STRI K E ------- I n a room at the White Hous e , where meetingd of the Cabinet are he ld , a confe r ence is goin g on tonight t at ma y rle c i e t h e strike issue for this nation - wh et e r the giant walkouts are g oin g to continue and increase for a national crisis. Or - whether the strikes may suddenly dwindle almoat to the vanishing point. Either one of those two extreme alternatives may come out cf that White Bouse meeting. A\ a \able sit Benjamin F a irless, President of United Steel, and P~ilip Murray, President of the C.I.O. They are trying to settle the wage dispute in the empire of steel. E~rlier in the day~ President Truman talked to the ■, and vigorously urged an agreement. The word in Was•ington is~:ftle■ent of the steel issue~■ost likely be followed by an end to the meat packers' strike. Nearly three bundre thousand packing house w o r k e r s ~ out to d ay, tying up the meat industry. an t h reateain a mea t f a mine within a week. STRIKE - 2 ---~- But wha t h s steel p4 to o with packing houses? The answer is t at the conference on steel c an set a pattern for a settlement o f the current series of major wa g e disputes. Tbat's what the government is attempting - trying to evolte a steel agreement that would provide a formula. That is - a figure, a rate of wage increase on which industry in general could compro ■ ise with the unions. Bow far eeaching such an agreement, setting a p&ttern, would be, is indicated by a simple figure - one ■ illion workers on strike itf,hia nation tonight, and bundrea1 of thousands of others threatening to walk out! CHINESE STRI E ------------ The Chinese are aving a stri e, but it's d ifferent - something new. L ea v e it to tre he~then . Chinee to think up an ingenius novelty with a curious twist. In Shanghai, the Chinese conductors of buses and street cars are on strike• but the buaes and street cars today were running as usual, and doing more business than ever - if you can call it business. The Chinese call it - •a free ride strike.• That is, the bus and street car conductors, instead of walking out, stay right on the job - only they don~t collect any fares. EYerybody rides free. They explain that this is a way to avoid the usual dilemma that attends a strike - public inconvenience. O•iina!Pi:13', · the r· 1ult-nkN, · i• fot t!lf:. &..,.i,- ~he ~~~ff~a.,_ In fact, it's the other way around. The public is happy about the strike in Shanghai. The passengers not only ~i e, but they ••M ride free. ~ I Dingr as the Chinese s y. CFINES STRI'E _ 2 ---------- Te word from han ai is trat never before in t e istory oft e city ha ve so many peopl ~ ri dd en in In one day, the free ride strike is estimated to have ~to~~~ cost the company 1 ,a hundred and fifty million Chinese dollars. 'J..t,trl,~ation, the ehiae'!le dollar is net» auch All of ~ whicb.:::i:& ~aus ing much grief to the IAd ~'> ~ ~ companf, ~ A owned by the F~ench, and y ou know how ca-reless a Frenc man is with money - ev e n Cllines~ ~ b The free ride strike has t h e Fr nc h Company owners ~ · - .,.P_ cursing in their co g nac - while the Chinese~~ Ding~f ,>::... • hot Admiral Ii ■mel stated to ay that he had protested personally to President Roosevelt against tl\e 1"eakening of the Fleet in the Pacific to build up naval power in the Atlantic. The Ad ■ iral, testif7ing at the Pearl Barbor investigation, told ho• one full naval division, including three had been taken out of the Pacific -- this at the ti ■e when the undeclared shooting war against the was going on in the Atlantic.~[im■el ata edl\.toda1, 1 ' that, as lavy Coamander at Pearl Barbor, he was, in the words of~ispatcll..,t••• mu111aia --•diahrbed whenever be beard reports th,t bis Pacific Fleet was to be sacrificed for the benefit of the Atlantic Clr ■ ada. •I felt,• he said1 b ~ •that we should make every effort to keep Japan out of the war. I felt that the way to do that was to have a fleet out there capable of doing it.• Be was inforaed by the late Secretar7 of the javy 1 Frank Inox 1 that still more warships were to be sent from the Pacific to the Atlantic -- whereupon he PEARL HARBOR - 2 ~ _....-- · - bad an interview with the late President e:a~aft!"it~la that the llavy Roosevelt.-- Department bad stated it was all right to take more ships out of the Pacific. Today Admiral Iimmel quoted his own replJ: wr said, 'Well, whoever told you that is craz1. It's just ridiculous.•• ~ p r o t e s t was effective -- and the ~acific Fleet was not further weakened. There's plenty of interest in the liaael explanation of •hf the Ravy at Pearl Barbor did not carr7 out long-range reconnaissance b7 air -- •~1 patrol planes did not keep a watch far out at sea that would have - r t : : . t ~ spotted the Japa coming to the attack. "said" that be was so short of planes•• d• t~• Jo' that he an1 such long-range patrol all the tiae, and at the saae time do other things that he was ordered to do. that he'i been directed to be prepared, with planes and .:5o all, for a fleet move westward, in case of war. 1 ~e had to have planes · in readiness for that -- which would have been impossible if he had used up his patrol plane strength on long-range reconnais~ance. PEARL BA BOR - 3 ---------- - ------ The news of the Pearl Harbor mvestigation includes bitter com laints by Aomiral Kimmel about the way he was, as he said -- crucified. 0.N.O. ------ The Unite d Na t ions Or g aniz a tion a c e s its f irst test - the first large an d an g erous q ue t ion put before it. Tod a y in Lon d on, the I ranian d ele g ation &nnounce d t b at the g overnment at Te h eran h a d instructe d it to submit to the U.1.0. the Iranian dispute with Soviet lea+sertta,, IJl1e t!el:cgalsicn •••• ia111i: This concerns, of course, the rebellion in the northern part of Persia - which is under control of S oviet troops who went i~ durin g the war. A local government has been set up, and Teheran has been claiming that the Soviets prevente d it from • reestablishing its authority. That's w h at Iran is ,~■t ■■ protesting about.• f•~ ■ sl~.t.e•~ te be plaeaa h ~ • tl t 0.N.0. - 2 ____ ,.. ___ _ -- -------- The whole t . in g will be su ject to a Soviet veto, each of the major powers havin a right to veto anything that comes up. So wha t will Soviet Russia do - exercise the veto in the case of the first international dispute to be brought to tbe U.N.O.? The next few days s~ould give an answer to that interesting question. In China, demobili z ation o t e ov ~nment's army has begun. Three million men are to be mus ered out in the next six months. T a t will le a ve an army of one million, eight hundred thous nd. At the same time, the Chinese Communists announce that their Red Army ~ will be reduced to a strength o~tbree "w,(four hundred thousand men. These demobilizations on both sides are in accord with the agreement we heard about yesterday - Chiang Kai-shek becoming the constitutional ruler of a democratic China. Both the government an the Communiat armies, ■ uch reduced in size, are to be combined under a unified command. This will remove the chief cause of contention between the two factions - Chiang Kai-shek having insisted all along t~at there could be no unified China with an independent Red A~•Y• D!IIOBI L IZATIOtf ----------~-- In Germany, General llcNarney has taken fira action a g ainst those G.I~ demonstrations. Bereafter, tll-€.ll.~ the G.I'a had better ■utter it in their beart:a i •t want -6,.. ... ~ .... to go homeA• General Mclarney bas unit commanders to prevent CM mass protests - the first step taken by a high military commander to stop the deaonatrations. The General stated that homesick ■ arches and aeetinga have been peraitted heretofore, because there bad been confusion and misunderstanding. But now another eleaent has co■ e into the picture. General Uclarney•a order states: •1 tendency has been noted on ao■e occasions to use the meetings for purposes other than urging ■ore rapid deployment.• Be -;,:tl!:tt1-.;'/\ the homes ickneas of the G.I'a ■ay be, in the General's woria, •exploited by so ■• individuals or elements'to the extent of beco■ ing definitely injurious.• These Mclarney sta t ements tie in w i t h word fro■ the other si d e of the world - from the Far E ast. A••••, sa\!1817, Scripps-Howard staff writer Willia• . It Newton, points out that the language of the soldier protests out there does not, in so ■ e cases, aoand at all ~~. like G.I,l \alM:n&. Be quotes one sentence,••••• rseae. •te ciTilian soldiers were dratted to serve our nation in ti ■e ot war - not to i ■plement the poat-war State Department policy.• And what soldier ever talked like that - about ia leaentin ol icJ. la11!.lza . ••• •• 11 ■ 1 p1lle\ l11l ••lt 1 ■ tbt C I 1 1 ~.~~=z :.ts1■,lc n l better English. We are told that the ••-• ■atter or •I •••t to go hoae• has taken a turn supiciou1l1. like the Coa■ unist Party line. At the Nuremberg trial, an American pro ■ ecutor aros~resent the c se a g ainst one of t~e 2ost /\ iaportant war criminal defendants - Wilhel■ Frick, foraer Razi Minister of the Interior.T~e American, a member ot the prosecution staff, began to speak, r e citing the charges - and that brought a surpris ~ . The way he spoke his accent, a thick guttural German accent. If one of the lazi defendants had spoken English with such a dialect - it wouldn't have been surprising. Several of the war criainals, in fact, speak much better !ngliah. Thie American prosecutor was Dr. Robert . . Ieapner ot Lansdowne, Pennsylvania. Jl=i?ta an anti-lazi I refugee. Soae years ago, he was a high official in ~· · Berlin - 4asistant State's Attorney,\ Later, he was in a lazi concentration camp - after which he escaped from Germany and came to tbe United States. Be became an American citizen last year, an now is one of the American prosecutors a Nuremberg - assi g ned to the special task of presenting war criminal charges a g ainst RUREIIBERG - 2 ----..,--~- the former Nazi Minister f the In terior, Wilhelm Frick. This is a job for bich Dr. --~r:.w:1~ ~=& K empner of Lansdowne,r:ai.,1va~ is particularly fitted. Be bad /\,- dealings with Frick in the past - and knows ~ story.· Today, in bis thick German accent, Dr. Kempner told how he, as Assistant Stat~•s Attorney in Berlin, before Bitler came to power, tried to force the dissolution of the lazi Party. · litler at that t i • was not a German citizen - he was an Austrian. The ' . . one who got bi ■ over that hurdle was Wllbwla Frick, tdat- . ~ . , ~ • • •••=~niater of tbe Interior of the Ger•II!' state of Thuringia. Bolding that position, Frick was able to graS German c i t i z e n s b i ~ ~ ~ ,. lben Hitler became ~i• Dictator of Germany, proapt retaliation was taken against Ieapner - for having tried to dissolve the lazi Party. A g ain, it was . a matter of citizenship - an again Frick did the job. He p ersonally deprived [empner of German citizenship - and the one-time Aesistant State's Attorney was sent to lllUIJlt!~ - 3 a concentration caap. Well, the wheela of destiny do revolve, and positiona have a way of beco■ ing reversed. Today, that same Dr. Ie■ pner, now of Lansdown+ Pennsylvania, officiated as a prosecutor of Wilhel■ Frick ~ •bo bestowed German citizenship on Hitler and took it away fro ■ Ke■pner. Down yesterday, tip today. In an Australian court room t o da y, some interesting disclosures were made . about American doing• in the southwest Pacific during the war. One of Australia's greatest air aces is being tried - CAptain C.R. Cauldwell, who had •~e~ eNn laJ 7]1102 aM:ue••• Be p1aaeF:::&•c1::>ccM a whole string of decorations. They called bim •tiller Cauldwell.• No• he is on trial for illicit liquor trading in wartime, and they say Killer Cauldwell made a killing. thll6 In court today he admitted that he had imported whiskey and rum to ~ the l l o r ~ air base"- A which was illegal. Be sai d he d id it to procure e q uipment from the Americans - trading Aus ralian liouor for American equipment. This, he cblimed, wa the only way he could get material to a inst the Jape. ~ t keep is air squadron going at other Australian officers did the aame thing to enable their units to operate. ' l:w 4Qbl&P@~ that trading liquor seemed to be, in his words, •the recognized practice, if you wanted to get anything fro ■ the Aaericans.• The ace of the air war adaitted that be bad ' also gotten money. lot only A ■ erican equipment but al10 '..1--l..e, A■erican cash. Bu-~~~:--:-a• • .,.•WTt,e money I receiTed tro■ liquor did not compare with the value ot the material and equipaent that was obtained fro ■ the Aaericana an4 which became the property ot the Boyal Australian Air force.• However, he is being prosecuted. I suppose !uatralian justice is a little bit p e r ~ i n such matters, because who ever thought of doing anything about the Americans who traded the equipment for the liquor? \ -- -- • .,. I'm sorry to ave to r ep ort to tte la ies that the government has put a ban on rayon night g o w ns. T~ia, explains t h e Civilian Production !~ministration, is because of the clothing shortage - rayon being needed.....- not s o much for nightgowns as for day gowns. However, tbeCivilian Production Administration assures you ladie9:., ■ oat benevolently~tbat you will sti~l be able cotton and flannel nightgo~~ich inspired A of fashion in lew Y 0rk to remark: •1r anything a... to get a leader ii not an easential, it would be eettaa ~•• flannel nightgown•.• A In fact, tbere is a whole chorus of anguish ••*• arising in the world of style. fasbion creators are turning out their latest designs for nightgown■/\~ both cotton and flannel are conspicuous by their absence. For example, one prominent Rew York stylist is displaying a nightgown for brides1 ,,11-::::t. described as follows: •White rayon satin wi~b tiny empire puffed sleeves and a z low neckline, embroidered in hearts a nd cupids. T~e skirt• of the go w n is slit in front an d embroidere d in the same motif - hearts and cupids.• That's for the bride, an h w cant ey ■ ake it it out rayon? I sup ose a bride will ave to do wit just the hearts and cupids. H-e,v.r-~~~?