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VOL. LXXII _ GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1946 No. 32
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WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Tighten Controls to Speed Up
Vet Housing; Boost Ceilings
To Encourage Meat Production
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(EDITOR'S NOTE: When epinlens are expressed la these eelamas, they are thoee ef
Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and net necessarily ef this newspaper.)
' Still holding rvrij in Spain, Generalissimo Francisco Franco
leaves church in Motrico with wife under archway of oars formed
by sailors who comprised guard of honor.
HOUSING:
Aid to Vets
' In ordering a 27 per cent reduc
tion in commercial building and
W. W. Wyatt
ciianneung greaiei
amounts of materi
al to new housing,
the government
sought to increase
the construction of
new dwellings and
to reduce the time
for their comple
tion.
Housing Expedit
er Wilson W. Wyatt
and Civilian Pro
AHminietra.
tor John D. Small worked out the
new controls after the building in
dustry had warned of a serious bog
ging of the whole emergency hous
ing program for vets.
Leaving a meeting with govern-'
ment officials prior to the announce
ment of the new program, Joseph
Myerhoff, president of the Nation
al Association of Home Builders, de
clared that the industry had failed
to get the flow of materials neces
sary for the completion of 200,000 to'
300,000 homes under construction,
and that the shortages have length
ened the construction time from 3
to 4 months to 9 to 12 months.
With Small agreeing to the trans
fer of all housing control to Wyatt,
the government in
stituted sweeping
directives to an
swer the wide
spread complaints.
Non - residential
construction was
cut back from over
48 million dollars
weekly to 35 million
dollars to divert
more materials for
home building.
Twenty - seven
J. D. Small
more materials, including stoves,
linoleum and light fixtures, were
added to the list of 25 already sub
ject to vet priorities.
MEAT:
Production Incentive
Taking advantage of the new OPA
act empowering him to set live
stock ceilings. Secretary of Agri
culture Anderson called for substan
tial boosts in cattle and hog prices
to encourage feeding this fall and
to assure adequate supplies of beef
next winter and spring.
Declaring that prospects pointed
to plentiful supplies of feed grains
this year, Anderson stated that it
was necessary to bring stock
prices in line with feed costs to spur
farmers into fattening stock. Other
wise, he said, large numbers at lean
animals would be butchered, creat
ing a serious shortage later.
Anderson's recommendation tor a
boost in the cattle top to $20.25 per
hundredweight, Chicago basis, and
in the hog ceiling to $10.25 ran
counter to OPAdministrator Paul
Porter's desire to establish prices
around the old level of $18 and
j $14.85. As a result of the boosts, re
tail ceilings were scheduled to rise
from two to eight cents on beef and
about three cents on pork.
FREIGHT CARS:
Act to Avert Crisis
With the government fearing a
Shortage of 50.000 to 75,000 freight
cars at the peak of industrial and
agricultural carloadings this fall.
Reconversion Director Steelman en
listed the aid of five U. & depart
ments and agencies to avert a seri
ous transportation bottleneck.
Under Steelman's comprehensive
plan, department of agriculture and
office of defense transportation will
act together to move perishable
crops and speed the shipment of tin
cans, sugar and other essential sup
plies to west coast and middle west
canneries.
War shipping administration and
maritime commission will provide
ships for the diversion of freight to
water carriers wherever feasible,
and office of price administration
will grant shippers relief for high
er costs.
Civilian production administration
will step up the flow of materials
needed to repair 80,000 old freight
cars and build 40,000 new ones this
year.
GREECE:
Big Stakes
Greece forged to the front of the'
troubled European picture as the
scene of the latest tug of diplomatic
war between the western allies and
Soviet Russia.
Working boldly to establish su
premacy throughout eastern Europe
and adjoining Asia Minor, Moscow
recalled Arab. Konstantine K. Rod
ionov from Greece as a mark of
displeasure against the holding of a
plebiscite to return King George II
to his throne.
Because Britain, supported by the
U. S., favored both the restoration
of the monarchy and the Populist
party government now in the saddle,
Russia's move really was pointed
against Anglo-American policy. The
presence of 40,000 British troops in
Greece has acted as a lever against
a Communist inspired seizure of
power, and the visit of U S. war
ships to Grecian waters before the
plebiscite was seen as a gesture of
friendship for the rightist regime.
The tussle between the Anglo
American and Russian blocs in
Greece is for big stakes: A govern
ment friendly to the British would
assure them of a toehold in the Bal
kans and an advance base for the
Near East and Suez canal, while
Russian domination of the country
would result in complete Soviet
hegemony in the Balkans and a pro
tected flank in the event of trouble
in Asia Minor.
BASEBALL:
On Even Terms
Thanks to the scares Robert Mur
phy's baseball guild and Jorge Pas
quel's Mexican league threw into the
major league magnates, big-time
ball players were granted a sub
stantial voice in shaping working
conditions on the diamond at meet
ings concluded in Chicago.
A player representative from each
league will sit on a special seven
man advisory committee to regulate
playing conditions throughout the
season. Commissioner A. B. ("Hap
py") Chandler will head the new
committee, which also includes
presidents of the two leagues and
two club owners.
In' addition a uniform player con
tract came out of the Chicago meet
ings, subject to the players' ap
proval. Following the lines recom
mended by the players earlier, the
new contract was said to establish
a minimum wage to be paid fven if
a man were shipped to the minors;
a revision of the 10-day release
clause and a lengthening of the
barnstorming period from 10 to 30
days.
FEDERAL COURT:
Upholds Talmadge
Georgia's system of deciding elec
tions by the county unit vote,
praised by proponents as designed
to prevent political control by big
city bosses, was upheld by a three
man federal court, sitting in the
state capital.
Under the unit procedure, each
county is entitled to from two to six
votes, depending upon its popula
tion, with the winning candidate in ,
the county receiving all its unit '
votes. Thus, while a candidate may
not poll a popular majority because
of being outvoted in a few large
counties, he still may get the neces
sary 206 unit votes from smaller
counties.
In passing on a suit brought by
two Atlanta citizens protesting Eu
gene Talmadge's gubernatorial vic
tory on the county unit vote, the
court ruled that federal or state gov
ernments never have sought equal
influence for each voter. Pointing
to the U. S. senate, the court said
each state has two votes, regardless
of population, in the making of all
laws and confirming of treaties and
federal appointments.
ATOM BOMB:
U. S. Continues Output
The U. S. served notice on the
world that it would continue pro
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event the United Nations (ailed to
work out adequate controls (or
nuclear energy. t
In the first o( a series o( scien
tific reports to the U. N.'s atomic
energy commission covering devel
opment o( the new explosive. Brig.
Gen. K. D. Nichols and Lt. Col.
John R. Ruhoff declared that fail
ure to set up safeguards would only
leave the alternative o( manu
(acturing a sufficient number of
high-powered bombs, to deter
potential aggressors.
While atomic warfare would re
sult in serious losses, the experts
said, a nation surviving the first
shock 'would be able to come back.
Although such cities as London,
Paris and New York would be bet
ter able to withstand atomic bomb
ing than Hiroshima if the popula
tion were well disciplined, the ex
perts opined, it would be difficult
to disperse a closely-knit industrial
system.
The reports were submitted to the
atomic commission by U. S. mem
ber, Bernard M. Baruch. Control
plans remain snarled by Russia's
insistence of maintaining the veto
power over activities of a super
visory agency.
British Have Housing Troubles
Major destruction from bombings
and a redaction in wartime build
ing left Britain with a boosing prob
lem as serious as the one plaguing
the U. S. As in this country, vets
have been especially affected, bnt
they have taken advantage of popn
lar sympathy (or their plight to
move in on army barracks and oth
er installations and convert them
into temporary shelters. In this
photo, ex-seaman John Sutton and
wife, Evelyn, clean op old anti
aircraft post at Derby which they
have made into home.
ALASKA:
New Frontier ?
Alaska loomed as the new Amer
ican frontier as authorities expect
ed a large flow of settlers to be at
tracted to the new promised land
by the availability of several million
acres to homesteaders of the 1046
vintage.
Following the procedure used in
settling the Old West, there is no j
payment for land in excess of 80
acres up to 160, only a fee ranging
up to $16. Applicants must be 21,
U. S.a citizens and owners of no more
than *160 acres of land in this coun
try.
Residence on the land must be
maintained for seven months of
each year for three years and home
steaders must cultivate one-sixteenth .
of their claim the first year and one
eighteenth or more by the third
year. At the same time, buildings
must be built to meet federal re
quirements.
In addition to farm land, 80 acre
tracts can be purchased for trade
or manufacturing plants or leased
for grazing, fur farming and mining
| operations.
Editor's Note: While WincheU
is on vacation, Jack Lalt is act
ing as roost columnist.
Miscellaneous Midgets?
The Windsors will return to Amer
ca next winter. The Riviera bores
hem. Their villa is still mined and
hey have to tread narrow paths,
narked out for them. . . . The Rob
:rt Youngs, New Yorkers who en
ertained Eddie and Wally at New
port last summer, are abroad and
tave visited them. Young, a busi
ness tycoon, has offered the duke a
xist with one of his companies. . . .
It is unlikely that commerce will
ittract Windsor; even more unlike
ly that his family, which controls i
lis income, would sanction it Odds |
are that he will buy a house in Palm
Beach, where he and his duchess
have many friends. . "Doc" Hoi
ien, who was Fill Widener Wich
[eld's second husband, is believed
to be Windsor's undercover finan
cial agent in New York. Contacted
at Newport, he refused to discuss
bis associations with royalty.
The Doke family is in the movie
business. And Doris is active in
person. The tobacco millions are
helping finance Independent Artists,
Inc., which includes in its roster
Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell and
her husband, Dudley Nichols and
Frank Vincent. . . . Hermitage Press
will publish, on Oct 9, the new book
by Nick Kenny, "How to Write, Sing
and Sell Popular Songs." What Nick
doesn't know about the intricate,
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terest anyone. Among the mass of
material will be an expose of
song racketeers.
Caveman. Get loot Club
Raymond Loewy, the artistic
industrial designer (of autos
and what net) has a 75# h.p.
cruiser, the Media Lux, which
he designed, berthed at the eso
teric Sands Point (L. I.) Rivi
era. When Loewy expects
guests,: he sprays his cabins
with a perfume labeled Savage
Love!
Mid town Matinee (By Tom Weath
erly). It was a southbound Fifth
avenue bus. She got on at 97th
street. . . . With apologies to Rogers
and Hart: My heart stood still. . . .
"This is it," I thought. . . . Never
before had I seen. . . . Such a
seraphic vision. . , . All pink and
gold. . . . With shimmering gray
blue stars for eyes. ... A red, red
rosebud for a mouth. . ,. And a tip
tilted nose. . . . My pulse raced.
. . . My head reeled. . . , And my
knees clicked together. . . . "There
comes a time in the affairs of men,
etc." ... I said to me. . . . And,
brother, this is the time. . . . Watch
her closely. . . . When she gets off.
. . . You get off. . . . Then tip your
hat . . . Gallantly but with deco
rum. . . And say something like
this ... "I beg your pardon, please
don't misunderstand. . . . I'm not
trying to be fresh. . . . But I just
couldn't help speaking to you. . . .
All my life I've dreamed about a
girL ... I never knew her name.
... I never even knew she exist
ed. . . . Until Just now. ... In other
words . . . You're the dream come
true. . . . And I couldn't let a stu
pid convention tSLke you from me.
. . . I've just got to know you."
. . . Just then the bus stopped and
she moved toward the exit ... As
she came opposite me. . . . She
raised her left hand to grasp the
stanchion. . . . And there they were.
. . . Those two symbols of posses
sive priority and self-imposed servi
tude. . . . The diamond solitaire and
the platinum band. . .'. Oh, well,
there's always the French Foreign
Legion!
The average honest aightelob
draws about (20,000 a year on its
concessions, usually half their gross
intake. .? . . This is frequently paid
in advance, often two or more years'
quota at the start, to finance the
venture. . . . Banks lend money to
concession contractors on prospects,
trusting their keen judgment, based
on intensive experience. . . . One
typical club let us see its books. . . .
It grosses $21,000 a week, counting
all sources. . . . The original invest
ment was $109,000, of which the con
cessionaire put up $50,000. . . .
Shows and two bands (plus relief
bands on nights off) cost $5,000 a
week; costumes, dance directors,
etc., amortized, $500; advertising,
$1,000; payroll, kitchen, waiters,
press agent, manager, $2,500; lin
en, electricity, incidentals, $1,000.
. . . The enterprise breaks even on
$15,000-a-week gross intake, figur
ing food and liquor purchases at
about one-third the total receipts.
... On $10,000, the profit is $4,000;
on $25,000, $7,500.
Oklahoma Sets Sesquicentennial I
Noting First White Settlement a
Historical Pageant Planned ?
As Highlight of State Fair
By WNU Features.
MUSKOGEE, OKLA.?To the astronomer and the geologist
150 years is the merest fragment of time. Even the student of
recorded history stands in no awe of such a period. But to the
more finite-minded people of Oklahoma it represents a consider
able span of time. In fact, it measures the period that has elapsed
since the first white settlement in their state. That is why they're
going all out this year to celebrate the 150th anniversary of that
event.
In accordance with a joint resolution of the state senate
and house of representatives passed ?
in 1939, Oklahoma will celebrate the t
150th anniversary of the day when t
Maj. Jean Pierre Chouteau, a
French fur trader, led a peaceful ]
invasion into the uncharted South- i
west and set up a trading post at \
the site of the present-day city of (
Salina in Mayes county of north- ]
eastern Oklahoma. I
In Muskogee, some 50 miles south ]
of the site of Chouteau's settlement,
plans are being pushed for a cele
bration to carry out the legislative
resolution.
Seeks Trading Post.
In the early spring of 1796, Chou
teau left St. Louis, where he was
a member of an influential family of
traders and merchants, to find a
suitable location for a new trading
post among the Indians of the South
west.
Traveling southward along the
Grand river, the Frenchman found
the site he had dreamed of?a place
where an abundant supply of game,
mostly deer and wild turkeys,
abounded among thick timber
which would provide a ready source
of building materiaL By what Chou
teau must have regarded as provi
dential good luck, the site also stood ?
near an inexhaustible supply of salt,
a vital necessity to his men and ani
mals. To crown the good features
of the location, the river itself would
furnish transportation facilities.
The pioneer lost no time in con
structing a large log trading post at
what is now Salina.
Post Abandoned.
Economic reverses, however, dis
appointed the French explorer, who
discovered that the territory was not
the permanent home of any Indian ;
tribe and that prospects of support
ing a trading post, however pro
pitious the location in other re
spects, were insufficient to justify -
making the venture a permanent i
settlement in the area.
Chouteau returned to St. Louis i
and for six years the little trading
post stood silent and abandoned in
the wild loveliness of a primitive
country. But in 1802 events trans
pired that gave new life to the set
tlement. Through the traders' ef
forts the Osage Indians of the Mis
louri valley removed their homes
a eastern Oklahoma.
It was a double victory for the
frenchman. He had sought re
venge on the Spanish government
vhich had taken his trading monop
oly and given it to one of its subjects.
By the migration of the Indian
!rom the Spaniard's trade territory,
sis business was virtually ruined.
In addition, it created a mar
ket for Chouteau's abandoned
trading post to which he re
turned to start the 15*-year pa
rade of progress which has
made a great, modern state
from a wilderness.
A celebration to be held in con
nection with the annual Free State
fair at Muskogee, scheduled for the
week of September 29 through Oc
tober 6, will bear Gov. Robert S.
Kerr's stamp as the "official" Ok
lahoma commemoration of her ses
quicentennial.
Pioneers to Participate.
During three days of the fair, a
colorful pageant will be presented.
Several hundred eastern Oklaho
mans, many of them direct de
scendants of early-day pioneers, will
appear in the pageant, which will
portray the arrival of Chouteau in
the state and the story of the little
trading post.
C. E. Chouteau, an official of the
Indian agency at Muskogee, will fill
the role of his illustrious ancestor.
The fair, a gala panorama of mid
way gaiety and agricultural and ed
ucational exhibits, yearly draws
thousands of visitors from eastern
Oklahoma and adjacent Arkansas.
In addition to the sesquicenten
nial pageant, fair visitors will be
able to view a comprehensive dis
play of the state's agricultural and
industrial outputs. The fertile farms
which dot Oklahoma will contrib
ute their animal and vegetable
produce to the fair and the modern
educational institutions of the sec
tion will present exhibits.
Fairgoers may see the original
site of Chouteau's landing by a short
drive from Muskogee and may visit
other interesting historical spots
near this city, the original capital
of the Five Civilized tribes.
FIRST WHITE SETTLEMENT ... An artist's conception of the eld
Cbontean headquarters pent near Saline, the list white settlement
hi Oh la heme.
ORIGINAL SETTLER .. . IM
er at the Irat white settlement t>'
Ofclihomi was MiJ. Jean Pierre
Chotean, French tar trader.
War Treks Fail
To Lead Farm
Youths to City
Life in the armed forces, wlik.li
introduced thousands at tans
youths to (littering cities and tar
away lands, did not dim their Iowa
tor (arm tile. More than a mfllkai
veterans at World War II have re
turned to (arm work throughout
the nation, it is revealed in a bureau
at agricultural economics report
Veterans on (arms by July 1 to
taled 1,049,000, according to the bo
reau report, the number mrhaHng
713,000 (arm operators or members
o( (arm operators' (amities, and
332,000 hired workers.
Veterans comprised 9 per cent al
all persons employed on the nation's
(arms.
The number at veterans on (arms
was slightly more than three-fourths
the number at warm wushjeis
who enlisted or were inducted op ts
July 1. 1945.
In the Northeast and on the PaaAa
coast, the number at veterans r*
turning to (arms was larger thaa
the number who entered the armed
services. In other sections they
were from 70 to 80 per cent.
A total of 11 million was engaged
in (arm work.
Program To Stress
Value of Gitiieaship
To Mew Prospect;
WASHINGTON.?Plans tor a na
tionwide program to emphasize the
"worth and meaning of Americar
citizenship" to prospective citizen
were announced by the justice de
partment.
The department said the program
"will be a continuous effort to stress
the ideals of this country and the
significance of American citizenship
from the time of entry of a poten
tial citizen to the moment when citi
zenship is granted him by the court,
and even beyond .that."
A national advisory committee on
citizenship is to be named by Atty.
Gen. Tom Clark to assist with the
program.
The program will include :
1. Publication of a pamphlet con
taining significant facts about the
United States to be given to pros
pective citizens and visitors to this
country. '
2. Preparation of a booklet to be
given to each new citizen to em
phasize his responsibilities to this
country.
3. Enlisting the aid of the bench
and bar, civil and educational au
thorities and patriotic organizations
In the effort to stress the signifi
cance of citizenship.
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TRAVELERS ARE 'JOLTEI'
Vacation Costs Soar to New All-time Peak
nwwcw j mnciKwia, jheuhj;
in the lifting of travel restriction!,
gasoline rationing and steady war
time duties, are hitting the high
ways and byways by the millions
this summer and fall bound for
their first vacation jaunt in long
years.
Not only on the highways are they
receiving a jolt, however, for va
cation costs, which climbed through
out the war years, now have soared
to a new all-time high.
Thousands are being jolted by
boosts in the rates of resort hotels,
inns and cottages. A few resort
places haven't raised the ante since
last year, but virtually all charge
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prewar and early war years.
Surveys of hotel directories show
that the increase in rates range
generally from IS per cent to more
than 100 per cent since prewar
days. Many inns which were aban
doned before the war because of
guest shortages have reopened and
are doing a capacity business at
^ates aa high as $50 a day tor two
persons.
Travel experts say an increase
amounting to more than. 50 per cent
is quite typical in most sections.
A few old inns, apparently de
sirous of maintaining the goodwill
of patrons, have made surprisingly
small increases. At the other ex
treme, say officials of travel organi
uugm, are some unscrupulous u|n>
erators who have used room short
ages to gouge the vacationing pub.
lie.
Other Casts Hiked.
Food sold along the highway alsc
costs more. Boat and bicycle rent
als and golf fees have been raised,
in many instances by more than 1M
per cent. Fishing and hunting
guides also are asking bigger pay.
Barring a business slump, vaca
tion costs probably will be as high
or higher next year. The American
Automobile association expects that
many potential vacationers, now
hesitant about driving the old cai
any distance on poor rubber, win
have new cars or new tiros by next
summer.
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