The Alamance Gleaner
VOL. LXXII GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 1946 No. 2$
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Small Nations GetVoice in Peace;
Parts Strikes Hit Auto Output;
Vote Furlough Pay in Bonds
Released by Western Newspaper Union.
(DROK'8 NOTE: When epiaieas are expressed In Usee eelsmns. they are these el
Western Newspaper Uaiea's news analysts and net necessarily ef this newspaper.)
Grim-faced, Russian Foreign Minister Molotov (at left) and aides
ascend main staircase of Luxembourg palace for sessions of Paris
rv-vt. .
PEACE PARLEY:
Open Discussion
Smaller nations won the right to
discuss any question pertaining to
the peace treaty drafts for Ger
many's former European satellites
at the Paris peace conference in a
surprise concession by Russia.
Hie Russian action followed
Greece's demand that the confer
ence be allowed to consider any
item which relates to a just and
durable peace. After hearing Yugo
slavia and the Ukraine of the So
viet bloc attack the proposal, Rus
aian Foreign Minister Molotov ad
vanced his compromise. By offer
ing the opportunity for thoroughly
-discussing the treaty drafts, his
plan would permit the molding of
a sound peace, he said.
While moving for free discussion
a( the treaty drafts, Russia con
tinned to insist upon a two-thirds
vote for the adoption of any recom
mendations for changing or alter
ing the terms drawn up by the Big
Four Backed by the U. S. on the
two-thirds rule, Molotov pointed
out that such a majority vote was in
effect both at Versailles after World
War I and at the United Nations
conference in San Francisco.
KKK:
Under Investigation
Ku Klux Klan activities in seven
states were reported under investi
gation By the Jus
tice department as
the government
sought to prevent
widespread out
breaks occasioned
by Negro voting in
southern primaries,
dislocations of pop
ulations resulting
from the war and
rnnoactaH livinir
Tm C. Clark conditions.
Heralded by At
torney General Tom Clark's state
ment in Philadelphia, Pa., that
"we must rid ourselves of such
things as organized bigotry," the
government investigation reached
mi to New York, Michigan, Tennes
see, Florida, California, Mississippi
and Georgia for federal violations.
While the inquiry was concentrat
ed in the seven states, the depart
ment revealed that it had received
complaints from all other parts
?f the country against Klan activi
ties. Complainants included indi
viduals, labor unions and civil
rights societies, it was said.
PALESTINE:
Plan Partition
Unless substantial American fi
nancial aid, estimated at 300 mil
faa dollars, is forthcoming, British
sfrials declared that they may
km to reconsider an Anglo-Amer
ican plan for partitioning Palestine
Mo four spheres to solve the com
plex Jewish resettlement problem.
Of the 300 million dollars, it was
reported, some 250 million would be
advanced to the Arabs for self-liqui
dating projects, if they could not
secure a loan fftwn the international
hank set up at Bretton Woods. At
Ike same time, another 50 million
dollars would be granted outright to
the Arabs for economic develop
ment.
While the cost of Jewish resettle
ment eras estimated at 280 million
dollars, it was said that Jewish
agencies and individuals would put
^ MD million dollars, with the re
maining 20 million drawn from Ger
many Id reparations for Nazi con
Under the partition proposal, the
Jews would receive the northeast
section of Palestine and the Arabs
chiefly the central part. Both would
have the right to determine the
number of immigrants to be ad
mitted in their sectors. In addi
tion, the Negeb desert area in the
southwest would be open to Jews
under British administration.
AUTO PRODUCTION:
Face Drop
Up to a postwar production rec
ord of 312,576 units in July, output
of cars and trucks threatened to
take another slide this month as
strikes at supplier plants cut down
the flow of essential materials to
booming assembly lines.
Because a walkout of M. tool
and die workers at the Dorm di
vision of the Detroit Harves
ter company in Toledo, Ohio, af
fected shipments of door han
dles and interior hardware,
Stndebaker was compelled to
lay off 4,*M employees and
Hudson 12,(M.
Meanwhile, Ford announced that
unless labor differences were re
solved in plants of seven critical
suppliers, it would be forced to re
duce operations. Strikes were tying
up production of ball bearings, in
terior hardware, truck wheel rims,
bolts and clutch disc assemblies
and covers.
In calling for a settlement of
the disputes in supplier plants
to assure continued high auto
and truck output, Henry Ford
H took a crack at Walter Hea
ther, ClO-United Automobile
chieftain, who had asked for an
Industry - wide union-manage
ment conference to increase
production. The answer for
higher output lies In uninter
rupted activity, he said.
General Motors, Chryder, Hud
son, Packard and Nasn echoed
Ford's stand in rejecting Reuther*s
bid (or an industry-wide conference.
Of all the producers, only Stude
baker, Willys-Overland and Kaiser
Frazer accepted the UAW invitation.
The threatened drop in produc
tion came as manufacturers boost
ed their August goals to 453,148
units. With July output showing a
big jump over previous months, the
half-year total for 1946 aggregated
1,292,214 cars and trucks, of which
862,628 were passenger autos.
FURLOUGH PAY:
In Bonds
G.I.s entitled to pay for unused
furloughs will receive their money
in bonds if the amount exceeds $50
under a bill approved by congress.
Disbursements in securities was de
cided upon after the administration
warned that payment in cash would
have an inflationary effect.
To be issued in amounts of $25,
the bonds will not be redeemed be
fore five years, though they can be
applied against U. S. government
life insurance or national service
life insurance before that time. In
cases where excess sums do not
total $25, payment will be made in
cash.
Under terms of the bill, G.I.s
are to be credited with leave time
at the rate of 2ti days per month
between September 8, 1939, and
August 31, 1946, with payment for
the unused portions. In addition, a
buck private would be entitled to a
subsistence allowance of 70 cents a
day and a staff sergeant to his own
subsistence allowance plus $1.25 for
dependents.
WAR PROFITS:
Garasona Kick
Denying the war department's
charge that it made excessive prof
its on war contracts, Erie Basin
Metal Products, Inc., asked the U.
S. tax court to bar the government's
efforts to obtain a refund of $358,
874.58 for the fiscal year ending No
vember 30, 1943.
The company was an important
unit in the Garsson munitions em- ,
pire under scrutiny of the senate <
investigating committee headed by
Senator Mead (Dem., N. Y.). Rep
resentative May (Dem., Ky.) was
charged with having exerted his in
fluence with the war department for
awarding the combine war con
tracts and high army officers in
Washington, D. C., were shown to
have frolicked at the Garssons' ex
pense and pushed their interests.
Erie Basin asked the tax court to
overrule government refusals to
consider certain rentals, salaries,
maintenance expenses and depreci
ation charges as legitimate ex
penses. Further, it asserted that
the U. S. failed to consider such
factors as efficiency, reasonable
ness of costs and its contribution to
the war effort in charging it with
excess profits.
RED CROSS:
Continue Work
German war prisoners stood to
benefit as the International Red
Cross committee, meeting in Ge
neva, Switzerland, authorized the
collection of $3,750,000 from affili
ated societies and governments for
relief work up to 1950.
Humanitarian in its motives and
recognizing no distinction in race,
color or creed, the IRCC record
of achievement during the war was
especially noteworthy. The IRCC
revealed that its activities included
maintenance of a 27 million card
index for 15 million prisoners of
war; 900,000 inquiries to regiments
regarding missing soldiers; visits by
420 IRCC delegates to POW camps
in 58 countries to check on condi
tions, and safe delivery of 107 mil
lion letters or postal packages.
Of the $11,250,000 the IRCC re
ceived during six years, the Swiss
government and its private citizens
contributed nearly $5,000,000.
France was next in line with $980,
000, followed by Great Britain with
$720,000, the U. S. with $650,000 and
Germany with $500,000.
HUNGARY:
Riding High
Uncontrollable inflation hit Hun
gary much as it hit Germany after
World War I, leaving a stricken
populace with bushel-baskets full of
money virtually worthless in buy
ing power.
As postwar production and distri
bution collapsed in the face of
heavy demand, the government
printed more and more currency to
Street ear fare* west op 2,IN
time* in Inflation-ridden Hmpry.
meet the need for additional money
for the soaring price level.
Whereas a clerk or typist earned
about 425 pengoes (585) monthly
before inflation, he got 32,000,000 by
Mafch. Street car fares went up
210,000 times and flour 2,200.000
times.
Five pengoes were worth a dollar
before inflation, but by May, one
billion were valued at only 10 cents.
As a last resort, the Hungarian gov
ernment decided to retire the pengo
by this month and replace it with
a new currency unit, the florint.
OPA:
Farmers to Pay More
Farm machinery prices were
scheduled to rise as the revised
OPA took steps to comply with the
compromise bill designed to as
sure dealers of adequate profit
margins.
Heeding the congressional provi
sion for restoring dealers' peace
time profit margins, OPA granted
a 6 per cent boost in retail ceilings
for farm machinery. Previously
OPA had compelled dealers to ab
sorb part of higher manufacturers'
prices on the grounds that large
volume and less selling effort would
afford sufficient return.
Higher fertilizer prices also ap- j
peared in the offing as OPA granted
producers of ammonium sulphate a 1
10 per cent rise in ceilings and per
mitted importers of Chilean nitrate
at soda and nitrate of soda-potash
an increase of 19.50 a ton in their
ton.
While Welter Wlnehell is on va
eatioo, Jack Lait, writer of the
"Broadway and Elsewhere" col
umn, will appear in this space
as pieit columnist. WineheU'i
column will be resumed on his
return In September.
Folliei of 1946?
The dogdays are here. ... It
shouldn't happen to a dachshund.
. . . Winchell is on vacation, mean
ing he can get up at 7 p. m., in
stead of 8. . . . But the show must
go on. ... So Lait will jiggle the
dots and juggle the dashes. . . . It's
fun. . . . Let's get started!
Unreported incidents in Holly
wood, eye-witnessed by my bureau
of information, which never sleeps,
never drinks, seldom eats: Betty
Grable said she would not accom
pany Harry James east on his six
week tour. Almost as soon as he got
off the train, she got on a plane
?for New York. . . . Before John
Perona flew to Paris, Mary Pick
ford gave him a solid gold St. An
thony's medal. . . . Bill Cagney
begged Howard Hughes to take him
up on that test flight and was turned
down. ... A movie company is
paying $2,000 to advertise its pic
ture-to-be, "The Egg and I," on an
ostrich egg which is being hatched
at a farm which raises the big birds
in Pasadena. Thousands visit there
daily. The deal is that as each
party goes through, the mother os
trich is to be shooed off her future
offspring, so that gawkers can read
| the copy. Thre are seven words
painted on the egg, which figures
out at a rate of $27S.7S per word.
The following acknowledg
ment la being received by those
who order from a large Man
hattan anto agency: "We are
enclosing herewith accepted
copy of your order, subject to
further delays doe to conditions
beyond onr control. Delivery
should be expected from II to
25 months."
Department of Internal revenue
has had an agent in Hollywood
checking into the extraordinary
number of refunds claimed and
gotten by high-salaried movie peo
ple. By virtue of an ancient law,
the government pays 6 per cent in
terest on sums paid and held, until
refunded. There is virtually no such
thing these days as a I per cent
investment, but anyone who wants
to miscount or forget to enter a just
and provable claim for allowance
can draw 6 per cent on such a sum,
plus retrieving it in full During
1945, the United States paid out
217,000,000 of such interest. In 1944.
the amount was 223,000,000. This
year, the interest will be only about
24,000,000, as the government is
"hep" and rushing the kickbacks.
Most of this, of course, is legiti
mate. But some big moneymakers
have deliberately used it as a
racket.
Howard Hnghes, tho incredibly
rugged individualist, despite his ex
cruciating physical agony and his
multifarious mental misgivings, has
refused to take one sedative. . . .
Even the mildest sleeping-aids and
pain-relievers, given patients who
stub a toe, he has stubbornly turned
down. ... In fact, he refused to eat
or drink, fearing some palliative
may have been slipped in. ... He
has lived entirety on orange Juice
since his injuries, and demands that
it be squeezed in his presence, from
the fruit, uncut until he sees it
halved. . . . Physicians say they
never heard of such a case. . . . But
who ever heard of a Howard
Hughes before?
Father Andrew Cervini,
Jesuit missionary, who test his
left feet while a prisoner in a
Jap camp, haa Jut finished a
book of his experiences. . . .
The publishers weighed several
titles. . . . Then Jim Harkins
came Dp with, "How a boot
One Feet In Heaven?' "
Jane Chore hill, the girl-in-the
middle of the Tommy Dorsey-Jon
Hall imbroglio, dyed her hair red
and is in New York, trying to get
a show Job. . . . John Cart, the
musical director, tells of a young
male bit-player in Hollywoood, as
signed to escort a famous film
beaut to a premiere. Next day ha
grumbled because it was such a
terrible picture, he could hardly
concentrate on it. . . . "This Is
Your FBI," official air program,
reveals: "America's annual crime
bill U 17 billion dollars; iU total
education bill?from kindergartens
through colleges?is leas than four
I billion dollars."
' WORLD WAR I BRIDES
World War II Brides
MARKED CONTRAST . . . Foreign girls were wooed and won by American soldiers in both world ware bat,
as the above pictures attest, there was a marked difference in the brides of two fenerations. Photo (1)
?hows a group of American soldiers in World War I's army of occupation entraining at CoUens, many
bringing back wires and children. Girls like those shown in photo (!) won the hearts of American serv
icemen in World War I, the picture showing typical war brides ready to embark for the IJ. S. In riawtusl
to their sister war brides of a quarter century ago, World War II brides show every evidence at mod
ernity. Photo (3) shows Joyous wives of ex-G.I.s obligingly posing on the railing of a transport fas typ
ical Hollywood style, although mhms the Snlshing touches. Longer duration of World War ? resulted i
in larger families for G.I.S and their foreign brides. Larger than ordinary is the family rf Arthur Smith
of Greenville, N. C. Mrs. 8mith is shown in photo (4) arriving from England with her four children, two
of which were by a former marriage. An Italina girl "fell hard" for Joseph Clone lotto of Rochester, N. Y.,
and they were married in Italy. Mrs. Cianeiotts "fen hard" for him again when her war bride ship docked
in New York, as photo (5) attests. Even modern modes of transportation were utilised in reuniting GXs
and their foreign brides, photo (?) showing a group of war brides arriving in America by airliner.
'LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON'
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Statistics Show Equal Foreign '
Marriage Rate for Both Wars
Influx of war brides to all parts of the United States leads to'
the general impression that G.I.s serving overseas during World
War II were more addicted to marrying foreign girls than were
their doughboy fathers of World War I. From the British Isles,
France and Germany, even from far-away Australia and the
Philippines, have come bride ships transporting war wives to
America to Join their former G. 1 t
husbands. i _
The common impression that the
f average G.I. of World War II was
mora inclined to take a foreign wife
than waa his counterpart of World
War I is contradicted in statistic!
compiled by Metropolitan Life In
surance company.
Records indicate that there were
about 82,800 marriages with foreign
girls during World War II, com
pared with an estimated 4,000 tc
8,000 during the war of a quartet
century ago. Records for war mar
riages at that time are very in
complete.
Despite the increased nam
ber, however, the foreign mar
riage rate of the two generations
of servicemen is practically
equal.
Longer duration of World War n
i and the far greater number* serv
, ing oversea* account for the ln
I creaae in marriage*, atatiaticians
i point out.
Third Have Children.
Duration of the war also la re
i sponaible for an Increased number
i of children In war marriages. The
' 52,500 foreign brides coming to the
i U. S. to join their husbands were
' accompanied by 17,500 children, in
? dicating that nearly a third had
> children. In a majority of cases
there was only one child, although
there are instances of as many as
three children.
War marriages were most com
mon in European and Mediterran
ean theaters. Nesrly 00,000 of the
?
70,000 brides and children came
from these two areas and the/ rep
resented more than 30 different na
tionalities.
Great Britain had the largest per
centage of war brides, 78 per cent,
followed by France and Italy with
IS per cent each, Belgium and Ira
land with 3 per cent each, with
about 4 per cent from the other
countries of Europe and North Af
rica.
Many From Australia.
From the Pacific area came 10,000
war brides, 85 per cent of whom
were from Australia. Another 10 per
cent are from New Zealand and S
per cent from other countries, par
ticularly the Philippines.
Age ?f war brides series aaw
siderabty, with marked iwiw
trations la the lata teens aad
early twenties.
Just as personnel of the armed
forces was recruited from every
state in the Union, ao will theae
strives and children of ex-G.I.s set
tle in every part of the country.
Blood Test Used
To Fix Maternity
In Animal World
CHICAGO.?An equine parallel to
Hollywood's recent series of pater
nity disputes was reported by the
American Veterinary Medical asso
ciation.
The investigation described by the
veterinary authorities was made by
two French veterinary scientists
and was believed to be the first
practical application of blood group
ing to determine parentage in
! horses.
The problem was to determine
which of two mares, "Fanny" or
"Clairette," was the mother of a
colt named "Robert." Serum tests
showed that Fanny's blood belonged
to group "AB," Clairette's to group
"A" and Robert's to group "O."
Soil Termed Great Laboratory
For Production of New Drugs
Soil not only is the eource of life
supporting food but also is a great
laboratory in which are produced
many new-found drugs for curing
diseases of man and beast against
which even good nutrition cannot
prevail, according to Alden Stahr
and Dr. Boyd Woodruff in an arti
cle in Capper's Farmer.
"These are the so-called miracle
drugs, first of which was tyrothric
in," says the article. "Then came
penicillin, used extensively during
the war, followed by actolnomyein,
streptothricin, clavicin and guma
gicin. Others have been discovered
and more are in prospect."
Among the things scientists have
seen and identified, Stahr and Wood
ruff point out, are: One-celled
plants, molds, green plants, ani
mals, protozoa, worms and nema
todes. And these soil inhabitants
do more than provide fertility to the
?oil. In their struggle for existence,
many of them throw off waste prod
ucts and create chemical sub
stances which are deadly to diaeaae
germs. Thus a very special strain
or species of fungi yielded penicil
lin, which shared the credit with
blood plasma and the sulfa drug*
in greatly reducing the wound mor
tality rate in World War n as
compared with the First World war.
"The soil," conclude the writers,
"is so complex a mixture that there
must be many other healing agents
found in it. Many of man's X.0M
diseases still are unconquered.
Most prevalent of all, of course, is
the common cold, which causes
more economic loss and discomfort
and, weakening the system, paves
the way for more strtoss ailments.**.