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VOL. LXXII GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 25, 1946 No. 25
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS <
Excess Profits Tax Is Urged;
Tourists' 'Victory Vacations' \
Are Crowding America's Parks 1
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(EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are espresso* In these eolimas, they are these of
Western Newspaper Unlea's news analysts and net necessarily of this newspaper.) '?
IOWA HARVEST . . . This picture was taken six miles southeast of (
Clarinda, Iowa, where a tractor-drawn binder is harvesting a field
of small grain. Iowa expects to harvest the best crop in its history
of big crops.
PROFITS TAX:
Urged by Eccles
Renewal of the excess profits tax
as a means of counteracting exces
sive price advances should the OPA
finally be scrapped is being urged
by Marriner S. Eccles, chairman of
the federal reserve board, and oth
ers. Pressure will be put on the
treasury and the White House to
bring it about to curb profits and
also as a deterrent to labor de
mands for higher wages.
Many believe that repeal of
the profits levy provided a ma
jor impetus to union efforts to
gain wage concessions worth
all the savings to the big cor
porations.
Opponents of the excess profits
tax believe that, regardless of the
treasury and the White House, con
gress will not accept a proposal to
tax excess profits as was done dur
ing the war. Chairman Robert
Doughton, chairman of the powerful
house ways and means committee,
is known to be against the profits
levy, and he, with others, can pro
vide a great obstacle to such a plan.
VACATIONS:
Farther the Better
Travel-hungry Americans are tak
ing their "Victory vacations" in rec
ord numbers, with "the farther
away, the better" as their motto, a
mid-season survey shows. "West
ward Ho" is another trend, with
Yellowstone park far in the lead as
the nation's favorite vacation spot.
A count of visitors at Yellow
stone from the beginning of the
travel year on October 1, 1945,
to June 30, this year, indicates
that 199,390 persons have en
tered the park in this current
period, compared with 143,716 in
the 1940-41 period before the
war. In June alone, 156,338
scenic beauty seekers passed
the park gates.
Colorado, the Black Hills and oth
er western tourist spots show record
numbers of visitors. Next to the
west are the northern states of
Michigan, Wisconsin and Minne
sota. Boat cruises are more popu
lar than for many years on the j
Great Lakes and the larger riv
ers.
A noticeable trend this year is the
enthusiasm for automobile touring,
which was denied most people during
the war years. Owners of sea
sonal resorts are planning to remain
open longer this year to take care
of staggered vacations.
? CHINA:
^Arid UNRRA Relief
Charges of misuse of UNRRA
supplies by the Chinese government
for political purposes brought
about suspension of relief shipments
to China except for emergency sup
plies. Chiang's government imme
diately protested the suspension as
unfair.
A Chinese government spokes
man conceded that there was
some "petty pilfering" and that
poor people sometimes sell the
more expensive foods received
from UNBRA and boy cheaper
food. He stated the quantity in
volved was small.
Members of the senate appropri
ations committee in Washington im
mediately called upon Fiorella H.
LaGuardia, director general of
UNRRA, to explain why he cut off
relief and rehabilitation supplies to
China. LaGuardia stated that ship
ments would be resumed as soon as
Chinese ports were cleared of Jams
of supplies.
BRITISH LOAN:
Passage Predicted
The proposed $3,790,000 British ]
loan will be approved, although by ?
a narrow margin, congressional ;
leaders of both the Democratic and
Republican parties have predicted
for weeks.
Most of the opposition to the
British loan has come from the
Middle West. Supporters of the
credit, therefore, greeted the
defeat of Senator Shipstead of
Minnesota, one of the loan's im
placable foes, with great sat
isfaction. They believe his de
feat will make passage of the
British loan by the senate mnch
easier when the measure
reaches that body.
Harold E. Stassen, whose candi
date defeated Shipstead, has an
nounced that he will take the stump
for candidates in other states to
build "a progressive Republican
party." This meant to most observ
ers that he will continue to advo
cate passage of the loan bill.
MINNESOTA:
Stassen and Thye
Gov. Edward J. Thye, hand-picked
candidate of Harold E. Stassen,
piled up an impressive margin over
Sen. Henrik Shipstead for the Re
publican senatorial nomination and
started all over the argument about
Stassen's political power and chance
to become the GOP candidate for
President of the U. S. in 1948.
Stassen, more than Thye, was
made the Issue of the campaign
by Senator Shipstead who open
ly boasted of his vote against
United Nations and the loan to
Britain. Stassen, considered a
liberal and an internationalist,
had approved the U. N. and the
loan.
Friends of Stassen predicted that
a Thye victory would put Stassen
back on the presidential trail and
regain the prestige he lost in some
quarters when Governor Griswold,
whom Stassen supported in the June
primary in Nebraska, was defeated
by Senator Butler for the GOP sena
torial nomination. Others maintain
that Thye's popularity was so great
in Minnesota that he won despite
Stassen.
WIND:
On Capitol Hill
"Demosthenes earned his stature
by speaking against the sla, but I
hate to speak against the wind."
Thus spoke Representative Eaton
of New Jersey to the house of rep
resentatives when he tried to speak
on the proposed loan to Britain in
a noisy house. He continued, say
ing that he had another complaint,
that of "arguing against empty
seats. I used to do it in church,
but I'm not going to do it here."
Representative Eaton was once a
minister.
VETS WORK:
10 of 12 on Job
Ten out of every 12 veterans
discharged by June 1 are at work
or in school, according to the U. S.
unemployment service.
"For the third straight month
the backlog of World War n
veterans not at work has been
redneed, notwithstanding eon
tin oed discharges of servicemen
from the armed forces," said
Robert C. Goodwin, USES direc
tor.
In sharp contrast was the Amer
ican Veterans' committee announce
ment of the formation of 560 em
ployment committees because "job
opportunities are becoming tougher
to find."
OPA BILL:
Emasculation 4
Whether or not the new OPA bill
>eing passed by congress will leave
iny price control to be administered
is a 64-dollar question. Here is an
exemption box score at its very
eeginning in the senate:
Exemption tor meat and poultry,
ey Senator Wherry, Neb., passed
19 to 26.
Exemption tor milk and dairy
products, by Senator Wherry,
passed 51 to 27.
Exemption for cottonseed, soy
beans and their products, by Sena
tor Eastland, Miss., passed 42 to 34.
Exemption for petroleum and its
products, by Senator Moore, Okla.,
adopted 40 to 30.
More amendments for exemptions
were tossed in the next day?and
the next!
WHITNEY:
'Truman Is Beaten'
A. F. Whitney, president ot the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen,
testifying before a house labor sub
committee, reiterated that his
union had $2,500,000 which could be
used to fight Mr. Truman in event
be is a candidate for re-election in
1948. Whitney now feels, however,
that the President's "mistakes" are
so great that no funds need be used.
"We will not need to spend
any money to defeat Truman In
1948."
Whitney originally made his
pledge to spend $2,500,000 to defeat
Mr. Truman in protest against what
be considered unfair treatment by
the President in settling the rail
road strike.
LABOR:
Will Fight
American labor will "rebel and
will never yield" to the attacks now
being made on it by reactionaries
in congress and state legislatures,
William Green, president of the
American Federation of Labor, de
clared in an address to the conven
tion of the International Brotherhood
of Firemen and Oilers in Chicago re
cently.
American workers are determined
to maintain their standards of liv
ing at any cost. Green said. He pre
dicted "rising unrest and strikes"
unless prices are brought under
control. Green said the AFL would
attack the validity of the Hobbs
bill in the courts, believing it to be
unconstitutional.
Labor in many cities has organ
ized to bring back price controls
on most commodities.
BOUND THE WORLD . . .Larry
Hightower, 46, is going around the
world poshing a wheelbarrow. He
plans to board a boat at San
Francisco (or the Orient, then trek
across tbe big continent to Por
tugal, board another ship to New
York, then posh the wheelbarrow
back to EUensborg, Wash., his
starting place.
FARM PRICES:
Up or Down?
What (arm prices will be within
a (ew months is a 64-dollar question.
The OPA is oil and they could go
sky-high. The government isn't anx
ious to continue parity payments,
and the price of (arm products could
go down, down, down. Right now
they seem to be undecided which
way they will go.
One day the headlines will state:
"Farm Prices Up." But the next
day the same newspaper will pro
claim: "Corn Off Five Cents." "Oats
Off Five Cents; Barley Sags; Cash
Grains Lower." "Sharp Egg Loss."
At the same time cotton may have
advanced five dollars a bale!
A potential sharp reduction la
tbe (eed ase of grata because
of tbe heavy liquidation at live
stock after OPA died reaolted
In much pressure on com and
oats particularly, two oI tbe
mala (eed crops.
Should (arm prices continue to go
down while other prices go up. it
is (eared in many circles that an
other squeeze, such as that during
the twenties, might force congress
to come to the aid of farmers by
pegging prices or continuing sup
port loans.
New York Symphony:
Silhouettes In the Night: Fannie
Hurst and her pup in the Park at
the crack of yawn. . . . Tony Eden,
the diplomat, checking his luggage
at LaGuardia Airport. . . . Frank
Thinatra devouring a meal (at
Howie's) that would 1111 two heavy
weights. . . . George Raft among
the other Sardines at Sardi's. . . .
Andy Russell and the Ritz (Raff)
Bros, dining at Olin's. . . . Ann
Sheridan (and her feller) at the Riv
iera ringside. . . . B. Baruch (the
United Statesman) quitting his Cen
tral Park bench to amuse the tots
at the playground. . . . Meeshaaa
Auer thrilled about being cast for
the radio version of "Tovarich."
Mrs. John Mason Brown (wife of
the critic) looking refreshing de
spite the whewmidity. . . . Mrs.
Wendell Willkie at the Blue Angel.
. . . The man who makes you pause
and say: "Oooh, there's Mr. Molo
tov!" He is Bill McKamy, execu
tive at the J. Walter Thompson
agency.
Memos of a Midnlghter: Her
ex-husband says Rita Hayworth
isn't at all proud about the Atomb
being named fSr her and her film,
"Gilda," one of the best press agent
tie-ups (we thawt) in history. He
says it wasn't any tie-up?that they
really adore Rita and so christened
it after her. He wished, however,
their child, Rebecca, could one day
say: "My mother's name was on
the very last atomic bomb!"
Midtown Vignette: It happened In
the Krots Bulc the other night. Our
reporter was none other than the
boss his self, Shoim BiUingsberg. . . .
He was touched by the episode. . . .
An army officer asked that bar
keeper Tony Butrico join him at
his table for a drink. "We served
together overseas," said the officer.
... He reminisced long with Tony
and then insisted on having a photo
taken of their meeting. . . . The of
ficer made a terrific hit with the
staff and patrons by this demon
stration of democracy and being a
nice guy. . . . His name (and mark
it down high on your list) is Gen
eral H. F. Kramer.
Sounds In the Dark: At the China
Doll: "She knows all the answers.
It's the questions that confuse her."
... At the Mermaid Room: "He's
lost weight, but he was once the
biggest jerk in town." ... At
Monte's on the Park: "She has the
lead in his next flop." ... At Leon
St Eddies: "She's saving her hus
band's money for a Reno day." . . .
At Chandler's: "Now that there's no
OPA people should be reminded
that a fool and his money are soon
worthless."
Lois Thrasher, a Chicago news
gal, belongs in any column about
newspaper heroes. . . . Not too long
ago the wile of a gov't official was
?lain in a Chicago hotel and Lois
took a job there as a chambermaid
to check the movements of a sus
pect. . . . After maneuvering to bo
assigned to the floor where the sus
pect lived, Lais Inspected his suite
with no luck. ... In addition she
had to scrub a dozen bathrooms on
hands and knees1
I
Jackie Keik witnessed a woman
trying to navigate in a traffic jam.
She rammed the car in front of
her, then tried to back up and
knocked down a pedestrian. Then
she tried to move over to the curb
and smacked into a hydrant. A
gendarme rushed up.
"O.K., lady," he demanded,
"let's see your license."
"Don't be silly," she grunted.
"Who'd give ME a license?"
When Frank Ward O'Malley (one
of the craft's greatest) was on the
New York newspapers they could
always be counted on to give you
your two cents worth. . . . Frank
once had a city editor (of the old
school) who made him rewrite his
copy at least once?no matter how
good it was. ... To even matters
with him, O'Malley (who was doing
an article on the origin of the Su
preme Court) dug up a piece the
city editor had written on the sub
ject years before. . . . O'Malley
copied it word for word and then
handed it in. . . . The editor glared,
read and barked: "I could do a
, better Job than this when I was in
the newspaper business six
months!"
"That's funny," jibed Frank.
"You wrote this junk when you were
in the business six years!"
Jady Canova knows the laziest
television performer in the country:
"A comedian who Just holds up his
Joke book before the camera."
By EDWARD EMERINE
WNU Features.
HERE we have Idaho?fabulous sunsets, lakes of gold and
dreamy, purple mountains; a million stars in the dark blue
sky and moonlight on the sagebrush; canyons and gorges, sand
dunes and crystal lakes; stunted desert brush and towering pines;
waterfalls higher than Niagara and gorges deeper than the Grand
Canyon; snow 20 feet deep among the pines and spruce; farms
and cities amidst nature's unspoiled loveliness; natural caves full
of ice in the hot desert. _
From the Canadian border on the north to the temper
ate Cache valley on the south, and from the frozen
Teton peaks on the east to the warm Pacific winds in
Boise valley, Idaho offers a variety of climate, topog
raphy and scenic wonder. It has miles of desert and
formidable table lands, but it also has more lakes than
man has ever counted. It has alpine peaks where the
ice and snow never melt, and homes heated by water
from natural hot springs.
No more interesting, romantic and pleasant area may
be found on earth titan Idaho. Yet from an automobile
or train window it may often appear to be a rolling
waste, lonely and cruel. Unfortunately the main high
ways and railroad tracks wander too far from rich
and beautiful spots in Idaho, and those who would know
the "Gem of the Mountains" must take the sideroada?
and great will be their reward.
Idaho is a young state, with young and energetic peo
ple. They are not hampered by the heavy hand of tradi
tion, nor restrained by the ghosts of their ancestors.
Whether Basque sheepherders, Mormon descendants,
farmers from Nebraska, or recruits from the West
coast states, the people of Idaho are living proof of
Western friendliness and hospitality. Western progres
siveness, and Western determination to harness nature's
; resources for the good of all.
The early history of Idaho is bound up with that of
the states of Oregon and Washington, but its tradition
and lore has borrowed much from the Mormons of
Utah, the cattlemen of Wyoming and the miners of
Montana. It drew from all its surrounding states and
became the great melting pot of the Northwest.
Following the Lewis and Clark expedition, Idaho
was the hunting and trapping paradise of early adven
turers. Later thousands of persons crossed Idaho by
way of the Oregon trail, following the Snake river
through the desert. The ruts of thousands of wagons
still remain, but the Oregon trail and one of Amer
ica's greatest migrations added little to Idaho's develop
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In 1859 gold was discovered In
the Pierce City region and by the
autumn of 1882 there were 30,000
persons near Lewiston. A greater
discovery followed in the Boise
basin, and within a year Idaho City
had a population estimated at near
40,000. At the census of 1870, only
15,000 remained of the swarm of
miners of the early '60s; but 200
million dollars in gold had been
taken out of Idaho ? the greatest
record in history for a similar pe
riod of time.
It was the Mormons who founded
Idaho's first permanent settlement
in 1860. They believed they were in
Utah when they called their village
Franklin and made irrigation a fact
in Idaho by building a canal three
and a half miles long. They also
established that year the first
school for white children within the
present boundaries of the state.
Agriculture made little headway,
however, for the feverish indus
: try of thousands exploring the earth
for mineral treasures continued. AL
? though the Idaho territory was
created in 1863, more lusty years
were to follow. Rich gold strikes
were made in the Salmon River
and Florence areas, in Boise basin,
in the Owyhee terrain, in the Coeur
| d'Alenes, and elsewhere. Boom
towns were erected overnight, and
| the days were rich in murders and
hangings, feuds and melodramatic
DESERT? . . . Sacebnuh cleared
a war aad the mafic of lrrifatioa
applied, the deiert prodaeea
Idabo'i famoas potatoes aad other
crops.
deaths. The turbulence of Idaho
City's former life, and the violence
of its ways, may bo inferred from
the statement of old-timers that
I only 28 of the 200 persons buried in
its cemetery in 1863 died from
natural causes!
But the development of Idaho was
to follow the decline of fold fever.
Cattlemen pushed their herds into
the territory from Wyominf, and
sheepmen soon followed. More
Mormon farmers moved northward
and irrlfation was expanded. The
Northern Pacific railroad laid its
rails across the Panhandle in 1880
'82, and the Union Pacific ? Oregon
Short Line ?crossed the southern
part of the state in 1882-'84. Its
mines and forest were opened com
mercially, and Idaho was no longer
a wild frontier.
When Idaho became a state in
1890 its valleys were soon home
steaded by sturdy stock from the
Middle West. For each mining
SALMON RIVER . . . Hlfhway
along the canyon. The Salmon la
known aa "The River of No Re
tain."
camp that became a ghost town, a
new community appeared, built sol
idly on the development ot Idaho's
great natural resources. Idaho set
tled down, at last, to build its king
dom.
The northern part of Idaho re
claimed logged-off land, to become
one of the most productive areas in
the West. "Idaho white pine ? and
plenty of it" is the slogan of ita
lumbeimcn, and yellow pine grows
broad and tall. Idaho's mines yield
countless minerals, with more be
ing discovered each year.
The Snake River valley and its
drainage area has prospered under
irrigation and reclamation, while
lands beyond the irrigation ditches
have been utilized for wheat and
other grains. New Irrigation proj
ects are being opened, and Idaho's
agriculture and livestock industries
are thriving.
Idaho potatoes, famous all over
the civilized world, are grown in
desert soil enriched by centuries of
sagebrush and other desert growth
and touched by the magic of irri
gation. Even cull potatoes are now
utilized and made into Industrial
alcohol, or fed to livestock. Sugar
beets thrive and alfalfa grows lux
uriantly. Cattle and sheep are fat
tened on rich pastures and in feed
lots, and dairy herds are found
everywhere.
Only recently has Idaho come into
prominence as a playground and
recreation spot for people who are
weary of make-believe life in cities.
It offers year-around skiing, hunt
ing, fishing, swimming, boating and
other sports. Pheasants, ducks and
geese are plentiful. There are ante
lope, deer, elk and other big game
in abundance to assure the sports
man of his kill. From dog races at
Ash ton when the snow is deep, to
summer boating on Payette lakes
or fishing in Pend d'OrieOe, no other
state exceeds Idaho in sports of the
great outdoors.
New York capitalists and Holly
wood movie stars have found in Sua
Valley in the Sawtooth Mountains
one of the world's finest recreation
spots. In winter, skiing is the out
standing sport, with tobogganing
and big game hunting following. Ia
summer, the mountain streams near
by offer varieties of trout, the gam
est fish of them all. Lakes and
woods in the Stanley Basin afford
boating, fishing, riding, hiking and
camping.
Idaho is a state of mountains, val
leys and deserts, with variety
enough for everyone. The mountaia
ranges include Cabinet, Coeur
d'Alene, Beaverhead and Bitter
Root in the north; Salmon River,
Sawtooth and Lost Rivers in the
center of the state, and the Bear,
Blackfoot and Snake River moun
tains in the southeast, with the Te
tons along the Wyoming line north
trard.
Shoshone Falls ? 48 feet higher
than Niagara?pours its flood over
> a horseshoe-shaped rim in Snake
River canyon. Twin Falls is another
majestic sight, and American and
Salmon Falls are also attractive to
visitors.
Idaho offers the unusual ? the
almost unbelievable ? in scenic
wonders. The deepest canyon on the
North American continent drops
almost 8,000 feet below the rimrock
of the Seven Devils ranges of
mountains. The Big and Little Lost
rivers tumble down from mountain
peaks to disappear into the porous
volcanic desert, breaking into sun
light again as Thousand Springs
in the Snake River gorge. Recent
volcanic action is offered at Craters
of the Moon, and Mount Borah,
highest point in the state, carries
coral limestone on its crc&t, lifted
from the sea which was once three
miles below.
The state of Idaho remains a part
of the Great Northwest, rich in re
sources, sure of its future. The fron
tier spirit till lives in countless ways
within its borders, ready to mount
to thunderous rest fat the develop
ment that seems sure to coma. t
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