President confe ence today Trum a n 4"eo~~ta.ge~ his press ~ \<I' b a ■mer'away a g ain at the need for ~ reducing prices. The U.S.A., he declared, can avoid a depression so lon g as greea~ persona are preYented fro ■ bringing it abou~. Be told the newspapermen that so ■ e people are cooperating ' with hie ca■ paign to brin g down the coat of living, but the cooperation haa not be n enough. Coa■ odit7 price• are atill ■ ucb too high• and that'• the danger point. 0 Ten aen, described•• econoaiats, turned in a report today on the state of tbe nation. Three of the• are ~ former beads of O.P.A., i n ~ Cheater Bowles&• Cbair ■ aa " of the group. They r e pGrt that in order to avert ii■ a crisis, the government and Congress must take action on a nine-point pro g ras. For one thing, just a bout one-half of the incre a ses in p rices since last June sh o uld be cut. The ainimua wage should be raised to sixty-five cents an hour and eventu~lly to seventy-five centa. There should be more uneaployaent compensation; rent control to be extended for another year. Taxes ehould be reduced by raieing exemptions rather than by cuts. The government ■ hould start a prograa to reducq housing co•t• by twenty per cent, and so forth. The ten econoaiata declare that the country i• beaded for an econoaic blow-~p within the next three or five years, and the nee4 for action i• urgent. Profit• have becoae swollen beyond an7thing that buain••• bealto and vitality require1,at the expense of man'• purcbasin1 power. Such are a few of the point• made in this report. President Truman himself bas not seen it yet. ins on C hurchi l l to d a y r l a te d i n p ub l ic the words of a conv er s at i o n h ha h ~d with P r esid e nt R ooseve~ in Nineteen Forty-~hr ee , a conversation which I b e li e ve has never yet been made public. F: D .R. asked Winston wh a t nam e he thou g ht the war should h a ve. ~hurchill repl i ed: •1 could g ive you a very easy reply.• The he continued: "I will c 11 it the unneces!,arI._ ~ar." . ----------- ~ - . Churchill then explained to hie hearers: "It would have been perfectly easy ta prevent Germany fro■ rearming in Nineteen Thirty-Five and indeed up to the end of Nineteen Thirty-Six, without firin g a ahot.• All this the war P r ime Minister told to the people of the city of Ayr in Scotland, where they were giving him the freedom of the city. It w a s noted that all the ei g ht Labor t>arty m e mbers of the City Council reaa ined away. ORRRA -- Truman now has on his desk the bill peraitting him to give four hundred million dollars to the Greeks and Turks. The lawmakers tonight are hurrying through the last stages of the general relief bill for starving Europe. Ten Senators and Representatives arguing that one out in conference. The Senatore want to appropriate three-hundred-and-fifty ailliona. The Bouse, two hundred ■ illione. So the eventual coapro ■ ise probabiy will be around three hundred ■ illion1. A cable fro■ Berlin reports that three shipload• • of grain have been rushed tor t,be z■ltf relief of the hungry in the Ruhr district. They were unloaded onl7 yesterday, but they are already being distributed. Those three shiploads will only afford temporary relief. - o - Ir. Tru ■ an today releaa,d hi• report on OIRRA operations in the final three ■ ontha of 1946. In it be reaarted that the spectre of hunger is still close to tbe peoples of many liberated areas, and that peace can be flRRA - 2 realized when people are free from the fear of hunger. Secretary of State Marshall has drawn up a prograa outlining Uncle's Sa ■ 's share of responsibility for the million-odd dispossessed persona in Europe. First he will take it up with the President, then paaa it along to Congress. • Editorials in the Bew York Herald Tribune are causing ■uch co ■■ ent -- urging•Congreas to aaend the ia■ igration la• ia■ e4iatel7 and allow four hundred thousand refugee• to enter this countr1 within the next two 7eara. The Herald-Tribune points out that •bet•••• 1940 and 1946, i ■■ i&ration fell abort of the total po11ible under tlitqaota a7ate ■ ~, nine hundred and » fourteen thousand, alaoat a aillion. And adds that ita auggeation would not fill up the country with an •xa■iax excessive nuaber of i ■aigrants. Also, it urges that one hundred thousand Jews be admitted into Paleatine imaediatelJ. In the United Nations Assembly, the represent a tive from Hindustan today ma d e an impassioned speech, which was quite in the vein of M~hatma Gandhi. The Aeaf Ali, the first aabassador from his country to Uncle Sam, ler•111wuretrti-N\ implored the U. tL to put an end to power politics in Palestine:n'The Holy Land, he pointed out, i• ringed b7 the great powers, and if it1 peace i• ~ violated, it will precipitate W.. third sreat world war. A 1f •L•••• thi■ land alone,w cried the ~A■bas■ador~ • ".-&~ .t- ~ - ~ -a..fll~~lifta.lll...! . ~ settle down to eternal• peace.• ied -h• eectai..: -- ,.;:_4' f) - .,,, ""f~ •The Holy Land of all land•~•u•t remain free fro ■ power A politics. Palestine today,• he continued, •ia the acid test of human conscience.r u~on the decision of U.N. •ill depend the peace of mankind. If we fail, the world will be cut in twain.• Later on, the General Assembly agreed upon the .2.a.1~-- 2 special commission which will stu d y the problem of Palestine. Neither the Arabs nor any of the Big Five powjrs are to be represented on it. They will consist of the delegates from Australia, Canada, Czechoslovakia, Guate ■ ala, India, Iran, the · Netherlands, Peru, Sweden, Uruguay and JugoslaYia. The eli ■ ination of the Big Five fro ■ that coa■ iaaion was put through oYer the repeated protests of the SoYiet bloc. After deciding upon the membership of the coaaiasion, the A••••bly heard ·the reading of a reaoluti offered by the lorwegian delegation~-1-b,..,,-_.. an appeal to all goYern ■ ent and peoples, and particularly the inhabitants of Palestine, to call a truce during the activities of the commission. To that the Assembly shouted •■■if■ ~• a vociferous •Aye•, but the Arab delegates kept silent. U. N. - 3 -------- There could hardly b a more neutral and impartia membership for any commission of inquiry. Not one of the eleven nations represented has even the remotest direct interest in Palestine. BEVll -- If the!.!.!! Big Four conference fails in loTeaber, the world will be beaded on a dubious course. That's the prediction of British Foreign Secretar7 Ernest Be•in. The Bouse of Coaaons today opened a full debate on British foreign policJ, duriug which Be•in aaaerted . that if agreeaent ia unduly delayed, the difficultiea aet by the Bi& rour Foreign liniatera will grow ateadil7 wor••• · •it la abaolutelJ Titali • he added, •that tbe treatiea wltb Geraany and Austria and the relation• between the eastern and western bloca, be aettled on a frieadlJ baala.• BeTin, as•• know, baa beek railed at b7 the Left lia& ae■bera of hia · o•a part7. Toda7, laabaating thea, hie toae waa friendly toward• hi• rebellious colleagues. le assured the ■ the GoYera ■ent . would consider aerioual7 aa7 auggeatlon1 the7 ■ ate. Then he went on to tell tbe eoaaona that repreaentatiYea of John Bull and Oncle Saa ha•• coae to BEVIi :- 2 - an agreem e nt that will insure the success of the merger, of their two zones in Geraany. About the SoTiet deaand that the Buhr district be adainietered by all four powers; on that he said lo -- not 10 long as-~••• there are separate zone• in Geraany. Thia because you can't haTe partial econoaic unity. •poke 10 caltloaal1 The London Foreign Secretar1~••x•~•I••• ,, that bla \. t•tt■1x.A audieace aeeaed bored~ 11th onenonorable aeaber after another tlptoing out of the Bou••• ul with Prlae linlater Cle■ent Attlee nodding aleepll7 oa the front 1o•ernaent bench, bi• hat tilted o••r bl• eyea an4 bi1 feet on a la~■xt · table la front of hi ■• Bat on? tea, in the British Bouse of Coaaona, all honorable ae ■bera are auppoaed to wear their hat, except when addreaain1 the •••'•rs. lhen a aeaber jaapa • to hla feet and takes off bia · top-piece, that's a ei1n he'• trying to catch the • • of the speaker. Anthony Eden replied to BeTin, and -- not 10 oautioual7. Eden•*** attributed the failure at Iosco• §EVIi. - J_ to what he called the obstinacy, and the intransigent attitude, ot the Soviet goYernment. In answer to the Left ling deaalds for appeaseaent of Russia, be said it would be a profound delusion to suppose that by getting farther away fro■ the Dnited States, you neceaaarilJ get any closer to the SeYieta. Adolphe enjou, th t glass of fashion a n d th e m old o f form, a s Ham l et would have called him, h a s played many a role and p layed them all well. Ko he w a nts a new one. He told a congressional committee that he wants to be the Pa•l Revere who sounds the alara about the menace of Communism, particularly in the part of the country he k nows best, Hollywoou. Teatifying before the Bouae Committee on Un-Aaerican Activities, he said he believed that Bollywoo4 ia one of the aain centers of Communi•• in A■ erica, becauee the aotion picture• are one of the greatest . aediuas for propaganda. He declared that pro-Cpaaunieta are in such high and influential positions in Hollywood that a lot of anti-Comaunists are.afr~id to opea their aoutba. Bewilderine as it soenda, he said, ■any of the Communia~a are millionaires. There are at least half a dozen Red directors and several Red a ctors. Be ia in a COMMUNISTS - 2 --------~ .... .-... particularly ood p osition to understand about Russia and Communism, bec a use he spe a ks several lan ua e s . including Russian, and has read at least three hundred and fifty books on Russia. BUILDIN G ~------- In Elko, Nevada, tod y -- w·t roar a building collapsed. A two-story apartment house tumblin ' into a hole th a thad been excavated next door for a ne w building. The collapse occured early enou h to cost the lives of three sleeping tenants, injurin g four. Eye witnesses told of being awakened by a loud cracking. _ Rushing to their windows they a • that three-faaily building start moving sideways. Its wall bulging out. Then -- with the fury of an explosion, it hurtled bricks across the hundred-by-fifty foot excavation next door. Sliding in with a roar; carrying the aleeping faailies with it. One tenaat rushed into what he thought wae the be4roo■ of bi• wife, only the bedrooa was no longer there, and he ran out into apace, falling fifteen feet into the debris as the rest of the building caae dowa behind bi ■• And be was not aaong those serioualy injured. ROUNDUP -------- An impromptu cattle roundup in Tacoma, Washingto tod y. Right i n the downtown center of the city. A Hundred bewiliered cow charged into the business district, bowling over pedestrians in their milling about. nd with business men, secretarie~, clerks and shoppers cheering the blue -- coat - cowboys -- or maybe they wer e cheering the cows. The sni■ als, on their way to a packing plant -- the last ■ ile for them -- got loose into the etre~ts, some falling into cellar doorways, others b~rging into alleys and back yards. At the end of six hours, the cowboys -- the cops I ■ean -- had rounded up sixty; forty or so still missing, ao■e permanently maybe. There•• an old saying: a steer in your own deep freeze is better than two at the butcher's. BARBY MORE ---------~ It is worth t w enty thousand dollars to sm ac k a cop in Louisville, t w enty thousand dollars apiece. That's what it will cost Diana Barrymore and her husband, if three law members of the Louisville police force win tbeir~auits. This ia another aftermath of the alleged free-for- all in which Miss Barrymore and her husband are said to have taken part Sunday morning. Their trial, on charges of disorderly conduct, aaaault and battery, has been \ ~ postponed to May Twenty-Sixth,_. the, are out sf Jail . A. on bail. But the three cop ■ who arreat~d them are loain1 no time in bringing daaage auita. They want a total of . ~ ~ - T ~ ~ - - - ~ sixty thouaand dollars fro■ Mias Barryaore and~ohn kowar • The complaint charges that Mr. and Mrs. Boward ~ used violent, yulgar language,~•truck •x, the poor policemen with such force as to do thea bodily harm,-- ~ tithout just provocation. They furthermore say that Mr. and Yrs. Howard reflected invi iously upon their professional and personal characters, and hled the■ up to ridicule. Yr. Boward is reported as having said that when he was released i■ on bail he did not get back all the money he had in his pocket when he was pinched. That promises to be ouite a trial on lay Twenty-Sixty, Louisville! And now order in the court. Let's hear the caae. I ■ean the Case. --- COAL - - John Lewis today backed down from bis previous insistence that he would talk contract only with the 10ft coal aine industry as a whole. Which had produced a coaplete deadlock, since the owners of the Southern . ainea had declined to talk on that baaia. Toaorro• Lewis •ill begin oegotiatioo1 with three-quarters of the bitaalnoaa operators. Theo when they ha•e co ■• to teraa, he will con1ider how to 4eal with the Southerner,. Kew Yorkers will s ee q ui ea show tomorrow. Sta g ed by th a t wizard, General George Kenney of Uncle Saa's Air Forces. Shortly after noon, tomorrow,we'll • hear the roar of some five hundred powerful aotors over * our beads, as a vast armada of B-29• attacks Manhattan. General _Ienney says be is sure we will be able J■ to see them, because the skies will be clear. Be baa that fro• his own weather prophets. 1 h•ndred and thirty B-29• in all. Coaing fro• all part• of the country, aoae fro••• far away•• T••~• . \ ana ••• Mexico. A rendezvous over Cape Ua7, le• Jeraey, and then a · 1weep down on lew York, at twelve thirty P.I., Eastern Daylight Time. In the lead plane will be General Kenney biaaelt. Be says be wants to ahow the folks in the east a part ot •hat their taxes are paying for.And, b~ wants thea to reaeaber that the wartiae raids on Tokyo involved as many as six hundred of the great Superforts. From New York the B-29s will fly up the Bud.son to Newburgh, then back to Newark, lew Jersey, Trenton, Philadelphia, lilain g ton, Baltimore and Washington. LTP.1947.05.15i.pdf LTP.1947.05.15ii.pdf