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The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1946-04-20

duction in this area was stress
ed by the speakers.
The Navy citation to Boston
Edison was received for the
company by vice-president F.
Manley Ives, representing Pres
ident James v. Toner, "for mer-
itorious and outstanding SER
vice rendered beyond normal
responsibility" during World
War II. The Army awards to
express its appreciation for
patriotic service in positions Of
trust and responsibility were
received by these Edison men,
who served as co-ordinatorS Of
the program: president,
John T. Ward, Daniel Kicker,
John F. Maxwell, Everett G.
Esebbins, Donald H. Hathaway
and st. George T. Arnold.
The guardian. [volume] (Boston, Mass.) 1901-1960, 1946-04-20
CITY NEWS

We ore offering you the 0Ppor-
sunity to see and hear MoybeIIe FEM
ton pianist, and Barbara LattimeF Of
Lynn, vocalist. in post-Lenten Must
cole. Who5 The Drama Guild Of
the First A. N. E. Church, whereof
Corner Of Woren St. and Elm Hill Ave.
Whena Sunday afternoon, April 70,
OF $3.50. Admission zoe (tux inel.)
Mrs. Sorah Nelson, supt., ceeeIiO
Peay, publicity director.
Mr. and Mrs Harry A Delmore
OF New York spent a delightful
vacation In Boston and Cam
bridge as the house guests of
Mrs Delmore's brother AN Law
and sister Mr. and Mrs Carl
Williams. The Delmores, former
residents of Boston and Cam
bridge were lavishly entertain
ed by their many friends and
relatives, including MIR. Del
more's sisters, Mrs. Matte
Withers and Mrs. Nettie Pack.
The Golden Deed Club to
spread sunshine among the
sick in hospitals and in the
homes was organized at the
Harriet Tubman House last
week under the supervision of
Miss S. r. Ivory. Present were
MeSdames Olivia johnson
Steele, zita williams, Helena
Jackson, Helen Mann, Portia
Smile, Marguerite Gibson, Al
ice Mendes, Elizabeth Ransom,
Lorise McHenry.
The lila Annual Riddles Revue
BY the Women's Educational Union
Of the Robert Gould Show House, IT
Windsor st, Roxbury will be held Fri
day, April z6, 8 p. M, to benefit the
Nursery School. Please Try TO be
present.
Mrs Nettie D Pack, 504 Shaw
NUT ave, who has been serious
ly Ill for six months, is making
good progress on the way to re-
covery.
Mrs Aletha Johnson was din
ner hostess at her home on
Dilworth st last Sunday to the
Young Peoples Fellowship of
st Augustine and st Martins
church. Members present were:
Senior President Lillian P.
Christopher. Junior President
Hazel Francis, Evelyn Wilson.
Kathleen Wilson, Ina Wilson.
Mary Andrews, Pearl Springer,
Elaine McCooty, Ellen McCooty.
Shirley Brown, ArIeon Lewis.
Vera Johns, Samuel Johns, Har-
old Wright, Carl Ericsson, Cliff
ford Ericsson, Dorothy Thomas,
Hazel Wolfe, Conise Beldon,
Barbara Jackson, Helen Will
liams, Katherine Brown and
Anthony Johns Dust returned
from overseas duty. A very
enjoyable afternoon was spent
by all and the Fellowship ex-
tended an invitation to their
hostess to attend the perform
ance Of pilates Daughter" on
Tuesday, April 8, with the
group. The climax of the even
ing was their attending the
Women's Retreat at st Angus
tine and st Martins church, 81
Lenox st.
Ethel Hardy Smith, noted
New York soprano, will again
please her many Boston friends
Evening star., 1946-01-13

white on black; Connecticut (perma-
nent plates, black on aluminium;
Delaware permanent plates, white
on black: Florida, cream on dark
blue; Georgia, black on aluminium;
New Jersey, black on straw; New
York, black on orange; North Caro-
lima, yellow on black; Ohio, red on
white; Pennsylvania, yellow on
blue; South Carolina, aluminium on
black. BY now, of course, Wash
ington residents have heard there
will be two plates on D. C. cars, black
on yellow; Maryland will continue
with the 1914 combination of alum
mum on black, and Virginia, white
on black. West Virginia will have
yellow on black until next June 80
and then change to black on yellow
The war hiatus In travel South to
the Latin republics has not suspended
efforts to bring about a simplified
standard of regulations regarding
entrance requirements. Even in
peace, there were yards of red tape
and of different hues for each coun-
try. The travel division of the Pan
American Union and other interested
agencies are working toward a not
hard-to-get tourist card, such as
serves United States travellers to
Mexico, Cuba and Guatemala
Something may come of the nego-
Evening star., 1946-01-13

tiations before the routes really open
up again.
Lake Placid. N. Y, has begun
what may be its biggest sports
year. The Mount Van Hoovenberg
Olympic bob run is in operation,
with expert crews to whiz passengers
down the nerve -tingling course; 10
downhill ski runs and five jumps
offer slopes suitable for the novice,
the intermediate and expert skier
and 100 miles of ski-touring trails
are being maintained. Closing of
the Army Redistribution Center was
so fortunately timed that practically
all hotels are back In the vacation
business.
Gas rationing is far enough back
in history now for motorists to re-
member that some day they were
going to drive the lis miles on the
Overseas Highway from the main
land of Southern Florida over wide
stretches of water to Key West.
Evening star., 1946-01-13

first week of hearings, Representa-
tive Larcade. Democrat, of Louisi-
ana, told Maui County officials last
night that Hawaii lis just as ready
for statehood as any of the States
now In the Union"
Mr.. Larcade said he was far more
impressed with what he found on
the islands than what a similar
committee of which he was men,
ber found in Alaska a year ago.
Representative Delaney, Demo-
Evening star., 1946-01-13

crat, of New York, addressed q
group as citizens of the 49th state"
Representative Taylor, Republican,
of New York. concurred ip the views
of his colleagues.
Evening star., 1946-01-13
Hawaiian Statehood Hopes
Spurred by House Probers
py the Associated Press.


WAILUKU, Maui, T. H., Jan. H.
Members of the House Territories
Subcommittee boosted Hawaiian
hopes for statehood today with
strong Endorsements Of the islands
fitness for that responsibility.
At the end of the subcommittee
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-13
ABROAD: els Want to Go Home Fast

Many of the soldiers in the Philip
pines were counting the weeks before
they could 60 home. When they read
of a War Department announcement
that the rehabilitation rate would be-
slowed, they began to protest with
parades and mass meetings.
The War Department said new men
were not going into the Army at
rate considered sufficient to keep
overseas forces at efficient levels and
that as result those abroad would be
kept in service up to three months
longer. To several thousand dis
appointed GIs in Manila, the brass
hats" were to blame.
Parades formed, committees were
organized, mass meetings were ar
ranged, and mimeographed pamphlets
appeared, urging protests to Con-
gressional committees scheduled to
arrive on special missions.
Military police halted some troops
attempting to parade toward the
Manila headquarters of 1t. Gen. w.
D. Styer, commander of Army forces
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in the western Pacific But Styer's re-
quest that the enlisted men call off an
announced mass meeting was turned
down.
At least $4,000 soldiers attended one
meeting, booed when they heard Sty-
er's explanation for the rehabilitation
delay, and heard enlisted men take
the stage one after the other to charge
breaking Of faith" by the War De-
partment. Pamphlets charged ire
deployment has been deliberately
slowed down to force compulsory
military training" that "the State De-
partment wants the Army to back up
it's imperialism" and that generals
and colonies who want to 60 on play
ing war are anxious to retain sizeable
commands rather than go back to
their permanent grades of ieutenants
to majors" A resolution was adopted
demanding a Congressional investiga-
ton. The meeting, though noisy, was
peaceable.
b. Similar protests came from GIs at
LeHavre, France, and at Guam, where
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-13
Nature
Again the Floods

Tho rivers were on rampage
again. Gorged by mountain streams,
they splashed across their banks to
inundate southeast Kentucky and Gre
ate flood perhaps surprising even
the disaster of 1929.
Scores of towns in the Cumberland
and Big Sandy valleys were isolated
as the raging rivers swept down to
the south. Property damage went up
to hundreds of thousands of dollars
and in Kentucky alone the homeless
were estimated at more than 5000.
Principal highways were closed, COM
munications lines went down and
Kentucky militiamen were called out.
Floods also hit Tennessee, Georgia,
Alabama, North Carolina and West
Virginia. More than 20 deaths were
recorded.
Hardest hit in Kentucky was the
town Of Pineville, where more than
5000 residents were evacuated into
surrounding high territory. Red Cross
disaster committees set up canteens
to feed most Of the isolated popula-
ton.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-13
Reconvening Congress Feels the Heat

DURING the four war years
-D.Congress held relatively un-
spectacular place in government.
The overshadowing war role was
played by the President, with his
blanket wartime powers, and by
the numerous agencies he set UP to
mobilize and direct both fighting and
home front forces.
This week the legislature comes
back into the center spotlight as it
sweats out the answers to diverse and
difficult problems which, President
Truman has said, will LAY the founda--
ton of our economic structure which
will have to serve for generations"
Soon after Congress reconvenes on
Jan. IA it will be asked to set up ma
chinery to iron out Acknowledgment
disputes short of paralyzing strikes; to
back stronger price-control regulations
which the President says is necessary
to hold off imitation; to consider the
full employment" bill, a proposal for
far-reacking federal health insurance
program, bills to raise minimum wages
and unemployment insurance pay
ments, and plan to merge Army,
Navy and Air Force into one depart
ment of national defense.
Each of these issues Is soggy with
controversy. Management and labor
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$4,000 were reported to have attended
two meetings and 1870 officers and en-
listed men sent an open letter to the
American people" calling the slow
down "a stunning blow to our morale
low as it already was" South of
Manila, 1000 soldiers collected $1,000
to pay for messages to the President
and Congress and full page ads in Is
newspapers to demand the custer Of
Secretary of War Patterson. Demon
STATIONS were held in many other
places.
APP correspondent Hal Boyle wrote
that "'going home has developed into
a service-wide psychosis, sort Of
mental epidemic that is threatening to
turn the remnants of what five months
ago was the worlds most powerful
army into stranded mob"
The demonstrations led President
Truman to issue lengthy statement
in which he said he was convinced
that the services were demobilizing
with commendable efficiency and
with justice to all concerned"
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planned a meeting to find a way of
getting the church back.
Retail clothing merchants were
asked to reserve their scarce clothing
such as suits, overcoats, shirts, IN
derwear-for returning servicemen.
If necessary to meet veterans needs,
the Civilian Production Administra-
ton suggested that sales to civilians
be curtailed. Meanwhile a nationwide
drive began to collect 100000 900 used
garments for distribution to war suf~
ferers overseas.
. First Frost, white stallion from
the imperial stables of Emperor Hiro-
hito, was put aboard San Francisco
bound Liberty ship at Yokohama. The
horse is the souvenir Of 1t. Dick Ryan,
former Hollywood stunt man, who
says he will show it at veterans hos
pitals and civic events. Ryan got First
Frost for $67.
. Cracksmen broke into an oil COM
pany's office in East Chicago Heights,
blasted loose 400-pound safe en-
Z bedded in concrete, rolled it out on a
dolly truck, loaded it on motor truck
and drove away. In the safe was $3.50.
. The mayor of Anchorage, Alaska,
proclaimed an "open season" on
beardless males between Feb. q and
March 2, when any man caught with
out beard will be charged with in
decent exposure. The dates coincide
with those Of the city's fur rendezvous.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-13
UNO Gets
To Work
ELEvEN-A

r ESS than ten days after he ar.
IL rived home from the Big
Three conference at Moscow, Sec.
rotary of State Byrnes went of
again - this time to London, for
the converting of the United Ma.
ton Organizations General Assembly,
Flying in President Truman's huge
plane, 'The Sacred Cow" Byrnes
Joined the United States delegation
which had arrived previously. He
planned to direct their approach to
some Of the tough questions before
UNo in its first days.
Early Problems
Here were some of the things the
General Assembly had to work on to
get the organizations wheels turning:
Atomic Control: Reviewing the
atomic agreement reached by the Big
Three at Moscow. Sen. Tom Connolly
was named to represent the us. on
the political and security committee
which will handle the atomic ques-
ton, and Byrnes this week gave
assurances that Americas bomb
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were protesting a War Labor Board
decision granting them a 12-cent an
hour raise and the steelworkers were
seeking a So daily increase from us.
Steel, bellwether of the industry.
Unions argued that additional take
home pay was needed to meet rising
living costs. Most arrangements said
such increases could not be made in
view of the controls that prevent
raising prices and passing increased
costs on to the consumer.
Government officials worked fever
ish1y to; find way out Of the wage
price dilemma without opening the
foodgates- of imitation. Some saw
solution: Permitting slight price in
creases in steel, meat and other lines
to take care of part of the wage
boosts.
President Truman indicated some
support of this plan. He also repeated
that impartial fact-finding and the
compulsory 30-day cooling off period
would eliminate strikes.
Some Bright Spots
There were few bright spots.
In Detroit, the new Kaiser-FraZer
Corporation reached an accord with
the Auto Workers which calls for an
unprecedented" wage rate-a basic
wage of $1.19 per hour, plus whatever
increases are obtained by the union
in its strike against General Motors,
plus a pool of S. per car to be dis
tributed annually among the firms
employees. UAW leaders called the
contract "unquestionably the best ever
reached with an automotive COM
pany."
In Easton, Pa, the Lehigh Foun-
dries, Inc. was taken off the list OF
steel mills subject to strike when 1t
signed an interim agreement to In
crease wages from II to q cents an
hour. ..e. s.
In Washington, the. president OF the
CLIO Oil Workers Union agreed to cut
demands from 80 percent increase &c
10 percent-the first sharp reduction
in CIO wage increase demands on
major industry since the end OF the
war and step which was regarded as
possibly setting pattern for the ma
ton.
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and Libby Owens Ford plants. ALL
tool and die workers were on strike in
Cincinnati. Truck drivers struck in St.
Louis, hating food deliveries from
wholesalers to retailers.
Bigger Walkouts Threatened
Picket lines seemed to be strung
from coast to coast, and by midweek
the number of striking idle totaled
around 100000. But even bigger, more
paralyzing walkouts directly affecting
almost 100000 more were imminent.
Calls were issued to 100000 steel
workers for strike Jan. IA; to 100000
in the electrical industries for Jan.
Is; to another $4,000 in the meat
packing industry for Jan. 16; to 10000
farm equipment and metal workers in
II International Harvester plants for
Jan 81. Many lesser work stoppages
appeared to be On the way. The pros
pect this week was that strikes soon
would involve more than one out of
every ten union members in the
United States.
1t was possible that millions of
other workers would be affected. A
walkout in such a key industry as
steel could result in a complete halt
in the production of many durable
items like automobiles and refrigera-
tors within a month. Observers said
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secrets would not be given out with
out consent of Congress. This APP
peared to placate Sen. Arthur VAN
derberg (R., Mich), one of the dele
gates who was opposed to turning
over the atomic data at this time.
Trusteeships: Ticklish questions
dealing with the present mandates and
with territories taken from the Axis.
Military Staff Committee: A board
to recommend what military strength
each country will be asked to place
at the councils disposal. 81
Secretary General: Selection of
candidate to this important $4,000
year post.
- Security Council: Election of six
temperament members to join the
permanent Big Five-U.S., Britain,
Russia, China and France-on this all
powerful board.
Difficulties Seen
As the UNO delegates assembled,
observers saw the possibility Of inter-
lection of middle east difficulties into
the early meetings. These primarily
involve Turkey and Iran.
Turkey says the Soviets seek bases
in the Dardanelles and access to the
Mediterranean through the straits,
and the Russian press has published
demands for Turkish territory along
the Black Sea coast. While the Turks
are said to be willing to compromise
on the Dardanelles, they have stated
they will fight to preserve their pres
ent borders.
Iran recently had successful up
rising in Azerbaijan province and
while there have been suggestions Of
Russian assistance to the rebels us.
officials say this would be difficult to
prove. Counter-revolutionary" out
breaks against the new regime are
still going on, according to reports
from Tehran. Byrnes had a plan
which he was unable to have adopted
at Moscow-for a Big Three commits
sion to study Iranian problems.
American spokesman fear the early
introduction of Turkish and 1ranian
issues would produce fireworks that
could seriously hamper the organlza-
ton before it even got started.
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-13
In Short

Died: Slim Summerville, so, long
time movie comedian, at Laguna
Beach, Calf.
Nominated: William Henry Haste,
Negro dean of the Howard University
Law School, to be governor of the Vir-
gin Islands; by President Truman.
Organized: The Federation of Amer
lean Scientists, nationwide associa
ton led by atomic experts, to educate
the public and influence legislation OF
scientific matters.
Surveyed: Various proposed sites
along the U. S. eastern seaboard for
permanent headquarters Of the United
Nations, by a seven-man UNO inspec-
ton section
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-13
Atom Rumor Of the Week

Russian researchers were re-
ported to have developed an atom
bomb the size of a tennis ball
(which renders the Anglo-Amer-
lean bomb obsolete" The bomb
was said to have been tested al
ready and to have pulverization
range of So miles.
Source Of the report was DR..
Raphael E. G. Armattoe, director
Of the Lomeshie Research Center
for anthropology and human biol
ogy at Londonderry, Northern
Ireland. Scientists in britain and
the United States expressed
skepticism, and President Tru-
man said the government had no
reason to believe Russia had the
rumOred bomb.
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It was a crime so revolving that
Chicago's Mayor Edward ]. Kelly
called it "even too horrible for a
maniac" ..-..
Early Monday James Degnan, an
OPA executive, was awakened by the
barking of dogs in an apartment
above. He heard his honey-haired six
year-old daughter Suzanne murmur:
I'm sleepy" He thought she was
talking in her sleep.
Later that morning he found the
window in Suzanne's back bedroom
wide open, and the little girl missing
from the house. Then he discovered
the note-a carefully prepared but
poorly written demand for $4,000
ransom. The soiled condition of the
note indicated the kidnaper had car
ried it in his pocket for several days
before the crime.
DegnaH's salary is only $500
wear, but in desperation he promised
tn nav the ransom. He went before
microphones to make two separate,
hating radio appeals to the kidnaper,
,ffering assurances that the police
would not interfere. FIJI give you the
money!" he said. "1'll do anything to
Jet my child back"
While he awaited word from the
bductor, police began a thorough
.aarch Of the neighborhood. In near
~ sewer they found a chubby head,
crudely chopped from the body. In
other sewers they found the torso. In
two others the legs.
A priest brought the news 70 the
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nea 1Tnion offices in New York, tying
ell +be nation's communications capt.
up . an5 hating all but the most vital
la am or death Geographic messages
NC I'd o,,t of the city. Telephone SER
III io az across the country was hit as
w. and more employees stopped
Uule H -
work. ,,ooo u,o,tor, E,oo+r;o
,orters members of an Independent
, WHOM away from work in New York
u und New Jersey. CLIO glassworkers
s a,e, out at the Pittsburgh Plate Glass
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The Rev. J. Erwin Gnagney, pastor
Of the Union Community Church at
Ridgefeld Park, N. j., was accused by
his parishioners of refusing to permit
services in the church. The clergyman,
who said he was owed $500 in salary
for the past three years, said he was
living in a wing of the church to pro-
tect his interests. The communicates
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Upconning

Monday, January IA
Congress reconvenes.
march of Dimes" campaign for
polio victims opens.
Tuesday, January Is
Last day for filing final pay
ments of 1915 income tax and for
making the last quarterly pay
ment Of estimated tax.
Wednesday, January 16
Eighteenth amendment went
into effect, 1920.
Thursday, January II
President Truman's estate Of
the Union" message to Congress.
Saturday, January 10
Robert E. Lees birthday.
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that a strike in the meat packing
plants would be felt Immediately and
mat possibly within a week the sup
plies for consumers would be cut of
to a trickle. An electrical industry
strike also would have wide roper
cussions.
The cause of this outburst of strikes
and threatened strikes was the same.
Workers wanted more money. Most
asked 81 percent wage increase, al
though the Western Union strikers
The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1946-01-13
VAIN RADIO APPEAL Was
made by father Of Suzanne
Deanan. later found slain.

distraught father and mother, al
when an autopsy was performed OF,
the recovered parts the crime reacneo
the depths of revulsion. 49,,
The autopsy indicated that little
Suzanne had been attacked, stran-
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Quotes

Gen. Il. Fl. Arnold, commanding
general of the Army Air Forces:
Overwhelming air power, at the
disposal of an international secur-
lty council, is the present way to
peace"
Rep. Sol Bloom, member Of the
s. delegation to the UNO Cen
eral Assembly: "We are looking
for the press to contribute toward
making the United Nations a
great body"
Ken Lin, editor of a Chinese
newspaper in Manila, observing
vi demonstrations against slow
oemobilization: 'This is democ-
racy working. 1t isn't jus. a word.
You can smell democracy
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Wave of Strikes
Engulfs Nation

RA was threatened with of the greatest waves Of indus
a trial strife in her history
Al the land workers laying down their tools or vot-
strike support increased wage demands The wakout of
g Workers Union against General Motors involving 75 0O0
the end second month CLIO workers went out of West