The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-04-29
CAROLINA
FROM THE
CAPITAL
By DAVID BRINKLEY 4
Star-News Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON. April 28.-The nations ship
wards are releasing $4,000 workers each
month as their contracts are fulfilled, and
officials at five big yards report that absen-
teeism and attention to duty have vastly
improved since the layoffs started. The War
Manpower Commission says this is true to
lesser extent among workers in other war
industries, since most manufacturing plants
will convert or re-convert to civilian produc
ton, taking their present employees along with
them. But for most shipyard workers, the
future is highly uncertain. There still is no
clear picture of how many, if any, war-born
shipbuilders will be able to stay in business
in peacetime, and no Washington official or
agency concerned with theinduStry will Of
fer any guess.
One of the most powerful of Washington S
newer lobbies is operating against coopera-
tives-farm, consumer distribution etc.-of
which the Wilmington area has several. The
lobby, obviously heavily financed, has distrib-
uted an elaborate brochure trying to prove
through charts and graphs that tax-free CO.
operatives are increasing at alarming
rate and that they constitute an unfair threat
to private tax-paying business. So far as is
publicly noticeable, no one In authority has
paid it much attention
The Veterans Administration says it will be
80 to 90 days before Wilrnington's local con-
tact office can be opened. The delay is due
to manpower scarcities. The VA is in worse
need of workers than any other government
| agency. For that reason more than $50 600
veterans claims are in need of attention. and
the situation gets worse every day. The VA
has even tried to persuade clerks from other
agencies to come over at night and work
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Charlotte, N. c., will be among the first
cities in the nation to be connected into a
postwar television network Cables will begin
to extend southwark from Washington as soon
as war needs will allow going to Richmond,
Charlotte, Atlanta and then westward. Tele-
vision network service will be available to
Wilmington and other eastern North Carolina
cities as soon thereafter as local broadcast
outlets become commercially practicable
The Trumans still haven't moved into the
White House. The painters haven't finished
yet j.. office space here is as scarce as
housing. Jesse Jones began looking for an
office when he left the RFC at President
Roosevelts invitation and hasn't found one
yet. He's still attending to his multifariors
business enterprises from hotel room
add horrors of war: there will be little or
no book beer this spring that one
legged veteran the Washington baseball club
signed on as a coach has proved to be a
valuable man despite his handicap SUI
preme Court clerks say there's no telling
when decision will be handed down in North
Cardinals suit against increased railroad pas.
senger fares . War Food Administrator
Marvin Jones may be quitting soon to go
back to his bench in the Court Of Claims.
]. B. Hutson, deputy to War Mobilizer Vim
son, is mentioned as probable successor
|. the Labor Department, examining the
typical government girls budget, finds it took
minimum of $1,168 year to. live here in
1887 and at least $1,925 in 1914 Since 60
per cent of the 100000 government workers
here don't make that much, the current bill
to give them an increase has a good chance
to be passed Mrs. Thurman Arnold,
the judges wife. used to name her setting
eggs for prominent friends as an amusing
hobby. In one batch Stanley Reed Matched
first and Hugo Black came next But one
named for Labor Secretary Frances Perkins
turned out to be rooster