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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07
BY ETE S

WASHINGTON - The Senate
Foreign Relations Committee may
be taking President Harry Tru.
man off of a barbed and rusty
hook by refusing to do anything
about confirming former Attorney
General Francis Biddle for the
$40 600 a year tax-free job as u.
S. representative on the UN Social
and Economic Council, to succeed
John G.. Winant.
The President nominated Biddle
for this job last January. Republi-
cans in the Senate gave it silent
treatment for a few months. Then
the President was asked to with
draw the nomination. He refused,
and another showdown fight such
as the President had with Ed
Pauley became necessary.
Under urging from Democratic
Senators Alben B. Barley OF Ken
lucky and Tom Connally of Texas
Chairman Arthur Vandenberg OF
Michigan agreed to have Biddle
before the Foreign Relations Com.
mittee to explain his political
views. Biddle is reported to have
let on that he wasn't the 100 per
cent New Dealer he was supposed
to be-even though it was known
that he and Harold 1ckes were
ringleaders with the CIO-PAC in
supporting Henry wallace for vice
president at Chicago in 1914. Bid
dies defense was that he had op-
posed Roosevelt's court packing
plan and the MIRA.
This apparently got an "uh-huh''
from the Republican majority Of
the committee. which decided to
pursue its past policy Of doing
nothing about the Biddle appoint.
ment. This is perhaps the kindest
thing the committee could do The
fear that Biddle is too ardent a
New Dealer to be confirmed tor
a UN Job is just window-dressing
polite stuff to show the public
in covering up an embarrassing
situation.
What Harry Truman knows
what every senator who served I'm.
der his Craftsmanship on The War
Investigating Committee knows
is that if the Senate Foreign Re-
l~ations Committee had to 90 into
an about investigation OF the for
mer attorney general, it would
have to dig up a lot Of skeletons.
Twice before congressional COM
mittees have been on the verge
LOT investigating Biddle's admins
tration Of the Department Of jus
tice in wartime. Both cases were
outgrowths Of the Norman Littell
affair Of 1914.
Litteil had been assistant a+tor-
ney general in charge Of the 'ands
division under Bjddle, Frank Muir
ply, and Bob Jackson. Littell had
given off the record testimony to
the Truman committee on 4 num-
bes q sasss Aandaed ~ - D.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07
Big Business

When we, that is to say the COM
mon man, think of big business we are
thinking of Wall Street, the automo-
tive industry-things like that. We
have no idea of how big the vending
machine business has become.
The pennies we drop in weighing
machines, the nickels that 60 into soft
drink dispensers, are big business.
Cigarette manufacturers estimate that
Is per cent of their sales are made
through mechanical devices.
The 1916 chewing gum sales made
by machines are estimated to have
crossed $40, 000, 1000; nuts $4,000 900;
beverages $4,000, 900; candy $40, 0OO,-
600. These figures are provided by
the National Automatic Merchandising
Association, and so may be counted
fairly accurate.
It would be interesting to know how
many more millions are dropped in
parking and gas meters, travellers
lockers at depots and bus terminals,
paper cup and towel vendors, or STAMP
and match machines.
Truly, big business is not ALWAYS
where we think it is. While it is in.
formative to know these other ramifi.
cations of the money makers, it is mt
solacing to reflect upon how deeplv
they must cut into the little business
of retailers, most of whom, in one line
or another, offer for sale the identica
commodities dispensed by the robot
clerks.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07
CIVIL WAR LINKS
PORT OF DAlREN

PElPlNG, June s.
that Chinese s~overnne,.A ,'poa
si'er completing ,nsi- oisa;n
whetted specula. ion ,od,r mission
EQUATIONS for Chinsq. 10y on M,
tlon Of Port Artnur and r. n,'
war in Manchurla. vi the CIV.
The report, carried nv
paper Shin Chieh jim p De new
thus far without o"tfic.ar coOt. n
non and gave 10 details ig, A.
say whs; their mission nd va no.
or where they went 0esr
1t conceded, however VIZ.
oeveiopmenls: Arriysl Of ! c5 w, Two
mission in Port Arthur a. .1.as',
nists. Nonml'
Pulantien, As miles nort5... ,
DdlIeh and ~ miles north., o.
Port Arthur, is the stooosr Of
oottleneck of the Kwsntur. n'
lnsula on which both lm6or Yen,
ports are situated. 'a'
Strong Chinese pov
forces have marked timt ,oar.
many months, awaiting fu5tinm.,uo,,
OF terms Of the Chinese-sov,s, ,.. a'
ty of August, 1915. ="
This treaty provides that p..,
Arthur shall be a naval bass VI:
by both China and Russia wi,s s'u
Chinese civil administration ,or..
able to Russia, and that d..
shall be a Chinese-admjnjstsrss
free commercial port.
The Russians have huno o,,,
both ports since the japanese .n,
rendex, but now a Chinese mi,sn,
led by Gen. Tung Yuantinv h.,
arrived in Port Arthur and is "a.
ported to have been given one ws.L
to complete its negotiations.
Withdrawal Of the Chinese gov,
eminent forces from Pulsnt.n
may have been intended 10 r,,,.
sure the Russians of Chinas ,ood
intentions unless the Chinese Com.
munists forced the government,
hand.
Gin Marking the Chinese Centr,'
news agency published a repor,
that the Russians were ssslsun,
the Communists in Manchuri, 4
government military spokesman
said there was no confirmation
but added, "one of the starl.r,
developments of the Communists
Manchurian offensive is the area
increase in firepower; this ind
Gates they are obtaining new coup
ment and munitions from som,
WHEREBY
The Communists meanwhile w.r,
pushing their drive towards Muk
den, 1876 miles northeast Of Pulan
tein.
Press dispatches said the Situa
ton was very tense but Gen
Tu Lining, government command
ant, perfectly confident he soul,
handle the situation.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07
Showdown Or Biddle

partment of Justice-the Breakers
Hotel case. Startling Products,
Empire Ordnance, Savannah Ship
yards. Elk Hills, Canol Pipeline,
and surplus property disposal. All
were notorious scandals of the
early war years.
The brunt Of Littell's testimony
reflected no great credit on Bid.
die. In fact, they attempted to
make much of Biddle's close con-
nections with Tommy Corcoran.
Corcoran and associates repre-
scented Sterling Products. Empire
Ordnance and Savannah Ship
yards among others.
Some of this background has re-
Gently been dug into by Howard
Ambruster and put between covers
of a book. 'Treason's Peace" It's
mere about the doings Of the Ger
ma l. G.. Farben dye trust than
it is about Biddle. But Sterling
Products was a subsidiary of FAR
ben, and the record of Eiadle's
failure to prosecute this Gombi-
nation, forcing the resignation OF
trust = buster Thurman Arnold in
the process, runs all through Am.
b%ruster's expose.
For his testimony before the
Truman Committee. Littell was
accued Of disloyalty to the at
torney general. who asked for his
resignation: When it was refused.
Bddle carried the case to thu
White House. President Roosevelt
settled it by firing Littell in De-
cember, 1914.
Democratic Sen. Harley Kileore
of West Virginia and other mem
bers Of the War Investigating
Committee favored opening up the
whole case and doing a Job on
Biddle, to purge the party. But
Harry Truman had in the mean
time been elected vice president
and Sen. James M. Mead of New
York had succeeded MIN as chair
man of the War Investigating
Committee. Not wanting to wash
his party's dirty linen in public.
Mead dropped the issue.
Littell was, therefore. made the
goat. He went into private law
practice in Washington and is ao-
parently doing all right at it. Also.
he is entitled to the last laugh
in the situation.
When Roosevelt died. Truman
knowing all this background-lost
no time in accepting Biddle's res
ignation which had been SUBJ
mitted as a formality. But then
the pressure began to be applied
to Truman to find Biddle another
job. He was given temporary work
as a Nuremberg wal crimes trial
judge. Now he needs another. Only
out for the President now is to
have Biddle ask that his name BE-
Withdrawn, and 60 to work in pri-
vate law practice, as his prede-
eesso1 Aomer Cummings has
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07
Protest On Hungary

In the light Of past experience, there
il no reason to expect that Russia will
40 much as reply to the State Depart
ment's protest against the communist
parb in Hungary. Certainly there is no
re.son to believe that Russia will back
track. or consent to the proposed Anglo
Anerican-Russian investigation of the
whole situation in Hungary.
This obviously being SO, there would
appear to be no alternative to bringing
the Hungarian coup before the United
Nations, when the Soyiets will be ehars'
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07
Miss Perkins On Delinquency

Former Secretary of Labor Frances
Perkins seldom makes the news these
DAYS. Usually though, when she does,
she has something to say that needs
saying.
This was the case when she ad-
dressed the convention of National
Parents and Teachers in Chicago.
"The outstanding problem today"
she said. sis not child labor or made
uuate diet for our children, but juvenile
d%elinouency." While it is probable
that she stretched a point both as to
child labor and childrens' food, which
are major sociological and domestic
problems begging the perfect solution,
we are bound to believe that she ex-
aggerated in placing juvenile delin-
quency at the top of her list.
Even with the word of J. Edgar
Hoover, head of the FBI, to back her
up, we insist that the great problem
is parental delinquency. AS o O as
parents universally accept their respon-
sibility for the guidance of their off
spring juvenile delinquency will dis
appear and the oncoming generation be
neither sissy or criminal but good clti-
Zens.
Obviously Miss Perkins, as is so
often the case with public speakers,
gave this view on delinquency to gain
the close attention of her hearers that
she might drive home the real thought
she sought to make impressive. For
she added that we have been confused
''bv the almost universal teaching that
self-interest is the key to all of mans
actions that all activities can be
explained by a materialistic concep-
ton"
This is all wrong, she declared, de-
spite that it has %permeated our intel
~lectual life, our textbooks, the maya
zines and newspaper writing. Lust
and greed are not the only strong mott
waiting forces in the lives of human
beings"
And then she rang the bell. Every
adult person of sound experience" she
added, "knows that faith or the belief
lin some secure and permanent force
for good, which we call Almighty God,
is a prevailing instructive element for
the human mind, and that charity and
love of man for other men are aspects
of human nature which prevail in the
great crises of life"
It is good to have this great truth
spoken before an audience largely
made up Of mothers, and the balance
teachers, upon whom the chief obliga-
ton rests for training children Gin the
way they should 60"
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07
There is nothing that spoils the

There is nothing that spoils the
effect of a trick more than hest
fancy OF the part of the perform.
err. If you will study the perform.
ances of professional magicians
you will note that absolute assur.
ance and ease mark their routine.
Assurance and ease should also
mark the efforts OF the amateur.
The matches used are those
known as phosphorus matches
These are not OF the safety
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07

Written For NEA Service
During my recent stay in St.
Louis l participated in an en-
joyable rubber bridge game at the
home Of A. S. Novack, one Of the
winners Of the Midwest Regional
team-of-four championship. After
playing rubber bridge with him
for a while l realized what a fine
card player he is.
There are two interesting points
in today's hand which came up
during the game. One is counting
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07

Antique
The Milo Venus has { lot
OF this and that, but arms hI
not.
The reason is, say old WV"
tales,
When young, she bit her finger
nails. -Dolph MontagN
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07
Star Dust
A Bit Of Consolation

J. Edgar Hoover says the otr.
centage of Communists here now
is greater than it was in Russia
when the Reds took over the gov.
eminent. But there's some con.
ISOLATION in the thought that our gov,
eminent isn't the p%ush-over that
Russia's was 80 years ago,-Grtth.
vile (S.C.) News.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07
GOOD MORNING

We should be careful to deserve a good
reputation by doing well, and when that
care is once taken, not to be over-anxious
about the success.-Rochester.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07
Add-Definitions

Add-Definitions
Human Nature: That when
makes you swear at the pedestrian
when you're driving, and al t"
driver when you are q pedestrian
-Kanawha Qa,l ReporIh
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-06-07

Picture 1, at top, shows how to
hold each match between thumb
and forefinger. Below, position of
hands after matches have passed
each subsequently, going right
through each other.
Kodiak mirror., 1947-05-03

Sound movies of the work of the Crippled Children's Society in aiding physically handicapped persons to rehabilitate themselv- es and become useful citizens will be shown at the Community Center next Tuesday evening under the auspices of the Alaska Crippled Children's Society. The program will start Ut 8:So pm and the public is cordially invit- ed to attend. There will be no admission charge.
 Mrs. RuebeR Tesarik will pre- side.
Kodiak mirror., 1947-05-03

A fire truck was called to the new bowling alley at Blinn's s hall Tuesday evening te put out the fire in aR oil stove that ex- ploded.
 SOet was scattered in the new ly paiRted building but there was no fire damage.
Kodiak mirror., 1947-05-03
Sentenced

Juneau-Austin Nelson, Neg TO convicted of the murder of Jim Ellen, a grOceryman, wa' sentenced to hang in Juneau on July l. His attorneys did not move for a new trial.
 If he dies he will be the eighth man to be executed by hanging in the Territory
 Nelson was formerly in Kodi' ak.
Kodiak mirror., 1947-05-03
NOTICE

A meeting of the Fisberman'S s Union will be held next Wednes- day, May 7, at 7;30 at the UR- ion Hall.
Kodiak mirror., 1947-05-03

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Kodiak mirror., 1947-05-03
AT ANCHORAGE
I Lot of X-Ray Equipment
 and Supplies
AT KODIAK

2 Dental Units ' Dental Instrument Cabinets 3 Dental Operating Chairs 1 Developing Cabinet for
 Dental X-Ray Film Dental Operating Lamp
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25

u NSAAN
The doctor would not comment
or the nature of Mrs. Miller's ILL
ness but said she was taken by
ambulance to ar institution near
Asheville.
DR.. F. l.. Bowman, who had
treated the shapely blue-eyed wo-
man earlier, said she had been
suffering from a nervous disorder
which was heightened by the strain
OF her arrest in connection with the
serious wounds of her husband.
Meanwhile, 27-year-old David
Miller was reported improving
slowly from a pistol would in the
chest. Sheriff W. c. Britt charg-
ed in an arrest warrant that the
wound was inflicted by Fred Wig
gins, young Negro laborer who
worked for the Millers.
A Lurid love triangle, involv-
ing Mrs. Miller and the handsome
young son of a tenant farmer,
shaped up behind the shooting
when Britt revealed the confess
sions. No charges, however, have
been placed against the "other
man. in the triangle.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
MOTHER TRUMAN
KEEPS son HOME
President Told Not Advis-
able To Leave For
Washington
GRANDVIEW, Mo-, May 24.-(P)

GRANDVIEW, Mo, May 24.-P)
President Truman's physician
said today he would not be war
ranted in advising the chief execu-
tive to return to Washington at
this time in view of the critical
nature of his mothers illness.
The disclosure Of the doctor,
General Graham's view came after
it was generally known here that
the President has abandoned ali
thought of returning to the White
House in the absence of any de-
cided change for the better.
Meanwhile. President Truman
said today that his mother, now
weakening, had a fairly good
night last night.
He told reporters that while his
mother had a fairly good night
there was no change in her condi-
ton, which he described last night
as "a little weaker
He was accompanied by lis wife
and daughter, Margaret.
Despite his concern with his
own and the nations problems
he said he did a days work last
night and this morning'-the
President stopped to buy eight
Buddy Popries" from eight little
girls.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
CRICKETS HOLD
TO THEIR MARCH
Farmers Attempt To Es-
tablish New Extermi-
nation Line

ORDNANCE, Ore, May 24-P)
Pushed back by a relentless ad-
vance of Mormon crickets, farm
ers attempted to establish a new
determination" line today just
three miles from the green gar
dens and farm fields of this lush
eastern Oregon town.
The crickets, emerging from the
dry sagebrush country surrounding
the rich Umatilla river farmlands,
crawled and hoped through a poi
son bair line established four miles
from here.
Farm crews began laying a new
line of bait in an attempt to pre-
vent the bugs reaching Ordnance
and Hermiston. The latter town,
now just six miles from the crick-
cts, is the center of the Umatilla
river farming area.
The insects, which cover a 500
square-mile area, have been adj
vancing on a 12-mile front.
The crickets are much larger
than the eastern variety and usual
ly appear in great numbers. They
are said to have been given the
designation Mormon Crickets"
from the early battle by the Nor
mons against the insects in Utah
when seagulls saved the crops. a
seagull memorial later was erected
in Salt Lake City.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
allace l>eady To Lead
New Party If Peace Aid
OLYMPIA, May "a - UP) Henry A. Wallace said today he would lead a
third party if it would help peace but added it was impossible to say al present' if
sue movement was necessary 20 maintain peace.

"The Truman Doctrine will lead
into war, but not soon," ne declar-
ed here at a press conference which
preceded an address from the steps
Of the state capitol building.
He said "the Democratic party
will die" if it isn't maintained as
"a liberal party" and asserted
that President Truman has been
"playing a bipartisan policy which
is not good for the Democratic
party"
Wallace said domestic Commun-
ism was mo threat" to the nation,
and to outlaw the Communist party
would indicate a type of fear not
worthy of the United States"
Wallace said IT am amazed at
how we'll I have been quoted" in
the press. The papers have quoted
with remarkable completeness"
he said.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
EUROPE, ASIA
SAID STARVING
Eight Millions Tons OF
Grain To Be Shipped In
Three Months

WASHINGTON, May "a - W.D -
Food shortages overseas are SO
desperate that the United States
and other producing countries will
have to ship nearly 5000, 900 tons
of grain this summer to maintain
the low rations which already have
touched off food riots in some
areas.
This picture was placed before
the international emergency food
council today as it convened for
its fourth meeting on world feed
ing problems.
Secretary-G General D. A. Fitz-
gerald said in a report to the coun-
Gil that world food stocks are "at
the lowest ebb' and that Europe
and Asia face another year of food
shortages.
THE cumulative effect of these
Shortages" he said, 'is becoming
more and more serious. People are
protesting more and more about
the continued food shortages. In
some instances, the protests have
reached the stage of violence and
rioting."
Fitzgerald disclosed that the
committee on cereals is faced with
the test of recommending that
nearly 100000 tons of grains be
shipped to hungry countries during
July, August and September, with
the United States and Canada be-
ing called on to supply "the maxi
mum quantity that can be antici-
from them.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
MEETS HIS WIFE
AFTER 80 YEARS
Jimmie Lucas, Wilmington,
Promises To Kiss Ter;
Might Cry

When Jimmie Lucas, an en-
ploye of Saffo's restaurant in Will
mington, who was scheduled to
meet his wife in New York late
last night after she landed from
the City of Athens, the couple were
to set off on a second honey
MOON"
The little white-haired man
wasn't even sure he'd recognize
Mrs. Lucas as she walked down
the gangplank because he hasn't
seen her in more than 80 years.
She had remained in Greece
wher he came to the new world,
and then the war and other things
delayed her coming to America.
Before returning to Wilmington
in two weeks, the couple plans to
60 to Steubenville, Ohio, to visit
their daughter, whom Mrs. Lucas
has not seer in 80 years.
Even more strange is the fact
that Mr.. Lucas has never seen
his daughter, who was born a few
months after he left for America.
Earlier this week Lucas told a
Star-News reporter saturdays
going to be a very happy day for
me-"
When he further aforementioned
the reporter that he was going to
meet his wife the newsman queri-
ed care you gonna kiss her?"
Jimmie" nodded in reply to this
but shook his head when asked If
he would cry.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
Sen. M'KELLAR
STRICKEN I'LL
To Naval Hospital:
Illness Is Not Dis
closed

WASHINGTON, May 24.-U.H-
Sen. Kenneth D. Mcclellan, dean OF
the Senate and long one of its
most powerful members, was TAX
en- to Bethesda, Md. Naval hos
pital today after suffering a sud-
den attack of illness while work
ing at his desk.
The So : year old Tennessee
Democrat, who first came to Con-
gress IS years ago and who has
been a Senator since the days of
World War I, vas said tonight to
be in good" condition.
The nature of his illness was not
revealed. Officials of the Naval
hospital said only that he was
under medical observation"
The Senator's office announced
several hours later that Mcclellan
was lin good shape" and that the
doctors had found nothing serious
ly wrong with him. He dictated
several letters by telephone during
the afternoon.
Mcclellan, one a physically
powerful man with the muscles of
a blacksmith, has declined steadily
in health during recent years. He
has suffered fainting spells and
sudden Illnesses on several oc-
casions when he has been working
too hard. One of them came two
years ago on the Senate floor as
he completed an imprisoned at
tack on the Tennessee Valley Au-
thority, his favorite political
target.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25
SEN. UMSTEAD
PRAISES R0A
Commends Officers For Un-
selfish Service To
The Nation
Special to Star-News

~WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, May
Ex-senator William B. Umstead
last night told the 45th annual on
vention of the Reserve Officers
association that he doubted their
organization is understood by the
War department, the congress or
the people.
Speaking before the meeting at
the Ocean Terrace hotel, the SEN
ator said Il know of no group
more unselfish than that of the
reserve officers. / commend them
for their tireless work in spite of
small profit"
The senator said the United Ma
tons met at San Francisco to or
ganize an international police force
but that tonight UN possesses no
police force and there is no police
force except those maintained by
individual nations"
Senator Umstead
The senator paid high tribute to
Wilmington and Wrightsville Beach
and said the two together make ga
great combination"
He was introduced by Colonel
John Bright Hill of Wilmington,
state commander of the ROA. Col
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-05-25

onel Hill said he was proud of the
senator and termed him the first
real senator 1--WE have had in sc
years"
Compulsory military training for
the nation was advocated by Col.
Severne S. Mclaughlin, command
ing officer of the North Carolina
military district, in an afternoon
speech.
Reserve officers should indoc.
trinate the citizens of their com.
munities of the necessity and bene,
fits of universal military training
he said.
Colonel Mclaughlin was supported
by Maj. Gen. Edward H. Brooks,
who declared World War II would
not have happened if the United
States had been prepared, and we
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