Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that General Eisenhower told the American Legion convention in New York that he foresaw no global war on the immediate horizon but believed that American military strength should be maintained sufficiently to cause any aggressor nation to understand that any such war would be fought over that country's territory. No country, he continued, was in position after the war to fight a prolonged conflict with any hope of gain. The unification of the military would allow greater flexibility in meeting changing conditions of warfare and better coordination of civil defense, increasingly important to the national military establishment. He stated his support for universal military training as a means of maintaining a strong military.

Admiral Chester Nimitz and General Carl Spaatz, heads of the other two branches, also spoke to the convention.

The U.S. and Great Britain had agreed in London to a plan whereby German industry in the Anglo-American zone would be enabled to a level about equal to that of 1936, with annual steel production at about 11.5 million ingot tons, with the remaining seven million tons of 1936 production left to reparations. The plan called for 15 percent greater exports than in 1936 from the same areas, to bring in two billion dollars per year, an effort to alleviate the burden being placed on American-British aid.

The new plan, as discussed further this date by Marquis Childs, was in response to urging from General Lucius Clay, military governor of the American zone, along with that of Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas, British military governor. It revised the March, 1946 agreement which called for only 5.8 million tons of steel production. The French had objected to the plan for fear that it might lead to rearmament of Germany. Russia objected to being left out of the tripartite meeting.

At the Pan-American Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Argentina introduced a proposed amendment which Senator Arthur Vandenberg, a member of the U.S. delegation, charged as a delaying tactic to prevent agreement on the final Western Hemispheric treaty of mutual self-defense in the event of intracontinental or extracontinental attack on any signatory nation. Argentina wanted to make the treaty applicable only to attacks against the security zone itself, geographically extending from pole to pole, not including, for instance, the British-American occupation zone of Germany. Mr. Vandenberg found this notion quibbling and, he said, pursuant to the U.N. Charter, aggression was to be denounced and met with potential force, no matter where it actually occurred. The Argentine delegate who put forward the proposal stated that he merely wanted clarification on whether different procedures might be applicable outside the security zone.

Before the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission political subcommittee, Russia rejected proposals for setting up an international atomic control agency, charging again U.S. monopoly of atomic energy. It virtually assured Soviet abstention from the second report of the Commission, due to be published September 15.

President Truman announced appointment of Rear Admiral Roscoe Hillenkoetter as director of the new Congressionally-authorized Central Intelligence Agency. Admiral Hillenkoetter presently occupied the role under the military version of the Central Intelligence Agency, created in 1946 by executive order. Sidney Souers, appointed executive secretary of the National Security Council, had been the first director of the military C.I.A., succeeded until the previous May by General Hoyt Vandenburg. Thomas Hargrave, president of Kodak, was appointed chairman of the Munitions Board. Maj. General William Draper was appointed to succeed Kenneth Royall as Undersecretary of War, to become Undersecretary of the Army after the effective date of merger of the armed forces. Secretary Royall would become Secretary of the Army. All of the new appointments were made pursuant to the National Security Act passed the previous month by Congress.

Harold Hirshberg, the Navy chief signalman convicted of striking two fellow prisoners while in a Japanese prison camp during the war, was sentenced by a court martial to ten months in the Navy brig at Norfolk and then to be dishonorably discharged.

In Woodburn, N.C., in Brunswick County, a man and his estranged wife were found dead from .38 pistol bullets, apparently the result of a murder-suicide, with the husband having pulled the trigger. According to a witness to the preceding events, the man had sought to effect reconciliation with his wife but she had refused. Sometime later, the pistol shots were heard.

In Leaksville, N.C., a black escaped convict was identified as having bludgeoned to death an 82-year old man during an attempted burglary the previous Saturday night. A manhunt was underway, with a $200 reward being offered for information leading to the suspect's arrest. The man was identified from photographs by the victim's widow, who had seen the perpetrator fleeing the house.

The Superintendent of the Martin County prison camp near Littleton, N.C., had resigned following his admission that he had struck an escaped convict after his return to the camp on the night of August 20. The convict had escaped with the convict whom three Highway Patrolmen had admitted "manhandling" the following night, forcing their resignations. They faced assault charges. The Superintendent had slapped the other convict across the face with his open hand. It was unclear whether the convict was handcuffed at the time. Highway Commission chairman A. H. Graham accepted the resignation.

Charles Markham, assistant state editor of The News, tells of the prisoner who was slapped having called the Superintendent a "story", meaning that he had told a fib, leading, according to the story, to the prisoner being slapped by the Superintendent.

When the headline, "Called Me a Story", ran across the AP wire in New York, a lively interchange transpired between the A.P. in Manhattan and the A.P. Charlotte bureau, which Mr. Markham recounts. New York wanted to know what the headline meant. Charlotte asked Raleigh and Raleigh responded that it was a direct quote from the Superintendent, was correct. Charlotte told Manhattan that the headline was correct, checking for meaning. Greensboro then interjected, "Yo'all ought to be shamed of yo'selves for not knowing what 'Called Me a Story' means," and suggested that Gotham replace "Story" with "Prevarication" to enable better explication without interrogation of the articulation of the common Southern colloquialism.

But Charlotte still found the expression nonsensical in the context of "telling a story", asked for clarification. Raleigh offered the eclaircissement that calling someone a "story" in some parts of the South—presumably as in Storyville—, was tantamount to saying they had been mendacious or, as in Manhattan, being called a "damned lie".

Charlotte, still in a state of consternation, then asked whether Raleigh meant in fact "damned liar", as "lie" made no sense to Yankees.

Asheville then interrupted the colloquy to tell Charlotte that they could not understand "what you all, sir" were talking about.

All's we knows that they'as failyas to commun'cate somers long the wiyas, they. You's just a tale, you know?

The water supply in Winston-Salem dropped to the lowest point on record, with Salem Lake at its historic nadir, leaving a 60 to 65-day reservoir, prompting city officials to plan to expand the wetterworks and to utilize the Yadkin River as a new source of wetter.

First, you betta get them nude swimmas out o' der cause they was in the Catawba and the Yadkin commun'cates firsthand wid de Catawba somers about down ner.

The people of the city, according to Mayor George Lentz, had failed to cooperate with voluntary conservation measures and so forced conservation had now to be worked out at a meeting right after Labor Day.

You all betta listen t' what de man say and drink only the straight from now on, that you get down ner at the ABC.

In Alabama, thousands of blacks had completed study of the Constitution that they might qualify to vote under the Boswell amendment in the state law which made such understanding a prerequisite to voting.

Lack of steel had produced a prospective oil shortage for the winter, according to the director of the Interior Department's oil and gas division.

In England, at least eleven coal mines employing over 25,000 miners and producing 154,000 tons of coal weekly were idle from wildcat strikes, in sympathy with the August 11 walk-out of 140 miners in protest of the National Coal Board Commission ruling that the miners would need dig two additional feet of coal daily, after which the Commission dismissed the miners.

The National Union of Mineworkers president supported the firing, provoking strikers to erect signs saying "Burn Will Lawther", in reference to the president of the union. The Conservative London Daily Graphic urged the Labor Government to take away from the strikers the double ration afforded coal miners.

In North Adams, Mass., a woman gave birth to twin boys, increasing the number of children of the household to sixteen in eighteen years, the other fourteen ranging in age from two to seventeen. She and her husband lived in a six-room tenement. The woman said that she hoped to have more children despite the cramped living conditions.

On the editorial page, "Eisenhower and the Republicans" tells of General Eisenhower having spoken the previous evening at Riddick Stadium at N. C. State in Raleigh, making a favorable impression while dropping no hints of any intention to run for the Republican nomination in 1948.

But an effort, starting in Kansas City and receiving support in New York and Washington, was being made at the grass roots to draft him as the nominee. Life and Henry Luce, its publisher, were behind the idea as well.

General Eisenhower had not dissuaded a draft and so it was likely that the effort would persist. A Gallup poll found 48 percent of respondents disfavoring an Eisenhower candidacy while 35 percent liked the idea and 17 percent had no opinion. Only manual workers as a group favored the candidacy, 44 to 37 percent. Farmers, white collar workers, and professional and business men were decidedly opposed to it.

The conclusion was that General Eisenhower enjoyed little support among Old Guard Republicans, most of his support coming from labor and independents. But those in the party leadership who were supporting the idea were interested in winning and found in the General that prospect.

A convention deadlock between Senator Robert Taft and Governor Dewey could produce such a nomination of General Eisenhower as a compromise, as in 1940 when Wendell Willkie, a former Democrat, emerged out of a brokered convention.

That General Eisenhower, who was identified roughly equally in the same Gallup poll as either a Republican or Democrat, was being seriously considered as an alternative to Taft or Dewey indicated the dim view now being held by many leading Republicans as to the likely result from either of the two leading candidates being nominated in 1948.

"A Start on the Traffic Problem" tells of re-institution of a special traffic enforcement squad in the Charlotte Police Department being indicative of the city realizing its responsibility to deter unsafe driving, with the grim statistic that Charlotte led the state in auto accidents and deaths from same.

"Research for 'National Survival'" supports the Administration's position, as outlined during the week by the President's assistant John R. Steelman, that investment in science was necessary for survival as a nation. The President had vetoed the National Science Foundation bill because it vested too much authority in a proposed board of scientists, whereas the proposal articulated by Mr. Steelman placed emphasis on national survival, making it clear that the military had originated the premise to meet the Soviet stress on science and technology.

A piece from the Raleigh News & Observer, titled "Crusade Against Tobacco", tells of a crusade against "coffin tacks" having failed in earlier years, in part from the testimonials of doctors and women who had begun using the tacks for their pleasure. In the previous year, an average of 8.34 tacks were consumed each day for every person in the nation over age 14.

The Militant recalled the story of a servant of Sir Walter Raleigh dousing him with water on the belief that he was burning up, finding that the smoke above him was emanating only from his pipe.

The group had a hard road to travel, concludes the piece.

As they say, death and tacks.

Robert S. Allen tells of Argentine dictator Juan Peron having become the forced puppet of the ultra-nationalistic Army clique, led by Generals Filomeno Velazco, former chief of the Federal Police, and Oscar Silva, former Peron military aide. The coup had taken place on August 14 in Sr. Peron's home in the presence of the full Cabinet. Sr. Peron had stated his intention to resign as President, but General Velazco, fearful of a reprise of the October 17, 1945 return to power after Sr. Peron had been jailed by a military coup, ordered that he would not resign, that he would remain in titular power and take orders from the junta. He had done so since August 14. The Generals were seeking to produce a Cabinet dominated by generals and admirals.

The "bell cycle" fashion trend of longer women's skirts was causing reaction among women, hitting Virginia Collier, chief of the Apparel Branch of the Textile and Leather Division of the Commerce Department, with plentiful sacks of mail. Youth, she reported, were adapting more easily than older women to the fashion trend, dictated from New York and Paris. The older women objected to having to change their wardrobe. The dollar volume in sales of women's clothing was less than the previous year, signifying the lack of acceptance of the new trend.

He next informs of the controversy over Lt. General John C. H. Lee, coming home from his command of the Mediterranean occupation amid complaints from enlisted men and their parents that he had lived luxuriously while the enlisted men suffered under an unduly severe disciplinary program. In a forthcoming book on the Third Army, Lucky Forward, an incident was related in which General Patton, critical of General Lee in his role as supply chief for the European Theater of Operations, had visited Allied Headquarters in London and met with General Lee. General Lee, noticing brass buttons on General Patton's battle jacket, issued an order several days later banning brass buttons and ordering that only bone buttons adorn uniforms. He dispatched the order to General Patton with several bone buttons. Patton read it, threw it in the wastebasket and filed the buttons away in his desk. He continued to wear the brass buttons until the day he died in December, 1945.

After a visit from Senator Owen Brewster, head of the War Investigating Committee, which had just gone through the embarrassing hearings on the war contracts of Howard Hughes and the attempt to connect Elliott Roosevelt to influence peddling on the contracts, Speaker of the House Joe Martin urged the chairman of the Small Business Committee, Walter Ploeser of Missouri, to go easy in the hearings on farm cooperatives as they might backfire.

Paul W. Ward, in the 23rd and last in his series of articles from the Baltimore Sun, collectively titled "Life in the Soviet Union", provides Soviet production figures from 1940, compared to the goals of the five-year plan for 1950, against actual 1945 production. The values were calculated in 1926-27 rubles. The 1945 figures suggested that loss of production during the Nazi invasion of 1941-43 did not appreciably cut production from 1940, the difference being only eight percent. The projected 1950 total was 205 billion rubles, against 137.5 billion in 1940 and 127 billion in 1945. The automotive production goal was twice that for any pre-war year, with only 65,600 passenger cars in the offing.

Another problem was that machines obtained from the West were often set to run at higher than rated speeds, producing frequent breakdowns. The wrong type of oil, for instance, was used in delicate machinery for manufacturing ball bearings, producing unusable product. The reaction by the Government, when informed of such mismanagement, was to call in a party boss to provide a political lecture to the workers.

Marquis Childs, in Berlin, tells of the lack of coordination in American foreign policy having undercut General Lucius Clay in trying to manage the occupation of Germany in the American zone. In March, 1946, the Big Four had reached agreement on the level of German industry to be allowed, based on general language adopted at Potsdam in July, 1945. Steel production was to be 5.8 million tons per year, that of 1933 when Germany was in an economic depression. The remaining plants were to be provided as reparations. Germany would become an economic unit, with all four zones freely exchanging goods.

A letter writer responds to another letter writer who had stated that the Bible did not support the view of eternal damnation or eternal salvation, as well to another writer of the same date who had attacked this author for his "anarchistic drivel" re smokers on the cross-town bus.

He hopes that the first writer was right about there being no Hell and wrong about there being no Heaven.

He agrees with some of the smoking bus rider's comments attacking bus riders who smoked in violation of the new ordinance, and accepts from her his suggested punishment, twenty blocks on the bus with the fiends' smoke being blown in his face, as he was taking the bus to work the next morning, would sit so as to have smoke blown in his face, and then have "the fiend" arrested after twenty blocks enduring same. That way he could show the "mythical" writer that he was willing to do the right thing even if wrong.

Why does he think she was mythical? It makes no sense. Furthermore, this is not funny. He should be hung from the handstraps on the overcrowded buses.

A letter from A. W. Black finds the letter from the Jewish War Veterans, urging U. N. intervention in Palestine, to be illogical in recommending allowance of immigration to Palestine for displaced European Jews and evacuation of British troops, replacing them with U.N. authority utilizing in part the 600,000 Jewish War Veterans. He views the Arab Moslems as implacable in their determination to keep aliens from Palestine, and that the British were the only authority maintaining any order. He finds that such a move would only invite further armed conflict with Arabs and favors a hands-off policy toward Palestine.

A letter finds the comment of the letter writer who attacked Sunday golf and believed any non-worshipping activity on the Sabbath to be condemnatory, thus worthy of condemnation, to ignore the fact of the Midwest fall carnival, county fair, or chicken dinner taking place on Sundays, as often found promoted by the churches themselves this time of year. The millions who participated in such activity, he insists, were not doomed to hell.

Yes they are. They are doomed to hell fire and damnation. And if you contest that fact, then you, too, are condemned to hell fire and damnation, and if you contest that fact, you also will be condemned to hell fire and damnation, ad infinitum, ad nauseam.....

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