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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-03
Tabor City To Have
New Lumber COMPANY

The Waccamaw Lumber Cor.
poration Of Tabor City, was char
tered yesterday by Secretary of
State Thad Eure, according to the
Associated Press.
The company will buy and sell
forestry products.
The authorized capital stock of
$loo, 600 was subscribed by John E..
Wrenn and Lucille T. Wrenn, OF
Greensboro, and Frank P. Buck.
Of Salisbury.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-03
GRANGE SPEAKERS

HIGH POINT, Jan. 1.-lRHThe
North Carolina State Grange con-
vention, which will be held here
January Gil, will feature talks by
Governor Cherry, Senator Clyde
Hoey and DR.. Dumont Clarke of
Asheville.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-03
TOO MANY HAMLETS

Glen H. Taylor, the COWBOY senator from
Idaho, complained the other day that when
he played the guitar and sang on the cap
itol steps, he made page l, with picture and
story, all over the country, but when he pro-
posed world republic to save mankind in
the senate, he only got in one newspaper.
tucked way back on Page 16-Salikbury
Evening Post.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-03
EXECUTED

YENAN, China, Dec. SIDE
!ayeO-R)-The first high-rank-
ing war criminal convicted in
China, Yu Punching, who amassed
fortune in dealing with the Japa-
nese, walked to his death before a
Chinese Communist firing squad in
Kalgan four days ago.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-03
APPOINTED

MOSCOW, Jan. 2.-tR-The Sow.
let government announced today
that Andrea Gromyko, assado1
to the United States, had been an.
pointed as the Russian representa-.
tive on the Far Eastern commits.
sion agreed upon at the recent
three-power meeting in Moscow.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-03
COMMISSION TO MEET

SHELBY, Jan. 2.- R The
North Carolina Aeronautics COM
mission will meet in Shelby Jan.
22-23. Sen. Roy Rowe OF Burgaw
is chairman Of the group which
will hold an executive session on
It's opening da-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-03

The worlds first twin-fuselage
military plane, the P-s2 Twin Mus.
tang, Is said to have a speed of 425
miles an hour.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-03

In Latin-American countries
roasted pumpkin seeds are seld at
peddler's stands much as roasted
peanuts are sold in this country.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-03

France alone is the judge in questions in
which she is interested and she is interested
in everything. -Georges Bidault, French For
eirn Minister.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-03

o God the all-terrible, have mer-
cy upon mankind, which has 50
grievously sinned against Thee
Amen,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-03
TOP o. THE MORNING

Since we are to live forever We have
time for all things, especially to get ready
- live forever.
Amos B. Wells.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-03
TheLiterary
Guidepost
By w. G, ROGERS

ny W. W 1VO0HA00
THE KINGS GENERAL, by
Daphne du Maurier Double
Evening star., 1946-07-25

administration Is basing its hopes for
political preferment on the re-establish-
ment OF price controls. No one knows
exactly which way the sentiment of the
people will jump-and on that senti-
ment will depend in considerable part
the outcome Of the congressional cleo
tions in November.
The Republicans insist that had the
President signed the original bill ex-
tending the OPA for year, the present
situation in which some prices have
risen rapidly would have been avoided
Further, they maintain that the admin
lstration, with considerable Democratic
maJorities in both houses, must in the
END be held responsible for whatever
happens.
When Congress has left Washington
as 1t intends to do at the earliest pos
sibie moment-the administration will
be left holding the bag All the conun-
drums propounded in the new bill will
nave to be solved by the President and
his board and the OPA. II things do
not go right. the administra ton will
nave tough time convincing the people
that the blame rests with individual
members OF Congress, Republicans or
Democrats
The new board will have its hands full
Presumably 1t will be appointed without
delay, since it must be confirmed bv the
Senate To find the right men. with
ability to pass on these economic and
price control questions. may be difficult
The President may, if he wishes, ap-
point board composed of men and
women devoted entirely to the price
control idea-strong hackers of the OPA
This may be the natural thing for him
TO DO. That means a board with closed
minds, however. From a political point
OF view, it might be an advantage to
appoint three Republicans he could
get Republicans to stick their necks out.
Republicans in Congress have for the
most part taken a stand against con-
unuance OF the OPA as 1t operated in
the past year-and some of them have
been against its continuance at all
Generally speaking however, the Re-
publican attitude has been for a reten
ton OF some controls, with a gradual
process of elimination of all controls
That, too, has been the attitude of some
Democrats.
On the whole the Democratic attitude
mas been more favorable to the Presi-
cents demand for an unchanged OPA.
All OF this is going into the coming CAM
palgn and 1t may be major issue.
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Mr.. Whites Letters

1t is altogether fitting that the
papers of William Allen White of
the Emporia Gazette should be
added to those of other great Amer
leans preserved in the Library of
Congress. He was a writer of dis
tinction, not merely of books, edito-
rials and features" but very notably
of letters. The richness of his genius
perhaps was demonstrated in no
more particular way than in the
fact that after a hard days grind
in the production of formal copy"
he could turn without visible effort
to the art of intimate personal
expression and achieve authentic
epistolatory masterpieces.
Mr.. White himself would have
laughed at such an attempt to sum-
Marie his correspondence skill. His
sense of humor kept him free from
the danger to taking any OF his
capacities too seriously. Yet he was
too good, too conscious, too deliber-
ate a craftsman to fail to recognize
a writing job as being we'll done,
when indeed it were we'll done. He
knew his worth just as he knew the
worth of his contemporaries, and his
letters prove it just as his more
professional endeavors proved it.
But the correspondence files of
Mr.. White undoubtedly were closer
to his heart than his public writing.
He never shut himself out of his
work; he was a personal editor
exactly as Horace Greeley and Henry
Watterson were, yet he belonged to
his own age and commonly in his
books and editorials strove for the
detachment and the objectivity
which are fashionable now.
All the more reason, then, why the
preservation of his correspondence
should be important. 1t represents
a Recommendation of the political and
social enterprise OF a significant era
in the history of the United States,
it brings together the opinions, the
ideas, the enthusiasms and naturally
the prejudices of the leaders of the
progressive" and liberal" move
ments of the years between 1900
and Mr.. Whites death in 1914; it
shows what his reactions were, what
his influence was, what his value Is
Someday, the best of the En-
porian's letters will be "antholo-
gized" in a separate volume as his
editorials have been. In the mean
time, the Library Of Congress Ger
tainly should exhibit such items as
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Intelligence Hondicops

In recommending that effective
steps be taken to insure that statu-
tory or other restrictions do not
operate to the benefit of an enemy
or other forces inimical to the Ma
TONS security and to the handicap
of our own intelligence agencies" /"
the Joint Committee on Pearl Harbor
joined with the Roberts Commission
in calling attention to provision of
the Federal Communications Act
which has operated seriously to the
advantage of foreign spies and to
the disadvantage of American coun-
terespionage agents, before and since
Pearl Harbor.
This Is the so-called tapping
section of the FEC Act. The section
makes it illegal for any person to
Intercept" and "divulge" any tele-
phone, cable or radio message pass
ing between two subscribers. The
Supreme Court has held this proviso
to mean that evidence obtained by
tapping the wires of a criminal, a
spy or any one else is illegal. Thus,
prior to Pearl Harbor. the Federal
Bureau of Investigation and Army
and Navy intelligence agents were
seriously handicapped in their ef-
forts to keep tab on suspected Japa-
nese spies. A few exceptions were
authorized by the President in the
interest of national security, but
even the intercepted magic" mes
sages would have been rejected as
court evidence had there been any
reason to use them as such. After
Pearl Harbor the President specifi-
cally instructed the Attorney Gen.
eral to authorize the FBI to use
wire-tapping in espionage investiga-
tions, but here again none of the
evidence actually obtained in this
way was admissible in court.
Numerous efforts have been made
IN the past to secure elimination of
the overlapping restrictions insofar
IS the FBI and intelligence agencies
are concerned, but without avail.
Chief opponent of the change was
former FEC Chairman James Law
renee Fly. The Joint Committee on
Pearl Harbor is correct in holding
that Congress should give serious
Evening star., 1946-07-25

State income tax takes about 81 900
more
On this basis the Presidents SPEND
able annual income is $311o8.
FOR any ordinary citizen this would
oe nothing to complain about, but the
PRESIDENT, In matter of expenses. is
NOT ike other people. He is compelled
10 i've IN the White House and enter
taln extensively and while much of
tnls IS covered by expense allowances
ms personal financial burden still is
heavy.
warning his successor, President viii.
son. OF what was in store for him
president Taft wrote, you can calcu-
late that your expenses are only those
Oh furnishing food to large boarding
mouse OF servants and to your family
and your personal expenses of cloth
ing, etc.
Even SO, Taft said, he had been able
10 save an average of only $4,000 a
year, indicating that his annual personal
expenses as President were $4,000. At
that time there was no income tax
whatever. and the salary, as now, was
$75,00O. "'
Mr.. Truman, with his income after
taxes reduced to $31 900, still has the
same large boarding house of servants"
IA OF them by recent count-to feed.
and cost of food has multiplied several
times over, since Mr.. Taft's presidency.
The British way is to make certain
official salaries tax free, as instance Lord
Inverchapel, British Ambassador to the
United States, who gets $4,000 salary.
plus large allowances for official expense
all free from taxes. The Congressman
say. however, that 1t is out of the ques-
tion to give the President a tax-free
salary, without doing the same for all
other Government off1cials-and that.
they are sure. American voters never
would stand for.
The best Mr.. Truman can hope for. It
appears, Is that the servant boarding
house" will be taken of his hands by an
increased expense allowance for that
purpose. but there has been no visible
inclination Of Congress even to do that
much.
released. North American Newspaper Anianee.)
Evening star., 1946-07-25
DE- This Changing World
By Constantine Broyn

ment. Politically she is in a we'll nigh
unassailable position.
RuSsia's disinterest in actual unifica-
ton of Germany-although paying lip
service to the principle-finds its real
explanation In the struggle which is
going on for the whole of Germany.
Russia knows that her proximity to
Germany on the continent of Europe
gives her long-term advantage for
supremacy there, and ii the United
States and Britain intend to deny her
control OF all Germany they will have
to stay in Germany a long time. a
prospect which neither the United
States nor Britain is likely to relish
Russia knows that one of these days
even rs years from now-American and
British occupation will be at an end, and
she is building her political and economic
edif1ce in Eastern Germany in prepara-
ton for that day.
1t is out Of the question to expect the
Russians-bent on establishing a Com
munist regime in Germany-to enter
into any uniflcation scheme which would
disturb either their present economic or
political advantages. If Eastern Ger
many is the breadbasket of Central
Europe. then food from that region will
be exported to the rest of Germany only
In return for compensation advantages
in the western zones
X
Meanwhile, the American and British
governments are carrying a terrific
burden in attempting to feed their zones
OF Germany without the assistance
Which normally could be expected from
the eastern farmlands. Certainly the
meager rations in those zones will not
endear the German people to the occu-
pying powers at the same time that they
see the Eastern Germans well-nourished
and returning to a semblance of normal
life.
Such difficulties for the Americans and
British are, of course. quite satisfying
to the Russians, who weigh all matters
OF Germany in the light of their ultimate
purpose OF engulfing the entire country.
The tougher time the Americans and
British have in the occupation the sooner
will they be gone, the Russians reckon.
The fate, then, of the American pro-
posal for economic unification of Ger
many depends almost wholly on the
Russians. Even II the French and
British accept the American plan and
enter into tripartite control of the
three now separate occupation zones
the great economic dividing line between
the industrial west and the agricultural
east will remain. and little will be solved
Tor the economic future Of either Ger
many or the continent Of Europe.
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Presidential Paw
By Jay g. Hayden

In the present deluge of Govern
ment pay raises the forgotten man
seems to be President Truman.
Last week Congress boosted all Fed
eral judges 5000 a year, and recently
all American diplomats were granted in
creases, ranging up TO $500 (from
$l7,5O0 to $25,00O for ambassadors.
In passing the pending La Toilette
Monroney congressional reorganization
bill before this week end, Congressman
will provide so per cent raise (s1O,-
600 to $4,000 for themselves.
Raises for all civil service employees,
averaging IA per cent, took effect july
l, as did the so per cent jump in base
pay of enlisted personnel of the Army
and Navy. with lesser increases for
higher ranks
only has been no increase in pay of
the President since 1909, when the
salary was fixed at $4,000, but his
take-home pay, due to income taxes,
has diminished well over half since
that time.
And, while the plight of Mr.. Truman.
much the poorest financially among
recent Presidents, is freely bemoaned
Wy AllS 1IlCIlOS, UlcUlOeTS OF Gne AD-
propriations Committees of Congress
say the subject never has been men
toned in their deliberations.
h'&
One reason for this is that the prob
lem of raising the Presidents take
home pay is difficult. Suppose, for
example, his salary were boosted to
100000. The top 5000. of even a
$4,000 net income is taxed $4,050 (81
per cent? and the rate ranges up to
81 per cent on the $50 ,000-to- 800 900
income bracket. Thus an ostensible
$4,000 boost for the President would
net him less than $4,000 actual increase
Like everybody else's, the Presi-
dents tax return is kept secret, but
it is we'll known that Mr.. Truman has
little or no income other than his
salary. A congressional tax expert asked
to compute the present tax on a net
income Of $75,o00 for man and wife
with one dependent tthe Truman status,
placed 1t at $42,se2. The Missouri
Evening star., 1946-07-25
The Political Mill
By Gould Lincoln

The country is about to experience a
revival Of the OPA-after being nearly
a month without the controls imposed,
TWO things have happened. The people
have been able to buy meat and butter
and number of other things they could
not get-except In very limited quantities
under OPA. Prices have advanced.
but not to the degree prophesied by the
calamity -howlers who demanded a con-
tinuance Of OPA without change for
another year. Sometimes it is difficult
to decide whether the 100 -per-c sup
porters of the OPA would or would not
prefer to see imitation with the controls
lifted.
The new OPA bill which seems as
sured OF becoming law is a monstrosity
neither one thing nor the other. 1t
restores some controls and leaves others
to be imposed. If considered necessary.
by new 3-man board, which really
takes over authority of the OPA. Some
controls. as in the case of meats, 20
back automatically on August 20 unless
the board decides they shall not be re-
imposed. You can get predictions either
way regarding what is to happen in the
case OF livestock, dairy products, grains,
-
With bumper crops Of grains coming
in, 1t would seem unnecessary to do any,
thing about them. A reimposition Of
controls over meats and livestock would
in all probabil have the effect of driv-
Ing these products back into the black
market. While the Taft amendment,
against which President Truman in
weighed bitterly in his veto OF the first
bill sent him, has been eliminated. a
substitute has been written which seeks
to give manufacturers of industrial
goods prices that cover costs plus rea-
sonable profit.
The wrangle over the continuance of
price controls-the OPA-has both an
economic and political aspect, which
are closely intertwined. On the economic
side, full and adequate production, with
the old law Of supply and demand even
tually making the prices is involved. If
any one doubts lack of production under
the operation of the OPA, let him try
to purchase refrigerator, water bottle.
white shirt. or an automobile-or a
hundred other things. On the economic
side also is the question of prices with
out controls, which the supporters of
OPA visualize as flying sky high.
On the political side, the lack of sup
plies OF all kinds is a constant irritation
to the people. Measured against this is
the predicted rise In prices. The Truman
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Rocking Choir

Strange hoto rocking chair can bring
such ease:
1t holds the rhythm OF the earth and
sky
As softly to and fro 1t s,Days; here peace
Is one tDith all that stays, or furries By.
The chair creates an equilibrium
That nothing can disturb. for, epen
still,
1t seems to move, az tt some one had
come
And set 1t rocking Nth a secret ,raL
Many ,Oho rocked upon this chair are
So gone
Beyond this summer porch, snd
friendly sound
OF rocking no,o their furniture OF
stone
Is anchored, everlasting, to the ground.
And yet see them, resting In the chair
As II they still pere ,oaiting, rocking
there.
MAE WINKLER GOODMAN.
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Russiu and Bikini

A few hours before the news came
In from Bikini yesterday, the news
from New York was that Russia had
decided-perhaps not irrevocably-
that horse and drosky thinking
would be good enough for the atomic
age. From the standpoint of inter
national collective security, nothing
could be more depressing, nor could
anything better illustrate the essen
TALLY backward and reactionary
nature of the much-touted great
and progressive" Soviet experiment.
The reports from Bikini are still
somewhat fragmentary, but they
leave little room for doubt that the
underwater atomic explosion was
even more deadly than the devas-
tating midair burst Of few weeks
ago. Clearly. unquestionably, the
A-bomb is so awesomely destructive
In relation to sea power that revo-
lutionary changes have become
mandatory in the makeup, the con-
struction, the tactics and strategy of
the worlds navies. AS for cities, in
dustrial concentrations, land armies
and the like, we already have the
detailed story of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki to demonstrate beyond the
slightest margin of debate that the
problem of security among nations
has been profoundly transformed
and that unless this terrible new
power is subjected to effective inter-
national control, civilization will be
inviting it's own suicide.
Yet, despite all this, here we have
Andrei A. Gromyko in New York
saying to the world, in effect, that
Russia chooses to live according to
the standards of dead age and to
cope with the atom much as an
ostrich would, burying its head deep
in the sand and feeling safe and
secure in a blissful state of seeing
nothing, hearing nothing and un-
derstanding nothing. This, at any
rate, would seem to be the chief
implication of Mr.. Gromyko's re-
lection of the American plan for
system of international atomic con-
troll with teeth in 1t, unhampered by
the veto Of any power.
1t Is revealing measure of
Moscow's obsolete thinking that no
other nation of consequence Is
opposed to the American plan. On
the contrary, in It's essentials, it is
universally favored, the Soviet Union
alone excepted. Hiroshima, Naga-
saki, the two tests at Bikini, the
sharp and urgent warnings of all
the statesmen and scientists who
know the true meaning of the atom
none of these things has convinced
Russia. There it stands, the least
forward looking of the worlds great
nations. Possibly, when it comes to
realize how uniquely backward it
is, it will begin to change it's mind
and act as 1t must act If the atomic
age Is not to degenerate into in
comparably the most dangerous
armaments race since the beginning
of time.
Evening star., 1946-07-25
Wasted Blood and Sweat?

Yes, we sweat blood" said Major
General Alden H. Watt, chief of the
Chemical Warfare Service. He was
answering a question by Senator
Ferguson as to whether any effort
was made to find out the cause of
defective mortar ammunition during
the war. It seems that the cause
was never determined. 1t may have
been poor manufacture. 1t may have
been faulty specification. 1t may
have been poor design. But although
the Chemical Warfare Service knew
that soldiers were being killed with
their own ammunition, that instruc-
tions were issued to forestall acci-
dents by changing the method of fir
ing and that quantities of ammuni-
tion were destroyed lin the apparent
belief that it might be defective), the
Chemical Warfare Service has not
found out yet what was the matter
with the shells. That is more sur
prising than the fact that some am
munition was defective. But If the
Chemical Warfare Service officers
sweat blood" In trying to find out,
there must be record somewhere of
when and where they sweated. And
this is the record-the record of the
sweating to find out-that the Mead
committee is properly interested in
obtaining. General Watt inclines to
the theory that specifications in
manufacture may have been defec-
tive. Something, not disclosed in his
printed testimony, evidently makes
him believe it. What the public would
like to know now is why the Chemi-
cal Warfare Service, over year after
the end of the war in Europe, does
not know the cause of the defective
ammunition and exactly what steps
were taken. during the blood sweat
ing period, to find out.