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FILIBUSTER EFFECTIVE. Washington—A Southern Democratic filibuster against a Fair Employment Bill today practically killed any chance of early Senate action on strike-prevention legislation. The anti^FEPC filibuster kept Sen. James 0. Eastland, D., Miss., from getting a vote on a motion to discharge the Labor Committee from consideration of the factfinding measure proposed by President Truman to prevent strikes. Eastland wanted to bring the labor b-ill to the Senate floor. PLANE RUNS WILD. New York—A small, radio-con-trolled pilotless plane was running wild today off Cape May, N- 4., and residents of Long Island were warned by police to expect it to crash somewhere on Long Island within a short time. o NAZI THfE ME REVEALED. Nuernberg—The French prosecution charged before the War Crimes Court today that a keystone of Nazi slave labor policy was “extermination by work” to weaken the human potential of the occupied countries. Jacque Bernar Herzog of the persecution reported a Nazi administrative meeting in September, 1942, at which Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels advocated working slave laborers to death as the best way to extemvinate unwanted people sand categories. o DIME BEARS LIKENESS. Washington— The first dims bearing the portrait of the late President Roosevelt will be turned out today at the U. S. mint. The coin will be part of the President Series, including the Lincoln penny, Washington quarter and Jefferson nickel.

STEEL STRIKE MONDAYWashington, — President Philip Murray of the United Steelworkears (CIO) asserted that a nationwide steel strike “must take place” at 12:01 a. m. Monday because 4J. S. Steel Corp. rejected President Truman’s wage settlement plan. ——o—— BLACK MARKETS ACTIVE. 'Chicago—An OPA official said today that wartime black market meat operators were preparing to harvest new profits from the na-tion-wide packinghouse workers’ strike. Eastern buyers are buying most of the available livestock oh the Chicago market at prices as much as $4 above the average paid by local dealers, Homer Clay, chief district OPA enforcement attorney, saidHe said a 50-car squad of OPA Investigators was patrolling the six-county Chicago area and already had found several restaurant coolers well stocked with meat.

MEAT STRIKE IN 3RD DAY. Washington — Government labor experts resumed their efforts today to end a 'walkout of nearly 300,000 CIO and AFL meat workers. The strike, now in its third day, has cut off the flow of practically all meat from packinghouses to consumers with the exception of emergency supplies for hospitals and similar institutions. 'Uniorr and meat industry representatives were called to meet with Dr. Edwin E- Witte, chairman of the government’s new Packinghouse Fact-Finding Panel, to discuss the next step in the wage dispute.

DEMANDS LEGISLATION. Washington — The Army and Navy Bulletin, an unofficial service publication, is demanding the resignation of Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson. The publication said editorially that Patterson should be replaced by someone who understands current military problems, including the clamor for demobilization.

Mrs. Roosevelt Given Welcome ■W(hen Uncle Sam’s delegation to the United Nations Conference reached London, the distinguished statesmen were ignored,, while the crowds almost mobbed the only woman member, Eleanor Roosevelt widow of the war President. She finally had to make a precipitous retreat to her room-

Democratic Organization Meeting Set For Jan. 19th

Democrats of Delaware County Will Lay Ground Work for Primary Election On May 7 — Democrats Will Win If They Nominate Good and Deserving People To Fill Their Tticket — Chairman Oscar Shively Urges Attendance of All Precinct Committeemen, Vice Chairmen, Candidates and Workers.

Saturday night- January 19, 1946 in the Circuit Court room at the Court House (Delaware Co.,) a Democratic organization meeting will be held. The principle purpose of this meeting is to set the ground work for the party machinery in preparation for work in the primary campaign. The Primary Election

will be held May 7, 1946.

This will be a very important . meeting. Oscar Shively, the party’s ' chairman for Delaware County is | urging the attendance of all precinct committeemen and their vice-1 committeemen, all candidates, all / office holders, and all those interested in the success of the party at

the polls.

A Democrat voter who is inclined to feel a certain amount of apathy toward the success of his party at the next election is laboring under a false apprehension. It goes without saying the party cannot hope to win next November if it fails to nominate good deserving candidates to fill their ticket next May. This is especially true as it applies to the men or women who will he on the ticket as our representatives to the state legislature, also our members of the Congress of the United States. The party won a sweeping victory last election and there is no

than the best year, 1944. After

legitimate reason ^why. it CQuldn’t-Lmtie-ys for uth*! coSTV ■

be repeated this year.

Delaware County Democrats are pretty well in accord. In fact there is little or no dissension apparent within the party’s ranks. On the other hand there seems to be plenty of party division in the

ranks of the local G.O.P.

A Democratic Victory at the polls next November, depends on two things: first, that men are on the ticket whom the party can all get

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Surplus Goods For Boy Scouts The Boy Scouts of America are now given the opportunity to purchase more than one million dollars worth of Army surplus sleeping bags and two-man mountain tents, which originally cost the Armed Forces $1,263,000 the Surplus Property Division-Consumer Goods of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation announced today. This offer is made in accordance with the provisions of the Surplus Property Act under which boy scout councils are classified as nonprofit institutions, and as such are entitled to purchase surplus property at wholesale prices at a

special priority.

Listed in the sale are 66,000 new sleeping bags and cases, and 52,500 new and 13,000 used nylon and cotton tents. The sleeping bags include 11,557 mountain type, 40, 000 arctic type and 7,664 wool blanket type. More than 9,000 liners and 7,000 sleeping bag cases are also a part of the sales offer. The two-man tent, especially designed by the military for use in the Alps, is 54 by 82 inches in size with a height of 43 inches, and is both fire and wet proofed. Boy scout councils in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and West Virginia are directed to send their, orders to the Surplus Propety Division-Con-sumer Goods, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, 704 Race Street, Cincinnati, 1, Ohio. Rowland D. Schell, Director of Region IV, which covers the four state area, indicated that further sales of recreation equipment to the boy scouts migh be announced

shortly.

GOOD PAY AIDS THE FARMERS

Fat Pay Checks Are Only Salvation To The Farmers

Fat pay checks for workers are the ynly salvation for the farmers of this country, said Secretary of Agriculture Anderson recently. He pointed out that the American farmer starts the new year leaving behind him the most prasperous 12 months in history. His gross income for 1945 hit $24 million that was $745,500,000 greater

of production were subtracted, the net farm income, before taxes, was $13,050,000,000. This also is larger than ever before. Why were the farmers unusually prosperous last year? Because, industrial and other city workers generally were fully employed and earning higher-than-ordinary wages. They spent more than 30 billion dollars for food, a third of their

entire outlay.

“Contrast that with 1933, when they had only 111 1-2 billions for food — and after the middleman took his toll, there was mighty little left for the farmer.” And what of next y-ear and the years immediately ahead? The farmers’ prosperity will depend upon full employment, and upon the development of foreign trade, which again means booming industry, as well as world food markets. For two years following the formal declaration of peace, farmers, by legislation, are guaranteed 90 per cent parity on the bulk of their crops, and 92 1J2 per cent of the parity price of cottonBut this will not help if consumption declines and farmers are unable to market their products. And even with the price guarantee, if the national income should drop clue to widespread unemployment, agriculture department officials see a possibility that farming might start on a downward spiral similar to that which followed World War I. At that time; from 1919 to 1W1, average farm income shrank from $1,3>60 to $4i65; and in the next five years 453,005 farmers lost their land through mortgage foreclosure. The surest safeguard against another crash for agriculture, Anderson says, is full production and full employment. “'Farmers can write their own ticket in the kind of farming they develop. If they want to plant only wheat and potatoes, that’s the easiest thing in the world to do. Just have widespread unemployment and there would be little doubt we’d be heading ^for a wheat and potato economy. The results would be hard on the markets for fat steers from the corn belt, dairy products from the Great Lake, states and citrus fruits from Cali fornia and Florida. If farmers want people to eat lots of meat, milk, (Continued On Page Four)

Nightmare Voyage with Murder. From the Very Moment That the Tiny and Vivacious Lucia Boarded the Freighter Kingsway, Disaster Stauck and then Followed One of the Weirdest Sea Voyages Ever Recorded. Peter Levins Tells About It in The American Weekly, the Magazine Distributed With Next Week’s CHICAGO SUNDAY HER-ALD-AM ERICAN.

The Southern California Valencia orange crop for 1945 was the largest on record—75,000 cars.

HALLECK ALS.0 HAS AMBITIONS Charles A. Halleck, old line Republican who for a good many years has been sent to congress by the Conservatives of the Second district, as well as GOP Governor Ralph F. Gates, has an eye on the vice presidency, it is said. But it is believed that Gates holds the winning hand, for he has control of the state machine, and the delegates whom the machine will select for the State GOP Convention. Halleck also has been repeatedly mentioned as a possible successor to Herbert Brownell, Jr., as Chairman of the Republican National Committee. Brownell has not indicated he has any notion of relinquishing this post, himself; but if he should, Halleck should be an ideal man (from the GOP point of view) to succeed him. For if there is a man in the country who is even more reactionary than Brownell, that man is Halleck—as has been demonstrated through all his years in Congress, both in his speeches, his committee work, and his votes as recorded in the^pages of the Congressional Record.

U. S. STEEL GO. REFOSES PLAN Truman’s Efforts To Settle Steel Crisis Hits Snag ’Washington, Jan. 18.—^Presideijt Truman’s effort to ease the nation’s labor crisis ran into a snag today when U. S- Steel refused to accept the President’s, plan for settling the steel wage dispute. Earlier the CIO United Steel Workers Union had accepted the proposal to end the deadlock with a pay increase of 18 1- cents an

hour.

Administration leaders had hoped to break the coast-tocast strike jam by ending the steel wage dis-

pute.

The U. S. Steel refusal to accept the wage peace plan was contained in a letter to President Truman from Benjamin Fairless, president of the corporation. The development increased the possibility of a nationwide steel strike starting at midnight Sunday. The strike had been postponed for a w*eek to permit further negotiations of the steel workers wage

demands.

Mr- Truman urS’qd the corporation to reconsider the rejection, but White House aides said government seizure of the steel industry had not been considered. Fairless told the President that an increase of wages such as suggested by Mr. Truman would result in “great financial harm” to the corporation and to users of steel in general. Fairless said the steel corporation had reached its limit when it offered a wage boost Of

15 cents an hour.

Meanwhile, it was announced at Washington that the fact-finding

formal hearings in

Chicago next Tuesday. Exploratory conferences with 'the parties were held last night and today. GOP Candidates Make Announcement Two prominent Republicans have made their announcements as candidates for county offices this week. E. Ward Young who is just finishing his last year of a second term as Trustee of Monroe Township has announced his intention of running for Auditor of Delaware Gouty on the Republican ticket. He has been a resident of Cowan for more than 30 years and is widely known over the county. Co. Auditor To Run For Treasurer Samuel L. Cunnington, now completing his first term as auditor of Delaware County, is a candidate on the Republican ticket for county treasurer^ His term as auditor will

end December 31.

Mr. Cunnington, before being elected auditor, served on the Muncie city council. For twenty-four years he was engaged in the wholesale and retail food business here. Always active in Republican party affairs, Mr. Cunnington since assuming the duties of auditor has devoted his exclusive time to the management of and work in the office. As auditor he has gained a knowledge of requirements in handling the county treasurer’s office that should fit him well for the duties in event of his election. At present he is the only announced candidate for treasurer on the the

Republican ticket.

Candidates on both party tickets are beginning to make their announcements to the voting public. This week Claude Becktell, who at present is serving this locality as a representaive of the State Legislature from this County made his announcement that he will be a candidate for County Assessor in

the May Primary.

A native of Henry County, Mr. Becktell has been a resident of Delaware County for the past thir-ty-seven years. For the past nineteen years he has been employed at the Indiana Steel and Wire Com-

pany as a die-maker.

Mr. Becktell has been active in Democrat political circles here for a number of years, having served as precinct committeeman for ten years. He is a member of the

Eagles Lodge.

o Some 200,000,000 board feet of lumber are used annually for boxes by citrus growers ni California and

Arizona.

Fenway Park in Boston has a new assistant groundkeeper. It’s a civilian jeep which is used to Hay tarpaulin on the field, or roll it up before a game.

Called Meeting of City Council A special meeting of the City Council was called for tonight, among other important business matters that will be given attention will be the election of a new councilman to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Councilman Charles

Sanders.

In the last few days the name of Bert Owens, a Democrat from that Ward, has been frequently heard as a likely choice to fill the vacancy. The Democrats in the Council, theoretically are in control. The late Councilman Sanders was a Republican and therefore “his successor should be a Republican” is the argument being put up j to the members of the Council by j

the Republicans.

The Republicans themselves set j a dangerous precedent some time J back, when they elected Burl Ma-

Hyde Park As UNO Capital Would Be Memorial to FDR

STOCKHOLDERS ABET UAW SIDE

Many General Motors Stockholders Favor Cause of Strikers

Only two or three weeks ago Miss Ethel Du Pont, member of

dill, Republican, to fill the vacancy I the immensely wealthy family of caused by the death of Vincent | that name which has the controlJones, Democrat. Jones had defeai-1 ii n g interest in General Motors ed Madill for the County Council j wrote an letter m the previous election company, in which she said: Bert Owens is a well respected I .< As a stockholder, I have an in-

terest in settlement of the dispute between the employees and the management of General Motors. “Because of its dominant position in the reconversion program of this country, I feel that General Motors is vested with responsibility for public welfare and should therefore consider itself account-

able ta the public.

“For that reason, I am writing

you to urge you to accept arbitration and to open the books and reports oi the company by the representatives of your government and of the United Auto Workers, your employees’ union, in order that the company’s ability or inability to meet the demands for increased

wages may be ascertained. “Many of your stockholders find

it embarrassing to have to admit that, in spite of being considered one of the richest corporations in the world. General Motors has refused to accept the responsibility it owes its country, the consumers, and its employees. I believe that other stockholders, like myself, hope that the company will reconsider and will enter genuine col-

lective bargaining negotiations.” Miss DuPont tried to have this

letter published as a paid advertisement in many-^pf the big news-

citizen who has many friends and admirers in both Republican and Democrat Circles. He is an A. F. of L. member, also has held high office in the Elks Lodge and would conscientiously represent his Ward

if elected.

At the time of going to press the Council was still in session. PRSSS ASSAILS OOP PATRONAGE Two Leading Republican Newspapers Attack Job Plan In Furious Terms That old adage about “something rotten in Denmark” may be amplified to indicate that when the “Denmarkian” old guard holds its nose and complains of the stench, something must be rotten indeed. The two leading Republican newspapers of the state last week assailed the state’s administration patronage policy in no uncertain terms. State house, city and county

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California fruit growers used 10,• 000 Mexican farm workers in harvestin g their 1945 record citrus crop.

bureaus (increased by 21, by the be-fore-election “anti-bureaucratic” Republican administration), have been sorted and sifted and screened of Democrats (including veterans) on a strictly patronage basis, as the administration improved its opportunity to build up an invincible political machine. Indiana Republicans have not, up to now, audibly protested. But when last week Governor Gates and his patronage-apportioners broke a solemn promise to the people of Indiana not to endanger the work of the vitally important state Conservation Department, that was too much, even for the previously loyal GOP supporters of the Gates’ administration. Pointing out that “the Republican platform, upon which the present administration campaigned and went into office . . . declared: ‘Our Conservation officials, including game wardens, must be competent and should be appointed and retained only upon merit.’ ” The Indianapolis News says: “The Politicians Won” “When the manager’s contract for the operation of the Spring Mill Park Hotel was awarded on a strictly political basis, the people of Indiana . . . wondered—and rightly so—whether this is the opening wedge the politicians have so eargerly sought, to control the lucrative Park Hotel system. The hotel contmcts have been made financially worthwhile to attract experienced operators . . The Conservation Commission was forced to pass over persons with impressive qualifications to the end that the Republican state organization could dictate one of the juciest patronage plums available. “The bosses cracked the whip and the commissioners did what they were told to do.” The News warns that this may become “the pattern” by which many other such Conservation Department appointments will be made, and ends, “the only way to prevent disruption of a program based on merit and the general welfare is for the citizens of Indiana to express themselves in unmistakable terms. After all, the parks belong to the public rather than to the politicians.” The Republican Indianapolis Star is no less forceful in its comments. Our park system’s amazing success, it says, has been due to immunity to political raids, «but in what it calls “the Spring Mill blunder,” the Star states editorially that “in this case, the fruitful work of many years is undermined by jeopardizing an entire park system,” and it says that “pride in Hoosier conservation received a rude and bitter shock in the state administration’s surrender to demands of partisan spoilsmen. This trend, revealed when the machine took over the game wardens, reached a peak when the nationally famous park system became v the medium for handing out patronage plums.” All of this added to beer in politics and high taxes #s causing the GOP bosses considerable head-

aches.

turned down. In spite of this attempt to “bury” the appeal, however, it brought prompt results. This week Miss Du Pont wrote Lloyd K. Garrison, chairman of the President’s fact-finding board in the GM wage dispute, that she has received more than 1,050 letters and telegrams from GM stockholders backing her demand that differences with employes be arbitrated and that the concern open its books for inspection of costs

and profits.

o Young Democrat Is Able Speaker

James A. Eldridge James A. Eldridge, Executive Secretary of the Young Democratic Club of Indiana, addressed the Young Men’s Liberal Democratic Club of Delaware County last Saturday night. The Meeting was held in the Circuit Court Room. In spite of the inclement weather, a fair sized crowd heard the brilliant orator. Mr. Eldridge is a young man of unusual ability and it was evident by his talk that, he possesses, (in spite of his years) an understanding of National and World affairs, possessed by few men of more mature years. The subject of his address was, “A Program for Liberals”. The speaker’s talk gave proof of the fact that he had made a serious study of the social and economic questions now confronting this country and the world. The main thought he tried to impress on his listeners was “the seriousness of the coming election.” He stated, “that in his opinion the coming election was of such importance that the fate of this country and perhaps that of the entire world for years to come depended on the personnel of the next Cougress of the United States.” o ; The word “bridal” comes from the old English word bride--ale, a festivity following a wedding, at which ale was the principal drink.

It Is Fitting That Hyde Park Be Selected As Site In Tribute To Great War Leader Who Lead World Toward Permanent World Peace — His Spiritual Presence Felt In Peace Meeting — Some So-Called Americans Still Stoop To Besmirch His Memory —His Grave Now A Shrine Reverently Visited By World’s Great. Nationally read columnist Edwin A. Lahey predicts that the United Nations organization will choose Hyde Park, N. Y., as its permanent home, and says that this choice “will be a tribute to the memory of the late President Roosevelt.”

Nothing could be more fitting; for the great war leader likewise led the world peace and world cooperation. And so universally was he loved and respected throughout the world that when he died, the entire world wept. All over the world, the little people felt that they had lost not only their sincerest and most powerful champion, but their warm and personal friend. And men high up in world affairs stumbled, and felt lost with-

out his leadership.

At San Francisco, his spiritual presence was felt, though the delegates missed his steadying friendly voice, his wise and far-seeing coun-

sel.

The world still feels this nearness to him. His light is one^that will shine down through the ages. But there are *• those who call themselves Americans, who not only do not acknowledge’his greatness, they stoop to attempt to besmirch his memory for the sake of politics. ' For Franklin Delano Roosevelt not only will live thru the ages—he even lives on in current American politics. And as Harold Ickes said recently, "in 1946 and 1948, the issue will still be—FDR.” So it is not surprising that highup Republicans, even among the United States delegation to the first United Nations meeting, are opposed to the selection of Hyde Park as the permanent site for UNO. Publicly, Senator Vandeii : burgh and John Foster Dulles “have nothing to say,” but privately Vandenburgh and his Republican colleagues are reputed to have been holding meetings on the subject, and Vandenburgh is understood to have said “he feels it would be his duty to warn the delegations of other nations that the Hyde Park choice would stir up American interparty bitterness.” In the words of Indiana’s Republican Lt. Governor, Richard T. James, in an address before the Indianapolis Council of Women this week, Republicans feel that the capital would be “too much of a memorial” if it were to be located at Hyde Park. * How can one honor the truly great “too much?” As to Hyde Park itself, it wouliT seem to fit every requirement the UNO has specified for its site: closeness to New York; plenty of room for the small city which will have to be built, to house UNO offices and officials; beauty; and finally — world sentiment, which will desire to honor FDR, and will not think it possible to honor him “too much.” His home, his grave, and his museum—all willed to the nation —would remain a national shrine, at the heart of the world city. Already his grave is also a shrine reverently visited by all the great of the world who come to this country. o At the end of the war approximately 75 per cent of the express

POT BOILS AND BROTH THICKENS Who Is Republican Boss Of Indiana—Gates Or

Capehart

That there is a statewide feud between the two, was indicated in a recent press relase from this office, in which it was shown that there is a private Gates-Capehart warfare going on over whether Gates’ man, Congressman Earl Wilson, is to retain his seat from the 9th District, or whether Capehart’s man Friday, James E. Armstrong, with Capehart’s backing, is to take over the nomination. Representing Gates in this matter is State Republican Chairman, Jenner, who has lined up the Gates machine solidly to op-

Just how this under-cover, or one might say intra-party warfare is to affect the senatorial struggle, does not yet appear. Gates is apparently grooming Jenner for the nomination, and will throw the power of the GOP state machine behind him. The recent notorious Gates-Reichert split has put Reichert behind LaFollette for Senator —strange bed-fellows, for it was not so long since that LaFollette was excoriating Reichert as a professional politician with under-

world connections.

Capehart has not so far expressed his senatorial choice. When he does, the pronouncement may be a bomb tossed into the opposing Gates camp. Capehart’s secretary and henchman, Armstrong, is being run by him in the 9th District as revenge against Wilsons’ support of Tucker in the last election, against Capehart for Senator Gates also is said to have been a Tucker-supporter, up to the last minute. Capehart, like the GOP elephant he is now riding, has a

long memory.

This past week the Gates-Cape-hart, rivalry assumed national pro-

portions.

Gates’ supporters had let it be known that the reason Gates has not grabbed the senatorial plum for himself is that he has higher ambitions. He would like to be president of the United States—no less! Well, hardly any less. Vice president, perhaps. On the heels of this announcement, a Capehart spokesman— Congressman Gerald Landis of the district formerly headed by Capehart—made a solemn public pronouncement boosting Taft for president, Capehart for vice president

in 1948.

So now the line is clearly drawn; the clash of personal ambitions

openly indicated.

On his side, Gates has all the power of beer, and state patronage. But Capehart has a machine of his

own, powerful enough so

succeeded in kicking off the state Republican Committee, its oldest and one of its ablest members, Elwing Eminson. And powerful enough to have got Capehart into the United States Senate. Yes; it’s going to be an interest-

ing campaign.

o Only four men have been executed in the Wyoming state penitentiary lethal gas chamber since itw as installed ten years ago.

traffic of the country was arributed to the conflict. With the removal or urgent wartime traffic, the situa-

that he i tion is rapidly returning to normal

and prewar service soon will be assured, according to Railway Expdess.

The region now constituting the commonwealth of Kentucky was originally a part of Fincastle county, Virginia.

A pliot has approximately four minutes to find a place to land if he is at 3,050 feet and an emergency landing is necessary.

TRUMAN GETS RESPONSE President Truman’s radio “spanking'’’ of Congress, which irked many members, is bringing results. After two years of stalling, says Nathan Robertson of PM’s Washington Bureau, “the House Ways and Means Committee has put Social Security Legislation on its program for early consideration by Congress. “Chairman Robert L. Doughton (D., N. C.) said yesterday that the House Committee, which has blocked any consideration of liberalizing Social Security laws ever since the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill was introduced. Would take up the question before considering tax legislation.”