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-WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS—, Auto Industry Faces Tieup In CIO Demand for Pay Increase; j Trace Nazi Moves for Conquest ——-Released by Western Newspaper Union. _ WMtVr?Pinlon» «re expressed in these eolnmns. they are those of western Newspaper Union s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.) Lean and sober, Hermann Goering (left), Rudolph Hess (center) and Joachim Von Ribbentrop go on trial for war crimes at Nuernberg, Ger many. STRIKE: Showdown The CIO’s demands for a 30 per cent postwar wage increase to maintain high wartime “take-home" pay came to a showdown when 175,000 members of the United Auto mobile Workers struck against Gen eral Motors corporation. No. 1 pro ducer in the industry. With labor’s biggest union locked against the nation’s greatest operat ing company, observers looked for a long-drawn battle between the two participants, with federal concilia tor John W. Gibson expecting a set tlement by January 15 or probably before. Against G.M.’s huge re sources, the UAW reported posses sion of a $4,000,000 strike fund, with rumors that the union was prepar ing for a winter-long siege. Though original UAW plans called for a walkout only at G.M. plants under a new strategy which would hit at one company at a time and permit free operation of their com petitors, the reliance of all other manufacturers except Ford upon G.M. for parts threatened to cripple the whole industry when supplies ran out or new sources could not be found. Meantime, UAW held ne gotiations with Chrysler and Ford over the pay issue. UAW’s decision to strike at G.M. followed the collapse of bargaining between the two parties, during which the union turned down the company’s offer for a 10 per cent raise predicated upon the possibil ity of price increases for new cars. Under new OPA regulations, costs of new G.M. vehicles will be about 2 per cent below prewar figures. Countering the UAW’s demand for a 30 per cent wage increase, G.M. declared that production workets are earning from $1.12 to $1.15 per hour, with the over-all plant average at $1.18 per hour. If UAW demands were met, the union asserts, the pro duction wage would be boosted to $1.46 per hour, with an over-all aver age of $1.53 per hour. As the strike began, G.M. con tinued to pay its 73.500 office and administrative personnel. WAR CRIMES: Trace Nazi R ise Declaring that high Nazis’ own written records would furnish suf ' ficient evidence to condemn them, U. S. Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson r developed the first count in the Al lied case against the 20 surviving members of Hitler’s hierarchy, charging that the party’s seizure of control in Germany constituted the first step in its plan of world con quest. Addressing the four-power U. S., British, Russian and French court, Jackson declared: "We will not ask you to convict these men on the tes timony of their foes. There is no count in the indictment that cannot be proved by books r^ud records. . . . These defendants had their share of the Teutonic passion for thoroughness in putting things on paper.’’ In tracing the evolution of the Nazi rise in Germany, the U. S. prosecution recounted the notorious blood purge of 1934 reportedly insti gated by Reich Marshal Goering to crush opposition within the party, the elimination of all political groups and confinement of opponents in concentration camps; the gradual suppression of labor unions with the industrialists' connivance, and finally the control of business itself. The trial got underway as the Al lied court turned down the defense i— attorneys’ protest against the valid ity of the proceedings. Asking that an impartial opinion concerning the legality of the court be solicited from authorities on international law, the Nazi counsel asserted that the U. S. had always insisted that in cases of international arbitration or jurisdiction, the bench be filled by neutrals or representatives of the interested countries. Most aggressive of the defend ants, Goering was gaveiled down as the trial opened and he attempted to deny the authority of the court, as serting that he was responsible only to the German people. PEARL HARBOR: Star Witness One of the star witnesses at the early congressional hearings in the Pearl Harbor catastrophe, big, bluff Adm. James O. Richardson, who commanded the U. S. navy up to February, 1941, revealed that the late President Roosevelt favored the anchorage of the Pacific fleet at Ha waii over his objections in the hope of restraining further Jap aggres sion. “I stated that in my opinion the presence of the fleet in Hawaii might influence a civilian political government,” Richardson said, “but that Japan had a military govern ment which knew that the fleet was Senator Barkley (left) greets Admiral Richardson at Pearl Harbor probe. undermanned, unprepared for war, and had no . . . supply force . . . without which it could not under take active operations. ...” Listing his objections to stationing the fleet at Pearl Harbor, Richard son said there would be difficulty transporting supplies to the base; the site lacked security; operations were handicapped by problems of entry, berthing and departure of large ships; surface and air space was congested and restricted, and full demobilization could only be ac complished on the west coast. Relating a conversation with Mr. Roosevelt, Richardson said that the President told him that though he doubted that the U. S. would enter the war if the Japanese attacked Thailand, the Dutch East Indies, Malaya or even the Philippines, he expected that sooner or later they would make a fatal mistake open ing hostilities. In October, 1941, Richardson said. Secretary of the Navy Knox sum moned him to an important confer ence at which he outlined President Roosevelt’s plan for a shipping blockade of the Japanese in case they reacted to the reopening of the Burma road supply line to China. According to Richardson, the opera tion called for posting a cordon of U. S. warships from Hawaii to the Philippines and thence from Samoa to the Dutch East Indies. Since the Japs took no belligerent action, however, the plan was dropped. Warn Against Postwar Credit Boom Dangers of a postwar “boom and bust” will be much increased if in stallment credit is opened up to ex cessive expansion, warns a report from the family economics bureau of Northwestern National Life In surance company. With an enormous backed-up de mand for goods and services, and over 100 billion dollars in consumer cash savings overhanging the mar ket, the additional stimulus of over liberal installment credits can be very dangerous, the report says, adding that excesses of consumer credit have puffed up previous booms. Total Consumer credit reached a record height of 9% billion dollars in the fall of 1941, of which approx imately 6 billions was installment credit. — -i. p.n ii •« « »■ mr-r mi— PEACE PATTERN: Bishops' Report Following closely upon their qual ified endorsation of compulsory peacetime training, the Catholic hierarchy at the U. S. called for the realistic adjustment of fundamental differences between the democ racies and Russia through recogni tion of fair play so that an atomic World War III might be avoided. Demanding a realization of the ideals for which Americans fought in World War n, the bishops deplored the trend of European affairs fol lowing the Moscow conference of 1943, claiming Russia since had adopted an independent course on many matters and sought to impose its domination over helpless neigh boring states. Besides calling upon the U. S. to provide full support for overseas re lief, the bishops also assailed mass vengeance upon the defeated na tions, large-scale transfer of popu lations, systematized use of slave labor and cruel treatment of pris oners of war. AIR ACCIDENTS: Dangerous Trend In offering civilian aviation inter ests the full co-operation of the army air forces for promoting safer operations. Col. George C. Price, chief of the office of flying safety for the AAF, predicted a heavy future accident toll unless current trends were reversed. Declaring that civil air accidents since V-J Day to October 31 were 70 per cent greater than in the same period last year, Price said that with 300,000 planes in the air in the next five years there might be 48,000 serious crashes and 5,000 fatalities annually in the early 1950s. Though flying mishaps in the army took 26,000 lives and destroyed 22,000 planes during the war, the ac cident rate was lower than it had been during peacetime, Price averred. Army safety experience would be gladly offered to civilian agencies to minimize flying hazards, he said. Increase Production Agriculture, manufacturing and public utilities reduced manpow er by 50 per cent per unit of product during the 40-year period ending in 1939, the National Bu reau of Economic Research re vealed after a comprehensive study. During the same time, total output of all industry was increased by 200 per cent, with only 75 per cent more workers employed. In declaring that the figures did not indicate the real decline, the bureau said that they failed to reflect the improvement in the quality of the product. AMERICAN LEGION: Take Stand Ending its 27th annual convention in Chicago, 111., with all of the char acteristic hi-jinks, the American Legion took its stand on the leading controversial national questions of the day, demanding: • One year of compulsory military training for all youths, with ade quate basic training and either ad vanced technical or scientific in struction, when qualified, or further schooling in ROTC units. • Retention of the secret of the atom bomb and the establishment of a civilian board for scientific re search in military material. • Financial assistance to friendly foreign countries not imposing trade restrictions and then for construc tive purposes only. • Unification of the army, navy and air forces into a single com mand. Following election of former Gov. John Stelle of Illinois as national commander, the Legion honored two World War II vets as vice-command- j ers, Fred LaBoon of Chickasha, Okla., and Dudley Swim of Twin Falls, Idaho. MASS TRANSFER: Move Germans Because of agitation within the 1 countries governing their areas of residence, millions of Germans will ( be shifted to the amputated reich this winter despite a lack of fuel and rolling stock needed to trans port them. In all, some 6.000,000 Germans are to be moved from Poland, Czecho slovakia, Austria and Hungary by next summer, with the U. S. occu pation zone receiving 3,200,000; the Russian, 2,750,000; the British, 1,500,000, and the French, 150.000. Disposition of another 6,000,000 Ger mans from East Prussia and other' former sections of the reich has yet to be determined. Allied determination to resettle millions of Germans in midwinter followed previous denunciations of forced mass migration from many quarters, Winston Churchill, for one, rising in commons to protest against such action because of the tremen dous dispossession of property, pri vation and suffering involved. Scinnai Jodjou^ ... New fabrics from chemistry, even to a cloth from grass and possibly a rayon from seaweed, strongly sug gest that we are witnessing a large scale revolution in textiles, the American Chemical society journal declared. The host of new synthetic materi als includes new satins and silk-like i fabrics for evening gowns and lin- ! gerie, soft nylon threads for wool- ! like socks and sweaters, and Vin yon with 100 per cent recovery after stretching. Read The Greater Omaha Guide Every Week i *UtecMome> ^OWHt L H&paniesi gin WASHINGTON *®By Walter Shead '% WNU Correspondent WNU Wasbiattorn Bureau. If If Ere St.. N. W. r ' " _. ,, What Is Future of Price Support System? D ECENT removal of the five-cent * ' a-pound subsidy on butter brings into focus the whole question of government subsidies insofar as they apply to farm products. Will these subsidies be rapidly removed? Will the change-over be a gradual j one? And whose policy will prevail— that of Secretary of Agriculture An derson for a complete elimination of 1 food subsidies as rapidly as condi tions warrant, or the more cautious policy of OPAdministrator Ches ter Bowles, who wants to keep prices down with the help of subsi dies. Farm-minded congressmen and government officials concerned with the operation of the subsidy program, mostly agree that subsi dies were all right as a wartime practice, but that they have no place in a peacetime economy. Farm or ganizations, particularly the dairy interests, have been outspoken against the subsidy practice, espe cially against those subsidies known as “consumer subsidies,” and have declared that the consumers are well able to pay fair and fixed prices without the benefit of a subsidy paid out of the federal treasury. Costs 2 Billions a Year The whole subsidy program has cost the government, and that means the taxpayers, approximately two billion dollars a year. It is agreed that the roll-back subsidies during wartime have helped to ab sorb abnormally high wartime pro duction costs and keep prices on a “reasonable” plane. Whether the subsidies, howevei* have saved the j general public any money in the I long run is a moot question upon > which not all are agreed, although testimony before one of the congres [ sional committees was to the effect that for every dollar spent in government subsidies from three to five dollars would be saved in the price of food at the retail level. If this is true, then based on an annual two billion dollar outlay, this would mean a yearly saving of at least six billion dollars to consumers in the retail stores of the country. Government subsidies are of tw» classes and work both ways—one, the consumer subsidy, paid to hold down prices, and the other the price support or incentive subsidy, paid to hold up prices and to increase production in certain products. Will Prices Hold Up? The question which remains un answered is—will removal of subsi dies bring about a drop in prices to farmers? Or will supply and de mand help keep up the parity prices which the farmers are guaranteed? The best opinion here , is that there will be a compromise base adopted on consumer subsidies, and that they will be finally eliminated, but on a piecemeal or gradual pro gram, with the sugar and flour sub sidies probably the last to be elimi nated. Besides these, commodities subsi dies are in effect on wheat, milk, peanuts, cooking oils, beans, meats and a few other items. There is also a subsidy paid by the RFC to a cer tain class of oil operators. This alone has cost almost a hundred mil lion dollars. * The RFC also has handled the I subsidy on meats, butter and wheat, j and at the end of 1944 these pay- ' ments had been approximately 660 1 million dollars on meat, 117 million dollars on butter and 86.1 million dollars on wheat and flour. New Base Wanted While the program for elimination of subsidies goes forward slowly, farm organizations are busy organ izing themselves for a fight to set up a new base for arriving at parity prices for farm products. On the theory that the present parity price, which means farm purchasing pow er equivalent to the 1909-1914 period, no longer fits the picture under pres ent increased costs of production and living, action may go along two courses: y 1. Setting up an entirely new set of figures for determining parity, or demanding 100 per cent of parity instead of the 90 per cent now guar anteed under the law, or 2. Attempting to add farm labor costs into the parity price as pro vided in the bill introduced by Con gressman Pace (D., Ga.). A measure attempting to do this trick was defeated in the senate dur ing the 78th congress, although from this writing it appears the Pace bill may have a good chance of passing the lower house. And in the meantime, there is considerable bickering and differ ence of opinion on just how long present prices are guaranteed un der present laws. It is pretty gen erally agreed that on wheat, cotton, rice, corn, tobacco and peanuts, the parity figure is guaranteed for three years. (Two years after January 1 following official end of the war.) NEWS*Mh j Subscribe to Omaha’s Greatest Race Weekly ★The Omaha Guide . -‘i - —■ --- .. * ■!' " - High Average ' . 1 > By GEORGE S.BENSON Resident of Harding CoDege Searcy. Arkansas ~---E3 SUCCESS- in battle consists of getting there first with the most. This proverb has been attributed to more than one military hero but it probably originated with that picturesque cavalry general of America’s Civil war, Nathan B. Forrest. At any rate, it is still true. The last war was old when America got in it, but pach individual conquest proved the old formula sound. Mechanical devices, in infinite variety and uncomputed tons, put r.n end to the conflict.' They were made in America. Moreover the ships and cars and planes that look them to far-flung points of need were likewise made in America. If any other nation of people had been able to do it, they would have done it long be fore the Pearl Harbor raid. Only America had what it took. Made in WHAT is this rare America and magic quality? , The answer is easy: it is average greatness. An out standing genius here and there does not make a competent na tion. Such men are useful but they are not the people. A young man to whom I handed a diploma in June 1943 reported proudly last August that he had been one of 6,500 obscure chemists who helped develop the atomic bomb. Where, but in America, is it possible to find 6,500 obscure chemists? Chemists of his skill and training are worthy of dis tinction in some countries, but in America they engage in volume production. They work on what amounts to assembly lines. And the result brings to a war-weary world a breath of relief from starvation and suffering and . sorrow. Precious THIS high “average" Possession greatness” found in America is the rare quality which must never be sac rificed. If we keep it, this coun try need never come under the heel of a foreign enemy or a home-grown desDot. But if we keep it our people must know what it is and how it i? obtained. Without further a-dvt average greatness is a product of the kind of liberty America enjoys. The average American soldier is not a great general but he pos sesses generalship, a human trait apart from rank. From youth he has known his right to own any thing he could get honestly, his right to hold any office to which he could be elected, his right to compete. Where competition is not open, learning is lavished on the few and mediocrity paralises progress. I have said this before, but it will bear repeating: The much maligned American system has made this nation great, prosper ous, enlightened and resourceful, able to do big jobs in a hurry, get there first with the most and turn defeat into victory. Eco nomic independence and personal self reliance are pillars of educa tion. America’s most valuable resource is resourcefulness. H. W. Smith’s Weekly Waiter’s Column ^ any news about waiters, or anything pertaining to them or their routine of living, call H. W. Smith—HA-0800 and give him the news... RR boys serving on wheels with a smile. Paxton hotel waiters very much on the job! Regis Hotel and White Horse Inn waiters going good. Fontenelle Hotel waiters on the up and go at all times. Blackstone hotel waiter on a quick step on service. Bro. John Evans the dean of all Roast Beef Knights, top man at the Rome Hotel. Musician headwaiter and crew very much out in front with tlic Waldorf-Astoria chef and the wide awake second cook Mr. McShanc whoattends Church every Sunday and is very much in the running at all times. Mr. King Alls has been on the sick list but is very much improv ed. Mr. Goldie Davis the top notch bartender and the streamlined assistant can raise a champagne cork without any noise. -- McDonald Reporting I am still calling your attention to Omaha and the many changes that are now talcing place in the world. First the shooting has been di« continued but the fighting goes on much confusion goes on it seem that everyone has a crave for more money therefore strikes or caus ing much trouble grief disappoint ment one wonders what the future will be. Let us hope for a bright future. Everyone seems to be on a honey moon. The Tropical Fish Co., 1721 Howard St., reports that he h*>s the nicest set of customers in the town. They are prompt and hon est. He has many varieties of fish and anything you want in his line of fixtures to take care of your fish. His ad appears in the Omaha Guide. Mr. Paul Dickson of 3610 North 30th can fix any radio or bicycle or clock .when you are in trouble with any of these things you can see him or you can call.... KEnwood 6646. The Fires Drapery, 2065 Farnam street can always take care of your draperies at anytime. Bring me your Xmas work, I’ll apprec iate your patronage. You also find at 1323 Park ave. a nice furniture store, the propri etor is a nice young man who wish es to meet you. Service with a smile. His Store, 2915 Leavenworth st. The Meyers Hardware Store, has been in the same location for many years. He carries a full line I of everything usually found in a first class hardware store. You can always find what you are look ing for in his store. Mr. Newman who operates a Gro. Store at 1342 Park Ave. has remained in the same building for 31 years. Mr Newman has made many friends and a very fine man to meet. He carries a fine assort ment of groceries and all kinds c.f meats. .also whiskies, beer and gins.... He’s admired by all.when you wish anything in his line stop by. The Schroeder Realty Co., 1911 Harney Street want the public to know that he has lived in Omaha for many years and had made many friends and his ambition is to make many more.he is the jolliest man you ever met. ...always full of life and joy and looking for a bright future. Mr. Carlson the proprietor of the One Horse Store at 28th and Grant, has been true to his many friends in the way of serving them in the hours of need and distress. There never was a time in his 18 years in this community when he would lend every effort to aid and assist those who called upon him. His efforts have been untiring. we like him because he is kind, and full of sympathy. When you enter the store you are met by Mrs. Carlson and her daughter, also Miss Dorothy Law son and they have a slogan “Ser vice with a Smile’’ and you are al ways welcome to serve yourself to a nice line of groceries, meats, vegetables of the highest type. So come and let us be friends to gether. rvc Hive mm oeuause ne nas prov en himself to be a friend q£ the people as a whole in the commun ity, which he has served and is now serving. We believe his place will be hard to fill—the right man in the right place. He wishes all of his many friends a Merry Xmas and a very Happy New Year. I shall continue in the future as I have done in the past. Mr. Ole Olsen of 416 North 16th St., calls your attention to his place where you will find Old San ta himself. Mr Olsen has all the dolls you are looking for, electric al fixtures, and can snap your pic . ture; fix your watch or clock .\ Meet Santa at Olsens—Mr. Olsen is a fine man to meet. C. C. McDonald, the reporter and representative of the Omaha Guide wishes to extend his thanks to a’l of those who have so graciously contributed their support to a wor thy cause in promoting The Oma ha Guide. We wish all of you A Merry Xmas and A Very Prosper ous New York. HEAVY DEMAND FOR NAACP CHRISTMAS SEALS New York—Heavy demand for Christmas seals of the NA ACP, especially from southern states, indicates that the total sales may reach one million, it was announc ed here. More than 90,000 seals had been distributed as of Dec. 1. BORN BUND 1849 j AT COLUMBUS. 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