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The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-23

two weeks.
"A meeting of cabineet members
ana others was held today, with
Edward c. Moran, second assist.
ant Secretary of Labor and a firm
oenever IN removal of government
controls, sitting in for Schwellen.
Dacn. who is resting. Also attend
ing the meeting were OPA Ad-
minlstrator Chester Bowles and
John c. Collet, Administrator OF
the Office of Economic Stabilize.
ton, both of whom are concerned
With the effect. of price increases
on the economy.
Ayers said the President intend.
ed to spend as much time on the
Labor Management Conference
problems as he could. He added
he did not know when the wage.
price statement which had been
expected today might eventually
be made. This gave support to
the theory that the whole subject,
SLICE II is part OF the govern
ment's plan to cut down the num-
Der of reconversion strikes, will
go before the Labor-Management
Conference.
Besides AFL and CLIO delegates
at the conference, there will be
representatives of John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers and the Rail-
road Brotherhoods.
Lewis, who called off strikes in
volving 100000 soft coal miners,
has accepted the invitation to at.
tend the conference-a question
which was in doubt for a time be.
cause he was not invited to par.
ticipate in the initial planning
Presumably President Truman
will ask the miners leader to visit
the White House beforehand, in
which case it will be the first time
Lewis entered the executive man.
sion since his breach with the
late President Roosevelt five years
ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-23
GUARD COMPANY WILL
DISCUSS PLANS FOR
GREATER ACTIVITIES

At the regular meeting tonight at
7:3O o'clock of the company at
the W. L. I. Armory, plans for the
development of the Wilmington
company of the N. c. State Guard
VIII be discussed along the lines
outlined by Governor r. Gregg
Cherry at the statewide meeting
OF Guard officers which was held
IN Greensboro Sunday.
Governor Cherry, guest speaker
at the two-day session of State
Guard officials, urged that units be
Kept at fun strength in order that
they may be used as a nucleus Tor
any new National Guard winch
may be set up after the war. =
Local battalion and company OF.
ncers attending the two-day meet
at the Greensboro Armory includ'
ed: Major Frederick Willetts, Capt.
Leo S. Sykes, 1t. c. T. Farrow, II.
H. ". Haskell, 1t. P. H. Brock
ano 1t. P. L. Cannady.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-23
Howard Report Charges
OPA Retarding Progress

WASHINGTON, Oct. % -W.D-A
Special House committee charged
today that the Office of Price
Administrations rigid pricing poll
cies are retarding reconversion and
could dangerously jeopardize
the nations economy"
The charges were made in a
report filed by Chairman Howard
w. Smith, D., Va, of the house
special committee to investigate
executive agencies. The report was
unanimous.
Important changes in the poll
cies of the OPA are urgently ne
cessary if the nations industries
are to achieve an orderly transi-
ton from wartime status to full
reacetime employment and pro-
duction," the report said.
The committee emphasized that
it felt price control must continue
until effects of the war have been
overcome and until production Of
civilian goods has caught up with
demand.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-23
TRAINING CLASSES
BEGIN 9Th YEAR

The Vocational E d u t n
classes for adults for the school
year 1856 started last night, H.
M. Roland, superintendent Of
schools, announced.
This year marks the ninth con-
secutive year in which vocational
classes have been given in the New
Hanover High school.
These courses are open to all
men and women, and there are no
age Imitation" Roland said. mo
tuition fee is charged"
Realizing that Wilmington men
and women in the armed forces
are being discharged in ever-in'
creasing numbers, and are return
ing home, Roland added, every
effort will be made to meet the
needs Of returning veterans who
have a special invitation to at
tend.'
The courses and place Of meet
ing are:
Blueprint reading and drafting,
Room 80, Isaac Bear building.
Machine shop, Room l, Vocational
building.
Carpentry and Cabinet Making,
Room 1872, Isaac Bear building.
Classes will meet each Monday,
Wednesday and Friday evening at
7 o'clock for two hours.
Advance inquiries indicate a
large attendance. Information
may be obtained by calling George
w. West, phone 21344, or by at
tending classes being held this
evening
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-23
FINAL RITES HELD
FOR J. r. MURCHISON
AT ST. JAMES CHURCH

The Rev. Mortimer Glover, rec
tor, of St. James Episcopal
church, conducted the final rites
for John r. Murchison, SIS, prom
inent Wilmington businessman,
yesterday afternoon. Internment
followed in Oakdale cemetery.
A native of Wilmington, Murchi-
son was a member of a disting-
uished family and during his life
was affiliated with many church
and civic enterprises. He was
educated at Washington Catlett' S
Cape Fear Academy, Horner's Mill
tary Institute, and Virginia Mill
tary Institute, later serving in the
first World War as an Ensign in
the Navy. After the war he join
ed his fathers firm the J. w.
Murchison Wholesalers, and later
became president Of the firm.
Honorary palldeare-s were j..
Laurance Sprunt, Cyrus VanLeu-
ven, Lewis Hall, Emmett CroX
Burke Bridgers, Walter Storm, F
H. Fechtig, Robert Tapp, Waddell
Waters, Warren S. johnson, DR.
James F. Robertson, DR.. R. Har'
lee Bellamy, DR.. R. B. Hare, Jr.,
Alex Sprunt, J. B. Rice. Robert
Waddell, Clyde r. Mason, Robert
Sloan, Phillip Heinsbe~ger, Mar
shall Wescoat, Edward Schulken,
Hawkins Hall, H. L. Causey, J.
Thomas King and w. S. Bunting.
Pallbearers were Wallace c.
and John r. Murchison, William
P. and H. MacQueen Emerson,
and Kenneth M. and Laurence
GRAY Sprunt.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-23
Former Army Coaching
Staff Hard-Hit In War

NEW YORK, Oct. 22-R)- Brig
adler General Emmett (Rosy)
ODonnell, one-time army grid
great and recently an air force
hero of World War II, related to.
day that only six of the 12-man
West Point football coaching staff
of the mid-thirties came out of
the war alive-and two of those
six lost legs.
In a surprise appearance at the
New York football writer's lunch
con, Rosy listed these casualties
from the 1934-38 army csaching
staff:
Col. Moe DAILY. who had been
the center on the 1926-27 team be-
fore turning to coaching, was cap
tured on Bataan and died Of ex-
posure after the prison ship on
which ne was held was torpedoed
by one of cur submarines.
Col. Ed Doyle, killed on the beach
at Casablanca during the African
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-23
rrumanMay OHerProgram
On Wqge-Rrices To Board

WASHINGTON, Oct. o. Up -
r,are were strong indications to-
i that President Truman will
no tfer his wage-price program, as
u as the job of leasing postwar
,.hor disputes, to the November S
.hor- Management Conference.
D The President delayed announce
wont of any policy on increasing
maoes and prices. 1t was Learned
w.. s the advisory committee of the
l-r of War Mobilization and
peeconversion, meeting next Mon
dsv and Tuesday, will get a look
" the plan when it is formulated.
This committee consists of top
,obor and management leaders, as
mo1l as farm organization chiefs,
ond is expected to have consider
sb1e to say about any wage-price
nrooram. Virtually the same peo-
ne including AF'L President Will
liam Green, CLIO President Philip
Murray, President Eric Johnston
~ the U. S. Chamber of Com
MERGE, and President Ira Mosher
If the National Association of
Manufacturers, are organizing the
1abor-Management Con f renee
next month.
Mr. Truman today named Chief
Justice Walter P. Stacy OF the
North Carolina Supreme Court to
be chairman of the conference,
which Secretary of Labor Schwel-
Ienbach thinks will last about three
n four weeks.
In the two weeks remaining be-
fore the conference, Mr.. Truman
will confer with virtually all those
who have been invited, according
TO Eben Ayers, White House as
sistant press secretary.
While talking about settling
labor disputes, he might very well
discuss the wage-price issues
which have been occupying his at
tention and that of Schwellenbach,
Reconversion Director Snyder and
his other advisers for the past
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-23

invasion.
Col. Art Meehan, backfield coach,
killed in the Solomons.
Major Jerry Burlingame, killed
in a plane crash before the war.
Brigadier General Blondy Saund-
ers, downed in an air crash in In
dia and recently suffered a leg
amputation.
Colonel Red Reeder, lost leg
in Normandy.
Eats E1linger, died of heart
attack before the wxr.
Major Bob Stillman, shot down
over Germany and still missing.
Colonel Harry Trapnell, another
army grid great, was on the same
prison ship as DAILY, but survived
the sinking, O'Donnell said. The
head coach Of the 1934-38 teams,
Brigadier General Gar Davidson,
is in Europe. Along with him and
O'Donnell, Colonel Bill Wood also
escaped mishap during the war.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-23
Revival Services Will
Continue At 4th Street

The Rev. T. P. Fletcher, blind
musician-evangelist, will continue
the nightly revival services at the
Fourth Street Advent Christian
church at 1880 o'clock. The revl-
val opened Sunday, for two weeks.
Beginning next Sunday eve
ming. the services will be held at
the New Hanover high school au-
ditorium, but throughout this
week the Rev. Mr.. Fletcher will
conduct services at the Fourth
Street Church.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-23

money which can be saved or
spent for more comfortable and
abundant living"
Haslem said an increase in the
minimum wage from 40 to IS cents
would be disastrous" to teachers,
government employees, pensioners
and other fixed income earners.
Under the proposed law the mini
mum would be increased to IS
cents in two years.
- He denied that business could fl.
nance the increase out of its prof.
its alone.
BUY III s VICTORY RnNnS
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-23
Fair Entry

ROCHESTER, N. Y.-U.P)-Wil-
liam Murphy already has an entry
for the county fair next year. 1t is
a most unusual chicken, equipped
with four legs and two tails, and is
now four months old. ''They told
me it wouldn't live," he said, "hut
I put it in with the rest of the brood
and it grew up to be as healthy
as any of them.''
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-23
Pocket Hound

BRAZIL, 1nd.-W.D-Capt. John
Kraka outwitted the Army when
he brought home small dog. He
saws it is "pedigreed German
Reindeer hound and that he tAok
f prisoner at Frankfurt on Main,
Germany. The Army frowns on
bringing pets home, but the dog IS
so small that Father Kraka, a Tor
mer chaplain, kept it in his pocket
most of the time.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-23

Ninety nine consecutive goals
were kicked by Red Weaver, of
Centre College. Danville, KY, all
American of 1919.
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-23
From where | sit .. by Joe Marsh

We were sitting around the
embers of Ed Crumpit's bar
becue last Saturday night, fin
lshing. our beer and hot dogs
while Ed strummed the guitar
-. picking out old, friendly
songs.
Soon everyone was singing.
The harmony wasn't too good
...but the spirit was-a spirit Of
friendship and good humor.
And it made me think how
music-music of the people
overcomes barriers of prejudice
and intolerance. A Yankee folk
song or an English carol or a
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-23
Songs for a
Better World

Southern melody-they all speak
a common language of the heart
-. bind folks together. help us
forget our grudges.
From where I sit, music can
help to make the whole world
kin. Maybe we ought to have
lot more of it informal sings
around the fire, and in the homo.
And it's sure true that mellow
glass of beer fits into the pic
ture. 1t just naturally goes with
that kind of music.
M> M@ax
Adsk
North coroIino Committee
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-23

BUY U. S.. VICTORY BONDS
The Wilmington morning star., 1945-10-23

g 945 UNITED STATES BREWERS
Edgar
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-11
BY LYLE c. WILSON
United Press Staff Correspondent

United Press Staff COrreSpOndent)
 Washington, Jan. 11.-(UP)-The Communist Political Association nee Communist party, wants to inter- vene in the Harry R. Bridges depor- tation case to de-y the charge that party members seek the violent overthrow of the United States goV- ernment.
 The case of Bridges, president of the West Coast Longshoremen'S and Warehousemen's Union (CIO), and alleged Communist, has been pending for five years and flnalyl has reached the seupreme court.
 Bridges took the case there on ap- peal from 8 federal circuit court ruling in San Francisco which de- nied his appeal for rehearing of a decision that he should be deported to his native Australia as an un- desirable alien. Now submitted tc the supreme court is 8 100-page brief signed by Earl Browder, presi- dent, and William z. Foster, vice president, of the Communist Poli- tical Association, requesting the right to intervene.
 The CPA was formed last May by action which simultaneously abol- ished the Communist party, officers and members of the two being identical or practically so. The brief requests permission to intervene 1T the Bridges case for an opportun-
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-11

abolition of German military train ing, and Allied supervision of the German radio and press. Every member joining must subscribe to all the points and pledge to work for them. Membership figures have not been revealed but 1t is believed to be the largest non-party organiza- tion in the country, with a six-fig- ure membership. So-called rival or ganizations fighting the Vansittart principle count their members in hundreds rather than thousands.
 President Vansittart had among his presidents the famous pub fisher Walter Hutchinson, among his council members the late Philip Guedella, Noel Coward and many other famous men. The movement was financed by voluntary small contributions averaging dollar. Of- fices are extremely modern and run by the foremost British public rela- tions man, Frank Siddall.
 Its activities are disseminating propaganda pamphlets advising members what books to read, broad casting, and mass meetings. The ] response to the meetings is terrific.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-11
John Godfrey |Wor Prisoner

Cranston R. l., Jan. ll-(UP)- Americas leading ace in the Euro- pean theater. 22-year-old Capt. John T. Godfrey of Cranston who is credited with 37 enemy planes destroyed, is safe and sound in a German prison camp, according to his first letter home, his mother disclosed today.
 Mrs. Reginald Godfrey said she received a letter and postcard from the captain this week.
 "The postcard was dated Sept. II and the letter Sept. l4." Mrs. God frey added. John wrote thta he was well and that we weren't to worry. He said the football season was starting up at his prison camp and he was hoping an old knee injury wouldn't act up to prevent him from playing.
 Poor John, he also wrote that he regretted the meals he passed up when he was home on furlough last May" Mrs. Godfrey said. You know, he was just out of combat and we couldn't get him to eat at all"
 The aces mother said she was proud and happy" to have hero for son. But we've paid an awful price" she added. Johns brother, Reggie, was lost in the war. John always named the planes he flew 'Reggie's replay' in memory of his brother"
 Mrs. Godfrey also reported that she had received a citation for John from Brig. Gen. Jese AutOn, her sons commander. The citation spoke of Johns record as "an in- Spiration to us all"
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-11

the British perhaps the greatest fa- vor by V-bombing them.
 TWO APPRAISERS
 Vansittart sees only two groups de- manding appeasement and a soft peace: rightiSt businessmen in Lon- don who desire to take up business as usual with Germany, and leftist liberals who have sentimental req sons. English Communists at pres ent subscribe to Vansittart demands, though without referring to him, &C., cording to the London Daily Work CT.
 After delivering series of broad casts for BEG, which later were pulp lished in book form as The Black Record for Germany" he followed the invitation of group of con- servative Parliament members, "the Postwar Policy Group" advising them and formulating ideas of fu- ture treatment of Germany. In or der to secure public support for these ideas he and they started in 1941 a Win the Peace Campaign. " He refused their offer of the presi- dency of a permanent movement suggested by them, since he believed that such movements must not be created by members of one party but on a more general basis.
 TWELVE POINTS
 Therefore he established on his own a Win the Peace Movement. The movement was based on the well-known Vansittart 12 points, in- cluding German unconditional sur render and occupation, trial of wal criminals, German disarmament decentralizing oi the German police
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-11
Youth Week
 Designated

Chicago, July II - Scholarship awards of a four year college edu- cation for the boy and girl of the United Staes or Canada showing greatest evidence of Christian serV- ice and understanding of Christian responsibility will be granted as part of the 1945 Youth Week observance January 28 to February 4, accord ing to the Rev. Isaac K. Beckes, di- rector of youth work for the Inter national Council of Religious Edu- cation and executive secretary Of the United Christian Youth Move ment. Five second awards as well as IS partial scholarships will also be granted, MT. Beckes says.
 "The first awards include $400.O .OO per year for four years in the col lege of the winners choice, and a scholarship each summer at a youth conference" MT. Beckesc stated. These awards are made possible through the Parshad College Schol- arships by MT. Alfred H. Avery of Maiden, Massachusetts Twenty other awards include scholarships to regional summer conferences of the United Christian Youth Move ment."
 Participating will be young people 16 to 25 years of age, who have been active in Christian service in their local church and community, ac- cording to MT. Beckes, and who pre- sent an essay on the general theme of Youth Week, Youth Serves" Winning essays will be presented in churches and communities as part of the Youth Week observance.
 Youth Week is observed through out the United States and Canada and it is expected that more thar 5000 ,000 young people i'll participate 1 in the 1945 celebration. Plans art being made for worship services cen. tered on youth; church and com nunity forums for discussion ol youth problems and opportunitie: for service; and inter-church spon' sored social events.
 The observance of Youth Weeh began more than 30 years ago in thu annual celebration of the birthday of the International Society o. Christian Endeavor. In later year! various church groups have observed an annual youth Sunday or youtl eek. With the growth of the United Christian Youth Movement since 1884 to a continent-wide, interde' nominational organization repre- senting Protestant young people ii the United States and Canada, thu need arose for united observance.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-11
Communists Deny
 Overthrow Charge

ity to argue that the whole matter should be referred back to the jus tice department for hearings so that Bridges may be relieved of the de- portation order and communists be relieved of the governments charge that they aret rying to upset the government by force.
 The Bridges case is a five-year wonder of rulings, counter-rulings and appeals. It began in 1889 when James M. Landis, one of the early members fo the Roosevelt brain trust and later chairman of the securities and exchange commissoin, found after II weeks of hearings that Bridges was not 8 Communist and therefore not subject to de- portation as had been proposed.
 But the question was referred to Judge Charles B. Sears for rehear- ing. Sears found that Bridges had been a Communist and issued an order for his deportation. On Jan. 5, 1942, the immigration appeals board unanimously reversed Sears findings.
 On May 28, 1942, Attorney Gen. eral Francis Riddle overruled the appeals bord, ordering Bridges de- portation on grounds that he had belonged to the Communist party since coming to the United States in 1920
 Riddle ruled that the party from the time of its inception in 1919 to the present time is an organi- ration that believes in, advises, ad- vocates and teaches the overthrow by force and violence of the gov- ernment of the United States"
 Bridges meanwhile is free on $3,O0O bail. Philip Murray. presi- dent of the Congress of Industrial Organiza tions, and others denounc- ed Biddle's ruling. The Commit mist reaction was bitter protest.
 On Feb. 8, 1943, Federal Judge Martin I. Walsh. in Sacramento, Calf. denied a habeas corpus peti- tion sought by Bridges to prevent deportation and on Sept. 27 of that year the circuit court of appeals refused to re-hear the case. Bridges then appealed to the supreme court where the matter still is pending.
 Communists have protested re- peatedly against Biddle'S ruling that they are subversive and, If aliens, should be run out of the country. On June 4. 1943, Bridges union convention in San Francisco dis cussed an appeal to President Roose- welt to repudiate the Riddle ruling. Hope that the President might in- tervene may have been based on his action on May i6, 1942, in conn muting the four year sentence then being served by Browder in fed eral penitentiary. He had been con- victed on charges of fraudulent use of a United States passport. This action, taken about six months after the United States and the Soviet Union became partners in the war against Germany was, MT. Roosevelt said, ito promote national unity"
 But the President has never in tervened in behalf of Bridges so far as the record shows and his last public reference to American Communists was a sharp and un- friendly statement that T do not welcome the support of any person or group committed to Commucism, or Fascism, or any other foreign theology which would undermine the American system of govern ment."
 This statement, made a month before last November's presidential election, jared the Communists bud did not discourage them in any respect from their all-out support of MT. Roosevelt's candidacy.
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-11


 Since reading the British press and talking to people in all walks of life had indicated a growing tenden- cy toward isolationism and appease- ment of future Germany, this cor respondent had sought an interview with Lord Vansittart, who is a known extremist concerning the question of what to do with Ger many.
 He appears younger than his 63 years, good-looking and intelligent. Under numerous governments, he was Undersecretary of State and served as special advisor to the For eign Office. Altogether he has de- voted 40 years to public service.
 While sharply opposed to the ap- peasement policy of Baldwin and Chamberlain, he was unable to pro- test publicly, since he was state employee. His career as fighter for eternal watchfulnesS against Ger many started after he resigned from the service, when he was 60 years old. Vansittart, shrewd judge of the trend of public opinion in Eng land, admits that for many years before the war the public was in- different toward Germany.
 However, all this is changed, he says. While the people are eager to return to their own problems and the English generally are incapable of thorough hating, the vast majority are now determined to end the Ger man menace once and for all. Van- sittart believes that V-bombs did the trick, and says that from long l ranGe VieWnnint the NaZiS thlS did
The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-11

Vansittart today is second only to Churchill as a popular speaker. Of course, he is widely attacked by his opponents of which the foremost is The Never Again Association" run by Mrs. Tennant, who is a former member of The Anglo-American Fellowship" a pro-Nazi organiza- ton dissolved at the beginning of the war. Vansittart, amused at the attacks, refuses to sue his opponents, lest he provide publicity for them. Incidentally, Vansittart probably will go to the United States shortly on lecture tour.
 TO ASSURE FUTURE
 Vansittart says, the main object of the movement is to assure the fu- ture when am dead. The next generation must watch that no fu- ture government gives in to future German demands. They must be