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The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

basic content.
'The WIDE is an attempt to
meet the responsibilities of
women the world over for the
security of their families, for
the happiness, the education
and health of their children.
n
EUROPEAN women have
learned that their responsible
ties will not allow them to neg
lect problems of government
and politics.
"They are encouraged by
the participation of American
women, whom they had
thought were different and
suncOncerned with such prob
Iems."
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

the senate small business com
mittee that rent controls should
be removed because people are
paying too small percentage
of their income for housing"
The huge trusts and monop-
olies, who furnish our dividend
diplomats, are looking for a
field day under the Rich Mans
( Congress.
Even with Roosevelt in the
White House, the Justice De
partment showed little inclina
ton to punish the grabbing cor
porations. In 1910, the federal
government formally charged
that the SIS billion oil industry
was controlled by just % COM
panies which fixed prices, set
quotas and drove small indie
pendents out of business. This
major antitrust suit, about
which most of us have never
heard a word, is now about to
be quietly dropped.
LAST YEAR the National AS
ISOLATION of Manufacturers
spent $3,6OO,000 on propaganda.
That can influence a lot of PEG
pie, including congressman. The
major 1916 victim of this more
subtle version of Murder. Inc,
was OPA. Number One victim
this year is organized labor. All
ready S1.801.579 has been col
lected for the NAM education.
al campaign for 1947.
Senators Byrd and Ball,
Virginia Democrat and q Min.
nesOta Republican who see
eye to eye on labor, assured
the recent NAM convention In
New York that this new Rich
Mans Congress would enact
legislation drastically curtaiI-
ing union powers. They are
preparing to deliver.
Yes, Money will be the real
Speaker of the House in Wash,
ington. You and 1 will have but
a lonesome few voices raised
in our behalf. We can either
take it passively and be routed.
or we can fight back.
WE FIGHT back by complete
ly rejecting the divisive Red
batting propaganda weapon of
the multi-billion dollar opposi
ton and by all of organized "a
Dor, progressives and minority
groups showing aside our petty
squabbles and uniting for dyna
mic action. The ICC. NC-PAC.
NAACP and similar groups
have the right idea by joining
forces to form a real mass
movement founded on grass
roots precinct units.
AS is always the case, in final
analysis it's up to us, the plain
people of this planet. We work
together and win, or we sit
down and lose again. Which
chaI ~ hop
The Chicago star. (Chicago, Ill.) 1946-1948, 1947-01-04

mate the new
80th Congress.
These rich in
dustrialists in
tend to main
tain our tradi
tional patterns
of racial and
religious dis
C r i m i n a
tion w h C h
m e a n S f a +
more cash for
Thorn as this
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widely interpreted as appeals for the
French people to organize under his
leadership to save the government
from anarchy or dictatorship.
america and Russia are automati-
cally rivals though one has the right
to hope they will not become enc
miles," said the general.
He said France, because of her geo.
graphic. position, was caught between
the expansionist policies of two great
powers.
To meet this danger he proposed
that France take the lead in creating
a bloc of western European nations as
a point of equilibrium between east
and west.
Referring to America, De Gaulle
said, "It IS a fact that this young ma
ton, like our own elderly country,
has shown not only love for its own
liberty but, still more, a respect for
that of Others"
De Gaulle again pleaded for a
French government with strong ex-
ecutive powers. France is not, he said,
a state whose cohesion, efficiency and
authority measure up to the para
mount problems facing it.
The Fourth Republic is now gov
erned by q precarious coalition of
powerful Communists and leftist
splinter parties on one hand, and the
middle-of-the-road Popular Republic
can Movement and rightists on the
other.
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Religion
One World in Faith

A new World Council of Christians
and Jews is being launched to bridge
the gap between world faiths by edu-
c%ational means and bring about civic
cooperation among the religious Gull
lures of The earth.
The new council. headed by former
Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes,
has been assured by Acting Secretary
of State Dean Acheson that the State
Department would support its appll-
cation for affiliation with the United
Nations Education Scientific and Cul"
tural Organization
Hughes, who was secretary of State
during World War | and founded the
National Conference of Christians and
Jews in 1928, said the new group
would encourage research in the So
cial sciences and human relations and
seek cooperation with universities in
all countries.
A permanent office will be opened
in Paris this summer.
Among the founders OF the new
world society are DR.. Arthur H..
Compton, St. Louis atomic scientist;
Roger w. Straus, New York indus
t~rialist, and Thomas E.. Braniff, Dallas
Tex, airline executive.
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Science
Atomic Hdystoek

DR.. Robert Dudley Fowler, atomic
research expert at Johns Hopkins
University, offered this "layman's ex-
PLANTATION" of what nuclear physicists
are doing when they use a cyclotron
in efforts to probe the atom:
1T is a dark night and you are in
a field with an unlimited supply OF
tennis balls.
Somewhere in that field you know
there is a barn with an animal in 1t.
Without moving from your position,
you have to determine what type Of
animal is in the barn.
"There is a small opening in the
barn. Through it, you try to hit, the
animal with a tennis ball. After
throwing mere tennis balls in
various directions, you finally will hit
the barn. Now you know at least that
you are aiming in the right direction.
after throwing a few more mil
lion tennis balls you finally get some
through the hole in the barn. Finally
one will bounce off the animals back
out through the hole and return to
you.
"By smelling the tennis ball, you
try to guess what animal it is"
"Of course" DR.. Fowler said, I'VE
are throwing energy particles at
atoms and not tennis balls at a barn.
If we keep this up a hundred years
we might learn how to turn energy
into matter. Anything is possible"
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See
Price Slump

ECONOMISTS and trade lead.
II r surveyed the nations
business at the end of the first
quarter of 1947 and came up with
this prediction:
The current record breaking
US. business boom will continue at
least another three months. After that,
the much discussed recession may
come. If it does, the recession neces-
Sarily does not mean a depression.
There is little gloom surrounding
the recession talk. Such a period of
readjustment would be normal, bust
ness experts say, after the present
postwar boom. 1t could be a health
full phase, shaking down the nations
economy to a solid foundation, after
which there could be continued
prosperity and a steady rise in living
standards.
Slump This Summer?
Many economists expect the re-
cession this INNER They say the
economy is getting too far out Of
balance, that many prices are too
high and inventories too great as
consumers tighten their buying.
There already are indications Of
a leveling off in retail sales. The
Easter season, throughout the nation,
was disappointing.
In many cities, business fell off
sharply in the so-called luxury brack-
cts, including night club and enter
tainment fields. Movie attendance is
off in some districts. A slump in this
type of spending could be the first
sign of a recession.
The average citizen seems convinced
that many prices are too high, and
economists hold that this conception,
whether justified OF not, could itself
bring about a recession or even a de-
preston if it persists.
Many factors, the experts point out,
could upset their predictions. Pro-
longed closing of the coal mines, more
strikes like the telephone walkout
could affect the national scene Wage
negotiations in key industries are
pending which might lead to dead
locks, curtailing production and snarl-
ing the economic timetable.
Favorable Factors
Against these hazards, economists
weigh important factors which are
favorable. Some of them are:
About $4,000, 900 civilians are IN
ployed against less than 100000 out
of work.
Income payments to individuals are
running at an annual rate of SLIT, OOO,-
900, 900, an all-time record, surprising
even the war years. Gin 1899, it was
1000, O00, 000.) .
There is enormous pent-up demand
for all types of durable consumer
goods, such as furniture, home appll-
ances and automobiles, that runs into
billions of dollars.
The housing shortage is the most
acute in history, p%resaging a building
boom, sometime, of tremendous pro-
portions.
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Hot Shots

. In New York City, police closed
the bizarre case of Langley ana
Homer Collyer. Langley's body vas
found crushed under debris in their
lunk-flled living room eight feet from
the spot where his blind brother mao
been found dead March 81. Police SAID
Langley probably was a victim OF MS
own BOBBY traps set for burglars AN
autopsy indicated Langley died some
time before Homer, foodless about ~
hours before he died of a heart at
tack. More than lis tons OF junk were
removed from the house IN the ~
day police search.
Q In Gardner, Kas., city officials may
mold over another two-year term be-
cause they forgot to hold the elec-
lion, They were preparing for munlcl-
Pal elections last week until 1t was
pointed out a new statute had maze
the poll date the week before.
. In Kankakee, H., a telephone SUI
perVlsory emplcye put through an
emergency call on a fire-in the nome
d d striker picketing the exchange
In Manila, =. l., shoemaker Fed
erlco Samodio, digging in his garden,
uncovered a gasoline drum Jammeo
WIN 100000 pesos, all worthless
japanese invasion currency.
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China
US. Marines Attacked


Chinese Communists, who killed
five U. S. Marines and wounded Is in
a pre-dawn Easter raid on an Ameri-
can ammunition dump at Hsinho, es-
capped with their wounded across the
broad Chinchung River, eight miles
to the north.
The hit-run raiders struck with adj
vance aid of what Americans are GER
tain was a Fifth Column since they
were we'll briefed on secret Marine
communications.
Their objective apparently was to
destroy all ammunition that couldn't
be carried away, but they were driven
off before committing major damage.
The raiding party, believed to num-
Der about 400 under Gen. WI Hung,
left six dead on the field. Deep cart
tracks and a trail of blood marked the
escape route.
In Marking, both Chinese govern
ment and American officials were
concerned over the fate of two Ameri-
can Army officers who fell into Com
munist hands in Manchuria March l.
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LiIienthal
Dot-Dosh Saga

Fifteen months ago, David E.
Lilienthal was head of the Tennessee
Valley Authority at Presidents
request, he headed board of consul
tants to draft a tentative plan for
International control of the atom -. .
in March, 1916, the State Department
released his report -. with mod1flca-
tons, it became the American plan
submitted to the United Nations.
Last October, Lilienthal resigned
as IVA chairman to accept Presl-
dental appointment as chairman OF
the civilian U. S. Atomic Energy
Commission . confirmation hear
ingS opened January 81 before a
Senate committee -. charges OF "Red
sympathizer' and New Dealism were
hurled at him by Sen. Mcclellan and
others approved by the commit
tee, his nomination reached the
Senate floor March "a.
Furious debate cut across party
lines ten days ago the Senate
refused to send his nomination back
to committee for an FBI check
the test vote was 1913 last
Wednesday the Senate agreed to vote
on confirmation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-13
The 0Zzsl2 7dZzl| EEK


LARRY S. U is start
Ling his third year as 32nd
President of the United States.
He is a very different man from
the Vice President called hurried
ly to the White House on April
IL, 1915, to take the oath of Office a
few hours after Franklin Delano
Roosevelt died of a cerebral hemor-
rhage in Warm Springs, Ga.
Within a few months of that time,
he was able to proclaim three climac-
tic events, all brought near compile
ton by his predecessor. They were
We Day, the atom bomb and VI
Day.
Peace in many ways presented
tougher problems for Mr.. Truman
than war. The unity which knit a
country-in-arms fell away with VIC
tory. After a brief honeymoon period,
he was rebuffed at almost every turn
in Congress. Major strikes snarled re-
conversion. A new crisis seemed to
pop up every week.
In press conferences, the President
answered queries off the cuff, some
times pulled boners on subjects with
which he was not familiar. He began
to replace F.D.R. advisers and. most
of his new choices, it seemed, came
from Missouri.
Rail Strike Crisis
The Presidents personal popularity
hit the %toboggan with publication of
a picture showing him eating ice
cream at a garden party on the after
noon the nations railroad men
walked out on strike. Next day, Mr..
Truman cracked back with a plan to
draft strikers into the Army but Con-
gress vetoed that a. too drastic. OPA
and the meat scarcity made his Adj
ministration no new friends.
In foreign affairs, there were boners
too. The President first approved then
disapproved a speech on Russia by
Henry Wallace, finally requested Wal
lace's resignation, looping from his
Cabinet the foremost remaining SYM
boil of the New Deal.
The Truman toboggan hit bottom
last fall. The Republicans, with the
slogan Had Enough?" won control in
both houses of Congress for the first
time in Is years. The defeat was so
devastating that Sen. J. William Full
bright DARK suggested that the
President resign and give Republicans
full control.
Emancipation Day
Election Day returns meant some
thing else to Harry Truman. Until
then, his friends say, he felt morally
bound to carry on in the Roosevelt
tradition of a "little left of center"
The voters, Mr.. Truman felt, lifted
that obligation for the first. time.
The President decided to challenge
John L. Lewis whose miners had
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THE GREAT REPRESENTATION

walked out of the government-oper-
ated coal mines. The President won
that n in the Supreme Court. An
other round in that fght-to-the-fnish
is now being fought over the issue
of mine safety.
The President also began calling in
Congressional leaders for consulta-
ton, setting a new pattern with his
"Big Six" meetings with the four Re-
publican and two Democratic legisla-
tive chiefs. Tax reduction, military
preparedness, labor legislation and
such bottlenecks as housing are now
matters for Republican concern too.
In foreign affairs, the President has
unDounded confidence in Secretary of
State George C.. Marshall, whom he
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-13
Farms
Vanishing Good Earth

More than half this nations farm
lands have been seriously damaged by
soil erosion and unless this country
goes all out fol land conservation,
the United States may wind up a Sec
ond rate power.
This dire prediction was made by
Secretary of Agriculture Clinton r.
Anderson at the annual sa~ve-the-soll
clinic in Oklahoma City. He pointed
out that China, Babylon, Greece and
Rome once were great powers but OIL
erosion had caused their downfall.
The secretary said erosion is cost
ing America close to four billion dol
lars each year.
Anderson said 1872, 0O0, 900 acres OF
crop and grazing land either had been
ruined or badly damaged. Another
IT'S, 900, 900 acres, he said, show scars
of considerable erosion.
"On the asset side. we can list only
46O, DOC, 900 acres of good cropland re-
naming in the U. S." said Anderson.
land most of this cannot be cult
waited safely without conservation
farming practices
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In Short

Died: Henry Ford, s3, automobile
pioneer and founder of the greatest
family-owned industrial empire the
world has ever known, of a cerebral
hemorrhage at his home in Dearborn,
Mich.
Drowned: Nine bus passengers in
Seattle, when their vehicle collided
with a truck, careened off the road
into the Duwamish River.
Began: Henry Wallace, a two-week
tour of Europe in search of what he
called progressive people," He said
he did not plan to 60 to Russia.
Committed: By Herbert Back, SO,
Hitler's minister of food and agricul-
ture, suicide by hanging in the Nuern-
berg Jail while awaiting trial.
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Weather
Sow and Ye Shall Reap

A meteorologist went upstairs and
made snow again, this time seeding
the clouds like a farmer does his
fields and produced a snowfall IN a
long, straight line
Col. E. S. Ellison of the Portland
Weather Bureau tossed handouts OF
dry ice pellets out of a plane at w.
600 feet, Their dived under the clouds
to 1000 feet and found a long slender
line of snowfall extending five to ten
miles directly under the path that
was seeded.
The test was conducted over unln-
habited hill country east of Portland
Seventeen pounds of dry lce-trozen
carbon dioxide-were used and Col.
Ellison estimated the resulting snow
and rain totaled hundreds of tons.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-13
Spain
Don juan Objects

Political observers in Madrid pre-
dicted an open break between Fran
cisco Franco and Spanish monarchists
as a result of the fiat rejection by Don
Juan, pretender to the throne, of the
generalissimo's plan to reconvert his
dictatorship into a kingdom with
himself as permanent chief of state.
Don Juan's manifesto, which at
tackled Franco as the cause of world
hostility toward Spain, was issued to
the press in Portugal where the pre-
tender-in-exile is conducting his CAM
paign for restoration of the Spanish
monarchy.
A copy had been delivered to Fran
co in Madrid but the Generalissimo
forbade it's publication. Monarchists
were said to be circulating the state
ment clandestinely throughout Spain.
The text said that Frances pro-
posed law would enable him to per-
petuate himself in office and pro-
claim his own successor. Such a law
would not represent the will of the
Spanish people because the so
called Cortes is nc more than a gov
ernment-chosen assembly under the
name of a Cortes,' it asserted.
Don Juan declared he would never
agree to any decision calling upon
him to abandon his rights to the
throne which constituted, he said, a
crust handed down to me by cen
turies."
In recent years, monarchists in
Spain have enjoyed increasing toler-
ance from Ell Caudillo, perhaps be-
cause of the hope that restoration OF
the monarchy under his regime would
put Spain back into the good graces
of world opinion without sacrificing
FalangiSts.
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has referred to as the greatest living
American"
On March II, two days after Sec
rotary Marshall sat down in Moscow
with the Big Four, the President pro-
claimed his now historic Truman
doctrine to contain the advance of
aggression anywhere in the worlo. 1t
starts with direct US. financial aid
to Greece and Turkey in the Russian
sphere, and it will end up, the Presi-
dent hopes, with the United Nations
taking over the responsibility when it
is able.
A Bold Stroke
The Truman doctrine was a bold
stroke. Coupled with his Executive
order to root out disloyal federal en-
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ployes and Secretary Of Labor Lewis
B. Schwellenbach's suggestion to out
law the Communist Party, it was an
astute political 10Y as well.
In his Jefferson Day speech last
week, the President reiterated the
necessity of taking a positive stand
against aggression secretly by inhl-
tration as we'll as openly by arms.
AS he starts his third year, opinion
polls show the President riding a new
wave of popularity. Since November
Truman policies and Truman men
have risen steadily in public esteem.
Democratic politicians, once privately
gloomy, now feel different about
party chances in 1913, the Presiden-
tial election year.
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had enough"
Except for pre-
r e f e r e n d u m
speeches against
the proposed consti-
tuition, he kept po-
litical silence and
walked alone in re-
tirement. Last week,
the general whom
millions of French
men regard as the
wartime savior of
France" changed
his mind. His Stras-
bov1rg addresses are
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-04-13

premacy is to be maintained it will
demand money, men and vast re-
search.
The general said progress had been
made in retaining both air and
ground crews since the disorganiza-
ton produced by rehabilitation. Key
men of the crews who dropped the
only three air-released atom bombs
at Hiroshima, Nagasaki and Bikinl-
are still in service, he said.
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cially described as capable of ranging
5 900 miles from base and, presum-
ably at somewhat shorter range, OF
carrying 30 tons of bombs.
Gen. George C. Kenney, chief OF
the Strategic Air Command, asked
whether his service would be ready
if war came now, replied:
with what we've got, we would
make a damn good showing. We're
not up to strength, we're a small air
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Quotes
Secretary of War Robert Pat

Secretary of War Robert Pat
terson, on the 30th anniversary
of U. S entry into World War I:
"In this imperfect world, mill
tary strength still determines the
destiny of nations"
Judge Allen Ashburn, ordering
a woman attorney to take off her
hat in court: Women lawyers
practice on equal terms with
men, and I feel they should OBJ
serve the same rules and formal
tiles in courtrooms."
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Dates
Monday, April IA

Pan American Day.
American Chemical Society
meets in Atlantic City.
National Sunday School Week
starts.
Saturday, April 10
Patriots Day (Mass., Me.).
Anniversary (172nd), Paul Re-
vere's ride.
Anniversary (14th), U. S. went
off gold standard.
Sunday, April 20
japanese elections for 3OO-seat
House of Chancellors, upper
chamber replacing House OF
Peers.
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force as we considered air forces in
the war-but efficiency is satisfactory,
we do have airplanes. Yes, the SAC
could give a good account of itself"
Kenney stressed that the world air
power race is grim and that if SUI
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East West Doctrines
Deadlock at Moscow

deadlock of the Moscow conference reflects the widening gulf
between policies of Russia and the United States all ver Tho
world. The forum OF foreign ministers is where these conflicting mol
Hdes clash about one table. The fate of Germany and Austria are
major factors in determining which way Europe will swing~east into
hi communist orbit or west into the sphere of capitalism
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That II IS virtually a new ueSIgH
Torrance. Production of the standard
B-29s was halted almost a year ago.
When test flights of Consolidated
Vultee's huge B-36 are completed to
the satisfaction Of the Air Forces, pro-
duction lines will begin supplying
these planes also. The B-36 is Off
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AERIAL: Superbombers Ahead

A MERICAS globeranging bomber fleet will be augmented within
II a few months with first deliveries of two newtype bornbers, the
B-50 and the B-36.
The Boeing B50 is technically a modification of the wartime B,29
Superfortress. but its specifications have been altered so drasucaOy
that it is virtually a new DESIGN in range. speed and general per-
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France
De GouIIe Is Back

A year ago, Gen. Charles de Gaulle
stepped down as provisional president
OF France with the remark. 81 have