The Alamance Gleaner
VOL. LXXII% GRAHAM, N. CM THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 1946 No. 6
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Rip Franco Rule; U. S. Stiffens
Foreign Policy; Readjust Crop
Goals to Meet Emergency Needs
______ Release^ by Western Newspaper Union. .
(EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expresses la these eel mans, they are these of
Western Newspaper Ualen's aews analysts and net necessarily ef this newspaper.)
Hoping to meet Allied demands
for democratization of Japanese
government, Emperor Hirohito
makes tour of industrial plants, tip
ping hat to reverent subjects at
Kanagawa-Ken.
SPAIN:
Hot Spot
With leftist elements in France
pressing the issue, a new govern
ment loomed in Franco Spain, long
under fire for Fascist connections
but reportedly countenanced by
Britain because of its neutrality dur
ing World War II, which diverted
direct attack on Gibraltar.
The Allies' first major step in
seeking to, supplant Franco came
with France's closure of its border
against Spain. Prodded by French
proposals to take up the matter with
the United Nations organization, the
U. S. and Britain then reportedly
agreed to form a common front to
apply pressure for Franco's re
moval.
While renouncing intentions to
meddle with Spain's internal af
fairs, the U. S. and Britain moved
to denounce the continued existence
of Franco's regime and proclaim
their willingness to recognize an in
terim representative government if
he were ousted. Awaiting resolution
of the situation, the U. S. and Brit
ain would not break off economic
ties or diplomatic relations, leaving
the road open for negotiations for
creation of a democratic govern
ment.
FOREIGN POLICY:
U. S. Stiffens
Answering demands of Sen. Ar
thur Vandenberg (Rep., Mich.) for
a firmer foreien
policy in reaching
an understanding
with Russia, Secre
tary of State
Byrnes declared
the .U. S. would go
to war to curb fu
ture aggressors and
peace and repara
tions settlements
must be reached
speedily and equi
laDiy 10 permit uie
economic revival of Vandenberg
the world.
Byrnes' enunciation of the admin
istration's foreign policy followed
Vandenberg's charge upon return
ing from the United Nations Organ
ization sessions in London that the
American representatives sat back
with compromising attitudes while
Russia and Britain pressed their po
litical ambitions. Unless the U. S.
pushes its ideals, Vandenberg said,
Russia will continue to press ahead
in the Far East, eastern Europe,
North Africa and Asia Minor where
continued aggressiveness may set
off a powder keg.
In reaffirming U. S. determination
to check future aggression, Byrnes
declared that the present arrange
ment of the three great powers
precluded world domination by any
one of them, but that efforts to upset
the balance would imperil peace. In
calling for early peace treaties, he
asked for an ending of the drain
ing of occupied countries. Demand
ing equitable reparations agree
ments, Byrnes said the U. S. would
not tolerate any power deciding
for itself what to take.
STRIKES:
Costly Walkout
The General Motors and CIO
United Automobile Hothdis pitched
battle over wages ranks as one of
the costliest industrial disputes in
U. S. history, with financial losses
of over 800 million dollars to com
pany, union, dealers and other pro
ducers dependent on G. M. for
parts.
With its plants closed as tight ss
a drum throughout the country,
G. M. was estimated to have lost
(00 million dollars in unfilled, orders
while 175,000 production employees
missed 113 million dollars in wages.
Dealers and salesmen were said to
have lost another 100 million dol
lars in commissions.
Because of G. M.'s production
of parts, other manufacturers have
been forced to curtail assemblies,
increasing profit and wage losses.
At the Packard Motor Car company,
8,000 production workers have been
off more than a month because of
the shortage of G. M. supplies.
Of 50,000 G. M. employees in Flint,
Mich., over 2,000 strike-bound work
ers are receiving welfare relief at
a rate of $38.06 weekly.
GERMANY:
Ration Cut
Reduction of the food ration to
1,000 calories daily in the British
occupation rone in Germany, and
need for substantial imports into
the American-held sector if the
present level of 1,500 calories is to
be maintained, pointed up the criti
cal situation in the fallen Reich.
Seeking to alleviate the new hard
ship imposed by the ration slash
and head off possible rioting, Field
Marshal Montgomery flew to Lon
don to discuss ways of providing
additional food for the 20 million
German residents in the highly in
dustrialized northwestern region
held by the British. Because a di
vision of British food supplies would
not furnish substantial relief, how
ever, authorities appealed to the
U. S. and Russia for food shipments.
While Germans in the U. S. occu
pation zone are receiving a subsist
ence ration of 1,500- calories daily,
two-thirds of the food eaten is com
ing from local stocks. If the present
allotment is to be maintained, im
ports soon will have to be upped
and a total of 700,000 tons shipped
in during the first nine months of
1946. Because of scarcities of fer
tilizer, seeds', tools and farm ma
chinery, fall crops may be appre
ciably curtailed.
FOOD:
Crop Readjustments
In readjusting 1946 crop goals, the
department of agriculture sought to
assure a greater supply of edible
grain, nutritious relief fare, fats and
oils and animal feed to meet not
only U. S. needs but growing Euro
pean emergency requirements.
Because winter wheat already has
been planted, the additional 1,000,
000 acres asked will have to be
seeded in the spring wheat area,
the department declared. While
North and South Dakota, Montana
and Minnesota are expected to plant
the bulk of the extra acreage,
other spring wheat areas were called
upon to increase their crop.
Since smooth dry edible peas con
stitute a good protein relief food and
ship well, the department planned
for a 100,000-acre boost in plantings,
principally in Colorado, Idaho, Mon
tana, North Dakota, Oregon and
Washington.
With small world supplies of fats
and oils in the face of the slow
movement of shipments from the
Pacific and heavy overseas relief
needs, soybean goals were boosted
by 1,100,000 acres. Iowa, Ohio, Illi
nois, Indiana, Minnesota and Mis
souri were asked for the greatest
increase.
Faced with the need for high meat
and dairy output with feed stocks
dwindling, fanners were asked to
increase corn production over 1,000,
000 acres and also step up roughage
cultivation. At the same time, pro
ducers were told to maintain the
(low of cattle to market, ship bogs
at lighter weights and coll poul
try flocks.
STATE BANKS:
Ship-Shape
With government bond holding!,
loans and discounts and other as
sets showing substantial increases,
the nation's 9,538 state banks boost
ed their total resources to almost
87 V4 billion dollars in 1945.
A breakdown of assets showed
government bonds, totaling 50 bil
lion dollars, made up 57.4 per cent
of resources at the year end, with
loans and discounts, approximating
16V4 billion dollars, next at 18.8 per
cent. Cash and balances with other
banks amounted to over 15 billion
dollars to constitute 17.8 per cent of
assets while state, municipal and
private securities and other re
sources approximating 5 billion dol
lars rounded out the holdings.
The 9,538 state banks had capital
stock totaling 1% billion dollars, sur
plus of 3 billion dollars, undivided
profits of 1 billion dollars and re
serves of 365 million dollars.
Ready Credit
Alive to the growing volume of
installment financing, over 12,000
state and national banks will extend
consumer credit in the postwar
years, greatly expanding their pre
war operations when they supplied
46 per cent of such loans in the
country.
While not all of the banks intend
to extend all types of consumer
credit, 10,500 plan to make personal
loans. By buying dealer paper or ad
vancing money directly to con
sumers, 9,400 banks will finance
sales of automobiles and 8,000 will
back purchases of such goods as
home appliances, farm equipment
and airplanes.
Over 5,000 banks will make FHA
loans covering home repairs while
7,900 will extend credit for modern
ization plans of small businesses or
residential owners.
Fritz Finds Heavy Going
Deported in September of 1945 as
dangerous alien after he had been
deprived of D. S. citizenship, for
mer Bund Chieftain Frits Kuhn is
now baggage smasher in Hohenas
berg castle in Stuttgart, Ger
many.
BIG MAN:
Grows Bigger
One of the biggest of the wartime
entrepreneurs, Henry J. Kaiser con
tinued his postwar growth with the
leasing of two huge government
aluminum mills at Spokane, Wash.,
with options to buy.
In granting Kaiser companies use
of the plants, the government an
nounced that it sought to increase
competition in the industry present
ly dominated by two companies.
Because Kaiser plans to extensively
employ the metal in his automo
biles, the government also said, he
might open a new field for use of
the material and thus open a mar
ket for other U. S.-owned aluminum
plants.
In leasing the $47,630,000 Trent
wood aluminum rolling mill, Kaiser
Frazier agreed to pay a yearly rent
al amounting to 5 per cent of gross
sales or fixed sums, running up to
$2,667,000 in 1951. In obtaining the
$22,270,000 Mead aluminum reduc
tion plant, Kaiser Cargo, Inc., will
pay annual charges up to $1,248,000
in the fifth year.
MEAT:
Consumer Costs
Though consumers will have to
pay the full cost of the packing com
panies' 16 cent an hour wage boost
to employees, the actual outlay will
approximate only 81 cents a year
per person on the basis of record
consumption, the department of
agriculture reported.
In arriving at the figure, depart
ment economists divided the ltt per
cent price increase allowed pack
ers into anticipated consumption of
155 pounds of meat per person in
1946 at an average of 35 cents a
pound. However, the actual cost
might be less since the estimated
consumption at 155 pounds per per
son reflects a peak and is far above
the average prewar level.
Despite the 1H per cent price
boost granted packers to offset the
wage increase, the American Meat
institute termed OPA's relief entire
ly inadequate if livestock is to flow
to legitimate channels. Even with
the new price increase, the institute
said, legal operators jrwdd -V I
pressed to compete with MfcaSukr-'G
keteers in bidding for cattle.
New York Newsboy
Frenchmen here insist DeGaulle
is being held prisoner in bis own
house in Paris by order of the com
my high command. . . . Rep. Ran
kin s report on Hollywood (to his
Un-American Committee) has been
sent back for re-writing. So poorly
presented, etc. . . . Sumner Welles,
former Ass't Sec'y of State, has an
old farm near Babylon (L. I.) for
sale. A home is on the grounds. . , ,
Interesting observation: That big
Page ad in which the N A M. at
tacked Bowles was prepared by the
Benton & Bowles advert agency, of
which he is vice-chairman. . . . One
of the best informed State Dept.
officials complains that too many
of the top men in Washington are
fiddling while the world bums?that
World War III has already started
in the Eastern Hemisphere! . . .
Mr. Justice Douglas of the Supreme
Court can, if he likes, be Assistant
President of the United States.
Nylons are no longer the top
black market item. A $5 white shirt
in many spots brings 20 bux. . . . Lili
St. Cyr of the night clubs can't
wear nylons. Allergic! . . . W. Z.
Foster, chief of the U. S. Commun
ist Party, issued a rebuke to a
headline writer on the local commy
paper for "stupid journalism." . . .
Doris Lilly (no dunce, she) insert
ofi a classified ad in a paper adver
tising for an apartment and got 30
replies next day. And an apt.! . . .
Sgt. Chet Skreen observes that the
legend about British women hav
ing no sex appeal took a terrible
debunking when H'wood hired two
British actresses to film the most
amorous women ? Amber and
Scarlett!
??Theodore Dreiser's "The Bul
wark" (his testament novel on the
decline of 20th Century morals) will
be published by Doubleday next
month. Original publication date
was the fall of 1917. It wiD be the
April Book Find Club selection. . , ,
Fred Allen and his agent are mak
ing a money settlement after a long
time romance. . . . Republicans
who planned spending oodles for
radio time have held up their plans
since the Demmys started slugging
each other. Lucky stiffs. . . . Some
hotels are offering permanents as
high as $500 to move out. , . ,
Black market butter is selling at
$1.10 the lb. . . . Three-fourths of
the people in the world could not
read the Atlantic Charter if writ
ten in their own language that's
how much illiteracy there is I
, B*e^Vte *>H?ette: It happened
in Tallulah Bankhead's undressing
room. ... An old bore got by the
doorman and found Talu's retreat
. Before she could say: "Now
looka here!" he brought forth one
of those spellbinding ant villages
in which the ants build tunnels and
whatnot . . . The star was fasci
nated by them "They are won
derful little things," he kept eaying,
they really are. They never stop
working, always doing something?
always keeping busy. They have
their own police force and their own
army, too!" . . . "Hmmmmm,"
hmmm'd Talu with her straightest
face, "no navy, I suppose."
Sgt Stanley Volehok forwards
the U. S. Army paper (The Lud
wigsburg Sentinel) from Germany
in which Fritz Kuhn was inter
viewed. They quote him as finally
admitting: "All the reporters start
ed muckraking me. They wanted to
build me and the German-American
Bund into something sensational so
that their papers would sell! Even
my good friend Walter Winchell
spoke against me, and then the
Diea committee investigated me "
Investigated him? It advertised
him as a good American and de
nounced me as "the leeder of a
sinister propaganda bund" I
Ach, Fritz! How times change
since 1933, no? You are back home
in your beloved Germany undt Herr
Dies is back home in oblivion.
. "t*. Ntfkt: At Leone's:
"I love to stand at 42nd Street and
Broadway and watch the frauda go
by!" ... At the Blue Angel: "They
have a lot in common?they are
hated by the aame people." ... At
the Latin Quarter: " 'Charming' is
a word that means the joke was
lousy but told by . very dear
V * **** Penthouse:
Whata snob! Holds her nose so
high she nearly firowns when it
rainsl" . . At WJZ: "Like all
bigots, that Congressman has yet to
learn you can't lynch the truth!"
... At Chib 7$: '"That Runyon is a
Ojmqj^the rough" ... At the
i ub Room: '^ifce-{filer.-SC'<J give
you a bottle of milk for a cow.*^ i
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By EDWARD EMERINE
WNC Feature*
The rotes nowhere
Bloom so white.
As in Virginia;
The sunshine nowhere
Seems so bright.
As in Virginia.
\I7ITH traditional leisure, charm
*' and graciousness, Virginia
| proudly upholds its titles of "Old
Dominion," "Cradle of a Nation,"
and "Birthplace of Presidents."
Rich in historical associations, the
romance of Virginia is interwoven in
warp and woof of a nation, its tra
ditions and lore deep in the fibre of
its people.
A part of old England was trans
planted across the wide Atlantic, its
laws and standards set up in a rich,
new land. Through hardships, wars
and trials, those principles took on
new growth, the virgin soil added
new strength and new meaning.
They blossomed in George Wash
ington's wisdom and talent, in the
magic of Thomas Jefferson's pen,
in the rousing voice of Patrick Hen
ry, and In the genius and under
standing of Robert E. Lee.
At Jamestown, the first perma
nent English settlement in America
was made in 1607. At Yorktown in
I 1781 the American Revolution end
ed with the surrender of Cornwall is
and the British army. Williams
burg, settled in 1632, is said to be
the oldest incorporated town in
America, and was the capital of
Virginia from 1609 to 1760. The
Commonwealth was the scene of
many campaigns in the Civil war
which closed with the surrender of
Lee's army, April, 1869, at Appomat
tox court house near Lynchburg.
The Commonwealth of Virginia
was named for Elizabeth, England's
virgin queen. "Heaven and earth
never agreed better to frame a place
for a man's habitation," Capt. John
Smith declared. It was he who
claimed this new land for his queen.
Virginia's territory once included
Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and West Vir
ginia. When Charles II was
crowned he wore a robe of Virginia
silk, and had engraved on coins that
the English kingdom should consist
of "England, Scotland, Ireland and
Virginia."
Virginia has been the birthplace
of eight Presidents, including Har
rison, Taylor and Wilson, who were
elected from other states. George
Washington, Thomas Jefferson,
James Madison, James Monroe and
John Tyler were resident* of Vir
ginia when they took office. The
names of other Virginians, howev
er, sprinkle the page* of history,
literature, art and science. Includ
ed among them are Princess Poca
hontas, George Rogers Clark, Meri
wether Lewis, John Randolph, John
Marshall, Stonewall Jackson. Hen
ry Clay. But the list of Virginia's
great is too long to nam* here!
The topography of Virginia is a
varied one. The coastal plain, known
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WILLIAM M. TUCK
Governor of Virginia
Former marine, school teach
er, lawyer, legislator and lien
tenant - governor, Gov. William
Mnnform Tuck is Virginia's 61st
chief executive.
as the Tidewater, was the first set
tled. The colonists planted tobac
co there and watched its green
leaves turn to gold. Cornfields were
resplendent in the sun, and gar
dens gave generously of food for the
table. The Tidewater consists of
low-lying lands intersected by nu
merous tidal estuaries and rivers.
The central part of the state is
known as the Piedmont, which rises
to the Blue Ridge mountains. The
Piedmont is noted for thoroughbred
horses, and is the fox-hunting and
Tidewater, the Piedmont or the val
ley. Theirs was a government
founded upon a constitution that
guaranteed individual liberty. They
defended their beliefs; they fought
for their rights. The Tobacco rebel
lion of 1676 antedated the Boston
Tea party by a century! "Give me
liberty or give me death," spoken by
Patrick Henry, was the clarion call
to independence, and Thomas Jef
ferson set down on paper our Amer
ican bill of rights.
After the close of the Revolution
ary war, the great westward move
ment came as men sought even new
er lands. There were hundreds of
Virginians among them, in wide
tented wagons, dragged by bones
and oxen. Three peat gateways
opened from Virginia to the fron
tier. To the northeast was the chan
nel of the Potomac river, the gate
way known to Washington. In the
center was the gateway of Buffalo
Gap and Goshen Pass. The third
was Cumberland Gap, known to
Daniel Boone, and opening the tow
ering Cumberland mountains to
Kentucky.
While there were Virginians en
every frontier, ready to pioneer and
build America, most of the old stock
remained close to their native aetL
The Commonwealth of Virginia has
never stopped building. Its soil has
always been productive. Its mines
and factories yield their wealth.
Agriculture is constantly expand
ing. Corn and tobacco and garden
truck are still grown in eastern Vir
ginia. Cotton is raised along the
southern border, and peanuts are a
valuable crop. Smithfield hams,
from hogs fattened on peanuts, are
BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS . . . Overlooking the Shenandoah
?alley. Thli scene is from a bridle path in the Sheasndoih National
park. A section of the 1*7-mile-lone Skyline drive is at the rifht.
hone-racing country wrncn perpet
uates sporting tradition of Old
Virginia. It was Lord Fairfax who
introduced fox-hunting to Virginia.
Between the Blue Ridge and the
Alleghenies lies the Shenandoah val
ley, once known as the "granary
of the Confederacy." Ita climate
is varied, and ao are its crops. It
presents a picture of wooded moun
tain elopes, well-kept farms and cat
tle, fields of corn and wheat, and
fruit-laden trees.
Shenandoah valley, unlike the
Tidewater and Piedmont, was not
settled by English colonists, but by
sturdy Germans from Pennsylvania
and pioneering Scotch-Irish. They
knew the long rifle, the coonakin
cap, the log cabin and all the ad
ventures of the frontier.
It was the northern part of Shen
andoah valley that felt the ravages
of war, not only in colonial days
but later when there was war be
tween the states. Few scars remain,
for the luxuriant grass and hon
eysuckle vines have erased the
physical wounds. Hundreds of
markers slang the highways alone
remain to remind the traveler of the
terrors and hardships of another
day
Virginia molded its men into ?
pattern, whether they lived In the
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[amous inc world over, me ove
rtook industry exists oo ? large
scale in the Southwest.
Virginia produces bituminous coal
and limestone as well as cement,
clay, feldspar, gypsum, lead, man
ganese, mica, pyrite, salt, sand,
slate, soapstone, zinc ? and even
gold I
Richmond is the largest cigarette
making center in the world. At,
Hopewell and elsewhere are chem
ical plants. Furniture-making, lum
bering and cotton textile manufac
turing are alao extensive. At ltew
port News is one of the largest shin
building plants in the United States*
But leisure and good living, morw'
than creating great fortunes, are the
traditions of Virginia. Its people)
know the ocean front, Chesapeak*
bay and the rivers There are hun-1
dreds of miles of beaches for bath-)
ing. Fishing in the bay and rivere
is good. Channel bass fishing i?
fine! Virginians know the trout
spot, croaker, bass rock, blue
and many others
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