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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03
Both Parties
Confident On
Election Eve
Hannegan, Reece Aver
Own Party Will Win Con-
troll In Congress
ISSUES DEFINED
Oratory Diminishes As
Campaign Moves Into
The Home Stretch
By DOUGLAS B. CORNELL

WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-P-
The 1916 Battle of the Ballots pro-
duced for the first time tonight
an unqualified claim from the
Democratic command that Tues
days election will tighten their
grip on Senate and House. Re
publicans voiced confidence that
control of both branches of Con
gress surely will shift to the /.
With the issues sharply defined
and minds of a multitude of voters
made up during weeks of heavy
campaigning, Democratic National
Chairman Robert E. Hannegan re-
vised upward previous forecasts
that his party would hang on to
majorit;es in senate and house.
He predicted:
"a t. result of the election on
Tuesday, the Democratic party not
only will be returned to it's ma-
jority status in both houses OF
Congress, but it's membership will
be increased over that in the 10th
Congress-"
Republican Chairman Carroll
Reece declared as confidently in
another statement:
"The congress to be elected on
Tuesday will be a Republican con-
gress."
He said there will be a "sub-
stantial" COP majority in the
House, perhaps an "overwhelm-
ing" one In the Senate, Reece
predicted simply a majority.
Reece figured the Republicans
will add 40 to 40 members to their
ranks in the House. Rep. Charles
A. Halleck of Indiana, chairman of
the Republican congressional com
mittee, put the total 1T As IT, a
separate statement.
AS the campaign started brisk
ly down the stretch, efforts dimin-
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The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03
WYATT FORECASTS
VICTORY
Expediter Expects To Sc
cure RFC Okeh For
Building Loan Aid

WASHINGTON, Nov. O. up -
Housing Expediter Wilson Wyatt
tonight forecast victory in his fight
for loans of S65, 900, 900 to create a
mass-production housing industry,
despite resistance from the Recon
struction Finance Corporation, and
reported to first big monthly in
crease in new homes completed.
September brought a "particu-
larly encouraging" gain of Is per
cent over August in getting houses
ready for occupancy, Wyatt said
in a monthly report. The number
was 1880, of which 49,000 were
new permanent dwellings.
In the first nine months of the
year., the housing drive was two
thirds of the way toward its goal
of 1000, 900 dwellings started this
year. Up to October. 808, 700 had
been begun, 43o, 200 finished.
At a news conference, Wyatt
talked optimistically of his prob
lem of getting big loans for a dozen
companies to start making assem-
blythe houses. He has served no
tice that he will issue a directive
to RFC, forcing favorable action
under the powers granted him by
the Veterans Emergency Housing
act.
81 feel optimistic of the author
ity I have in this question: he
said.
About 106, 900 new homes in 1947
are at stake.
The RFC has granted only two
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03

The officer, seized dressed in full
Nazi uniform with an imitation gun,
also was said to have been question
ed in connection with recent
bombings in the Stuttgart rea
The German, who gave his name
as Hans Joashim Won Burgsdorf,
but who had no Identification. as
serter he had been personally
promoted from Major to Lieuten-
ant Colonel by Bordmann.
He said he had seen Bordmann
in an unspecified German city
in late May, 1945, three weeks
after Bordmann was supposedly
Continued on Page Ten; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03
Mississippi Governor
Dies After Operation

JACKSON, Miss, Nov. 3
UR-Gov. Thomas L.. Bailey
of Mississippi dieI tonight at
the executive mansion here.
His physician, DIR. H. F. Ma
gee, said the 58-year-old chief
executive died at $50 pm.
of complications arising from
an operation for malignancy Of
the spine"
The governors body will lie
in state at the new capitol here
Sunday. Funeral services are
scheduled to be held at 3 pm.
Monday at the Central Metho-
dist church in Meridian, Miss,
with the Rev. w. A.. Tyson,
pastor, officiating.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03
Vets Prepare
Bid For Huge
VA Hospital
And VFW Commit
tees Will Present Plans
To Two Groups
BRIEFS READIED
Free Offer OF 1OO-Acre
Tract OF Land Made To
VA Officials

Wilmington's two major veteran
groups-the Veterans Of FOREIGN
Wars and the American Legion
yesterday took concrete steps to-
wards the procurement of a S15,-
COO, 0oG Veterans Administration
hospital for New Hanover county.
Committees of the two veteran
units met late yesterday afternoon
IN the American Legion home and
drafted plans pertinent to the pre-
s%entation of the proposal to VA
officials.
During the meeting, the mem
bers of the representative groups
were in accord with the fact that
the project is and would continue
to be a joint project.
They agreed they would return
to the members of the respective
organizations and lay plan before
the membership and ask for ap-
proval to purchase land for a hos
pital site and turn the title over to
the VA.
The committees also agreed that
two briefs-one a brochure con
tanning written facts and the second
& pictorial review-should be com
piled for presentation to VA Of
ficials.
A meeting has already beer
scheduled with Brigadier Genera.
Kress, regional director of the
southern district of VA, with Of
Continued on Page 2; Column s.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03
26-Year-Old Bride Want
ed In Connection With
Mobile Holdup

DALLAS, Tex, Nov. 2. - UH -
With tears streaming down from
behind her plastic-rimmed glasses,
~26-year-old Mrs. Evelyn Cornish
Globaker-a fugitive from her own
in a Dallas jail
cell today and assured reporters
she doesn't want her husband or
anyone to help her face charges of
a $500 cafe holdup at Mobile,
Ala.
81 just want everyone to let
alone because I'm not worth
saving" said the girl who walked
in red cowboy boots into Dallas
police headquarters to announce
Continued on Page 2; Column u
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03
Executive Linked With
Huge Swindle Accom-
pl;shed In N. Y.

NEW YORK, Nov. 2-(P1-Klngs
county Assistant District Attorney
Julius Helfand tonight announced
the arrest of Isadore Rappaport,
SIS. New York optical company
official, on charges in connection
with the alleged embezzlement OF
some 1882, 900 from the Mergen-
thaler Linotype company.
Rappaport was taken from the
district attorneys office to a Brook
Ign police station where he was
booked on charges of grand
larceny and forgery and con-
Continued on Page 2; Column y
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03
DOCTORS NEEDED
FOR VA OFFICES
Wilmington's New Unit De.
ponds On Procurement
OF Medical Personnel

Opening OF the Sub-regional Of
fees of the Veterans Administra-
ton in Wilmington depends solely
now on procurement of sufficient
qualified medical personnel, Col.
]. D. DeRamus, Of Winston-Salem,
regional manager, told the Star
News yesterday.
Commenting on the VAS request
to Public Buildings administration
for use of the customhouse space,
he said that his office had made
the request, but had not been mott
fled of the reservation having been
made.
He continued, by stating that the
(Continued on Pare 10 Column ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03
By JAMES

A n
40 VEGAS, New, Nov. 2.-(R
IN me defense tore savagely into
M Nv Prosecutions case against
mo Bridget Waters today, tell
DE- q Jury trying her for the mu~-
of o. Aer husband, that portions
NE states testimony was
~ '@illactureo" and other parts
u 1t fantastic"
81 lu m PROSECUTOR earlier had term
nv. "0.ers killing deliberate and
n'''eoltated'' and had demand
-. d l'rst degree murder verdict
do,A '~e defendant. but not the
Oeath penalty.
license Attorney Marion Ear.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03
War Bride Murder Trial
Nears End In Las Vegas

was particularly bitter as he at
tackled prosecution testimony Civ
en- by two private detectives, Har'
nv Oatman and H. G. Mcclure,
who had alleged that Mrs. Waters
employed them to shadow her
husband and that she said III
YOU find him at Boulder Dam you
might shove him off"
'That testimony" Earl shout
ed. was manufactured by a
couple of cheap publicity seekers
who have been reading too many
Continued on Page Ten; Col. ~
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03

Texas 10; S.M.U. 3.
Oklahoma IA; T.C.U. II.
Missouri 81; Nebraska
20.
Syracuse %, Temple i.
Rutgers -, Harvard 0.
Rice Al, Texas Tech 6.
Wisconsin "a, Purdue 20.
William & Mary Al, Mary
land Z.
K n t c k Y State IL,
Florida A & M 6.
e m S IA, Virginia
Tech Z.
Continued on Page 9; column
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03
SMALLER NATIONS
FLAY I'm COUNCIL
Protest Denial OF Mem
bership To Ireland And
Other Countries

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y, Nov. 2.
a'-pespite strenuous efforts of
0e''et Russia to block criticism
" ~e United Nations Security
SV'4cA, Egypt and Argentina to-
g'E lea a small-nations attack on
ne council for rejecting the ap-
creations of Ireland, Portugal,
nl5aASloHdan, Albania and Outer
'iga9oia for UN membership.
Inc sharpest attack came from
~~,7eNlne Delegate Jose Arce,
"4O protested particularly against
0se OF the veto on membership
s5'Aeations and declared that if
@ r,S procedure is to be followed
is better if the other 46 ma
"'s SIMPLY folded up our papers
na
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03
WEATHER

North Carolina-Sunday mostly cloudy
with scattered showers; continued mild.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-11-03

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Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-06-07
On Prejudice
by Ruth Taylor

Do you know the story of
the Southern judge who said
he could always tell the way
a jury would vote provided he
knew where lay the prepOn-
derance of prejudice.
He knew his people. Too
often we make up our minds
not according to the facts,
even as we know them, but ac-
cording to our prejudices, our
instructive likes and dislikeS.
l once knew a man who
always used to say-generally
in the midst of my most hectic
argument-that Woman's in
tuitions were usually her sus-
picions. l resented that. Ma
turally. But l have to admit
that, if the wording is changed
to "intuitions are usually sus-
picions" the fact is correct.
We just don't use our heads
after we get to arguing. We
talk in generalitieS, rather
than on specific cases. We say
it is because to be specific is
to be rude. 1t isn't. If you see
something of which you dis
approve done by an individ-
ual, say so but keep it to the
individual and don't damn the
group from which he comes as
well. Don't lump people into
one category. You wouldn't
like it yourself.
ANNOYING
Doesn't it annoy you when
anyone picks out one labor
man, and says all labor men
are crooks because this or
that one isn't plaster saint?
You instinctively come to his
defense, in order to defend
your group. (And you usually
make matters worse by so do
ing because you make up in
heat what you lack in facts.)
And yet-don't you often do
the same thing?
Don't let us be swayed by
our prejudices. Let us keep
our own thoughts clear and
above such represensible prac-
tices. And let's not coin
phrases. 1t isn't any better
than coming money-and usu-
ally the product is just as
false.
Organized Labor has suf-
fered too much from prejudice
throughout the years for its
members TO ever be guilty of
this error. Now when, in the
heat of conflict, there is tens
ity of feeling let us be espe-
cially careful in this regard.
We must keep cool, stick to
facts and not allow prejudice
which in reality is lack of
knowledge--to rear its ugly
head among us.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-06-07
Regional

By Richard Gosser
Director Region 2B. UAW-ClO

Our economic system from its very begin
ming has experienced series of peaks and de-,
pressions where we 60 from business boon>b
and high production to unemployment and all
that joblessness means to those who must
work for their livings.
We of the labor movement do not subscribe
to the belief that such extremes of employ
ment and unemployment are necessary. AS an
aid to maintaining purchasing power we have
suggested, and in some small ways succeeded,
in obtaining part of what we believe to be
partial remedy for periodic depressions.
Unemployment compensation and pensions,
while they have aided in some mays in over
coming the worst phases of unemployment, are
definitely not the complete answer to our
problem. They but part of the answer.
The real answer is the annual guaranteed
wage.
LEGISLATION NEEDED
In my previous articles on this subject /.
expressed the belief that we could obtain 80N
per cent of the average annual wage earned
by the worker through legislation and urged
that labor take steps to gain this legislation by
united action upon the national and state leg
islative bodies.
I am convinced that as long as unemploy-
ment can at times be more profitable than
employment that there will continue to be
periods when mass unemployment will pre-
vail. This is the idea behind the guaranteed
annual wage for when workers receive 80
per cent of their pay when unemployed, the
need for unemployment no longer exists since
large share of purchasing power still re-
mains in the hands of the workers.
/ realize, of course, that there are those
who will claim that the guaranteed annual
wage places premium of shiftlessness and en-
courages workers to prefer loafing to work.
ing, but can see how unemployment compen-
sation is handled and know that this would be
n very minor obstacle in the way of guaran-
teed annual wage
NO HARDSHIP
1t is not the wish of labor to work hard
ship on employers, and such guaranteed in
come would not be hardship for industry
would actually be priming the economic pump
from which it derives the benefits of profits
No doubt there would need to be some
governmental aid which could come from
some type of fund paid for by the industries
themselves in somewhat the same manner that
the Federal Insurance Deposit Corporation in
surance works for banks
If we can insure bank accounts up to
$4,000, can see no reason why we can't in
sure jobs for the workers AS a matter of
fact, unless we do guarantee income, bank de-
posits drop or completely dry up credit stag
mates and we enter deflationary spiral that
we now know does not automatically end
Guaranteed annual wages for the workers
Is not visionary and impractical. 1t is both
necessary and desirable if we are going to in
sure continuation of healthy and progress
sive economy. We can obtain this just as
surely as we have obtained our other gains by
legislative action and in gaining another adj
vance aid both labor and business to a more
stable and healthier condition
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-06-07
Washington
Labor Report
By Bradford v. Carter


John D. Small, administrator of the Civil
ian Production Administration is probably re-
sponsble for more goods lost to the economy
than the loss caused by the strikes of the min /
ers, engineers and trainmen combined.
Irrespective of the merits of the statistics.
it comes with exceeding bad grace for Mr.
Small to charge that the mine strike had set
back the production of important consumer
durable by three months.
From the very start of his association with
the WPB and later the CPA Small has been
the spearhead of the campaign for the lifting
of wartime controls. Along with his boss, j.
A. Krug, then WPB chairman, Small worked
and talked ceaselessly for the immediate re-
sumption of business-as-usual despite severe
shortages in the civilian economy. Of piece
with the rest of the Small ideas, it is worth
noting parenthetically his avdocacy, toward
the end of the war, of civilian manpower
draft
Krug and Small turned a deaf ear to the
pleas of OPA that the maintenance of price
controls would be impossible unless the WPB
and the CPA maintained their controls. Bowles
made out an extremely effective case~that un-
less the supply of materials were controlled
it would be utterly impossible to maintain
price regulations and quality regulations.
NATION PAYS
The nation is now paying the price for the
indecent haste with which Small and his busi-
ness cronleS In WPb demoDlllZed production
and ALLEGATION controls We are paying for it
in terms of the unavalability of low-cost
housing and clothing And in the last analysis,
much of the current turbulence may be at
tributed to the unwillingness of the govern
ment to accept any responsibility for what
happened to the economy the day after war
was over
Mr.. Small was central figure in the lift
ing of WPA controls over construction mate
rails which made it possible for the specula-
tive high price builder to get materials ahead
of the community which needed to build
homes for veterans. When the disastrous eff
fects of this decontrolling became apparent
(even to Mr.. SmalL, he magnanimously de-
cided to give preference for building materials
to houses selling for not more than $10,000
That was a joke too because there were few
veterans or workers who could afford to buy
a $4,000 house
Now, what l am getting at is this-Small
and his associates operated solely on the basis
of getting rid of controls not on the basis of
the kinds of controls necessary to maintain a
healthy economy during the transition from
war to peace In doing this he worsened the
progress of reconversion regardless of whether
1t meant more profit making for business al
ready overflowins with profits.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-06-07
LEGISLATION
AND CANCELLATION

Legislation to compel fac
tory owners to operate their
plants, whether or not they
made profit, would be no
more ridiculous than legisla-
ton to compel employees to
stay on the job whether or not
they earn living wages.
What we actually need is
legislation to guarantee a min
imum annual wage. In the
meantime the workers must
use their economic power to
compel their employers to pay
a living wage. This means the
right TO strike nnot be
curbed unless we are ready to
abandon the whole idea OF a
nation OF free men and women.
Although anti-labor legisla-
tion directly affects the well
fare of those who labor, and
this group is indisputedly a
majority. the welfare of the
farm, small business, and pro-
fessional groups will be adj
versely affected by such inn
practical attempts TO solve the
labor problem.
Everyone of us should sit
down right now and write TO
the President also Senators
James Huffman and Robert
Taft and to Representatives
Homer Ramey and G. Gorge
Bender, Washington, d. c. on
this issue.
We must inform our elected
representatives that improved
conciliation service and better
compensation laws will great
ly help matters and that pass
age of anti-labor legislation
will only shake the very foun-
dations of this nation which is
dedicated to the proposition
that all men are create d
equal"
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-06-07

Il charge that the motives tof the real es-
tate lobby are TO perpetuate the housing
shortage in order to continue to gain specula-
tive profits at the expense of veterans"
wilson Wyatt Housing Expediter.
Dog foods and platinum were freed from
price ceilings recently and platinum prices
Immediately jumped S21 ounce, Incidental
ly, have you tried to buy anything for dime
in dime store recently?
Speaking OF the revised Full Employment
bill, Senator Robert A. Taft said recently:
The full employment is eliminated, the ma
tional reassertion of the right TO work is eli
minated, and the bill does not bear any re-
semblance to the bill which was originally in
troduced. do not think that any Republican
need fear voting for the bill"
The Natl Federation of Telephone Work
ers, which will hold its 18th annual conven-
tion starting June 2, may be starting a revolu-
tion that will break the hearts Of many old
time union orators It's proposed new con-
sitution provides that mo nominating speech
may exceed two minutes in length" II wasn't
many years ago, old-tmers recall, that can
didate for union office was looked on with
the deepest suspicion If his nominating speech
didn't last more than three hours.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-06-07
SquibS
BY LOREN NORMAN

More and more labor is
finding itself on a treadmill;
today's gains are wiped out in
tOmOrrOw'S price increases.
We must adopt some plan of
fighting the thing at both
ends.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-06-07
Political
Action
by
Clayton
Rusch
SfLuH HLNit
of the

One OF the principles upoll
which this nation was founded
is the proposition that Gov
ernments derive their just
powers from the consent of
the governed" In other words
the government derives its au-
thority from the people. 1t
follows from this that the
government has an obligation
and a responsibility to the
people.
In attempting to tackle the
labor problem and take steps
to prevent industrial strife,
the government is only full
filling its responsibility.
In attempting to superb
cially remove effects in an
arbitrary manner and doing
nothing to remove the causes
of strikes, the government is
falling in its responsibility.
When Congress and the adj
ministration attempt to solve
the very rights which labor
has won only after years Of
hard and bitter struggle 1t
fails completely to understand
either the problem or its cor
rect solution
Organized labor as a whole
does not seek or desire strikes.
The strike weapon is used
only as a last resort. For ex-
ample, no strike can be called
in the UAW-CIO except with
the authorization Of the Inter
national executive board.
PRINCIPLES
60 unions have four guild
ing principles which must be
complied with before a strike
Is called. These are:
(1) Conditions must be in
tolersble;
(2) Other means of settling
the dispute must be exhaust
ed.
Cd The harm which will
accrue to others as result OF
the strike must be less than
the gain sought by the union.
az The strike must have
some chance of success.
The government definitely
has responsibility to attempt
to prevent strikes from taking
place. This responsibility can
be fulfilled in the best inter
ests of fall the people If ways
are employed to remove the
causes of strikes. This means
an improved conciliation serv-
Ice. II means pressure must
be applied on certain recalci-
trant employers who refuse to
bargain in good faith with the
Union who represents their
employees.
To attempt to solve the
problem by curbing the right
to strike is class legislation of
the most brazen sort. 1t is
nothing more or less than an
attack upon one of the most
basic rights of the people.
Toledo union journal. [volume] (Toledo, Ohio) 1942-current, 1946-06-07
What Lies Ahead?

"hdt Lies AHedu'
A Chicago Sun writer, Will
lard Shelton, says it might be
a good thing if Congress would
pass the drastic labor curbs
some of its loudmouthed mem
berS have been ranting about.
1t might prove, he says, that
anti.labor legislation won't
work if it merely seeks to
doctor the boil instead of the
bloodstream and il might
bring labor together to fight
its common enemies.
Acually the strikes are not
the cause of the trouble. They
are the result of the trouble.
They are the ripples on the
surface Signifying greater up
heaValS below. We may yet
come to realize that what was
happening in the spring and
summer of 1916 was part of a
great revolution in mans
ways of thinking, in his habits
or production and diStribu-
tiOn, in his method of control
ling the great forces that DOM
mated the economic life Of
the world for two centuries.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-02-22
LEAHY vows: NO WALL0pINGS FOR
 t946 iRISH TEAM
Returning Noire Dame Grid Menfor Likewise Prom
 ises No 1iile

CLEVELAND, Feb. g. The Fighting Irish of Notre Dame will not have a national championship football team next fall, but the 1946 Ramblers also won't suffer any 49-o defeats to Army or any other team, declares head coach Frank Leahy.
 The Irish athletic director and grid mentor, welcomed back from naval service by the Notre Dame club of Cleveland last night, told club members he was frankly op- timistic" about Notre Danes 1946 football prospects.
 T promise you that Army will not beat us 48 0 next fall, nor will any other team" Leahy declared.
 We will not have a national championship team, and we could lose three or four games, but every team We play will know it has been in game"