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The Alamance Gleaner ? " ? VOL. LXXII GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1946 ? " No. 40 WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Labor Asks New Pay Boosts; Thorny Issues Face U.N. Meet; Free Food of OPA Controls ____________ Released by Western Newspaper Union. (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed la these eelamns. they are theee ef Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and net necessarily el this newspaper.) Taking (nil advantage of their new right to strike, employees of Tokyo radio parade en masse be fore building of Japanese Broad casting corporation In protest against the hiring of government technicians to operate station dur ing strike. LABOR: New Demands New contract demands by the auto, (arm equipment and mine unions left Americans wondering if a new wave of .strikes was in the offing Just as production appeared to be getting into full swing. With increased output, consumers saw more goods at lower prices. Auto?Widespread interest cen tered in the ClO-United Auto Work ers offensive against the Chrysler corporation for wage increases cor responding to the rise in the cost of living since the union was granted an 18% cent an hour boost last Jan uary. In pressing its offensive against Chrysler in the hope of establishing a wage pattern for the entire indus try, the UAW disclosed it would ask for a minimum increase of 16 cents an hour to take care of the 12% per cent rise in the cost of living since last January. A boost of 26 cents an hour will be demanded if the cost of living should soar 20 per cent or 33 cents if the rise reaches 25 per cent. Farm Equipment?In re-open ing contract negotiations with In ternational Harvester, the CIO-Farm Equipment Workers asked that union members "be allowed to share in the prosperity of the company and the country." Harvester spokesmen denied the allegation that the Arm would treble its best prewar profits in 1946. Besides hitting for substantial pay increases, the FEW also will seek a guaranteed annual wage as suring a minimum of 40 hours com pensation for each of 52 weeks. Coal?Charging the government with violating the contract with the United Mine Workers under which the U. S. is operating the nation's soft coal pits, UMW Chieftain John L. Lewis called for a new pact em bodying revised wages and hours. As breaches of the old contract, Lewis cited the government prac tice of weighing washed coal in stead of raw coal at the mine tip ple in estimating payments of five cents a ton to the UMW royalty fund, and of allegedly misinterpret ing eligibility of union members for vacation pay. Secretary of the Interior Krug's attempt to defer the opening of negotiations met with Lewis' blunt assertion that failure to hold dis cuss ions would void tfte contract. Without a contract, the miners tradi tionally have refused to work. U.1V.: Meeting Underway Vyacheslav M. Molotov shook the hand of Mr. Truman warmly in the lobby of the United Nations meet ing place in New York after his ad dress to the delegates and a Rus sian interpreter told the President: "Mr. Molotov wants to congratu late you heartily on that speech. He thought it was a great speech." Later that night when Mr. Tru man greeted the delegates at the Starlight Roof of the Waldorf As toria hotel, Molotov and the Presi dent again shook hands warmly, and the interpreter repeated: "Mr. Molotov wants to thank you again for your splendid speech." The speech which Molotov so highly praised was a masterful dip lomatic piece, indeed. It recog nized the talk of another war aris ing from the differences of the big powers over the postwar compo sition of the world, but appealed to the sensibility of the major states men to avert such a disaster. It i called for compromises to adjust differences between the East and West, but committed the U. S. to no definite adjustments. While firm, it was conciliatory. Thorny Issues Mr. Truman could well prepare the path for firmness and concilia tion what with the U. N. about to mull over an agenda packed with explosive possibilities. Foremost of these was the proposals advanced by Australia and Cuba to eliminate the veto right of the big powers on the security council, a right the Rus sians have jealously guarded to pro tect their interests against the An glo-American majority. Other thorny issues included: ? Creation of a trusteeship council to govern dependent areas of the world, particularly the strategic Italian colonies along the Mediter ranean. ? Russia's proposal that allied coun tries report on their maintenance of troops in other states, except for mer enemy nations. ? Iran's protest against Russian pressure for political and petroleum concessions. # ? Russian demands for the early ouster of the Franco regime in Spain. Touch Etc In Making Reported pleas of poultrymen and handlers for a more durable egg that would better withstand the vicis situdes of distribu tion appear to be nearly answered. Department of agriculture scien tists report that they have devel oped an egg that will resist between eight and niire pounds of pressure i ?u. (juinpareu wim uic present average of four pounds. "We really have something," a de partment spokesman declared. Breeding has played the most im portant role in the development, it was said. Egg characteristics espe cially sought were a tougher, less porous shell and a firmer white, both essential in shipping and stor age. OPA: Free Food In removing virtually all food items from food control except sugar, syrups and rice, OPA de clared that the previous decontrol of meat and edible oils no longer made it feasible to regulate the few re maining foodstuffs. Items freed include bread and bakery products; flour and break fast cereals; most edible oils; ba nanas and oranees: canned fish, to matoes and tomato products; pine apple and pineapple juice; candy and macaroni. Following the relaxation of re strictions on brewers' and distillers' use of grain, controls were removed from beer and whisky. Brewers were authorized to use 90 per cent of the grain they used in the corre sponding quarter of 1945 while distil lers are to receive between 300,000 and 500,000 additional bushels of grain monthly. As the U. S. moved more rapidly toward a free economy, OPA freed scores of other goods from control, including stove polish, bicycle tires and tubes, rubber tractor and im plement seat cushions, metal tire valves, wheel blocks, paper house bold aprons, sanitary napkins, pa perboard pots and trays, and cos metics. VETS: Warned of Idling Vets who have been taking it easy and drawing unemployment com pensation checks were advised to get out and look for work if they were to take advantage of existing opportunities and conserve their jobless benefits for a rainy day. Vets are allowed $20 a week for a maximum of S2 weeks or $100 a month for 10 2-5 months up to two years after the war has been of ficially declared over. Expressing concern over the rata at which many vets are exhausting their jobless benefits, Veterans' ad ministrator Bradley issued this friendly advice: "A veteran who lies idle for a year, living on unemployment checks in a period when 'jobs are more plentiful than they may be later, might find it hard to get work and to get to work when his read justment allowance ends. "That veteran is losing seniority and experience leading to a better job. "He is forfeiting the cushion of his deferred unemployment payments? a cushion that is like money in the bank. . . ." The VA disclosed benefits are be ing used up to a greater degree in the South than elsewhere. Where as only 2.228 of 1,407,000 New York vets have exhausted their payments, for instance, the rate for Missis sippi is 3,429 out of 193,000. FAO: La Guardids Cause Tempestuous Fiorello LaGuardia, variously known as the "Little Flower," "Butch" and "The Hat," has gone to bat for a new cause? the United Nations' Food and Ag riculture Organization plan for a balanced world food distribution. Under the plan, the FAO would purchase all of the food above stat ed per capita requirements in sur plus producing nations, then resell La Guardia: No Spaghetti It to countries lacking ample sup plies. A revolving fund of 750 mil lion dollars would be needed, with member nations contributing their pro rata share. Because surplus purchases would tend to stabilize markets, La Guardia predicted bitter opposition from speculators who depend upon price variations for profits. Said "Butch"; "As long as there are fluc tuations in the ticker tape, the boys make money. But ticker tape ain't spaghetti." BRITAIN: Socialism for Reich The British Labor party's plans for the socialization of heavy indus try in the British occupation zone of Germany waited upon U. S. ac ceptance. Advanced by Attlee's government as a projection of the Labor party's own socialization program and in deference to popular German de mands for distributing wealth, the plan could not be expected to work without U. S. political and financial aid. Should the U. S. demand a larger degree of free enterprise in the post war German economic picture, Brit ain could hardly resist since Amer ican credit will be needed tor re building war-battered industry and supplying needed materials. Unless the U. S. provides one-third of the British zone's wheat requirements, Britain would have to halve the bread ration in the United Kingdom. In socializing the coal, steel, chemical and engineering industries, the Labor party proposed to invest ownership in the German public, with adequate controls worked out to prevent a resumption of war pro duction. WOMEN: Good Soldiers Women soldiers withstood the physical and mental ordeals of war almost as well as men, according to figures released by the army. Although their sickness rate was above thai of the army as a whole they showed no outstanding dis qualifying weakness as a group and ?especially overseas where they were subjected to more hardships? the difference between sickness rates for WACs and male person nel was very slight Along the Grandest Canyon: America's favorite pin-up photo la of FDR, according to the N. Y. Frame and Picture firm; 363,214 or ders. The record sale in 32 years. . . . Alan Wilson's capsule critique: "Harry Truman is the best exam ple of the old adage that ANYBODY can grow up to be president." . . . Lawrence Wasser just got back from Washington where he reports the sour gripe-vine has it that Tru man will run in '48?all the way back to Missouri. ... At the Zanzi bar someone put it this way: "The reason Truman is getting all that abuse is that he's trying to be pres ident and vice president." . . . Word has gone out to the actors to steer clear of all leftish outfits. . . . Char lie Wagner (of the Mirror's litree dept.) observing that Welcher Goer ing died as he should, via cyan-. ide, which is rat poison. This Is Worth Money Dept.: A New Yorker was handed a sum mons Friday at Lexington avenue subway station (or throwing away a gum wrapper. . . . The fine cost him $2 tor a hunk of one-cent gum. . . . They are getting $4,500 for a $1,200 Ford in Okla. ... In Cali fornia they get double the ceiling on cars. . . . Auto insurance in Los Angeles has gone up 30 per cent. . . . That was checked with three firms. The reason: The high acci dent rate in L. A. To date, the dis graceful total is almost 700 deaths by traffic accidents. . . . Ozzie Nel son's epitaph for Goering It Co.: "May they roast in peace!" Broadway Ballad: (By Don Wahn): There will be always those who seek the dark. Whose _ minds are misty from an old refrain. . . . There will be al ways those who seek a spark. That glowed but once?and will not glow again. . . . There is a time when wine has lost Its tang. There is a time when lies have turned to troth. . . . There is no lilt to all the songs we sang. There is no road that wanders back to youth. ... So we are lost?the indolent and gay. . . . Against the tide that sweeps away the years. ... So we most stand ? disconsolate and gray. To face the sudden surge of ancient fears. . . . The girls are ghosts?the Inns are shuttered tight. ... A cold wind blows against the cloak of night! Midtown Vignette: Joan Fontaine ! /a# tKo mAvina-ni/itti*aa \ swv4 /*><? \ ?">- >UV>IW^-|?H,HU?B; guk UUt VI her sick bed, to which she had been confined (with the flu) (or a week. . . . Joan then went to LaGuardia field to fly to Bermuda, hoping the sun and rest there would cure her sneezesr etc. ... At the airport she learned that the plane's departure had been postponed until late after noon. . . . Instead of returning to her bed, Joan and nurse went to John Frederics. . . . Where she pur chased five hats. . . . Then she went to Bergdorf-Gtmdman's and bought four frocks. ... At six the same evening she hopped to Bermuda. . . . Practically cured. The Washington Ticker: The big feud is between army brass-hats and the general accounting office over publication of the names of army big-guns who landed terrific jobs with the firms whose contracts they terminated. . . . Medicine is conducting experiments to deter mine the ability of the human eye to identify aircraft at supersonic speeds. . . . Our air force now can transport 100-bed platoon hospi tals, fully equipped and staffed, at 250 m.p.h. . . . Plenty fireworks in the federal DA's office (with many barristers quitting) in a brawl over the Gottfried Baking Co. case. New Tort Novelette: He came to The Big Town with the Rodeo. ... A big gay with a big heart?from a small bnrg. ... As nice a fella as yon ever met. . . . She Was from a little town, too. . . . Bnt the Big Berg got its grip en her?and she looked down en film as thoogh be were Jnst another sneker. ... He didn't know that when she gave him The Eye it was mere ly a Dollar Sign. . . . Before she got through with him she took him for plenty. . . . Her friends didn't mind her shaking down some of the Broadway heels.... Bnt they didn't like the way she gave this kid The Business. . . . Now, nobody in their Mldtewn Set will have anything to do with her. . . . True, the Cowboy didn't rope and tie her ?like he should have done. . . . But Weev yen me?She's Brand ed. OREGON; BFLcmd of the Pionee^mH By EDWARD EMERINE "What can we do with the western coast?" asked Daniel Webster, and concluded: "I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pa cific ocean one inch nearer Bos ton than it is now." Senator McDuffie of South Carolina said he wouldn't "give a pinch of snuff for the whole territory." Sen. Thomas H. Benton considered the Rocky moun tains had been "placed by Provi dence" to mark the western limits of the United States and thus set a boundary to man's ambition. But other men thought different ly. They knew of the fur trade that had drawn men to the Oregon country. Lewis and Clark had brought back tales of a rich land. By 1830 some of the French Cana dian employees of the Hudson's Bay company nao located larms in Wil lamette valley. Soon Americans drifted in to take up farms. Hunt ers, trappers, missionaries and ad venturers drifted in and out of Ore gon. In 1836 Whitman and Spald ing, with their wives, established a mission hear the present site of Walla Walla, a second at Lewiston and a third near the present site of Spokane. Even .the massacre of the Whitmans by the Indians in 1847 did not deter the pioneers. America Moves West. "Oregon or Bust!" America was moving west. The British had to be headed off, and the Great North west settled by Americans. First there were a few wagons headed toward Oregon; then thefe were thousands. The Oregon Trail?a torturous, dusty, dangerous road ? cut through the prairies of Kansas and Nebraaka, climbed over the mountains of Wyoming, crossed the deserts of Idaho and tra versed more mountains and streams to reach the Columbia river and the PaeiAe coast. r-ven loaay, uie aeep ruts mil may be found, and ox bows, wagon wheels and lonely graves are scat tered from the Missouri river to Astoria, bleached and silent re minders of Oregon, the Land of the Pioneers. As the fur trapping declined, agri culture took its place. Industries were set up. First cannery on the Columbia was established in 1860. Gold was discovered in Jackson and Josephine counties in 1852, and mining flourished. The boundary dispute with Great Britain was set tled without war, and Oregon be came American to the core. The pio neers had won their flght! Establish Government. With a territorial government es tablished, the capital was set up at Oregon City, but later moved to Sa lem. Discovery of gold in Califor nia opened a market for lumber, flour and other Oregon products. Ocean-going vessels connected Port land with San Francisco and stage routes joined the principal cities and NATIVE GOVERNOR . . . Got. Earl Snell, elected Oregon's chief executive in 1942, was born in Olex. towns. A part of Oregon Territory was cut away to make the state of Washington in 1853, but in 1859 Ore gon became a state. The Ore gon Short Line, opened in 1882, gave Portland railroad transportation across the continent. Thus Oregon emerged from a wilderness into a modern won derland, with agriculture, for estry, flshing, manufacturing, mining and recreational facili ties that are world famous. Farm owners operate 85 per cent of all Oregon farms, and the indus try brought in 220 million dollars in 1942. Oregon's rangeland supports more than three million head of livestock. Rich Tlmbestands. Oregon has nearly 30 million acres of timber, including Douglas flr (the state tree), pine, hemlock, cedar and spruce. Wood products, paper, wood alcohol and other rich industries are based on Oregon's foresU. The Columbia is a famous salmon stream, netting more than seven mil lien dollars a year, and there are large catches of tuna, sardines, pil chards and other commercial fish. Oregon's shipbuilding started from scratch during the war and developed into a giant industry al most over night. In 1942, more than 11 dol lars worth of gold, silver, copper, quicksilver and chromite was mined in Oregon. Oregon is still the land of the pio neer, and thousands of people from all over the United States each year follow the broad paved Oregon Trail to the Great Northwest. The trail is no longer the hazardous route of yesteryear, but it leads to the same glamorous country the pioneers found a century ago. Many of Ore gon's great resources are as yet un developed, but completion of the Bonneville power project and others assures ample electric energy. A fantastic desert of sagebrush is changed to the richest of farm lands by an irrigation ditch. The wonders of Oregon make for good living and prosperity, but nature also mads it beaati fnl tnjt u.nl. Win III .1 Crater lake, Mt. Heed and her sister peaks in the Cascade rant*, the Oregon Caeca, Wal lowa lake and hundreds aI ether scenic attractions are a lare that toerists rtanet escape. More than 400 miles of shoreline are spread along the great Pacific. Hundreds of lakes, winter sports areas, lodges, health and play re sorts, and more than 23,000 miles of paved highways are offered by Ore gon. In 1943, Oregon's population was 1,197,457 and the number increased somewhat in the next tiro years. Oregon still is growing, still receiv ing new pioneers over the Oregon Trail. The trek to Oregon started a cen tury ago. It was America's first great migration, and it has never ceased. The modern pioneer?the chemist, the ex-serviceman, the la borer, the farmer, the industrialist ?is discovering a rich frontier in the Oregon country. LAND OF SCENIC GRANDEUR . . . Gems of beaut? stud the Oregon landscape. <1) Tn lerol Maltne mah Fall* la world famous. (2) Renewed ML Hood Haea majastlaan? aver peaceful farmlands of Wil lamette eallar. (2) Deer natural gorges ef eastern Oregon beckaa to hunter* and campers. (4) Becada Bead llghtbsese stands guar# ever the raffed coastline alsf Mo FaelSe.
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