The Alamance Gleaner
VOL. LXXII GRAHAM, N. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1946 No. 37
WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Postwar Output Moves Into
High Gear; Army Modifies Draft
Proposal; Fats to Remain Short
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Chart released by Reconversion Director Steelman marks progress
in civilian production, with figures with asterisks indicating produc
tion and ether figures representing shipments to dealers.
RECONVERSION:
Steelman Reports
The wartime economy of the U. S.
has reached a fork in the road. Re
conversion Director John R. Steel
man declared in his quarterly re
port to the President and congress.
In One direction lies unprecedented,
stable prosperity; in the other,
boom and bust.
Steelman pleaded with business,
labor, agriculture and consumers to
avert an inflationary spiral. He
asked business to hold down prices;
labor to refrain from making un
sound wage demands; agriculture
to continue to produce at a record
dip, and consumers to desist from
spending freely.
Despite record employment of 58
million and an annual production
rate of 172 billion dollars, many key
commodities remain scarce, Steel
man said. Accumulation of inven
tories at a rate of BVt billion dol
lar^ yearly indicates there is some
speculative hoarding, he added. The
meat shortage promises to worsen
this winter and supplies of fats,
ails and sugars will remain tight for
many months. Up 23 per cent from
1943, clothing prices are expected
to go up another 10 per cent by the
end of 1946.
CIO:
Fight Reds
The growing movement against
Communist influence in the CIO re
ceived further impetus in New York
City when 34 officials of six CIO
affiliates organized to do battle
against the Reds.
Forming the CIO-Committee for
Democratic Trade Unionism, the
group, headed by Vice Pres. Jack
Altman of the Retail, Wholesale
.and Department Store union, con
ceded that Communists had wormed
Disgus^d with "the dirty work of the
Communists within our union," Frank
R. McGrath, president of the CIO Unit
ed Shoe Workers, announced hit resig
nation in Washington, D. C.
their way into CIO councils and
aought to divert the labor move
ment to advancement of the cause
at a foreign nation and its idealogy.
In addition to Altman, the new
committee included representatives
at the United Auto Workers, Textile
Workers, Rubber Workers, Utility
Workers and Novelty Workers. In
banding together to combat the
Communist menace, they followed
the lead of democratic elements
within the CIO Electrical and Up
holsterers' unions.
RUBBER:
Cut Price
While the state department de
dared that an unexpected increase
da production of Malayan rubber
has permitted the British to slash
their price to 20 Vh cents a pound to
the D. S , experts asserted that the
government's. threat to utilize a
greater capacity of this country's
hage synthetic industry resulted in
the reduction.
British, Dutch and French produc
ers had hiked their price to 23 Vi
cents a pound from the wartime
rate of 20V* cents when Uncle Sam
contracted to purchase 145,000 tons
during the latter half of 1948. Con
gressional protest that the U. S.
was being gouged by plantation op
erators led the state department
into insisting on the lower price in
buying an additional 200,000 tons, it
was said.
Because of a desire to provide
the British, Dutch and French with
American dollars for purchases in
' this country, the state department
has recommended that the U. S. ob
tain the bulk of its rubber from Far
Eastern plantations and utilize only
250,000 tons of its huge synthetic ca
pacity yearly.
DRAFT:
[ Modify Plan
In modifying its postwar draft
plans for teen-agers, the army im
proved the prpspects for eventual
congressional adoption. The state
ment of Rep. Dewey Short (Rep.,
Mo.) that he would consider a modi
fied draft after having been con
vinced of its necessity by General
Eisenhower indicated which way the
wind was blowing.
While the new plan calls for the
induction of 18-year-olds, it differed
from previous proposals in that it
confined intensive training to six
months and gives the draftee a num
ber of alternatives in completing the
remainder of his service. He
could:
?Continue his specialized mili
tary training for six months.
?Enlist in any of the regular mil
itary services, national guard or re
serve corps.
?Enter West Point or Annapolis.
?Enlist in the reserve corps and
take up an approved college course,
including R.O.T.C. training, or a
technical course in an authorized
school.
Inductees would not be subject to
military law but a special code of
conduct and receive a monthly al
lowance of $30 plus subsistence, de
pendents' benefits, insurance and
disability compensation, if eligible.
FATS:
Remain Short
The U. S. faces a continuing short
age of fats and oils during the next
12 months as production drops 1
billion pounds below the estimated
demand of 10.7 billion pounds,
Charles E. Lund, food specialist in
the department of commerce, de
clared at a meeting of the Amer
ican Meat institute.
The most pronounced scarcity will
remain in butter, with demand con
tinuing heavy for fluid milk and
dairy products affording producers a
larger profit. With butter output
down 35 per cent frbm prewar lev
els and per capita consumption re
duced from 18 to 10 pounds, only
slight improvement is expected in
1947, Lund said.
Supplies of paint oils, drying oils
and laundry soap will continue short
because of limited stocks of inedi
ble fats and oils. Diversion of
substantial amounts of coconut
oil from the Philippines to other
countries has limited the relief ex
pected from that quarter, Lund de
clared.
FOOTBALL:
*No Footbair
"Postwar college football has no
more relation to education than bull
fighting to agriculture."
So said Robert V. Fletcher, chair
man of the board of American uni
versity of Washington, D. C., in
commenting upon the school's per
manent ban on football.
Elaborating on Fletcher's -state
ment, Prexy Paul F. Douglass
declared that agents and scouts of
affluent coaches scoured the coun
try for likely talent and then bid,
and bitterly, for promising pros
pects' services.
Passage of the G.I. bill of rights
has permitted the ivory-hunters to
offer athletes even more than for
merly, Douglass said. In addition
to tuition, books and subsistence
payments made by the Veterans'
administration, players sometimes
receive as much as $200 per month
more in cash or fictitious jobs.
PARIS:
Override Russ
Overriding the bitter opposition of
the Russian camp, the Anglo-Amer
ican bloc pushed through the
French compromise proposal for
strong United Nations' control over
the free territory of Trieste in a
committee session of the Paris
peace conference.
If finally adopted by the general
convention and the foreign ministers'
council, the proposal would' estab
lish an all-powerful governor acting'
under the U.N. for Trieste. He could
introduce legislation, wield a veto,
maintain order, conduct foreign af
fairs and name and remove the ju
diciary.
Pro-Russian opposition to the pro
posal grew from the hope that
Yugoslav and Italian Communists
could dominate the free territory
through majority representation in
an elected assembly. In acting to
establish strong authority in Tri
este, the Anglo-American bloc
sought to prevent the domination
of either the Yugoslavs or Italians
by the other.
TURTLE:
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L,ong jump
The big, blue, two-motored "Truc
ulent Turtle" circled in a steep bank
at 2,000 feet and one engine sput
tered. The crowd at the Columbus,
Ohio, airport watched anxiously in
fear that the plane's tanks were
running dry. Then, Comdr. Thomas
D. Davies, 32, leveled off the ship,
the motor picked up, and he made
a safe landing to complete a rec
ord-breaking 11,236-mile flight in SS
hours and 17 minutes.
The temporary engine trouble at
the airport was not the only anxious
moment the "Truculent Turtle"
caused on the long haul from Perth,
William M. Mann (left) of Na
tional xoo in Washington, D. C.,
and Commander Davies with kan
garoo carried on record hop.
Australia. In the Bougainville-New
Guinea area, the crew rode out heavy
weather; 200 miles off California,
they ran into thick clouds and flew
on instruments; north of San Fran
cisco, ice formations on the wings
cut speed to 150 m.p.h.
Although Commander Davies and
his three-man crew were not fazed
by the mechanical rigidities of their
flight, they intimated that the 35
pound baby kangaroo they carted
as a gift to a Washington, D. C., ;
zoo was more than their match as
he fussed in his cage.
NUERNBERG:
U. S. Must Lead: Goering
No. 2 Nazi during Hitler's heyday
and leader of the German bigwigs
on trial for war crimes at Nuern
berg, Hermann Goering told a Brit
ish correspondent that U. S. reten
tion of leadership in the field of
the atom bomb was the hope of the
world. Otherwise, he said, civili- ,
zation is doomed.
Speaking out after having been
condemned to death along with 11
other top Nazis for war crimes, {
Goering further declared that the !
character of future German govern
ments will depend upon the U. S.
and Britain.
To the question whether he
thought he had received a fair trial,
Goering responded that the court
could not be objective because the
proceedings were of a political na
ture. Politely, he purred: "One
really could not say that all the
possibilities of defense were at my
disposal."
Notes of a Newspaper Man:
Churchill and Ass't See'j of State
Berle thrashed out a lot of prob
lems at 10 Downing street during
the war. Berle protested Churchill's
support of only one Yugoslav party
(Tito's). . . . Finally Churchill said:
"Cahn't you permit an old man one
romahnce?"
"Sure," said the American, "but,
as in all these cases, I can only
hope the affection is returned 1"
The Democrats were going
to use "Yon Need Mead!" for
the N. Y. gubernatorial cam
paign slogan. . . . Until they
heard that those mean, old Re
publicans were going to coun
ter-attack with just one word?
right under theirs: "Dewey?"
Quotation Marksmanship: Goethe:
There is no more terrible sight than
ignorance in action. . . . Anon:
Always listen tq the opinions of oth
ers; it probably won't do you any
good, but it will them. . . . B. Pen
rose: Public office ? the last refuge
of the incompetent. ... A. Head:
Some women carry their secrets
about them like an alluring per
fume; others wear their secrets in
their eyes. ... J. Csida: The glazed
pain in her eyes?like frozen tears.
... P. Baker: News is anything
that makes a woman say: "For
Heaven's sakes!" ... A. Franklin:
Truman the Chief Axecutive. . . .
Ike Eisenhower: To win the peace
you have to fight like hell. . . . R.
McDowell: The trouble with money
is that so few people can afford it.
J. Billingsley: Love conquers all
except poverty and a toothache.
"Bow are the Dodgers do
tag?"
"Which do 70a mean ? the
ones in Brooklyn or the ones in
the State Dep t?"
Sounds in the Night: In the Stork:
"They seem to be treating Henry
Wallace like he was Henry Aid
rich!" ... At the B'way Hofbrau:
"He'll make a fortune with his new
invention for columnists. A foun
tain pen that writes under pres
sure!" ... At Lindy's: "What's
the S in H. S. Truman stand for?"
... "I dunno. What's Harry Tru
man stand for?" ... At the Riv
iera: "Wallace went down for the
count of 10?Downing street" . . .
At Hanson's: "Look. I want to be
your Now Or Never?not your Now
and Then!" ... At the Colony:
"Wish he'd stick to the Stork mar
ket and leave the Stock market
alone." ... At the Blue Angel:
"A Broadwayite is a Jerque who
knows the inside of everything?ex
cept his own home."
Whatever became of that old
tac about the restaurant pa
tron who aaked the time of a
passing waitress, who kept on
going as she said, "Sorry, bat
that's not my table."
It's on page 23 of the current
Old Yorker.
Sallies In Oar Alley: They were
discussing a Broadway actor on the
skids. "I hear," said a Lindyite,
"That he and his wife may go on
the early morning radio with one
of those breakfast routines." . . .
"I geddit," summed up Hal Mcln
tyre, "one of those has-been and
wife teams!" . . . It's been an
nounced that divorces in the U. S.
have gone up 23 per cent, and 3.
Elinson thinks he knows the chorus
girl responsible for half of 'em.
International Weather Report:
Dark war cloads over Europe;
continued fog over Washington.
A foreign correspondent tells
about his conversation with a Rus
sian scier list who deplored those
who discuss atomic energy only in
terms of war?when that energy
could accomplish miracles in
peace. He summed up with this
canny analogy: "To talk of atomic
energy in terms of atomic bombs
is like talking of electricity in terms
of the electric chair."
Manhattan Murals: The Ham
burger Heaven opposite St. Pat
rick's cathedral on 51st, which
serves little paper envelopes (of
sugar) on which is printed: "And
stir like H?I" . . . The pathetic
sight of a little blind boy "looking"
into a 3rd avenue toy shop while
his mother shopped at a nearby
butcher's. . . . The panharidier with
the H'oxford accent. His requests
for handouts are masterpieces at
eloquence. . . . The chalk sign on
a construction fence: "Annie Get
Your Goon." . , . The 42nd street
and 6th avenue bootblack whose
parrot (on his shoulder) calls out:
"Shine, buddy!"
Heroes
Then and Now
Afore (Aon a year has passed
since the armed might of the
United States shattered for
ever the delusions of grandeur
of Dai Nippon, blasting the
dream of Japanese tear lords
that the Pacific one day mould
be a Japanese lake. In the
Sand finale that ended V-J
ay there mere many heroes.
Their names flashed comet
like across the pages of the
nation's press for a day or
(too?and then mere lost.
Tivtvni ora/iivnr.Ai/ ? ? ? iuc
name of Capt. Donald McMillan of
New York City was headlined when ho
piloted the Srst plane load of Ameri
can personnel to Japan's Atsnkl aero
drome. i'
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aiivvniciasiun . . . ama bui u me
Millai today, one year alter his Ua
torie flight to Tokyo. He is lhowi la
his working clothes as a (eulogist at
Aaacooda Copper company, Bntte,
What hat become of the men
whose names were on every
tongue a year agof Some are
still in the services, but the
great majority have returned
to the lives that icere inter
rupted by Pearl Harbor. They
have gone back to pick up the
threads of life.
CONNECTICUT YANKEE ... A
Yankee who ? peaks Japanese fluently
Is a rare bird indeed. 80 eh a one was
Lt. A. H. Smith of West Haven, Conn.,
marine corps interpreter daring vie
tory operations.
ALAS, POOS TORICK! . . . Reminis
cent of the graveyard scene la Ham
let Is this one showing Smith bach at
his Job as assistant professor of an
thropology at University of Texas at
Austin.
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The few modest heroes pre-1
rented here are typical of the I
men who finished the job in I
Japan. A year ago they made I
headlines. Today they ore I
working quietly in peaceful I
pursuits, proud of what they I
accomplished but not expect- I
ing to be hailed as world sav- I
tours. There teas a job to do I
that necessitated a detour from H
the life they had planned. |
IN FIRST FIFTY . . . Among the tnt
M men of the 0. S. occupation foreea
to land on Japanese soil was 8gt. Jo
seph Arehosky, radio operator of the
88th army group, army airways com
munications system.
STILL TEAMWORK . . . Arehosky la
a Arm believer la teamwork. He aaw
what It did to Japan. 80 be .till prac
tices It. He and hia bride team ap
here te unravel a college homework
problem.
Navy to Honor
Sea Victims at
Memorial Rites
WASHINGTON.?Following a cus
tom inaugurated in IMS, navy
plane* and ahip* will acatter flow
era over the oceans of the world on
Navy Day, Oct. 77, in tribute to
shipmates who gave their lives at
sea in defense of their country dur
ing World War H.
People desiring to participate in
the service may send one flower
to the senior naval chaplain at any
designated U. S. part before mid
night Oct. 26. The flowers will be
put aboard planes and ships for
transport to sea.
California's Lure |
Proves No Magnet
In Three States
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LOS ANGELES.?The magic lura y,
of California baa little effect on real- g
dents of Maine, New Hampshire and cj
Wyoming, chamber of commerce
offlclala regretfully admit. ^
Reporting that ita mail volume p
haa increased fourfold during the f<
past year, the chamber says the d
least number of inquiries come
from those three states. Greatest n
percentage comes from New York fa
and minois. a
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iot Only Girls
lewail Current
1igh Doll Costs
WASHINGTON. ? Members of
Washington Council of Church
Women are awaiting return of the
?-cent doll as impatiently as any
tiild ever awaited Santa Claus.
The reason is that the current
igh price of dolls is holding up
lans for the council to extend its
imous "doll adoption" plan to chik
ren abroad. '
Now the council wants to inaugu
ite a doll adoption program tn Lat
i America and China, but its plans
re stymied by the high cost of dolls^