The Alamance Gleaner
r?L LXXI GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 17, 1946 Na 60
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Truman Takes Legislative Fight
To People; CIO Extends Drive
To Retain High Take-Home Pay
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Wonts Ma Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily ed this newspaper.)
Urtng in damp, dark baaement like average German family in Frank
tart, We eeaple emerges with chickens and rabbit in arm* fer breath at
WHITE HOUSE:
Puts on Heat
With President Truman having
tain to the fireside to carry his
hgirtatiii program to the people,
Marat cantered qn public response
to his appeal to prod congress into
motion on a string of proposals
too mill important to the orderly
Ms Montog of the postwar economy.
la calling upon the people to
asnuse their representatives, Mr.
Truman was careful not to antagon
ise congress itself, patting the
aeions on the back for having fully
supported the administration's for
eign policy designed to further Inter
astiisial collaboration, and charging
enly a few members in committee
tor having blocked consideration of
domestic legislation.
While the President touched upon
as leas than nine phases of his na
tional program, he placed particu
lar emphasis upon the creation of
machinery to outlaw strikes for a
30-day period during which a fact
hading board with subpoena power
would study labor controversies and
recommend solutions; mobilization
of resources, for providing five mil
Bon homes as quickly as possible to
relieve an acute housing shortage,
and extension of price control and
emergency authority to head off in
. tatioo and permit equitable distri
bution of scarce materials to indus
try onti] supplies balance demand.
Declaring that "what the Ameri
can people want is action," Mr.
Truman suggested that if congress
did not favor his proposals, it
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solve immediate pressing problems.
LABOR:
Strife Spreads
With no major reconversion wage
pattern yet set, labor unrest contin
ued to mount, with the latest strike
threat shaping in demands of the
ClO-United Packinghouse Workers
far a 25-cent hourly pay increase
far M0.000 members.
The possibilities of a walkout drew
an immediate response from Sec
retary of Agriculture Anderson, who
declared that a work stoppage must
he averted, with reserves low, civil
ian and overseas needs high, and
norma] marketing of farmers
threatened. Though 80,000 members
of the A PL-Amalgamated Meat Cut
ters and Butcher Workmen's union
announced that they would not join
the CIO, a strike of the latter would
seriously crimp the production of
1M million pounds of meat daily.
In asking for a 25 cent hourly
wage raise, the CIO stated that it
would agree to a 17 Vi cent hourly
pay boost, with the remainder to be
negotiated when the general busi
ness picture became clearer. Stand
teg alone, the Hormel company was
tee first to accept the compromise,
tote the onion announced that the
tern's plants in Minnesota, South
Huhu?i and Texas would not be
struck hut would produce meat for
towprtals and other institutions.
Meanwhile, the government sought
to overt a walkout of 700,000 steel
and allied workers over the CIO
IhSwi Steel Workers' demands for
a_Jfi a day wage increase by presi
dential appointment Of a fact finding
hour* fa study the issue and instruc
tions to OPA to consider industry
requests for price increases on car
bon products to assure profitable op
In ""t OPA to weigh the Indus
toy's hid for higher ceilings and then
stomiil them to the fact finding
hoard pondering the wage issue,
Mr. Ikuman reversed the previous
admtetetratkm policy calling first for
the boosting ot pay and then for an
application for price increases if
necessary to cover the added ex
penses.
Administration back-tracking on
original policy followed indications
that the CIO was determined to
press its bid for the $2 a day raise
and the U. S. Steel corporation, as
pacesetter for the industry, was
equally determined to hold out
against settlement until granted re
lief on price schedules. With steel
products essential to the manufac
ture of many major items, any dis
ruption of output of the metal would
play havoc with the reconversion
program.
Government efforts to curb the
mounting strike wave also extended
to the telephone and electrical indus
tries over demands of both independ
ent and CIO unions for increased re
conversion pay to maintain high war
time take-home earnings.
ARAB LEAGUE:
Push Boycott
Seeking to apply pressure against
Jewish ambitions in Palestine, the
Arab league, standing 33 million
strong throughout the Middle East,
prepared to undertake an extensive
boycott of "Zionist" manufactured
goods.
Though Syria, Lebanon and Saudi
Arabia reportedly had already act
ed, and Egypt, Iraq and Trans-Jor
dan were completing arrangements,
Palestine itself held back, with the
close business relationships between
the Arabs and Jews in that troubled
Chairman of Jaffa municipal com rat t
?loa. Or. Haiha) (left) greet* Britain'* new
high commissioner for PaieaUne. Sir Allan
Cunningham (right).
state leading to a more cautions ap
proach to the movement.
Jewish exports to Syria, Lebanon,
Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq and
I Trans-Jordan have increased five
fold since 1938, rising to $12,500,000
in 1944 and representing 30 per cent
of Jewish sales abroad. At the same
time, the six Arab states' deliveries
to Palestine tripled since 1938,
reaching $34,000,000 in 1944.
NAVY:
New Outfits
Traditional garb of seafaring men
since the 14th century, the laced
sailor trousers with bell-bottoms
may be discarded by the U. S. navy
if new uniforms including regular
type pants are permanently adopt
ed. Also scheduled for elimination
is the big black neckerchief, copied
by the early American navy after
the British design created as mourn
ing dress for Lord Nelson.
Currently under test for the gobs'
wardrobe are three new uniforms:
two consisting of blue and white
pants with blue battlejacket for
dress or winter wear and one com
prising gray trousers and shirt for
duty. Sport shirts at jumper design
will replace the present tight wear.
Typically American, the new
working uniform also will include a
long-peaked gray baseball type cap,
notably worn by Vice Admiral
Mitscber through the Japanese cam
paign and extremely popular among
personnel fighting under the scorch
ing Pacific sun.
GERMANY:
Soviet Reform
Working closely with Soviet occu
pation authorities, provincial of
ficials in eastern Germany have in
stituted sweeping agricultural and
industrial reforms completely re
making the economy of the region
and gearing it to socialistic ma
chinery.
Once the possession of the Prus
sian Junkers, who provided the of
ficer! al timber for the German
army, no less than 7,000 estates to
taling 4,000.000 acres have been re
distributed to nearly 300,000 peas
ants, averaging over 12 acres per
recipient. Livestock, poultry and
implements also have been divided.
Typical terms of redistribution re
quire amortization in cash or kind
to the provincial government, with
former "land-poor" peasants given
additional acreage asked to pay off
in 10 years and ex-propertyless farm
hands granted 20 years. In some
instances, land was parcelled out
at a rate of 300 marks per 2% acres,
or $120 in prewar exchange.
If proven non-Nazi former own
ers are compensated for their es
tates, though at a fraction of the
last known market values.
After consultation with farmer
committees, the state sets up a crop
program, and operators are expect
ed to deliver up to 70 per cent of
their production to central storage
points at fixed prices. The remain
ing 30 per cent is left for home coo
sumption and sale on the free mar
ket, where the price may vary wide
ly.
Equally drastic have been the in
dustrial reforms in Silesia, with
workers named to assist company
directors in the management of
properties and provincial govern
ments controlling the production
and --distribution of goods and the
employment of labor.
A case in point involves a great
coal mine formerly controlled by the
I. G. Farben trust, where workers'
councils in each pit and factory on
the property appointed three repre
sentatives to confer daily with two
company officials appointed by the
state on production problems and
employees' welfare.
In controlling the economy, state
governments make a study of avail
able industrial capacity, raw ma
terials and consumer needs. Then
a production program is drawn up
by tn? government, with companies
told what to manufacture, where to
deliver it and at what price. Work
ers are shuttled to needy plants.
Wholesale and retail prices are also
fixed, with the only free market be
ing in whatever individual farmers
can sell out of the production left
to them.
Provincial officials said the
planned economy was likely to re
main in force for many years or at
least until supplies began to bal
ance demands.
Unusual Infant
Born fix weeks prematurely to the
British wife of an American GJ. in
Birmingham, England, a 5 lb^ 12 ox.
two-headed baby girl created wide
spread interest, being about the 25th
such child recorded in medical annals.
Though records show one such baby
lived to be about 30 years of age, this
infant lived only SO hours.
Believed to have begun as an em
bryonic separation into twins before
the process stopped, the infant had two
perfectly formed heads and neclts, and
normal shoulders and body. Said to
possets tsvo sets of respiratory organs,
the baby breathed at different rates,
while the two heads awoke and slept
at different times.
While the 21-year-old mother toes not
immediately informed of the two-head
ed baby, she believed she had borne
ttdru.
TV A:
Big Year
With about three-quarters of en
ergy output going into war purposes,
the half-billion dollar Tennessee Val
ley authority reported power income
of 39 million dollars for the fiscal
year 1945 and earnings of IS mil
lion dollars.
As a result of favorable returns in
recent years, TVA reportedly will
remit 12 million dollars to the fed- .
eral government, which paid the
cost of the project. The first such
remittance to the government, TVA
has plowed substantial earnings
back into the development.
Indicative of the scops at TVA
operations, which have not only
served to build up the industrial po
tential of the Tennessee valley but
also provided flood control and navi
gation facilities, 130 municipal and
co-operative systems distributed
power to 000,000 customers during
the fiscal year. Ordinarily, TVA
rates are below those of privately
owned utility companies.
Major TVA developments in fiscal
1945 included opening of Kentucky
and F on tana dams; production of
30,000 tons of elemental phosphorus
at Muscle Shoals, and increase to
35,000 of number at farms In IS
states testing TVA fertilizer.
Midnight in Manhattan:
Tlx Big Parade: Fannie Brlce'a
son, Billy, la an accomplished artist
When He finishes 15 canvases he will
hold a one-man exhibition. He's
done a dozen to date. . . . Mary
EUin Berlin, 19-year-old deb daugh
ter of the Irving Berlins, has lots
of beaux, but the most ardent ap
pears to be socialite Murray Mo
Donald, kin to H. Ford II.
Sallies in Our Alley: Jackie Glea
son and Vince Curran were swap
ping quippias at the 88 Club in the
Village. ... "I see," said Gleason,
"where Mayor-elect O'Dwyer is
making some alterations in the May
or's official home." . . . "Natch,"
said Vince, "he's replacing the
brass fire-pole with a stairway I"
. . At the 480 they-were panning
a well-known drunk, who was re
ported suffering from s brain con
cussion. . . . "Wonder how that hap
pened?" someone asked. ... "I
think," said Fred Allen, "he was
hit on the head by a falling napkin."
Midtown Vignette: It was at "21,"
the veddy swanky delicatessen on
West 52nd Street . . . Milton Berie
says it happened to him, and you
know how reliable he is. . . . Tenny
rate, after he dined the waiter
amazed Berie by whispering: "I )
lost your check and I can't remem
ber everything you had. Can you
recall?" . . . "Of course," obliged
Milton. "I had a shrimp cocktail,
vichy-ewah, roast beef, cherry tart,
demi-tasse and two glasses of wa
ter." . . . "Thanks," said the wait
er, "but you didn't have to mention
the water ? we don't charge for
it any more."
The Late Watch: Claudette Col
bert, who wears a 840,000 platina fox
coat in "Tomorrow Is Forever," got
the coat as a bonus when the film
was completed. . . . Bob Hope's doc
tors have warned him to take it
easy. . . . Seven contribs sent in
this one: "Fortissimo means loud
music; pianissimo means soft mu
sic; and Petrillo?no music I"
Times Square Ticker: Duke El
lington's 8 new melodies, which be
will introduce at his Carnegie con
cert on Jan. 4. ... A newsmag
states that baldness Indicates viril
ity. Doesn't that clash with the
legend of Samson? . . . Vincent
Sheean told chums that at the time
of the landing on Salerno, Doug
Fairbanks and John Steinbeck
missed kidnaping Mussolini on the
Isle of Ponza by IS minutes.
During the war American soldiers
stationed on an island in the South
Pacific attained the true Christmas
spirit: The Brotherhood of Man. . ..
The chaplain there has reported:
"Their religion had no sects. Catho
lic, Jew and Protestant alike went
to one another's services." . . . And
on the flap of the chaplain's tent
there was a sign reading: "When
you're in trouble, ask the Lord for
help. He's very generous with it
While you're not in trouble, culti
vate His acquaintance and talk
things over with Him. And when He
does something for you don't forget i
to thank Him. He appreciates that"
Sounds in the Night: At Theo
dore's: "Lissen, you, one more
quack like that and you're a dead
duck!" ... In Ruban Bleu: "He
counts his girl friends by the
doesn'ts. Veriwell, doctor, I'll go
quietly." ... At the Carnival:
"Someone oughta dot a couple of
his eyes" ... At Pelhara Heath
Inn: "Boy, is she ugb-lyt" ... At
Leone's: "He says his wife has a
terrible memory ? remembers ev
erything I" ... In the Stork: "Money
la the stuff I spend like I think I
have it" ... At the Zanzibar: "He's
one of those commandos that fought
the war from behind a desk. You
know, a Warflower." ... At the
Golden Fiddle: "America now has
two disgraceful attacks oa Pearl
Harbor. One by the Jape and the
other by the Republican'ts!" ... At
Howie's: "She's a peach. Very
smooth?with a heart of stone."
Postmaster-General R. Hannegan
is sizzling at the absenteeism among
Demmys. He will withdraw sup
port for re-election of those whose
records reveal "not showing up" on
important measures beneficial to
the Administration. . . . Jesse Jane*'
"power" is still potent in the Capi
tol behind the scenes. . . . Lord
Halifax's resignation is now ex
pected in May. . . . Major Chas. ?
Boxer, groom of novelist Emily
Hahn, left for Japan Dec. 28tb as
part of the Far Eastern Advisory ;
Comm. . . . Customs men confis
cated Goering*i Luger pistol from
Billy Rose when be returned after
viewing the Nuremburglars.
JiiZP"**
At lost
I shall give myself
To tka desarl again.
Thai I, in its goUan dust.
May ha blown from a barren peak.
Broadcast over tha sun-lands
It you should das us soma news of me,
Co ash tha little horned toad \
Whose homo is the dust.
Or took it atmaetg Ihe fragrant saga.
Or question the mountain juniper.
And, by their silence.
They will truly inform you.
?Majnard Dixon.
By EDWARD EMERINE
WNC Feature!
THE perfume of greasewood
after a desert shower, the
faint and fleeting loveliness of
saguaro blossoms, the yuccas
with their waxen white bloom,
the octillos tipped with brilliant
red, a cereus blooming at mid
night, magic mesas, mysterious
paths, balmy nights ? that is
Arizona, the land of romance,
sunshine, progress!
The tourist, the sportsman and
the vacationist have ail enjoyed the
state in brief moments, but to a
half-million people, Arizona is
home. They live in every section of
the state from the northern plateau
<4,000 to 7,000 feet above sea level)
to the southern part next to the bor
der of Mexioo (500 to 2,500 feet alti
tude). On the broad plains and the
mountain sides they graze, their
livestock, and through vie" valleys
they lead the irrigation waters. They
growl-long staple cotton, wheat,
com, barley, oata. potatoes and ins- i
mense quantities 'of _ guh-trppical
fruits. Their dates thrive, and their
citrus industry is stead fly growing.
From their mines they get coppaf,
gold, silver, lead, asbestos, zinc and
other metals.
Arizona ia "A Land Made for Liv
ing," the citizens say. Phoenix, the
capital city, ia an example. In 1568
a tiny settlement sprang up at a
stagecoach atop. Two years later
the townsite was formally laid out,
and in 1581 the new community was
incorporated. In 1893, Phoenix?the
territorial seat of government ?
boasted a population of 3,000. Today
Phoenix is the South west's largest
Inland city, and has a metropoli
tan population at 153,000. Its grace
that region home. And Oraibi. In
the Indian country, ia said to. be the
oldeet .contEfiiiously inhabited vil
lage in the Uhited States f
First, there were cliff .dwellers,
the home-owners of the distant
past Then the Indians, many.tribes
and many kinds. Ruins of ancient
cities tell of homes. In 1540 Coro
nado came searching for the Seven
Cities of Cibola. Then came the
Spaniards with their priests, their
herds, and their desire to build mis
sions and homes. And later other ,
white men, lured by gold and ad-1
venture, came too. Kit Carson came;
and bandits too. The covered wagon
and the stagecoach rattled over
dusty trails.
'God Enriches.'
"Ditat Deus" is the motto of Ari
tona. It means' "God enriches."
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Other landmark* include Inscription
house, Dinosaur tracks. Superstition
mountain, and man-made wonders
Such as Roosevalt and Boulder
dams, San Xavier and Tumacacori
missions, Indian reservations, old
stagecoach stations and bullet
scarred ghost towns.
Fishing, hunting, swimming, hik
ing, motoring ? from canyon
walled lakes to cactus studded
mountains, Arizona oilers the good
life, for a week, or a year, or lor
a lifetime. It has a little Switzerland
in its northern mountains. It has
semi-tropical living under palm
trees in the southern part That is
Arizona, the Arizona men caB
home I
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BOULDER DAM ... Lake Mead aa Ilia Colorado river makes ftshinc,
Mating and swimming easily aceesalble Is people af Arisaaa.
ful skyline, its homes and its indus
tries, ia a far cry from the pueblos
of the primitive peoples, who, in
centuries lone past, first inhabited
the warm and pleasant Valley of the
Sun. Phoenix, built on the site which
tiro prehistoric cities had once oc
cupied, is now the home for thou
sands of families ? families of
modest means and families with
millions.
Plenty at Imb.
Douglas, across the street from
Old Mexico, urges: "For a visit,
or for a lifetime ? come to Doug
last" And Florence, south of the
Gila on the Old Spanish trail, calls
for "those who dream of a modest
home where there ia room, and
health, and time to think." St
Johns, in Apache county, offers a
pioneer reunion and rodeo each
year for thoee who has* long called
Yet, God. enriches, but man had to
do his part. Dams were built,
ditches were due. and the desert
bloomed. Modern science in the
mines found more wealth than mere
gold nuggets. livestock grew fat.
Cities with permanent homes
sprang up. The warm, life-giving
sun shone down on 113,909 square
miles of Arizona. God enriches!
Arizona has 13 ' national monu
ments and 10 national tBcesta.
Scenic attractions include awesome
Grand Canyon, historic Apache
trail, fantastic Petrified forest, col
orful Painted desert. Natural bridge.
Wonderland of Rocks, exotic border
towns of Old Mexico, faartnating
Meteor crater. Colossal cave. Oak
Creek canyon, and scores of prehis
toric ruins and cliff dwellings such
as Cass Grande. Touts, Betatakin,
SIDNEY P. OS BORN
Governor of Artaaaa
Oiborn has always boon class to
his native stats, to UN ho was a
page boy la the territorial legiala
tare. ' Be was elected gsstrass to
1MR Be has had a Isag career as a
newspaper au aad aace spars tad a
cotton (ana at Kiglsy, Aria.
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