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Pentagon Happily Greets New Army Secretary WASHINGTON. June 17 (NBA)--When the Pentagon got the White nouie Sash that Gordon Gray had been promoted from undersecretary to secretary o' the army, an employe there "Brother, that's the most comforting news we've gotten in thi.s flvc- sided madhouse since the Japs surrendered." SuD.n was unanimous everyone who had had any- tr.mz do with the slim 40-year- Gray, whose ruddy cheeks and eancy hair make him look even younger than he is. A hard-bitten anny press agent put it this way: "Usually I cringe when I have to put oa; the corny lines about the brais. This time, for a change, I car tell the truth. He's the kind of a public sen-ant the political science say the government needs more of.

And you can quote me." WHAT THEY ALL LIKE most a soul Gray is how easy he is to get aiong with and work for. Prom Sepiember, 1947, until a few months ago. he was the assistant secretary a' the army under Kenneth Boyall. Since then he has been undersecretary and also acting-secretary. During that time, his office has become known as "the port in the storm," meaning that it was one office free of confusion.

Gray's main job as assistant secretary was directing the army's complex and mammoth purchasing activities. His work in meshing this function into the new national defense set-up has made it one of the most successful accomplishments of tae aruScaticm. The late James For- rastal several times lauded Gray's part in that program. The new secretary is independently wealthy, as a result of inheriting his father's tobacco fortune. But hi; money hasn't kept from starting at the bottom on practically every job he's tackled.

In 192B he gave up a seat as state senator in North Carolina to enlist in tie army as a private. Hard work won him the right to try for a commission the hard way--through the infantry school at Fort Benning, Ga. During the fighting in Europe, Gray -was a captain on the stafl of Omar BracJey. serving as a psychological warfare expert. When Bradley was asked how it seemed to have a former captain who was under him become his boss.

Bradley replied: "No former captain who ever served in my command deserves the Job more than Gordon Gray." AFTER GRAY was installed as assistant secretary, another former captain who had also been on Bradley's staff with him visited Gray in r.is office in tlie Pentagon. He asked Gray: "Gordon, how does it feel to out- rani all of those generals who used to give so many orders and hardly fcnetr that we existed?" "I've discovered that they are all Fs-ell guys," Gray replied. gee row of buttons there? It does pve me a kick to punch one and have a general promptly show up in my office." Gray then pointed to a button on the end and added: "That's the only one I've never had nerve enough to push. It be- Icngs to General Eisenhower." THE VOLUME of work that Gray i does astonishes most people. He 10 or more hours a day, rarely takes Saturday off and usually getf in a few hours' work thu time at the Pentagon keeps i Gray and his wife, daughter of a prominent Wmston-Salem, N.

IE-STST. from a very active social they do go out or entertain, I if usually with a small circle of old They have four young Golf used to be his sport, but he's rr.ly played twice since coming to i Washington. About the only outside ir.tereft he has now Is the North Carolina football team. The rare Saturdays that he can be found'! Eva? from his desk are. those in the fall --hen the Tarheels axe playing He was graduated from that Khoo'.

In 1930. having been made president of the honorary scholastic Phi Beta Kappa society. He then to Yale Law school, served as of the Yale Law Journal ana his decree in 1933. For two year? he practiced law in New York City, going to Wir.ston- Ssiem to live in 1935. There he practiced law and became owner of the Piedmont Publishing company, includes the Winston-Salem Journal, the Twin City Sentinel, sni radio station WSJS.

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J. COLLIER, Optometrist GORDON GRAY: One button he didn't have nerve enough to push. Tri-State Board Agrees on Topics To Undergo Study CONCORD, June 17 CAP)--Ten specific problems will be studied by the newly-organized tri-state institutional committee, representing NEW Hampshire, Maine and Vermont, It was announced. Dr. John L.

Smaildon. superintendent of the state hospital, said agreement on the 10 points was reached at a conference with Gov. Sherman Adams this week. To be considered are joint care and treatment of mentally defective delinquents, sexual psycopaths, mentally defective children under five years of age and mental defectives beyond age periods now provided for by laws of the three states. ADDITIONAL topics to be considered are uniform residence agreement Tor admission to state hospitals, preventntlve mcan.s for curtailing hospital admissions, the treatment and cnre of alcoholics and tuberculous patients and the care and treatment of the aged.

Results and possible solutions to the.se studies will be reported at a second conference at Augusta, in August. Dr. F. H. Sleeper, superintendent of the Maine State hospital at Augusta, was named group chairman.

Each state was represented by two officials at the conference. Maritime Unions Sign Contracts With Shipowners NEW YORK, 17 rAP)--Two- year contracts covering more thnn 60,000 seamen were signed by representatives of two CIO maritime unions and Atlantic and Gulf coast shipowners. The agreement, which must be ratified by union rank and file, was readied yesterday after 22 hours of almost continuous negotiations. The previous contract expired at midnight Wednesday. Signing of the new contracts was announced by William N.

Margolis, assistant director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation service. THE PACTS cover 60.000 members of the National Maritime union and some 1,400 members of the American Radio association. They provide for a $7.50 monthly increase to be added to the present base pay as a clothing allowance. The agreements with both unions contain similar clauses stating that the union hiring hall system of choosing employes will In effect pending a decision of the U. S.

Supreme court as to its legality. In the event of a decision outlawing hiring hall practices, the agreements -would be reopened for nego- OUT OUR WAY MY, MV, TANS1E "lOU ONLY BEEM OM THIS DRILU PRESS THREE DAYS, AND DRILLED ALL THEM HOLES 1M THAT NEW TABLE; I KNEW I SAID SO WHEM JHEY PUT ME OM HERE-TM ASKIM 1 OU' TANSIE MADE 'EM COUNT ALL HOLES BEFORE HET GO ON THAT OLD IF HE M6 NOBODTD HAVE THOU6HT OF THE VISITORS -IK CONTRACTS, which will until June 15, 1951, contain wage reopening clauses under which negotiations will resume upon 30 days' notice given by either party. The NMU agreements contains a clause which guarantees against cuts of present manning scales aboard vessels for the two-year life of the pact. Manning scales determine the number of men on a ship. Other clauses in the NMU agreement call for improved grievances machinery to provide speedy settlement ol disputes, an additional week's vacation giving each seaman a total of two weeks' vacation each year and an extended port time clause covering all ports.

Eire Knitters Meet in Kittery The Eire Knitting club held its last meeting of the season last, night at Stardust inn, Kittery Mrs. Joseph C. Keraghan of Kittery will continue as knitting instructor when the club resumes activities next September. Announcement also was made of a dressmaking course to be given by Mrs. Ciara Boumilla.

Miss Ellen Regan presented a gift to Mrs. Keraghan. Mrs. Keraghan and Mrs. John Rafferty were in charge of arrangements; Mrs.

Walter Black, Mrs. Denis Driscoll and Miss Marion Feeney, decorations, Mrs. Carlos' Hobbs and Mrs. Perley Putnam, I transportation. Grade 8 Class Graduated in Wells The 50 Grade 8 students at Wells high school were yesterday morning at exercises in the school auditorium.

Gary Llttlefield, winner of a recent Wells junior high school spelling contest and "champion speller" of Union 2, was awarded certificates by Mrs. Althine B. Wyman, substitute teacher of Grade 8. PEGGY BRIDGES of Grade 7 and Ruth Jamieson of Grade 8 each were awarded books. They were selected as outstanding pupils in the use of the library.

Goort Citizenship medals, awarded by the Daughters of the American Revolution, were presented to Nadyne McCarn, Vaughn Roberts, Richard Moore and Marlene Matthews. Mrs. Prances Perkins, a member of the DAR, spoke. Grade 7 pupils were special guests at the exercises. Miss Marion Freeman, director of the Glee club, was presented a clock by club members.

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While On Vacation. THE ARRIVAL OF THE MAIL! You'll Enjoy The Event Even More If Each Day's Mail Includes A Copy Of The Portsmouth Herald Insure Yourself Against Getting Out Of Touch With Home! CALL 37 TODAY And Ask For The Circulation Department. ARRANGE TO HAVE THE HERALD FOLLOW YOU ON YOUR VACATION! Therapy Center Will Open Today In Manchester MANCHESTER, June 17 (AP)--A 7,500 square foot rehabilitation center to service the Concord, Nashua, Manchester area was to be dedicated this afternoon. Mayors Charles McKee, Oswald Maynard and Josephat T. Benoit of the three cities were scheduled 'speakers at dedication ceremonies.

The sponsoring New Hampshire Society for Crippled Children and Handicapped Persons will conduct tours through the new Elm street building. Dartmouth Alumni Gather in Hanover HANOVER, June 17 (AP)--Nine hundred Dartmouth alumni, repre- sentati'ves of eight classes ranging back to 1903, are together here for reunions this wekened. Activities start this evening and continue through Sunday. Classes returning to Dartmouth are those of 1903, 1904, 1905, 1909. 1928, 1929.

1930 and 1939. Classes having their 25th and 50th reunions held them in conjunction with graduating exercises last weekend. Portumoulh Horald, Portsmouth, N. H. Friday Evening, June 17, 1949 Page Seven World Analysis Religion, Communism to Lock in Orient H.v ncWITT A 1 A I' Foreign Affairs Analyst Out of mystic India comes a story so strange that it reads like fantasy.

Attention Is called to it here because it epitomizes a situation which I believe will play a vital part in the great war of the ideologies developing in the Orient. On July 1 the old and princely state of Travancore will combine with the adjoining principality of Cochin and the 36-year-old maharajah of Travancore will become titular head. He will be responsible to the new government of India. THERE'S NOTHING startling in this transaction, of course, because some 565 principalities of India are being absorbed by the New Delhi government. The strange part is this: For 200 years the real ruler of Travancore has been the Hindu god Padmanabha, and the Maharajahs have acted as stewards of the deity.

The princes have sworn allegiance only to the god, and every night have deposited the keys of the state treasury at the god's feet in token of this, picking the keys up in the morning. It took the Indian government Municipal Court A Dedham, man was fined $10 and costs of $4.70 today in Portsmouth municipal court on a charge of driving a motor vehicle without a license. John W. Reeves pleaded guilty to the state police charge. The few remaining birds of the once numerous whooping crane flocks winter on the Texas coast.

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Several other styles to choose from--all priced at 'Actual blouse in button-front styls. nbout a yeni' to pcrtmndc present nmharjah to change the status of his state. He was fearful that he would be committing blasphemy if he swore allegiance to the Indian constitution or agreed to alter the boundaries of his state. The skeptical reader may say that the prince wns merely stalling to avoid changing the status of his state. However, your columnist ac- i cepts the prince's explanation as sincere.

RELIGION PLAYS a major part in the lives of both Hindus and Moslems. And how does thi.s fit into the war of the ideologies? Well, Moscow is increasingly shifting to the Orient the weight of iUs world revolution for the spread of communism. A vital part of the Red offensive is its attack on religion, which is obstructive to the Communist movement. The Hindu and Moslem religions are far from being the only ones in the Orierrt, There are numerous others, but one and all they probably represent communism's toughest enemy. Evon the man who worships a stone idol isn't going to give up his God.

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