h µr nt boom of ~ro perity in this country w g di clos in th form of ibure to · uy - Rmeric~n lire noi ~tan all-time high. This emanates from the Labor Department, which aisclo · th~t w · ges in linu· cturing rose in May to record avera e of forty- eigbt,dollars-ana-eighty-six cent a ~eek. The previous peak •~B estab " i bed durin the war - forty-sevcn-dollau. and-&•half a ~eek. !hat was for a wartime forty•five hour week, while the still higher figure ri 5ht now is for a v.ee.l that avert.ges 1orty-and .:foul'-tinths hours. t the s me time, unemployment bus tied the z previous low r cord. Ri~ht now there are leaa than t•o million unemployed, matching a simil~r lo fi 6 ure for last rall. Furthermore, ho~sin construction is booaing ' to b ne• peak, the preoiction being that '6ineteen Forty- even 1ill show u fibure 01 t~elve billion dollars invested in the construction of new ►buildings. , of which i th tec h nic 1 b~ cK L r o und for a Luoor ilep~r tment r l p ort that thi · nation's economic ositi on i s no ~ on ~hat the report call "A hich lev~l, a p l t d u, vith lenty of strength." Mid ~ no s ign o nlum in the makin 0 , the Labor e artment ·~~~Ilg- aoHei- 'There is nothin in the c rrent i:,ictun: to inaic 1.1 te any general ao~ntrend or recession." .P reeio ent ~uw,s will la~e a et.ion on the- ~ e i s i o n -Gf • --¥-Q1,e op e i ~ The Pr&sident still r fuses to g1v any innicution of h\~~~ v, h · t he ' 11 ci o,A but the prevailin • u es in ashin b ton i - veto. It woula appear that the hite Bous h s never been unaer such ne vy re ur - floods of m~il and telegrams urging ~he President to veto that Labor Bill to which the unions are so bitterly op~osea. Seven hun~r d thousand messages have Pelich&d the ~bite House thus flir, and they~pouring ip at the rat ,... of ten '1/;e4for~ thgu?if ~ostal thousand letter;,'Ai:i.na twoOUSb.Q eregr ms Tae eP11nt of +,he ifPUIMI~ ~ r H : l ' N e ~ ~ from th "· F. of L. ano c.r.o., the unions s onsorinb v.hat is alled " v to carav nJ" A-atie~ ~ from citi w e1 1 the w~y out to the coast~ ~•~ ~ourin into ; ~~hin 6 ton, for a µarlide tomorow - and the L. I.O. ~ pre-senting veto petitions which tJ they claim have five hunarea thousand signe1 ures. D The Tr tisury ~ artment h s given Con r s an income-splittin lan t > al o w husb n s an wives to divi e u the tot a l f~mily incom for purposes o f taxation ' • ccoraing to the ch E me, a. husb ~ n ne1 · wife could each report half of their total income, ev n though the husblind e rnea it all - which, of course, ~ould me b n a considerab• suving. the det&il ~ of the plbn were submitted today by the Treasury Dep~rtment to the Ways and Mens Committee of the Bouse of Rcpre · ent~tivea, and Re ublican Congressman ~obert · on of North Vakota told taai the Coamittee that it should be adopted - to cane l out an inequality that now exists. In ten sta.t s, right now, kaaa husband and ~ife are permitted to divide up their combined income in reporting ii for t~xation. This, orgued the North Dakota Congressman, produces inequality - the stc1tes that perm .1. t this kina of community property having an aav~nt&ge over the non-community property states At present t nine hundred thousand hu s banas &nd wives split their income ano file sep rate tax returr.s - a JO ILL TB!_ -- .,., p rivil eg wnich , ccora1n t o t e r ent pla n, would be ext naed t o a l in co me t · x a. yer s v. • ho rui h t ,ant to slit income betwe n O Ub ban an wife in r p ortint or taxation. jil\S!i _ 11_f.:_li N _ ( Grea t Britain a n d Fra nce have issued an api,elil to · oviet Russia: - p ea e come in ana join the llarshal Plan! ) r t ~•s an.nounced 1n P aris toni g ht that British Foreign ~ecretary evin and French Foreign inister B iaault have dispatchea a not e to Mo co , ur g ing the So iets to p arti c ipate in the program proposed by the american ~ecretary of St~te - the (uropean nations to g et together • in a conc e rted effort to do wha• they c&n for themselves, nd the United States to fill in with whatever Xurepe is unable to provide. there's not much optimism in Paris about a Soviet reply, the key to the matter being the fact that today French Communist papers cohtinued their bi t t r att~cxs on the Marshall Plan. ~ all their Coamunis catch-phrases to condemn the·American scheme to hel p in 4 economic reorgani za tion of Europe. It is taken for granted that French Red Journalism is gettin g its orders from Moscow - is follo w ia g the pa rty line as dictated by the Stalin Regime. But the iiix British ana the Fr nch ~ t t k av nt e1 g of the offer made by our ecr try of tdtc. To ay, B evin and 1 economic x ert · , · .er in tir .1e c nferenc i th WU. French official~. They~ not only goin into the business A (J,.J'\.f' tiith gre t alacrity, but tney.__ also getting results. ~ Bevin arrived in Paris yesteroay, ~nd ri g ht away today French Forei n Minister Bidau l t announced that an agreement had been r ache on how to make a quic start. ~ Bevin has okayed a French plan to create ~hat the news dispatch calls - "A special ~urope~n economic commission to carry out the Marshall Plan." This ~ommission,•as proposed by Frdnce, will name four technical committees to work out schemes of ooord · nating the fo~r ~rincipal branches of European economy - co~l, · tee , trc1.nsport and agriculture. i'n- C&O neea. Te l at e t i sud en aenial of the - - - official announcement of t n i a reement. A aenial i · ued by as oKe man 01 the r nch orei~n O iice. This is a aiplomatic ·ens tion in .t'aris toI}.i 6 ht , Sut it is not being taken too s riously in the f - ce of the o ficial statement e~rlier in the · u.y. The belief i tht:tt the British and lrench do not want to flhunt their agreement in the f 4 c of o vi e t - - ~ ~ nus ia - ~= •"" want to seem to p resent the loviets with an accomplished fact, in which II o s cow a h ad no part • I t i s t a k en f o r g r ;.; n t e d th a t the official hnnounc ment w s correct - and that Britain and --- Fr~nce have agreed on an organization for taking advantage -- - To a ne~sman· ho has been watchin these international parleys a nd palavers for a long time, it'J a ne, sens~tion to see ho• fast and with what decision they~getting into hCtioh with the Aarshall Plan in A turope. ~ritain lind tr-nee, waaaiag astin_ mi 5htly little tiae, ar~ agreeing on ractic~l me ~ sures. It almost gives l!hSHALL PLAN_ - 4 one a feeling the .ro h r m ug st e a by the rtmeri c an secretary of State has rallied Lurope n nations iaxa for a get together~ the lixe of w hich hci. s n' t b een seen for ~ ~ . i r - ~ a long t1me.A tll=I- Al;rrhalrPlan may well turn out to be ~\ a surprising f o r ~ l i n g i.urope together for \ economic cooro.ination.) In th all -Je i h ity of Te l Aviv today , there w as a violent explosion - ~ i t h ~1 s ort s o f melodr· matic an lf:s. 'Hie el1: 1 1k: wus i& tlul t u, se11e a 4J ef a , British authoriti e s decla r e that in the . . .. , . · -· b 1 1eaent of the apbrtment house was a hidaen armament factory, wher ter r orists of the Jewish Underground, Irgun Zvai Leum i , made eapons an the apartment house b b sement explosives. At the same ~ was the st4rtingAfor an time, attempt to blo u the British Security Headquart r s - on ~~, sixty ybras aw u y.A f rom the bnseme t a tunnel had been dug in the a irection o f the tiecuri ty Bui la in g , and ••• had only a ~ few yards to ,, go. 'l'he up ~o ition is that the Terroriats intended to ack ex losives unaer the Security !lead'!utt t£:1 ·~ n ~~~ t ..i. · , th basement ~ ~ , ~ A ~u toa y , · it t . n e hn ,,,._. Kil ed . lhen the pol i c in v e s t i t o. t e re ck c:1 5 in t e b em en t , t e y founci t body of a ' ionist believ d to ha ve been a membe r of the Ir un Zva i Leumi. B t they also fo~nd omethin g else. In the reek ge the police vicked up a note iritten in H e · rew, a not e saying: "Hagan ah ha ~ ;;x just been her." Ha ga nah, of course, i t he aln Jehish Unaerground Army, moder Qt e in policy, the Armed Force directed by the Jewish Agency. Baganah is oppo se tt to the doings• of the 'l'errorists and bas issued a stern warning - no viol nee w hile the Commission of the Uniteo. N a tions is in Pales tine. That Commission, investii ting the roblem of the Holy Land, has been holdin 5 hearings in Jerusalem - a n a tod ay is ma ~in t li n inspection tour. The note found in the 1reckage of the•••• o~s ement is beli eved to indic a te that HagQnah ~as making g ood its ~arning - no terrorism bile th e U.N. com ission is conductin its investigntion. ~up p o ealy the moderate force f the Je~ish U naer gro und K n e 1 out the lot to blo u the riti h becurity ead uart r at Tel A viv, na took ction to f orest a ll it - by blo~in L up the b ~s ement from hich the attempt wos bein g made. That is be l ieved to have been the m eaning of the note in Hebrew fou din the wreckage - aa ga nah has just been here~ ---0--- Later news from Tel Aviv:- Hagana admits its part in today's explosion. Moreover, Hagana says that the dead man found in the wrecked basement was mt not a member of Irgun Zvai Leumt. Instead• a member of Bagana's Army. In fact he was the one who detonated the mine that was to have blown up British headquarters in Tel Aviv. His name: Zeev lerber; just twenty years old. Ha 6 ana tonight is appealing to the public of Tel Aviv s ■• to attend Werber's funeral, describing him as "an officer killed in action while s av i ng 'I e 1 A v iv " In Lon on to da y, ne · smen loc Ked to the b re s h · .,. b by ho u · e o f a en n i 1 e s o 1 a m n . t th e s · me ti III e me m b er of .2 ti. r 1 i a men t , · i th rime Mini t r .ht t 1 e e presiain, held a meeting to con s iaer the c se of the seventy - ei g ht ye a r old patriarch, who w - s in i i t distress. he is John Robert Clynes, for long years known as - the grand old man of the Labor ~arty. He was a member of the Hou e of Commons for thirt.)-five J ■aax yeurs. In the Coalition Government during the irst orld ¥or, he was food comptroller, l ter Lord frivy Seal. ia After 1hich he was ~eputy Leader of the House of Coamons, hnd then ~ecret ry of St te for~- · · Moae arfaira During his lon~ service in Phrliament, there iae one thin especially, in hich John Robert Clynes played a promin~nt par t. This was the organiz · tion of a ension plan for r tired M.P.'s. Clynes was one of the foremo · t in establishing a fun out of hich pensions coula be paid to members o~ Par iament who mi ht be in need aft r retirin from policitcal office. Thdt's the ironiclil p art of it - becliuse it turned out th~t, when ~1Iil!L1-~Q~-1~ l : li the grand ola m a n 1 the L ab or Par ty f 11 into need, be him se lf ~a s no t eli 6 ible for on e of th ose p en s ions. ev nty-eight y e ar s olci no w , he kept his troubles to him ~ elf - out of p ride. Even now he would still not speak out, if it · er not for his wife, to whom he h~s been m~r ~ ied for fifty ye~ 1 s. She was injured 6uring the wartime bombings of L ndon, crip led in the blitz, an invalid ev r xi since - and requires hospital c re. So, because of is invalid ~ife, the grand old man of the Labor i Party had to pocket his riae ana aiaai ■ • disclose his ~ li g ht of poverty. This he did in typical British fashion - by writing a· letter to the London Times. Hi letter, published in the Times today, ex~lains that all his lifetime savings have been used up for hospital ex en s for his wife. He gets a trade Union pension of about t~enty-four dollar a week - which pays less than a half of the me6ichl cost cl . ~his income ~t the s&me time, prevent him from ualifyin~ for~ House of Commons pen s ion. -,Gitp an, as he h el ed t.:o draw it u~, a t1l ie s only to retiree. o less t1an xa ■ a a bout ei hteen dollar · a week. o no w he ap p eals or a cha n g to be m ~a e in his favor. h efer r in to his thirty-five ye ~ r ~ as a member of Parli~ment, he writes, •1 may as k, w hat ~oula be•• saia a bout a pr iv a te employer who turned a~ay an old servant of seventy-eight without a aaiiii ■ gil F hi~ l in ?• If John Robert Clyn s was emb a rrassed and y Ut aside his pride, you can imagine the embarrassment of the British Labor Party, from the Prime Minist ~ r on down the line of Clibinet ~embers ~nd U.P.'s - at this ublica ti on ,, of the plight of bhe ir old time la bo · party leader. So today hasty measur s w • re bein g t a ken to make a Parliamentary pension available to the g r a nd old man of the L~bor ~arty, First dr}d w~r Food i ■■ ,taz Compt r ol le r, ~ - ~ • o ~ =2s-QN t'-fa.~~-a•,- 1, Le.,.cier of t .h. e Commons) --1 · ecr et ·· ry of St a te for ~ome ar 1'" i rs ) o,,,J O¥oSl ----ti-.c. ~ -r ~ :'x.P J . \I CLIPPER --- The Pan American Clipper America, carrying a group of American editors and publish r s on the first Ro nd-The-World sch duled commercial flight is somewhere over Europe tonight. Next stop Istanbul, Turkey. ihe Round-the-World travelers, during the~r bri f stay in London, met members of the British Cabinet, had tea with Prime Minister Attlee, and attended a reception at the American Embassy. About now they should be over Italy. The arvard-Yale cr e w rac e , old st American i n t e rc o llegiate sports rivalry -- o n ttamJ today by 0 arvard. The margin -- two lengths. A stirri n g victory for arvard, and also a sort of victory for th e University of ashin g ton. Coach of toda~•s victori us Harvard crew was Big T om Bolles, who once pulle1 a strong oar in those winning crews the huskies are always sending to Poughkeepsie. Harvard's crew w~n today in typical lashington fashion: Rowing ab a lower stroke than its rivals but with devastatihg po : er and drive. For Tom Bolles beating Yale is getting to be a habit. Bolles has coached Harvard crews for eleven years and his Harvard varsities have beaten Yale exactly •i•• eleven times. The wets and the dr1s were oppose in the Idaho election• today. T~e dr1s winning b . a margin of almost four to one. lot that Idaho has gone ouite as drJ as the ae1trt. Bardly that. A worshipper of John Barleycorn still can lug home a bottle or two. But fro■ now on, he 1 1 baYe to b•J it in state-owaed liquor stores. lo ■ore short aaorta over the bar. There a are four cities left in Idaho where 10• still o,a hoot 1our heel oa to a bar rail. But the rest ot I4abo, well, al■o1t 4rJ. lebbe it wa1 10■,thla1 tbeJ traak, lelaon. But then Jou wouldn't know; Jou being aa authority oa water. Plenty of eo p le h ~ ve been ondering about the reaction.,.. the r e turn r. nd esca p e of Abd-El Iri ■ wo\ii have in North Africa. ~ome years ago he was the lion of the Sahara, •ho led his tribesmen of the Riff to ,ictory &gainst the S paniards ana the French - and it took a full scale caapaign before the araies of France 7P ,ere able to defeat and capture him. they exiled hi ■ to a reaote island in the Indian Ocean, and then recentl7 the French ~llowed him to coae back or what was intended to be a quiet, pleasant exile iu ~urope. But, on the way, Abd-~l lim just walked off the boat in Eg7pt - and was giYIA sanctuary by the ~g7ptian Govern■ ent, as a hero of lalaa. lt was surmised at the time that this might ha,e ions among the w a rlike tribes of the Ritt • ..-..~~ . a::c,.r:ldEldl-c!*• a reaot e wilo.erness, a11d only now do we ha•• any inkling of w h a t i . . . , ~ ~ O V \ ~ • fhe account is given by a representative who has come to the United N a tions to m a ke an ap eal for jQROCCQ - 2 t an independent oroc o . His nttme is Mahi /\ e n n o u n a ~ a aeaber of 11 tribe of the Riff, n1i the "'orci he brings is fro• the mountain villag of Ajdir - home town of bd-tl •rim. ~hai Bennouna relGtes that the ~arrior people of hjair are modern enough now to have a radio, and they got the news about Abd-El Irim from the loud spedktr. So what did they do? •The people•, relates Mahdi Bennouna, •were overjoyed - and the young ■ en i■aediately atarted composing new war songs, in the hope that Abd-El lrim would coae back to lead the ■ again.• So therti's the ' picture - the yoijng warrior• co■poaine new war songs ~nd singing thea. But cooler couaels prev iled, for the time being anyway, and it waa decided to ~dopt a more •p-to-date ••• aethod of seekin& •hat the tribes of the desert want - independence. The Dnited iationa is the latest thing - and they have sent a representative a to the 0.1. So Mahdi Bennouna is fixing up an appeal to ma~e at Lake Success, Long Island - while o,er there in the desert the young men of the tribes, presuaably, are si~ng those newly composed war son~s.