I ? ? ? The Alamance Gleaner -? ? ^ rd 1111 GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1946 No. 4t ; WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS ( Big Three Draw Closer Together; British Break Ruhr Monopoly; New Work Stoppages Looming " Released by Western Newspaper Union. ?????? { msm MOTE: Whea eplalsas are expressed la these eelamae. they are these e( Sb Eiamur Vilea's sews analysts aid aet necessarily ef this newspaper.) t ?G THREE: Maatmg of Minds BWfo foe declaration that "proj ** great progress, has been mat*." the foreign ministers of U &, Britain and Russia conclud ed htv quarterly conference in B???? and observers looked to a amaafher relation between the mi for en for re-establishment of order out of the dislocations in Eu mpe and Asia. the agreement between Wtamu. Byrnes, Bevin and Molotov fo wofo for control of atomic en ?V and eliminate it as a war vmopaa commanded the most pop rifor aHnithai. political understand foB? reached were equally impor *at h their assurance of settling pspdhctoaa, permitting organization af campSehensive governments and aparriag foe resumption of trade. Ode of the principal items of ac aasd fosolved agreement on proce dure for drafting the European peace treaties with Axis satellites, foe Big Three deciding to let ffcanee fo en discussions over Italy aad ra?iltlin, all of the United Na Ifoaa aa pacts covering Italy, Bul garia. Bamania, Hungary and Fin la agreement on Europe, the Big Throe alao moved to closer under ataadfog on Asia, where they decid ed ^m foe establishment of a four natfoa control commission for Ja pan to implement directives formu lated hp the far eastern advisory ill 11 orith unanimous approval of I foe mnnlii1 countries. RUHR: Rkitisk Take Mines Mm integral part of Germany's aeanamy, 130 Ruhr coal mines owned hp 41 companies were taken nscr hp the British occupation au foarities hi a move to break up the Camay's war potential and also con tribute to the decentralization of the Bach's industry. fo announcing the expropriation af the propel ties without compen wfvw fo the owners, the British de duced that the coal mines were cmfouBed by the same monopolistic fotaeetn which dominated the iron, steel and chemical industries and uuiiad a decisive influence on the rfesinkr of prewar German econ 1b taking over the mines, the Brit hh aanounced that the financial in terests af France, Belgium, Holland md Luxembourg in the properties wedd be safeguarded. fix Reparations Iheugh U. S. reparations from eiituu Germany were set at 28 per cant af the total to be shared by 21 i?ti ii i, this country's actual amsmd may fall short of the agreed foui since it waived rights to en emy dips and industrial equipment because of small losses in these fo addition to such capital goods aa plants, machinery, etc., German bred assets, current stocks and Bom bum production havebeen de clared available for payments, and foe U. S. is expected to draw pri marily from these sources. Besides the U. S., Britain will also lucerne 28 per cent of reparations, ndh France allotted 16 per cent. Oth er recipients include Yugoslavia, the Bilhi ilnnili. Canada, Czechoslovak ia Belgium. Greece, India, Norway, Australia, South Africa, New Zea fond, Denmark, Luxembourg, Egypt and Albania. Under the Potsdam agreement, I Bmaia was to obtain its principal i upmaliieu from eastern Germany, i wf Omnan assets in Bulgaria, Fin fond. Higary, Romania and east- - FRANCE: Trade Move fo n move designed to bring the I pntefeaarig power of the franc in i ho with foreign currencies, France Aooafoed Ms monetary unit to lit to I foe American dollar and 480 to the i Mm a result of the new arrange- i mmg. Flam It foreign trade is ex vsated an pick up, since the rise in 1 pfom Am to douooml production I wfB bo offset by giving up more i femes tn the dollar or pound, la amtafo af its colonies where there I has been no inflationary spiral, the I 0m focal franc. 1 Became of the dislocation of in- 1 dusky and commerce, France's for- t ?foe frada sfoce liberation has been I amefor af ths token variety to keep I fofofe cognac and champagne has been shipped to countries abroad. With the devaluation of the franc, the French general assembly moved J on to ratification of the Bretton 1 -.Woods monetary agreement, under c which foreign exchange would be J made available to subscribers at ? par rather than appreciated rates. 1 OVERSEAS MUSIC: Petrillo Ban Stocky little James Caesar Petri!- E lo, czar of the American Federa- c tion of Musicians, who got his g start playing trumpet for Jane c Addams' Hull House band on Chi- e cago's west side, again reasserted d his power by issuing an order pro- f hibiting the broadcast onU.S. radio g stations at all music originating in 1 foreign countries except Canada. d Having, just won a major battle t with recording companies by com- d pelling them to pay a percentage of r James Caesar PetriUo their returns to the AFM to com- J? pensate for the reduction in regular ? employment of musicians through " use of transcriptions, Petrillo de- e clared he drew up his latest ulti matum to preserve the jobs of " Americans. Said he: . . The government?everybody [ ?protects themselves against cheap I labor. Why the ? should musicians L be suckers? The watchmakers' union muscled the state department into telling the Swiss to stop sending " (watches) into the country. We're jj trying to keep out foreign musicians * in person or on the air." ft LABOR: New Strikes Loom With 175,000 workers already idle u by the General Motors strike in the G automobile industry and the United ej Steel workers also threatening to P> walk out, the troubled labor situa- J' tion took another serious turn with the CIO electrical union pondering ?" a work stoppage in General Elec- f? trie, Westinghouse and General Mo- *J tors plants. ? As in the case of the auto and ^ steel disputes, the strife in the elec- th trical industry centered around the th union's move for maintenance of ml high wartime take-home pay, its de- f< mands equalling the steel workers' ? bid for a |2 a day wage increase and comparing with the auto work ers' goal of a 30 per cent boost. " Active in the automobile dispute P In an effort to bring the contesting parties together, government of ficials also took an aggressive hand p in the electrical strife, with Edgar r L. Warren, U. S. conciliation serv- ^ ice director, conferring with both company and union bigwigs in an attempt to iron out differences. ? NATIONAL INCOME: Triples ^ From the depression low of 5368 In 1933, per capita income in the ^ (J. S. jumped to $1,117 in 1944, re- 0f fleeting the increased wartime eco- r( comic activity. th Even before the onset of the war in loom, per capita income showed CI 1 deckled increase from the 1933 th low, reaching $575 in 1940, still con siderably under the 1944 top. Where- . is such income ranged from $202 , n Mississippi to $096 in Delaware p n 1940, it ran from $528 in Missis- " lippi to $1,519 in New York in 1944. i0 In 1940, 16 states topping the n? ional average of $875 included Call- bi 'ornia, Connecticut, Delaware, IQi- U 10 is, Maryland, Massachusetts, sh Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, as Ifew York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsyl- y< ranis, Rhode Island, Washington pi tnd Wyoming. In 1944, all of these la dates except Wyoming exceeded the or istional figure, Indiana taking its pi jlace. sv CHINA: Propose Truce Even while 90,000 communist roops reportedly sought to cut the Yangtze river between Nanking and Shanghai, Red political leaders at empted to bring about a truce with Chiang Kai-shek's nationalist forces >y suggesting the cessation of hos ilities with troops of the two fsc ions permitted to remain at present >ositions. , Advanced shortly after Gen. leorge C. Marshall's arrival in %ina to help untangle the compli rated political situation there and >romote unification of the country, he communist proposal was a modi fication of an earlier demand that lationalist troops withdraw to posi ions previously occupied before V-J lay. Meanwhile, as communist and lationalist leaders of the political onsuitative council sat down to lay 'reparations for later discussions of inity. Red strategists sought to ex rt pressure on the U. S. to with Iraw more support from Chiang's action and enhance their own bar aining position in conferences, [eld throughout China, leftist stu ent rallies called upon Uncle Sam a let the Chinese settle their own ifferences without interference. 1ANDY: \hort Supply Because of both ingredient and la or shortages, candy production will ill short of expected demands dur ig- the first nine months of 1946, le trade predicted, with the deficit mounting to TOO million pounds. While nuts, peanuts, many fruits, oconuts, cocoa oil and other oil, nd sugar apparently will remain i short supply through most of the ear, the anticipated return of work rs to confectionery plants from igher paying war industries has ot materialized, though leveling off f other employment and increased rages should lead to solution of the manpower problem. In addition to prospective higher ibor costs, the trade said, material osts are also expected to remain t upward levels because of the lortage of supplies and the de lared program of the government > eliminate subsidies on items en sring into manufacture of candy, traightening of difficulties will be le signal for extensive plant mod mization and expansion, experts aid, with installation of equipment eading the program. Journey's End "O Cod, thou art my God; aarly will I tak That"?Chaplain Edwin Royal Car t Jr. oj Richmond, Pa, intoned at sol iart lifted the flag that covered the cu rt of Gen. George S. Potion and held it a m inches above the silver lop. Rain pattered upon the cunt canopy tearing the burial rite at the and of a erg row of little white crottet in the merican military cemetery in Luxemburg. uxamburg, where 6J100 of the former J a Patton had led in the historic Battle I the Bulge the year before rested in tore. Beside Patton ley the body of Pvt. thn Prxywera of Detroit, Mich. "But the Icing shall rejoice in God; reryona that tsvaareth by Him shall ory; but the mouth of them that speak it shall be stopped," the chaplain con aded in reading the fatten warrior's fa trim bSrdTaalm. With the recitation of a Lorts prayer, the military man bared eir heeds, then three rifle volleys echoed rough the Mils. At tape sounded softly. I stood el attention, and distinguished morals from Russia, Britain and Prance ?Id themselves tUfhr in salute until Mrs. uton turned to leave. Most distinctive of the floral pieces host ing "Old Blood and Cuts" scat an over sen wreath from the men he had led to ctory. It bora the simple and touching scriptioa: To our leader." IG CROP: bove Average Though (ailing below the depart ent of agriculture'* goal, the IMS g crop at 86,714,000 slightly sur- ; used 1944 production and topped ie 10 year 1934-43 average by over 000,000. While the 1946 spring pig crop (ell slow 1944, (all production rose to (set the early year drop, USDA sported. While large Increases in e (all crop over 1944 were noted the western com belt, small de eases were recorded in the Atlan : states. With 5,903,000 sows (arrowed dur g the (all season, the number at gs saved per litter totaled 8.38, impared with (34 in 1944 and (33 r the 10-year period. In view at farmers' intentions to eed 8,542,000 sows nest spring, the SDA's goal at 52,000,000 pigs lould be achieved if the number ived in each litter equals the 10 >ar sverage. With heavy 1946 (all oduction and the retention at a rge percentage Of 1946 spring hogs i (arms (or extra feeding, pork sup ies should be good through the so ling months. Man About Town: a 5*.d* is trying to arrange a beincr* ^ OH U* S " main^ to avoid ^fisxs&sss ~. 'earn just how Doris (World'* Richest Gal) Duke could enter Italy dWn??UL* Vif*' which ">* SUU Dep't tUdn t give her The reason Her nert Hoover * marriage to a wealthy widder is being retarded, they aay. ? family static." . . . Biggest sto? if. ev" h?PPened In the Wash mgton Pleas Club didn't make any ?f the papers. A U. S. Marine. led up with a columnist's poison about ' UK, etc., picked him up bodily and tossed him from the bar into the lobby. After the Saw Francisco Confer ence, a Russian attache visited Hoi- I vwjod as the guest of Gregory Rat off, the director Ratoff pointed out numerous movie queens. ... On one set Ratoff sighed: "They are all so beautiful, but, unfortu nately, they don't stay happily mar ted very long!" ... "In Russia " I explained the visitor, "one reason {narrtages last longer is that a wife face*" Mme aft*r washing her ? A' (which features named * ?">adway song plugger nad too much to drink and started being a bore. .J*-". ?h'd, Lenore Lemmon, climb back into your flask!" Errol Flynn's forthcoming book. The Showdown," is said to be bet book As Flynn polled with his friend, artist John uecker, John remarked: "I won trotelfi?"UyWO?d ^ believe you ?f.'Ynot''g^d"Err?1' ** ^ "dnk j In Ciro's the other midnight Jack ? "!*? seatad near an actor who had just tost a chance for a choice ,m,,a,.^m' He was popping off hltoH ^ biefflcient directors, bhnd producers two-timing agents, . . . Jack turned to his wife H h1.d -nifi?ed: "Pardon me, hon ^bjR I think I smell somebody Lee Sullivan, the singer, relays I the yarn about the two shipwrecked drama critics. They drifted for ZffJf \ raft- ? ? - The mora frightened of the two started seek ig forgivenesa for his sins. "I've been a loos*-all my life" IboSfrfLn7'Ve tf*11 cruel to actors. 1 out ?' wey to tam them. If I'm spared, I prom rmomrnt," ahouted the oth er one, don t go too far. I think I see smoke from a ship!" se^hXnf,rtlre - Scientlflc Ra search Development Board had an appointment with Prof. Oppenhei ^?.ffienUat who had so much jodo with completing the atomic . . . Oppenheimer was to !|*v? reJ?M*Ted at the Sutler Hotel In Washington. . . . But the caller ^tbat be was no? ?? texed, and he wasn't . . . This is tart setting* "b00? operator ^.lE!i^?^,porUnt caDa tor Op penheimer?he was seated in a far I comer of the foyer-patiently wait jog tor a room I ... In any other country he would have been given a hotel or a palace. What dopes! f.*P?lrla?aa ?? > Evaa, brought1 this back from California ^a *.^f' c??" Prejudist screamed: i """V* , t enough room in this I country tor furriners and us Amur- i rtcans. ... To which a lumbering ^ bsteners Interrupt- j The squelcher was Jim Thorp* American Indian Olympic* ttar^' I ^ w? Under the See Dept Bob Berryman of the WOR news I fo?m(hes traced the origtoS ^ M aPPli*d to current usace a 01 Boccaccio,' ' ? nngwith a roving eye was accused o. being a "wolf." The Decameron tybbobed in the 16th century. . . . This king wanted a "2? .M"? ff"*hl*rg u his wives taua?2.2??? ?to"2L: "l o?* 'ota W. Rapes, a Cleveland paragrapher for decades. hasmrt yfJV ^bi* peppigrams between ..Utk to: "^h*' This hked these - theater box of 8c* counts the cash, not the ap-, piauae. . . . Justice is what w* set i -tan the decision is in ????. ' I (Duck, SjwotL, Vflan,, and. OiheA, \ QuhiouA, Wli&hapA, oft, 194-5 -? m c, By PAUL JONES (Dir??l?r ?f Pafcll* liftrautlM, NkllMul OmiB.) BIG things happened in 1945. The war ended. The atom bomb busted. Taxes began to come down. And Mr. Bonner was shot by a duck. Mr. Bonner is, of course, Mr. Stanley J. Bonner of Houston, Tex as, as every duck now knows. On a One October day he grabbed his trusty automatic pistol and ven tured into the back yard to shoot a couple of domestic ducks. Duck No. 1 fell at the first shot. But Duck No. 2, a more aggressive type, leaped at Mr. Bonner, jarred his arm and caused the gun to go off. The bullet hit Mr. Bonner in the knee. The duck? Still alive and "sassy. Wacky? Sure. But no wackier than a lot of other freak accidents that happened in IMS. For a round up by the National Safety Council reveals that come war, come peace, people go right on having the darn edest things happen to them. To wit: Mrs. Edward Comfort, of Brook lyn, was driving through Virginia, her 15-month-old baby riding happily beside her in a basket strapped to the seat of the car. So far as Mrs. Comfort knew, there were no hard feelings between her and the baby. But the child suddenly stopped con tentedly drinking milk out of a nursing bottle, swung the bottle lust ily and conked Mrs. Comfort neatly on the head. Dazed, she let go the wheel and the car overturned in a ditch. Neither mother nor baby was hurt. Bard-Beaded Fellow. Not so allergic to a thump on thd bead is Charles Anderson, a hardy resident of Los Angeles. Mr. Ander son, in fact, has reason to re gard himself as practically inde structible. He was repairing a wall one day when a concrete block fell from a fourth-story scaffold and hit him smack on the head. He reeled into the street, just in time to be struck down by Policeman Jess Haenel's motorcycle. He recovered satisfactorily from both accidents. And Mrs. Dorothy Jensenius was walking in Chicago's loop one day when, lo and behold, a bucket came hurtling down and hit her kerplunk. i?i .?. It bad been dropped by a dismayed window washer seven stories up. A shoulder injury to Mrs. Jensenius and a dent in the bucket comprised the damage. In Toledo, Mrs. Margaret Cook's car blew a tire at a railroad cross ing and careened down the tracks toward an approaching freight train. The auto struck a signal switch and threw a rod block against the train, automatically stopping it. ?Stiek eg Wear Gees 100011 When a pin In her waahing ma chine broke off, Mrs. Axel Soder of Makinen, Minn., looked around the house for a substitute pin and final ly found something she thought was just the thing. She sawed off the end of it and started to hammer it into the machine. She might have done it, too, if the substitute pin hadn't exploded and blown her clear I J across the room. She had selected a stick of dynamite. Hits Rifht Pest. Taxi-driver Ethel Sheffield's cab skidded into a lamp post In Regina, Saskatchewan, one 16-below-zero night last January. She was knocked unconscious and might hays frozen to death if a fire alarm box on the lamp post hadn't been set off by the crash, bringing firemen to the rescue. Every returning G.I. is mighty glad to see the family again, but few are so vociferous in their greet , ings aa was Soldier Frank Chlan of Baltimore. He gave his mom a hug so big it snapped several of her ribs. It's odd enough, perhaps, when a fire starts itself and then puts itself out. When it happens twice the same way, you begin to wonder. But once in Utica, N. Y., and again in Dark Harbor, Maine, the sun's rays, passing through a bottle of water in a truck, set Are to the floor of each truck, only to have the heat of the Are break the bottle and the water put out the flames. Fire in Fire Station. Probably the most embarrassed firemen in the country were the members of the volunteer depart ment of Columbus Manor, 111., the night an exploding gasoline tank in a pumper wagon set fire to the fire station. Unable to get their own equipment out of the station to fight the flames, the Columbus Manor laddies had to look on glumly while firemen from nearby towns did the Job. A lot of people stick their necke out in various ways, but not so spec tacularly as did Virginia Triplett, an elevator operator in St. PauL Hiss Triple tt was leaning her head out side the elevator on the first floor when the automatic doors closed. Passersby tugged at the doors by hand until they could be opened by mechanics. Doorframes Too Lew Out in Hollywood, where anything can happen, "Sunset" Carson, six foot-five cowboy movie actor, went to the studio hospital for an aspirin to help his headache. Coming out, he struck his head against the door frame, keeled over unconscious and had to have four stitches taken in his scalp. , /??* Whether it was a suicide pact or just an accident, no one will ever know. But when Mias Bette Boren of Marinette, Wis., returned home one day last March, she found the family's two dogs on the floor, overcome by gas. They had, in some manner, turned on the stove. They were revived and haven't tried it again. Every year someone lets a train pass over him without serious re sults. In 1MB it was Jesse Spttxer of Denver. Mr. Spitzer did it the hard way by first having himself an auto accident. This threw him through the roof of his car and land ed him on his back in the of the track just as the train came along. Mr. Spitzer lay quietly and securely until the engine and long string of freight cars had roared over him, then found ha had broken a leg?in the auto accident. No year would be eosnpleta, of course, without eomeone falling cafe 17 out of a third-story window onto, a cement sidewalk. The IMS fall-out . girl was Beverly Kay Schwartz, *> months old. of Maywood, 111., who1 escaped with a slight head injury. Just to be different, a Chicago baby took his mother along with him when he went for a two-story plunge to the street. The year-old child slipped from a porch railing. His mother, Mrs. Audrey Hudson,, grabbed for him, got him, Mat her' balance, and mother and aon fell together. Neither was seriously hurt. Most farsighted plunger at the year was James Hearn of Seattla, who fell three floors down an air ?haft to land cosily in an easy chair. Aa Mrs. Clara Wagner accompan ied a sick friend to a Chicago hos pital, the ambulance in which they were riding turned a corner so sharply that the rear door flew open, and Mrs. Wagner was catapulted into the street. She was returned to the ambulance, and continued the journey?as a patient. ? rO - Just to prove that America hasn't a corner on freak accidents, a wind storm in North Adelaide, Australia, scared a deliveryman's horse into running away, but also blew the de liveryman ahead of the horse to time to stop it I Bobcats don't frighten Mrs. Don aldson of Breen, Colo. When she came suddenly upon a big one to her turkey yard, she fearlessly seized a club and attacked it The bobcat's hide now hangs in the kitchen. Mrs. Donaldson did not suffer a single scratch. An ordinary field mouse ran ap the steering wheel of an automo bile driven by Hollis Lee Randolph of Topanga, Calif. Mr. Randolph, who couldn't have.bean move star tled had it been an elephant, lost control of his car, ran it into a ditch and turned it over. Neither he nor the mouse was hurt. A Liberty ship crashed into a bridge in Boston harbor, knocking a 90-foot section of the bridge into the water. Although the structure carries elevated lines, automobile traffic and foot ways, there were no trains, no autos and no pedestrians on it st the tim* of the icddaL Yet it was midday, when traffic is usually heavy. No one was hurt on the ship, either. One of life's little mysteries *? doctors snd economists came whs* 17-month-old Larry Linyle of Har risburg. Pa., swallowed a nickel and coughed up a penny. Henry Hale slipped on the ice la Chicago. A policeman asked him if he was hurt. "I broke my leg." replied Henry, calmly. "Take am home.** The police did so, then asked so licitously, "What doctor do yom want?" "Doctor!" Hale snorted. "Wh* I want is s oarpenter." Tea, it was a wooden leg. (UK And Just as a reminder of haw tou