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4 PAGE TWO OPELIKA (Ala.) DAILY NEWS, THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1949 IS THIS WHERE WE CAME IN OPELIKA DAILY NEWS Tire Price Reduced Akron, July 13 (Pi The B. F. Ooodlrch Co. today announced reductions in prices ot all pneumatic truck casings and tubes, the Sllvertown brand was reduced 5 per cent, and the Defiance brand, 3 per cent. All truck tires were reduced, the slash averaging 7V4 per cent.

Published By OPELIKA DAILY NEWS. Inc. Opelika, Ala. Established as Dally In 1904 Succeeding Opelika Weekly Industrial News nrr When Jerry Hilliard went to Panama City. on Ills vacation, It wax then robbers held up the fashionable Edgewater Gulf apartments and got away with enough jewels to make headlines throughout the country.

And Jerry reports he was a victim of the robbery too. Also taken was the mall for the apartment guests. With the mail were two Opelika Dally News papers which Jerry hadn't picked up. The robbery victim believed the robbers knew what they were getting when they purloined the issues of the Daily i News. Ike Dorsey and Frank Renfro appeared before the city commission In its regular Tuesday night meeting to petition that Ninth street between Seventh and Eighth avenues be opened.

If the proposed project is carried out, it means another block of residential lits will be available for home builders. Observations: The sign on rear of the baseball club's bus proclaiming the Opelika Owls as the owner, spells Opelika incorrectly, leaving off the a. BIBLE VERSE TODAY Men who are doing fine things should be praised and encouraged. To be Jealous of them or hinder them makes us Oods enemies. Gen.

24.56: Hinder me not, seeling the Lord hath prospered my i way. stuck for a casting of Robert Preston's Buddy In "Thunder In The Dust, so hes playing the role himself. Incidentally, MOM Is protesting the use of the title, claiming it conflicts with "Intruder In The Dust." John Ford says he'll make The Quiet Man in Ireland next fall, i The cast will include Maureen jOHarra, John Wayne and Victor I McLaglen. all of whom will go anywhere to work for the director. Ford is now making "Front and Center." one of his first comedies since his Will Roger films.

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At all drug stores everywhere in Opelika, at Central Pharmacy. I Joan Fontaine, Jennifer Jones. Dorothy McGuire posing for sexy pictures. "If I had a choice between having sex appeal and being an actress. Id rather be an actress.

Betty Hutton has already routined all the numbers for "Annie Get Your Gun," so that should end the rumors that Judy Garland might get the role back. Betty says shes practically doing two pictures at once "Annie" and "Let's Dance. Barbara Stanwyck still Isn't fully recoverd from her illness. But she reported back to The Lie" because her scenes were in a hospital bed. Producer Alan Lamary was by MARK BARRON BOB THOMAS Hollywood.

July 14 (JP) At one time or another you have seen leg pitcures of most movie stars. But not Shirley Temple. "I dont like cheesecake pictures and I dont think they arc necessary, she explains. She sniffed at the idea she might not have a photogenic figure. Besides my personal dislike for It (leg-art), its against the policy of my boss.

David Selznick," she added. You dont see any of his stars Ingrid Bergman, Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Opelika. under Act ol Congress ol March 3. 1679. Daily (Afternoon) Except Sunday CARRIER RATE: One Week $0.30 One Month $0.87 MAIL SUBSCRIPTION PRICE? (Payable In advance) (Within 50 miles of Opelika) One year $0.00 8lx months $3.00 Three months $140 (Farther than 50 miles from Opelika) One year $740 Six months $3.60 Three months $1.76 Member of the Associated Press Associated Press is entitled exclusively to ttie use for publication of all the local news printed in this newspaper, as well as all AP news dispatches Governor's Race In 1950 Unless there is a decided change in the outlook, the woods promise to be full of gubernatorial candidates next year, with a number of Old timers in the race, men who have tried before but failed to make the grade.

Folsom, in his successful race in 1946 loved to say that he was te only real candidate, that the others were just 'getting ready to run. He had reference to some political history in the state. It had to do with the candidates of at least three Alabamians who had served as Governor only alter second tries. They were Brandon. Graves and Sparks.

And then along came Folsom to fit ip the same category. Perched on the sidelines now, ready to start at the sound of gong next year are Judge Boozer and Handy Ellis who ran in 1946. It is possible that Joe Pool might try it again: he also ran three years ago. If these gentlemen do enter, they will seem to occupy that preferred class that Folsom was wont to refer to. as real candidates.

The latest aspirant to pitch his hat into the coming race is Joe Money, of Birmingham, a youngster of 38 who is said to be a successful businessman. Money has been sending out feelers for some lime. Whether his wind holds out until 1950 is another matter, in view of his comparative political inconspipuousness. Birmingham may offer another candidate in the person of Cooper Green, the Magic City Mayor, former Postmaster and former member of the Alabama Legislature. Green has the political it, apd could become a strong contender.

However, the Birmian is not too daring and may prefer to conclude that a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. He appears to have a dead clinch on the Mayorship for some years to come. All told, there are at least a dozen potential candidates who are already shaking the political bushes. There will have to be a sharp eleminating program or the voters may find it hard KT make a choice. If all do enter, there shall be such a scattering of votes over such a wide area that it might chalk up a new record in Alabama.

JAMES MARLOW Nation Holds Its Breath Washington. July 14 (PI Once more in a deep serious moment of Its history the nation holds Its breath as two giants, the steelworkers and the steel Industry, get braced for struggle. Turn back the pages of the history book a moment. It was a cold. gray, snowy day.

the striking steelworkers set up their picket lines und began their endless, slow, shuffling, circling around. They had built small fires near tlfelr line of march around the gates of the steel mills at Pittsburgh. Every once In a while a picket dropped out of line to warm his hands and bones by a fire. The day was Jan. 21.

1946. It was the first day. the start, of the big postwar sjel strike. I was there and saw it begin. The whole nation was watching.

At the time. I wrote that this might be the start of a tragic charter in American history, for America at that moment was trying to reconvert to peace. Steel was then, and is now. the heart and backbone of the American economy. Steel was basic.

It was needed everywhere to get the country going on the high road to great peacetime prosperity. But a steel strike, if it lasted long, could push the whole economy into a stumbling, staggering downhill gait and for a very simple reason that anyone could understand: Since steel was basic in. all kinds of Industries building, autos, washing machines, any number of Industries they'd have to shut down for lack of steel if the strike was long. And that would have meant spreading unemployment at a time when It was vital for the country to get people Into jobs, to swing over smoothly from war to peace. In short, a long steel strike would have crushed recovery in a thousand ways.

The strike lasted a month, not long enough to throw the whole country out of whack. The mn went back into the mills and American prosperity began its climb to the highest peak in history. Now. once more, the nation is faced with a giant steel strike and once more the danger comes at moment which might be critical, for now the American economy has begun to slide down hill. Only two days ago President Truman and his council of economic advisers reported that the economy is slipping, that unemployment has increased to around 4.000.000, or double what it was a year ago.

Further, the economists look for things to get worse before they get better. They seem to think they will get better If Theres more business investment, more business expansion, more employment, which means more people with money to spend. But a steel strike, coming at such a serious time, would have just the opposite effect. The strikers alone W'ould mean about another 1.000.000 unemployed. If the strike comes, and lasts long, thousands upon thousands of other men will be thrown into idleness when the companies.

which depend on steel, shut down because they cant get it. If this should happen soon, or in the next couple of months, theres no telling what damage might be done the nation. Because of its vital seriousness. President Truman has stepped into the tangle, asking that there be no strike for at least 60 days. He asked the CIO steelworkers and the big steel companies to keep everything going at least that long.

The steelworkers were to decide today whether theyd agree to what the president asked. But The daddy of the whole steel industry. U. S. Steel Corporation, rejected the idea.

It told Mr. Truman he ought to use the weapons he has under the law to flatly prevent a strike for at least 80 days. So the bitter antagonism between steelworkers and steel owners deepened. New York Faces glimpsed over the Broadway fences: Kathi Norris is a girl with big blue eyes, dark hair and an Irish smile and wit. About her three year old daughter.

Pamela, she says: Theres nothing unusual about my daughter she's just a normal, average genius. Miss Norris is star of the DuMont program, "Kathi Norris Television Shopper, on which she takes her listeners on video tours of stores where they can get best bargains in quality goods that housewives need. Iran into one problem when I started the program. she said. People would listen and look at me shopping, and then write in wanting me to do their shopping for them.

So now I have a staff of three beside myself to do the ac- tual shopping for these listeners. Where did she get that odd name. Kathi? She shortened her real name to save confusion. 1 really was named Kathleen Norris when I was born in Newark, Ohio, she said. "But everybody kept asking if I was "Kathleen Norris, the novelist.

Gene Williams is a youngster, 23 years old. and probably the youngest top flight band leader along Tin Pan Alley. He started I out by charging a nickle admission' to the concerts he gave as a kid in the basement of his Tea-neck. N. home.

At the age of 16 he was a musician in the Abbott and Costello comedy. Hit the Ice, and just as he was well into his career in show business he went into the Army. He served with a Field Artillery Experimental Rocket Battalion. Out of Uie Army, he concentrated on his singing and soon became vocalist for Vincent Lopez. George Paxton and Claude ANNOUNCEMENT We take pleasure in announcing the acquisition of Mr.

Janies W. Patillo to our sales staff. Mr. Patillo has had many years ex- Serience in Home Buildings and eal Estate handling. He is well qualified to serve you in your real estate needs.

WILSON REALTY CO. We are tireless workers 1st Nat Bank Bldg. Phone 609 Thornhill orchestras. Young Williams is also a song writer. His tune Just Goofin which he wrote in collaboration with Hubie Wheeler, is a best seller.

The Andrews Sisters LaVerne. Maxene and Patty exiting from the stage door of the Roxy Theater on their way Around the corner to a Broadway recording studio where they waxed Hohokus. N. "Be-Bop Spoken and other tunes they are delightfully warbling in their current stage show. Only a few weeks before they had been booked into the Club Riviera just across the George Washington Bridge from Manhattan.

a spot where I had first heard them ten years ago. TODAY'S BIRTHDAY By Newsfeoturej A Steel Concerns May Be Ready To 'Fight It Out' One after another the big steel companies are turning down President Trumans proposal for appointment of a special board to study the nation's steel dispute. This indicates the companies, facing a national strike of steel workers, are ready to meet the issue head-on. in a fight to the finish. They are in better position for it now than they have been since pre-war days.

It is to be hoped the strike will not be prolonged: if it is. the effects will be bad for all of us, especially us little folks' who can hardly get along as things stand now. Arthur Capper, born July 14, 1865, at Garnett, son of Quakers. Known as theH world's largest publisher of farm journals, his publications have more than 4,000.000 circulation. After 30 years in the U.S.

Senate as Republican leader of the farm bloc. Capper retired this year. Although he had worked hard to keep the U.S. out of war. he strongly supported the war effort after Pearl Harbor.

Upon his graduation from high school. Capper became a typesetter on the Topeka Daily Capital, one of the papers he now owns. In 1912 he lost a race for governorship of Kansas by 29 votes, but won in 1914 and again in 1916. He went to the senate in 1918 with a large majority. MHOUMClftG the opening of Drake Motor Company 388 Opelika Highway, Auburn, Alabama FORMERLY MARTIN MOTOR (0.

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They made serious remarks about the possible fate that might befall them. The newswoman who refused to go along, felt certain that something was going to happen. She fejared sabotage and stated so very emphatically. Out of fifteeen of the craftsmen who were scheduled to return home on the ill-fated plane, the objecting woman is the only one alive today. Premonitions are not easy to explain but it rejnains that a startling number prove out in time.

Governor Folsom, countering the Legislators proposal for a S40 million road bond issue, raises t(fe ante to $80 million. That provides good room trading'. Perhaps a compromise somewhere between the two expremes might be forthcoming, piovided both sides keep their heads. MacKENZIE Japan Warms Cold War By JAMES D. WHITE AP Foreign News Analyst (For DeWitt MacKenzie) As the coli war moves in on the American occupation of Japan, one of the first big problems is this: Aie the Japanese police going to indulge in some good old-fashioned terror before Communist agitation is dealt with? Its all very complicated.

For instance, one root of the problem is the fact that there are too many people in Japan. This means more workers than jobs. means too many people working for the government. It means a government afraid to fire them. This government has a lot of pre-war politicians in it.

like Premier Yoshida. His cabinet, and those of earlier post-war premiers, have been told many times to cut expenses, to run a more efficient administration. Last winter occupation officials got specific. They said "balance the budget. The government stalled.

Finally it was told to weed out some of the deadwood among its own employees. It turned to the bloc of government, workers who are most highly organized and under strong leftist influence the railway and communications workers. If it was looking for trouble, it found it. It was explained that firing the proposed workers actually meant that only 140,000 would lose their jobs, because the other 20.000 were just fictitious names on the payroll. It seems this is an old Japanese custom so that appropriations for government departments can be kept high.

Naturally, there was trouble with the workers, with the Communists egging them on. Right in the middle. Russia suddenly decided to return thousands of Japanese prisoners of war held since V-J Day. By now they were thoroughly indoctrinated and many joined in the riots and strikes. They defied the police, among other things, which brings us to the question of the day the police.

Keeping law and order is harder now. The Japanese government began talking about reorganizing the police along lines which would restore some of their pre-war power, which i was plenty. Premier Yowhida. tried to fire one police) chief, over whom he had no authority under a postwar law designed to take the police out of politics. He is thinking about declaring a national state of emergency: under which the police could act with more force.

His government is fiddling with ideas like cen-tralizing the police, and creating a "police intelligence" service, or another secret police. Meanwhile, after Gen. MaC-Arthur wondered aloud in public on July 4 whether Communists are entitled to legal standing, there is talk of outlawing the party. Some Japanese and occupation officials think this would just drive the Reds underground and make it easier for them to pose as martyrs. The Reds of course claim to be fighting the workers battle, and non-Communist labor unions are caught between the violence of riots and the possible violence to which the police may turn to suppress such activity if they are given the power.

The Reds in Japan are picking up strength as the tension mounts. They also have outside help from Red China. Tlie Peiping radio yesterday began broadcasting a long and detailed background material on the fostering of Japanese aggressive forces by American Imperialism. It locks like the occupation of Japan has become a prune Communist target. Flogged For Working When a man wants to work more than three dkys a week and for doing so is taken out and fttwed by a bunch of ruffians it is high time that something drastic is done about it.

According to tlve testimony of a miner in the Birmingham distinct. he suffered such an attack by a mob of fifty men. It is remembered that John L. Lewis recently ordered all members of his union to work only three days a week. By and large they obeyed his command but this miner in question, who by the way.

is a member of the union, chose to put in more time. For his temerity and stubbomess he ws forthwith given the lash. Unless there is a stop to this banditry, this unlawful hoodumism in this country, be the perpetrators labor unionite6 or hooded night-riders, we are headed lor a dark age and all the frightfulness such an era brings to a people..