SUB STEEL U.S. Se e l 1 ned u t 1 fte r a elay t .rou I out t e a b c use of inor d i ferences. These wer 1ro 0 1 1t, ut t e r e was a form 1 c re ony of outtin s1 tur s to t e c o tract ,1th the 1 nion. It w a s o ly e te da th a t t reat st of steel compani es r esu ed n otiations, offerin a uension and insuranc e ulan which w s virtu lly acce ted a t once tha union l e ader s . Fast action - final agreement oJ;t '1-h&- 11w.ak11~ follows the B =- thl ehem formula., U.S. Steel cceptin the same sort of · e al the union "' ade with .,_ Bethlehem .Sooa,a,o~. P ensions of Mlf, undr d tiell"!ef9 a month for st6el workers oft enty- f1ve years erv1ce, upon rec 1n their 1xty-f1fth y ar. Te co uany _ a.ya fort at , w ~ ile the employee co t ribu es one . alf the cost of insurance benefits, orotect1 o ainst death, 1llnee , acci ent. Only a f · w teal companies are still ff cted SUBS E~ L - y t be strik e , a n it is announc d t t ~ Inla n d ate 1 will i n - " s • or t 1 " . 1'f As s u r 1 n t a t t . . e aaa tt - s m 1 1 r ema 1n1 n fr a c t i o . f t e 1 nd us t r y - o , s 1 n to t e a gre rn ent, tt e ns t ha t fiv e hundr d n d f ourteen t ous a nd steel wor k rs 11 1 be covered y t 1s welfare ro rm -- a 1 r ~ lic a t i o n • • o f t e 1 e a of se c urity provided b y arran e ents betwe . n co m panies a n union s . John L. L w1s indul ged in liter ture gin today - in st tin his a ttitu de t ow a td conf e rences 1th the co a l com nies n t he fe er 1 me di a t or. Yester da y he flouted a n invit a tion to co ference - so wh t nowT Today John L. Lewiss id: 1 B a rki 1s w1111n••. Th a t liarks b ck to Dicken' novel •n v1d Copperfield' in which the co a chm n Bark1s st tes his a ttitude to ard ma trimony 1th Peg otty, the housem 1d. Saying: 'Barkie is w1111n'. 1 To which he a dds afterward: 'When a man s ay s he's w1111n 1 1t 1 9 as much as to s&y that a man's w a 1t1n' for an answer.• So John L. Lewis, as B a rkie is w&1t1n' for an answer from f~deral mediator Cyrus Chin as Peggotty. ave; In the reeign tion of Secret a ry of the Interior lrug, the usu 1 am n1t1es appeared today - belatedly, the Secretary havin resigned yesterday without Preeldenl Truman even knowing anything about it. But now we have his letter of resignation, and the President's reply, aoceptin. The communications are cordial 1n tone, the uaual thing when a cabinet member resigns - but they g1Te no indication of why Secretary Krug quit hie ,ob eo abruptly and with auch a terse announcement yeeter4a7. The new Secretary of the Interior ls Oeo&r Chapman, hitherto Under-Secretary. ~ Q veteran lew Dealer, who was one of the moving aplrits 1n tbe Truman election campaign of last year - that surpr11e victory. ,l\HISTIQE PAI Armistice Day was celebr ted in nroper style, with addresses by dignitaries, from the President all the ~ us of attention was on & I-- way down the line. mere Navy c p ta1n, and the Rneech he mad e. But then hie name i s Crom~elin, and today he was a llowed to make hie first nubl1c utterance - since the uproar over un1fioat1oa which he did so much to cause. He snoke at ontgomery, Alabama, and down there in the cotton country the na.me of Crommelin is fuoue. The Captain is one of five brothers who becaae llaval officers, all distinguis ' hed, two giving their liTee 1n the Second World Var. What he had to say was expressed in genera11ti•■ - but there was a hint of de ' fense of his protest against the situation of the Navy under unification. He said 11 11 a patriotic duty of Amerio n• to keep infor me d about the rmed Forces, and added that there 1s no place in our Democracy for - 'Yes-men•. ell, the Captain is no Yes- Man, having shown his bi11ty to ya loud a nd emphatic - 1 llo 1 • AMERICAN PILOTS e ave a den1 1 of the story of ~mer1can pilots in China oing over to the Reds - a denial in ~ ... , part. Only some of them are going over. The story wa1 A given out yesterday by E. M. Allison, Vice President of the China National Av! a tion Corporation - but today a number cf the airl~ne flyers in Hong Kong declared that J 1t was fal1e. They explained that is waa~an attempt lo persuade them to accompany the a1rl1ne.-,,1n 1te deeert1on -,u- to the Coamun1st aide,but"moat of them refuse - only a few going over to the &eds. I 4%QMIQ An American reply is given to the Soviet atomic eloquence of yesterday if notP:--!lword - when Vishinsky painted a fancy, pict~re of how the Russians are using the mi gh t of the atom for peace-time purposes. Be gave a list of benevolent exploits, headed by the - leveling of mountain,. · The reply today was made by Assistant SecretarJ of State Hickerson - at a meeting of the pol1t1cal committee of the United Nations. The Assistant Seorelary said he didn't know how true the V1sh1nsky oratory aboul peace-time atomic exploits might be, but pointed out lh&t the question atiesue was - a system to outlaw the ato■to bomb. The general American belief ls that the Vi1hin1k7 prose-poem was 'hot air•, a lot ot palaver about peace- t1ae uses of atomic energy in Soviet Russia to take attention off the w a rlike asoect. Today Assistant Secretary of State Hickerson put the matter tersely, sa y ing - if the Soviets can level mountains with atomic energy, they can also level c1t1~e. !Ji tHl51 The conference of the Big Three 1n Par11 leaves us with a blank in news - mi hty little idea of what resulted from the discussions of Secretary of Bt~te Acheson, British Foreign Secretary Bevin, and French foreign inister Schuman. !he decisions they arrived at are being kept a secret - so much so th a t Secretary Ache ■ todaJ etated that the world may not learn about thoee deo1sione for weeks or monthe. !od&7 the Secretary wa• at Frankfurt conferrla1 with American High Co-1ee1oner, John J. KcCloy - diecueelng proble• of Germany. JIQI CURTAIi Here are three dispatches, which g ive tbe feelin of - addin up. One is from Red Bulgaria, and tells of war preparations along the Albanian frontier - Tito, the revolt1n punpet, all set to invade Albania, the faithful puppet. llw•s lwe\'-le 6einge are sate! ,o aa,e • • I lltag ... · · · ~ · - · · ' · · WIik I SJ ll 1 · - ••• ts ••••••• Th• second dispatch . shows Moscow accusing Greece of border violations · along the Albanian frontier. Greek forces are said to have crossed into Albania, apparently trying provoke host111ties. Dispatch nwaber three ls fro■ Vienna, a.n4 picture• the mob111zat1on of a Stalinist army along the border of Romania and Tugoalav1a. Romanians and east German Communists threatening Tugoalavia with a formidable array of armament, rocket ba~es, machine guns; automatic mortars, anti-airoraft·units. These three dispatches today a re probably nothin more than the usual scarey renorts from along the frin e of the Iron Curtain, but they do sound as if they ~~~· iQJRING A German ne w B!)aper tod a y n rinted a n ex n lanation of a n unex p l a ined mystery - t he suicide of Goering. Headlines we re bl a zoned around the world, when that Nazl number two man c . e a ted the g llowe by committin g su1o1de with a c ao sule of c y n.de, a n hou r or o before he was to be han~ed - a lon 1th the ot ~ er N zi war criminals. Today's v e rsion is th t Goering, Hitler's chief coll a bor a tor, in S J:> ite · o ! orec a utions ag~lnat possible au1clde procured the capsule of cyanide through a clever trick by a German newspaperman. During the Buremberg trial, Goering each day oocup1ed the sue seat in the prisoner's dock and during an off hour, th11 German reporter, who had access to the courtroom went to Goering's usual place. Pretending to fumble with a sheaf of papers, he was able·to secretly sneak the capsule of cyanide under the ' chair, a nd fasten lt wlth a niec e of chewin gum. After w h ich Goering, secretly informed of this, ha d little difficulty 1n reaching under the c ha ir, t a k1n the c ap sul e and hiding it. I.QI. Last week au. s. army transport wa~on the high seas, with Twelve Hundred displaced person• aboard - on their way to new homes in America. Two of the D.P.'• .{ were an Estonian woman and a Nine Year old boy, lilted &a ,.. Krs. Sepp and._.. eon. Then came an emotional acene, when another woman aboard saw the ·~ boy, and said.' A ':i- aonf '' Her name, Mrs. Kordka Xllaln - a native of ~7.£ :.I.. ,,., ..... 4' Foland. ~i•'(old how in Nineteen rorty-Three, in the City of Vilma, the Nazis took away her Three Year old boy braham. She eaya they , •tt01d• the child to an Estonian couple. Six yearsf!>nt by,,..J n o ; . d ~ ; ~<ea~,,J.;..-, ~ iLt ~ ~-:--v' recognized the Nine Year ol · as her bwn,-.isted as flle ,, r\"- aon of the Estonian woman. ~¼ a,QI. •• •.• 2 All this was vigorously d enied by Mrs. Sepp, who decl e red the boy was hers. The disput e was t a ken to the c ptain of the , whjl w a s a g ood n a vigator ~ ~ - ~ ~ i t , but,-. •z i ~ N e ~ -e .l'O&A-°'- Ji. olomon. He s a id h e'd put the question• to the immigr a tion authorities in New York.-ll.nd t oday they aa14 - 1 t would ~eNl'W~ have to be s e tt led in c c urt;) (ordlna.rlly, a ~oman 1n the p o s ~ ot Hra. Sepp would have little trouble 1n ,L the child's mother, but Estonia is ,- - sealed off fro■ the rest of that she W&I the Iron Cur tat Solt lookl &I 1t the American judge, before whom the caee is brought, will have to be a modern Solomon indeed. XAIIL PJUZI A step without n rec e d e nt w a s ta k en in Sweden today - in conn e cti o n w ith the Nobel Prize. The Swedish Ac a demy of Liter a t u re, wh ic h h it h erto h a s m de t h e awards for poetry a n d prose, a nnounces th a t next ye a r the de9ision will be made by previous winners of the Nobel Prize for literature. (in the argument, there · 1s much talk that 'the prize thls ye a r should h a ve been . awarded to Be~etta - -·· - - Croce, the a ed and famous Italian philosopher.~-- £■ n, lineteen opher C~6ce shoul h ve a d tt. JABIL PRIZE •.•.. a Andre Gide, who won in 1neteen Forty-Seven, declared: 'There should be no doubt about awarding Croce the ~r1ze.• So it would seem likely that next year the lobel Prize tor literature w111_.10 to Benedetto Croce, ~ ~~~ w•-~ Italian phllosopher,*o~•=ia ~•ch•eee itx&,!Jtll■ a- Eighty-Three Years old., H91§TER from E~rope - a coupl e o! sea monster stories. One - from the River Rhine, where boatmen and fishermen ~~ reported a behemoth swim ing up t e,-:246~!""-Rhine, .,.c.«. ~•~ - ,~ ... a JtJM~ ~~ famous for the Lorelei! They say the monster blew hug ~ bu~ lee and spouted water into the air. Old-time sailors think it must have been a young river. B•t, of course, i:JJ_ ~ ""1.i;tU~~ whale that strayed into the might have been the Lorelei - althoug~•~e ttA■ 't )I•• I' ~tie S. H ._, 11p99•11•hc. She just combed . . . her goldea hair. The other ~ccount comes from the Port of Deal 1n lngland, where today a ■ onsteT was sighted half a ■ 1le off shore. That is, they saw it of water._,. shooting up - Twenty reet - - spouting a streaa A high. (11ae An 1nvesti g t1on disclosed the secret. The epoutin w s from un en ves s el, t~ e submer ed ulk of 1911'111- · · · · 2 a n American Lib e rty Shin -tlJ- fo un de r ed a lf a m il e off shore durin T ~ ---·~ rA. c'"'~,.:!' 11 fre a k of tide n c rr e n t ~ r a n 1n such tricky fashion s to c a us e t e sunken s 1 to s out w ter jwenty Feet 1n t e overgro n oby 1ck. 1r. • ,:14CHEI At Sh ron, Pennsylvania, tbey~ve e nded the affa ir of - the 1rl who was spanked. The chool to rd tod Y lift ed the probation i mp osed on te ache r Walter McDon ld - bec a use he paddled nretty B e v nteen Year old Betty Ann Colapietro. The troubl be an bec aus e Betty Ann was jumpin up a n d doWL in the classroom. Te a cher McDon ld told I I e r to sit down;a.ftal ' be quiet. But Betty Ann kept on jumpin nd frolicking. hereunon the teacher took her out into a corridor, and dminietered the s a nkin. It is not stated what he used for a paddle- the ~lat of his hand, or maybe a ruler. But it was vigorous, accordin · to n official of the humane society, Russell P a th. lie says hA inspected the a r e ~ we spanked - as tily"-~, B1(/f:,etty ~nn...., ~ t he news dispatch adds ~~ .va. any l ase Russe P th found '},,.. th i b a t in su~t in n ection . ar in a b thin ui t. In bruises a n lt - during All of which c re a ted n upro a r in Sh a ron, nd e chool bo rd inflicted _ uni c on a l d . ~~ only 1ncr se nt on t he r lt er t l upr o r - b c u • %liCHER .. · · · 2 th e o the r te a c e r s of t h e sc h ool r a llied to h is de f ense. Tod a y on e t e c he r s a id: •tr h e hadn't ad d l e d her, one oft e rest o f u s w ould a ve before t h e y ea r w a s out.• - So today, f a ced wit h a r e volt of the te a chers, the school b o a rd b a c k ed dcwn - in t h e c a se of the g irl ,. who W f\. B