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Evening star., 1946-02-04
Legislation Needed

Inc HOUSE is expected TO enac1
new labor legislation this week, ano
the chances are that it will adopt
the Case bill. possibly with some
amendments.
For several days this bill has been
the target of those extravagant
critics who habitually oppose any
attempt to impose any restraint on
even the most vicious types of union
activity. For the most part, their
criticisms are not worthy of serious
attention. There are other critics,
however, and there is force to some
of their objections.
One substantial criticism is that
the bill has not received any COM
mittee consideration. Ordinarily, and
especially if the House vote was to
be the last word on the matter, this
would be enough to justify rejection
of the bill. But that is not the case.
If the House should pass the bill it
Is certain to receive careful COM
mittee consideration in the Senate,
assuming that it is not pigeon -holed
there, and this should provide ample
opportunity to make desirable
changes. Furthermore, there is no
occasion for extended consideration
of some of the abuses at which this
bill is aimed.
For one thing, it would require
both labor and management to live
up to contracts to which they have
subscribed. Only the most extreme
partisans will contend that there is
anything unfair about that. The
bill is also designed to curb resort to
force and violence in support of
strikes. This provision is aimed at
the so-called mass picket lines, a
fagrantly lawless device through
which strikers set up a blockade
around struck plant and forcibly
deny entrance to others who have
a legal right to enter. This is a
practice that comes close to anarchy,
and there is no rational ground on
which 1t can be defended. Other
provisions would deny Supervisory
employees" the status of employees
within the meaning of the Wagner
Act, and would ban certain types of
secondary strikes and boycotts.
On the affirmative side, the bill
sets up a mediation board which
would attempt to reconcile dispu-
tants, but which has no power of
decision. 1t also forbids strikes for
a maximum of IS days, once the
board has intervened in dispute.
1t may we'll be that these provi-
sions can be improved, and there is
also room for doubt as to the wis
dom of some of the means provided
for implementing various sections of
the bill. But there will be ample
opportunity to deal with these mat
ters before the bill can possibly be-
come law. If it is the desire of Con-
'gress to contribute anything toward
bringing order and balance into
this country's chaotic industrial pic
tlre, the important thing is to get
some effective legislation-and that
means legislation which probably
will be opposed by spokesmen for
both labor and industry-started
through the mill. If the Case bill
passes the House, that purpose, at
least, will have been served.
Evening star., 1946-02-04
A Dark Picture Painted

To the Editor Of The Star:
In 1917 the United States went to war
against Germany to make the world
safe for democracy. At that time Ger
many had all sorts of social legislation
which now many Americans claim are
essential to democracy. It would seem
that the United States was a socially
and politically backward nation fighting
socially and politically enlightened
nation.
In the l940s we again have fought
and defeated the Germans, this time
under their National Socialist Work
ers Party. This (NazD party claimed
to be politically advanced over the old
German imperial government. AS their
full title signified, the Nazis were for
the workers." the "proletariat"-they
said SO, and they "broadened" and
strengthened" the social legislation of
the Reich. Practically everything was
regulated by the government.
1t Is very interesting to observe that
the United States now again is adopting
government measures similar to those
of the defeated Germans. Call it Fas-
cism, planned economy, or what you
will, the German system is being
adopted in the United States of America.
The CIO-PAC dream of government de-
Gliding who gets what has come true.
Government is determining wages,
prices, profits and dividends. The sys-
tenn is probably here to stay. 1t is the
liberalism" of the future. We even
may see the time when government will
not only decide who gets what, but who
works at what, where and when. Why
not? That is real planned economy.
But when the indicated point is reach
ed, If not before, it will be necessary
in the interest of unity" to place re-
strictions upon criticism of government.
The restrictions need not be statutory.
When the government politicians in
power) becomes effective and proficient
in deciding who gets what, naturally
critics won't get much.
The road to totalitarianism is easy
and promising. It's the fashion, and
who wants to be out of fashion in these
times?
The human race may again be head
ed for Dark Ages as dissent and dis
senters from organized opinion become
increasingly unpopular. Democracy is
being defined as intolerance of indi-
vidual variation from the mass.
Voc,
Evening star., 1946-02-04
Doubt and Disaster
rom the Montreal Star:

FTom TIE MontreaI Star:
Now is the day Of all days when men
who bear the vessels of the Lord should
be good men and true, and when forces
of righteousness should present solid,
united and inf1exfble front before an
unbelieviIag yet perishing world.
Evening star., 1946-02-04

serve our uniformed forces are de-
serving not only OF the Nations
thanks for past achievements but
the continued active support of the
public in the future USO program.
Evening star., 1946-02-04

Considering the incandescent lamp
and the carburetor, Thomas A.
Edison probably was the most notably
useful American of his generation.
Press agents particularly owe him
debt of gratitude as the inventor of
the multigraph machine on which
they run their handouts.
Evening star., 1946-02-04
Quitting

From the Winnipeg Tribune:
Fairy story: well, that's DONE" said
the big friend in need, to the little
nation 1t had liberated. Nov I must
be going"
Evening star., 1946-02-04

People are wonderful. The favor
lite tune Of the Police Band of San
Francisco is "The Sidewalks of New
vorkn
Laurel outlook., 1946-02-20
MEMORIALS AS
MEANS To REFURN|SH
METHODIST CHURCH

At a meeting of the building
and improvement committee of the
Methodist church Monday evening,
it was revealed that a very high
proportion of the pledges made to
the building fund has already been
completely paid and that the COM
mittee anticipates the reaching of
the goal within a few weeks.
Pledges were taken for one year.
The finance committee of the
building and improvement commit
tee brought in a recommendation
and plan for the securing of the
furniture and equipment for the
new sanctuary, and this plan was
adopted by the committee. The
plan for furnishing the sanctuary
calls for the selling of about 70
articles of furniture as memorials,
ranging from a cross and pulpit
Bible to an electric organ and a
memorial parlor. Included in the
items are 40 pews. The initiatory
plan would make it possible for a
to give the price of some
such as a pew or a window,
and then have a small plate or
other means of designation upon
which would be inscribed the name
of some one to be honored and re-
membered, or the name of the
donor. Complete details for this
have not yet been outlined.
1t was the opinion of the COM
that the actual building of
he new addition could not be CON
,emplated at this time, because of
scarcity of materials and labor.
Laurel outlook., 1946-02-20
1t. Dorothy Graft Is
Bride OF Sgt. TOhill
In Ceremony Feb. Ia

First Lieut.. Dorothy Graft of
Laurel and Sgt. John Tohill of
Somerset, KY, were married Feb. ID
in Minneapolis at the home of the
brides aunt, Miss Alice Graft. The
bride is the daughter of Fred w.
Graft. Both she and her husband
are members of the army's evacua-
ton service. They will reside in
Somerset where the bridegroom was
a postal employee before the war.
Mrs. Tohill graduated from Lau-
rel high school in 1888. She took
q five-year course in nursing and
graduated with a degree in 1913
from Montana State college at
Bozeman. She has been in army
nursing more than two years and
was specially trained for air evac-
service, in which battle
casualties were moved long dis
tances to base hospitals.
Laurel outlook., 1946-02-20
Understanding Russia
Reviewed By GatewOOd
CONTINUED from Page One)

Continued from Page One)
Der of the Laurel club, was intro
duced by Rev. M. j. Wilcox.
In the far north, Gatewood said,
there is land that is frozen through
out the year, while in the south
tropical fruits grow. Despite its
~largeness, Russia has but one first
class seaport. Compared to the
many other countries, its popula-
ton is relatively sparse. In natur-
al it has everything it
needs. A man-made facility in which
it is lacking is adequate transport
tation.
PRUSSIA has not been able to
achieve, communism" the speaker
quoted Editor Patterson. "Perhaps
she does not want and never will
have it." What Russia has is a
partial socialism, though politically
a dictatorship by the Communist
party.
Stain as secretary-general of the
political bureau has the real power,
but not as generalissimo or premier.
This power is comparable with that
of the old-time American political
boss.
There is a kind of private "own-
ership" in the long-term land leases
made by the government, and some
private ownership of cattle, small
and tools on collective farms.
Such things are taxed, but with the
state owning all business, the actual
money taxes paid by the citizens is
low. ~Illiteracy has dropped, in 20
years, from extremely high to prac-
tically zero. There are now 5000
churches and 5000 newspapers in
Russia, and divorce is harder than
most other countries.
Those were some of the facts
Iatewood recited, but he did not
attempt to say just what position
Russia wants in affairs of the
world. on which there has been
much pro and con speculation by
authorities.
Gatewod's address filled three of
he general requirements for pro-
Laurel outlook., 1946-02-20
r. p. Palmer, Jr., and
LenOre McAllister
Are Married Feb. 10

At a home ceremony in Billings
Sunday, Feb. 10, Mrs. Lenore Nc
Allister and Robert Penrose Palm
err, Jr., son of Mr.. and Mrs. r. P.
Palmer were united in marriage.
Vows were exchanged at the home
Of the brides parents, Mr.. and Mrs
B. c. Reichmuth, before an i'm
prOvised altar of snapdragons,
roses and white tapers. The double
ring ceremony was performed by
Rev. Andrew C. Cation, pastor of
the First Methodist church of Bill
lings, with the brides father giving
her in marriage.
The bride wore a white jersey
street length dress decorated with
a fern scroll of gold beading, and
a matching hat. An orchid was
pinned at her shoulder.
Mrs. r. Winston of Basin, Wyo.,
matron of honor and a sorority sis
ter of the bride, chose a blue en-
semble and wore Il gardenia cor
sage. Glen Roysdon acted as best
man.
Mrs. Reichmuth's dress was a
light shade of blue and the bride
groom's mother wore gold with
matching accessories.
During the service, harp and VIC
lin selections were played by Miss
Melville Moss and Mrs. Elsie Spen-
GER, both of Billings.
Two hundred guests attended a
reception at the Reichmuth home
the afternoon. Assisting
Mr.. and Mrs. Reichmuth were Mrs.
A. J.. Scott, Mrs. Lew A. Williams
and Mrs. George B. Israel. A three
TERED wedding cake thanked by
roses centered the tea table.
Mrs. Palmer is a graduate of the
University of Wyoming and a men,
Der of Alpha Chi Omega social sor-
Mr.. Palmer was discharged
.ecently after serving five years
the army, three of which were
spent in the European theater.
After a short trip to Denver, Mr.. {
md Mrs. Palmer will reside in
laurel where he is employed at the
farmers Union refinery. c
Guests for the occasion, outside t
f Billings, were Mrs. T. B. Kapp L
+ Livingstone; Mrs. H. E. Starkey, c
Ir. and Mrs. Homer Wheeler, Mrs. n
Strand, T. C. Freund, Mrs. t
'. f. Mayes, Ted Neville, all of a
,aurel, and Miss Lydia Van Hyn- II
lg of Missoula. il
On Friday preceding her wedding, t;
Irs. Palmer was honored at a pre-
uptial shower given by members O.
E a bridge club at the home of q
RS. Israel in Billings. Dinner was 81
rived from a table centered with h
and white carnations and min p
.ture parasols which were later a
wen as individual favors. p;
Laurel outlook., 1946-02-20
Garden Club n
Thomson Anniversary

The Laurel Garden club met Feb.
Il at the Methodist church when a
potluck dinner was served to 46.
The table was gaily decorated with
valentines and candles.
A program enjoyed by all includ-
ed singing by the group, a piano
solo by Linda Johnston, a reading
by Mrs. G. N. Virgins, a song by
Mrs. M. ]. Wilcox, and a mock
wedding. Cake and ice cream was
served and a gift was presented to
Mayor and Mrs. Peter D. Thomson
in honor of their twenty-ninth we'd
ding anniversary.
The next meeting will be Feb. %
at the home of Mrs. Thomson.
Laurel outlook., 1946-02-20
laurel Happenings

Mrs. Fred Miller is a guest this
week of Mrs. Charlotte Herman.
Miss Dora Miller, daughter of
George Miller, has returned from
Missouri where she had been at
tending school.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-06
BY ANNE HERS

by ANNE HERS
CALCUTTA, Aug. M.-Oelayed)
We'll, I guess you're due an &C
count OF it, the revolution . &.
though actually most of it will be
secondhand because so far as the
Europeans were concerned it was
a pretty shadow. far away thing,
and we saw the columns Of smoke
by day and heard the mobs' cries
Of "Pakistan Zindabad" and al
lah Akbar" by night, but it was
just a sort of muffled rumble, and
we neither saw nor knew Of much
of what was actually going on, ex-
cept when the servants brought IN
news, or what we learned from
the paper.
AS you've probably read by now.
it was all provoked by the Muslin
leagues declaration Of August Ii
as Direct Active Day" a
threat to the Congress party mora
than anything else, and few really
believed that the action would be
direct at all, and most thought they
were bluffing, as I think the poll
teal leaders were, and the last
thing they planned for was such
an orgy Of blood-letting. However,
the mobs turn out in the streets,
and since the day had been &c
clared a holiday by the govern
ment, there was little else to dc
except turn out and parade. The
police seem to believe that tne
thing was set off by the Hindus,
who began throwing sticks and
stones at the Muslims as they pa
raded down the street. The fur
really began around 3 o'clock or
the afternoon of the 10Th, wher
the Hindus and Muslims began set
ting fire to each others bazars ano
churches down in the native quar-
ters, and by midnight the death
toll was reported to be around 10
We heard o saw nothing. Box
came by and he and I and a Swed
ish boy walked around the neigh.
borhood, and down onto the fringe
of one of the trouble sections, ane
we saw smoke rising down the
road away, and mobs gathered il
the street, but we didn't pursue it
On Saturday things had really
got under way. The monsoon hat
subsidized for the show, and thu
sun shone brightly and holly
which was a bad thing. The mon
son usually dampens their spirits
but it was a beautiful day for
riot. All transportation had com
pletely broken down, and nothin,
moved on the streets; in tn,
mainds (park) across from the OF
flee, the cows and buffalo Craze,
and the garbage cans, unemptie'
for days were piled high with re
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-06
SAYS BOMB MAY
NEVER BE EMPLOYED
IN MODERN WARFARE

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-R-
Suggesting that the atom bomb
may never again be used in war.
flare, the Army Air Forces report
ed Thursday that weapons which
may prove more effective" are
being studied for American aerial
defense. No hint OF their nature
was given.
Air forces technicians are con-
~centrating efforts on entirely new
weapons and methods Of aerial
warfare" discarding consideration
of most of World War II equip
ment, a statement said.
A mass of captured data on Nazi
guided missiles and other futuristic
weapons is being studied along
with American developments by a
research group in the air forces
ordnance division.
For any one of three reasons, the
Air Forces suggested, the atom
bomb might never be used in a
future war. 1t might be outlawed
bv international agreement, both
sides might refrain from using it
because of fear of reprisal, much
the same as the use of poison gas
in World War II, and counter
might neutralize the
weapon before another conflict.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-06
"MISS TENNESSEE"
SAYS BATHING SUIT
OKAY FOR CONTEST

ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Sept. 5.
-lP-Wilda Bowman. 1s-year-old
redhead, entered in the Miss Amer
lea Pageant as Miss Tennessee"
.aid Thursday night she was mis-
understood when she was quoted
as saying she objected to wearing
a bathing suit in public.
Miss Bowman, who wore a black
bathing suit and walked out rs
feet on a runway as part of the
competition which opened here
Thursday night, said a girl must
wear "a bathing suit to show that
"she is porportioned correctly"
IT signed a contract" she said,
ITO appear in the Miss America
contest in a bathing suit and since
it is necessary it is all right tc
appear before the public that way
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-06
Caribbean Air Route
Planned By Eastern

NEW YORK, Sept. 5.-P-Capt.
Eddie Rickenbacker, president and
general manager of the Eastern
Air Lines, Thursday announced
that the airline would start a non
stop passenger, mail and express
service between Miami and San
Juan, Puerto Rico, Sept. 9. !
The new link, he said, would
give 50 eastern cities a direct one
carrier service to and from the
Caribbean. =
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-06

prices to try and stretch the slim
supplies to reach the multitudes,
but with the footing and destruction
of the past week, it seems almost
a certainty that many Of the people
will starve, and r actually be-
ginning to already. There's such
a slim margin between them and
starvation at all times that there's
never any reserve to fall back on.
They're for the majority, terribly
gaunt and rickety, and subsist,
through their own religious pred
udices, on rice and a sort of curry
goo, and cannot eat meat or Other
food touched by other hands (this
is the Hindus of course). The
Muslms are now fasting and eat
nothing while the sun shines .
have one meal at 4 a. m. and
another at 10 p. m, SO the daylight
hours are lean and hungry. Any.
way they subsist on a 24hour basis,
and provisions are bought from
day to day, and there's no pantry
anywhere Except at our house,
with a weeks supplies to fall back
on. The fruits and vegetables "a.
rive every night at Howrah anc
Sealdah station from up-country
and the local coolies 60 down tt
the station to meet the trains, ant
cart the produce to the New Mar
ket where it is sold in the early
morning hours to the natives. How
ever, the produce which arrived
on the 18th, 18th has been lying
in the stations rotting, and Their
the trains on the 18th were afraie
to come into the station, so tina
today the market is absolutely
bare ... and people are getting
hungry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-06
REVENUE BRANCH
STILL NOT CLEAR
Final Decision Rests With
Bureau Headquarters
In Washington

Wilmington's chances OF gettihe
the Southeastern North Carolina
branch of the Bureau of Internal
Revenue office in charge OF pros
ecution of income tax evasion cases
moved here from Raleigh rests
with a decision slated to be made
soon by Washington headquarters,
it was learned here yesterday after
a conference between Carl Garges,
senior agent of the tax unit, and
Harold Porter, superintendent OF
the local Customshouse.
Porter said the agent seemed
"well satisfied" with the space
Porter offered him in the Customs
house but declined to say when
the move from Raleigh would be
made pending official confirmation
from Washington.
Seven men are currently employ
ed in the Raleigh office. If and
when it transfers to Wilmington,
the staff may be increased to 10,
it has been said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-06
REJECT CLIO

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.-CP-
The National Labor Relations
board announced Thursday that
employees of the WEIGH Furniture
company, High Point, N. c., had
rejected by a 1889 vote in an
April "a runoff vote the petition
of the United Furniture Workers
of America (CIO) that it be desi-
gnated their collective bargaining
agent.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-06
BURLINGTON CLIO ELECTION

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.--Pe
The National Labor Relations
board Thursday directed that a
collective bargaining election be
held before Oct. 6 at the May,
McEwen, Kaiser company-May
Full Fashion division, Burlington,
N. c., on the petition of the Ameri-
can Federation of Hosiery Workers
(CIO).
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-06
Textile Mil,
Grant Eight Cent Rs;,.

LUMBERToN, Sept
crease Of eight cents new All M'
the wages Of all employees Ao " in
Mansfield Mills, Inc, N Of The
lotion mssjn+a MN becomes ettec ttfinal2 iss
lective bargaining batmo Of col,
management of the two len the
2s and 2s5 of the Go. 'lS N0s'
This increase means that =
minimum FOR unskiIlad ula1 The
at the plants is now 10 cent? nrsA ~
highest in the history of tba The
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-06

Mountain laurel is the state
sloWer of Connecticut.
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-06

Colorado lis known as the Gen.
state,
The Wilmington morning star., 1946-09-06

Palm oil is used in the produc-
ton OF steel plate.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-30
Fact-Finders Favor
164-Cent Raise for
Telegraph Workers
Ten Cents More Per Hour
Urged for Messengers
Of Western Union
By the Associoied Press

A Federal fact-finding Boarc
today recommended a 1612-cent
hourly wage increase for tele-
graph workers and 10 cents ar
hour for messengers of the West
ern Union Telegraph Co.
The board submitted separate re-
ports covering the $4,000 members
of three AFL unions comprising the
National Co-ordinating Board, and
the 1000 members of the Go
American communications Associa-
ton.
The board reported it found that
Western Union employees have re-
ceived no general wage increase
under the postwar stablllzation
standards, although wage increases
in the related telephone industry
have been granted,
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach
who appointed the board in an eff
fort to resolve dispute between
the company and the unions, urged
the parties to resume negotiations
Immediately, using the boards re-
port as basis for settlement.
The AGA has demanded an in
crease of Is cents an hour, retro
active to May l, and correction OF
ineuuities in the wage structure
retroactive to February is, 1914.
The AFL Co-ordinating Board de-
manded a general increase of 49,:
cents an hour.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1946-08-30
JUS. Fights Trade Pact
.0f Russia and Sweden
BY the Associoted Press

A pending Russo-Swedish trade
agreement involving $500 600, 900
loan to the Soviet Union has bumped
into American objections.
This country, diplomatic officials
disclosed, has sent notes of protest
to both Stockholm and Moscow,
pointing out that an American trade
commission is scheduled to meet in
London October IS to try to chart
a course of freer trade among all
countries.
The American view, the notes re-
portedly assert, is that any agree
ment between only two nations would
tend to conflict with the detectives
of the London meeting,
Russia, alone of IA countries in
vited to followup trade conference
tentatively scheduled in this country
next year has failed to accept.
Sweden was not among those in
vited.
Neither Moscow nor Stockholm
has replied to the American notes.
but officials said the Swedish trade
delegation which negotiated the
projected five-year pact, had re-
turned home recently for further
instructions.
The notes made TO references to
the loan clause, officials said. But
only to provisions governing trade
practices.
A similar protest earlier this year
led to revision of British Canadian
trade agreement.