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The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-26
The Meyers Case

Damaging evidence has been presented
before Senate War Investigating subcon-
mittee against Maj. Gen. Bennett e. New
ers, chief of which is that he profited in the
amount of $150,O0O from an aircraft parts
factory while serving as deputy purchasing
chief of the Air Forces. Court martial pro-
ceedings are to be instituted and besides
the Justice Department has carried his
case before federal grand jury on unde-
clared charges.
Only the forthcoming legal actions can
determine General Meyers guilt or inno-
cence. If he is found guilty he will de-
serve the maximum punishment provided
by law. For while other officers and en-
listed men were fighting the war he STAYED
safely at home out of danger, as he him
self testified in alliance with another
mans wife (Which the wifes mother
denies), and if half the evidence heard by
the Senate group is true in grating on
the government.
The Air Force appears convinced that
he u unworthy Of it, recognition, since il
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-26
Victory Of Wholehoggers

WASHINGTON, - Round two
of the price battle is now getting
under way on Capitol Hill. The
battle can be expected to range
with intermittent fury at least
until November, 1948. It is thus
worth knowing something of the
history of the battles first
round, which was fought out
quietly and dispassionately with
in the administration itself.
In part, perhaps, because
President Truman, with his new
ly acquired sense of sureness,
made it clear that nothing of the
sort would be tolerated, there
was no table-thumping row, no
public washing of dirty linen.
Yet the internal differences OF
opinion in the administration on
the price issue were none the
less exceedingly sharp.
One group Of the Presidents
advisers, who might be called
for convenience the halfwayites,
believed that measures short of
price control and rationing
would do the job they believed
that credit, ALLEGATIONS, export,
and other controls would suffice
to keep prices in line, and more
over. that only by propos-
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-26
Christmas Gift!

The release of half a million dollars or
more through Christmas Savings clubs and
bonuses on or about December l will ma
terially increase mercantile transactions in
Wilmington.
Much of this money will 60 for Christ
mas presents, but not all. Many persons
will apply substantial amounts to the set
tlement of debts, which, perhaps, is the
best of all Christmas gifts, if self-be-
slowed
Others will make down payments on
homes, or automobiles, or washing ma
chimes, or other household or business con-
veniences, and this money too will be well
invested provided always the means for
subsequent payments are reasonably GER
tain.
But in addition to these expenditures will
be varying amounts devoted to giving the
family, especially the children, thorough
ly merry Christmas. Wilmington mer-
chants will reap rich harvest when the
spcial Christmas funds are distributed
These are the things that give Christ
mas clubs and bonus plans their great
value. Without them hundreds of workers
would find Christmas just around the cor
ner without the ready cash that adds to
the Yuletide welcome. By setting aside a
feiaentdietaoin etaoin etaoin etaoin etaoin
definite sum weekly or monthly throughout
the year, on the other hand, thrifty savers
are able to feel the warmth of one of the
greatest human joys-that of giving loved
ones and chosen friends something to make
their lives the brighter on this the bright
est of all Christian HOLIDAYS.
When all is said and done, it is in Civ
ing that mortals receive their greatest
blessing.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-26
Lag In Shipbuilding

Last spring President Truman ordered
ship construction curtailed sharply for rea
sons OF economy and because of material
shortages. Shortly afterward he appointed
a five-man committee of "practical-mind-
ed businessmen" to use their own phrase,
who were to make study of the coun-
trys merchant marine and shipbuilding
problems. Their report is now in, and the
President has passed it along to Congress
and the appropriate departments Gin the
hope that it will prove helpful"
Essentially the committee has repeated
the recommendations incorporated in the
Merchant Marine Act of 1896. This act set
up shipbuilding program-thrown entire
ly out of gear by the war-on the scarcely
disputable basis that a modern first-rate
merchant marine and an adequate pro-
gressive shipbuilding industry are essential
to our national defense and peacetime
economy.
The Presidents advisory committee has
also urged four-year program, costing
00,000,000 for the construction of 46 pas
senger vessels and number of high-speed
cargo ships and tankers. The first group
would include two 50,000-ton liners for
North Atlantic service.
There are 80 ocean-going vessels being
built in nine private yards Half of them
are for foreign owners.
Britain repeatedly has 1875 passenger and
passenger-cargo ships now under construc-
ton. The United States has two. France
Spain, Sweden and Italy all are building
more than we are.
| There should be, in the committees opin-
ion, not less than $4,000 workers engaged
in shipbuilding in this country in any
peacetime year. There are now less than
half that number engaged in ship construc-
ton.
The committee wants to see eight pas
senger ships started Immediately - three
81 000-ton vessels for the New York Medi-
terranean run and five of 13,500 tons each
for round -the-world service. These are
among the ships whose construction was
postponed last spring. Designs are com,
pleted and bids are in. The Maritime Com
mission has $84,0000o0 previously ap-
propriated, and the lines that would oper'
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-26
Underc0ver Girl
BY PETER EDsON

WASHINGTON, - For about
a year at the start of the war,
one Mrs. Elizabeth P. MacDon-
aid worked in the NEA Service
office here in Washington.
Among other things, she wrote a
feature called "Homefront Fore
cast" This was a folksy, para
graphy, woman's page thing. 1t
was intended to tell the good
American housewife what war
time shortages to expect in sug.
ar, salt pork, silk stockings and
such stuff.
One day she came in and an
nounced that she was quitting
us cold-and for less money. too
so she could become a spy and
wear flowers in her teeth and a
long black dress.
So she joined Col. Wild Bill
Donovan's cloak and daguerro
type OSS-the hush-hush Office
of Strategic Services. After
flunking all the courses in the
crazy cops and robbers finish
ing schools, which OSS operated
in these parts, she was sent out
to China and India for the dura-
ton. When it was all over she
came home and wrote herself a
book. which has just been pub
lished under the intriguing title
of "Undercover Girl.
"Undercover Girl" is the story
of OSS from the woman's angle,
and it shows what happens to
this business Of waging war
when they let a women mess
around in it. Also, it is a revela-
ton of what we didn't
know about Elizabeth. Oh, the
skullduggery that sweet little
girl was capable of. Oh, the
shame of it.
They assigned her to Morale
Operations, the OSS department
that dealt in black propaganda
Having spent all her innocent
girlhood in Hawaii, Elizabeth
knew some Japanese. And wher'
ever she went, she was always
running into four Hawaiians who
knew more Japanese than she
did. Together they conspired to
fake letters, forge documents,
print newspapers full of false in
formation and arrange phony ra'
dio broadcasts for Japanese con-
sumption.
The idea was to have all thi:
stuff look like it was made in
Japan. It was intended to create
confusion and so persuade the
Jap soldiers and the ap home.
front that they were fighting a
lost cause, so why 60 on?
For instance, when she first
got to India, Mrs. MacD. came
across . pack Of captured Jap
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-26
A Happy Choice

For the second time President
Truman has found a happy so
luton for the twin problems ac-
companying selection of a new
Army Chief of Staff. His first
answer was General Dwight D.
Eisenhower; his second, Gener-
al Omar N. Bradley.
The first problem is always
present, although made larger
by today's conditions: to select
an officer with tn e experience
and ability for the job, who also
has the respect of his prospec-
tive subordinates
The second arises from a IA
niliar postwar reaction - one
augmented this time because
vastly more Americans have
served in Army uniforms, and
acerbated now by the shameful
disclosures in the General Mey-
ers case.
There is again the need that
the top Army post 60 to a man
whose character and reputation
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-26
City Childre,,
AreHealthiest
By WILLIAM A a,z

by WILLIAM A. O'BBrr,,
Rural school childrsn ldrs,Ss, y; W
enjoy equal opportun;t; en- 'houa
city children, as far 1.eS as viii
protection is cones, az health
the case. " N1s ls no,
Basic health protection .,
include at least a health snoud
nation, but examinstionse i',I exam.
are e omitted or poorly 1l,s doS. Often
f1lfow.ups, datovs. for the correctjo'1a et' md Y.
oefects, are lacking ba aOn u
community m edicai raseS oeSau'.
are are not known or are POORLY orITursss rec
,zea. IL Contrary a to popular y 5sTai E'l.
there is more to DISEASE 'sast LEI
vention in rural childrens s pr
fresh air, sunshine and aas
food. a soG
Although rural chiidrsn
the known benefits Of 8, n,,sn ENJOY
life, they rank below cbHGl' GbaIGO''
from large cities and N',,.ures a
well-organized communities r.,lsi
uncorrected physical ss dss..aI u
and records of past Illnesses ssSa
The one room scboo, ,'.
eight gr a d es taught bv WIN W.
teacher, has many points !, 0a'
favor, but these schools cora.s ~ ~
cate the administration NJ S,,,It' b.las
services. Rural teachers r.a na.s
help from a health educat;oa as'a
pert who can be hired h~ A "a :"
school system to cover ths aia ".
trict ' o's'
If lie alth examinations ,,.
given at school, it is not wis., "a. *
hold them oftener than 'Is o,'' 70
every three years. In this w.H '
services of physicians can !.
made available for helping nroh
lem children and for giving them
more extensive advice. Yearls
examinations are a farce. 4 A..
fectS are not corrected
Physicians should refuse :,
take part in health examinatio,,
where children are lined un srs
paraded by so rapidly that ths.
is insufficient time really to q,
anime them
A school health program in,
rural district cannot be effectu
unless parents cooperate.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-26
Editors
Letter Box
CHEST is GRATEFUL

MIR. R. B. Page, Publisher,
The Community Chest ha, Al.
ways appreciated the stroa
endorsement given to its annu,l
campaign by the WILMINGTON
STAR and the WILMINGTON
NEWS, however, believe that
this year your papers have out.
done the previous record in tha
respect and given US more page
l" space than ever before.
In behalf of the members d
our Campaign Committee, ! wish
to extend the thanks and graft.
tude to you, to your editors, MI
Hope and Mr.. Dickson, and "
your reporters. Theirs was an i'm
portant contribution to the cam.
paign. Will you please also con.
gratulate your advertising man
ager, Mr.. Allegood, for tn.
splendid cooperation he secured
from your advertisers in sponsor
ing Community Chest copy.
c. M. Harrington,
Campaign Chairman
Wilmington, N. c.
Nov. Is. 1947,
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-26

had invited to Washington 70
give their views. They proposa
that the President ask for th'
rationing of meat only, a sus'
gestion which such moderate Re
publicans as Senator Ralp'
Flanders and Raymond BALDWIN
had already advanced. Ihe
urged further that the Presldeh
should not ask for the iTnrle
diate imposition of price con
trolls. Rather, he should propoa
a non partisan investlgatlns
body, which would get at !"
facts behind the price situation
Since so much Of price contfo
administration is a r1a''s, e.
of getting information, tins 0oa9
could Immediately form the nf
cleus of a price control asen'y,
ii the price SITUATION thlea.'AJ u
to get out of hand. Thus Il fesl
economic catastrophe threater
ed, the barn door coula .
slammed shut before the h0i"
was stolen.
Nothing is more clear We, ~
that the Republicans Will ilo' 4
the whole way with the FIs@ -,
dents proposals. Yet this CON- cons
promise suggestion would sesn s,'
we'll worth pondering BY me ~, N
publican moderates, FOR Dc pew, ~,
all the political fury whlcn ..',,. va
Presidents bombshell has dlUn, vs-
ed, the ominous price pIoDas J, We.
still exists. 1t must be dealt W., W.,
by more effective means pr.s. .s
furious denunciation OF the ft'
dents political motives, M,
COPYRIGHT, 1947, Ne" i
Herald Tribune, Inc.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-26

Advisers; the Councils vice.
chairman, DR.. Leon Keyserling,
was particularly persuasive.
Postmaster General Robert
Hannegan also inclined to the
wholehoggers' position. The
Democratic National Committee
bigwigs, Senator Howard Nc
Grath and Gael Sullivan, were
known to favor going the whole
way, although on this occasion
the President did not ask their
views.
The wholehoggers received
their most effective, if sinister,
support from the winter wheat
belt, where the long dry spell
was clearly bringing the night
mare of five dollar wheat and a
spring meat famine daily closer
to grim reality. The wholehog-
gers argued that sharply in
creased food prices in the win
ter and spring would make big
new wage demands wholly in
evitable. This in turn might set
off an inflationary spiral which
would threaten the Ameri-
can foreign policy and the
domestic economy with disaster.
Less than a week before his
Monday message to the special
session of Congress, the Presi-
dent had still not fully decided
between the positions of the half
wayites and the wholehoggers.
His mind was made up towards
the middle of the week, how
ever when he conducted a sort
of poll among number of his
advisers. He asked them wheth-
er measures short of price con-
troll and rationing could be ex-
pected to do the job of holding
prices in line with reasonable
assurance of success. BY a large
majority, the answer was no.
Then the President pumped un-
conditionally for the wholehog-
gers.
He announced his decision at
the Friday Cabinet meeting,
where it was met with marked
lack of enthusiasm from the
Snyder-Anderson camp. For the
halfwayites remained wholly un-
persuaded. They made their last
stand at a White House meeting
on Sunday, the day before the
President was to deliver his
message to Congress. But the
Presidential mind was made up.
The next day he tossed his
bombshell into the laps of the
congressional Republicans, who
reacted with startled fury. The
fat was in the fire.
1t is interesting that at one
point, before the President hac
decided to 60 the whole hog, a
compromise suggestion was Of
tered by the former O.P.A. exc
cutives, James Brownlee, Henry
Hart, and Richard Fields whom
Commerce Secretary Hartman
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do something to heal a oaHs ~,
Gus breach. 1t is a breacn cn,,or,l
ated by the collision OF !;ts sT' N,
million citizen-soldiers witt, n, M
necessities - and some .. AZ
superfluities - of mlll'sty ! II.
tfloritarianism, and by 'ns n'-se.
ability of a good many &C. CART, n.
officers to understand 'ns
zen-soldier's reaction T. ,oon
Despite the battle Of ~, tns sls.
over the Battle OF tile = mss
Omar Bradley's status as oa,irei
ter soldier seenns urlll+ a+e than
And, perhaps even NOR 0rrssnsa.
his retiring chief, ne ls, n.etssorf
outside the "brass hat ca' -; d
ha't in the eyes OF veterans raannss.st.pt.. ~
the services. Quiet, unpl ip,elrsonJ
Gus, Gus abstemious in his .l'1I pT5srr ssa,r
habits, democratic, ne s',l' '.,lI'"-tt.
iiis HES as the "G1's Genera me al src,
kind of man who should oG a. n t,tt
to bring Americans sl1p s1p an,
most numerous n'ili'adifi lSdine ard
back on more understanolDS
sympathetic terms
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-26

postcards in an intelligence Of
flee. They had been written in
pencil and were addressed to the
folks at home. Mrs. MacD. got
the idea of erasing the messages
and substituting things like,
"Where are the supplies from
home? We starve in the
jungles." Or, "Don't ever tell
our son I die for lost cause !"
Another of her forgeries was
a fake order from the japanese
high command to all Jap troops,
resembling the old no-surrender
policy and authorizing the men
to give themselves up when they
were outnunbered, too ill
to fight, or out of ammunition.
Not everything worked til a t
slick, of course. One caref u ! y
thought-up OSS stunt was to print
a lot of Jap railroad passes with
a circular telling city people to
go to the country because of the
danger of U. S. bombs. The only
trouble was that the circulars
had been printed in Washington
on American bond paper which
when held to the light revealed
a great big screaming American
eagle watermark.
Then there was a Mr.. Erp who
knew that all Japs were afraid
of foxes. He proposed that U. S.
submarines release phosphores-
cent foxes in Jap waters. He
said the animals would swim
ashore and panic the populace.
This experiment was tried in
Long Island sound. The + o xe S
promptly headed for sea and
were never seen again.
"Undercover Girl" isn't all
about Mrs. Macdonald. Much of
it is a tribute to the heroincs
and the heroea of OsS who op-
Grated underground all over the
world. With becoming modesty,
Elizabeth says S h e was never
cut out to be "femme fatale"
because she never learned to
keep her cover, how to keep a
secret, how to tell a lie with a
straight face and stick to it un-
der torture.
Just the same, they taught her
how to shoot Tommy gun, how
to put knockout drops in a mans
beer, how to use an OSS de-
veloped perfume called ''Wh o,
Me?" It smelled worse than
skunk and the idea was to get
it splashed on some enemy big
shot 50 he'd have to 60 home
and stay there two weeks until
it wore off.
The question all this raises is
whether women who know these
things should now be allowed at
large.
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ha. already stopped his pension and taken
awav his Distinguished Service medal ano
,eeion of Merit, awarded after his retire
ment.
# is a strange coincidence that the Mey-
ers case is a by-product of the federal IN
quixy into the war actlvltles Oh .1ow d ~
Hughes, millionaire airplane manu1ac!uIel i, !
and moving picture producer, which failed
to disclose actual misconduct on Hughes
part.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-11-26
GOOD MORNING

The rapture Of pursuing is the prize
the vanquished gain. -LongfellOw.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-10-10
u. and Britoin
Hold Secret Talks

CONTINUED from Page One)
Goldman, president of B'nai Birth
on behalf of the 100000 members
of the organization. The appeal
also asked that American ships
be made available for the trans
portation of displaced Jews from
Europe to Palestine.
Philip Murray, president of the
CLIO, and William Green, AFL
president, have informed President
Truman that the American labor
movement IS sOIidly behind the re-
concentrations of the UNSCOP
majority and urged that the U. S..
Government support the majority
proposals within the shortest pos
sible time, according to an an
nOuncement by the Jewish Labor
Committee.
Green notified Mr.. Truman of
the interest of the AFL in a solu-
ton of the Palestine problem, re-
ferring to resolution adopted at
various Federation conventions on
this point. Murray, who told the
President that the CLIO considers
the UNSCOP proposals the most
satisfactory available, declared
that if the U. S. supports them
the British Government will fall
in line.
The Southern Jewish weekly. [volume] (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1939-1992, 1947-10-10

Since most of the Jews who
settled in this major South Amer
lean country before the first World
War were from Russia, the Argen-
tinians referred to them as
'Russos" and did not treat them
differently from other newcomers.
Besides, immigrants were needed
to open up the frontiers of the
vast land and the upper strata of
business, commerce and industry
did not fear competition from the
poor immigrant Jews.
However, after the Soviet Rev.
OlutiOn, and the subsequent invas-
ion of that country by numerous
national armies, a great deal of
anti-Russian propaganda found its
way into the press. 1t was par
ticularly aggravated by an attack
on the Argentine Ambassador in
Moscow. The repercussiOns of the
anti-Russian sentiment were al
most Immediately felt by the Jews,
who were associated with the Rus
SLAMS in the public mind.
The first pogrom in the country
occurred in Buenos Aires in jan
uary 1919 and a number of Jews
were killed and many wounded.
The attacks, which lasted a full
week, were led by anti-Semites
who had by this time organized
themselves into patriotic legions"
and had exploited the anti-Russian
situation to the detriment of the
Jews.
In the years between the two
World Wars the anti-Semitic
movement spread, usually among
the petit bOurgeoisie, many of
whom were themselves immigrants
from fascist Italy and Spain where
the anti-Semitic tradition was
centuries old. In the professions,
which the Jews entered in large
numbers, the economic COMPETE
ton was becoming keen and the
nOn-Jews turned to anti-Semitism
as a weapon of economic warfare.
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Anti Semitic Movement in Argentina

eral months ago. However, as
soon as the spotlight of publicity
is removed from the official he is
usually reinstated or given new
position. Recently Velasco was
appointed military inspector for
his native province of Corrientes.
The treatment accorded the Ali
ANA by the PerOn regime is not
uncharacteristic of Argentine poll
tics. 1t was used by President
Castillo Immediately after Pearl
Harbor to hold street demOnstra-
tons in support of his policy OF
neutrality" to convince the pub
lie, in Argentina and out, that the
people really backed his policy.
In 1914 President Farrell used 1t
as window dressing for his anti
American policy. In the latest
election in 1916, they were used
to terrorize not only the Jews but
also the Socialists, Communists
and all democratic anit-PerOn
forces.
One of the anti-Semitic forces,
the lunatic, racist press, however,
has shown a definite decline within
recent months. Several have closed
because of a lack of funds
lush days when Nazi monies were
literally flowing into Buenos Aires
are gone, and other anti-Jewish
sources are more niggardly and
tend to concentrate their contri-
buttons around the AlianZa. "Tri-
buna," long one of the major anti
Jewish newspapers in Latin Amer
lea was closed recently during the
suppression of the open Nazis in
and around the government.
The only anti-Jewish daily in
existence now is "FrOnda,"s with
about 1000 subscribers. Besides
"Alianza," organ of the AlianZa,
there are two other anti-Semitic
weeklies still in operation.
The liberal press, which in prin-
ciple is opposed to the anti
Semitic press, tends to con-
slider it unimportant and devotes
little attention to it. But the Com
munist press and the Independent
argentina Libre" have repeatedly
demanded its complete suppress
sion.