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VtL LXXI GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 1946 Nol SI
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
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New Wage-Price Policy Pattern
For Settling Industrial Strife;
FBI Warns Of Crime Increase
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hdatriil Front?With labor adamant in its demands for ap
preciable wage increases to assure continued high "take-home"
pay, and with management equally determined to resist siz
able raises in the face of OPA ceilings, President Truman and
his aides sought to stave off an economic deadlock imperiling
reconversion by granting companies price relief.
Representing a complete reversal
of announced administration policy
of granting price increases only
after operations had proven that
management could not absorb wage
boosts given first, Mr. Truman's
new approach to the problem was
expected to result in a general pat
tern of settlements embodying pay
raises of from 15 to 18 per cent.
The administration's new policy
was first applied to the dispute in
the steel industry over the CIO
United Steel Workers demands for
a $2 a day wage increase and was
quickly utilized in efforts to break
the deadlock in the packing field
over the CIO and AFL bid for a 25
cents an hour pay boost.
As a result of the administration
decision to grant price increases to
the steel industry, the companies
agreed to resume negotiations with
the USW, though they were not per
mitted the full advances asked.
Pending industry offers of what the
USW called adequate counter-pro
posals to its wage demands, the
union considered holding off its
scheduled strike of 700,000 workers,
< affecting the aluminum and mag
nesium as well as steel trade.
In holding out offers of price in
creases to the big packers, the gov
ernment stated that they could help
the companies in figuring out what
wage raises they could actually ad
vance following their initial pro
posals of about 714 cents per hour.
In asking for a 25 cents per hour
raise, the CIO and AFL declared
they would be willing to accept 1714
cents to start with before the situ
ation clarified itself.
The packing dispute was of par
ticular interest to the nation's
farmers since companies' fixed
cpsts would go far to determine
bids for live cattle to permit profit
able operations against wholesale
price ceilings. Of general interest
was the whole new administration
policy in its possible effect upon
efforts to hold down living costs and
avert an inflationary spiral which
would cheapen wages and income
and lead to still further demands
for relief.
DEMOBILIZATION:
GJa Kick ,
Incensed over war department
plans for a slow-down in demobili
zation, G.Ik the world over raised a
storm of protest, with the army
quickly reacting to the complaints
by ordering the immediate return
of surplus overseas troops and an
nouncing a re-examination of policy.
At the same time. General Mac
Arthur declared that soldiers would
not be puished for orderly demon
strations in the Pacific theater, stat
ing that the unrest was primarily
tausaJby "acute homesickness ag
gravated by the termination at hos
tilities."
In ordering the immediate return
of surplus overseas personnel, Chief
of Staff Eisenhower said that ex
tensive shipping facilities should be
used In sending the men home, with
troops with the highest point scores
and longest record of service given
priority.
A re-examination of the whole de
mobilization program would touch
the recent formula for spreading
scheduled shipments home for the
first three months of 1946 over a
half-year because of war depart
ment claims of a shortage of re
plai i miats Despite the slowdown,
army strength was expected to be
pared by 400,000 under previous esti
mates by July 1, with more than
half of the 1,550,000 troops remain
ing in service in overseas duty. "
Having started in the Pacific
shortly after announcement of the
slow-down program, G.I. demonstra
tions quickly spread to Europe,
where troops protested in support
of their buddies in the east In all
cases, the men were orderly and
.no violence occurred.
sortfarnm of all. the Pacific
ih?snstlsli i i attributed the alow
down to administration efforts to
force f1- a compulsory mili
tary bill to secure replacements;
"brass-hats" seeking to retain war
time rank by maintenance of a
large army, and the state depart
ment's "imperialistic" policies in
the tar east G.I.s were told to ap
ply |ii saw i to Mends bock boms
to patiMaa 'iijw a revision
CRIME WAVE:
Gathers Momentum
Pointed up by the brutal murder
of six-year-old Suzanne Degnan in
Chicago, I1L, a dangerous postwar
crime wave is gathering momen
tum, FBI officials warn, with lenient
treatment of old offenders and a
growing irresponsibility of youth
among the principal causes.
Horrified and enraged by the
fiendish slaying and dissection
of the Degnan girl, an aroused Chica
go citizenry acted to spur the seasch
for the maniacal killer, with $36,000
in rewards posted for information
leading to his arrest. Of this
amount, $5,000 was offered by the
municipal government upon sug
gestion .of Mayor Edward J. Kelly.
With 11 of our most important
cities reporting substantial in
creases in crime during the first 10
months of 1945, FBI Chieftain J.
J. Edgar Hoover
Edgar Hoover rapped the abuses
and maladministration of our pris
on systems, declaring that a large
percentage of fugitives being sought
throughout the country have en
joyed ill-advised clemency. The
manner in which murderers, sex
degenerates, outlaws and bandits
are released constitutes a national
disgrace, he said.
Added to the loose handling of
previous offenders is the mounting
waywardness of youth. Hoover said,
disclosing that of all crimes re
ported in 1945, 21 per cent were
committed by persons under 21
years of age. Young people in this
age group made up 14 per cent of
all murderers; 36 per cent of all
robbers; 51 per cent of all burglars;
34 per cent of all thieves; 25 per
cent of all arsonists; 63 per cent
of all auto thieves and 32 per cent
of all rapists.
As one Remedial measure against
the growing'wave of youthful law
lessness, Hoover recommended in
creased church or social activity
designed to direct youngsters' en
ergies and imaginations into con
structive activities.
UNO:
Undencay
Meeting in Central hall in West
minster, against a background of
great blue curtains set off by a huge
gilded globe surrounded by olive
branches, the United Nations organ
ization officially got underway with
the election of Foregin Minister
Paul Henri Spaak of Belgium as its
president.
In greeting UNO, British Prime
Minister Attlee expressed general
sentiment by declaring that organ
ization represented universal hope
for peace and the prevention of a
third world war which might well
destroy civilization. Unlike the ill
fated league of nations, he said,
UNO's effectiveness will be consid
erably enhanced from the beginning
by the participation of both the
U. S. and Russia.
Calling for close international col
laboration of nations. Attlee de
clared that the various governments
should work through UNO instead
.of considering it as a detached in
strument of foreign policy to be
used only as an additional means
for obtaining an end.
A champion of a western bloc of
European nations for economic and
political purposes, Spaak was elect
ed to UNO's presidency by a 2S to
21 vote over the Soviet-sponsored
candidate. Foreign Minister Trygve
Lie of Norway.
WAR CRIMES:
New Case
Even as the U. S. Sup rams court
considered Gen. Tomoyuki Yama
shita's petition against his ooorie
tion by an American military ccm
in the Philippines, tbe war
crimes trial of his predecessor. U.
Gen. Masaharu Homma, got under
way in Manila an similar charges
of countenancing atrocities of his
forces.
In appealing to the highest Amer
ican judicial tribunal, Yamashita's
three U. S. army attorneys had de
clared that tbe cessation of Bring
had ended the need for special mili
tary measures and entitled the
doomed Jap chieftain to a hearing
before an ordinary court. In coo
testing the petition, the government
declared that a ruling against war
crimes procedure would upset ef
forts for punishment of suspects.
Forty-nine-year-old V/Sgt. James
Baldassarre of New Haven, Conn.,
a vet with 28 years of service, was
one of the principal witnesses as
the Homma trial began. One of the
survivors of the "death march of
Bataan," he told of bow Jap guards
shot or bayoneted sick or thirsty
American soldiers who wandered
from their ranks. "The Japs did
nothing for us,'* Baldassarre said.
"No food, no water, no medicine.
Nothing but bullets and bayonets."
Ask German Relief
While Senators Wherry (Rep
Neb.) and Langer (Rep., N. D.)
rapped the administration for re
fusing to permit the private ship
ment at food to Germany to help
avert starvation. Dr. Lawrence
Meyer of the Missouri synod of the
Lutheran church revealed efforts to
organize a Christian congress to
push for alteration of government
policy.
Wherry's and Langeris criticism
of the administration came in the
midst of President Truman's an
nouncement that he had told a sena
torial committee that it was im
I possible under present conditions to
permit shipments. In reporting on
I the conference with Mr. Truman, a
member of the delegation said that
I Russia objected to reopening of mail
I to Germany, and service could not
I be re-established without the unani
I mous consent of the Big Four.
In revealing his intentions to work
I for a Christian congress embracing
both the Catholic and Protestant
I churches. Dr. Meyer declared that
the force of 60 million members of
all faiths in America must be mobil
ized to impress the administration
I that the country is not committed
to a policy of vengeance. Report
ing on his visit to Germany, Dr.
Meyer said that of 100 children he
saw in one Frankfort hospital, 75
were marked for death because of
I insufficient food.
FOOTBALL:
Fewer Deaths
Reflecting improved techniques,
football fatalities continued to drop
during the last season, with only
9 reported as against 49 when Dr.
Floyd R. Eastwood at Purdue uni
versity first undertook a compila
tion of grid accidents.
While no fatalities directly at
tributable to collegiate football were
I recorded through 1945, those occur
ring were evenly divided between
high school and saadlot play. East
I wood said. Despite the toll among
I secondary teams, the actual inci
1 dence of high school deaths was
only about .48 per cent per 100,000
I of contestants.
In undertaking his study for the
rules committee at the National Col
legiate Athletic association and the
committee on injuries and fatalities
of the American Fqotball Coaches
association, Eastwood called for
I consideration of methods for mini
mizing occurrence of cerebral hem
orrhages. Such mishaps have ac
counted for 44.7 per cent of all foot
ball fatalities reported u.vce 1991.
TOBACCO:
Kentucky Acts
As the market for barley tobacco
took a big drop and farmers re
portedly were losing $1,000,000 a
day in comparison with the previ
ous month. Gov. Simeon Willis of
Kentucky acted to close an ware
| bouses under unanimous recom
mendation at the state legislature.
Main cash crop of Kentucky farm
ers, bur ley tobacco, used in cigar
ette. chewing and pipe mixtures, is
auctioned off in various warehouses
throughout the state, erith buyers
from the big manufacturing com
panies bidding against each other.
The season usually runs from De
camber through January.
With the requirement that an
sales be transacted under OPA ceil
ing regulations, prices have been
set on aU IB different grades of the
tobacco, ranging up to W cents a
pound or more. Followfag sharp
price recessions after early favor
able bidding, average paid Ior the
crop slumped to M cents.
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Me* About Torn*;
The Big Parade: General Hap
Arnold in the Stock "Cub" section
?lots, skinnier than his fsmiliar 1
' fotos. "Thanks for getting that wfcr
over with!" said a handshaker. ...
Maj. W. Rockefeller, who also went
to war The Hard Way. is back 30
lbs. heftier. He is one of The Lifted
Pinky Set's best advertisements.
. . . Peggy Joyce (her bridegroom
is detained on the Coast) escorted
by millionaires who failed to win her
be-jewelled hand. . . . Estelle Tay
lor inspecting a Jap war bond,
which a G.I. purchased in Tokyo for
one stale U. S. ciggie. . . . Brig. Gen.
Carlos P. Romulo (The Last Man
Off Bataan) and his wife and 4
boys entering the Waldorf. Mrs.
Romulo was a Jap captive until res
cued by one of her sons. . . . D.
Runyon, the Broadway Bard, and
his 2nd favorite writer greeting 1946
?and solemnly studying the cele
brants as they are carried or thrown
out.
Shew Basiaess Vignette: Eddie
Cantor was in Boston supervising
"Nellie Bly," a new show. Having
a few hours to spare he phooed
nearby Chelsea Naval Hospital and
volunteered to give the boys an
impromptu song-and-dance. . . . The
hospital was tickled ? so many of
the invalids were well enough to
visit their kin or friends ? that the
ones who stayed behind were lonely
and depressed. . . . Cantor brought
along Thelma Carpenter, Leonard
Sues and Bea Walker. . . . After
entertaining the vets they went to
the mental ward. . . . There one
weary soldier called to Eddie.
"You're swell. Al!" . . . The star
realized the ill veteran thought Can
tor was Jolson. Eddie did not cor
rect him even when the lad re
quested: " 'April Showers,' Al" . . .
Cantor rendered "April Showers,"
Jolson's theme song, and the Jolson
fan was the last to stop applauding.
Portrait of a Friend: When things
don't come out right?he comes
right in. . . . When none of your
dreams come true?he is. ... He
never looks for your money?except
when you've lost it ... He never
gets in your way?except to clear it
for you. . . . Nothing is more im
portant to him than making you im
portant. ... He is in your comer
when you're cornered. ... He turns
up when you get turn-downs. ... All
he wants in return for his helping
hand is your handshake. ... He
never insists on seeing you?except
when nobody else wants to. . . . He
raps your critics when they're'
wrong and takes the rap for you .
when they're right . . . The only
way he sponges off you is to absorb
some of your troubles so you can
have strength left to fight the heels.
. . . When you're taking bows he
bows out . . . You can do anything
you want with his friendship-yex
cept buy it ... Or sell R. ... He
makes you realize that having a
real friend is like having an extra
life. ... All he asks of your friend
ship is the privilege of deserving it
When Capt Ha raid Masses wit
nessed the big hit "State of the
Union," he told the authors that
when politicians used to tell him
how many votes they could deliver,
he would invariably say: "How can
you deliver the votes at a free peo
ple?" . .. The collabbers have found
room for it in the show with a
punchy snapper. . . . This is how
it goes in the 3rd Act . . . Spike
(the newspaperman-campaign man
ager) tells Mary (the wife at the
Republican hope): "The politicians
coming to dinner tonight all can
deliver the votes." . . . Mary says:
"How can you deliver the votes of
a free people?" . . . Spike: "Don't
kid yourself. Mary. Lazy people, ig
norant people and prejudiced peo
ple are not free."
Soldier from Miami: This is the
third time these railroads have dona
this to me. . . . They seO you a
ticket to New York, and without
warning make you get out at Phila
delphia. . . . They shove yon into
a hurriedly made up coach traia
and if there is a seat available
you get it. . . . One of these days
someone will work up a lot of law
suits regarding this nuisance?thee
maybe it'll stop. . . . What am 1
griping about. ... I wasn't in art)
wreck ? which the Miami-N. Y
trains seem to be going in for a lot
lately. . . . Aw. the hell with it.
Csar Petrille's medics have or
dered him to slow down or risk tlx
penalty of his serious internal dis
order. . . . Norman Corwin. the re
dio author, is ilL . . . The persist
ant "Yankee" weather in Miam
Beach packed the cboo-choos north
bound.
With Hs War Problems Licked, 4-H Turns
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By W. J. DRYDEN
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THE development at 4-H clubs in
America to a membership at
1,700,000 boys and girls between the
ages at 10 and 21 cannot be credited
to the achievements at any oca in
dividual or institution. It represents
the accumulated experiences of a
number of rural communities spread
over America that followed a succes
sion of pioneer leaders.
Fran a membership of 125,000 hi
1014, it has grows bate one ef the
largest and most effective education
al groups to the world.
Four-H club members work on
such varied activities as owning and
managing farm animals according
to the latest scientific method, plan
ning for efficient use of rural elec
I trie facilities, mapping their own
and their neighbors' farms as to soil
types and soil erosion, planning and
preparing nutritious meals, cultivat
ing a garden to supply those meals
and surplus vegetables for the mar- ,
ket, introducing new seed varieties, ,
landscaping the family home or the i
schoolhouse or church, developing
parks, baseball diamonds, or organ
izing recreational activities for the
community, organizing discussion
groups on the problems of interna
tional peace or current economic
problems. In fact, they can be
found-working on almost any activ
ity important to the home or the
. community.
Contests of An Sorts.
Many civic and commercial or
ganizations sponsor contests and en
terprises such are a part of every
4-H club congress. Shown on this
. page are some of these enterprise
winners at the recent congress held
: in Chicago.
For the past fenr years, 4-H clubs
have concentrated most of their en
ergies en grewtog "feed to feed a
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a changing world; choosing a way
to earn a living; producing food and
fiber for home and market; creating
better homes for better living; con
serving nature's resources for se
curity and happiness; building
health for a strong America; shar
ing responsibilities for community
improvement and serving as citizens
in maintaining world peace. In
short, the same objectives will be
pursued as in the past.
Abnast Universal.
Four-H clubs are now organized
in every state in the Union; in the
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Future program of the organiza
tion will amphasiza the dare loping
of talentj for greater uaefulness;
Joining with frianda for work, fun
and fellowship; learning to Bra in
territories of Hawaii, Puerto Rico
and Alaska. Some 10 foreign coun
trieo have adopted its principles.
Approximately one million dollars
in prize money is presided annually
by ^ivate citizens and cocporatksta
to encourage the movement
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