Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that Senator Alben Barkley told his colleagues that he had made no effort to revise the portion of the OPA extension bill dealing with gradual removal of controls and reduction of food subsidies, to which the President had objected in the veto message, but dealt only with those sore spots involving the Taft and Wherry amendments regarding assurance to manufacturers of cost-plus profits and the assurance of profits vertically down to retailers. Mr. Barkley expressed confidence that the President would sign the revised bill, while Senator Robert Taft expressed doubt. Senator Taft wanted the Senate to return the same bill to the President which he had vetoed, stating that the President wanted Congress to eat its words.

Indications were that Senator Pass the Biscuits Pappy O'Daniel would seek again to filibuster the bill to death.

Hog prices continued to rise, hitting $16.75 in Chicago, with St. Louis and Omaha reporting similar prices. Cattle prices remained steady at the previous week's record high of $22.50. Sheep dropped 50 cents to a dollar, to top out at $19.50 per hundred weight. All major markets reported receipt of continuing high numbers of livestock.

As debate began in the House on the British loan, already approved by the Senate, President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes sent a message indicating the central importance of the loan to insure the viability of future world trade and international economic cooperation.

Congressman Andrew May of Kentucky insisted that he had not profited from his dealings with the Illinois companies involved in the war contracts combine, though having endorsed $18,000 worth of checks involved in the combine, and having kept $3,000 in expenses from the purchase of lumber from a Kentucky lumber company which Mr. May facilitated on behalf of the Garsson brothers, who were active in the combine and who used combine war profits to finance the transaction.

Senator James Mead of New York, chairman of the War Investigating Committee investigating the activities of the combine and the role of Mr. May in it, stated that Mr. May's June 5 statement to the committee had been inadequate to explain his role. Mr. May responded to the statement by saying that the attacks in the Senate were "sinister".

Harold Ickes again questions why Senator Pat McCarran of Nevada had an interest in pushing through Congress legislation to divest the Federal Government of its interest in tidal oil lands, given that Nevada possessed no such lands or oil interests.

Despite his maneuvering to get the bill passed through a subcommittee which he had chaired and the Judiciary Committee, which he also chaired, to reach the Senate floor where it was expected to pass, the President had promised to veto the bill as contrary to the national interests.

A case was pending in the Supreme Court, brought by Attorney General Tom Clark at the behest of the President, to determine whether proper title to the lands belonged to the states or the Federal Government. The McCarran bill would render the action moot.

Senator McCarran, says Mr. Ickes, would do better by the nation were he to cease the effort to harm the national interest to the benefit of the individual states and, in the case of the California tidal oil interests, Standard Oil Company, which had lobbied heavily for the bill, and instead turn his attention to the oil lobbyists. One Teapot Dome scandal regarding Federal oil reserves was enough.

The Department of Agriculture reported that 3.2 percent more cotton acreage was in production as of July 1 than a year earlier, about a fourth less than the average for the ten-year period through 1945. It was the first increase in acreage since 1942. The previous year's production was about three-quarters of the ten-year average.

In Mexico, first official returns of the weekend presidential election showed Miguel Aleman of the PRI leading former Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla. Sr. Aleman would go on to win the election. Sr. Padilla was charging fraud at the polls.

In Charlotte, registration was brisk for the new, temporary Charlotte extension of the University of North Carolina, to be held at Central High School during afternoons and evenings during the fall, to accept the overflow of students occasioned by returning veterans. Men and women, most of whom were veterans, signed up in relatively large numbers. Most had applied previously for admission and been rejected because all positions were filled. The extension curriculum would offer the same courses as the University and tuition would be about the same. A special section was also being planned for students who were desirous of entering N.C. State in their sophomore year in 1947.

In Los Angeles, Howard Hughes, 41, had been seriously injured in a plane crash during a personal test flight of an experimental plane, the XF-11, reported as the fastest long-range aircraft ever built. He crashed the plane in a residential section of Beverly Hills, coming to rest in a house, where the plane then exploded. Mr. Hughes was aided by a Marine sergeant and staggered from the aircraft, remaining conscious for half an hour after the crash. He was given a fighting chance to live.

On the editorial page, "Where Did Those Billions Go?" finds the Senate War Investigating Committee off to a good start in chasing down the influence brought to bear by Congressman Andrew May, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, on war procurement contracts in regard to the Illinois combine, as well as his receipt of money for expenses in purchasing lumber for the Garsson brothers. It was perhaps the case that Mr. May did nothing wrong and was merely acting appropriately on behalf of a constituent, but the matter deserved airing.

"The Beer Trade Stays in Line" examines the annual report of the North Carolina committee of the United States Brewers Association, finding that it had been busy during the year inspecting beer dealers across the state, reporting any violations of state regulations, and threatening to cut off the supply of beer in some establishments unless conditions were improved. The committee was serving the beer industry well by such self-regulation, especially given the active Dry forces in the state.

"Undue Influence in the Senate" discusses the refusal by the Senate Sergeant-at-Arms to admit some high school girls who sought entry on a recent evening while wearing shorts. Such attire was deemed inappropriate to the dignity of the Senate, despite the fact that the House admitted females dressed in shorts.

A piece from the Asheville Citizen, titled "The Dawn of a Renaissance", thanks the Louisville Courier-Journal for placing North Carolina alongside Wisconsin and Georgia under Governor Ellis Arnall as being progressive in outlook, of which the Courier-Journal had found a young senatorial candidate, a veteran who vigorously advocated world government, to be an exponent. The spirit of progress, the piece finds, was making its way into Kentucky as it had in North Carolina for a generation, a movement which was taking root in other parts of the South as well.

Drew Pearson reports of a plan by General Graves Erskine to loan from the Maritime Commission surplus riverboats as housing for students in waterfront cities to enable attendance at housing-starved colleges and universities. Two of the vessels, able to house 400 students each, were slated soon to come to Washington.

The American theaters Association refused to accept for exhibition the Army film "Seeds of Destiny", showing the necessity for famine relief in Europe, on the basis that the film was "too gruesome" for audiences to bear. Mr. Pearson suggests that perhaps the real reason was that European women could not get enough food to look like Betty Grable.

This film, incidentally, would win an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for 1946.

Marquis Childs finds it lamentable that Senator Theodore Bilbo had been re-elected to the Senate from Mississippi, despite signs of progress in the South coming from Georgia and Governor Ellis Arnall. Six more years of Mr. Bilbo, he suggests, would be an affliction to the South.

Samuel Grafton, writing from Los Angeles, comments on the July 1 Bikini test of the atomic bomb, finding the statement of Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, that the sinking of only five ships and damage to nine others was "relatively unimportant", to be signal of the power of the atomic bomb. During the war, such damage would have been hailed in the aftermath of a conventional engagement as a great victory.

A letter writer forwards a letter he had addressed to the President expressing his support as a merchant for the President's continuing effort to make OPA a potent agency. He says that rents in two instances in Charlotte were raised overnight from $16 per month to $80 per month. Another establishment raised rent from $80 to $500.

A letter from the secretary of the American Bible Society corrects a misprint in the newspaper which had listed a Reverend as the division secretary, when he had not been in that position since 1944.

A letter compliments Dorothy Knox on her views in support of OPA and hopes that readers of her column would listen to her sound advice.