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McFarland To Advocate
Approval Of Var darner
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—(JP)—
Senator McFarland (D-Ariz) an
nounced today that he would re
commend senate confirmation fo
Commodore James K. Vardaman
Jr., on the “basis of our hearing:
thus far.”
McFarland is a member of thl
five - man banking subcommitte<
considering the nomination of Var
daman, President Truman’s fneni
and naval aide, for a 14-year tern
on the important board of gover
nors of the federal reserve system
A check with two other member:
of this subcommittee, who woul(
not permit the use of their names
indicated they agreed with McFai
land. This would be a majority o
the subcommittee and send tin
nomination on with a favorable re
port to the full banking and cur
rency committee, but the shootinj
over Truman nominations is a Ion;
way from being ended yet.
The world’s largest oil refiner;
is at Abadan, Iran.
League Of Crippled
Children Plans Meet
CHAPEL HILL, .Feb. 23.—(A5)—
■ series of six district conferences
. of the North Carolina League for.
■ Crippled Children will be held
, throughout the state beginning this
; week -and continuing through
March 2, Miss Ethel Honeycutt,
executive secretary of the league,
: said today.
The purpose of the meetings is
l to review the needs of handi
i capped children in the state and
■ to map plans for the 1946 Easter
• seal campaign. 1
[ NOMINATED
RALEIGH, Feb. 22.— (B—Claud
Grigg, superintendent of the Albe
[ marie city schools, and Cordelia
. Camp, director of the training
’ school at Western Carolina Teach
. ers college, Cullowhee, have been
; nominated for the vice presidency
! of the North Carolina Education
association. Election to the vice
presidency has been tantamount
, in the past to election to the
presidency the next year.
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REP. DOUGHTON
WILL RUN AGAIN
WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—W—
Rer Doughton (D.-N.C.), 82,
chairman of the powerful House
Ways and Cleans committee, an
nounced today he will seek re
nomination in North Carolina s
democratic primary May 25.
Doughton came to the house
Mar. 4, 1911 and is in his 18th
consecutive term. Only one other,
Rep. Sabath (D.-Ill.) has been
there longer.
“I have today mailed my fee
and qualification papers (to the
State Board of Elections),”
Doughton told a reporter. ‘1 will
be a candidate for re-election.
Doughton, a native of Laurel
Springs. N. C., began his political
career in 1908 when he was elect
ed to the North Carolina State sen
ate. He served until 1910, when
he was elected to congress.
He represents the state’s Ninth
district.
The veteran representative’s
wife died unexpectedly at their
Washington home recently. 1
The attorney - general was noi
a member of the President’s cab!
net until 1814.
was a man who wore his body
looked from his eyes and spok<
with his mouth. Not the Steve wh(
laughed, and wisecracked, ant
saw the funny side of things; bu
who was, underneath, eager am
understanding, confident of life
excited by it.
Ede spoke quickly. “This is :
pretty grim conversation for Sun
day afternoon.”
Steve turned to look at her. H
said, “Sorry, old girl,” in a voic
Jenny remembered. Her face wa
composed, but her mind made
small grimmace. She thoughl
That’s wonderful. . .he’s sorry bt
cause he believes Ede’s thinkin
about Dick!
Ede said, “That’s all right,” an
pushed aside the paper with th
sheets of comics which Jenny rea
avidly, Ede scorned, and Grar
sneaked up to her room Sunda
nights.
(To Be Continued)
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ERWIN EMPLOYES
URGED TO RETURN
RALEIGH, Feb. 23—(ffHHeads
of the Textile Workers Union oi
American (CIO) and the Erwin
Mills company today urged the
more than 5,000 striking workers
to return to their jobs under a new
contract signed here early today.
In a letter mailed to all of the
f ie workers today, and signed by
mil Rieve, TWUA president, and
emp P. Lewis, mills president,
the strikers were told that a settle
ment “satisfactory to both TWUA
and the company” had been reach
ed.
The new contract, which offi
cially ended a 20-weeks old strike
in Erwin plants at Durham,
Cooleemee and Erwin, was signed
JLL l u. ill., luuay in (.11c picscuv,v
of Governor R. Gregg Cherry, who
bad instigated a final conference
between the two factions.
While no date has been set for a
resumption of production, mill of
ficials said here that machinery
probably could be readied for op
erations within a week.
The new contract, persons close
to the union and company said,
gives the workers an approximate
20 per cent wage increase, or an
average of 14 cents an hour more
than they were receiving when
they quit work.
However, under the new 10
months contract, many of the
workers will be required to do a
larger amount of work. Other pro
visions call for a paid lunch period
and an increase in “fatigue”
time.
The letter to -the workers read:
“The strike in the Erwin mills
has been ended with a settlement
satisfactory to both the TWUA and
the company. This letter signed by
the presidents of the union and
the company is to state that fact
and to say that the agreement is
based upon a mutual spirit of co
operation in the operation of the
mills. Substantial wage increases
are provided and we are convinced
mutual good-will and cooperation
will be to the best interests of all
concerned. We urge -each em
ploye to strive for high production
and high earnings.
“We therefore urge every em
ploye to return to work in a spirit
of friendly cooperation, to work at
his or her job under the provisions
of the agreement and to establish
a satisfactory and cooperative
relationship.”
At Durham, William H. Ruffin,
vice president and treasurer of the
mills, said the agreement reached
here still is subject to ratification
by union locals in the three towns.
However, he said the company
hopes to reopen “promptly.”
Ruffin, who handled the com
pany’s negotiations, said details
of th# new contract were not avail
able.
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30 months W'ith the Army Air
Forces, will resume his position
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CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
Every Sunday Mrs. Moran came
to the Newtons’ to get dinner. And
once a week Mrs. Moran came in
to do the heavy cleaning. She was
an energetic, middle-aged woman
who, before her marriage, had
worked steadily at the Newtons.’
Now she obliged, by the day. Jen
ny had insisted that Gram have
one day of comparative peace and
so, Sundays when the Newtons re
turned from church the scent ol
Mrs. Moran’s ineffable cooking
filled the h o u s e. Gram always
seemed astonished. She always
hurried in, crying, “Nellie mus
have come early.’’
After which she would dives
herself of her church-going gar
ments, put on something comfort
able—and go into the kitchen t<
superintend dinner and listen ti
Mrs. Moran’s gossip. Not tha
Gram ever called it gossip. Shi
abhorred gossip and never encour
aged it. But she liked to hear wha
was going on.
She heard plenty today, sittinj
in the rocker by the open win
dows while Mrs. Moran busiei
herself with the fricaseed chickei
and opined as how tile fowl wa
a little elderly but still tende
enough. Mrs. Moran’s -nieci
worked for the Harrises and theri
had been ructions last night, sail
Mrs. Moran, which brought Lily
startled, bolt upright out of he
needed sleep. The Harrises hai
come back from the Country clul
along with that young limb
Pooch. From all Lily could lean
Pooch had been drinking. “At hi
age!’’ said Mrs. Moran severely
“and where did he get the stuff
anyway? And not only him, bu
the Morrison kid and the girl,
with them.’’ Not that she knev
who the girls were, but she pitiei
their poor mothers.
Jenny went on upstairs. She hai
a hem to sew, a dozen small Sun
day jobs to do. But her needle
faltered. She pricked her finger,
and the thread broke.
Where was Ede? she thought,
looking with unseeing eyes into the
new green of the tree outside her
window, . . She couldn’t be with
Justice. . . This was Sunday. He
would be with his father, with
Mary . . . and his guests.
Had she really gone calling or
had she gone to the drug store to
phone Justice? Was she saying,
even now, “Jenny knows?”
Jenny hadn’t thought of that.
She thought, She has too much
pride.
No, she hadn’t an atom, or how
could she speak as she had at the
’ club . . . begging for his attention,
. his—interest.
i Little Red Ridinghood, Jenny re
> minded herself, was wolf bait. I
; won’t be. When Ede sees that
: practically any girl who isn’t hard
■ to look at can divert Mr. Wolf
; . . . she’ll cry uncle. She’ll stay
away from him, in spades.
; Jenny thought, She’d better, for
- if she told the truth, if the Boston
1 incident was an accident, well, she
i just might get ideas. I’ve made
i her plenty mad, and she’s always
• been so darned stubborn. And if
: it wasn’t an accident. . . I’ve got
: to prevent its happening again.
1 Loneliness is no excuse; nor
, boredom; nor feeling unsure be
■ cause happiness is brief and wait
1 ing long. Maybe the men who
> fight are uncertain, too, of them
, selves and the girls they love,
i Maybe they lie awake in the lethal
> nights and know a closer, more
, agonizing fear than that of death.
, The cure is reassurance.
1 She thought, When people have
; been married a long time, it’s dif
t ferent; trust and certainty are
1 part of their scheme, like breath
ing. Fidelity is perhaps a habit,
1 of the heart, and mind and body.
- But kids, thought Jenny, feeling
)ld ana grieved, wnat tney nave
;o remember is so easy to forget,
after a while.
There was one thing she must
aelieve, and that was that Ede
and Dick were essentially right for
each other and that when he came
iioijie Ede would realize it. What
ever she had done, she must then
regret for the rest of her life. But
that was up to her. That was the
price tag. How high the price, she
might not know until she saw Dick
again. If when she saw him she
no longer wanted him, or if each
had outgrown the other, that was
something else, and their busi
ness. But now Jenny had to go
forward on the assumption that
one day Dick would come home
to a wife who would love and
cherish him. •
And if he didn’t come home?
She shivered and rose slowly
from her chair. You can’t see into
the hearts and minds of the peo
ple you know and love. How Ede
felt, how she would feel whether
he came home or not, was hidden
from her sister—probably it would
always be so. But meantime—no
more trips to Boston.
In the afternoon Steve came by.
He walked into the hall and in
quired in a muted bellow, “Any
one home?’’
They were all out on the
screened back porch. Mrs. Moran
had gone home, Ede was reading
the paper and smoking, Gram was
knitting, and Jenny just sitting,
slumped in a big wicker chair, all
angles and knees. Steve, following
their answering chorus, came out
to join them, caught Gram up,
kissed her, and flipped a hand at
the girls.
Gram said, after a while,
“Steve, tell me honestly what you
think of your father’s health?"
He looked at her gravejy. He
was sitting on the end of Ede's
long couch, teasing Eutch, who ap
peared to remember him favor
ably. Ha answered slowly, “He's
pretty sick, Gram."
Her face, fragile as old porce
lain, clouded. She said quietly,
"I’m grieved to hear that. He’s as
fine a man as I have ever known,
I think. You—well, it’s up to you,
Steve, to take the burden.”
“I will," he told her.
Ede said, “Tell us something
about yourself, Steve, and what
happened.”
' He shook his head. “It was—
messy,” he said, “and disagree
able. I’d rather not think about it.
What do you hear from Dick?”
“Not much more than I’m hear
ing from you,” she said. “Letters
are unsatisfactory, aren’t they?”
“Not letters from home,” he told
her; “they’re a shot in the arm
and about the most important
thing in a guy’s life. The right
kind of letters. I’ve seen men put
out of action, literally, by the
wrong kind ... the whining,
martyred letter, or the letter with
the superfluous bad news. . .they
breed an anxiety neurosis. When
a guy’s killing Japs or Germans,
and waiting for the shell or bullet
with his name on it, when he’s
standing or deck or flying a plane,
or slogging through the mud or
sitting in a machine gun nest, he’s
I rfni urnrrv nVPT without
worring about the mortagage or
Junior’s mumps or the terrible
sacrifices of his family,” said
Steve with bitterness, ‘‘in going
without gas or beef or Pullman
space. I saw one of the toughest
Marines in our outfit go to pieces
because his mother wrote him s
sweef little letter and informed
him that she was sure his wife
was two-timing him. Good Lord!’
Ede looked at Jenny, and Jennj
felt the blood rise hot, to her
cheeks.
Gram said gently, “You’ve goi
to make allowances for human na.
ture, Steve. Much of the world’s
misery is caused, not by malice
but by selfishness, throughtlessness
and plain downright ignorance.”
“That’s the sixty-four-dollar an
swer,’< said Steve, “but you’d be
surprised. Gram, how little ever
sound philosophy helps wher
you’re too cold or too hot wher
your temperature soars and youi
mind is fuzzy, when you’re sic!
and lonesome and afraid.”
Jenny sat bolt upright. This
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