Bishops To Burn Wilberforce Mortgage
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$125,000 Mortgage To Go
Up in Smoke
Bishops R. C. Ransom of
^unwiorce, Ohio, J. A.
Gregg of Kansas City and L>.
H. Sims of Philadelphia, met
in Cohimbus. Ohio this week
Co arrange to pay the balance
«f the $125,000 mortgage on
Wilberforce Unive rsity. I
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These three bishops preside
over the three episcopal dis
tricts of the AME Church
which support Wilberforec
University and have consider
ably reduced the mortgage.
June 1, 1946 is the date set
for paying the mortgage and
the mortgage burning will he'
during the University comm
encement, the second week in
June. Bishop Ransom,
chairman ot the board, said
“This mortgage has been for
over 20 years’ the chief head
ache of Wilforce. We had
to pay once eight percent anil
then seven percent on SI25,-1
000. and in recent years six
percent interest. We have al
1 ready paid far more than
SI25,00 in interest alone.
Bishop Gregg and Bishop
Sims and I will take the mat
ter to our churches and I
ave confidence that every
penny of the balance will be
paid by June 1st as we plan. '
The mortgage was put upoo
Shorter Hall in 1923 when
Bishop Joshua H. Jones built
what was then the largest
single building on the cam
pus of any Negro school in (
America. The building now
houses the offices of the Bis
hop, Chairman of the Univ
ersity board of Trustees, the
President, dean of the Col
lege of Libera! Arts, dean of i
men, dean of women, secret-.
arv of the University, treasur
er of the University, college
class rooms on the first floor
physics and chemistry labor
atories, offices and cafeteria
in the basement floor. On
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transportation lines. Transportation
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fuller life.
SACRED PAINTING
SYMBOLIZES LENTEN
WEEK OF EVANGELISM
Chicago—This picture, “Christ of
the Harvest Fields”, was painted
by Warner Sallman here to insp
ire Methodists in their current
Crusade for Christ campaign for
a million new members. During
the week of March 24 the deno
mination's churches will observe
a national week of visitation evan
gelism. The painting illustrates
Christ’s appeal for workers: “Lift
up your eyes and look on the fields
for they are white already to har
vest”. (St. John 4:35.)
the upper floors are dormit
ory rooms in which are now
housed over 300 girls from
thirty different states, with
recreation rooms, parlors,
etc. Besides this there Is
Jones Memorial Auditorium
named for the builder, Bish
op Joshua Henry Jones,
which seats 2800 people, and
has one of the finest pipe or
gans, which cost over $32,
000, 22 years ago. The or
iginal cost of the building
was over $300,000. A re
cent survey of all the foriy
buildings on the Wilberforce
campus, stated, according io
President Wesley, that Shor:
er Hall, named for Bisho;
J. A. Shorter, one of theToun
ders of iiberforce, is the mos:
substantial. It is fire proof.
Former students from all ov
er America are expected to
attend the mortgage burning.
“ GIRL No. 217”
“Girl No. 217” first Soviet war
time film of life in Germany, will
be shown at the Tivoli Theatre.
'922 So. 24th Str., Orntha, Nebr.,
March 20 and 21, Wdenesday and
Thursday, two showings each nite
at 7 and 9 pm
The story of a Russian girl who
was sold on the Nazi slave mkt.
and became the servant of a
German family. The film provi
des an insight into the life and
character of the people who sold
bought, and used slave labor.
Their cruelty, their inhuman use
of their slaves and of each other,
based on reports by Russians who
suffered similar experiences, are
reveald on the screen and may
serve to clear up doubts in those
minds of those who felt that the
Potsdam peace terms were too
harsh on the Germans.
“Girl No. 217” was directed by
Mikhail Romm, one of the Soviet
Unions outstanding producers.
The original score for the picture
was written by Alexander Khat
churian, a musician who is rank
ed with Shotakovich among com1
posers in the Soviet Union.
“Girl No. 217” was produced by
Tashkent and Mosfilm Studios
in Moscow, USSR.
A Russian talking with Englisn
titles.
Cast: Tanya, Elena Kuzmina.
ACCUSED OF DISCLOSING
ATOMIC SECRETS
London, Eng. Radiophoto—Dr
Alan Nunn May, British scientist
who worked on the atomic bomb
in Canada, had admitted giving
secret atomic information to an
other person, but refused to dis
close the person’s name or na
tionality. Dr. May, who has been
lecturing at King’s College, Uni
versity of London, was remanded
to the Bow Street police station
ere for another appearance March
19th. The 34 year old nuclear
scientist was arrested and charg
ed specifically With disclosing
atomic secrets 'which might be
directly or inderectly useful to the
enemy’.
Klava, Anastasia Lissianskaya;
The Scientist, Vissili Zaichikov;
Prisoner No. 225, Gregory Mik
lailov; The Germans: Johann
Krauss, grocer, Vladimir Vladis
lav ky; Frau Krauss, Tania Bar
isheva; Lotte, their daughter, Lu
dmilla Sukharevkaya; Max Krauss
Vassili Balashov; Rudolf Peshke,
her fiance, Peter Sukhanov; Kurt
Kahger, Gregory Greif.
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*By Walter Shead
H WNU Correspondtnf
WNU W asbington Bureau,
. 1616 Eye St.. N. W.
New ‘Hold Line’ Policy
Doesn’t Satisfy Anyone
An old Greek philosopher once
said: “Give me a theory and I will
find an argument to support it.”
In his address to the nation on
October 31 President Truman de
clared a simple policy, too easy and
simple in fact; (1) that manage
ment could raise wages in general
without raising prices (2) that labor
must be moderate in wage increase
demands and (3) that we must get
back to collective bargaining. His
talk was quiet, candid, plain, in up
holding his theory. But it didn't
work.
His new wage-price pronounce
ment of February 15 is the direct
opposite. (1) It permits more than
moderate wage increases (2) it per
mits increase in prices and (3) it
throws collective bargaining over
board and restores wage controls
under the National Wage Stabiliza
tion board. In other words, the
President has returned to wartime
controls of wages, prices and pro
duction until reconversion is com
plete. And the President has an
excellent set of arguments to sup
port his latest theory.
Something Had to Be Done
Will it work? Labor doesn’t like
it. Management doesn’t like it. And
perhaps the public doesn’t like it.
But something had to be done to
alleviate the economic chaos in
which the country found itself
ground between the millstones of
stubborn management and equally
stubborn labor. And now with a
bulge in the old price line, it re
mains to be seen whether Chester
Bowles can do the job. Some say
here he has been given an impos
sible job.
Bowles says he can hold the price
line if he has the co-operation of
all concerned. He won't get it,
though. He has become the symbol
of price control, something that in
dustry is still fighting against, par
ticularly the National Association of
Manufacturers.
It is no secret here that big busi
ness men want inflation. They have
the dollars, they have the plants and |
real estate and with inflation they
will get more dollars, although low
er valued dollars, and their plants
and real estate will soar in value.
Inflation only hurts the little fel
lows, those with fixed incomes who
depend upon their savings in bonds
and insurance. When inflation comes
and the value of their dollars in
vested in bonds and insurance
drops, their buying power toboggans
and prices soar. Bowles says
he must have the OPA law for at
least another year, and although the
NAM and other big interests are ex
erting tremendous pressure to per
mit the law to die June 30, it ap
pears as though enough votes may
be mustered to extend it.
If Bowles has his way within the
President’s official family, he may
save something out of the chaos and
indecision which have marked han
dling of this reconversion program.
He is a fighter, he is courageous
and he needs help. He gets little or
none from congress and up to now
has had none from the executive
branch of the government.
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Inflation Is Feared
Farm organizations are finally
rallying around the Bowles stand- j
ard because they see in him the last I
bulwark against an inflation which
will be ruinous to agriculture. The
Farmers Union has honored him
“for the most outstanding service
to agriculture in 1945” for his hold
the-line policy. Because when
Bowles held the line against infla
tion of values of industrial goods he
was putting money into farmers’
pockets just as surely as if he had
raised farm prices. .
But Bowles now says we must
continue subsidies. And farm or
ganizations here have just adopted
resolutions saying that subsidies are
ruinous to farm prices. In a two-day
meeting of organized dairy farmers
of the National Co-operative Milk
Producers federation a black-picture
of doom and despair was pictured
because of subsidies on milk and
other farm produce. Dairymen were
going bankrupt, they said, and they
threw a big banquet for 250 con
gressmen to prove it.
At the same time the Farmers’
Union was honoring Bowles With a
pat on the back, Jim Patton, head
of the Farm organization, declared
the President’s new program, which
Bowles must make work, was a
$250,000,000 bribe to business.
On the same day they adopted a
resolution declaring government
subsidies would ruin them, they is
sued a joint-letter from major na
tional farm organizations indorsing
the Flannagan School lunch bill.
This bill is, after all, a $50,000,000
annual subsidy to agriculture for
purchase of surplus farm crops for
the lunch program. So there is con
tinuing prospect for confusion. The
belief here, however, is that labor
peace generally may be here soon
and that if Bowles can get his way,
the reconversion program may start
moving smoothly.
HEADLINES & PICTURES
The story of one oi the most
inspiring achievements in the US
is that of the late William Ran
dolph Granger, who came to thM
country as a boy of 16 from Bar
badoes an^ lived to see six sons
obtain coL'ege educations, one
gaining national prominence and
five becoming professional men.
In the 6th of its American Fa
I-WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS
Rip Franco Rule; U. S. Stiffens
Foreign Policy; Readjust Crop
i Goals to Meet Emergency Needs
by Western Newspaper Union. —-’
(EDITOR S NOTE: When opinions are espressed in these columns they ««***■••;
Western Newspaper Union’s news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper.t
Hoping to meet Allied demands
for democratization of Japanese
government. Emperor Hirohito
makes tour of industrial plants, tip
ping hat to reverent subjects at
Kanagawa-Ken.
SPAIN:
Hot Spot
With leftist elements in France
pressing the issue, a new govern
ment loomed in Franco Spain, long
under fire for Fascist connections
but reportedly countenanced by
Britain because of its neutrality dur
ing World W^ar II, which diverted
direct attack on Gibraltar.
The Allies’ first major step in
seeking to supplant Franco came
with France's closure of its border
against Spain. Prodded by French
proposals to take up the matter with
the United Nations organization, the
U. S. and Britain then reportedly
agreed to form a common front to
apply pressure for Franco’s re
moval.
While renouncing intentions to
meddle with Spain’s internal af
fairs, the U. S. and Britain moved
to denounce the continued existence
of Franco’s regime and proclaim
their willingness to recognize an in
terim representative government if
he were o»sted. Awaiting resolution
of the situation, the U. S. and Brit
ain would not break off economic
ties or diplomatic relations, leaving
the road open for negotiations for
creation of a democratic govern
ment.
FOREIGN POLICY:
U. S. Stiffens
Answering demands of Sen. Ar
thur Vandenberg (Rep., Mich.) for
a firmer foreign
policy in reaching
an understanding
with Russia, Secre
tary of State
Byrnes declared
the U. S. would go
to war to curb fu
ture aggressors and
peace and repara
tions settlements
must be reached
speedily and equi
tably to permit the
economic revival of Vandenberg
the world.
Byrnes’ enunciation of the admin
istration’s foreign policy followed
Vandenberg’s charge upon return
ing from the United Nations Organ
ization sessions in London that the
American representatives sat back
with compromising attitudes while
Russia and Britain pressed their po
litical ambitions. Unless the U. S.
pushes its ideals, Vandenberg said,
Russia will continue to press ahead
in the Far East, eastern Europe,
North Africa and Asia Minor where
continued aggressiveness may set
off a powder keg.
In reaffirming U. S. determination
to check future aggression, Byrnes
declared that the present arrange
ment of the three great powers
precluded world domination by any
one of them, but that efforts to upset
the balance would imperil peace. In
calling for early peace treaties, he
asked for an ending of the drain
ing of occupied countries. Demand
ing equitable reparations agree
ments, Byrnes said the U. S. would
not tolerate any power deciding
for itself what to take.
STRIKES:
Costly Walkout
The General Motors and CIO
United Automobile Workers pitched
battle over wages ranks as one of
the costliest industrial disputes in
U. S. history, with financial losses
of over 800 million dollars to com
pany, union, dealers and other pro
ducers dependent on G. M. for
parts.
With its plants closed as tight as
a drum throughout the country,
G. M. was estimated to have lost
500 million dollars in unfilled orders
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NATIONAL INCOME:
With the national income in each
month of 1945 running below the
1944 level, the year’s total dropped
to 145,594 million dollars in 1945
from the record high of 160,695 mil
lion dollars in 1944. National in
come, however, was practically as
large as in 1943 when it was the
second largest on record. Further
more, the fact should not be over
looked that the 1945 figure is pre
liminary and actually may be larger.
while 175,000 production employees
missed 113 million dollars in wages.
Dealers and salesmen were said to
have lost another 100 million dol
lars in commissions.
Because of G. M.’s production
of parts, other manufacturers have
been forced to curtail assemblies,
increasing profit and wage losses.
At the Packard Motor Car company,
8,000 production workers have been
off more than a month because of
the shortage of G. M. supplies.
Of 50,000 G. M. employees in Flint,
Mich., over 2.000 strike-bound work
ers are receiving welfare relief at
a rate of $38.06 weekly.
GERMANY:
Ration Cut
Reduction of the food ration to
1,000 calories daily in the British
occupation zone in Germany, and
need for substantial imports into
the American-held sector if the
present level of 1,500 calories is to
be maintained, pointed up the criti
cal situation in the fallen Reich.
Seeking to alleviate the new hard
ship imposed by the ration slash
and head off possible rioting, Field
Marshal Montgomery flew to Lon
don to discuss ways of providing
additional food for the 20 million
German residents in the highly in
dustrialized northwestern region
held by the British. Because a di
vision of British food supplies would
not furnish substantial relief, how
ever, authorities appealed to the
U. S. and Russia for food shipments.
While Germans in the U. S. occu
pation zone are receiving a subsist
ence ration of 1,500 calories daily,
two-thirds of the food eaten is com
ing from local stocks. If the present
allotment is to be maintained, im
ports soon will have to be upped
and a total of 700,000 tons shipped
in during the first nine months of
1946. Because of scarcities of fer
tilizer, seeds, tools and farm ma
chinery, fall crops may be appre
ciably curtailed.
FOOD:
Crop Readjustments
In readjusting 1946 crop goals, the
department of agriculture sought to
assure a greater supply of edible
grain, nutritious relief fare, fats and
oils and animal feed to meet not
only U. S. needs but growing Euro
pean emergency requirements.
Because winter wheat already has
been planted, the additional 1,000.
000 acres asked will have to be
seeded in the spring wheat area,
the department declared. While
North and South Dakota, Montana
and Minnesota are expected to plant
the bulk of the extra acreage,
other spring wheat areas were called
upon to increase their crop.
Since smooth dry edible peas con
stitute a good protein relief food and
ship well, the department planned
for a 100,000-acre boost in plantings,
principally in Colorado, Idaho, Mon
tana, North Dakota, Oregon and
Washington.
With small world supplies of fats
and oils in the face of the slow
movement of shipments from the
Pacific and heavy overseas relief
needs, soybean goals were boosted
by 1,100,000 acres. Iowa, Ohio, Illi
nois, Indiana, Minnesota and Mis
souri were asked for the greatest
increase.
Faced with the need for high meat
and dairy output with feed stocks
dwindling, farmers were asked to
Increase corn production over 1,000,
000 acres and also step up roughage
cultivation. At the same time, pro
ducers were told to maintain the
flow of cattle to market, ship hogs
at lighter weights and cull poul
try flocks.
World Supplies
Supplies of all grains in the prin
cipal exporting countries in Janu
ary were about 15 per cent smaller
than at the beginning of 1945, with
wheat stocks about 25 per cent less,
according to the department of agri
culture.
Total wheat supplies in U. S., Can
ada, Argentina and Australia were
placed at 1,392 million bushels com
pared with 1,868 million bushels on
January 1, 1945. The exportable,
surplus of 476 to 500 million bushels
is below world needs.
milies series, HEADLINES AND
PICTURES March issue tells the
story of the Granger family. One
of the sons is the famed Lester
B. Granger, National Urban Lea
gue Secretary, with 3 physicians,
(one deceased and two dentists,
(one decased).
Dr Granger, who early immig
rated to thia lountry in search of
freedom and equality, made re
peated moves with his family to
©scape Jim Crow in the United
States. He and his young wife
journyed from Richmond, Va. to
Oklahoma, where he engaged in
the gold rush. He later went to
Newport News, Va., and finally
to Newark, N. J.
Four of his outstanding sons at
tened Dartmouth University.
Read the lift story of Dr. Gran- j
STATE BANKS:
Ship-Shape
With government bond holdings,
loans and discounts and other as
sets showing substantial increases,
the nation's 9.538 state banks boost
ed their total resources to almost
8716 billion dollars in 1945.
A breakdown of assets showed
government bonds, totaling 50 bil
lion dollars, made up 57.4 per cent
of resources at the year end. with
loans and discounts, approximating
16^ billion dollars, next at 18.8 per
cent. Cash and balances with other
banks amounted to over 15 billion
dollars to constitute 17.6 per cent of
assets while state, municipal and
private securities and other re
sources approximating 5 billion dol
lars rounded out the holdings.
The 9,538 state banks had capital
stock totaling 1% billion dollars, sur
plus of 3 billion dollars, undivided
profits of 1 billion dollars and re
serves of 365 million dollars.
Ready Credit
Alive to the growing volume of
installment financing, over 12,000
state and national banks will extend
consumer credit in the postwar
years, greatly expanding their pre
war operations when they supplied
46 per cent of such loans in the
country.
While not all of the banks intend
to extend all types of .onsumer
credit, 10,500 plan to make personal
loans. By buying dealer paper or ad
vancing money directly to con
sumers. 9,400 banks will finance
sales of automobiles and 8,000 will
back purchases of such goods as
home appliances, farm equipment
and airplanes.
Over 5,000 banks will make FHA
loans covering home repairs while
7,900 will extend credit for modern
ization plans of small businesses or
residential owners.
Fritz Finds Heavy Going
Deported in September of 1945 as
dangerous alien after he had been
deprived of D. S. citizenship, for
mer Bund Chieftain Fritz Kuhn is
now baggage smasher in Hohenas
berg castle in Stuttgart, Ger
many^
BIG MAN:
Grows Bigger
One of the biggest of the wartime
entrepreneurs, Henry J. Kaiser con
tinued his postwar growth with the
leasing of two huge government
aluminum mills at Spokane, Wash.,
with options to buy.
In granting Kaiser companies use
of the plants, the government an
nounced that it sought to increase
competition in the industry present
ly dominated by two companies.
Because Kaiser plans to extensively
employ the metal in his automo
biles, the government also said, he
might open a new field for use of
the material and thus open a mar
ket for other U. S.-owned aluminum
plants.
In leasing the $47,630,000 Trent
wood aluminum rolling mill, Kaiser
Frazier agreed "to pay a yearly rent
al amounting to 5 per cent of gross
sales or fixed sums, running up to
$2,667,000 in 1951. In obtaining the
$22,270,000 Mead aluminum reduc
tion plant, Kaiser Cargo, Inc., will
pay annual charges up to $1,248,000
in the fifth year.
MEAT:
Consumer Costs
Though consumers will have to
pay the full cost of the packing com
panies’ 16 cent an hour wage boost
to employees, the actual outlay will
approximate only 81 cents a year
per person on the basis of record
consumption, the department of
agriculture reported.
In arriving at the figure, depart
ment economists divided the 1V4 per
cent price increase allowed pack
ers into anticipated consumption of
155 pounds of meat per person in
1946 at an average of 35 cents a
pound. However, the actual cost
might be less since the estimated
consumption of 155 pounds per per
son reflects a peak and is far above
the average prewar level.
Despite the per cent price
boost granted packers to offset the
wage increase, the American Meat
institute termed OPA’s relief entire
ly inadequate if livestock is to flow
to legitimate channels. Even with
the new price increase, the institute
said, legal operators would be
pressed to compete with black mar
keteers in bidding for cattle.
TIRE OUTPUT:
The tire manufacturing industry
produced approximately one tire
for every automobile on the road
in 1945, casings totalling 28,147,538
units. While this exceeded the war
restricted quotas established early
in 1945, output fell far short of meet
ing long pent-up civilian demand.
Rapidly accelerating production
in the closing months of 1945 and
steadily increasing production since
the first of the year had carried
current weekly output to an all-time
recor^hivhb^jTti^Februanr^^^
ger and his famous family, com
plete with pictures in the current
issue of Headlines and Pictures on
sale at the newsstands.
The succes of only one genera
tion of the Granger family is the
proof that the American melting
pot offers no less to Negroes than
to any other race or nationality.