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r_WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Settlement of Oil Workers Pay
May Set Reconversion Pattern;
Ease Curbs on Consumer Credit
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(EDITOR'S NOTE: Whan opinion* are e*pre*sed In these «*lunin*. (hoy *r* *|
Western Newspaper Union'* new* analysts *nd not nooessarlly of this newspaper.)
Their guns taken away, Jap naval shore patrolmen walk streets with
wooden staves to maintain order among disarmed sailors In Tokyo.
LABOR:
. U. S. Acts
Acting energetically, Secretary of
Labor Lewis Schwellenbach took
the all-important oil workers’ wage
dispute virtually in his own hands
by transferring negotiations to
Washington, D. C., in an efTort to
effect a settlement that was ex
pected to set a pattern for the re
conversion period.
With the Oil Workers’ union de
mand for a 30 per cent wage in
crease embodying the program of
other powerful CIO organizations,
and with the oil companies’ offer of
a 15 per cent boost representing
the usual compromise, final disposi
tion of the case would go far to
ward determining the amount of
“take-home" pay for employees
during the ensuing months.
Schwellenbach's decision to shift
the parley to Washington, D. C.,
from Chicago, 111., followed upon an
early deadlock in the bargaining
over the union's insistence that the
dispute be settled on an industry
wide basis and the companies' stand
that contracts should be signed by
Individual plants.
Meanwhile, over 1,500,000 persons
were affected by the strike of AFL
elevator operators and building
service employees in New York,
with business losses running over
$1,000,000 a day and production of
winter and summer garments vir
tually stopped. Balking at a war
labor board award of $28.05 for a 44
hour week, the union asked $30.15
for a 40 hour week.
JAFAI>:
Historic Precedent
September 27. 1945. went down In
history as the red-letter day on
which a Japanese emperor, unbend
ing himself in defeat, made a per
sonal call upon a victorious U. S.
commander to break all precedent.
God to his people, small, wiry
Hirohito, In formal morning clothes
and high silk top hat, was very
much man to Gen. Douglas Mac
Arthur, who, steeped In occupation
al duties, met him in informal mili
tary attire and without a tie.
Motoring to the American embas
sy in Tokyo for the visit, Hirohito
made his call just as MacArthur set
about shaping plans for the re-edu
cation of the Japanese people and
stripping Nippon of all its war-mak
ing potentialities by an economic
reformation.
In recasting the Japanese mind.
MacArthur chose to pursue the
present policy of working through
native personnel. Japanese press,
radio, movies, government informa
tion bureaus, schools and various so
cial groups would be used as me
diums for the dissemination of
democratic principles and ideals for
world co-operation.
In Japan’s economic reformation,
the U. S. will strive for the eradica
tion of all potential war industry,
confining the Nipponese merely to
civilian production. At the same
time, efforts will be made to break
up the business monopoly of the four
great houses of Mitsibushi, Mitsui,
Yusada and Sumitomo, and pro
mote widespread ownership and
trade. Organization of labor and
agricultural organizations also will
be encouraged.
Meanwhile. Japanese economic
experts called for a resumption of
trade with the U. S. to speed Nip
pon’s postwar recovery and stave
off impending privation. In return
for American cotton, wool, salt, oil,
iron, sugar and leather the Japa
nese proposed exports of silk, gold,
porcelain ware and lacquer goods.
TIRES:
Demand Mounts
While the production of new auto
mobile tires is making fair prog
ress. prospects for the elimination of
tire rationing in the near future are
not promising, according to the Na
tional Automobile Dealers associa
tion.
Although the tire industry is plan
ning on the production of approxi
mately 12 million tires between
October and the end of the year,
some will be reserved for new cars
CREDIT:
Ease Controls
In a move hit by OPA because of
Inflationary possibilities, but rapped
by finance companies because of its
restricted scope, the government
removed all credit controls over
building renovation and eased reg
ulations on loans for services or
non-essential purchases.
Remaining unchanged in view of
popular demand and limited supply
was the 12 month credit repayment
for washing machines, vacuum
cleaners, bed linen, mattresses,
boats, watches, cameras, automo
biles, pianos and furniture.
Though OPA resisted the re
stricted easing of credit regulations
for fear of a scaling of prices up
ward in face of heavy buying, cer
tain financing groups declared that
continuing restrictions placed low
Income classes at a disadvantage
and price control and rationing as
sured market stabilization.
ARGENTINA:
Buck Change
Problem center of South America,
Argentina was under another state
Colonel Heron
vi siege us me guv
eminent of Pres.
Edelmiro Farrell,
controlled by Col.
Juan Peron, round
ed up economic,
political and labor
leaders following
an ill-fated attempt
to overthrow the
present regime.
In extending mili
tary rule and sus
pending constitutional guarantees of
speech, press and assembly, the gov
ernment declared that It was forced
to move to stem "a growing cam
paign aimed at alteration of the
(existing) order and conducted by
the oligarchy (powerful interests)
..." Liberty would be restored
when the various groups would know
how to use it, Farrell added.
The abortive revolutionary at
tempt by two top Argentine generals
followed close upon the heels of
widespread demonstrations of demo
cratic elements against the pro-mil
itary Farrell-Peron regime, main
taining the present economic and so
cial setup in the face of persistent
demands jfor its liberalization.
JOBLESS BENEFITS:
Shelve Bill
Declaring that the current wave
of strikes has confused the question
of whether a real need exists for
the lengthening of unemployment
compensation payments up to 20
weeks, the powerful house ways and
means committee held up a senate
bill providing federal aid for exten
sion of benefits.
By its action, the house group
dealt a body blow to President Tru
man's program for jobless aid. since
the senate in passing a modified bill
previously had refused to boost un
employment compensation up to a
maximum of $25 weekly. The sen
ate measure would have permitted
the federal government to advance
sufficient sums to the states to
spread jobless payments over 26
weeks.
House committee rejection of the
bill stirred labor's wrath, AFL Pres.
William Green accusing the con
gressmen of "callous disregard of
human needs," and CIO Chieftain
Philip Murray calling upon the CIO
and its Political Action committee
for an all-out drive to "secure re
versal of this shameful act."
ARMY SEEKS MISSING
Army "search teams” are
combing the battlefields of Eu
rope and the Pacific for person
nel now listed as missing.
Consisting of five soldiers, one
of whom speaks the language of
the locality, search teams are
assigned a certain area of ap
proximately one and one-half
square miles Information on
missing personnel is consoli
dated to speed investigation.
OIL:
U. S.’British Pact
Virtual monopolists in oil, the
U. S. and Britain came to an under
standing for the orderly develop
ment of petroleum trade in the post
war world in a pact fashioned in
London by Secretary of the Interior
Ickes and British officials and sub
ject to senate ratification.
Removing vigorous opposition to
any control over domestic produc
tion as envisaged in a previous
agreement later repudiated by the
U. S., the new pact only provides
for advisory regulation of American
and British operations overseas.
Both countries have extensive oil
holdings in foreign lands, notably in
the middle east, where deposits are
reportedly as great as in the U. S.
In drawing up the agreement,
Ickes and British Fuel Administra
tor Shinwell provided for mutual re
spect of all concessions and rights
obtained by either country, and also
pledged non-interference with oper
ations.
MEAT:
More Available
Because of the seasonal increase
in the marketing of range fed cat
tle, OPA removed point require
ments for lower grades of beef, veal
and lamb through most of October,
and also made hamburger, lamb and
veal patties, short ribs and brisket
of beef, breast and flank of lamb
and shank of veal ration-free.
In addition, points were lifted
from such low-grade meat products
as sausage, frankfurters, luncheon
variety and canned meats.
In contrast, however, the contin
ued tight supply of hogs and fin
ished cattle necessitated the reten
tion of current point values on pork
cuts, bacon and other cured meats,
and choice selections of beef, veal
and lamb. Though fats and oils
were kept on the rationing list, point
removal on cheaper meat will fur
nish additional stamps for these
items.
Henry II Takes Over
To husky. 28-year-old Henry Ford II,
uho in college displayed more of a
penchant for sociology than engineer
ing, went the presidency of the huge
Ford Motor company ^following the re
tirement of his famed grandfather from
active service with the firm.
Upon assuming his post, Henry the
II declared his ambition was to return
Ford to leadership in sales again, the
company having trailed Chevrolet
throughout most of the decade preced
ing the war. On his toes, young Ford had
shmvn the new 1946 model last July,
only two days after government author
ization for resuming civilian produc
tion, and the firm was well off to post
war oiiffiiil when impeded hy strikes.
Retiring at 82 after having resumed
the presidency of hi.i famed company in
June of 1943 upon the death of his son,
Edsel, Ford declared that he would de
vote most of his energies to his outside
interests, chief of which have been
utilization of farm products in industry.
EUROPE:
Occupation Problem
In war or in peace, old General
Patton, with a mind of his own con
tinued to make news, the latest
ocasion being his clash with Gen
eral Eisenhower over the use of
competent former Nazi civil serv
ants for a restoration of German
economy to head off threatened
chaos this winter.
Besides being asked for an imme
diate report on the number of for
mer Nazis still holding office in 3rd
army territory, Patton also was di
rected to give Eisenhower a per
sonal accounting of his control over
the Bavarian region. For a hard
peace, Eisenhower favors a ruth
less denazification of Germany’s
political, educational and economic
life, and an early establishment of a
Reich living standard no higher than
surrounding countries’.
Though the first to be called on
the carpet, Patton’s attitude is
known to be shared by other U. S.
officers seeking to avert starva
tion. frost suffering and epidemics
this winter in the shattered nation
FAR EAST:
Native Uprising
Even as Chinese and British
forces took over Indo-China, native
Annamites rose in rebellion at the
prospect of a return of French rule,
terrorizing the European population
of the state, which normally exports
much rice, rubber, high-grade coal,
spices and tin.
Frenchmen were the principal tar
gets of native wrath, since many,
under protection of Chinese and
British guns, have displaced Anna
mites holding public offices prelimi
nary to re-establishment of French
colonial rule.
Strangely enough, the Japanese,
who promised Indo - Chinese inde
pendence during their military oc
cupation of the country and still re
main in force prior to their com
plete demobilization, have been
called upon to help assist under
manned Allied units re-establish
peace.
GOOD NEIGHBOR:
Aids Health
Remote, disease-plagued regions
of the Amazon systems of Peru and
Bolivia have been equipped by mod
ern health measures to progress in
human welfare.
The menace of malaria and other
tropical diseases has been consid
erably lessened in the two countries
by inauguration of hospitals and
medical services by the U. S and
South American nations through the
Institute of Inter-American affairs.
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Neighbors Will Appreciate Garden Gift Basket
(See Recipes Below)
Garden Gifts
Now that we once more have
peace all over the world, we all
ought to start
our good neighbor
policy right at
home. Lots of lit
tle friendly ges
tures that mean
so much have
been forgotten
during the war,
but they should
De reinstated.
Something that all of us with a
garden can do is to share with a
neighbor. There are probably lots of
things that you yourself cannot use
that would be welcomed by a neigh
bor. Send a basket of garden vege
tables or fruit, all dressed up with
fancyt wrappings and ribbon, and
see what a friend you can make.
Incidentally, include a lemon or two
to make it handy for the home
maker to season either fruit or veg
etables.
Another gift that will be welcome
Is a set of your favorite recipes, with
or without a basket of garden prod
uce. Every woman has a few choice
dishes which her friends have asked
for, and it makes for more friendli
ness to be generous with the instruc
tions.
Here are some brief suggestions
which I’d like to pass on to you, par
ticularly for vegetables:
If you find yourself short of salad
dressings for a tossed salad, sprinkle
2 or 3 tablespoons of oil on the indi
vidual salad then squeeze lemon
juice generously over this, salt to
taste and toss the salad lightly.
To make a good, old-fashioned cole
slaw, add the following amounts to
cups of shredded cabbage: %
teaspoon salt, 1% tablespoons sugar,
6 tablespoons coffee cream, and 3
tablespoons of lemon juice.
In making pickled beets, cook the
beets first, then slice and cover with
equal pans oi
lemon juice and
water. Add sugar
to taste, and
slices of sweet
onion, if desired. .
Now that fall "
has come, tve can
start turning our
attention to heartier foods again.
Cabbage is a good vegetable to use
because it is coming in season:
Stuffed Cabbage.
(Serves 5 to 6)
3 tablespoons uncooked rice
1 pound ground beef
1 egg well-beaten
2 tablespoons minced onion
2 teaspoons salt
H teaspoon pepper
8 medium to large cabbage leaves
Lynn Chambers’ Menu.
Swiss Steak with Gravy
Browned Potatoes
Buttered Cabbage
Fresh Fruit Salad
Whole Wheat Bread Jam
Baked Apples
214 cups canned tomatoes
1 tablespoon flour
4 tablespoons sour cream
14 teaspoon salt
Cook rice in boiling salted water
until tender. Drain and rinse. Mix
rice, ground meat, egg, onion, salt
and pepper. Steam cabbage leaves
in, Vz cup water for 10 minutes. Fill
leaves with meat mixture (Vs cup to
each leaf), fold leaf over meat and
fasten with a toothpick. Arrange in
saucepan, add tomatoes, bring to a
dou, men simmer
gently for Ihk
hours. Mix flour, /
sour cream and ^
% teaspoon salt
to a paste; re
move cabbage
balls to a dish
ana snr sour cream ana flour mix
ture into tomatoes. Bring to a boil
quickly and pour over cabbage rolls
and serve.
A favorite pie for fall, and inciden
tally a nice recipe to tuck into one
of those gift baskets is one for this
unusual Green Tomato Mincemeat
Pie. It’s spicy and fragrant, bound
to please:
Green Tomato Mincemeat Pie.
1 peck of green tomatoes
1 quart sliced apples, fresh or dried
1 pound seedless raisins
Salt
1 pound suet, chopped
Cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves
2ft pounds brown sugar
3 lemons
Water
Wash tomatoes. Cut in small
pieces. Sprinkle with salt. Let stand
overnight. Drain. Add sufficient wa
ter to prevent sticking. Cook 30 min
utes, stirring frequently. Add*lemon
juice, grated rind and white of
1 lemon, cut in small pieces. Add
apples, suet, raisins and sugar. Add
spices to taste and a few grains of
salt. Simmer slowly, stirring fre
quently, until tomatoes and apples
are tender and flavors are blended.
Pack in freshly sterilized jar and
seal. Line a 9-inch pie pan with pas
try and fill with 2ft cups of the to
mato mincemeat mixture. Cover
top with pastry, flute edges and
bake in a 425 degree oven for 35 to 40
minutes.
Two vegetables which we miss
during the other seasons are ready
to take their bows now. You will
like both green tomatoes and egg
plant prepared in this fashion:
Stuffed Eggplant.
(Serves 6)
1 eggplant
ft teaspoon pepper
4 tablespoons butter
4 tablespoons cracker crumbs
ft teaspoon salt
4 tablespoons milk
ft cup grated cheese
Eggplant may be cooked in boil
ing water for five minutes before
scooping out. Cut slice from top or
cut in half lengthwise. Remove pulp
and mix with other ingredients. Re
fill shells and cover with cheese and
crumbs and bake in a moderate (350
degree) oven for 30 minutes.
Green Tomato Fritters.
(Serves 6)
Ift cups flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
% cup milk
<4 teaspoon salt
1 egg, well beaten
6 green tomatoes, sliced ft inch
thick
Beat egg, add to milk. Mix flour,
baking powder and salt. Combine
with liquid and mix to a smooth bat
ter Sprinkle sliced tomatoes with
salt and pepper. Drain on absorbent
paper and dip in batter Fry in deep
fat until golden brown. Other raw
vegetables may be prepared in this
way.
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Lynn Says:
Refrigerate Your Foods: Re
frigeration is necessary to most
foods not only to preserve their
appearance and palatability, but
also to prevent food spoilage.
In most cases, temperatures of
40 degrees will take care of the
situation. This temperature is
best maintained
Meat, milk, vegetables and
fruits are extremely perishable
and should be refrigerated imme
diately. Root vegetables do not
need as low as 40 degrees and
may be kept out of the ice box.
Bananas need never be refriger
ated.
Keep all foods covered except
meat. Cover it lightly with waxed
paper.
Fruit needs chilling, not freez
• ing.
The crisper or open dish or
even paper cartons are excellent
| for keeping eggs in the refrigera
tor.
Meat needs the coolest place in
the refrigerator—right under the
freezing unit. Bacteria multiply
very rapidly unless it is well pro
tected.
ONLY SCRUB COW
The late president of a midwest
em railroad had a life-sized paint
ing of a cow framed and hung on
the wall behind his desk at his of
fice in Chicago.
The cow was just an ordinary
looking animal and friends who
asked why he should want such a
fine painting of an ordinary-looking
cow in his office were told:
“Our trains through the dairy belt
have killed hundreds of cows and
that is the only scrub’ cow they
ever hit. The farmer who owned
that cow said she was just a ’scrub’
worth about $40. All the other cows
that our trains have killed have been
champions.’’
HER DAY IN COURT
—————
Judge—Do you know the nature
of an oath?
Mrs.—I ought to. I’ve just been
helping my husband lay the stair
carpet.
Excuse It, Please
Mrs.—What’s that big noise out
side?
Mr. — Oh, it’s just some man
talking to himself.
Mrs.—But why is be shouting so?
Mr.—I guess he must be a little
deaf.
Excusable Error
Corporal (at a reception)—Good
ness gracious, I've done some
thing terrible!
Sergeant—What?
Corporal—I mistook our hostess’s
hat for a sandwich and put mus
tard inside!
Not Furlong
Tom—What’s worse than swallow
ing a ruler and dying by inches?
Dick—How about going out of the
house and dying by the yard?
Harry—Or getting down under
your bed and dying by the foot?
Music in the Air
Myron—I see you advertised your
saxophone for sale.
Byron—Yes. I saw my neighbor
in the hardware store yesterday
buying a gun.
Off Key
Brown—Is that a popular song
she’s singing?
Blue—It was before she started
singing it.
CLEANING UP
Bill—My wife is a whiz at remov
ing spots from clothes.
Phil—Grease spots?
Bill—No, five spots and ten spots.
Promotion
Betty—Yeah, Bill has just joined
the nursing corps.
Letty—How do you know that?
Betty—He just wrote me he's the
general's first aide now.
School Daze
Fifth Grader—What is the begin
ning of Learning?
Fourth Grader—I give up.
Fifth Grader — The end of
SshooL.
Zoo-ologist
Jim—Look at that rhinoceros.
Tim—That ain’t no rhinoceros.
That's a hippopotamus. Can’t you
see it ain’t got no radiator cap?
Wrong Number
She—1 like boys who are frank
and earnest.
He—Oh. I’m sorry, but my name '
is Robert.
Specifications
Clerk—You say you want some
thing in a uniform?
Lady Customer — Yes, something
about 6 feet tall and dark and hand
some.
Dental Floss
Harry — I’m going to have my
name in everybody’s mouth.
Jerry—In the toothpick business, I
suppose.
--
Busy Signal
Giddy Young Thing (on tele- I
phone) — Is this May?
Voice (gruffly)—No. miss, this is
August.
—
Double Blame
Myron — Was Smith’s bankruptcy
due to a lack of brains?
Byron—Yes, a lack and a lass!
No Trouble
Nit—How did you sleep last night?
Wit—Lying down, as usual
Good Neighbors Distant
We speak of our South American
neighbors, yet by modern air routes
we are nearer to Moscow than we
are to some South American cities
Bath Banishes Blues
According to etymologists, the
English word "bath’’ comes indi
rectly from a Greek word meaning
"to drive sadness from the mind."
Which goes to prove again that the
classic Greeks were a modern peo
ple and that they knew the full value
of bodily cleansing. Bathe frequent
ly and thoroughly, and thus "drive
sadness from the mind."
Keeps Mouth Shut
The reason a dog has so many
friends is that his tail wags instead
of his tongue.
Canned Carp
A Minnesota manufacturer is
about to can carp and market it,
grated, tuna-style, under the name
of “Lakefish.”
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RUBBER
Post-war automobiles may rid* on
rubber springs which will eliminate
noise and th* necessity for lubrica
tion. B. F. Goodrich has supplied
ever half a million rubber springs
for military landing vehicles.
B. P. Goodrich is now making
fire* of a now kind of syn
thetic rubber. The new rubber
makes tires wear longer.
Since cotton is of almost equal im
portance with rubber in the manu
facture of tires, the rubber industry
Is on* of th* biggest customers of
the Agricultural South.
Steel and brass are used In
th* manufacturing of ordi
nary passenger car Bros.
Ever Try Making
Cough Syrup In
Your Kitchen?
Quick Relief. No Cooking. Easy!
If you've never tried mixing your
own cough modicine, you’ve missed a
lot. It's no trouble—needs no cooking
—and gives you about four times as
much cough syrup for your money.
You'll say it beats anything you ever
tried for coughs due to colds And
here's how it's done: —
Make a plain syrup by stirring 2
cups of granulated sugar and one cup
of water a few moments, until it is
dissolved. Or you can use corn syrup
or liquid honey. Instead ofsugarsyrup.
Get 2\4 ounces of I’inex from your
druggist. Put this into a pint bottle
and fill up with your syrup. This
makes a pint—a family supply. Tastes
One and never spoils. Children love It
And as for results, you've never
seen anything better. It goes right to
work on the cough, loosening the
phlegm, soothing the Irritation, and
helping clear the air passages. You
will like it for its results, and not
merely for the money it saver.
Pinex Is a special compound of
proven Ingredients, in concentrated
form, a most reliable soothing agent
for throat and bronchial irritationr
Money refunded if it doesn't please
you in every way. -Adv.
Help Them Cleanse the Blood
of Harmful Body Waste
Your kidneys are constantly filtering
! waste matter from the blood stream. But
kidneys sometimes lag in their work—do
not act as Nature intended—fail to re
move impurities that, if retained, may
poison the system and upset the whole
* body machinery
Symptoms may be nagging backache,
persistent headache, attacks of dizziness,
; getting up nights, swelling, puttiness
> under the eyes—a feeling of nervous
ausiety and loss of pep and strength.
Other signs of kidney or bladder dis
order are sometimes burning, scanty or
too frequent urination.
There should be no doubt that prompt
I treatment is wiser than neglect. Use
Doan's Dills. Doan's have been winning
new friends for more than forty years.
They have a nation-wide reputation.
Are recommended by grateful people the
country over. Ask pour neighbor!
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LHOT FLASHES? 1
ijjkTVif you suffer from hot flashes,
"'‘-'feel weak, nervous, hlghstruug,
a bit blue at times—due to the func
tional "middle-age" period peculiar to
women—try this great medicine—Lydia
E. Plnkham's Vegetable Compound to
relieve such symptoms. Plnkham's
Compound helps nature. It's one of
the best knov/n medicines for this
purpose. Follow label directions.
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COLD PREPARATIONS
LIQUID, TABLETS, SALVE, NOSE DROPS
USE ONLY AS DlRECIlD