela, simi
lar to HI clubs.
Rita Letobvre, 30, of Chandler.
Quebec, and Normand Laferriere of
Bertbeir, Quebec, toured Oliraga
and marveled at "those buildings
with their beads in the ikiaa "
the dark-haired, vivacious Miss La
febvre and her 4-H companion frees
a town of 100 population said ?
was the first time they had aeon
buildings over 15 stories higlh
Neither had visited the United
Statee before their preeent trip,
which was in the nature of an
sward tor their 4-H dub work to
Canada.
lfiss Lefebvre, who is employed to
I a bank, directed an exhibit of home
economics work and for sal ednen*
tion last August lor the 10 mam*
bers of her 4-H dub. Laferriere,
I who ia taking a special adeattto
course preparatory to mtering col
lege, organized two 4-H ciube and'
a community cantor lor forest to- -
I structioo at BarHtoir.
Both they and their rhapi rasa. -
Mrs. Gerard La Terreur of Chan
dler and J. A. Breton of Quekea
City, marveled at the veataam of
the United SUtm 4-H aigaali alien -*
Iks Canadian ctobe, which em
more social and ntwrational organ