Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that Secretary of State Marshall, in an address the previous day to the American Association for the U.N., had indirectly challenged Russia to cooperate with the U.N. or face condemnation in the court of world public opinion should it exercise its veto in the Security Council with respect to the Balkan threat to Greece in the coming crucial session. John Foster Dulles, a member of the U.S. delegation, echoed the remarks at Tarrytown, N.Y.

U.N. Secretary-General Trygve Lie said that it was the former colonial peoples of the world, not the big powers, who posed the greatest threat to peace.

The peace treaties with Italy, Rumania, Finland, Hungary, and Bulgaria formally went into effect at 7:00 p.m. GMT, following ratification by the Allies. The formalization meant that all foreign troops would have to evacuate the countries within 90 days, with the exception of certain Soviet troops in order to maintain communications links with their troops in Austria. Reparations of the five nations totaled 1.3 billion dollars, most of which was to be paid to Russia. All of the nations except Bulgaria lost territory. Russia and Britain were the only Allies at war with Finland and so were the only signatories of that treaty.

Secretary of Commerce Averell Harriman urged Americans to curtail their consumption of meats and other livestock products, such as eggs and milk, and that farmers curb the use of grains to feed livestock, that there would be sufficient supplies to feed Europe. The Undersecretary of Agriculture also made the same plea. Senator Robert Taft had made a similar suggestion before the State Bar of California in Santa Cruz the previous Friday.

Canada removed most of its price controls, despite rising prices.

In Omak, Wash., a man who had quit his job at a lumber company ten days earlier and planned to enter a hospital for treatment of an old head injury shot his three children to death and clubbed them with the rifle barrel, and then shot a neighbor's child playing with the children after she had begged that he not shoot her in the head.

Near Pittsburgh, in Sewickley, Pa., a twelve-year old boy was found hanged by a clothesline tossed over a rafter in the basement of the family home. His mother attributed her son's death to his avid reading of comic books, possibly seeking to re-enact a scene from one of them.

In Warrenton, N.C., an indictment was sought from the Warren County Grand Jury of the only attempted lyncher remaining in the Buddy Bush case out of Jackson and Northampton County, as well as against the jailer who cooperated with the seven would-be lynchers on May 23 by leading them to Mr. Bush's cell and pointing him out. Both had been bound over by a magistrate in Northampton County the previous week. The other six defendants of the mob had not been bound over for lack of evidence.

The Northampton Grand Jury had refused to indict any of the men the previous month, prompting Governor Gregg Cherry to resort to North Carolina's 1893 anti-lynch law which permitted submission of such a case to a committing magistrate and then to a neighboring county's Grand Jury should the magistrate find probable cause that both a crime was committed and that the defendant committed it. The only reason Mr. Bush was not lynched was that he managed to effect escape into the woods, was fired upon by a member of the mob as he fled.

He had been held on a charge of attempted rape, but the Northampton Grand Jury had refused also to indict him on that charge. He had been accused of following a white woman home.

A preliminary hurricane alert was provided a 750-mile stretch of the East Coast, from Vero Beach, Fla., to Cape Hatteras, N.C. The storm out of the Atlantic was packing 140 mph winds, as it churned northwesterly 400 miles east-southeast of Vero Beach.

In Hickory, N.C., a heavy turnout of voters thus far was being observed, as 3,000 citizens, 38 percent of those registered, had by 1:30 come to the polls to vote on ABC controlled sale of liquor for the town. It was the second such referendum in 41 years in Hickory. In 1906 and 1938, the dry forces had voted against ABC stores in Catawba County. The day's vote was only in Hickory.

In Charlotte, the Grand Jury indicted the chief safety inspector and the assistant superintendent of the Traffic Signal Division of the City for allegedly embezzling public funds collected from parking meters. The inspector was in charge of collections and the assistant superintendent was one of the collectors of the tolls. It was the first time in twenty years that an investigation had taken place into misappropriation of City funds.

In Winston-Salem, an emergency line was pumping an additional two million gallons of water per day to alleviate the shortage. Hundreds of residents of the city lined the banks of Salem Lake to see for themselves the reduced water level, ten feet below the top of the dam.

Never seen nothin' like 'at, have ye? It's them Roswellians.

Residents appeared to be complying with the conservation measures as pumping was reported light during the weekend.

On the sports page, Ray Howe tells of the football prospects of N.C. State, a team packed with talented freshmen.

On the editorial page, "Too Much Too Early?" finds likely to backfire the effort of John L. Lewis to block compliance with the Taft-Hartley requirement that union officers execute affidavits averring non-Communist affiliation for the union to avail itself of the services of the NLRB. As part of the AFL executive council, the UMW head had been the sole vote against compliance, meaning that all AFL affiliates would suffer as a result as no member union could partake of the NLRB services—short of a court decision or unilateral reversal of the policy enunciated by the NLRB counsel, Robert Denham, applying the provision to all member unions of any labor organization.

"What're We Laughing About?" comments that Charlotte might take smug satisfaction for its foresight in planning its water supply, given the problems of Winston-Salem of late. The engineers had warned Twin City leaders a year earlier of the problem. But the City delayed in expanding the water supply.

"The Swing to Federal Aid" tells of North Carolina Senator William B. Umstead having the previous week stated his support for Federal aid to education, previously considered a radical position in North Carolina. The piece ventures that it was thus safe to assume that opinion in the state had generally swung in support of the idea. It hopes it to be the case, lest the realities of an insufficient tax base and revenue for maintaining an adequate educational system within the state, as throughout the South, retard educational progress. The South was raising more children than the rest of the nation and was also the poorest region of the nation, could not adequately educate its children without Federal assistance.

A piece from the Asheville Citizen, titled "That's What They Said", comments on the wholesale commodities index, based on 100 for 1926, having reached its highest point the previous week, at 192.62. The piece quotes from the Congressional Record of a year earlier and the predictions by various members of Congress who favored release of price controls, urging that their abolition would stimulate production and, after a brief rise in prices, result in stabilizing prices at lower levels.

Drew Pearson tells of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem having coached a delegation of Arabs to defeat the settlement of the issue of Palestine as a homeland for Jews. As proved by documents captured by the Allies at the end of the war, he had, during the war, carefully plotted with the Nazis the extermination of Europe's Jews. Hitler had signed a contract on April 5, 1945 with the Grand Mufti, under which Germany agreed to loan the Mufti 50,000 marks per month to stir anti-Allied sentiment among Arabs. Mr. Pearson provides the text of the contract.

Stewart Alsop, in Rome, tells of the worldwide depression beginning 18 years earlier with the collapse of the Austrian Kreditanstalt, a bank in Vienna, leading to the rise of Hitler and World War II. It appeared that the August run on the British treasury would prove a comparable event. Until a few weeks earlier, it appeared that the Western European economy might be able to teeter along until the end of the year, but now appeared imminently ready to collapse with the suspension by Britain of Sterling convertibility.

Samuel Grafton tells more of his friend Harry, the one who had to pay out his deferred weekend furlough in Paris as a 15% rent increase, now buying margarine at 35 cents rather dollar-per-pound butter, serving rye rather than Scotch to guests, and eating out at a hamburger joint two or three times a week for $1.50 for the couple, including two patties for him, one for her, and milk all around.

When in England during the war, Harry had visited Oxford and thought he might later attend. But now he was taking night courses at N.Y.U.

He had $41 remaining from the $209 in proceeds derived from early cashing the previous week of his terminal leave bond, and he wanted to use it to buy his wife something nice. But not much could be had for $41.

His neighbors had a new baby and he and his wife wanted a child, but couldn't afford one.

He suggested to his wife that they use the $41 to have a big weekend in the country.

A letter writer tells of talking to the City health officer regarding the ordinance to abate the noise of crowing roosters in the morning in the city by banning chicken pens.

A letter writer objects to the name-calling in which Samuel Grafton had engaged in reference to latter-day isolationists, in his September 10 column. He wants another columnist substituted for Mr. Grafton.

The editors respond that they also were not fond of name-callers but in this instance, Mr. Grafton had been referring to particularly odious persons, whom everyone had agreed after Pearl Harbor were "chowderheads", and so were equally entitled to such opprobrium presently.

A letter writer finds "liberal" being equated with "leftists" and thus "Communists", when there was nothing liberal about Communism. He thinks Henry Ford would go down in history as more liberal than Henry Wallace, unless the New Dealers were to write the history books "and use capital L's."

The editors ask: "You mean the Henry Ford who paid the first $5 a day industrial wages, or the one who published the viciously anti-Semitic Dearborn Independent?"

A letter writer seeks explanation from a letter writer of September 6, commenting on the column of Samuel Grafton of September 3, as to the difference between a liberal and a "liberal", and further asks whether The News was to be considered a liberal or "liberal" newspaper.

A letter from the woman who wanted all draft dodgers and profiteers from the war prosecuted or forced into military service suggests that, with all the bad press heaped on Russia, at least it did not abide draft dodgers, cartelists, monopolists, and profiteers.

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