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Evening star., 1947-03-16
Release Of U. 5. Wheat
Urged by Grain Men
To Halt Rising Prices
BY the Assoeiofed Press

CHICAGO, Mar. 15.-Release by
the Government of some OF its
wheat supplies would be a more eff
fective method OF restraining ad-
vancing wheat prices than raising
margins on grain futures transac-
tions, grain men suggested here to-
day.
Wheat on the Board of Trade rose
to a new 30-year high and corn sold
at the best levels since 1920. The
action followed yesterdays request
of the Commodity Exchange Admin
istration that margins on speculative
grain transactions be raised to 70
per cent of market value.
High on wheat was $2.89a4 a
bushel and on corn $1.7414. Both
peaks were established by March de-
liveries.
c. M. Calvin, crop analyst for
James E. Bennett and Co., said that
if the Government would loan some
of it's wheat to mills "this would
make it possible for millers to con-
tinue grinding at a capacity rate
without disturbing cash markets"
Secretary of Agriculture Ander-
son said in Washington he does not
"see how it would help" if the Gov
ernment releases some of its grain
stocks as suggested in Chicago trade
circles.
I'VE would just have to move
back into the market and buy
more" Mr.. Anderson told report
er who informed him of the Chicago
proposals.
1--WE don't have any more grain
than we need for our present ship
ping program"
Grain men attributed soaring
prices to mills and other COM
mercial interests, which they said
had contracted to sell flour and
wheat to the Government and were
bidding to obtain the grain in both
cash and futures markets.
Richard Uhlmann, first vice presi-
dent of the board, said there would
not be any semblance of scarcity OF
wheat, and probably not nearly the
present high price level, except for
the fact that the Government is
pushing exports to the limit OF
transportation facilities"
In addition to buying, Ed Boerner
of Harris, Upham and Co. said the
advance had been caused by per
sistent advertising on the part of
Government officials of the quantity
of wheat they will need to send
abroad, which has caused owners
of the grain in the country to hold
back offering it."
Royal Bell of Lamson Brothers
said raising margins would quiet
the market, but also would narrow
it to the detriment of millers."
"The number of sellers would be
reduced as well as the number OF
buyers" Mr.. Bell said, "and when
mills came in to buy they would find
few grain futures contracts for sale
This might cause even wider fluc-
tuations than we have had over
recent weeks"
While grain men placed the re-
sponsibility of advancing prices on
Government exports, none ex-
pressed any determined opposition
to complying with the higher-mar-
gin request. Directors will meet
next week to discuss the matter.
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Report on NeWsprinf Stocks
Shows Still Further Drop
By the Asseeia.ed Press

bS me ASSoStQte0 FTe3S
NEW YORK, Mar. 15.-Daily
newspapers reporting to the Ameri-
can Publishers Association had
stocks of newsprint in transit and OH
hand representing 80 days supply
at the end of February, decrease
of four days compared with the end
of January. There were IS days
supply at the end of February, 1916.
Because of the bad transportation
situation for newsprint, especially in
Canada, 1t is emphasized that stocks
of newsprint reported by member
papers include considerable tonnage
in transit and not in the city of pub
lication at the end of the month"
the association said.
Daily newspapers reporting to the
ANPA consumed 258,424 tons of
newsprint in February, compared
with 3,244 in February, 1916.
Evening star., 1947-03-16

States Army plane missing with
three men since Thursday. The
plane was on flight from Cape
Harrison, on the Labrador coast
$50 miles northeast of here, to
Goose Bay.
The plane carried a pilot and two
crewmen. Their names were not
Immediately available.
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Clark to Get Degree
BY the Associated Press

LUBBOCK, Tex, Mar. 15.-United
States Attorney General Clark will
receive an honorary doctor of laws
degree at the 21st annual commence
ment of Texas archaeological College
here June 2, President w. M. Why
burn said today.
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Ten Passengers Injured
As 2 Trains Collide
By the Associated Press

SPRINGFIELD, Mass, Mar. 15-
A Boston and Maine passenger train
plowed into a standing freight en-
gine tonight in the Brightwood
Yards, and between 10 and IS of the
68 passengers on the former reported
injuries.
A railroad spokesman said the
freight engine had stopped to pick
up some crew members and that the
three-car passenger train, running
from Springfield to Holyoke, crashed
into 1t.
Evening star., 1947-03-16
Weather HuIts Hunt
For Missing Plane
BY the Associafed Press

GOOSE BAY, Labrador, March Is.
"A low ceiling and driving snow
halted the air search for a United
Arizona sun., 1947-04-25

relieves them of any gr .. S
resulting from the combined dis
abilities. Thus job discrimination
against handicapped workers is
minimized and the injured worker
gets full compensation.
A second injury fund bill, drafted
and approved by the International
Association of Industrial Accident
Boards and Commissions, may be
obtained from the Division of La
bor Standards. That Division points
out that an effective law should
apply regardless of how the first
injury occurred, in combat, in in
dustry or otherwise. It should
cover permanent total disability re-
sulting from a second injury thru
the loss of hand, an arm, foot,
a leg, or an eye following pre-
vious loss of one of those members
or organs. A second-injury fund
should be set UP, supported by pay
ments of at least $500 by an en-
ployer or insurer in the case of
death of an employee having no de-
pendentS. The law also should re-
quire the employer to pay COM
pensation for the second injury.
The excess cost of both injuries
combined should be paid by the
second-injury fund.
Arizona sun., 1947-04-25
CRACK NEGRO M. p. UNIT GUARDS
9TH ARMY HEADQUARTERS IN JAPAN

With the 9Th Anry, Yokohama,
Japan.-A caefully selected group
of Negro MPs stand guard over
Lieutenant General Robert L.. Eli
chelberger's 9Th Army Headquar-
terS at the Customs Building, nerve
center of all occupation force op-
'erations in Japan. 4.
Commanded since last December
81 by Captain Robert C. Remley,
Russellville, Missouri, who wears
the Bronze Star, Croix de Guerre
and five battle stars for his service
in the ETO, the 212th Military Po-
lice Company has established it.
self as an efficient and courteous
unit. It's 200 members represent
natives of % States and Puerto
Rico.
Assisting Captain Remley in the
operation of the unit are First
Lieutenants Frank E. York, Oak
land, California; Charles F. Herb,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Doyle
w. Mills, Washington, Pennsyl-
vania and Nobiling Emerit of Ke-
vance, Ill.
The 212th was activated last
May 3, and since that time has
Arizona sun., 1947-04-25
Neuro GI's Al Wheeler Field Learn Wire
Techniques OF Telephone Companies

Wheeler Field, Hawaii. = Per-
sonnel of Wheeler Fields 472nd
Signal Heavy Construction Com
pany are being thoroughly ground
ed in methods of pole-setting and
the stringing of open-wire line sim
liar to the techniques with which
commercial telephone companies
install their permanent telephone
lines. The GIs are also learning
to install semi-permanent cable
lines, using trees and stumps as
pinion points and are being versed
in the use of field wire" usually
laid by the communication sections
of combat organizations.
Including both practice and
theory, the course of instruction
lasts ten weeks. Among the ma
ior problems which are met by the
trainees is that of pole-climbing
According to Staff Sergeant Chas.
E. King, Springfield, Illinois, one
of the unit instructors, almost
everyone has a fear of height at
the outset, and unless man can
overcome this fear, he is elimi-
mated at the start"
Experience has shown that al
most without exception the trainee
taught to climb high poles at the
outset is able to complete the
course. Of the men who were
taught the use of climbing spurs
on short poles statistics reveal that
an average of II out of SIS, approx
Arizona sun., 1947-04-25

imately 2 per cent, failed to over
come the fear of height when
faced with the necessity of work.
ing on high poles at an advanced
stage of their training. Two weeks
are required to teach the proper
method of climbing and to wean
the student away from the habit
of hugging the pole instead of
insuring safety by leaning out and
back from the pole to set the spurs
at the deepest possible angle. Two
platoons of trained men, upon COM
Dletion of their course, are able to
set five to eight miles of two cir
cult Open-fire in a day.
The training program is built
around a nucleus of nine enlisted
instructors who in addition to
training at the Army Signal Corps
schools at Camp Crowder, Mis-
souri,, and Fort Monmouth, New
Jersey, possess invaluable combat
experience, won in all theaters OF
World War III.
Arizona sun., 1947-04-25
Picked Company Of
Parachute Troops
Give Demonstration

Fayetteville, North Carolina
Troopers of the 555th Parachuts
Infantry Battalion displayed Air
borne equipment before the stu
dents of Fayetteville State Teach
ers College April 9. The demon
stration, a part of the nationwide
Army Week celebration, was given
by a picked company of the best
trained men in the battalion. The
company was commanded by Cap
tain Edward D. Baker of East
Chicago, Indiana. Captain Joseph
Gates of New York City, recently
appointed battalion commander,
supervised the display.
The first demonstration was
Of the preparatory phase of COM
bat jump. The next was of the
mess phase, followed by a close
order drill demonstration given by
the crack 555th drill platoon.
Students were also shown combat
communications and gun drill,
which included the 80 cal. machine
gun, so nm. mortar, and the 81
nm. recoilleSS rifle.
Arizona sun., 1947-04-25
NATIONAL PUBLIC
HEALTH OBSERVED
ALL This WEEK

This week, National P bile
Health Nursing Week in Marico-
pa County, is being observed, began
last Sunday with special programs
on information regarding services
being rendered in the community.
The purpose of Public Health
Nursing Week is to increase un-
derstanding of the fact that much
needless sickness and suffering can
be prevented or reduced by using
public health nursing services; to
promote greater understanding of
public health nursing as a service
for everybody regardless of race
or size of income; to encourage
development of public health nurs-
ing services in communities now
lacking such services; to recruit
more public health nurses; to in
crease citizen participation in and
support of public health nursing
services; to mark the 10th ami
versary of public health nursing
in the United States; and to OBJ
serve the 35th anniversary of the
organization.
Mrs. Melba Cox Dunning, acting
supervising nurse of the Maricopa
County Health Unit stated, the
general public is not aware of ad-
vantages offered by the nursing
services.
Public Health Nursing Week is
sponsored by the National Organi-
zation for Public ealthH Nursing
in cooperation with the U. S. Pub
lie Health Service, other national
groups Maricopa County Health
Unit, Organizations for Public
Health Nursing and many other
community groups interested in
health.
Maricopa County public health
nur services include county
health public nurses, under the
direction of Paul w. McCracken,
MD; City of Phoenix public
health nurses, school public health
nurses, and the visiting nurse ser
vice.
Arizona sun., 1947-04-25
selfish INTERESTS
RAPED BY WAGNER
OUT TO GET LABOR

Chicago. = Punitive labor legis-
lation, and the selfish forces"
which sponsor such bills, were
soundly condemned by Senator
Robert F. Wagner of New York,
author of "Labor's Magma Carta"
the National Labor Relations
Act-at a ceremony which saw
him presented with the fourth an
nual Pope Leo XIII award of the
Shell School of Social Studies here.
The award, honoring the men,
ory of the Pontiff who wrote the
encyclical 1.-THE Condition of La
Dor" and other social pronounce
ments, was presented by the Most
Rev. Bernard j. She'll, Senior Aux
iliary Bishop of Chicago and founx
der-sponsor of the four-year-old
Adult Education School.
The citation reviewed the Sena-
tors career from his investigation
of the 1911 Triangle fire to his
sponsorship of long-term housing
legislation.
It said the Senator was being
honored "for his dedication to the
cause of working people and for
his unselfish devotion to the task
of reconstructing the social order
in the interest of the common
good"
Senator Wagner, who became a
Roman Catholic last year, accept
ed the honor "as a souvenir of my
responsibility for the work that
remains to be DONE"
Bishop Shell declared that "the
legal guarantees established by
such great legislation as the Wag-
ner Act must be preserved if we
are to continue our march toward
economic democracy"
Loss of the past Is years prog
ress toward social justice" in "the
hysteria of a moment" would be
tragic" he held.
Senator Wagner read excerpts
from Pope Leo Kills writings,
and declared that, while many of
the social objectives envisaged
there had been achieved, 1--WE are
SJi1 De1HS put To ttic eSSL.
Stunning "smug contentment,"
he described as still unsolved prob
lens the extent of social security
coverage, protection of the worker
from cyclical depressions, "the dis
astrous consequences to the indi-
vidual of sudden misfortune neces-
stating medical care" the un-
availability of enough decent hous-
ing, racial and religious intoler-
ance and political discrimination.
"At the same time we see many
of our social gains threatened"
he went on. Selfish forces have
seized upon this time of confusion
to increase their power and wealth
at the expense of the laborer."
Arizona sun., 1947-04-25
SECOND INJURY
FUNDS Mean JOBS
FOR HANDICAPPED

Thirty-three States have encour-
aged the employment of disabled
persons, including handicapped vet
Grams of World War II, by estab-
fishing second-injury u n d in
workmen's compensation laws, 20
of the 33 have set up such funds
since 1910, according to the Divi-
sion of Labor Standards, U. S. De-
partment of Labor.
The U. S. Employment Service
reports that 250,0O0 disabled citi-
zens today are seeking jobs, yet
even in a short labor market many
employers hesitate to hire the
handicapped for fear they will suf-
fer another injury, become totally
and permanently crippled, and cost
those employers increased work
mems compensation.
Under second-injury provisions
employers pay compensation only
for second injuries. while the fund
Arizona sun., 1947-04-25
TRAINING OF NEGRO RECRUITS GATHERS
MOMENTUM AT Fl. DIX, new JERSEY

Washington, D. c. - Col. Harry
B. Emigh, Augusta, Georgia, COM
manding officer of the 5th Training
Regiment currently stationed at
Fort Dix, New Jersey, stated last
week that training being given by
units of the 5th Regiment OF Me-
gro recruits was moving along at a
satisfactory pace. Colonel Emigh
said that the Regiment will reach
a future complement of approx
mately 1900 trainees. Two hun
dred recruits are now receiving
training with the Regiments 101st
Training Battalion, recently ar
rived at Fort Dix from Fort jack
son, South Carolina.
-Four units of the 5th Regiment
are presently stationed at Fort
Dix. They are the Regimental
Headquarters Detachment, the 101
Training Battalion, a Casual Com
pany, and the 173rd Army Ground
Forces Band. The 102nd Training
Arizona sun., 1947-04-25

Battalion, formerly an integral
part of the regiment when it was
stationed at Fort Jackson, South
Carolina, is now at Fort Knox,
Kentucky. The 103rd Training
Battalion is stationed at Ft. jack
son, and is engaged in finishing
the training of a group of troops.
Colonel Emigh expressed the be-
lief that the unit will complete
the training of it's recruits and
ioin the regiment at Fort Dix be-
fore the end of April.
The 1O1st Training Battalion is
engaged in the initial phases of
training it's first assignment of 200
recruits received less than three
weeks ago. Commanded by Ma
ior James D. Fowler, Washington,
D. c., a graduate of the Military
Academy at West Point, the bat
talon is stated with compile
ment of 26 officers, all of whom
are Negroes.
Arizona sun., 1947-04-25
Veteran Officer To
Return To States For
His Reassiqnnlenf

With The Eight Army, Yokoh-
anna, Japan - Major Joseph A.
Holmes, 1910 Druid Hill Avenue,
Baltimore, Maryland, was sched-
uled to leave Yokohama last week
aboard the United States Army
Transport General Hahn enrouts
to the States for reassignment.
Major Holmes has completed two
years of overseas service.
The first field grade officer to
be assigned to occupation forces
in Japan, Major Holmes is a vet
eran of World War I during which
he served in Washington, D. c.
with the Howard University Stu
denst Army Training Corps as a
private. A graduate of Baltimore's
Douglass High School and holder
of a Bachelor of Science degree in
Biology from Howard University,
he was subsequently attached to
the 372nd Infantry, Maryland Nat
ional Guard and to the 428th In
fantry Regiment, Reserve Corps.
Called to active duty in July,
1941, Major Holmes served with
the 372nd Infantry at Fort Dix,
New Jersey, as Plans and Train
ing Officer. He departed the Con-
tinent in July, 1916 for his second
tour of overseas service, at which
time he was assigned to duty with
occupation forces in Japan.
Arizona sun., 1947-04-25
Last Rites Held For
Mrs. Frances Harris

Funeral services were held We'd
nesday at the West Side ME.
Church for Mrs. Frances Harris
who died last week at the home of
her brother, Mr.. Allen Holmes,
1927 w. Grant st.
Mrs Harris came to Phoenix five
years ago from McCloud, Miss, to
live with her brother and three
weeks ago was stricken with pneu-
monia which caused her death.
She is survived by three broth
ers, Allen, Benny, and Rev. VIM.
Holmes; one sister, Mrs. Jessie
Kenny of Mississippi.
Rev. M. Thompson officiated at
the service.
Arizona sun., 1947-04-25

The best way to answer the
anti-labor propagandists it to pat
ronize only firms that display the
Union Label, Shop Card, or Service
Button!
Arizona sun., 1947-04-25
II. s. Cancellation
Service Kept Busy

Settlement of 191 industrial dis
putes in the month of March in
eleven western states and Alaska
was reported today by Earnest P.
Marsh, U. S. Cancellation Service
Regional Director. The Concilia-
ton Service handled 231 assign
ments during the month. Pending
cases, however, total 1862. Concilia-
tion Commissioners handled ap-
proximately cases per man per
month, said Director Marsh.
Assignments to cases took a
sharp rise last October in the
western region, going over the 200
mark. For the first three months
of 1947, there have been CTS as
signments of commissioners with
518 settlements.
Up to April 8, the total number
of assignments in this month were
SIS.
Nine cases were handled in Ari-
zona.
Arizona sun., 1947-04-25

been keeping order in central Yo-
kohama. Eight motor patrols are
dispatched daily from the 212th to
check violations of traffic regula-
tionS.
In addition to the guard details
at Eighth Army headquarters and
at the Information and Education
Building (formerly the Yokohama
Base Headquarters) the 212th
makes routine checks of japanese
cabarets and off-limit areas to in
sure that current directives are
being complied with.
Arizona sun., 1947-04-25

BE SURE TO READ
'THE PEOPLE SPEAK"
ON PAGE FIVE
Arizona sun., 1947-04-25
Ignore Anti-Closed Shop
Laws, Advises Green

UniOniSts are advised by ALL.
President william Green to
ignore state legislation against
the closed shop until it has been
ruled upon by the US. supreme
court.
Promising that the A. F. L.
would challenge the validity of
the laws, Green told the 10th
convention Of the Brotherhood
of Paper Makers: 1.-THE supreme
court already has upheld the
closed shop and will again SO
decide"
To illustrate the impOSsibility
of enforcing such laws, Green
said: I'm an old coal miner and
I found as q coal miner that
there isn't any power on earth
that can compel q union coal
miner to work with a scab."
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-08
TOBACCO REQUIRES
LOT OF HARD WORK

RALEIGH. July 7-R-Tobacco
requires more than half of the
total crop hours devoted to North
Carolina crops although it is ex-
ceeded in acreage by several
crops, it was revealed in a sur
vey reported today by the Fed
eral-State crop reporting service.
The report explained that tobac-
co requires more work per acre
than any other crop. Farmers in
Nor:h Carolina harvest almost
twice as many acres and pounds
of tobacco than those of any other
state.
Labor requirements for wheat
and cotton have increased since
1889 because of greater yields on
additional acres, but labor for
corn and tobacco went down, de
spite a higher yield, because of
sharply decreased acreage.
Labor requirements for all farm
work in North Carolina decreased
slightly from 1899 to 1914. Re
quirements. for crops dropped five
per cent, while those for live
stock increased almost a fifth be-
cause Of the higher livestock popu-
lations.
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-08
Rv CARL CAHILL
star Staff Writer

c.ock and egg without bursting
"olk or smash a bar of steel
Ito a3S paper thinness:
huge steam hammer at the At
liz Coast Line shops will do
Ia nor under the skilled hands
s1 L. (Tommy) Atkins, black
@;+h who sometimes shoes
SUES but never a horse.
urbne the hammer is IN good
wing condition, Atkins can tap
lui1 Ijobfly against the die, which
N~.resnonds to an anvil, or bring
down hard enough to make the
rounding earth tremble.
C,mpared to some of the really
.;e steam hammers of the ACL nj
W wa Ca, the machine here
inst a "tackhammer'', Atkins
I'd Yesterday in the blacksmith
hon But it is some indication of
.hs huge and powerful equipment
need by the railroads in keeping
.heir locomotives and trains run
Tbe hammer is only one of three
h;o pieces Of equipment which
have the strength of Atlas. At
Eins also operates a pair of shears
which can cut three-qua-ters of
an inch cold steel as easily as you
Ar | can clip a coupon. And there
i, an air press that'u put a
crease in your trousers or a piece
of sheet steel.
Steam for a hammer, which
,ooks like a large micrometer, is
Generated in an adjacent room.
Two levels control all the move
ments of the pounding die, which is
mounted on the end of a piston.
The piston has a stroke of 10
inches and is moved up and down
Nv one lever. The other level con-
trolls the amount of steam admitted
to the cylinder.
The whole outfit. weighs several
tons and the anvil is sunk about
two feet nj the ground on a solid
foundation to keep the hammer
from driving it deeper in the earth.
The hammer, when working,
moves up and down faster than a
carpenter can swing his hammer
On a three-penny nail.
The larger ones in Waycross are
The Wilmington morning star., 1947-07-08
pfowess Of Steam Hammer
Awes Inspecting Scribe

high as the roof of most one story
buildings and r so strong they
can smash pieces of metal that
weigh more than a ton. The one
here is several feet taller than a
mans head.
The scissors, Atkins, who has
been at the shops almost Is years.
explained, have blades only a lit
tie longer than a large pair of
paper shears. But the rest of the
machine, powered by an electric
motor, is almost as big as an az
tomoblle and also weighs several
tons. 1t SHIPS three-quarter sheel
steel and has cut larger thick.
nesses.
And the blades have to be
sharpened only occasionally. he
said. When they bite into a piece
OF spring steel they are dulled
some, the blacksmith said.
The press is operated by air.
Two cylinders on each side of the
gulllotine-looking affair, supply
tne power which can bend thick
pieces of metal. Air, pressured to
w pounds per square inch, pushes
the object which would correspond
to the blade of the French execu.
ton instrument, down on it's base.
bending tn metal which is being
worked.
While Atkins doesn't compete
with the "Village Smithy'', he can
do the same work, and better than
the guy who stood under the
"spreading chestnut tree"
He car even run Vulcan. who
forged for the gods weapons of
war, a close race.