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The Alamance Gleaner VOL. LXXII GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 20, 1946 No. 20 DSO WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 1947 [ Demobilization Set for 31st December, 1947 WNU Features. THE USO will continue through 1946 and until the last day in 1947, when it will complete its war time, demobilization and reconver sion services December 31, 1947. Official announcement that USO will conduct its own fund-raising campaign next September and Octo ber with a goal to cover minimum service requirements through 1947 was made by President Lindsley F. Kimball at USO New York head quarters. USO came into being on Febru ary 4, 1941, when six member agen cies joined hands to create one or ganization to care for the needs of the men and women of the armed forces. So far the American public has contributed 200 million dollars to the organization. Still Needed, Says Ike. In a message to President Kimball, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower stated: "May I earnestly count on your organization and your host of volun teers to stay with us through the dangerous and difficult period of transition to final peace? "We still have a pressing need for the services of USO and will be deeply grateful for your continued help in the future as in the past." JFleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz, chief of naval operations, also sent a message of congratulation. For Wounded Veterans. The need for raising a terminal fund in the fall of 1946 is due to the fact that the National War fund will finance USO only through 1946. Tentative, purely tentative, plans for 1947 call for the operation of some 350 to 400 USO clubs in the continental United States, largely in connection with hospitalized but convalescent veterans. Operation of station lounges for troops-in-transit, men on leave, and families of serv ice people must continue. Overseas clubs will carry on in Alaska, Canal zone, Hawaii, Philippines, etc. Camp shows will still be seen and heard in 1947 by men in hospitals and men overseas. Coincident with the announce ment of the USO fall campaign. President Kimball made public his annual report, in which he says: "USO finds that at its peak of activity, it was serving 1,000,000 people a day in one capacity or an other, running up to more than 1,100, 000,000 the total served since the organization was created. 3,035 Units at Peak. "The number of operations, such as clubs, lounges and similar activi ties, reached a high point back in March of 1944, a total of 3,035. As training camps closed and the men went overseas this number declined but the over-all volume of work in creased. "The five-year peak of activity and cost came after peace in Eu rope and before the surrender of Japan. Redeployment of troops re opened many camps, doubled br vastly increased loads of various seaport cities. . . . Expenditures climbed to $5,800,000 a month." New Postwar Problems. Referring to the future of USO, Mr. Kimball says in his report: "The successful conclusion of the war does not, cannot, and will not return the United States to its pre war status. ... It is clear even low that our armed forces in the postwar period must be numbered n the millions. "USO will complete its wartime, lemobilization and reconversion tervices December 31, 1947." AT CHOW . . . Franklin P. Adams, John Kieran and Clifton Fadiman of "Information Please," went G.I. and washed their own mesa kits while on a CSO-Camp Shows tour overseas. HOPE OF TOMORROW Future Homemnkers oi America Membership Now over 200,000 We are the Future Homemakers of America. We face the future with warm courage, And high hope. For we are the builders of homes, Homes for America's future. Homes where living will be the expression of everything That is good and fair. ? \A/ KITTEN by pupil delegates at " a meeting of the national executive council of the Future Homemakers of America in Chi cago in the summer of 1945, the foregoing creed dramatizes the broad objectives of a booming high school home economics club al ready numbering over 200,000 mem bers in 45 states and Hawaii and Puerto Rico. High school home economics clubs are not a new idea but the Future Homemakers movement represents the first effort to co-ordinate all such activity in a central organization. Under the stimulus provided by home economics sections in state departments of education, the American Home Economics associ ation, and home economics schools and departments in colleges, in dependent units have thrived for 15 years, with recognition of the un limited possibilities offered lor learning and teaching. Designed to stimulate interest in home economics and integrate high school activities with organization work, the Future Homemakers movement evolved from plans drawn by the American home eco nomics association and the home economics service of the U. S. of fice of education in 1944. Within a few months, it was accepted by the state departments of education and vocational education and the state home economics associations of a majority of states, including Puerto Rico, Hawaii and the Dis trict of Columbia. 'Toward New Horizons.' When the pupil delegates of the Future Homemakers met in Chi cago last summer they were fully prepared for formal organization of their club. Besides writing their creed and constitution, they devel oped policies and procedures, drew a work program for the year, de cided upon red and white for their colors, the red rose for their flow er, and an octagonal emblem. Fit tingly, they chose "Toward New Horizons" for their motto. National in scope, the Future Homemakers are broken down into regional districts, with state and lo cal chapters. Presently, Myrtle Hilton of Tip tonville, Tenn., is president; Anita Lehman of Baton Rouge, La., is vice president; Emma Jo Lewis of De Land, Fla., is recreation chair man; Joan Du Plessis of Swamps cott, Mass., is secretary; Barbara Ann Boggs of Sutton, W. Va., is vice president and Marie Bresnan of East Haven, Conn., is national proj ect chairman. Other officers include Irene Trout of Milwaukie, Ore., treasurer; Bar bara Parker of Carson City, Nev., vice president; Margaret Worlton of Lehi, Utah, public relations; Phyllis Marshall of Vermont, 111., parliamentarian; Deania Bumworth of independence, nans., vice presi dent, and Lois K. Mueller of Seymour, Wis., historian. Wide Latitude Allowed. While the pupil members of the Future Homemakers are permitted the widest latitude in the formula tion and development of their pro grams, they are assisted by experi enced advisers, including Edna Amidon, chief of the home eco nomics service of the U. S. office of education; Mrs. Dora S. Lewis of the executive board of the Ameri can Homemakers association; Emily Haydock of the National Edu cation association, and Dr. Hazel Frost. Successful in developing a home economics club in Oklahoma sev eral years ago, Dr. Frost, as na tional adviser of the Future Home makers, has been largely credited with the phenomenal growth of the new movement. In assuming her position with the Future Home makers in 1944, Dr. Frost applied the same principles she employed in Oklahoma in making the new or ganization a close working partner of home economics classes. Though mostly composed of girls, the Future Homemakers also ad mit boys to membership. ADVISER . . . Dr. Hazel Frost is national adviser of the Future Homemakers of America. THOSE WHO 8EBVED . . . The USO continue* to aid wtuded ret crane. Above to Junior Hoetes* Lucille Mam yiayinf checker* with ? wounded ret at a Battle Creek, Mich., eteh entatoe Percy Jem krmy general hoapttaL Stage Entrancei Sonja Henle is the newest of the "They Never Learn" parade. Race tracketeers report the boodles of cold cash she's been plunging or the Also Rans. ... No matter what anyone says about the nags, they are running true to form at Bel mont. Isolationist (in a field of sev en) came in last. . . . Louis Calhern, star of "Magnificent Yankee," re cently won an award for "best per formance." Next day he was re jected as narrator for the "Caval cade of America" program. . . . The Marquess of Queensbury's jit terbuggtng is the talk among mid towners. He's expert at it. . . . How Tempus Fugits Dept.: Victor Borge's new contract stars him above Benny Goodman. The billing is tricky, to wit: "The Victor Borge Show Starring Benny Goodman." . . . Sugar Chile Robinson, the baby boogy-woogy wonder, now gets $5,000 a perl The Mafic Lanterns: Jennifer Jones and Charles Boyer are sky larking in "Cluny Brown." This is a jaunty spoof of the crumbs among the upper crust. The guffaws will pop vest buttons (and strain girdle seams) as Cholly and Jenny whittle \ capers. . . . "The Glass Alibi" en ters-bullet first with a murder mel ler whiz aimed by Paul Kelly. . . . "Badman's Territory" Is a right purty prairie saga, several grades above the usual sagebrush shenani gunning. . . "The Phantom Thief turns out a passable felon fable?its tempo won't break any speed laws. . . . "Perilous Holiday" comes through with a pulse-hopper where in Pat O'Brien makes a hobby of collecting tingles. . . . "Texas Pan handler" is a cowboy ho-hum on the range opus. . . . "Behind the Mask" should put its producers on Easy Street?selling apples "Tokio Rose" by any other name would also smell. Silhouettes In the Times Squarena Mary Livingstone and Portland Hoffa at the Embassy ringside with a couple of radio comedians. . . . Ingrid Bergman giving the new Riviera (across the G. Washington Bridge) added class. . . George Jean Nathan, the actor-killer, and gorgeous Jessie Tai-Sing (of the China Doll) causing cub-rumors at the Stork. . . . Gloria Vanderbllt Stokowski disguising her glammer with slax, kerchief and smoked specs on Vth Ave. . . . Fannie Hurst, the novelist, carrying her one-lb. Yorkshire terrier into the Little Vienna. The pooch is gray and blonde streaked, which is the new est hair style. Broadway Side-Show: Ann Rich ards is a Hollywood actress. . . . | When she saw Cornelia Otis Skin ner in "The Searching Wind" on Broadway (a little over a year ago) she sent the first fan letter of her life. ... It was a glowing missive, in which she reported how she en joyed the performance, how she couldn't visualize anyone else in the role, etc. . . The film version of the hit will be seen soon. . . . The Skinner role Is played by Ann Rich ! arHal Sallies in Our Alley: The hus band of a famed movie star was dining at the Mocambo with a beau tiful blonde, and a ringslder ob served: "That can't be his wife, can It?" . . . "It's all right," explained Met star Ezio Pinra, "it's her un derstudy." . . . Last night in Sardi's someone recalled the time Woo II cott, the critic, audibly burp'd at a flop show. . . . "Hmmm," ribbed Broun, "thinking out loudt" Manhattan Morals: The dlsillu sive drabness of daytime Swing Street (52nd). . . . The candy store which delivers packages in horse drawn kerridge. Mid-town cops dread seeing it?claim it congests traffic. . . . The one-legged war vet doing an expert rhumba at the Ha vana-Madrid. . . , The manager for Saks Fifth Avenue shoe dep't? whose name is Mr. Poote. . . . The realty office on East 17th with the notice, "No Apta Available," writ ten in tan languages including Chi nese. ... On the marquee of a Tremont Avenue (Bronx) movie theater: "A Guy Could Change." ... "M.' Reputation." Ethel Barrymore met Lionel on her way out of Sardi's one night in their hey-day. "I just saw John at the bar," she said, "and he's behaving very strangely." "What's so strange about seeing John with a drink?" asked Lionel. "Nothing." sighed EtheL "But I saw him without one I" WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS^ Senate Approves Atom Control; Bevin Warns Russ Against Break; Italian Voters Topple Monarchy ? Released by Western Newspaper Union. " (EDITOR'S NOTE: Whea eptalene are expressed la these eolsmas. they are these at (Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and net necessarily ef this newspaper.) SENATE: Kept Busy By unanimous vote, the senate passed and sent to the house a bill lor the national development and control of atomic energy during a busy week which also saw the up per chamber agree to an extension of the draft and take up the ques tion of continuing OPA. ATOM?Prepared by the senate committee on atomic energy head ed by Senator McMahon (Dem., Conn.), the bill for developing and controlling atomic power provides for a special commission possessing sole authority over the production and storage of A-bombs or other A-weapons. A military liaison board would be set up to consult with the commission on army and navy appli cations of atomic energy, with the right to appeal to the President in case of disputes. The government would be grant ed a monopoly over the materials, patents and production facilities used in converting atomic energy and it would be authorized to ac quire stockpiles of uranium ores and other necessary materials and license their transfer. Besides the special commission, a committee of scientists and tech nicians would be formed for advi sory purposes and a permanent congressional committee would be created to check atomic policies. DRAFT? Acting on permanent selective service legislation to sup plement current temporary regula Senator EUendcr (Dem., La.) re ceive! the pen with which President Tinman signed sehool-luneh act pro viding federal aid to states fnrnUh Inc nutritional tare for pupils. Sec retary of Agriculture Anderson at left, and Senator Aiken (Rep., Vt.) at right, look on. tions, the senate agreed to extend the draft to May, 1947, and sent the bill to conference with house repre sentatives to iron out differences be tween the two bodies. As the senate pushed through the extension, it agreed with the house only on the exemption of fathers, limiting service to 18 months and pegging the size of the army at 1,070,000, the navy at 558,000 and the marines at 108,000 by July, 1947. In getting their heads together, the senate-house conferees had to set tle these differences: Whereas the senate act carries selective service over to May, 1947, the house version restricted it to February, 1947, and whereas the senate set the draft age at from 18 to 44, the house made it from 20 to 29 and barred any inductions un til after October. 1940. While the senate voted substan tial pay raises to personnel, rang ing from 2 per cent among higher grades to 50 per cent for buck pri vates, the house approved of a 10 per cent boost for ranking officers in addition to 50 per cent for buck privates. OPA?The senate banking com mittee's curb of OPA powers, fol lowing the pattern set by the house, presaged a hot fight on the floor of the upper chamber when the bill extending the pricing agency for an other year was reported out for de bate. In addition to making substantial concessions to business, the senate committee's bill called for remov ing control over meat, dairy and poultry products and lopping off one billion dollars in subsidies to finance lower consumer prices. Relief to business included a ban against forcing dealers to absorb manufacturers' price increases and an amendment specifying markups for farm Implement dealers; slim ination of the so-called maximum average price formula under which clothing makers are compelled to balance their output of 'cheap and expensive garments and award of a 3 per cent Incentive to cotton products manufacturers when they reach 90 per cent of their peak vol ume between 1936 and 1945. LABOR: Maritime Hurdle Though the maritime labor dis putes were expected to be the last major strike threats of the year, they also shaped as among the knottiest, with the government pre pared to mobilize the army, navy and coast guard to keep Uncle Sam's great merchant marine operating. Irked over the government and industry's concentration on settle ment of the demands of six CIO and one independent union embracing 214,000 members, the AFL Seafarers and their affiliated Sailors' union of the Pacific threatened to walk out also unless consideration be given to their wage and working de mands. Like the CIO, the AFL asked for higher wages, larger overtime pay and reduction in working hours. The AFL'i determination to press its demands in the midst of govern ment and industry deliberations with the CIO indicated that the Seafarers and Sailors' union would respect CIO picket lines in the event of s ship ping strike. This presaged a break in AFL ranks since the AFL Long shoremen's chief, Joseph P. Ryan, condemned the CIO maritime lead ers as threatening to pull off a strike to increase their prestige. Besides its interest in keeping communication lines open, the gov ernment was vitally concerned over the maritime negotiations because it owns 80 per cent of the ships now being operated. BIG THREE: Last Word Getting the last word in on the big three's open discussion of Eu ropean issues, bulky Foreign Min ister Ernest Bevin of Great Brit ain told commons in a voice that went beyond parliamentary walls that his majesty's government would continue to press for an equi table solution of postwar problems in the face of Russian opposition. Declaring that there could be no guarantee of permanent peace un less Russia entered freely into a European settlement, Bevin urged the Reds to grasp this opportunity to work out an equitable solution or else the chance may not come again. Hinting that Britain might make separate peace treaties with former enemies, Bevin said London could not countenance a continued stale mate which slowed reconstruction and left economies unbalanced. He reiterated that settlement of the Italian - Yugoslav border question should be founded on racial lines. While favoring the U. S. proposal for a 25-year disarmament pact for Germany, he called for a federalized Reich instead of an amputated state with its important western indus trial provinces taken from it. ITALY: King Falls One month after he had succeed ed his father, Victor Emmanuel, as king of Italy, 42-year-old Humbert II of the house of Savoy packed his bags preparatory to leaving the country that voted an end to royalty and chose to establish a republic. Even as it was announced that over 12 million Italians bad cast their ballots for a republic to over 10 million for retention of the mon archy, a dispatch from Naples re ported that the Humbert household had moved at least SO trunks and crates from the royal villa to the cruiser. Dues Degli Abruzzi, lying in the harbor. One crate contained a sewing machine lending a dra matic, if not significant, touch to the proceedings. While Italy voted to put an end to the monarchy that had lent its prestige to Mussolini and in turn had been glamorized by II Duce, the country as a whole swung to the right in selecting a constituent assembly that will write a new con stitution. With the Catholic church throwing its support to the moder ates, the rightists, led by the Chris tian Democrats, cinched over 280 seats for a majority. Russian de mands for heavy reparations from Italy and Yugoslavian acquisition of Italian territory in the north did the communists no food and they ran third in the voting. ELECTIONS: Ponder Trends \ Primary election results In th* east and west and run-affs in tho south set political wiseacres to scratching their heads for an inklingl of voting trends prior to the aO-} important congressional races' scheduled for this fall. ) Aside from Gov. Earl Warren'* convincing sweep of both the Re*, publican and Democratic guber natorial nominations' in California,' where the election laws permit en trance in inter-party primaries, th* political wise-birds were hard pressed to note a trend toward] either party or a real indication at CIO-PAC strength. In California, for instance, whil* Senator Knowland (Rep.) defeated PAC-backed Will Rogers Jr. for thai Republican senatorial nomination,! Rogers turned around to whip] Knowland in the Democratic pri-l mary. In Alabama, while PAC-I backed Rep. Luther Patrick lost inf a congressional runoff in the highly! industrial Birmingham district,, PAC-backed James E. (Big Jim) I Polaom copped the gubernatorial] runoff. Some of the significance on Folsom's PAC support, however J was qualified by his stout disavow al of its backing through his hill billy campaigning. ' Neither did the decisive rebuff ad PAC candidates in the New Jersey Republican congressional primaries offer a real clue to PAC strength since the CIO organization could hardly be expected to muster telling influence in the ranks at the tradi tionally conservative GOP. By decisively defeating Attorney General Kenny in the Democratic primary and besting him by a wide margin in the GOP vote. Governor Warren emerged as a GOP hope ful for the 1948 presidential race. As the keynoter to the 1944 Repub lican convention in Chicago, 111., the big, personable Califoroian made an immediate hit and could have had the vice presidential Domination for the asking. Sign of the Times ... There was a flash back te the db zy postwar period at the lutnttri when Marshall Jacobs climbed stop a 174-foot flagpole hi Coshocton. Ohio, on Memorial Day and bland ly announced that ha was there to stay until July 4. Despite his lofty perch. Hie vest oa ilawt as Ma il for the (tut man, who tnei in his radio, bathed himself aad am Joyed a start from his girl Wlai, While she was raised a third af tha way op in a bosVs chair, Jaeebo lowered himself dowa to meet her for a warm embrace. WHITE HOUSE: New Appointments In what was interpreted as a move to please liberal elements. President Truman nominated Sec. of the Treasury Fred M. Vinson. Democrat, as chief justice of tha supreme court. Long an administra tion handy-man as congressman, head of the Reconstruction Finance corporation. Director of War Mo bilization and Reconversion and finally treasury secretary, Vinson's presence on the bench is expected to tilt the scales in favor of the lib eral wing. Vinson's appointment was one ad a flurry announced by the Presi dent. John W. Snyder, conservative St. Louis banker and personal adviser to the President, was shifted from the post of reconversion director tm the vacant treasury seat. John L. Sullivan, assistant sec retary of the navy for air, was appointed undersecretary of the navy. Warren R. Austin, 88-year-old Republican senator from Vermont and leader in the movement to get the GOP to adopt a broader kueiga policy, was appointed U. S. repre sentative to the United Nations say curity council.
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