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FORECAST A | « v ^ ^ tuttttuji0tt inonuttQ wiHi* ypL. 79. NO- 83. . ~ WILMINGTON, N. C., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1946 ESTABLISHED 1867 - *\0 * —------ --—.———— Appreciation For A Job Well Done! ~ & mmmmmmmmm -...-.—. K .A . v&ttt.'j&m/ws/if&HT.xw/tMWWW-yKwwwWgWftawWWw It wasn’t so long ago when the scrap heap you see above was flying^ flying as warplanes over Germany and Japan, and the many othre places through out the world where peace had to be purchased at the price of death and destruction. Today these warplanes, once a gloried part of the mightiest air armada in history, are. broken apart and rusting in a place that must be the bitter end for these once proud warri ors of the skies—a Wilmington junk yard.—Star Staff Photo by Pete Knight. Vote Of Trust Looms Over Pauley Squabble —1 •" - senate Lommittee JLo Weigh icKes Charges In Nomination Fight; Administration Policy Comes To Showdown WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—(U.R)—President Truman Sunday night ignored the latest In a series of blasts from former Secre tary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes amid indications that the start of it all—his nomination of Edwin W. Pauley to be under-Secretary of the Navy—would come to a Sen---— ate showdown this week. unnr a aha * iiiiaii Mr. Truman, on a week-end cruise down the Potomac, was si lent on Ickes newest charge that ne made contradictsry statements end did not tell “the strict truth” in news conference discussions of the Pauley nomination. Truman Remark Ickes, who resigned Wednesday "'ith the blistering allegation that he had been expected to “commit perjury for the sake of the party,” referred to a February 7 remark by Mr. Truman that Ickes had not consulted him before testifying be fore the senate naval affairs com mittee. Friday.'- Ickes said in a state ment, “he acknowledged under questioning that he had told me to be kind to him (Pauley.) There is no way that these two statements can be reconciled. One o£them is not true.” Going To Bat jrTon quitting his cabinet job, ck?s said he was ready to go to at before the committee when it See PAULEY on Page Two Weather Table v , FORECAST consul? ~Kind South Carolina: Monday chanp- e cl°udiness and not much rain^6 ln temperature, occasional light noon m the west P°rtion late in after (Eastern Standard Time) ^ L* s* Weather Bureau) endfn*°;0!°gical data for the 24 hours ® 1 -30 P- m. yesterday. 7,„ Temperatures 60 7-oa* 50: 7:30 a* m- 5°i 1;30 p. m. • ‘"jU p. 55 XormTtT 67 * ^Iinimum 48 > Nlean 58; Humidity 58' i\n' m- 94: 7:30 a- m- 98; 1:30 p- m. ’ P. m. 85. T . Precipitation 0.53 inches 24 hours endinS 7:30 P- m.— 1'^inchesCe the first 0f the month— /LVrt Tides For Today U c ^ the Tide Tables published by • t,oast and Geodetic survey). _ 6:13=Wm ^nboro Inlet . 'ijStS; <2,.^ . 9:40 p.m. 3:27 p. m 8:34 n .6i?’ Sunset 5:59; Moonrise n p■ m-: Moonset 8:34 a. m. (Continued on Page Two) 1 NEW dlnUUL LUNUl BILL NEARS VOTE Government Plan To Sup ply Food For Every Child Makes House Progress WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—(fP)—A government plan to supply virtual ly every school child in the nation with a daily lunch headed Sunday to the voting stage in Congress. Chairman Flannagan (D-Va.) of the House Agriculture committee said legislation providing for a permanent school lunch system is set for House consideration Tues day. Program For Decade For a decfade now the Agricul ture department has helped states pay for lunch programs but the department depended on year-to year provision of funds by Con gress. Many states haven’t taken up the idea, partly for fear Con gress would let it die. Flannagan’s committee said in See LUNCHES on Page Two PIUS TO ELEVATE 32 AS CARDINALS Centuries Old Traditional Rites To Be Observed In Rome Today VATICAN CITY, Feb. 17—(>P)— Pope Pius XII Monday will bestow the rank of cardinal upon 32 pre lates, including four Americans the Primate of Hungary, who is to be flown here at the last minute in a U. S. Army plane to par ticipate in this week’s consistories. Archbishop Mindszently has been granted Russian clearance from Hungary and is scheduled to leave Budapest Monday morning in an Air Transport command plane, Maj. Gen. William S. Key, com mander of the American Military mission in Budapest, said there Sunday. Saturday the Italian news agency Ansa reported that the Rus See CARDINALS on Page Two WACS WILL REMAIN AS “PART OF TEAM”, ARMY GENERAL SAYS WASHINGTON, Feb. 17—(U.R)— The Army, which learned in war time that a woman in some jobs can replace three or four men, plans to keep WACS as “part of the team” in the permanent peace time Army, Maj. Gen. Willard S. Paul, assistant chief of staff for personnel, said Sunday night. The WACS have done such an outstanding job that we can’t get along without them,” he said in an interview. “They’re part of the team and we want to keep them.” Picnics To Be Back Again IfSnellPlans Go Through Everybody likes a picnic, with or without ants, and the folks of Wilmington, are no exception. Ralph W. Snell, Wilmington’s superintendent of parks, is no ex ception either. In fact, he is the rule. Green Carpets If Snell’s visions ever material ize—and let’s all hope that they do—Wilmington will one day be carpeted, here and there through out the city, with large patches oi greensward. These patches will have not only nice green grass but also trees, swings, baseball diamonds, parking areas and all the other accountrements of good, clean, attractive public parks. Picnic Facilities But most important to Snell, and perhaps to all dlus, they will have the facilities for that good old American custom, the picnic. “Every kid in Wilmington from six to 60, and that includes me,” Snell said yesterday, “loves a picnic, and they all deserve to have good places to hold one any time they want.” Covered Building Snell’s vision of the ideal pic nicking place is this: A large con See PICNICS on Page Two & SENIORITY DISPUTE STALLS A GREEMENT IN 89-DA Y OLD A UTO WORKERS’ STRIKE; CONGRESS TA CKLESINFLA TION ALARMS --- I-—-. I *“ ” Bowles’ Plea For Control Begins Today Senate Committee To Spur Answers On New Wage Price Policies OPA LIFE AT STAKE Death Knell Of Price Con trol Board May Be Sound In Hearings -— — - WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.— (UP) — Price Administrator Chester Bowles Sunday night worked on an explanation to the nation of the President’s “big steel” price-pay formula which is expected to add more than $10,000,000,000 (B) to industry’s wage bill and have far-reaching price conse quences to the public. Bowles will go before the House Banking and Currency committee Monday morning to explain the new formula, which broke the steel strike, and to urge a one-year exten sion of the Price Control act. He will make a formal state ment at the opening of the hearing, OPA said. To Define Program Committee Chairman Brent Spence, (D. Ky.) said Sunday night that he expects Bowles to define the new program which he will di rect as Economic Stabilization ad ministrator. “He is the only man who has a full picture of the situation, ’ Spence said. He estimated that the hearings would run two to three weeks because “people are coming here from all over the country” to testify on OPA extension. The price-wage policy which set tled the strike against U. S. Steel Corp., had brought many other See INFLATION on Page Two. TAX PAYMENTS HIT NEW HIGH RECORD DURING YEAR I94S WASHINGTON, Feb. 17. — (IP)—Federal tax collections in 1945 totaled a record-breaking $43,352,715,621.35, suprpassing 1944’s previous record by near ly $1,227,000,000, the Internal Revenue bureau revealed Sun day. The total for all income tax es also set a record, $34,357, 010,087.73, eclipsing the pre vious peak in 1944 by almost $227,000,000. Individual income taxes, to taled $19,885,275,248.86. Making up that total were $9,261,924, 054.03 in normal and surtaxes paid directly and $10,623,351, 194.83 in taxes withheld from salaries and wages. Corporation income taxes to taled $14,471,734,838.87, includ ing $4,676,173,698.48 In normal and surtaxes and $9,795,561,149. 39 in excess profits taxes. SHORTAGE OF MILK HITS WILMINGTON Dairymen Only Getting 65 To 75 Per Cent Of Nor mal Supply Now BY LARRY HIRSCH If, during the next few months, your milkman is reluctant to leave as many bottles of milk on your front porch as you want him to, don’t get angry and throw empty ones at his head. He can’t help it. There’s another shortage upon us—and this time it’s milk. Heavy Curtailment According to E. L. White, own er of White’s Ice Cream and Milk company here, we are faced with a 25 to 35 per cent curtailment in milk deliveries. “Right now,” Whue said yester day, “I could use 2,000 more quarts per day than I’m getting.” Five Reasons Asked what was causing the normal flow of “moo-juice” to dwindle to something like a trickle of its former self, White came up with five answers. “First of all,” he said, “there’s the natural slow-down that always occurs during winter. Cows just don’t give out so well in cold wea ther as they do in warm weather.” Winter Legarthy A cow, even as you and I, hates to get up of a cold morning and go to work, and you can’t much blame him—her, rather. “Transportation isn’t good ei ther, White said. “We get our milk from as far away as the Pied mont section, and even Wisconsin The farmer has had trouble get ting his trucks through slushy roads to the milk depots.” And the farmer, White indicated, See MILK on Page Two EISENHOWER TALK THRILLS VETERANS Chief Of Staff Addresses Lowry Field Troops, Hospital Patients DENVER, Feb. 17—(iP)—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower inspected military installations in Denver, Sunday, and thrilled some 1,500 soldiers at Lowry field and count less others at Fitzsimmons General hospital. In a brief talk he told Lowry field soldiers: ‘‘Now that we are at peace never forget you are not in the Army to keep a lot of ‘brass’ in their jobs back in Washington. You are in the Army because the United States has taken on the job in Ger many and Japan to protect what we paid an awful lot of money and an awful lot of American lives to win. Sacrifice Again “If we fail to sustain that peace, your own sons and daughters will be called upon to make the same sacrifice that your generation has. The job of every soldier worth his salt is to work—to work trs all (in the Army) out of jobs forever.” Eisenhower told reporters he would observe the results of the atomic bomb tests at Bikimi atoll, and “if the bomb is as powerful and as catacylsmic as it has been said, I believe you will find the soldier more than anyone else See EISENHOWER on Page Two Along The Cape Fear HARBINGER OF SPRING — Poets may sing, robins may nest, kids may break out with roller skate fever, and the fancies of Tennyson’s young men may light ly turn to thoughts of love. But the true harbinger of spring is the 10-cent store. BABY BUSHES—Just walk into any 10-cent store on Front street and see what strikes your eye: Baby rosebushes, hundreds oi them, neatly bundled in brown paper and fairly crying out* in their confined but burgeoning youth, to be put into the ground so that they may grow into adult du plicates of the pictures on the tags tied to their infantile branches. SEEDS AND TOYS — And even more hundreds of packages holding in their caper sterility the fertile seeds which will blossom to tech nicolor maturity in Wilmington s front-yards. And the toy rakes, hoes, showels, and spades with which the chil dren will help mamma and daddy plant the rosebushes and the seeds —and with which the children will promptly uproot them again. AHEAD, AND HOW — Like the . monthly magazines and like the Saturday Evening Post which comes out on Wednesday, the 10 cent store is always ahead of the season. In summer the masks, jackolanterns, and skeletons of Hallow’e’en appear on the counters and in the windows. In autumn the toys, tinsel, and holly of Christmas. And in winter—but we’ve already told you about that. i - i OKAS', LET’S GO — We might 1 say, like Percy Bysshe Shelley: “It 1 winter comes, can the 10-cent store 1 be far behind?” Or, like the man who, having - stepped into a local five-and-dime j to weigh himself on a “no springs, , honest weight” scale, finally came ( out, his arms loaded with bushes , and his pockets stuffed with seed- - packages, muttering to himself: “Honest, spring. No wait.” Stand Debated i———— The American Legion Nation al Executive committee de clared last night at Indianapolis that there has been a "sub stantial failure’’ in the adminis tration of veterans affairs.” The committee voted unan imously that its national commander, John Stelle, ‘*had no other alternative than to bring it to the attention of Congress and the public, rind we commend and approve his taking that action.” Steile will attend the reunion here March 29 of the 115th Machine Gun Company. WAGE OPPOSITION GROWS IN SENATE Southern Democrats Plan Floor Fight On 65-Cents An-Hour Pay Bill WASHINGTON, Feb. 17.—(U.R)— Southern Democrats indicated Sun day night that their opposition to the 65-cents-an-hour minimum wage bill is gaining a momentum that will make itself felt when the rpeasure reaches the Senate floor. The administration - sponsored measure would increase the na tion’s basic pay scale from 40 cents to 65, and later to 70 and 75. It is expected to be called up for de bate early in March. Murray To Return The time would coincide with the return from the Pacific coast of Chairman James E. Murray, (D. Mont.) of the Senate Labor and Education committee, its .sponsor. Majority Leader Alben W. Barkley, <D._ Ky.), said Sunday night that “I have no plans to introduce the legislation until Senator Murray’s See WAGES on Page Two HARBOR INQUIRY IN FINAL PHASES American-British, Dutch Conversations In 1941 To To Hold Spotlight WASHINGTON, ' F^b. 17—(£>)— rhe Pearl Harbor investigation ?oes into its final phases this week vith American-British-Dutch mili ary conversations in 1941 expected o come in for further exploration. High Army and Napy officials lave testified that American repre sentatives made no commitments is to aid for the British or Dutch, See INQUIRY Page Two Sunday Parley Falls Short Of Ending GM-llAff Fuss Reuther Tells 175,000 Workers He’s Holding Out For “Security” As Well As Wage Increase; Mediator To Stick To End \ DETROIT, Feb. 17.— (UP)—A dispute over promotion and transfer procedures for General Motors workers Sun day temporarily held up settlement of the 89-day old GM strike and negotiations were recessed until Monday. The new disagreement came at a time when a spokes man for a conference between top representatives of the STEEL MEN HEAD TOWARD FURNACE Mills Of United States Steel, Other Big Firms Get Fires Going Again PITTSBURGH, Feb. 17.— (TP) — Workers lor some of the nation’s biggest steel companies were lead, ing a back to work movement to night as the steel industry began a slow recovery from its 27-day strike paralysis. Mills of the U. S. corporation and 12 other companies officially re open at 12:01 a.m. Monday — just four weeks to the day since the start of the great strike by 750, 000 CIO-United Steel-workers for higher pay. Half of List More than 300,00 of the striking workers are employed by the re =epw«ns-flittis. U. S. Steel’s settlement with the union on the basis of an 18 1-2 Cent increase was announced in Wash ington Friday night. Since then a number of major basic steel pro ducers have fallen into line. Take Truman Plan The union originally sought a S2 a day or 25 cent an hour increase, reduced its demand to 19 1-2 cents an hour and then accepted Presi See STEEL on Page Two COUNCIL TO TAKE ACTION ON AGENT Questions Relative To Far rell Appointment May Be Answered Today Questions pertaining to last Wed nesday’s appointment of John H. Farrell, secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, to the new role of industrial agent for the city, are expected to be answered and re solved this afternoon when the City council meets in special ses sion. Farrell, named to the new post at a special meeting of the coun cil on the recommendation of the Economic Development committee comprised of E. L. White, Harriss Newman. R. B. Page, J. G. Thorn ton, and H. R. Emory, has not yet assumed the role, pending the out come of today’s meeting. Issues Remain The questions which must be set tled upon are: Will the industrial agent work out of the city hall or the chamber? It was previously reported that Farrell would continue as secre tary of the chamber, with the help of an assistant, but that he would devote about 90 per cent of his See COUNCIL on Page Two v-uiii^auj aiiu tuc uuncu nuiuiuu" bile Workers union had expressed belief that a settlement would be made momentarily. A recess was called until 3:30 p. m. Monday after Charles E. Wil son, head of GM, and R. J. Thom as, head of the Union, conferred with assistants for two hours end 15 minutes in a Sunday session. Recess Called To forestall another deadlock and break in the negotiations. Federal Labor Mediator James F. Dewey, who presided, called the recess. “We got stymied in an argument on one issue,’’ Dewey said. “Both sides will sit over it Sunday night and maybe we can get somewhere Monday. “They did not make much prog ress,” Dewey admitted. Divergent View! The mediator declined to reveal the nature of the new obstacle in the strike of 175,000 GM production workers, but a UAW spokesman said divergent views on plant pro motions and transfers caused the end of the session. Walter P. Reutner, vice president of the UAW In charge of th» Gen eral Motors division, said his dele gation refused to budge on the issue. Secuitty is just as important as a wage increase,” he said as the meeting broke up. “Some Progress” Later, Reuther sent a telegram to the striking union locals at 92 GM plans, reporting on the dead lock and saying that some progress had been made Friday and Sunday on “non-economic contract mat ters.” “In conferences with the corpor ation Sunday, the telegram said, ‘‘We discussed paragraph 63 with respect to promotion* and trans fers, giving employes with great est seniority preference where merit, ability and capacity are equaL “Hold Your Lines” “No progress was made Sunday with respect to this issue. No agreement was reached Sunday with the corporation on union se curity or wage issues,” Reuther’a message said. He advised the strikers to ‘‘hold your lines.” Dewey said, however, that wage* were not discussed. The UAW ha* demanded a hike of 19 1-2 cents an hour, or 17.4 per cent, counter to the company’s top bid of IS 1-2 cents. Nearer Settlement The mediator, ordered by Sec retary of Labor Lewis B. Schwel See DISPUTE on Page Twi -I DREW PEARSON SAYS U. S. CAN’T GO ON APPEASING RUSSIA WASHINGTON. Feb. 17.—(U.R)— Columnist Drew Pearson said Sun day night that atom bomb secrets are the “confidential information” supplied Russia by a Canadian spy ring, adding that a Russian agent was permitted to sail from Seat tle with a suitcase containing the data. He sa'd in his weekly radio ad dress that the incident has brought “show down” in U. S.-Soviet rela tions and convinced many offl :ials that “we cannot go on appeae ng Russia.” And So To Bed.. The long arm of the law sometimes stretches into pe culiar places. Yesterday a detective, sum moned to a local house, was told by the housewife that there must be some mistake. “Sure you didn’t call me, ma’am?” “No sir.’* Just then the housewife’s little boy appeared. “I called you, sir.” “But why?” they wanted to know. “That mean hoy down the block was trying to steal my skates, but when I called the police he ImhhH " ^ Today and Tomorrow by WALTER LIPPMANN Bv WALTER LIPPMAN THE PAULEY CASE NOW In the Pauley case Mr. Truman s in the position of a man who, re using to admit he has made a mis ake, must go on making worse nistakes. Two great departments if government, Navy and the In erior, are already entangled. A hird, the Department of Justice, s about to be. For the question low is not merely the propriety oi naking the man who collected :ampaign contributions from oil nterests the eventual Secretary of he Navy. The question is what ilr. Truman’s attorney general vill do with the question of whether Mr. Truman’s nominee, testifying under oath, committed perjury. • * * The position of the attorney general is not an enviable one. If he ii to exonerate Mr. Pauley of perjury, he must prove that not only Mr. Ickes but also the for mer Assistant Attorney General, Mr. Littell, committed perjury. If he does not exonerate Mr. Pauley, then obviously Mr. Truman can not ask the Senate to confirm him. rherefore, unless the attorney gen eral can overthrow the detailed, See LIPPMAN on Page Two
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