The Chronicle-star combined with the Moss Point advertiser., 1946-03-22
Senator vandenberg Still
A Presidential Possibility,
Special to Central Press

Washington DNoPtt1 oLtidtDl
Arthur Vandenberg's London
statement that he is not a presi-
dental candidate for 1948. it
does not rule out an outside
chance that he nights win the
COP nomfnation-nor that he
would welcome ii.
Vandenberg has been catapal-
ted into the world scene as a
UNO delegate, and is the spokes-
nan for one trend If foreign
policy thought within his party.
ODDLY, he was helped afong By
an administration he criticized
vigorously for its doings on the
home front.
His pre-Yalta foreign policy
address so pleased the late Pres
ident Roosevelt that he named
Big Van a delegate to the San
Francisco eonclave. Subsequent
y, President Truman sent him
20 London.
Vandenberg could hardly for
get the roar of the crowds at
the Philadelphia COP convention
in 1910, when he had a fair
chance to capture the nomination
that later went to the late Wen
dell Willkie.
In Chicago four years later he
was showed into the background
by Governor Dewey. But two
years hence ii might be different
to some extent depending on
the success of UNO and the part
ne plays in it.
Observers figure the big scrarn-
ole may be among Minnesota's
ex-G Governor Stassen, represent
ing COPS left wing in world
policy; Dewey, and former Gov
ernor Bricker, Ohio conservative
and 1914 vice-prcsidential choice.
II Stassen is beaten, if Dewey
Is out, and Bricker comes a CROP
per the waiting man in the back
ground would appear now to be
Big Van"
President Truman's order cur
failing the use of wheat in whis-
key and beer will not hurt the
drinking public too much.
According to those in the in
dustry distilled spirits may suf-
fer a little in quantity but there
will be enough to go around.
Distillers use chiefly the best
grades of corn and rye. Wheat
was added as a streteher during
the war. Thus, they figure they
will not be hit too hard.
There is. a possibility. however,
that spirits may be conserved
fol. the whiskey output and the.
production OF gin halted as 1t
was during the war. (
Beer brewers say they expect
ed a decreased demand for their
orews after the war, so they,
too, are not worrying much.
The Commerce Department
wants the ladies of the land to
know that their precious nylons
are not going overseas while
stockingless legs r getting
goosepimples from standing in
lines to await the sheerest hose.
So Arthur Paul. director of the
Office or International Trade,
came forward with the figures.
He said: Less than one per cent
of American nylons go abroad.
In l945, he said, only 354,000' of
the 10000, 900 pairs made in Am
erica were diverted to foreign
markets.
Pro-Built Houses Hit Snags
The governments new housing
program calling for 100000 pre-
fabricated homes in 1916 and
l947 is going to have some tough
shedding unless some prompt ac-
ton is taken to insure their con-
struction.
The reasoni "Prefabs" are an
athena in many communities.
City Fathers do not want them
and building trades UNIONS,
along with suppliers of building
materials, are turning up their
noses at them. tas.4s8
In fact scores of cities and
towns have CITY ordinances which
prohibit such homes. And unions
contend they drastically curtail
workers incomes. But the gov
eminent is committed 70 an
emergency, program of pre-fsb-
rieated housing. Numerous indus-
tries are ready for mass preduc-
ton.
Wilson Wyatt, dynamic hous-
ing expediter. is appealing to
unions and communities TO re-
move their barriers, If they doa't