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The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-07-24
House Passes Bill To Unity
Army, Navy; Goes To Senate

Washington-The House pas
sed a measure to unity the army
and navy and to coordinate
American diplomatic military
policies. 1t acted after hearing
claims the plan will help prevent
future pearl Harbor" disasters,
cut military costs, and curtail in
terservice ''backbiting."
The action came on a voice vote
after nearly eight hours Of de-
bate and months of consideration.
The measure now goes back to
the Senate and, in all probability,
ultimately to a joint committee
to work out differences between
the two Senate and House YER
sions.
AS now drafted, the measure
would merge the present war and
navy cabinet posts into single
secretary of defense, create a
powerful, new, policy-making de-
Tense council and set up new
department of air.
AS Representative Wilson Cd
Tex put it: THE bill more prop
erly could be termed a co-ordlna-
ton instead of unification meas
ure." Representative Latham Or
N.Y. agreed, saying it provided
for unity at the top. but disunl-
fication, multiplication and com
plexities at the bottom.
Before final passage, the House
accepted an amendment to guar
antee. in ironclad language, navy
retention of its air arm-the eyes
and advance striking arm Of the
fleet-both carrier planes and
landbased aircraft, plus the re-
sponsibility for antisubmarlne
warfare.
Another House amendment re-
quires appointment of a civilian
to the $4,000 job as director of
the Office of CENTRALLY Intelligence
to be set up under the bill. Re-
preventative Brown (R-Ohlo)
said the American peopl" were
worried over possibility Of a mil
itarv super" government.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-07-24
VETERANS MAY CASH
BONDS AFTER SEPT.

Washington-By a vote of IS
to D. the Senate passed and dis
patched to President Truman le-
gislation authorizing 100000
veterans to cash $1,80O,000,000, in
terminal leave bonds.
The Senate earlier had passed
by a voice vote another bill which
would increase living allowances
to veterans going to school I'M
der the C. I. Bill of rights. The
bill now goes to the House.
The terminal leave bond meas
ure got unanimous House appro-
val two weeks ago. 1t would per-
NIT but not require former en-
listed men to cash bonds issued
to them starting last year III lieu
of cash terminal pay.
The bonds could be turned in
for cash at local banks after Sep
TENDER l. Under the present law
the maturity date is five years
after the date of issue.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-07-24

QUALITY SERVICE, too! There's no
place like a Chevrolet dealers for skilled,
Car-savng service. Drive in soon-and
regularly.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-07-24
1913 Model Cars Expected
To Be Much Higher Priced

Detroit Most 1913 model pas
senger automobiles are likely to
be higher in price than current
models.
This is the opinion of many in
dustry authorities. They assert
that aside from increased labor
and materials costs, the outlay
for tools and other equipment to
produce the re-styled and post
war engineered new models will
make it impossible to hold to pre-
sent price levels.
BY all present indications, most
1913 model cars will have added
features to increase manufacture
ing costs and the cost of machine
tools and other plant equipment
repeatedly is up two or three
times over postwar levels.
There will be some features,
such as automatic drive and gear
shift, added to a number of mod
els, which the car buyer may
take or leave as he chooses. It is
fairly safe guess, however, that
there will be a ready demand for
all the optional equipment fea-
lures the industry may bring out.
Industry circles have heard
considerable gossip in recent
months to the effect that another
price increase will cut sharply
into the backlog of untitled or
ders. Few of the car makers them
selves agree with that viewpoint.
They point out that while there
was some Tightening of new or
ders accommodating at the time Of
the last price rise, demand swung
back into high ground again in
few weeks. Currently it is
greater than it has been at any
time since the end of the war.
Stimulating current demand, of
course. is the fact that more cars
are wearing out. There is also
the growing eagerness of humid
reds of thousands of car owners
to sell their present vehicles be-
fore used car prices tumble The
prices will tumble, particularly
for preWar models, as soon as
new car production approximate
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-07-24
n. G. MAN is NAMED
SECRETARY OF WAR

Observation-Disclosures c. Roy
all of Goldsboro, nominated by
President Truman to succeed Ro
bert p. Patterson as Secretary of
War on July "a, looms as the first
North Carolinian to hold this
high position in the nations his
tory.
He would also be the first Tar
Heel member of the Cabinet since
Josephus Daniels, editor of the
Raleigh News and Observer, was
Secretary of Navy in World War
l.
A native Tar Heel, David
Franklin Houston (WhO was
born at Monroe in Union County,
served as Secretary of Agricul-
ture and later as Secretary of the
Treasury under President Wood
row Wilson, but Houston lived in
Missouri at the time of his ap-
pOintment.
Royals O m n t 0 n is. Of
course, subject to Senate cOnfir-
nation. but there is every jndi-
cation that this action will be a
mere formality.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-07-24
WILDLIFE FEDERATION
TO MEET AT ASHEVILLE

Raleigh-Norh Carolina Wild
life Federation will hold its semi
annual meeting at Asheville,
July %, with Carl D. Shoemaker
of Washington, D. c., member of
the national federation making
an address.
P. K. Gravely of Rocky Mount,
president of the State federation,
will preside over the sessions
which will take up hunting-and-
fishing seasons and bag limits;
law enforcement: recommended
tons for the wildlife resources,
commission and other problems.
Also scheduled to speak are
T. ]. White of Kinston, member
of the N. c. Wildlife Resources
Commission; Frank E. Young of
Oxford, a member of the All
Club educational program; DR..
Fred Barkalow, N. c. State Col
lege, and R. Floyd Grouse Of
Sparta, member of the N. c. Wild
life Resources Commission.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-07-24
SEVERAL FROM HERE
AT FURNITURE SHOW

Several from here are attend
ing the Southern Furniture show
being held this week and next
week at High Point. Among those
attending are Mr.. and Mrs. Jack
Rhodes. of Rhodes Furniture
company, Mrs. Woodrow Bur
CESS and Mrs. Frank Barbour, of
Burgess Furniture company, and
w. E. Vannoy, of Vannoy Furnl-
ture company.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. C. Vannoy
plan to attend next week.
Make plans now to attend 1947
Farm and Home Week on State
COLLEGE CAMPUS. August $50
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-07-24
Brief National And World News During The Past Week

The value of fire protection In
forest land owners stands out iB
the report. Of the 1928 foreG
fires recorded in 1916, 1878 o.
cured on the 532,102,O00 acres
now protected by State, Federal
and private agencies, but 96,5G
took place on the 100, 489, 900 acres
of forest land still without pro-
lection.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-07-24
BAPTIST CHAPEL TO
HAVE SERVICE, SUN.

A decoration service will be
held at the Baptist Chapel ceme-
terry on Sunday, July q, when
an all-day program has been
planned. Revs. Roe Paisley and
E. A. Eller will be in charge.
The public is cordially invited.
Ladies are asked to bring a pic
mic lunch.F
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-07-24

North Carolina Farmers re
ceipts from sales Of % croos
produced during 1916 totalod
S632.447O0O or 80 per cent above
the S487.645.OOO received from
sales Of these crops produced n
1913
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-07-24

the demand.
In re-tooling for next years
models the nations car industry
will spend upward of $15O,000,0O
a sizeable part of this amount al
ready has been committed to the
purchase Of new jigs and dies for
the industry's body making divi-
sion.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-07-24

The total value of North Caro-
lina's wheat crop in 1915 was
estimated at S3.436. 1856.
The Skyland post. [volume] (West Jefferson, N.C.) 193?-1988, 1947-07-24

For quick results, use the Sky
land Posts classified columns.
Evening star., 1947-03-07
Need for Rebuilding
ID. C., Chicago Cited

Chicago, like Washington, is faced
with rebuilding itself, If the people
who are its main support are not
to move outside its corporate limits.
OF Chicago's 214 square miles, %
are already total loss to the city,
costing far more to provide with
necessary services than the city gets
back in taxes, H. Evert Kincaid, ex-
ecutive director of the Chicago City
Plan Commission said yesterday.
He was speaking to a group Of
Latin American engineers from Is
countries at the close Of an IL
month inter-American highway
training course in this country
sponsored by the American Road
Builders Association, the Federal
Government and the Pan Ameri-
can Highway Confederation.
The engineers have received a
final two-day polishing" on city
planning at the National Academy
of Science in Washington, prior to
being graduated at Hotel Statler
reception tonight.
Mr. Kincaid said Chicago has
adopted a master plan under which
traffic congestion will be eased by
system Of freeways and improved
streets, public utility lines will be
overhauled, and a three-way re-
building program undertaken to
Evening star., 1947-03-07
Boys Club to Hold
Comp RuIIy TONIGHT

A camp rally will be held at
O'Clock tonight at the Boys Club Of
Washington. Seventeenth and Mass
achusetts avenue Sc, with full
length motion picture of life al
Camp Reeder as the highlight OF
the program.
About 400 boys, some Of whom at
tended Camp Reeder, the Boys Club
camp on The Wicomico River in
Southern Maryland, last summer
Evening star., 1947-03-07

j are expected to attend. Wooden
banks made at the club vii be dis
tributed to the boys to encourage
them to save money to help finance
their stay at camp this summer.
Evening star., 1947-03-07

hold and increase real estate values
within the city.
Washington is planning its fight
to protect values within the District
in much the same way, John Nolen,
jr.. director of planning Of the Ma
tional Capital Park and Planning
Commission, told the group.
The engineers also heard Paul OPP
permann, planning cousultant for
the Federal Works Administration
and Leslie Williams, city planning
engineer for the American Transit
Association.
Evening star., 1947-10-08
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Evening star., 1947-02-05
Power Naturalization
Is Voted by Commons
By the Associated Press

LONDON, Feb. 5.-Nationalization
of still another British industry
electric power-had approval from
the House of Commons by better
than 2-to-1 margin today.
The powerful Labor majority in
the House crushed Conservative op-
position last night and pushed
through on vital second reading a
bill to nationalize all private and
municipally-owned power plants.
The vote was $40 to 165.
Opposition centered on a plan to
pay stockholders in 370 private COM
panies some 400, 900 900 in govern
ment stocks for their holdings.
In general, the Conservatives con-
tended that the governments valua-
ton of the private properties was too
low and argued that the electric in
dustry, in private hands, was one Of
Britain's most efficient.
The bill was sent to committee for
discussion of amendments before the
third reading which Is usually .
mere formality.
Evening star., 1947-02-05
Ethridge Helps Save
; Greek Men, Orphan
By the Associated Press

LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y. Feb. S.
The personal efforts of Mark Eth
ridge, publisher Of the Louisville
Courier-Journal, and Norwegian
Col. A. Roscher Lund of the United
Nations staff were credited today
with giving four Greek guerrillas
and Greek orphan a respite from
a firing squad
Col. Lund, representative of Sec
retary General Trygve Lie with the
U. N. Security Council Commission
investigating border warfare, re-
ceived a plea for help from the
wives and relatives of the con-
demned men as the hour for their
execution neared. =
An account of the events received
at U. N. headquarters from the
commission, said Col. Lund routed
Mr.. Etherdige out of bed, told him
the story and went with him to the
apartment of Foreign Minister
Constantin Tsaldaris. At their re-
quest, Mr.. Tsaldaris was aroused at
/ am. and the three discussed the
case for two hours. Then Mr.. Tsal-
daris ordered the executions post
poned.
Mr.. Ethridge is the American
representative on the U. N. COM
mission.
Evening star., 1947-02-05
|AH Executive Council
Unanimously Opposes
Compulsory Training
By james Y. Newton
stor Stoff cosrespondsnt

MIAMI, Fla, Feb. 5.-Unani-
nous opposition to compulsory
military training was voted by
the AFL Executive Council, it.
was learned today as the group
met for a final decision on
whether to advance a legislative
program of their own to Offset
the great number OF union
restricting bills before Congress.
The council held that compulsory
training In peacetime might lead to
militarization of the Nation and
that the idea is not in accord with
the democratic way Of life. The
labor leaders said they did not be-
lieve such a training program is
necessary to national defense.
Some of the AFL leaders, it was
said, including John L. Lewis, are
opposed to recommending any labor
Legislation to Congress outside OF
measures for broadening social Sc
Ecurity and public housing which
labor has plugged hard in past ses-
sions. Mr.. Lewis has played most
important role in the current vim
ter meeting of the council. He re-
Joined the AFL a year ago. In the
words of another council member
he is coming out of the meeting
here as 'the most influential
member"
George Meany, AFL secretary
treasurer, reported that the Fedora
ton now has 7,505, ,446 dues-paying
members, by far the greatest num-
ber in history Mr.. Meany said the
membership figure was up quarter
million from September.
Despite the membership rise, the
council is considering an increase
in the per capita tax to meet grow
ing expenses, including retire
ment fund for the more than 100
employees of the AFL's Washington
headquarters.
The council approved the retire
ment plan which President William
Green said called for compulsory
retirement at IS Of all the head
quarters staff. He added that elected
officers and organizers would not
participate in the plan.. It becomes
effective April and the council set
up a fund of 100000 to cover the
accumulated years of credit for
workers now on the staff. After April
the fund becomes participating with
both the AFL and the employees
contributing.
Evening star., 1947-02-05
Nazi Spy Ring PaYmasfe'
Gets 10-Year Sentence
BY the Associofed Press

NEW YORK, Feb. 5.-Teodoro
Erdmann Lau, A, who admitted
handling pay for members of the
Frederick Ludwig prewar Nazi spy
ring, has been sentenced to 10 years
in prison.
Fedefal Judge Edward A. Congel
sentenced Lau yesterday after his
attorney, Thorne Lord, had urged
clemency because the war was over
and this is 1947."
"The war might be over" United
States Attorney John F. x McGohey
told the court, "but 1t is not over
for the nine ships which left these
shores and, according to the brag-
ging of Ludwig, met their end at the
bottom of the sea-"
Evening star., 1947-02-05

The suits themselves have consider
able buoyancy.
Although chilled, the swimmers
showed little discomfort. The team
was divided into three groups. The
first group stayed in the water 81
minutes, IS seconds; the second
group exactly 81 minutes and the
third group 81 minutes, 10 seconds
The air temperature was 27 degrees
1t. Iverson reported the water
damn cold" with numbness grad
ually creeping over fingers and feet
He said that for the first six min
utes he did not notice the cold
However, he said, it soon became ap-
parent because the tight suit i'm
bedded blood circulation and in
the ice he could not swim far to
work up body heat.
The time selected was when the
bay was apparently clear of killer
whales whose common food is seals
The swimmers were attached to Is
foot ropes to be pulled in instantly
Evening star., 1947-02-05
New Status in Reserves
Offered Ex-Murines

Former marines who wish to re-
tain The rank they held when dis
charged now may enlist in the Ma
riue Corps Reserve for that purpose
without a physical examination, it
was announced yesterday.
Capt. George Planter, in charge
of the Marine Recruiting Station
here, said a new reserve group,
known as Glass 3-B, has been Or
ganized. Men who join the reserve
as. 3-Bs will be held in inactive
status with no duties or obligations.
All the time they serve as 3-B's will
count on their longevity record for
pay purposes, Capt. Planter said.
Evening star., 1947-02-05
IS Navy Men Swim 20 Minutes
In Antarctic Sea to Test Suits
Air Forces Sergeant
Makes First 'Chute
jump in Antarctic
BY the Associated Press

LITTLE AMERICA, Feb. 4,
(delayed).-lst Sergt. S. A. Lon
don, Is, of Oklahoma City to-
day made what was believed
to be the first parachute jump
ever made onto the South Polar
continent.
London, an experienced U. S.
Army Air Forces 'chutist, leaped
from a transport plane flying
off the Little America airstrip.
The transport was one of six
planes that landed Thursday
morning after a trail-blazing
hop from carrier deck.
Parachute jumps had been
planned to see whether a nylon
parachute is affected in any
way by cold and whether a man
reacts differently dropping into
cold country or landing on ice.
Evening star., 1947-02-05

do not at the same time, by hysteria
by resort to innuendo, and sraears
and other unfortunate tactics, be-
smirch the very cause that we be-
lieve in, and cause a separation
among our people, cause one group
and one individual to hate another
based on mere attacks, mere unsub-
stantiated attacks upon their 10y.
atty.
I want also to add that part o1
my conviction is based on my train
ing as an Anglo-American common
lawyer. It is the very basis and the
great heritage of TIE English peo.
piles to this country which we have
maintained, that the strictest rules
of credibility of witnesses and of the
avoidance of hearsay and the gossip
shall be excluded in courts of justice
And that, too, is an essential o.
our democracy. And whether by
administrative agencies acting arbi.
trarily against business organiza.
tions, or whether by investigating
activities of the legislative branches
whenever those principles of the
protection of an individual and his
good name against besmirchment
by gossip, hearsay and the state
ments of witnesses who are not sub
ject to cross-examination, then, too
we have failed in carrying forward
our ideals In respect to democracy
That I deeply believe.
(Senator Mcmahon, Democrat, o1
Connecticut Mr.. Lilienthal.
want to congratulate you on that
statement as statement of, in my
opinion, of very real American.
Mr.. Lilienthal later-There are
always witch hunters and people
who will gladly defame and assassi-
nate the character of others without
responsibility. That is why we have
la system Of law. And that is why
we have courts, and that is why
I'VE have rules of evidence. I win
be very glad to be lynched If In
the process of that 1ynching this
lesson about what our history means
is learned. and what the history o1
the common law means in the terms
of protection of the individual citi-
zen against irresponsible charges o1
witch hunters.
Evening star., 1947-02-05
Britain Eyacuafinq
Palestine Civilians
by Plane 10 Egypt
ey the Assoeioisd Press

JERUSALEM, Feb. 5.-More
than $50 British civilians left
Palestine under the British
Army's Operation Polly today,
taking off from Aqir airdrome in
Royal Air Force Halifax planes
bound for Egypt.
A later dispatch from Cairo said
the planes engaged in evacuating
British civilians from Palestine
landed there shortly before noon
and that the occupants were taken
to British homes in the suburbs.
The shuttle flight system was ex-
pected to remove at least 500 British
women and children from the Holy
Land trouble spot by nightfall.
More than 1000 others are await
ing their turn in Sarafand or Haifa
holding centers, where the army has
turned military cantonments into
dispersal points for civilians being
evacuated to lessen the govern
ments security commitments in
violence-threatened Palestine.
Meanwhile, the cities the civilians
left were teeming with a reshuffle
of the populace designed to put all
government officials and other re-
naming civilians of British nation
ality under heavy guard.
Nearly 1000 Jews have been dis
possessed in Jerusalem to make way
for security compounds and many
hotels and boarding houses are un-
der orders to accept no guests unless
certified by the Palestine govern
ment. Spot identity checks are con-
tinuing, with foot patrols of COM
bined police and military personnel
touring the city.
All roads to Jerusalem still are
blocked by armored patrols.
High Commissioner Gen. Sir Alan
Cunningham was one of those pres
ent at Aqir Airfield when the first
planes left. The field itself was
under heavy guard.
There still was no official word as
to when, or If, Dow Bella Gruner.
condemned member of Irgun Zvai
Leumi, would hang, but the respite
granted him last week apparently
still was in effect. Most sources be-
lieve that the execution of Gruner
will touch off new and terrible vio-
llence.
Evening star., 1947-02-05
No Harmful Effects
Found After Stoy in
2o-Degree Water
py lHOWoS ~ HSuty
Stor Stuff Correspondent

ABOARD U. S. S. MOUNT
OLYMPUS, Feb. 4 (Delayed).- -
Man made himself into a seal
today to conquer the Antarctic'S
ice-covered waters.
A return to natures basic design
a design millions of years old-for
animals intended to live in water
was shown in an experimental 90
minute swim by Is men in the Bay
of Whales.
Sentries were posted all around
for the slightest sign of approach of
the worlds most vicious animal, the
man-eating killer whale which is
abundant in the neighborhood.
The men were all expert SWIM
mers of Underwater Demolition
Team No. 4 with the United States
Nays Antarctic Task Force. The
team is led by 1t. q. g. Hal Iverson
of Savannah, Ga.
The men stayed afioat without
effort, disporting themselves in the
floating ice by turning somersaults,
Tipping water In each others faces
like school of seals at play.
The green. rubber suits they wore
were designed especially for the in
vasion of Japan. They. gave the
sailors the reptile-like body contour
of sea leopards. Black rubber flip
pers took the place of feet.
The temperature of the water was
20 degrees, below freezing, and
the test started just after the bay
was covered with a sheet of flash
ice'' formed almost instantly when
snow falls on very cold water.
Two Suits Of Underwear.
The seals thick coat of blubber
was initiated in several layers of
clothing including two suits of
wooden underwear with airspace be-
tween worn under the rubber suit.