COAL strike after all. John L. Lewis has cleared the way for a possible bargain between bis United Mine Workers and · management before the June thirtieth deadline. The boss of all the mine workers has summoned bis ••o-hundred-and-f"ifty- man policy-committee to meet wi tb hia in Washington tommorrow. At which tiae Lewis will give a preview of what he hopes to obtain in the way of ■ iniaua wage increases when next he tangles with the producers. Th e n , . t t h e Uni ed S a te a 1 , ~ - _,_ "'.,_ T a ed n o time to d · y o v e r h ~ t a x bill. Th ey p sse d it, an d with such a maj o r ity th th ch n c es of ov e r-riding any veto by he Pre i d n a e ex e ll ent. he rol l c 11, fifty-two in f a vor, th i rty-four a ainst. As ~ r ep or('Gtff day befor ye ter a , this mea ure benefits some forty-five million t xp ayer bf s l s inR four billion dollars off I,... their income tax bills. Sxr :ti's now u to the Rouse a?ain; and 11N 4,-49......,...,...._ R~publican leaders:a-i-e-'1)!'e-t~ sure the Representat.ivea •ill acc ep t th e ch a n es made by the Senate. The Bouse version was eased two months a o by a vote of two hundred and seventy-thr e to a hundred an · thirty-seven. And that indicates that in t h e Lower . Cham b et- at l east the presidential veto will be hand omely over-ridden. Senator Scott Lucas of Illinois, the Democr tic •bi p , made a a t ditch i ht. d e o ffe red an P end e nt, t!!i§ - 2 ~ Ht1-8ft~ n o t. n o ne t,-h,e. t x redu tion until next January firs , ivin us no b e ne f it at all fo this year. Tba . was defe a ted o ve r wh min , fif t -ei _ ht t o t enty-eieht. The me a sure a s a sed by the SPn te, will make the reductions e ff tive be innin the First of July. Pre si n Truman h a s A t ~ ~ intimated he would veto such a bill. But after the size of the majority in G favor o f it, Democr a ts joinin with Re p ub l ic a n s , " - - ~ itbout any warning, the b · us1ness of making a seaway through the St. Lawrence River became news in Washington today. The treaty with Canada, which would make possible the constructi o n of that waterway, has been gathering dust in the files of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, for years. President after President bas·been in fayor of it. Governor Dewey of lew York has mentioned it in every messa e since he took office at ilbany. And toda, ix two more top figures came out in favor of that treaty, Secretary of State Marshall and former President BooYer. "Take that treaty ' ofi the shelf,• the7lil11ea the Senators -- •and give it your okay!• Let deep- draught sea-going vessels steaa all the ••1 froa Chicago and other lake ports to the Atlantic Ocean by way of the St. Lawrence! Secretary of State Marshall also points out that this will be invaluable as an a id to national defense. Herbert Hoover started plugging for the St. Lawrence seaway even before he became President -- when he " as Secretary of Commerce. F t d or wo ecades powerful lobbies h a ve fought it. But today it looks as though the project may go through -- at last. Yr. Hoover pointed out to a sub-committee of the· Senate that in addition to providing a transportation outlet from the Middle West and an aid to national defense, the project would also provide a tremendous volume of electrical power -- useful in 11x war and peace. Secretary Marshall, with a vie• to the ailitar7 aspect, reminded the Senators that this would mean one-third of the voyage from Chicago to Europe could be ■ ade free from undersea attack. Yueh of the pressure 'against the St.Lawrence project comes from the railroads• lays Yr. Hoover -- the railroads have been needlessl7 alarmed. Tba t they already have al 1 the business they are able to handle under existing schedules. The answer to their difticul ties, a aid he' would be more reasonable treatment by the Interstate Commerce Commission and not defeat of aucb an obvious item of modern progress as the st. Lawrence W a terway which would provide cheaper transportation for mid-western products, and would enable farmers to get five cents a bushel ■ ore for iial wheat; all of which would be a gain that would be reflected in other direction•. T r i n Bath Room on a v·ctory today, a victor a 0 • !l t·1 to da y, it s unla ful to build a ne u n t ese United Sates with aore than one room eve e o t e harmless necessary process of kee in£ the od c en. This as a ruling of the Housing Expediter. Butane order issued to da y reaoves the li it. •hen, ac: a'!'l · if .;ou c n g,t a contractor to build you a h s e , an i u the money it will cost to build it, you aay put in as many bathrooms as you can afford. IAN§ ___ £1T _ --- Dur in th o r e ence of Presi ent Truman at Ins ~ i ty, 8 r nd jury h a s been at work investi ati ng the conduct of th P Democra ic p rima y last Au ust. It w s then, you m y r n mb12r, t.h t th-e emocratic voters turned don forme ongressman Slaup,hter at the Presi ent 's r eq uest. ~~::IIN~~~ec~~~=M&-4 in A consequence the Dpm rratic can.id te who was nominated at the prim ry was defe at ed at the election. decli:red th he ·o uld not have been p•.:r ed in that priaary but for election frsuds perpetrated by the Pendergast ma chi ne. The grand jury, after its inveatigetio reported definitely th t the cl\ rges were true, that Presi ent Truman's candida e would never have been noaina ed exce t for b&.tla fra uda. The grand jury handed i111 no fe er than seventy indictments. Tha w . s yes erday. Durinp th ni ht, somebody broke IAI~ _;_ .:.~ - ......... ---- ~ t. h \l nn t i n 0 . of s o ... ; ,,,.., ., n . i r in • j .... .. . ev · c.e 4 d bu 1 rs. b - . the d r s . t. o u rth o us a a ... ' witho t .: is. - n od - ! c s n & ltt rney Gen r 1 Tom rk beard about · • , e F • . I. in o n the case. Be ; from r n ndvi w, i ouri. The heal h of be M th bas i m proved th t r. Truman ia plann in o n - hi i i l and r turn to lash in ton. Tbe hi e use hysician reported that Mrs. Truman's temperatu e w s n rmal, respiration excellent, pulee good. C:-ia• ■• aal0ta., are to be the central figures in what newspaper headline writers like to call a "probe,• a full-dress affair, and, very much in earnest. All as a result of the brief visit that three members of the House On-American Activities paid to the coast. That - was when Adolph llenjou told 'em that certain directors, writers and producers were !inks and Beds. And, Actor Robert Taylor also told about pressure put on him to . take the 1 eading role in a propaganda film, even presaurt fro■ the White Bouse. Later Actor Robert Taylor was contradicted by Lowell lellett, former assistant to President RooseYelt, lellett, who was said to have put the · heat on Taylor. The House Sub-committee the Congressmen who · •ent to Hollywood -- today submitted a report and recoamended th a t the full committee on On-American ActiTities conduct public hearings on June Sixteen t b and subpoena some thirty headline characters fro■ th e fila ca ital -- including Bans Eisler, the German t b t i e ter ■ ed co ■poser em pl O ye d by the stud i o s t O • r i e • • • screen • ' . ro h f rh rt Eis er no• un .:1r rr . ~ • i - h C nteaJ)t o! ongr describe V r the Ru b r D Ire agent ia t!li ry. ne es er of he ub-comaitt!.le, who • ul • allow his na e White Bouse i pressure o J a e quoted, told reporters tba e Rooseveltlcia11 bad applied stro arner tocoapel him to produce a fl ,eraion of Ex-A bassador Joe Da•i••' liaaion to Iosco•, which has been ran ed by critics aa one of the aoa\ fantastic concoctions of propaganda and half-truth• e,er put out. ITALY ( Italy's premier-designate,~ De Gasperi, annou eel that tomorrow he will for■ Italy's first tost-war cabinet without Communists. It ■ ay be just a coincidence, but the announcement coae1 just twenty-four hours after De Gasperi waa infor■e by his envoy in this country tha~little A■ erican aid to I t a l y ~ be expected if Co■■uniata continue• to hold ~ A Cabinet po&ta) De GaepeTi's new govern■ent, however, will not travel an easy road. Today Com■ uniat leader Togliatti cried out ~ ~ ..,.l•N. ~ protest- tbat I( against tbe whhes ot the Italian people. I-a the la1t ele1tio&et n ,aar •a•, . . . a,aani,at; paMleL pe.u-t-e.iprt>M=i• th• ele-et-iio•• ••4 '4eir,..,,t•la.l •et.es-4ar HC1!~h4-~ . , th• 0011 ■•nis-t1- Fort -ei ht Nazis h&nned . t c:.. in o days, in the yard of th ri on t Landsb rg in Germany. T enty-two yesterday, t e nty-six more tod y. Men res p onsible for t e torture and murder of many thousands at the Nazi , trocity cam p at M a utbausen. The or o ram today was for twenty-seven executions, but one, a doctor, received a reprieve at the last moment, but only a teaporary one - and no explan ation . "' h :· · n t o the ga llo-rs in al habetical order. Most of them went with heels clickin g and characteristic Nazi arro ga nce. One, an S.S. general. As the black bag was pulled over bis bead, he said be regarded it an to be banged by w hat be called the most brutal of all victors. Anoth r claimed he was innocent, never hurt anyone in his life, did only g ood deeds. Ill---lTY __ Ca re n ss o n t e art of the officers and crew o f the French seamer G r a ndcam, was r e~ p onsible for the terrible tra . ed y at Tex ::- a City, in which four hundr ed a n d ei hty-one persons erished, and three thousand five hundred injured. Such are the findin gs of th, Coast Guard, , after a month's investi ation. It's a withering indictment of the p ersonnel of the freighter as well a• I t the lon sboremen. The Coast Guard found that practically every known safety rule•• was broken, while that dread cargo of ammonium nitrate w as bein loaded aboard the 1hip. Sev~r al ad mitted to smokin g . ·Lon shoreaen, •ailora and almost everyone seemed to be in complete ignorance of the safety re ~ulat ions laid down by the Coast Guard. The blowin g u of ta French ships t fire to two Ameri ca n vessels nearby. But the Coast Guard f ound no derelictions, no viol at ionsab oa rd either of the 11erican DIONE -------- Rememb e r what startling event happened thirteen y ea r s a g o t oday? How a _ y oung father, ta a little ch a p in C a ll a n er, O n tario, rushed o ut in a . bit t er cold ni g ht c a lling for a midwife to come quick. Bis name w a s Oliva Dionne - since known as "The Mighty Atom". When the mid w ife arrived r s . Dionne, already had given birth to five children, thanks to Dr. Defo•. The five little ~irls were so small and delicate it was t h ought that only a miracle could save them. Th a nks a gain to Dr. · DaFoe they survived. And now t h ey ar e husky teen-agers. W h a t of the Dionne's today? Well at their plates th is morning, Yvonne, Annet\e, Cecile Emily and Marie, each found a g old wrist watch, a gold chain and a religious med 1. After brnkfae t , at the grotto ne a r the Dionne house, the Archbishop of Otta wa offi c iated at a special s e rvice. ' The mous Q uints•• are reported to he not only attractive and wel -~anner ed , but also rather talen e d . Thou h they reached teen-a g e today, they sho wed no inclination toward becoming bobby- soxers. They a re reported to be not at all inter•sted in jive. Inf . ct they are ~ tudying •• serious music. The weather outlook for Meaorial Day. From the I Far North a northwest gale swept over the American •1ddle fest today -- leaving some town buried in a foot of snow. In Iowa -- the coldest in fifty-tr e e years. All the worse, since any already bad put on their su■■ er clrtbes. At Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and in Iowa too, people were told to expect a temperature around twentJ- four degrees. In Chicago, the ther.ao ■eter was forty-tour at nooa today -- also in Wisconsin, Minnesota, the Dakotas, lyoaing, Colorado aad . lebra1ka. Almost ismultaneously t h e fir e alarms be ga n to wail. Wit only two paid firemen on hand to fight the fires. Police went in as firefighters, and that turned out alrigbt. But tempers wer e running high in Bawthcrne, and the night of the fires two city council ■en were punched in the nose. And the mayor's car was sabatoged - oTerturned. A new police chief bas proaised to bring order out of chaos, but the aroused citizen will recognize only tbe · old chief -- now serving as sergeant. Hawthrone voters say, however, that the trouble will be settled with ballots on July third. Ten the shortages will be over. A new city council will take office. Firemen will return to their jobs. The street superintendent will go back to wort. And the surpluses • will end too. Bawt,orn• once ■ore willbave only one police chief. As we have only one •elson Case. ~~Q~!~~!~ J Shortages have plagued Americans, and all the worldi for several ye rs now. But surely none stranger than those now bothering the residents of Hawthorne, Southern California. Hathorne currently bas real, vital shortages; to wit: no fire depart■ ent, and no street department. And, soon, m~ybe no City Council. On tbe other hand Bawtborne bas one surplus -- a surplus of police chiefs. What's behind the dffl'iculty: You guessed it. Politics.Street Superintendent Willia■ Iaiser originally aade the charge thats aeaber of the City Council was using city trucks to haul gravel for a private construcibl project. The dispute ■ ushrooaed into a violent a~guaent, resulting in the townspeople recalling tbe City Council of July third. In retaliation, tbe City Council fired euperintendent Kaiser. Also bis supporter, Police Chief Jack ' Baumgardner. That caused tbe volunteer fire depart ■ ent to resign in sympathy for Kaiser and the chief. BRITAI N ------- Jo h n B u ll does not inten d to ask Uncle Sm for (),17.- ~ • anothe l oan, n ot now J in the near ~ ,( future. The e c ono m i c a d visers of theACabinet be l ieve t hat the i mp en d in mo ney cri ia wil l com p el l 18shington to t a ke me sures to corr e ct t h e shortage of dollars that prev a ils all over the w orld, end W&M, before many months 1F' ~~~ h a ve passed. Do l lar funds are"'-runnin ~ out ra idly, not only in Britain, but in many other countries. For weeks, Joseph and Stewart Alsop have been writin g warnin s about thia in the Re• York Herald-Tribe The nub of the situation ie that the U.S.A. i1 practicall the only country in the world roducing anything. We've been • hip in so much abroad and importing so little, bee use there w a s pr a ctically nothin g to import, that the world's trade balance is literally cockeyed. bo, unless •e make m ore dolla r s available in other countries, those countries ill n ot be able to buy anything from us, there' 11 b e a l ut of thin g s here a t home, prices will - fall, ro ~ u t · n w i ala c en, with So owni re twill not aak lashineton for 10 re o y, a - the indication• are for a coaprehensi•• trade a ee e f ■ z with ~oviet Rusaia. That indicatioa caae froa Mar ate, where the British Labor Party ha• beea holdin~ a confer nee. The plan tor tbat trade agreeaent wae announced by n ne other than the Chancellor of the Excbe uer ~ majority leader in the Houae of Coa■ on ) a. i e •-cker duplicated his feat of ••1 17 records se i t ■ x ■ two ■ore co■ ercial ape er ne, fro ■ I.Y. to lla■i ) hours, < ~ e , en ,1-1/5 aeconda. To bea nd ere 11-2/5 i ~ -- - -· . • ••1 17 1 ., in a IIAI E~ on y , ■ inu tea. Be ••er aged .3SS __ _ eat 22,000 feet. flights. ri they flew in) boar•. ?9 t e record o• r 400 per IOI ' ' 1 The group aboard the CONSTELLATIOI had breatta1t in lie• York, lune b in llia11i, and now dinner t•l&ht in le• York.