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Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-22
BY Congressman John Phillips

Committee appointments came
out we'll for the California con-
gresSmen. I stay on the committee
on agriculture and on the commit
tee on irrigation and reclamation.
These are the same committees as
before. We lost Garter of the i'm
portant appropriations committee
in the election and now have nc one
on the Republican side. Sheppard is
on the Democratic side and is a
very influential member of the
committee, having by the process
of seniority moved up to the chair
manship of the important navy ap-
propriaticns Subcommittee. l was
offered a chance to transfer to that
committee and had there been any
assurance of immediate appoint
ment to the agricultural appropria-
tions SUBJ committee, I would have
considered it seriously, but without
that assurance 1 declined and l
think the people of the district will
agree in the decision. There is a job
to do on the committee on agri-
culture. Among other things, I am
to be on the managing committee
for the marketing investigation,
which l personally think will be Cne
of the greatest contributions to agri-
culture made by any congress That's
a big statement! I am again on the
congressional food study committee,
~,
this time with much better organl-
zation and funds to work with,
which we didn't have last session.
In my column of January 18 I re-
ferred to another spark of cour-
age" on the part of congress, visible
in the last days of the old session.
At that time, the old congress took
its feeble courage in its teeth and
voted each congressman $1,000 ad-
ditional clerk hire. In my office that
means statistical help. freed from
the routine of the office.
Congress votes millions Of dollars
tc bureaus and agencies, who spend
money to belittle congress; to work
for more bureaucracy, more cen
tralized government. Congress for
years has failed to have enough
courage to give itself the legal help,
the accounting and statistical and
research help and even the clerical
help it has needed to do better
lob. The state of California, in
many ways, gives its legislature
, more help than the United States
gives its congress. We have lacked
the material to offset the propagan-
da of agencies run by people who
would like to take ever the govern
ment. Work isn't done; letters 60
unanswered; or else the department
tai and committee work goes un-
done. Congress gets blamed, but the
people at home are the losers, and
representative government is threat
ened.
Unfortunately, the spark died
quickly regret to say before con-
gress provided for the necessary ad-
ditional desks, chairs, typewriters
and other office equipment! Wen
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-22
ARBITRARY POWER
(San Diego UniOn)

One of the first results of the new
deals strengthened majority in the up
per house is to place in the hands OF the
senate audit and control committee prac-
tically full power over any proposed in
vestigation into the use of public funds.
Under this rule, the new deal dominated
committee can prevent any inquiry, how
ever reasonable, into the financial deal
ings of the nation in regard to war con-
tracts, surplus property disposal and
equally vital matters of public interest
The device obviously is protective. For
it is impossible that there should not be
many irregularities in the vast expendi-
lures made for war, with lobbyists and
agents pushing their claims on the var
ious departments and agencies for the
sake of fat commissions. Even in matters
unrelated to the war or public spending
in general, however, the audit and control
committee can exercise almost unlimited
power by refusing to sanction expendl-
lures for Investigations. This was DEM
onstrated, as reported by Washington
correspondents, in the squelching of an
inquiry into an alleged liquor monopoly
by refusing funds for the purpose.
So far as the senate is concerned, the
new deal seems to have achieved immuni-
ty against investigation. 1t remains to
be seen whether the same sort of gag will
prevail in the lower house.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-22
LOST RATION BOOKS
christian Science Monitor)


Citizens of the United States appear
to be losing their ration books at great
rate. In New York City alone they are
tossing them away - unwittingly, OF
course-at the speed of 400 a day; and
the national Office of Price Administra-
ton, who invented the books, has not even
tried to keep track of losses throughout
the country.
1t is question whether this important
little book was not designed in the very
least convenient and durable form pos
sble. 1t is fragile and gets wrlnkled and
creased with woeful ease. The stamps are
inadequately perforated and too small
anyway to be handled successfully by any
but the most deXtrous.
Whoever designed the ration book had
no American precedent, and perhaps had
no thought that his design would have to
last as long as it has. And since he was
probably a mere man, he certainly had
no conception of the beating ration
book must take in the average house
wife's iam-packed purse Even in spe-
cially purchased case, it fares none too
we'll. Scarcely anyone will be surprised
at the rate of loss.
Another time-let's hope there won't
have to be one-OPA might hire the serV-
ices of professional book-designer, or
even an inventive industrial engineer. For
a starter, he might try stiff covers, larger
stamps, deeper perforations, and some
kind of a third hand with which to hold
your other bundles while you fish for
StamDS
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-22
Lost, Found. Sirayed

LOST-Doberman puppy, 3 mos, old.
Child's pet. Reward for return to
825 Commercial 2-26
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-22
POSTAL AUTHORITIES
SEARCH FOR COUPLE

Search for Walter and Thelma
Brown, wanted by the postal au-
thorities in San Francisco, centered
in FL Centro on Wednesday, it hav-
ing been reported that the couple
had been seen in this vicinity.
Brown is described as being SO
years old, 1875 pounds, dark and
wearing glasses. He is of German
descent. His wife, Thelma, is said
to be about A years old, weight 100
pounds, feet 4 inches and the
mother OF an 3-year-old daughter,
Wanda, described as being chubby.
The Los Angeles postal authorities
hold warrant for the arrest of the
pair.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-22
IRise to Remark

eventually get them. Temporarily,
l have solved that problem by per-
suading Mrs. Phillips to take the
new job. She has been doing it
anyway, or part CT it, for the last
10 years.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-22
Editorials and Comment

EDITORS NOTE: The fOilOning edit
OrialS are presented as interesting 0pin-
ions U0iced by editors elsewhere. Ihey
do not necessarily reflect the opinion OF
this paper.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-22

They (the Japs) would regard the
complete destruction of Tokyo as flea
bites 1t wouldn't cause ripple in the
organization of the japanese military
system, even were it possible.-Spanish
missionary, in Sweden after seven years
in Japan.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-22

LOST-Black cloth coin purse con-
tanning money. Reward for re-
turning to Post-Press Classified.
2-23
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-22

Bethlehem Steel Co. is now man.
ufacturing pre- assembled emer-
gency bridges on mass-production
basis. Made of interchangeable
parts held together by pins and
bolts, these bridges can be thrown
across streams CT gullies by mill
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-22
Do FALSE teeth
Rock, Slide or Slip?

FASTEETH, an improved powder to
be sprinkled on upper or lower plates.
holds false teeth more firmly in place.
Do not slide. slip or rock. No gummy.
eooey. pasty taste or feeling. FAS-
TEETH Is alkaline (non-acid). Does not
sour. Checks plate odor'' (denture
breath). Get FASTEETH at any drug
store.
Imperial Valley press., 1945-02-22
NATURAL ERROR.

Cincinnati Enquirer)
THE new 7I2-cent cigar, recently auth
orized by the OPA, is still in the blueprint
e"-Trade note. 1t must have been
one of the blueprints we smoked yester-
day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-04
RUSSIA REJECTS
U. S., IRAN PLAN

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3.-UD-
The State Department announced
tonight that Russia had rejected
the American suggestion that Al
lied troops be withdrawn from Iran
by Jan. 2.
Michael J. McDermott, special
assistant to Secretary of State
James F. Byrnes, said, however,
that the Russian rejection does not
"change the fact that Russia and
Britain are committed by their
dual pact with Iran to evacuale
troops from Iran by March %
The United States requested both
Britain and Russia to join it in
Withdrawing all troops by the first
of the year with the hope of end
l. . unrest in Iran.
Iran officials contend that the
crCx of the trouble there is the
presence of Allied military forces.
They have criticized Russia spe-
officially for preventing the rein
forcement of garrisons in northern
Iran which are fighting insurgents.
The State Department withheld
the text of the Russian reply pend
ing its publication in Moscow and
London.
The United States revealed re-
Gently that it's military forces have
been reduced to some 5000 service
troops. 1t said these will be with
drawn by Jan. l.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-04
SCIENTIST SAYS
WORLD WARS OVER

WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. - Up -
DR.. Vannevar Bush expressed the
cheering belief today that "the
atomic bomb means the end of
world war;"
The scientist who directed the
DEVELOPMENT of this and other
weapons as head of the National
Defense Research committee and
the Office of Scientific Research
and Development predicted it
would take a long time to set up
atomic controls.
But he told the special Senate
committee on atomic energy that
all the nations now want a long
peace and this period can be used
to develop the control machinery.
He added that two nations armed
with atomic bombs would not con-
slider going to war against each
other because the consequences
would be "too terrible
Senator johnson (D-Colo) observ-
ed that DR.. Bush's optimistic testi-
mony was encouraging after the
Gloomy Gus witnesses" who had
made the committee room a
"chamber of horrors
DR.. Bush said that his scien-
lists developed the powerful incen-
diaries but there was some ques-
ton about the use of them against
cities because they would kill so
many civilians in order to destroy
factories.
DR.. Bush said the same question
of widespread civilian deaths at
tached to use of the atomic bomb
but that he had no doubts about its
use because II knew it would end
the war;"
The scientist said the first task
for the United States was to SET
up effective domestic controls as
pattern for possible world use
Of atomic energy. This would be a
long and trying process, he added,
requiring wisdom of the Congress
and administrators placed in con.
troll under legislation
Progress will be slow, DR.. Bush
conceded, on the international side
of control but he noted that the
easiest way to solve any defficult
problem was to "attack at the point
easiest of solution
''There is no danger of war
breaking out until we can work
this out" he said. eve can't dc
it in a moment or by Wishful
thinking. -.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-04
hurley TOBACCO
SELLS AT $3.50

ASHEVILLE, Dec. 3E(P)-Unof-
fetal prices were $3.50 per hum
dred as the Asheville Burley TO-
bacco market opened its 10th sea-
son today.
Sales Supervisor r. A. Wither.
ington estimated that the sale, ex-
pected to last into February, would
total a record 10 million pounds
and put five million dollars in
the pockets of tobacco farmers in
this western North Carolina area.
Miss Cleo Hope Whitson, II.
Ramseytown, Yancey county.
queen of the sale, was on hand
to officially open the event.
Mrs. Francis Rogers Williams OF
Haywood county, last years
queen, auctioned the first basket
which brought $1.05.
Largest individual lot of the day.
weighing 700-pounds was owned by
R. z. Reeves. It brought $4O6.
J. w. Duckett, Leicester, Route
1, received the first check, his
gross amounting to $463.50.
Addition of two new warehouses
brings to six the total to be used
during the sales.
Sales will be conducted daily
from Monday through Friday from
10 am. to noon and from ! pm.
to 3 pm.
The 18th Annual Tobacco Jubilee
luncheon will be held Wednesday
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. u
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-04
VARGAS CANDIDATE
TAKES EARLY LEAD
IN BRAZIL VOTING

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 3. IN
Army General Eurico Dutra,
backed by former President Getu-
no Vargas, took an early lead to.
day over three opponents in re-
turns from Sundays presidential
elections in Brazil in which seven
persons were killed.
Dutra and Air General Eduardo
Comes, leader of the anti-Vargas
forces, were easily outdistancing
their civilian opponents on the
basis of the unofficial returns. It
was BraziPs first election for presi-
dent in Is years.
Returns from 10 states gave
Dutra 7,484 votes; Comes, 5,226;
Yeddo Fiuza, Communist party
candidate, 1924, and Mario Roll
linn Telles, Agarian party candi-
date, 40.
Comes held the lead in six states,
which have total of 1864, 1924 re.
gistered voters, while Dutra led in
four states with registered vote
of 3,895,613. It was estimated that
from rs to 80 per cent of all those
registered in the country cast
ballots.
Dutra was showing early strength
in small cities and rural areas
where the long-established Vargas
2. Ht'cal machine was least affect.
ed by the ousting of the former
p es,ldent from office last Oct. 20.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-04
POLICE, GUARDS
HURT ATPAMPL0NA

MADRID, Dec. 3 -WD-Eight
policemen and civil guards and
many others were wounded in a
turbulent monarchist demonstra-
ton at Pamplona and heavy
forces of police are guarding
streets and public buildings to
prevent further outbreaks, dis
patches said tonight.
The demonstrators were sup
porters of the tradiaiontl Carlist
branch of the BourbonS.
Travellers reported a similar
monarchist demonstration, in favor
of Don Juan, heir to the throne
of his father the late Alfonso XIII,
at the great east coast port OF
Valencia Sunday. There was nc
disorder.
First reports from Pamplona,
in the Pyrenees ancient capital
of the Kingdom of Navarro ano
scene of Carlist outbreak in 1886,
indicated that there was a little
firing.
But tonight dispatches said that
at least go. or 70 shots were ex.
changed with pistols, rifles anc
sub-machine guns and that cas-
ualties among demonstrants, some
critically wounded, were high.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-04
FIJI Reported Trailing
Russian Secret Agent
Newspaper Claims Man
Has Many Details On
Atomic Energy
CIIy.
international Soundphoto)

NEW YORK, Dec. 3.-R-The
New York Journal-American said
today in a copyrighted story that
for the last two years the Federal
Bureau of Investigation has been
trailing a Russian secret service
agent "who, it is believed, may
have obtained atomic bomb Sec
refs"
The New York FBI office said it
had no comment on the story.
The paper said FB1 agents found
package in the agents room in
Chicago in 1913 that twas found
to contain highly confidential de-
tails of atomic development"
The paper said the agent was
living now in a midtown hotel and
was surrounded by a squad of FBI
men, operating on 24-hour basis.
It did not give his name.
The Journal-American said the
agent entered the United States
from Canada in 1888 and carried
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-04
CITY MANAGERS NAME
YANCEY AS HEAD OF
STATE ORGANIZATION

RALEIGH, Dec. 3-Pl--Henry
A. Yancey, City Manager Ct
Greensboro, was reelected presl-
dent of the North Carolina City
Managers Association at the clos
ing session. of a two-day meeting
here today.
City Manager c. H. Helms of
Morganton was reelected secre
tary.
Col. Wiley NJ. Pickens, execu
tive director of the North Carolina
Veterans Commission, was the
principal speaker at the morning
session, urging municipalities to
provide veterans centers, and to
generally assist veterans in re
facilitating themselves once they
return home.
A luncheon session was followed
by an informal discussion of prob
lens in the municipal field. These
included the rising costs OF man.
power and materials, retirement
plans, taxicab operation and regu'
lation and federal aid to alrports.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-04
100000 NYL0N
PLANT ANNOUNCED
Port City Mills To Build On
Greenfield Street
Next Year

Expected to begin operation
about the middle of 1916, hosiery
mill, employing about $50 persons,
has been planned for Wilmington
It was learned yesterday.
Announcement of plans for the
early construction on Greenfield
street. between 7th and 9th. of a
modern, air-conditioned plant to
house he 300 Scott and Wilson,
seamless nylon machines that the
Port City Mills anticipates using,
came from a spokesman for Indus
trial Properties, Inc, a non-profit
Wilmington organization which
promotes new enterprises here.
The Port City Mills, d division
Of Mould Hosiery Mills of New
York, will occupy the 500, 000-plus
plant about June 1, it was an
noMced. Construction of the plant
is expected to begin about Jan. /.
Builders will be the C.. M. Guest
and Sons company, industrial con
tractors, OF Greensboro and Ander-
son. S. C.
Temporarily, Port City Mills is
operating on a small scale in the
Old shlpyard employment building
at Third and Mars,ellar streets.
Its new plant will have a capaci-
" Tor approximately 100000 dozen
pans Of nylon hose, annually,
Michael c. Brown, local office
manager of the company reported
To-Day The number of seamless
nos cry machines will be several
lllaeS The 50 similar machines now
0elng used in the Third and Mar.
stellar installation.
Inc Mould company, one of the
SoFioS largest manufacturers O.
SOiAen S hose, is a New York con:
.eiA with national distribution. Il
Yspela'es several other plants ir
North Carolina.
-, at lhe present time, it's Port City
su is producing nylon ane
. ..:n nose in the Third and Mar
m r,siidf plant. The plant is operated
n ND however, as a trainins
, os Tor operators who will have
,t II ~ of hose-making machine.
ra,o ne new plant. A. c. Gregg, {
r re,esan Of 30 years in the hosier,
uu,rnaau u; business, is plan
'U1p s5 here.
ID I hut ST. Properties, Inc, head
VI 0y W, G. Thornton, Wilmington
Wonllnued on Pare Two. Col .
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-04
Indonesians
Under Shell
Bombardment
FROM WARSHIPS
Reports Say High Allied
Officials To Decide Fu-
ture Measures OF War
By JOHN BOWER
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff Correspondent
BATAVIA, Java, Dec. 3 Re-
ports circulated today that high
Allied officials, headed by Adm.
Lord Louis Mountbatten, would
meet in Singapore Wednesday 10
decide on practical measures"
needed to quell revolving Indone-
sian Extremists in the Netherlands
East Indies.
AS British warships again she'll
ed Extremist positions in the Soma.
rang area of central Java, and the
summer capital of Bandoeng, rs
miles southeast of Batavia, was
reported under a virtual state of
siege, the Aneta news agency said
that during the past 48 hours the
British army had been operating
under a 'peacetime news black.
out" similar to those known only
during vital wartime campaigns.
Aneta said that according to un-
ences aimed at ending the trouble
precipitated by Indonesian de.
IlollAo Iva independence VIVIAN OS
held, possibly both the middle Of
this week.
Aneta said that according to I'm.
confirmed reports Mountbatten, AL
lied supreme commander in South
east Asia, was arranging the Singa.
pore meeting and had invited 1t.
Gen. Sir Philip Christison, Brit
ish commander Of Allied forces in
the MEL and British Rear Adm.
R. w. Patterson, Allied naval com
mander. 1t was also reported that
the acting Governor General Of
the MEL, DR.. Hubertus J. Van
Nook, might attend.
The agency said the meeting
would deal with the practical
measures the Java situation now
requires" It also reported that
representatives of the Netherlands
Indies government and the self
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-04
Arab League
To Throttle
Zion Goods
PALESTINE AFFECTED
Secretary Says Industry
Financed By Funds
From Foreign Lands

CAIRO, Dec. 3.-W.H-The Arab
League today announced that its
seven member states will boycott
all JeWish-produced goods from
Palestine, beginning Jan. /.
The Leagues secretary-gener
Abdul Rahman Azzam Bey, said
the boycott was ordered because
Jewish Palestine industry was
biased on Zionist funds, collected
in foreign countries, to serve a poll
teal purpose-the establishment of
Jewish national home and state
in Palestine.
"This political purpose is the
motive behind Jewish industry and
commerce in Palestine. This pur-
pose is not realizable except by the
exploitation of markets in Arab
Countries
The boycott was the development
Of League meetings which began
here Nov. 20, and numerous con-
ferences between leaders of the
League and of Arab parties in
Palestine.
Without indicating their nature,
Azzam said the League was prepar.
ed to take additional steps if
necessary to combat Zionist aims.
He said League committee would
be formed to coordinate the car.
rying out of the boycott and to rec.
ommend ANY. new steps neces-
sary for realization of the Arab
purpose Of repelling the danger Of
Zionist economics"
Egypt, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Leb-
anon, Yemen, Transjordan and
Syria are member states of the
Arab League. Arab groups in
Palestine are represented in its
councils.
Azzam called upon non-Leagu
Arab states to join in the boycott.
He specifically exempted the prod
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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-12-04

Army Closes
On Key Cit
IN MUKDEN
Chinese CommuA, sic
No Opposition To !. lang
In Manchuria
BY SPENCER MOOSA
APP Press Staff Writer

CHUNGKING, Dec. 3.-P)-Chi-
nese Nationalist forces advancing
in Manchuria were reported with
in 80 miles of the important city OF
MIkden today and their comman-
der said, 1--WE expect to be in Har-
bin in a month or So
Chinese Central News Agency
said press dispatches reporting the
new gains said air transportation
troops farther into Manchuria
would start next week.
An Associated Press dispatch
from Peiping said that Nationalist
officials, who had fled from Chang
chun, Manchurian capital, in mid
November for fear that Russian
withdrawal would leave them at the
mercy of the Chinese Communists,
were preparing to return tomorrow
and take over the government.
Among these officials is Chang
Chung-Kuo, eldest son of General
issimo Chang Kai-Shek. He said he
would discuss with the Russians
the projected airborne Nationalist
troop movement.
Credible reports in Chungking
said that the Russians already had
undertaken to protect the airfields
at Changchun and Mukden but that
the Nationalist had appealed to
them to guarantee rail transit as
well, because airborne operations
could not be on sufficiently
large scale to ensure Nationalist
invulnerability to Communist at
tacks.
The Russians, who have agreed to
stay in Manchuria until Jan. 3 so
that the Nationalist can CONSOLE
date in that valuable territory, ap-
parently have made no commit
r -ents to admit the Nationalist
anywhere except Mukden and
Changchun.
Some Nationalist sources here
alleged that the Russians still were
aiding the Communists, but Lt.-Gen
'Tu Yu-Ming, supreme Nationalist
commander in the Northeast, said
he had found no evidence that any
foreign power was giving his op-
ponents material help.
Speaking to Associated Press
correspondent Glen Clements at
advanced headquarters in Chin
hsien, Manchuria, General Tu said
he expected the opposition to col
lapse within two months because
of lack of organization and sup
plies.
81 do not expect any large-scale
| fighting anywhere in Manchuria, :"
General Tu told clements, adding
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