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The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-07-05
Coins Must Pass 8 Tests
Through Vending Machines

In modern candy and cigarette
vending machines, the mechanism
subjects each nickel and dime to
eight separate tests in one and 9
half seconds, says Golfers.
These tests determine whether
the coin contains metals not used
in genuine five-and ten-cent pieces,
and whether it is of the proper
diameter, thickness and weight,
and has no holes.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-07-05

MRS. RUTH wYETH SPEARS
Bedford Hills, N. Y. Drawer 10
Enclose Is cents for Pattern No. 1853.
Address
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-07-05
By KATHLEEN NORRIS
Ben Syndicate. wNu Features.

y
TINE other day at a woman's
club heard a famous man
l. talking about the war we
have so gloriously won, and the
world crisis that is following the
war.
Three hundred women looked
at him respectfully while he
told them how mistaken Ameri-
ca has been in her postwar poll
cies, how pitifully she has failed
in her postwar obligations, how
deeply she is despised by the
great countries overseas for
whose liberty she has spent
young blood, money and arms
so prodigiously. He repeated
every depressing rubber-stamp
generality that all his type of
speakers use, and wound up
with the disheartening state
ment that we had not seized the
advantage that our victories
gave us, and were hence the
laughing stock of Europe and
even of the Orient.
When anyone talks this way-and
men are always coming back from
China and Europe and everywhere
else and telling us these things-1
see red, and I think the Fourth of
July, in this first year of peace. is a
good time to say so.
This man, and all the others like
him, who are flocking to platforms
and the radio and into print, hasn't
evidently done any thinking on his
own, about Americas share in the
worldwide disaster of the second
great war. He has taken the criti-
cisms of other men as ignorant or
biased as himself, and because life
abroad is barely siderable, and life
at home not too comfortable, he
blames it all on America, and grows
eloquent in knocking his own coun-
try.
Foreigners Jealous of Us.
It has unfortunately grown to be
the fashion to belittle ourselves;
just why it is hard to say, except
that as each country of the whole
globe awakens from the nightmare
of six years of horror, it realizes
jealousy that there is a country in
the Western hemisphere that was not
invaded, that is rich, that is almost
ludicrously generous, and that
there are clothes and wheat and
medicines and money still existent
in large quantities in that country
and so why not try for share of
them?
Countries that did nothing to pre-
pare for the war, that saw it COM
ing and shut their eyes and went
on prospecting and growing fat,
are now bitter in their criticism of
the magnificent country that isn't
belligerent, that doesn't want to ex-
tend her borders or run over any
little neighbor, that is wealthy be-
cause of her principles of applied
democracy, that has proved her
way to be the way to the greatest
highest level of human living ever
known in the world. They dare to
criticise the country that has given
-given-given of her stores of both
wealth and possessions in a river
of help that would deplete any 9TH
er nation to bankruptcy point. They
dictate how much she must give.
They ask us to raise the price of
our products for our own people, so
that their inferior factories and
slower production may compete
and we do it. They forget the con-
voys, the planes, the arms, the
money that supported them in the
fight for the democracy for which,
now, they have no use.
Pride in Ourselves
/ don't often write of any but
domestic matters, but this is the
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-07-05
Fall Guy. Eth
By c. Kessler

Superintendent - For this job we
want a responsible man.
Applicant-That's me. Wherever I
have worked, if anything went
wrong they told me I was respon-
sible.
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-07-05
No Snare Time

A mother of 10 children was
asked: "How in the world do you
have time to care for 1872"
"Well," she replied, when had
one child it took all my time; what
more can Is do?"
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-07-05
Set Up This Table
Where You Want 1t

IF YOU need a fold-away serving
L table or if you like to load a
tray and carry meals to some cool
spot, here is the combination with
the special features you have been
looking for.
The folding stand is the right height to
use with comfortable chairs and the ply.
wood tray with gallery around three
The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1946-07-05
Mr.. Truman and the Farm

III spent the best ten years OF nsy life
operating a 54O-acre farm in Jackson coun
~, Missouri" Trun,anJ
How sweet those ten years seem to
me
Back there behind the plow
When from desk troubles was free,
Although 1 didn't know!
They were the best years Of my
life
Despite each tough, long chOre-
And l can realize 1t in
The White House more and more.
The furrow that 1 plowed was
straight
And now 1 know just why:
Nobody looked for miracles
From just a country guy;
No one threw obstacles ahead
Or tried to grab the plOw-
Nobody beloved free advice
Or yelled, "I'll show va howl"
To chinch bug, cutworm, weevil
wild
Apologies / make;
Compared to folks in Washington
You gave a man a break;
And, oh, to know again job
An older man and wiser
When all my problems could be
solved
BY using fertilizer.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-21
WAR BRIDE, BABY
ON WAY TO STATES.
ARMY PLANE USEn

HONOLULU, Jan. 20-W.R-Mrs
Roma Robson, Is year old Austria.
liam war bride, and her two months
old daughter will take off from,
Hickam Field today on the last leg
of their emergency flight from
Brisbane to San Francisco where
the baby will be treated for rare
spinal disease.
Mrs. Robson, the wife of an ex.
navy man, explained that her baby
3ecame ill a month ago and had
JAILED to respond to a special cal
cium diet.
American authorities arranged
for the flight in an army Skymaster
transport plane after doctors rec
,mmended American treatment
as the only means OF saving the
baby's life.
The pair had been three days
on the flight which took them by
wav of the Fiji Islands and Can
ton before arrival in Oahu. The
vo,ng mother said that she and
the baby had occupied the crews
quarters Of the plane and that the
hahv had been mo trouble at ALL"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-21
BETHLEHEM FLIES IN
MILK. CIGARETTES

LACkAWANNA, N. Y, Jan. ~
W.D-The Bethlehem Steel Co..
used planes today to fly supplies
into it's picketed plant here.
Small planes landed on the plant
grounds with cigarets, fresh milk
and other items for maintenance
workers in the strike-bound plant.
The CLIO Steelworkers called out
II, 900 workers at the Bethlehem
plant week ago after charging
the company with trying to pack
the plant with potential strike
breakers.
A company spokesman admitted
the planes were being used. He
wouldn't disclose where they took
off for fear the airport would be
picketed.
"We brought in some emergency
personal items such as cigarets
and fresh milk" the spokesman
said. Gas far as basic food sup
plies are concerned, they are the
least of our Worries"
USW District Director Joseph p.
Molony said he heard the planes
were flying from Canada and were
bringing in cheese. as well as
cigarets and milk.
This is another example of
inept management and possible
misuse of corporate funds" Mo
lony charged. bethlehem Steel
Co., is the only company that finds
itself obliged to resort to such ex
IRENE measures to maintain its
plants"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-21
HOUSING ACTION
WILL Be SPEEDED
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high on the list of the administra-
tons most urgent problems.
Rep. Jesse P. Wolcott, Mich,
ranking Republican member of the
committee, said he thought the
bill is useless. He does not believe
it will meet the situation or that
lit will ever reach the floor"
The War department recently
made survey of what the average
veteran can afford to pay for hous-
ing. It amounts to $50 to $s5 month
ly.
A new civilian production adj
ninistration regulation gran t S
priorities to builders who construct
homes not costing more than $l0,-
600. Many members of Congress
fear that builders will be inclined
to build only $4,000 houses where
as lower priced housing is needed.
They argue that if a builder knows
he can obtain more profit on the
most expensive house he will not
build the cheaper ones. Pat1lan' S
bill authorizes the housing car to
determine what price homes shall
be constructed in each critical To-
ca1ity.
Other members of the committee
are agreed that something should
be done" Rep. A. S. Mike Mon
roney, D., Okla, said he believed
"sone action should be taken to
remedy the situation" but was not
sure where the answer lies.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-21
ELDERLY FARMER
BATTLES POLICE

POSTVILLE, Ia, Jan. 20-UH-
An embattled, elderly farmer, who
killed a sheriff rather than be SER
we'd with an insanity warrant,
finally was killed himself today
after he held off for four hours a
posse armed with tear gas and
shotguns.
William Gerieke, u, locked him
self in his apartment over a local
tavern and stood off all corners
as long as he could. Neither shout
ed pleas, tear gas, nor frequent
fusillades budged him.
Police roped off an area for a
block around the tavern building,
and evacuated a family of six in
the apartment next to Gerieke's.
Most of this towns population OF
1000 crowded into the streets to
watch the attack.
When there had been no answer
ing shots from Gerieke for some
time. police broke into the building
to find his body on the floor, a
fully-loaded shotgun beside it.
The shooting fray started last
evening when Sheriff Leonard Bull
man and his chief deputy, Peter
Hendrickson, called to serve an
insanity warrant on William
Gerieke, r..
Gerieke refused to unlock the
door to his apartment and the two
officers smashed in the door.
Armed with a double barrelled
shotgun, the elderly man shot and
killed the sheriff.
The deputy, his coat grazed by
other bullets, fled to get reinforce
ments. The sheriff of nearby Fay
cite county, two Iowa State High
way patrolmen and half dozen
citizens, deputized on the scene,
Joined in the effort to make
Gerieke surrender.
Highway patrolmen finally
mounted ladders to the roof of an
adjoining building and kept up the
gunfire into the farmers apart
ment for four hours.
Gerieke's body was found at the
end of the siege in the hallway out
side his living quarters. His shot.
gun had not been fired after it was
reloaded. Officers were uncertain
whether he had fired any bullets
during the siege.
Hendrickson said AN inquest
would be held tomorrow at Post
vile mortuary where Gerieke's
body was taken. Bulman's body
was taken to Waukon, Iowa. for
burial.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-21
BETHLEHEM STEEL CLOSES
ALL PLANTS

NEW YORK, Jan. 20.--tU.D-The
Bethlehem Steel company an.
nounced tonight that its eight steel.
making plants employing $4,000
workers had been shut down com.
pletely "in the interests of pre-.
serving peace" and added that ii
saw no occasion for picketing by
striking steel workers.
A company statement issued here
said:
"Now that the strike is here,
there is no steel production in our
plants.
1--WE are making no attempt to
produce steel or any steel products.
1.-THE only persons working at
the plant are those needed to main
tain the plant.
Since there will be no attempt
to carry on production, there is no
occasion for disorderly picketing
or any picketing at all, for that
matter.
Our sole purpose during the
strike is to maintain and protect
our property which is essential to
the future employment of our en-
ployees and the welfare of the
community.
1--WE have issued this statement
in the interests of preserving the
peace. We hope that everyone
concerned will cooperate to that
end.'
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-21
DECAULLE RESIGNS
FROM PRESIDENCY
CONTINUED from Page One)

already have started in an attempt
to find someone willing or able TO
head a new government.
One possibility is that the Com
munists, Socialists and Popular ne
publicans might attempt to reform
the present big three coalition gov,
eminent under some other political
personality, possibly Socialist.
Another possibility is that the
Communists, Socialists and Radl-
ca1 Socialists would attempt TO
form a purely Left Wing coantlon.
Edouard Heriot, pre-war premier
and president of the Radical So
.cialist party, is being suggested
&C possible head of such a gov
eminent.
Herriot is believed willing to
take the post, but his government
could command only slender ma
iority in the Assembly. Further
more, Herriot's own prestige suf-
fered gravely in the crushing de-
feat of his party in the general
elections last October.
The morning paper Combat,
forecasting the possibility of a
crisis such as developed today.
warned that DeGaulle's retirement
might mean that France would
come under virtual domination OF
the Communists, who are numeri-
cally strongest and undoubtedly
the most aggressive of all French
parties.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-21
UNION CALLS0FF
CHEMICAL STRIKE

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, Jan. 20.
-(P-A strike involving 10000
chemical workers, scheduled for
1901 am tomorrow, has been call
ed off as a result Of wage in
crease agreement between the CLIO
United Gas, Coke and Chemic al
workers and 10 companies. union
spokesman announced tonight.
Stephen G. McMullen, president
of the unions Local 1908, said a
compromise was reached in the
last three of four days on the
unions original demand for a 30
per cent pay increase.
Some companies and their To-
calls agreed to a Is per cent in
crease, and others to II per cent
increase" he said.
McMullen said that the strike had
been called by strategy COM
mittee of the union. 1.-The agree
ments reached this week have
averted a walkout,'' he said, add.
ing that preparations for the
strike have been discontinued"
Charles Doyle, regional director
of the union, told a mass meeting
Of the workers tonight that every
effort was being made to prevsnt
any increase in prices as a result
Of the wage boosts.
Companies, all of Niagara Falls,
involved are: Carborundun Co.,
Mathieson Alkali Workers, Inc,
Niagara Alkali Co.. Isco Chemical
division of Innis Speiden & Co.,
Niacet Chemicals Corp, National
Carbon Co., Inc, Republic Carbon
Co., Acheson Graphite division Of
National Carbon Co., Inc, CHS
holm-Ryder Co., Inc, General Alb
rasive Co., Linde Air Products Co.,
Electro Metallurgical Co., and
General Chemical Co.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-21
Greatest Steel Strike
MHistoryNow Underway

"AAA" for emergencies auto.
matlcaIy become meaningless with
the start of the strike, OPA has
announced it will suspend them all.
For the critical needs, new
".AAA'' priorities or special direc.
tives will be granted, to be served
on steel warehouse operators.
The warehouse stocks, which con-
sist mainly of the smaller items Of
sheet, strip, bars and tubing, would
be. depleted almost at once under
normal demands. They should last
several months under the volun-
tary rationing plan, small estimat-
ed.
The ration system provides that
warehouse dole out only such
steel as is needed for immediate
maintenance and repair use; then,
when a warehouses; stocks are
down to one-half normal, it may
make deliveries only for emergency
repair and maintenance uses es-
sential to the public health and
safety.
Small is convinced that compul-
sorry rationing - which would in.
volve much paper work and delay
will not be needed. OPA officials
say that warehouses already have
shown their willingness to CO.
operate by clamping down on deliv-
cries during the last week while
the wage negotiations were hanging
in the balance.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-21
MINTED PENNIES
WIN COIN RACE
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(COntInued from Page One)
nearly every transaction is in odd
cents.
That's why during the war
Uncle Sam had to turn out the
zinc-steel penny. And that's why
everyone was asked to toss penny
collections back into circulation.
Materials were hard to get-and
the, demand for pennies, and other
small change, had hit an all-time
peak.
Added troubles: The Allies
needed coin, too. Included in those
1000, 100000 coins were 100000, 900
for other nations, minted by the
U. S. at cost.
Moving up to folding money, did
you ever wonder how much a $40
bill actually is worth, aside from
the promise printed on it?
The Treasury man had an
answer for that, too.
LESS than a penny" he said.
"Or .0078, if you must be exact"
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-21
SMALL FORECASTS
CURTAILED OPERATIONS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-(P)-A
big share of the nations factories
will be shut down or cutrailing op-
erations within about two weeks if
the steel strike is not settled by
then. Production Administrator
John D. Small forecast tonight. He
said this will mean the laying Off
of thousands of workers.
Small, who characterized the CLIO
steelworkers strike as national
disa IS r." has recommended
against Federal seizure of the in
dustry in the absence of any as
surance that this would send work.
ers back to the mills.
The civilian production admins
tration prepared to issue, early to-
morrow, an already-written order
suspending all steel priorities-mili-
tary, civilian and even emergency
ratings.
simultaneously, operators OF
steel warehouses will GO under a
voluntary rationing plan to chan
mel their comparatively small sup
plies into public utility, fire, police,
hospital, railroads, food processing
and other uses related to public
health and safety.
In Detroit, John L. Lovett, gen.
eral manager of the Michigan
Manufacturers Association, pre-
dicted 100000 workers in that in
dustrial state would be idle within
month.
Nobody has more than 3O-day
supply of steel on hand and some
have lot less" Lovett told report
ers.
Small, who had key members OF
his OPA staff doing Sunday duty
today for any emergency action
needed, offered this forecast:
We'll see one factory after an
other close within two or three
weeks, and even before that in
many of the plants supplying parts
and materials"
The maximum amount Of steel
which may be held by any manu-
facturer is so days supply; for
sheet steel, the type primarily
needed for automobiles, refrigera-
tors and most other important
civilian products. the limit is At
days.
because of the scarceness Of
sheet, I suspect that many plants
have only about Is days supply
they've all been clamoring for
more to get their reserves up to the
legal maximum Small said.
Only 80 to 40 days inventory is
usually carried by the makers Of
washing machines, vacuum clean.
ers and similar items, despite the
larger allowance permitted. Auto
manufacturers generally operate
on only seven to 10 days inventory.
However, some firms have ordered
heavily recently in anticipation Of
the strike.
The immediacy of shutdowns may
depend, OPA officials noted, or
whether plants choose to keep run.
ming and using up their supplies,
or save them for the resumption
Of operations when the strike ends.
A company with Is days supply
for instance, might decide to shut
down at once. in the knowledge that
it would take at least IS days after
the strike ends to get new supplies
shipped in.
Small's aides have conferred
with the union leadership and ar.
ranged for permission to get any
unshipped stocks out of the mill.
yards which may be needed for
emergency use, upon certifica.
ton by OPA that the public health
and welfare is involved
Because the outstanding priori.
ties-"MM' for military orders,
&C" for civilian reconversion, and
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-21
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with some plants closing down be.
forehand.
The strike, practically paralyz.
ing the nations postwar produc-
tive effort, climaxed months Of
fruitless negotiation in which Pres
ident Truman had recently tried
without avail to act as peacemak-
er.
Philip Murray, president Of the
steelworkers and the CLIO, drove
from Washington to take over per.
sonal direction of the giant dem
@astration for his wage demands.
He had no comment but planned
radio address (ABC) to the ma
ton Monday night at 1920 P. M,
Eastern Standard Time.
The unions Gilman negotiating
committee for the United States
Steel corporation, which annomc-
ed all its operations had closed
down hours ahead of the midnight
deadline, arranged to meet with
Murray Monday morning.
Both sides dug in for what they
apparently expected will be long
deadlock. Almost 1900 plants in
% states were affected by the
union strike call but workers
stayed on temporarily in a 30th,
Minnesota with its big iron ore
mines, because of d state law re-
quiring a waiting period.
Normally busting steel mills in
the Pittsburgh area, from which
comes approximately quarter Of
the nations steel ingot production,
cooled and ground to stop. There
was little activity at any except
for skeleton crews of maintenance
workers allowed to keep equipment
in order.
Even before the deadline passed
pickets had begun encircling some
struck plants. Many in this noun
famous western Pennsylvania area
carried small cards bearing the
single word "Picket'' tucked in
their hatbands. They improvised
coal or Wood-burning stoves and
windbreaks to keep warm in the
near-freezing weather. Some To-
Gals regularly delivered coffee and
doughnuts to their pickets by truck.
Never before has there been a
strike involving so many workers
or such far-reaching effects. The
closest one in size was the mass
walkout of 100000 coal miners in
1919. The biggest prior steel strike
involved 1865, 1000 men in 1919 in a
dispute over union recognition and
shorter hours.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-01-21
JERUSALEM UNDER
IR0N-CLAD CURFEW
Continued from Page One)

Palestine-English, Arabic and
Hebrew. Regular broadcasts, how
ever, still were cancelled.
The dead were a British army
officer and an armed Jew whose
body was found in a taxicab at
the Hadassah hospital. A British
policeman, earlier reported killed,
was described by the communique
as seriously but not dangerously
wounded.
Military and police patrols this
morning uncovered considerable
quantities of firearms, bombs, ex-
plosives, ammunition and other
material, the communique said.