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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-01-25

AM WILLING to believe that
Westbrook Pegler has his fingers
straight-although / would like to
point out that even large sum like
a billion dollars set aside for the pro-
lection of 10 millions of workers and
their families narrows down to the
pitiful sum of only 800 per family.
But what object to in Pegler-and
in most union leaders, tools that
they should expect things to be differ
ent than they are so long as we persist
in tolerating the dog-eat-dog economy
to which all profit-takers and most
wage earners register their approval
The evils which both workers and
employers-and barnacles like Pegler
condemn are the evils, not of people,
but of capitalism. 1t is necessary to
know that and to remember it. So
long as one class owns the means of
life and exploits another class that
works, all the details of conflict will
be present as necessary and inescap-
able factors in our individuals and ma
tional lives So long as insecurity in
the possession of enough of life's me-
cessities remains constant condition
of existence, so long will everybody
strive to get more than enough, with
out regard for the welfare Of his fell
low man.
The point | would make against Peg
Ter, then, is not that he is wrong II
even though l generally believe he is
wrong in the conclusions he draws
but that he, as one who proposes to
keep the capitalist economy alive as
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The people's voice. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1939-1969, 1946-01-25
PEGLER AND
CHRISTMAS
BY RAYMOND S. HoFsEs

| TIE AMAZING HOW quickly thing
can happen to one. Here | was jus
few minutes ago on the morning aft
er Christmas, still enjoying the glow
of Christmas cheer and brotherhood
and reflecting upon how pleasant il
is to live in world where people are
friendly and happy and generous.
And then l read Westbrook Peglerl
So now l know that what / saw on
Christmas day was not the real "Mc
Coy" after all. All of sudden | real
lied that the kindness and love and
giving of the day before was just a
cross-section, not of what people ARE
and must be in this best of all possible
worlds, but what they hope to be and
who knows ?-some day may be.
WHAT WESTBROOK TOLD me on
the day after Christmas was that I'M
ion dues constitute charge upon the
general public. What he griped about
was that literally billions" are
amassed by the labor unions.
1t was when l began to think along
with Pegler and question why it was
that labor unions should want so much
money in their treasures that under
stood that the Christmas spirit is as
far removed from everyday life as
Santa Claus is from Wall Street.
The real world in which we live and
work is not composed of relatives and
friends at all. The people with whom
we have to live are strangers or com
petitors or enemies. Within a re-
stricted circle we like PERSONS. But
we don't like our fellow men and
women.
That's the meaning of union funds.
Union treasures are war chestsl
Those dollars held by labor's organi.
cations are the ammunition that work
ers' unions know they will have to use
in their never-ending conflict with I'M
ions of exploiters and profit-takers
whose interests are different from and
hostile to workers.
That's the way the private-profit
economy and class society in which we
work and live make us. We live in
world of enemies, so we spend a few
dollars to please Tom, Dick and Harry
on one day of the year, amass a bill
lion or two to do battle against our
class opponents and spend hundreds
Of billions to develop atom bombs cap
able of speedily and utterly destroying
al our enemies and ourselves along
with them.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
DARKNESS HALTS
SEARCH IN RIVER
Four Drown In Motorboat
Accident On Catawba;
One Recovering !

CHARLOTTE, Feb. 4 Hp) -
Darkness tonight forced weary
searchers to abandon until tonor-
row efforts to recover from the
Catawba river the bodies of two
young men, who with two COM
panlons were drowned in q Sum-
day motorboat accident.
Mecklenburg county police head
quarters said the bodies of two
young women, Sue Tummire. 10.
of Hickory and Helen Overcast.
20, of Charlotte, were recovered
today during dragging operations.
The other victims, whose bodies
will be the object of a renewed
search tomorrow, were William
Shields, %, and William Stewart,
%, both recently discharged from
the armed forces. Both lived near
Charlotte.
Meanwhile, a fifth occupant Of
the boat-and the only one able
to swim to safety when it capsized
in the Catawba county section Of
the river Sunday afternoon-was
reported recovering today from
the effects of exposure and shock.
She is Mildred Overcast, 20,
first cousin of one of the drowned
girls.
All Of the girls were student
nurses at Charlotte's Mercy hos
pital.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05

The sale, which will be the lare.
est in the south Atlantic reoion
since the wars end, will he w
an all-cash basis, and bids NAV
be submitted for one or anv n,,no
Der OF items but a separate amount
must be bid for each BUILDING or
improvements constituting an
item. oil
Under terms of the sale remov.
a! OF all buildings must be com
pleted by August 1, 1916 or prin-
clpals must deal with the owners
OF the property thereafter.
Many of the buildings, includ-
ing mess halls, are equipped with
stoves, sinks, refrigerators, etc.,
while a large amount of the lum-
ber used in the buildings could
be salvaged and used for building
homes, according to W. F. Viii
liams, project manager, real es-
tate branch of the Engineers office.
Commencing today and for the
next few weeks, guides will be on
the property for the express pur-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
FEARS EXPRESSED
OVER ship RESCUE

SEWARD, Alaska, Feb. 4U.I)
The S. S. Yukon, aground on
the jagged rocks of treacherous
johnson bay with 495 persons
aboard, was reported "breaking
up fore and aft'' tonight in a rag
ing north Pacific blizzard and the
Coast Guard ordered rescue at
tempts despite the mountainous
seas.
No injuries among the 371 pas
sengers and 124 crew members
were reported by the ships cap
tain who advised naval district
headquarters at Kodiak that the
Yukon was listing 20 degrees in
the raging waters.
Standing by and attempting to
get a line aboard the stricken
vessel was the Coast Guard Cut
ter Onondago, which picked up
the Yukon's first distress signal
at 9:O9 a. m. (EST) today and
reaching the ship about nine hours
rushed Immediately to her aid,
later.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
Dignified Justices Uphold
ModestyOfMagazine Girl

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-UP)-
The dignified justices of the SUI
preme court today unanimously
upheld the modesty of the curva-
ceous but scanti1y clad Varga Girl.
The court ended two-year legal
dispute by ruling that Esquire
magazine, Varga girl and all, can
be sent through the mails at Sec
ond class rates. 1t arrived at it's
decision after inspecting .life-size
exhibits Of the seml-nude wench.
Started BY Walker
Former Postmaster General
Frank c. Walker started the long
court fight. He tried to ban the
magazine from the second : class
mails on the grounds that its con-
tents. and especially the Varga
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
ALL IT, CITIZENS
HAVE $l,996 DEBT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4-(P) =
The public debt today rose again
to new high, reaching $279, 444,
GIG, 1888, or $287 ,296, 835.19 more
than the previous high.
The new high figure covered the
debt through the end of January
Treasury analysts said the debt
had increased by approximately
$772, 100000 in January, chiefly
due to issuance of 1854, 900. 900 in
new special government securities
issues.
Based on the nations current
population of about 140, 100000, the
new debt total equals about $1,996
per person,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
SCHOOL CUSTODIANS
STRIKE BRINGS Joy
TO 10000 CHILDREN

ST. LOUIS, Feb. T. B -
Seventy thousand school chill
dren enjoyed an unscheduled
holiday today and a wage dis
pute between members of the
AFL custodians and matrons
union and the board of luca-
ton gave every indication of
closing all of the city's 129 pub
lie schools by tomorrow.
The custodians union is ask
ing a $40 average monthly
wage increase.
A strike voted by the union
two months ago started at 7
am. and all but 81 schools
were forced to suspend classes
either because of lack of heat,
water or food or Lecause build
ings were locked.
John Rollings, secretary of
the AFL Central Trades and
Labor union, said picket lines
would be thrown around all
school buildings tomorrow.
Approximately $4,000 stu
dents will be affected if all
schools are closed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
PAULEY GIVES LIE
TO TANKER CHARGE
California Oil Magnate
Denies He Told Thorn
burg OF 5000 Deal

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4. - U.D -
Edwin w. Pau1ey, California oil
magnate and former treasurer OF
the Democratic National commit
tee, today branded as "deliber-
ate, premeditated lie" charges by
a former State department en-
ploye that he expected to get $4,000
out of the transfer of a U. s..
tanker to Mexico.
The charges were made by Max
W. Thornburg, former State de-
partment petroleum adviser, be-
fore the Senate Naval Affairs COM
mittee which is studying Pauley S
nomination to be Undersecretary
of the Navy.
Thornburg said that Pauley told
him in late July or early August,
1941, that he stood to realize $4,000
from the tanker deal if it was ap-
proved by the State department.
Thornburg quoted Pauley as saying
he did not want the money for him
self, but planned on turning it over
to the Democratic campaign chest.
Pauley categorically denied the
allegation. In turn, he accused
Thornburg, a former vice-presi-
dent of Standard Oil company, of
resisting efforts by oil companies
other than his own to go into
Mexico.
'Thornburg never at any time
wanted anybody to fool with Mex
leo except his own company and
affiliates, Standard Oil and She'll"
Pauley said. ...4.-
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
REPORTS SAY ARMY
WILL LEAVE CHINA
High-Ranking Naval Off.
GERS Confer With Mar
shall At Chungking

CHUNGKING, Feb. 4.-WR)-TWo
high-ranking American naval Of
ficers conferred with Gen. George
C. Marshall today amid uncon-
firmed reports that the U. S. army
plans to pull out of China as soon
as possible, leaving American in
terests completely in the hands of
the Navy and Marine Corps.
Meeting with Marshall were Vice
Admiral Charles M. Cooke, Jr.,
U. S. Seventh Fleet commander,
and Vice Admiral Stuart Murray,
former commander of the famed
American Battleship Missouri, who
is laying the groundwork for
future naval mission to China.
Lending credence to reports that
China soon may become naval
theater is the fact that naval
forces in China now outnumber
army personnel. Because of this,
Cooke outranks the U. S. army
commander in China, 1t. Gen. Al
bert C.. Wedemeyer.
1t was pointed out that the navy
will be busy for some time in the
future in its task of repatriating
Japanese, transporting Chinese
troops and training the fledgling
Chinese navy.
Meanwhile, it was announced
that Marshall will tour the COM
bat areas where fighting has
ceased during the middle of Feb
ruary in company with Gen.
Chang Chin-Chung, head of the
political training board of the Ma
tional Military Council, and Chou
En-lai, chief Communist negotia-
tor in organization of a unified
China.
Marshall, after exchanging views
with many authorities, now is
a broad plan designed to
bring lasting peace to the far east.
1t is understood the plan will be
presented to the White House for
when it is complete.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
AFL Tugboat
Men Throttle
New York(ify
Administration Maps Emer.
gency Plans After Peace
Move Fails
BRASS WORKERS OUT
President Truman Renews
Efforts To End Nations
No. | Walkout

STRIKE SITUATION TODAY
Nations total idle in labor
disputes passes 1,400,000 mark.
Major developments:
Shipping-Strike of 5000 AFL
tugboat workers in New York
harbor termed SO per cent eff
fective by union official; city
maps emergency measures.
Brass-14, 400 CIO brass work
ers strike against two of brass
industry's 'eBig Three" in
Connecticut and Buffalo, N.
Y.
Steel-President Truman sum-
mons labor secretary, union
leaders to conference apparent
ly c0~cerned with the amount
of q boost in steel prices;
new pricing formula expected
from White House.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
AND so TO BED.

You know how aunts, uncles,
and cousins are. They all want
ed a picture of the little niece,
I.
Only picture the family had
was an enlargement; it was
the only picture, in fact, that
ever had been taken of the lit
tie girl and Mama wouldn't
part with it.
Yesterday, being rather
bright and sunny, an uncle
decided to take a picture Of
the little girl.
Previously, there had been
some kidding in the family
about taking the picture from
Mama"
So when Uncle came cut
with the camera and told the
little girl he was going to take
her picture, she went into
something close to a tantrum.
You will not take my pic
ture," she stamped her foot.
And, by the verichrome, they
didn't take her picture-until
she'd been given the one on the
mantel-piece to hold tightly in
her little hands while Uncle
snapped with his camera.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
BACK TO NORMALCY - There l.

BACK TO NORMALCY - There
is definite indication that the world
is returning to normalcy after long
vears at war. Especially here in
Wilmington.
But, what with the papers full
of strikes, and this high official
and that one calling another one
name of names, and everything be-
ing in sort of general stew, we'd
never know about the return to
normalcy if we hadn't strolled
down Front street late the other
night.
There, in the show window OF
the W. J. Hines Candy company,
was a display chock full OF those
huge, red-striped peppermint
sticks. They were even bigger than
the ones Grandpa used to say ne
got in his stocking over the hearth
of Christmas morning.
BETTER THAN PRE-WAR-The
huge sticks-some OF them must
weigh five pounds = look better
than any we saw before the war.
We didn't get a chance 10 ta!k
to the Hines people about tEelr
supply. It was too late when we
walked by-about three O'CLOCK III
the morning. :.
There was some wonderment in
our musing about how they can
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
COIN BOX ROBBERIES
HOLD UP TOTALS ON
"DIMES" CAMPAIGN

w. X. Rhodes, Jr., chairman
of the March of Dimes, said
last night full account of yes
terday's total could not be CIV
en- because seven coin boxes
had been stolen during the aft
ernoon.
Chairman Rhodes once again
warned the public, "hold to
those coin boxes until we call
for them"
With the county quota short
$1,000, the committee has de-
cided, the chairman explained,
to hold the balance of the
month open for the receiving
of the checks that the present
totals of over $4,000 might be
added to.
The drive closed officially
last Thursday, Rhodes pointed
out, but the local campaign
was continued through yester-
day.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
WOMEN ARE URGED
TO CONSERVE HOSE

NEW YORK, Feb. 4--P)-Roy
E. TILES, president of Gotham
Hosiery company, said the stock
ing shortage in both nylons and
rayons would continue for at least
another year unless women them
selves undertook a voluntary con-
servation program.
He said every woman must vol
UNFAIRLY ration herself to one pair
a month and refuse to patronlze
"hole-in-corner sources" for name
less hosiery at exorbitant prices
TILES said producers of rayon
yarn realize that it is a desirable
fiber for stockings and they should
resume supplying hosiery manu-
facturers even though the govern
ment no longer forces them to 90
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05

NEW YORK, Feb. 3-P)-Tele'
vision in color, as developed in tne
laboratories of the Columbia
Broadcasting system and trans
mitted on the newly assigned ex'
perimental channels in the hlgne1
frequencies, is being shown mere
in a series of daily public demon
strations designed 10 indicate ao'
vancements since VI day.
Effective results are being oo'
tanned with films and slides.
This is the second demonstra1lon
of color since the end of the war
the Radio Corporation OF America
having shown its equipment last
December 73, but in a live-talen1
presentation at its Princeton. N
|J. Laboratories.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
CAPE FEAR AREA
RIVERS IN BILL
New Measure, Expected To
Reach White House Thurs
day, To Speed Work
Wilmington Star-NewS
WASHINGTON Bureau

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4.-Aver-
al Wilmington area river projects,
for which appropriations will be
permitted, are contained in legis-
lation which Congress is expected
to send to the White House about
Thursday, according to informa-
ton released here today. Under
normal procedure, authorization
for work on these projects would
be delayed until at least six
months after the official end of
the war-a date in the indefinite
future.
In nutshell, the legislation in
question places in effect, the 1945
Rivers and Harbors act which au-
thorized approximately 300 works
of Improvement" on the nations s
waterways, to be prosecuted as
speedily as may be consistent with
budgetary requirements"
The new bill strikes out clause
saying "that no project herein
authorized shall be appropriated
for or constructed until six months
after the termination of the pres
ent war" unless approved by the
President as being necessary or
desirable in the interest of the
national defense and security"
Wilmington area projects autho-
rized by the 1945 act include:
Inland waterway, Beaufort to
Cape Fear river, with waterway
to Jacksonville, N. c. This project
calls for the construction of six
mooring basins along the main
channel of the Inland waterway,
Beaufort to the Cape Fear river,
at points north and south of More
head City and in the vicinity of
Swansboro, Peru, Seabreeze and
Fish Factory, N. c., at an esti-
mated cost of $4,000.
Improvement of Cape Fear riv-
er, at and below Wilmington: Un-
der term of this project, the length
of the southerly approach to the
anchorage basin will be increased
from 1,50O feet to 4,50O feet, and
the depth brought to 30 feet al
mean low water from Wilmington
to the outer end of tie ocean bar
channel and in the turning basin
at Wilmington. Width of the entire
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
Fort Fisher Ei! Buildings Tcz><<@
TO Highest Bidders S$3ale

Dids for the purchase of the
el0' oOo MOO worth of buildings and
s.'';v,yn',ent installed by the War de-
sql4poent at Fort Fisher, will be
paI.isd panad at 10 am, on March s, by
fs4s real estate branch OF the Army
ts,ireers tss nee office at Raleigh, ac-
bas saina to Associated Press dis
'o.o+lss 9.obes from the state capital last
pa.stlN7T .s+ The Fort Fisher facility was
alsnn alsated on two tracts of land leas-
etSi'vN = Nv the War department. from
el.1I ea " Brothers of Wilmington.
UIsm I7socated on the Fort Fisher res
..,oton ho are approximately 1000
tl.adines er;@ of which the largest
1a, I-,,ct,1re is the hospital, which has
5, snu,d ,rsrds in addition to many 9TH
II - -4.s+ies. The hospital, which
ssri1mjngton e 1rl Post No. 10, Ameri-
ooion, has wagel a vigorous
eah sas+ to ~ have certified IS a unit
llsi'+ IL +he treatment Of World War II
l.a+orans, lYl r was completed on the
ve.e- M Fort T Fisher was inactivated
@ aa' +ho War department.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
YOUTH C0NFESSES
DOUBLE KILLING
Bladen Farmer Held In
Cruesome Murder Of
Wife, Young Daughter

EL1ZABETHTOWN, Feb. 4.-R
Woodrow Ewing, 18, of near
Elizabethtown was confined to
Bladen county Jail without bond
today under a charge of murder
in connection with the death of his
wife and infant stepdaughter,
whose bodies were found yester-
day in shallow grave near the
youths rural home. y
Sheriff H. Manly Clark said
Ewing, whom he described as q
farmer, textile worker and former
inmate of the state reform school,
had confessed TO Staying his wife
and her 13-month-old daughter by
former union after being taken
to the scene of the makeshift
grave.
Clark identified the dead woman
as Camille Louise Miller Ewing,
also 18, who formerly lived in
Asheboro. The child was identified
as Julia Ann, but the fathers name
was not disclosed.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
ATTEMPT TO KILL
CASE BILL FAILS
House Members However ,
Turn Thumbs Down On
More Serious Proposals

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4-U.D-The
House rejected an attempt to kill
the drastic Case strike-control bill,
but turned thumbs down on pro-
posals which would have made it
even more severe.
In a hectic five-hour session in
which normal parliamentary pro-
cedure was ignored, the chamber
voted down, 130 to AZ, a motion by
Rep. Emanuel Celler, D., N. Y,
that it abandon consideration of the
Case measure. He proposed that
this be achieved by eliminating
the enacting clause of the Labor
committees Watered-doWn version
Of President Truman's fact-finding
proposal. This would have killed
both bills automatically.
The chamber then turned to con-
CONTINUED on Page Two; Col. "
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
OPA ORDER EASES
SHIRT SITUATION
Manufacturers Now Per.
mitted To Sell More High
er Priced Garments

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4R -
0PA today relaxed its maximum
average price regulation in a
move designed to relieve the acute
shortage of mems shirts.
At the same time the agency
said "only a very small percent
age of shirt manufacturers have
let themselves get into difficulty
by failing to make enough low
priced goods to balance their
higher priced production"
The revision of the map" reg
ulatlon applies only to shirt pro-
duction, The OPA said the effect
would be to permit manufacturer
10 deliver a somewhat larger pro-
portion Of higher price line shirts.
Inc new order does not change
existing price ceilings for individ-
ual shirts,
VVOntlnued on Page Two: Col. 81
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05
Session Ends
Without Vote
On Red Claim
Soviet Diplomat Enters
Acrimonious Debate With
England's Bevin
u. S. BACKS BRITAIN
Stettinius Tells Assembly
He Sees No Wrong Ac-
tion In Greece !

LONDON, Feb. a. - @ -
Russia sought for the first
time to use it's veto power in
the United Nations Security
council tonight in an effort to
prevent action clearing Great
Britain of Soviet charges of
endangering the peace by
keeping troops in Greece.
The potentially powerful
1l-nation council adjourned,
however, without deciding
whether the Russians, as a
dlsputing party, could invoke
the veto at this stage of the pro-
ceedings.
Russia raised the veto issue af-
ter six and one-half hours of some
times acrimonious debate in which
British Foreign Secretary Ernest
Bevln gave "the lie direct" to
Russian charges that Britain was
guilty of endangering peace-the
most diaholical crime of man.
kind" Bevin said.
Drop Demands
Only few minutes earlier, Sow
let Foreign Vice Commissar An
drel Vlshinsky had dropped Rus
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-02-05

pose of showing prospective bid
ders through the buildings. Guide
service will be maintained on a
seven-day week basis, Raleigh ad-
vices said yesterday.
Authorization for the calling Of
bids for the sale of the Fort Fish.
er buildings came yesterday when
the deadline was reached and the
owners of the property, Thomas
and Louis Orrell, had failed tc
take advantage of their priority
under provisions of the surplus
property act, to negotiate pur.
chase of government-owned build
ings and improvements on the
property.
While no definite commitments
have been made by the Orrel]
brothers as to future use of the
property after the buildings there
On have been removed, rumor has
been rife for several weeks to the
effect that at least one Whining