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Wilmington Wonting #lar Korth Carolina's Oldest Daily Newspaper Published Daily Except Sunday By The Wilmington Star-News * R. B. Page, Publisher Telephone All Departments 2-3311 Entered as Second Class Matter at Wilming ton, N. C„ Postoffice Under Act of Congress of March 3. 1879_ SUBSCRIPTION RATES BY CARRIER IN NEW HANOVER COUNTY Payable Weekly or In Advance Combi . Star News nation jrWeek .» -30 * -25 $ -50 i Monm:::::::.130 uo us 3 Months . 3-90 3 6 Months . 7 80 6 50 J3 ?9 j year . IS-60 13-00 26-00 (Above rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of Star-News) By Mail: Payable Strictly in Advance g Months.3 2.50 $2.00 $ 3.85 6 Months . 5.00 4.00 7.70 l year . 10.00 8.00 15.40 (Above rates entitle subscriber to Sunday issue of Star-News)_ WILMINGTON STAR (Daily Without Sunday) 3 Months-$1.85 6 Months-$3.70 1 Yr.-$7.40 When remitting by mail please use checks or U. S. P. O. money order. The Star-News can not be responsible for currency sent through the mails. _ MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS AND ALSO SERVED BY THE UNITED PRESS THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1946 TOP O’ THE MORNING “And David, after he had served his own generation . . . fell on sleep.” No finer tribute could be given than that brief simple utterance of praise. To serve one’s generation, to be giving New strength and courage to one’s fellow man, To tread highway, bravely ever living With one clear purpose, one exalted plan. —Crowell. March Of Dimes Dance New Hanover county’s March of Dimes campaign is to close tonight with a dance at the Cape Fear Armory. Pa • trons who purchase tickets in advance will be charged $2.50. If they wait to buy them at the door the price will be eo tpo. Because the cause for which the money will go is among the greatest humanitarian undertakings of the coun try, this is one time patrons are not urged to buy early and save money. The fact is, the more who wait until they arrive at the Armory the larger will the county’s contribution be, and whatever the quota the total given can not be too large. The March of Dimes is one of the principal means of financing the fight against infantile paralysis, which has maimed so many children and filled so many graves. Certainly no one can make peace with his conscience without being a donor. Throughout the day the recepticles which have been on duty at so many places throughout the city for several weeks will remain at their accustomed stations. Residents who cannot attend the dance are invited, for their own peace of mind as well as the good their contributions may do, to deposit in them all the cash in th.eir pockets. And to help more substantially, try to attend the dance, or at least buy a ticket_preferably at the door. That extra fifty cents is well worth giving. GM Strike Mediation The General Motors — CIO contro versy has been so long-lived and hope of settlement so remote, the public had come to view it as a stratospheric proposition. With the appointment of James E* Dewey as special conciliator, and Mr. Dewey’s prompt conferences with the No. 1 men on both sides, it would seem to have come down into the atmosphere and so gives promise of mortal solution. It was Mr. Dewey who settled the sit-down strike at General Motors in 1937. Obviously he has good attributes as a mediator. The government is for tunate in being able to draw him back into its service for this difficult task. The most hopeful sign comes from Walter P. Reuther, vice president of the striking union, following an inter view with Mr. Dewey, who declared: i “The union is agreeable to meet again with GM.” Although there is no state ment from Charles E. Wilson, GM president, Dewey declared his confer ence with him was entirely satisfac tory. Altogether it appears that both sides are more inclined to compromise points at issue than in the past, which speaks well for the possibility of successful t (■ N mediation. At the same time, the public would be wise, despite the optimism that spread so rapidly after Dewey’s appointment, not to count too much on speedy adjustments between the union and GM. There is too much involved in the controversy to lead either party to take snap judgment of proposals from the other. Wants Disarmament Despite the lessons of disarmament following World War I, Senator Millard Tydings of Maryland has introduced legislation which w^uld require total disarmament, except for minimum na tional defense, and authorize President Truman to invite all governments into conference with this end in view. Mr. Tydings insists the UNO’s action for control of atomic energy could never succeed, and declares the great powers are heading directly toward World War III. The historic disarmament conference following the former World War is not so remote that its sessions at Washing ton are forgotten. It was hailed gener ally as the start of the Millennium. Newspapers viewed it as the greatest movement for universal and permanent peace the nations could launch. From the pulpit and the lecture platform, on street comers, in living rooms and clubs,^it was praised to the skies. But the conference had hardly adjourned than Germans of the military caste were plotting World War II without fear of interruption because no other nation was militarily strong enough to oppose them. Mr. Tydings is too sensible a man to assume that the disposition of man kind has undergone a material change for the better, as a result of World War II. He must know that disarma ment xs an invitation to war. He also must understand the utter impossi bility of forcing all nations to disarm as completely as he proposes. Since that first murder in Eden, mankind has been fighting. Until the actual Millennium comes men will go on fighting. This does not mean that World War III is inevitable. It means that the way to prevent it is to be pre pared for attack at home and ready to nip the first warlike action any where in the world in the bud. Because this is so obvious, it is the harder to account for Senator Tyding’s action. Let’s Adjourn Politics As an actual fact nobody can say with certainty that the return of the federal employment service to the states a year earlier than President Truman wished is wise. Nor is it possible to determine with any exactitude whether the President’s view is the right one. It is strictly in the realm of specula tion. He may be right. The House may be right. In either case only the out come could settle the point. What is especially significant, how ever, is that the action of the House shows the cleavage between Capitol Hill and the White House, which is steadily widening. This particular bill may not receive Senate approval. But if it should, Mr. Truman would prob ably veto it and so drive the wedge deeper. The President has drafted a legis lative program which in many ways will not be acceptable to Congress. He is obviously sincere in his views and his purpose to benefit the nation, but has accepted advice which will make it increasingly difficult to maintain even average harmony between the executive and legislative branches of government. What is needed, if we are to come through these parlous times with credit, is greater willingness at both ends of Pennsylvania avenue to thrash out the nation’s problems together. We cannot hope for much with each cultivating stubbornness. Perhaps what is needed mrst of all is for the President and members of Congress to forget the fall elections and the national ballot in 1948. At this time there are matters requiring at tention which are infinitely more im portant than politics. Ex-King Edward of England returned to London and proceeded to Marlborough House unnoticed by passersby. With so many people out of work the Duke must have looked to the folks like any other chap without a job. Fair Enough By WESTBROOK PEGLER (Copyright, 1946, by King Features Syndicate) H. C. Wendt, of Dayton, O., was one of the men who dealt with Wallace O. Heinze, then of the Smaller War Plants corporation, later and now general manager of the Inter national Latex but could not bring any argu demanding maufacturing orders for his fu ture employer at a pries which the Army deemed excessive. The item involved was a life raft for Army flyers. Mr. Wendt reports that a representative of Army Intelligence called on him last fall to get his version of the deal with International Latex whose president is Abraham N. Spanel, a strong admirer of Henry Wallace and a new deal, left-wing propagandist by means of lavish expenditure for newspaper space. It may be stated also that at least one other intelligence operative went to Dayton, where Wright field is situated, and where much of this kind of purchasing was handled, to in vestigate the deal. This man reports that an officer at Wright field told him the case would be pigeon-holed because it was “too hot to handle” and because some of the persons in volved were “too big.” As hitherto stated, Col. Phillips W. Smith, now on duty at the War Department, stated recently in Washington that Major Matthew J. Fox, a reserve officer, formerly with Small er War Plants, told him in Europe that there was “White House pressure” behind Spanel’s successful efforts to get contracts at prices which, in the end were reduced, but never theless were still the maximum paid for this device. Mr. Wendt says the Army Intelligence in vestigator who interviewed him was especial ly interested in a report that, in insisting on a price of $125 each for the life rafts to the Spanel firm, as against a final price of. $72, Heinze said, by phone from Washington: “This comes directly from the White House— Harry Hopkins.” “This statement was supposed to have been made via long distance from Washington to me by Heinze during the last meeting we (Army purchasing agents) had in Dayton re garding the. latex contract,” ( Mr. Wendt writes. “This meeting was attended by Colonel Salzman, Lt.- Col. Foy (Fred Foy, now of J. Walter Thompson Company, of New York) Major Kintz, Underwood and myself. I recall, perfectly, that Heinze demanded that I must secure the contract for latex for 5,000 life rafts at $125 each. This was a must. No ex cuses. However, I do not recall that Heinze said, ‘this comes directly from the White House—Harry Hopkins.’ Another man, who was on an extension part of the time, has tried to recall this to my memory. But I just do not remember it. Latex never did get $125 for life rafts. SWPC took a prime con tract for 5,000 rafts at $85 and subcontracted the entire order to latex. Other bidders were tossed out at about the same price, as witness my files.” A memorandum in the War Department files reports a meeting of General, then Colonel, Albert J. Browning, until recently di rector of purchases for the Army Air Force, Colonel Foy, and two other officers, with Fox and Heinze, both of Smaller War Plants, War Production Board. Col. Foy said International Latex had an extraordinarily large overhead which drove up the price. Colonel Foy said that if the Army accepted SWPC’s recommendation of a price of $101 as against $63 or *64 bid by others on the ground that International had to absorb unusually large overhead the Army would have to do the same for other firms. Further on, the memorandum says: “Mr. Fox stated that this company had not been -Pam a 1 MM A r- 4- A O « B VI/1 1 +■ U'ftVnn’t for the fact that it did a fairly substantial peace-time business they would not be in ex istence today; that it is a question whether, if they don’t get this they will remain in business as they have 40-odd key people with whom they have been pleading to stay. They have been using these people to develop vari ous things for the quartermaster corps, engi neers and marines.” Heinze said Colonel Foy had mentioned the company’s expenditure for political advertis ing and stated that not a penny of this cost was included in overhead figures. Colonel Browning replied that the assumption was that if International hadn’t spent the money on political propaganda the firm could have used it to take care of the overhead. In a memorandum to Robert Patterson, then undersecretary, now Secretary of war, on April 19, 1944, Browning, then promoted to brigadier, said: “In addition to high charges for labor and manufacturing overhead, ad ministrative overhead (of International Latex) was out of line. On 13 March 1943, a half page advertisement of the International Latex corporation appeared in the Washington Post and presumably in other papers. (Note: Many large political propaganda ads were run in many papers.) since international Latex had stated that they had no going contracts or other business, the question arose whether the cost of this advertising and similar ex penses had not been included in the costs estimated for the life raft contract.’’ General Browning told Patterson the adver tising campaign suggested to him and his colleagues either that the company had ample funds for indirect advertising or that its man agement was using unsound judgment. “On 15 March 1943, Mr. Heinze and Mi Fox of WPB continued to plead for Inter national Latex corporation, when Heinze was ments to bear that overcame the excessively high price.” STAR Dust From infancy, from childhood’s earliest caper, He loved the daily paper. Propped on his grubby elbows, lying prone, He took at first the Comics for his own. Then, as he altered stature and his voice, Sports were his single choice. For a brief time at twenty, Thought became A desultory flame, So with a critic eye he would peruse The better Book Reviews. Behold the bridegroom, then—the dazzled suitor Turned grim commuter, Learning without direction To fold his paper to the Housing Section. Forty enlarged his waistline with his wage The Business Page Engrossed his mind. He liked to ponder well The charted rise of Steel or Tel and Tel ujned. land.) aries: I NEW STAB?_ It’s Little Stories That Go To Prove The Human Qualities Of Our Great Men By JOHN SIKES When a great man dies the news papers are full of little stories about him, little stories that prove his humanness. Great men and humanness, I believe you’ll agree, belong in the same breath. When stuffed shirts die they get themselves a per functory obituary and editors write sedate editorials about them and let it go at that. Stuffed shirts don’t seem to get to first base, either, in the history books. Some of the best newspaper stories I ever read were written when Franklin D. Roosevelt died. Damon Runyon, for instance, wrote one that still has the boys in the city rooms all over the country talking. Runyon was opposed to many of Roosevelt’s policies, but he wrote a story about a little boy and his father standing on Pennsylvania avenue watching the Roosevelt funeral procession that simply breathed with the human ness of Roosevelt. I wish I could reprint the story for you here. But I’ll just give you the gist. The father was a wealthy in dustrialist, who while Roosevelt was living always referred to him as ‘‘that man in the White House.” He had disliked Roosevelt intense ly. The boy hadn’t grown old enough to hate. As the funeral procession went by, their conver sation, according to Runyon, went about like this: Son: ‘‘I remember him for his great big smile.” Father: ‘‘Yes, we used to think he was giving us the horse laugh. But today I feel like it was the smile of a man who was trying to do something for his fellows.” Son: “I remember him for those Religion Day By Day By WILLIAM T. ELLIS PILGRIM BROTHERHOOD Crossing the City of Tokio one night in a jinrikishah, I suddenly found myself acclaimed with friendly shouts by a company of white-robed pilgrims, such as are a familiar sight in Japan. It was an instant before I could under stand the reason for the demon stration. Then I recalled that I was carry ing, in plain sight, a Fuji Pilgrim staff, such as is owned only by those who have ascended to the top of Japan’s highest and most famous mountain, as I had done a few days before, I waved my staff in return salutation as we passed. I, too, was a pilgrim. We had shared a great feat experience to gether, these Japanese and I. So we greeted one another as those who had scaled the heights. We were bound together for the mo ment by the ties of a memorable experience. So should fellow Christians greet one another as pilgrims tc the greatest heights. Strongest of all the ties that bind men together is the Christian religion, which con stitutes the oldest, widest, deepest fellowship among mankind. As we journey toward a heaven ly goal, dear Lord, make us con scious ever of our fellowship with all the other pilgrims on the same journey. Amen. funny, floppy hats he wore.” Father: “Yes, we thought his head was too big for them. But now we’re wondering who in the world we’re going to get to fill them.” Son: “I remember him for those braces he wore around his legs, just like the ones Jimmy around the corner wears.” Father: “Yes, we used to think they kept him a prisoner to him self and kept him from getting out to see what this country really needs. But now we know they were a reminder to us that any body, no matter how badly handi capped, can shake off any of his shackles and go on and do his best.” Son: “I remember I used to hear people talking about hating him.” Father: "Yes, son, I was one of those people you heard talking. But, you know, today I can’t think of a single reason for hating him.” I hadn’t meant to take up all your time talking about Roosevelt. But thinking of Harry Hopkins, who died naturally made me recall the time when Roosevelt died. And to recall some never before published facts about Hopkins, little items that tied him in with North Carolina. Once, in Raleigh, Hopkins, then head of the Federal Emergency McKenney On BRIDGE i. ■ i ■ ■ M < By WILLIAM E. McKENNEY America’s Card Authority If today’s hand is a sample of the bridge developed, by our boys overseas, we can look for some new champions in the near future. This hand came from Brar.ko So laric, who played it in Rome last year. He was a little optimistic in his opening bid of two clubs, but it is hard to criticize a successful operator. Solaric won the opening lead with the ace of clubs and cashed the club king. Now he had to trust everything to the heart finesse, so he cashed the ace of hearts and finessed the ten-spot. When it held, he cashed the king of hearts and discarded his four of diamonds, then discarded the four of spades on the jack of hearts. He ruffed the ten of diamonds and stripped West’s hand of spades by playing out the ace and king. A small club was led, which West won with the queen. Now West had to lead a dia mond, which allowed the declarer to discard the eight of spades from his ovm hand and ruff in dummy. Relief administration, was talking to a group of county relief ad ministrators who had come to Raleigh from all over North Caro lina. “I read,” Hopkins said, “that we’re wasting a lot of money by giving it to the wrong people. Well, I know that at least 10 per cent of the people we’re helping don’t deserve it, but I’d rather make a mistake with 10 per cent of the people than let the other 90 per cent be left out. And while I’m talking to you, let me tell you this: I don’t want ever to hear of any of you administrators becoming arrogant in dispensing funds. It’s only by the grace of God that we’re sitting down be hind the desk instead of standing out in front asking for help.” It was through Hopkins the North Carolina Fisheries was made possible. This organization helped to pull through a large group of fishermen during the (recession of the middle thirties. The application for the money necessary to organize the Fisheries had been on Hopkins’ desk, await ing his approval, for a couple of months. It began to look as if he weren’t going to approve it. One week-end Lindsay C. War ren, now Comptroller General of the U. S. but then Congressman from the first North Carolina district, was on a fishing trip with Hopkins at the Jefferson Island club in Chesapeake bay. Warren and Hopkins were sit ting at the end of a fishing pier catching croakers. Warren turned to Hopkins and said: “Harry, why don’t you go ahead and approve that application for the North Carolina Fisheries?” “What do you know about fish?” Hopkins said, as he pulled in a croaker. “Why, more than half my district is under fishing water,” Warren told him. "Okay, come by my office to morrow and I’ll see what I can do.” Hopkins promised. The next day Warren was there, “Get that doggoned appl'cation those folks down in North Caro lina sent in,” Hopkins told his secretary, “and let’s get it signed. I’ve got to get Lindsay Warren off my neck.” LETTER BOX ARTICLES APPRECIATED To The Editor: In behalf of the teachers o' New Hanover county, I wish to thank you for the articles which you published during the fall and early winter months about our schools. I believe Ken Noble wrote most of these'articles, and we wish to thank him particularity for the comprehensive way in which he presented the various school activ ities. We feel the public is now much better informed about our schools and some of the goals toward which we are striving, and we feel, fur ther, that it has done much to de velop a better understanding be tween the home and the school. Mrs. Claudia Brown Swin son, Secretary, New Hanover County Unit, North Carolina Education Association. Wilmington, N. C. Jan. 30, 1946. The Doctor Says— BED BEST PLACE TO CURE COLDS By WILLIAM A. OBRIen M D The possibility of infection U other nose and throa- aerm,’; IT creased and the attack 11 <the congestion, swelling a watery discharg. 0f the no' the common cold is relieved 14 cording to H. S. Diehl, m d ’ -1 associates, University 0j ii *7 sota. ' (Jo to bed when you have & and stay there until you a,e vJ is good advice, as you pX others from exposure and short, your own illness. Any measure which increase, the blood flow to the skin £ I tendency to dry up the nose A hit bath is a good early treatment fw a cold, and if it is followed b* rest in bed with sufficient cove' ings to prevent, cooling, the is prolonged and temp :ary permanent benefit is obtained Body massage also bring, blood to the surface and has a» effect similar to a hot bath. Favorite prescription of I people is to go to bed with a box I of disposable tissue nearhv . drink lots of fluids—water, iemon. I ade, orange juice and others. The I theory back of this practice is that I the water eliminates waste prod- f ucts and toxins from the body I There is no basis for this assump.’ I tion. Extra water is indicated if I there is excessive fluid loss from I sweating or fever, but not for anv I other reason. A few years ago, the Health 1 Service of the University of Min- f nesota conducted an experimental ! study in the treatment of the com. mon cold. When the diagnosis was made, the attending physician wrote a prescription for cold medi- }■■■ cation which was filled by the [L pharmacist with one of the cold remedies under investigation. Aft er 48 hours of treatment, the pa tient reported the result on a card he carried for this purpose. Control medicine was milk I sugar which was given to find out how many students recovered from a cold spontaneously. It was learned that 35 per cent of the students who received sugar tab lets without their knowledge re ported improvement of their colds within 48 hours. Aspirin, soda or quinine gave but little better result (37 to 50 per cent), while most of the ad vertised cold remedies were in the class with the sugar tablets. Result was that a remedy con taining codeine and papavrine was found to be of greatest benefit. Of the 1500 students who were given this preparation, 72 per cent re ported definite improvement or complete relief within 24 to 48 hours. 1 The Literary Guidepost By w. G. ROGERS MOTHER AND SON, by Clarkton Crane (Harcouri, Brace; $2.53.) Helen Wheeler, for years a wi dow, and her son Drake, a some what remote and urbane pair, have withdrawn sedately today to a southern California home; this novel deals with the few stormy weeks, three decades ago, when their interdependence first de veloped. Wheeler had just died in Chi cargo, and Helen takes the boy to a boarding school in the west. Her sister wants her to marry again and there are two eligible pros pects: scholarly Roger Bart lett and wealthy George Congreve. But there’s a third man, Henry Moore, an uninhibited artist fresh out of Paris, not so eligible in the sister’s opinion but so impetuous that he interferes with the schem ing. The attractive Helen gets three proposals, the two which her sis ter wants for her and the one she wants, or thinks she wants, from Moore. Falling madly in love with the painter, she becomes his mis tress. Her first marriage had been a tepid affair, more marriage than love, and two of the three in pros pect promise to duplicate it. Eh Moore is a fevered, impassion ed suitor; he wants a bed, not necessarily a marriage bed. fie gives Helen someimi^ never had. Then she fears he s giving her more than she wants. His burning ardor matched aga-S’* the security and placidity typthe by Bartlett and Congreve distur-s her profoundly. The call o'. * e wild, echoing through the elegar.-, candle-lighted rooms of Sait Fra“' cisco’s polite society, sounds ran cous and vulgar. Love is too much, Helen decides, but marriage ,'s too little She le mother - love settle her quandary mother-love is the thine for a?’ must be for Drake, too. IFs be*8 to take than to be taken. She -r^ refuge in saying nobly to .her s°;t “You can’t get- along without me. saying selfishly: “I can’t get ak. Without you.” Crane deftly turns mother-id'8 inside out, and the lining is s dy. This sweet sentiment s‘-da‘s woman from the man entitled her and fastens her instead °n boy who would have been be.. ■ off without. Apron strings are - at both ends, says the noveIls ‘ this story which, though at - slow, is subtle and penetrating-^ I Solaria f 4AK34 I »A6 I 474 I 4 AK865 :«« tr.v . 4752 4KJ 104 4 A10 47432 Rubber—Neither vuL Sw*t^ Wert North East Pass Pass 2* Pass *?_ P*58 *4 Pass 2--N.T. Pass 3 A Pass 5?“ 4* Pass 64 Pass Pass M>.« Opening—4 A ,.*,f si | -~7!T-11
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