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Hartford chronicle., 1947-03-01
HEALTH FOR ALL
Preventing Tuberculosis


 ed. It is not hereditary, but it is communicable germ disease spread from persons who have the disease in active form to healthy persons. It has been called "the unnecessary disease, - yet 55,O0O Americans and mil lions ill other parts of the world die from it annually. Each is a failure in prevention.
 One of the reasons why we fail in preventing tuberculosis is our unwillingness to face un- pleasant facts. It is easier and far more pleasant to believe that we could not have TB than to have a chest X-ray and find out for sure whether we are healthy or whether we have caught the disease. The early case, discovered by X-ray before outward symptoms appear, can be cured with minimum loss of time and money, before great harm has been. done in passing on the germs to friends, rela- tives and business contacts, It every adult were to have rou- tine chest X-rays, just as he should go to the doctor for an annual check-up, tuberculosis might eventually no longer be one of the chief causes of death.
 It cannot be said too forcibly that newborn babies and small children should be kept away from open cases of TB and out of rooms occupied by them. Among grown people the dan ger of association is limited largely to those having intimate contact with tuberculous per sons. It is always the unknown case that does the most harm.
 Many persons have tuberculo- sis germs in small quantities ly- ing dormant in their bodies. They may develop the disease if the natural resistance is low cred and the germs begin to de- velop and increase to considera- ble numbers. Poor recovery from acute respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, influenza, grippe and colds will lower re- sistance and provide ideal con- ditions for an outbreak of the germs. With children, a poor recovery from measles and whooping cough, if there has been any contact with a tuber- culosis person, may lead to fatal attack of the disease.
 After any disease or opera tion, the patient should remain in bed until the doctor permits some activity, instead of get ting up and going, about as soon as he is able to walk, as is so often done. Sometimes tuber-. culosis seems to develop at the end of a long summer of ex- hausting heat. Excessive phy- sical and mental work also often result in lowered resistance which invites TB.
 There are large numbers of men and women who apparently do not know enough to go to L L 4 u.
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-08
Dairen Gives Acid Test To U. $. And Reds

tended her authority over all of Manchuria.
 At the time it was concluded, the Sino-Russian treaty of 1945 was hailed as, by and large, a hopeful and constructive develop ment, one that would consolidate peace in a highly disturbed part of the world.
 The treaty pledged both nations to work together "in close and friendly cooperation" with each other, to respect each others sov- ereignty and to refrain from inter- icing in each others internal af- fais.
 Russia, for her part, agreed to evacuate Manchuria and to recog- nize that vast and rich region as under Chinese sovereignty. She al. so pledged to render China "mor. al support and assistance with mil
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-08
(BY Barnet Nover)

In the Sino-Russian treaty of alliance and friendship" conclud- ed at Moscow on Aug. IA, l945, a long and important section deals with the future status of Dairen, Manchuria's principal port and major railroad terminus.
 Dairen had been part of the Russian leasehold in south Man. churia which the imperialistic Russia of the czars had extracted from the dying Chinese empire at the end of the last century.
 Following Russia's defeat in the Russo-Japanese war of l904-05, Dairen and the Kwantung penin- sula on which it is located were taken over by the Japanese who remained in control until shortly before the end of the second World War, having, in the meantime, ex-
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-08

rowing it. Either method is bound to cause nfation
 The United States made up the difference in World War II by borrowing tremendous scale The results in the national debt On that subject the mttee public debt policy has just issued inter- esting figures. For instance:
 After the revolutionary national debt was $19 per capita-that s for each man. and child $15 per capita after the of 1872 It to $8 per capita after the Civil War; $24O after World War and $1981 after World War II.
 In 1917, the year before got into World War l. national debt only per cent of our national income
 mounted to Al per cent of national income during that war; fell to P per cent in the 1920s-but is almost 200 per cent The national income is large this year. but the national debt is nearly twice as large.
 If you pay federal income tax you pay part of the cost of operating the federal government But though you may not realize it, that is by all you pay
 The cost of government helps to make prices high, One reason is that the corporations really tax col ectors for Uncle Sam Of each $5 of gross profit poration by selling it's products it pay the U. s. Treasury nearly $2 in corporate income taxes $2 that otherwise it might have shared with it's cus- toners through lower prices, it's employees through higher wages, and it's stockholders through larger div- dends
 The only way all groups have higher living stand ards is by making the national income bigger The only way to increase the national income is to produce wealth. And the only way to produce wealth is to work.
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-08
Only One Way

(The Rocky Mountain News)
 IN THE ARGUMENT whether high prices are the fault of capital labor profits wages should not forget the real original culprit-war.
 lAny government that fights major has to spend whale of lot money than it collect in taxes It makes up the difference by printing money by bor
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-08
Wednesday, January 8, 1947
Hunting Headlines Or Communists?
(The Denver POSt)

(Ihe Denver POSt)
 ERNIE ADAMSON chief counsel for the House com- mtee un-A American activities, that there is a Communist Conspiracy" fomenting revolution in the United States There is nothing harrasng in this dis closure for the Communists have long stood exposed
 conspiracy and not they profess, political party The Communist objective of revolution scarcely needs further Recommendation, although 1t would be of great importance learn further of the depth to which these conspraors have been able to penetrate national life and to know of the guses in which they masquer ade
 More interesting than the warning itself however, is the person who uttered it. This marks the second time in recent weeks that Adamson has presented himself spokesman of the unAmercan activities committed In the earlier instance AdamSon announced the press that Elliott Roosevelt would be called on the Congress sional carpet for his foolish blurts in Moscow This ab rogation of power in the hands of Congressional pOyee raises serious questions.
 There is not only the question of propriety there is also doubt to the soundness of such procedure
 When the Kigore war Investigating committee debating whether to send it's probers to Germany, Sec reary of State James Byrnes-once Senator himself
 strongly opposed to the idea One of the points he scored dealt with the Responsibility of Congressional investigators Too often, he indicated they interested in the publicity they might gain themselves than in the object of their inquiry The secretary most outspoken against committee gumshoes, more than employees of Congress- who pop off in print on official matters.
 AdamSon of the un-American activities committee of ers good in point Not only is improper for him to be speaking with the se-assumed authority of Con- gress but it is most unwise. The committee which em poys him has grave mission to perform in exposing toalitarian dangers to democracy It should proceed with judicial obectvity. It's findings should have a substantial and thoughtully considered quality which will command public acceptance.
 The un-American activities committee has an mme date task of overcoming the suspicion raised in the pub lie mind under the chairmanshp of Martin Dies. The Dies committee made solid contributions to tional understanding of the Communist conspiracy, but it undid its good work by the op,l of fife InoHI ohnrc Through its leaders shotgun blasts at sincere and pa triotic liberals with whom Dies ct al were in political disagreement the committee lost the broad public back ing necessary to its success.
 The current committee should learn from that bad precedent and button MT. Adamson up The headlines are not as important as the quarry.
The Nome nugget., 1947-01-08

AiidlcIl- al resources" This support said Foreign Minister Molotov of Rms sia, in letter that was made part of the treaty, would be given fp,- ly to the national government as the central government of China"
 In return for this pledge of friendship, China made a number of important concessions to Rus sia concessions which restored to Russia many of the imperalistic rights and privileges which she had secured in the days of the czarS.
 Tn the first place. Russia was given joint control and ownership of the Chinese Eastern and South Manchurian railways. Secondly. Russia was 10 share with China utilization" of Port Arthur as naval base. And. thirdly. Russia was 10 be given free port rights in Dairen.
 With regard to these free port rights the treaty provisions are specific and clear. They provids, that certain piers and WarehousS are to be set aside in the port for the use of the Soviet Union, that goods arriving at Dairen from Russia or from abroad for trans shipment to Russia over the Man. churian railways should be allow ed in free of duty and that the chief of the port should be a Sov- jet citizen.
 The treaty made it very clear that Russia was not to have ex- elusive control over Dairen. On the contrary, it was proclaimed, "a free port open to trade and shipping of all countries" It was also stipulated that "administra- ton in Dairen will be exercised by China"
 These provisions. as are true of so many other provisions of the ls45 treaty. have been honored hS Russia. only in the breach. Indeed. despite the boast made by Stalin. Molotov and other Russian leaders that Russia has evacuated her troops from China. there are sew eral times as many Russian troops in Dairen as there are American troops. including U. s. Marines. in north China. And the refusal by the Soviet authorities 10 permit a naval vessel 10 remain in Dairen harbor and their refusal 10 permit ! American citizens 10 take up resi- dence there makes if clear that. in Russian eyes. Dairen is as much of a Russian base as is Port Ar thur where the Chinese have not even had a look in so far. At a time when the international skies are lifting because of a se- ries of friendly gestures made by Soviet leaders at the council of, foreign ministers, and the N. U. general assembly and the security council, Russia's equivocal role in China causes misgivings.
 Russia's maneuvering in the Far East from the very moment the war in the Pacific ended have enormously complicated the Chi nese problem. She footed Man churia as though that region had
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-29
HOLY LANDS WAR
TAKES new TOLL
Hagna Squads Lash Out At
Arab Enemies During
Funeral Rites

JERUSALEM, Dec. %. III
The Holy Lands war of hate and
a,ad rep~isals took an additional
II lives today-nine Arabs, sew
en- Jews and one British soldier
The death toll since the Nov
29 decision by the United Nations
to partition Palestine mounted to
4O1 in the Holy Land and 522 for
the entire Middle East.
Hagana sources said the Jew.
ish defense army planned one re-
prisal attack each day aga nst
the Arabs. Today grenade and
tommygun squads from Hagana
attacked Arabs in the Jerusalem
suburb of Romema, and eight
Arabs and two Jews died in the
resultant battle.
The Hagana squads lashed ou1
as thousands of Jews attended
funeral services for Hans Beth.
Jewish Agency youth leader, and
seven other Jews killed by Arat
snipers.
Sounds of gunfire and explo-
sions punctuated the graveside
services for Beth and the other
Jewish dead on the Mount oil
See WAR on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-29
Senate Members Preparing
To Smooth Vandenberg-
Taft Differences

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. -W.n
- There were indications today
that Senate Republicans are ready
to go all-out in averting an elec-
tion-year split over the Marshal
European recovery plan between
their two top leaders, Senate
President Arthur H. Vandenbere
and Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio
Political observers say thai
such split could divide the GOF
on major issue and make diff
ficult the drafting of a foreign
policy platform plank at the Re
publican national convention mex
summer.
Vandenberg and Taft, in year
of Republican Congressional con
troll, have observed a tacit un
derstanding. The Ohioan has de-
voted his major efforts to further
ing the COP domestic program
Vandenberg has emerged as his
party's leading foreign policy
spokesman in Congress.
But on the long-range, ST.
000,OOO,000 European recovery
program, both Senators admit
that domestic and foreign policy
are hopelessly entwined.
Taft has been critical Of ad.
ministration foreign spending. He
believes planned expenditures
under the Marshall Plan are ou1
See MEMBERS On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-29
VIOLENCE TAKES
THIRTEEN LIVES
Weekend Include Acciden.
tai Casing, Shootings,
Expos ure
BY The Associated Press

At least 13 persons died by
violence in North Carolina dur
ing the weekend after 81 hac
been killed Christmas Eve anc
Christmas.
Two Negroes burned to death
when fire destroyed a three,
room house in Greensboro Sun.
day. DR.. W. W. Harvey, Guilforc
county coroner, identified the
victims as Isaac (Doc) Wilson, IS
and Mrs. Eliza McAdoo, IS.
Charles Allen, SIS, a Negro Of
Rolesville, was struck and kill.
ed by an ambulance near Roles
vile Sunday. The driver was
cleared of blame by Coroner Irv.
ing M. Cheek.
A sixty-year-old Mecklenburg
county farmer, Homer Hill Cash.
ion, was shot to death Saturday
night after a family argument
according to DR.. w. M. Summer.
vile, who said the man had ter.
rorized his family by brandish.
ing and firing a pistol in the
home near Croft.
Two-year-old George Clinton
Sutton, son of Mr.. and Mrs
George Washington Sutton o.
Bryson City, died Saturday at {
Franklin hospital after he hao
fallen into tub of hot water a
his home. Three other small chill
dren had died in identical acci
dents during the week.
Pr0spector Dies
A fire which burned his home
in Burke county Saturday tool
the life of Joseph M. Dale O
Brindletown, 78-year-old farme,
and gold prospector, who wa
apparently trapped while trying
to fight the blaze.
Iredell County Coroner N. D
Tomlin ruled that death came tt
See VIOLENCE on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-29
Nineteen Thousand Men
Start Clearing SO Million
Tons OF Snow

NEW YORK, Dec. % -U.D-A
new snow storm swept into New
York today and for a time drift
weary residents thought it was
a repeat performance of the rec
ord-breaking storm of Friday
which choked up the metropolis
under $1,000, 900 tons of snow.
But the snowfall ended in hall
an hour, the sun broke into clear
blue sky and an army of $4,000
men, armed with everything from
shovels to snowplows, began dig
ging through the hip-deep streets
to restore deliveries of food ano
fuel.
There was a gigantic job to be
done and the metropolis still was
sorely inconvenienced.
New Jersey City set up free
bread and milk distribution cen.
ters for families which found
grocery shelves empty and m any
apartments and homes were un-
heated but, in general, life in the
metropolitan area was returning
to normal.
The gigantic snowstorm, worst
in New York's history and ex
tremely severe throughout the
Northeast, had brought real
hardships and taken a heavy
toll in lives.
At least SO deaths were attri.
buted to the storm-some Of
them in tires and auto accidents
but mostly the result of heart at
tacks suffering while shovelling
snow or wading through drifts.
Total Computed
The total of $4,000, 900 tons o1
snow was computed on the basis
of the almost 26 inches that fell
on level ground, the weight of e
See NEW YORK on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-29
RUSSIA PROTESTS
BORDER VIOLATION
Moscow Says American
Planes Flying Over
Kurile Islands

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28.-B-
Russia was reported today to
have protested to the United
States that American planes
from Japan have violated the
boundaries of the nearby Kurile
islands, now under the Soviet
flag.
Diplomatic authorities who
disclosed this said it is the latest
of a series of such charges in
volving American flights in the
Far East to be filed by Moscow
since the wars end. They said
it involved only local issues
which normally could be settled
by military commanders on the
spot.
Other protests have charged
American fliers in Korea wi h
crossing the 38th parallel of la
titude which separates the Unit
ed States and Soviet occupation
zones. One American Army air
field is close to this boundary.
American Procedure
BY contrast with the Soviet
procedure Of resorting to diplo-
matte action, the United States
has followed a policy of letting
military field commanders un-
See RUSSIA On Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-29
TOBACCOMAN ASKS
QUOTA REVlSl0NS
L. V. Morrill, Says Eastern
lie a f Growers Are
Disillusioned

RALEIGH, Dec, %. - P) -
Veteran tobaccoman L. V. Nor
rill of Snow Hill, declaring that
bright leaf growers are "de-
moralized and disillusioned," ap-
pealed here tonight for a re-
consideration of the recent 27.52
per cent slash in North Caro-
lina's flue-cured tobacco quotas.
In Raleigh to contact state
tobacco leaders about the plight
of Eastern growers, Morrill, said
that a 10 per cent quota cut
would have been entirely am
pie" and even 20 per cent cut
"entirely too much"
He added that the "vast
majority of growers are be-
wildered and surprised, and
think they've been misled by
their leadership"
Morrill,, began his tobacco
career as a buyer in 1908, term
ed the almost one-third slash in
SEE TOBACCOMAN on Page
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-29
- ..,sszs:zilan lanReb ukes Congress OnGOP
Anti-Inflation Bills Weaknesses;
Greek Army Launches New Drive
President Plans
Signature Today
Chief Executive Says In
flation Confronts Every
A m eric an

WASHINGTON, Dec. %. -
up - President Truman assail-
ed Congress today for providing
him with "pitifully inadequate
weapon" against the high cost of
living in the G. O. P. sponsored
anti-inflation bill.
Asserting he was signing the
measure with a sense of deep
disappointment" that Congress
has seen fit "to take such feeble
steps," the President declared
in statement:
"The meager authority con-
tanned in the bill will be utilized
to the fullest extent by the
government, but the public must
mot be misled into believing that
this bill will do the job.
II would be Sinking RESPONSE
bility if I did not protest against
the obvious insufficiency of this
legislation"
In language likely to figure
in the 1948 political campaign,
the President added:
Imitation and the high cost of
living confront the American
people-all the American people
with a grave danger. Uncheck-
ed initiation can bring on a
serious depression that can cause
untold hardship"
Voluntary Agreements
The Republican-sponsored bill,
rushed through in the closing
hours of the special session of
Congress, provides basically for
voluntary agreements among in
dustries to divide up scarce
materials and commodities so
as to curb rising prices.
1t contains none of the stand
by authority Mr.. Truman asked
to have to impose price, wage
and rationing controls as he
deemed needed.
Mr.. Truman's statement con-
tinued:
"The legislative and executive
branches of the government must
work together if this grave peril
(of inflation-caused depression)
is to be conquered.
"The American people look to
See PRESIDENT on page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-29
Government Hopes
TO Free Konitsa
Offensive Aims To Smash
Guerrilla Move For
Red State

ATHENS, Dec. 28.-(R-Greek
Army forces, bolstered by fresh
troops rushed from Western
Macedonia and new heavy
arms, launched an offensive to-
day aimed at smashing Guerril-
la attempts to carve out a piece
of Northwestern Greece for a
separate Communist Greek
state.
The offensive was launched in
the rain and over difficult snow
covered terrain. Military in
formants refused to disclose de.
tails or the number of troops in
volved in the operations which
they said were "proceeding
satisfactorily. and according tc
pian."
Military sources here esti-
mated that % Guerrilla battal-
ions were thrown into the
''Battle of Epirus. Each battal-
ion contains from 200 to 300 men,
which meant that total Guerril-
la forces was somewhere be-
tween 4,600 and $500 men. In
addition many smaller Guerril-
la bands roamed through the
area in the vicinity of the Al
banian border.
The Communicated guerrillas
were holding defense lines on
two sides of triangle hinged
on and lying Southwest of be-
sieged Konitsa-possible capital
for the Communist State pr O.
claimed by Guerrilla Chieftain
Gen. Markos Vilfiades.
These lines of the triangle,
which has a total area of SO
square miles, run from Konitsa
Southwest to Kalpaki, then di-
rectly North to the strategic
Bourozani bridge II miles west
of Konitsa.
Bitter Fighting
The bitterest fighting occurred
along the road from Kalpaki to
the Bourozani bridge, which is
in Guerrilla hands. The Guerril-
Ca rnVyEDHrnrrH,-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-29
Along The Cape Fear

tiful in this section as there are
rabbits today.
Those animals made a yearly
pilgrimage from the western
plains to the coastal region of
the Carolinas in search Of wild
peavine which grew in abun-
eance in this area. This fact, not
only is authenticated by old
journals, but many of the roads
in western North Carolina today
follow the trail of this long ago
animal.
Historians write of the abun-
dance of wild game, and fishes
in the waters of the streams, as
See CAPE FEAR on Page Two
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-12-29
Secretary Calls Chairman
To "Put Up Or Shut Up"
On Market Trading

WASHINGTON, Dec. 28-(P)-
Secretary of Agriculture Ander'
son said today that ne plans to
issue tomorrow a list of about
100 employees of federal, state
and municipal governments
who, he said, had speculated in
Commodities u since Jan. l, 1916
He said comparatively few on
the list are federal employees and
that some are Army and Navy
officers.
At the same time, he branded
as "loose talk a Congressional
charge that 200 unidentified fed
eral employees in Chicago h d
speculated in commodity futures
mar',ets on the strength of Gin
side information" on govern
ment buying policies.
He called upon Chairman Au-
gust H. Anderson (R.-Minn.) Of
special House committee or
commodity speculation to "p u
up or shut up" in giving ad-
ditional information on these
charges.
Andersen Letter
Andersen, in a letter to Ander
son, said he had been informed
that the Agriculture Depart
ment's commodity exchange au
thority had investigated alleged
speculative operations by 2O(
See SECRETARY On Page Two