. QQQ~-~YKNI-~-~t_R!ftQ_X~ A ne w p + ern for Ninete 0 n Forty-Seven bas been set for eight-hundred-thous nd wor k er int e automobile indu try. It has jus been announced in Detroit th Gener 1 otor ~ and the C.I.O. Unite Auto Workers have agreed to get together, -- to settle their wage dispute on the basis of a fifteen-cents- n-hour pay rise. The settlement was announced jointly by Walter · Reuther, United Auto Workers President, and L.G. Seaton, General Yotors Labor Relations irector. The agreement calls for a flat eleven-and-a-half-cents-an-hour wg g e increa ■ e and six paid holidays annually for seniority employees. The agre ment must be r tified by the U.A.W. before May Fifth, but evidently that's just a formali Y now. Reuther says that the set lement will be acceptable to the Onion. rocter a d G mble Thur d ay, Ap ril 24, 1947 GOOD I .. EV F, RY ') ' : - The o e i n ini ter h a d only one t i n g left to do in · o sco · t o ni h t, survive a n official banquet at the re lin. Accor i g to the s tory just in, Oncle Joe hi~self as t e host. And li as a ban~uet in the best Russian tradition, complete with bleenees, s11etyana, zakouska, shaslik, and of' course piles of caviar -- all washed down with those delightful wines from the Crimea, plus gallons of vodka. With the Russian custom of bottoms-up for every toast, it must have been so~etbing of an ordeal for the Foreign .tin isters. Premier Stalin, in a gesture of friendship toward the Onited States, toasted the health of President Truman. The only toast offered by the Bosa of all the Russias. Molotov proposed most af the other toasts -- about twenty in all, some with red and white wines, some with champagne, some with vodka, some with cognac. MARSB!1L - _ .2 .:.. ----- At the d inn r talin wore h i s usu al p l a in buff unifor m , w ith the s t a r of the Gene r a li s simo gl ittering o n his e p aulettes. talin's to ast was a lon g one built a round his ho es for international unity. Mol tov toasted successful collaboration of the Big Four pow e rs in the future. All told, a fine gesture, but unfortunately little unity or collaboration were evident at · the Moscow conference. When will they meet again? Well, that was the last thing the Foreign Ministers talked over, . andGhey decided to meet again, in London, next November.) Secretary of State Marshall told newspapermen today th a t, although really nothing was accomplished at this conference, there is a reasonable chance of an a greement in the not-too-remote future. Profe s sion a l diplomatists famili a r ith the ways of the E as t, B eem to thi k the hurry-up tactics attempted at osco were foredoomed to failu e. hen it comes to diplomacy, they say, we have to remem er th a t the Rus s ian is, after all, an Asiatic. And if you start negotiations with an Asiatic i th the announcement that you want to speed up and be fini s hed quickly, the Oriental just sits back on his divan, rubs his hands in silent satisfaction, and figures he will wait you out. Hence, the only way to tackle an Orien-1 in neiotiationa, and including the Moscovite, is to take your time and let the man on the other side of the table know that you are prepared to wait hll out. Secretary Marshall will be home in ashington by the end of the week, to find may proble ■ s waiting for h im at the State Department. For on~ there's the job of working out the details of that four-hundred-million-dollar gift to the Greeks andT~. '4ARSRALL - ~ General . f a r s hall lso ill h a ve the job of trying to convince Con ress th u t Oncle Sam should give three- hundred-and-fifty millions for relief to the peoples of the countries devastate~ by thew r -- which was hia own suggestion. Likewise will he get the seventeen-million dollars in Lend-Lease pipeline supplies th a t Russia wants from us. Oh yes, and the two-hundred-million ~ doll6rs for lorea. Plus the p•1P•f!W,i of completing ~ " the pe~ce treaty with Japan. But first of all, when be comes home, the ~eore of St•te will speak to the nation -- tell us via the radio just hat did happen at Yoscow. Sunday or Monday probably will be the date for that. Soon after which he will a ear before the Foreign Affairs Committees of the S nate and the Bouse, and give thea an off-the-record report. ... t oon , he i hi t.e Bouse announced that P re . e n T ruman ha r called Ge A ral Bedell ith, our mba ss or t o . o c ow. Heh s been r called, the ex p l n i ion runs, for routine conferences ith the State Department. Po sibly Secr e tary Marshall himself was re sp onsible fo r the order. Wh ther be was or whether he asn't , shin ton considers the recall of Ambassador Smith as uile rem r ·a ble, because any routine -~~ confe enc es/\ would be with the LIDICE ________ .. Th e re id i::i J. u ' i e of a ourt a P r a ue to ay re ed a s ntenc on si x m n, a s e ntence that bro ur ht tears to the eyes of the defend a nt six o f fici a ls of ~ ~wYV7 tlieAGestapo,A r es p onsible for \he wipin out of the little town of L'dice in Czechoslov i l i , ~ t h e massecre of it■ A- entir~ male p opulation, in Nineteen Forty-Two. The man who wept most was the chief Nazi, the man who i•• had issued the order to shoot every man in the town, to burn all its buildin g s and homes to the ground, to imprison women in concentration camps and scatter the children all over central Europe. His tears were not of a.J-f_p remorse but of terror. • was executed a couple of hour• ~ after be heard the sentence read, .... with sobs be iaplored the h a naman to make bis death quick and painless. Five other Gestapo Nazis followed him to the 1caffold. Nine others were sentenced to prison, for teraa totallin a bun•red and eleven years. ~!~IQ~--~-~ Te wipin out of Lidice, aa we recall, azi revenge for the a sas ination of R eydric t e an man, chief oft e Get po in C echoslovakia. ALGERIA .. ------- &t e ~ i: e s -fr em ti g e r i ~ ~ e r e-..-tr? e M 'e 1-Q 'tr~rld-wide movement for n a ti nal independence, as F,.. expected, has spread from the Dutch In d ies, and French Ind o - Ch in a , t o North Afr i c a. There have been grumblings and mutterings, anJ4'( " ~~· ~~-~~ ~ / . outburst but hitherto the French have had no difficulty handling it. But, the Algerians have found a leader, a tall, bearded Arab named Messali Hadj. The word "Hadj" indicates that he ' has made the pilgrimage to Yecca, and enjoys a little special esteem among Mohammedans for having kissed the black stone in the wall of the Kaaba and drunk the waters of Zem Zem, • and thrown rocks at the djinns. Messali Badj has been in the revolt business for twenty odd years, we hear; bas been in jail several times, and exiled more than once. As long ago as Nineteen Twenty-six, he published a newspaper called the "North African Star," w h ich the French suppressed. lhereupon M e ~ ali H ad j we nt to aris a nd enrol l ed at the Sorbonne -- an d , became a Communi s t. But, after a while he foun he didn't c a re for the comrades, so he 1 e ft t he pa rt y and went ba ck to Afr i c a. In Nineteen Thirty-four, the French arrested him again, kept him in rison until the following year. But M essali Badj w as not squelched by p rison sentences. French He re-entered politics. The 1.!.••••mJ..... tried to arrest him again. And this time he escaped to Belgium. In Nineteen Thirty-six, Premier Leon Blum, as head of the Popular Front Government, pardoned Messali, who straightway ru s hed back to Algeria and formed the Algerian Peoples' Party, and began deaanding autonomy for Algeria. So, they arrested him again. This time keeping him in the bastille · for three years. In Nineteen Forty-one they banished him him to stay away from Algiers and al 1 the other order p rincipal cities of North Africa; an exile sup p osed to 1 a s t f if t e e y e a rs • Bu t \ L s s a 1 i Had j f o o 1 e . ' em• .,_ Be didn't o a s he was t o l d an now he's tryin g to arouse the Al e ~ian s too en revolt. The French took Algeria away fro m u s by bloodshed, sa ys he, and the only ay to get it back is to sh ed m ore blood. BEELER --- ~~ ix-up abou t the form er i sol tioni t, S enator, Berta V hee l er of Montana. It started yesterday when President Truman vetoed a bill -"'1J would have oermitted ~he e ler to serve as counsel for the Senate • War Investi g tin g Committee without giving up his right to practice 1 w before Government 1gencies. Senator Brewster of Maine and Senator natch res pon ded to the veto by telling the Senate that the President was obviously m ist ak en -- that he, Ir. Truman, had signed similar bills, and the whole thing was just a misunderstandin g . The S nat6r s urrie ly c lle t e i . e ouse and , the President's ai e s reed wit t e Sena or. omeone had blundere d . r. Truman d ee mi informed. So the . Sen tor t r 0 av could be one bout rectifyin t e Error. That b rou t ·bite Bouse and Jus ice Department lawyer into a uddle: - s ould the Sen at e over-ri e t e veto or merely pas s an identic 1 bill? Then President Truman st p ed into the icture ag in this afternoon at a press conference, be said that his veto of the Wheeler Bill w a "no mistake.• The Justice Department wx had recommende d t e veto, and even fter second look, it had advised him that he ~ad made no error. Sot e President ap arently·feels his blackball ot 1 Wheeler was in order and Berton eeler, recently defeated candidate for re-electi on to the Senate, cannot serve as counsel for the Sena e War Investigating Committee. That's President Truman's ruling. I RENTS ----- Feder 1 ent control 1 ill 1 st unti at le st the end of the year. The Banking Commit e~ of the House vot d to this effect to ay, and turned down the witely sug ested demands for a ten per cent increase in rents~ With which the House Committee reverses it elf. ror it had already approve a bill raising rent ceilings. And the Senate Banking Committee is also against it. ~ysterious to t he estern orld are the ways ~ l?o l.;. of the East. - f - Tokyo, we hear of a novel way to com it suicide . I ncidentally, it was unsuccessful. Genzo Kuriyama was twenty-nine years old and he couldn ' t make a go of things in post-war Japan, hie business had collapsed and he and his three partners faced 111 bankruptcy, owing ten thousand yen. So , thought Kuriyama , if . . I die , my partne r s can collect one-hundred - thousand yen on my ~ &s insurance policy and pay that debt. ~ drove him to the top of an chimney -- from which he dived head eighty-two foot f i r s t . ~ t not outside the c hiianey. Oh , no ! Iuriyama went head first down the inside of the chimney, figurine;> that the soot-lined walls would keep him from turning over and fix it so he ' d die f or s u re for that one-hundred- thousand yen. SUICIDE.::_£.!. --- But Kuriyama idn't die even thou g h he did ~ Ton h is he a d. In fact, be was n't even seriously injured. Kuriyama had be e n a pa ratroo p er d uring the , a r a n~ a s he fell do wn the instinctively set himself for sh a ft , he the . i ar.1frhe jar? it wasn't much. Kuriyama had failed to notice when he climbed the chimney a four-foot p ile of soot at the botto , soft, blacks ot like a down-filled mattress, and so he fell into the soot head first. Ac..TV-"'-"'Y HC come close to dying -- not from the fall but from smothering 11( · -rH£ 3oF 'i 13LAC.I(._ -; ..!oo r. OFFEE --- . -- --- A form r Uice- P resident of the United States won undyin g fam e some thirty years a go announcing that what t h is country n eeds mot is a g ood five-cent-cigar, -- V i ce P re ident . arilhall of In iana. Well, in Chic o to ay, a group of men got to g ether at the Blackstone Hotel an announced th a t one of the things wrong with this country now is the lack of a good cup of coffee, or perhaps I should say, a cup of good coffe~ That some eighty-three million of us start the day wrong because the coffee isn't brewed properly. ho says so? Well, they are ex p erts. And, they go on to say that the best thing that can be said for coffee that i s rewed in America is th t i t is b€tter than what you g et in England o~ France. ~any real coffee fanciers insist that the one real paradise for coffee drinkers was Vienna -- *•i• that is, before the war. The Viennese had a proud coffee tr ad it i n • Then th er e's the man fro m Ne w Or 1 e ans • He'll tell you that it t a kes a Creole cook to prepare coffee perfectly. COFF EE ____ ....--- Tycoo n s of the co f fee industr y -- so w e hear today -- are g oin g to tackl e the p roblem b y sending agents into re B ta u r a nts, coffee shops, even into our homes, to discover just what's wron g with the process and to find out what can be done to make coffee faster, cheaper, and more palatable. A . famous President of these United States once burled a cup of coffee into his wife's face. ~ \ Pour us a cup of coffee! And then sit back and relax, and listen to Nelson. let's t>RICES .:..----- When p rices e nt k yrocketin aft er the irst W orld ~ar , eople ru m le , ju t as t ey are g rumbling now. B ut nothin g much w a s done about it until a Iba, ~ press agent dramatized p ublic feeling -- a man named ~a lter Kingsley, one of t he top publicity men of the day. He promoted iU l i e ~ a thing called "The Cheese Club," and staged parades 1;11 B»...aa:..,. of men wearing overalls and women in cheesecloth. The example was follo w ed elsewhere. Kingsley had aroused the public imagination and stimulated an unofficial but wid•ly effective strike of buyers. People stayed away from stores in large numbers. And before long prices came toppling down. All of which brought about what economists call "a sharp recession," -- a rec~ssion that didn't last long, and that was, in fact, the preslude to the big boom of the •T ■ enties. There has been no W alter Kingsley to stimul te and arouse public rese.tment this time; but, a survey) .. L N \ ~ ~ - ~ ~ shows that millions of people are beginnino to button u their pocketbooks. The Onited Press reports th t this i s most conspicuous in the liquor in ustry. In Chicago, for example, hundreds of tavern owners are preparing to go out of business. And in Ne York, Detroit, Washin~ton, Miami, Minneapolis, San Francisco an d Texas, liquor tax collections have taken a dramatic drop. I heard much about this up and down the Pacific Coast on my recent Western trip. Then there is the Newbur1port example, which is now being copied in the Middle est, with manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers combining to cut rices to the tune of ten percent. Oner sult of the present buyers' strike is that it has PRICE§..- ---- been felt in he bui l d i n i n d ustry. In s v a l sections of th e co u ntry, numb s of ne ly ere c tl!d dwel l in s are ready to be o ccu ied, re ad y w ith ev e r thin but tenants and buy er . The U.S. Department of Commerce••~~ ~ • C ~ s report.,.::.thff't there will be P"A fe er hous s built this year than ~ l ast year, fewer by thirteen per ~ , cent, bee use builders are d uncertain about future ,, costs, p rices, and general business conditions. SHIPS .------ .. Off h e ~ outh rn coat of I eland£. ale /\ ~ ~ l " " M . of hundred miles an hour. ~ ~~-- ~ - ~ ount inous w a v e s r > a n i s h veeselA.1..; l:b ev:sa:p /\ ,~, Md on board lost. lb,I ••• ws=1'ri:hs7:~off Welch co st 1 NAiA a British frei g hter ,_.~~ ~ rocks a n d ~ into thr e e parts. There again en t ire crew w-a,.s lost, forty-two men. A lifeboat put cswa ■ p~~ tryin to save them, but the wavesA•••••'<it, and eight of the Coat Guard. Hundreds of spectators lined the hore w a tching the tra edy ~ t h e li g ht of automobile la ms. There were anxious re ;~tetout the rest the the the out _-tL..it_n.c..w~- liner Yauretania. She w a s on a tri 1 r u n A ~ J:At reconditioned, aft e r doin service during the war as a troo p ca rier. In the m iddle of the trial run, the storm c a u ht her off the Scotiah coast. Hi 4h-e.Pe- -Nlf'• ~ t ' - 1 ! lI~t!\.. a . t a , o ~ But she rode out the stor■ a nd made her way • Nil safely to !. i verpool. In Palest ine, the British more serious is the probability that the Irgun and Stern Gang have made up their quarrel and are now read7 to wort hand-in-hand under the single command of a ~ pee~ known as Menahem Beigin. T h e ~ High Commissioner, Sir Alan Cunningham, returned to Jeruaalea tonight, after Yisit to Cairo. The unofficial report ie that he asked the s--'ritieb Commander in the Middle East for troop reinforcements, The United Ration• debate on Palestine ia to begin Monday at Lake Success. The le• York """ff~ I auth;~it ea~~e determined +.4M there _.11 be no U • . N. Aestambly, A special force of two hundred uniforme . police ar e on duty at Lake Succ•• along with the regular U.N. Security guard of fifty ■ en. In addition the New York Police Commissioner has. assigned' a special service sauad of specially trained aen wbo in years gone by were known as the Bo ■b SQuad. There will be no picketing around 0.1. hea4auar An oridnance of ew York City forbids any picketing on city property, so the ordinanc• will be enforced there. A demonstration a ~inst labor le islation in Detroit virtually stopped all production in the ••••••~ti auto ■ obil ca p ital. W lter Reuther, President of the United Automobile or ke rs, ordered all the me ■bere ot hi• union in Detroit to knock off for the aft~rnoon. The U.A.1. invited other C.I.O. and also A.F. of L. unions . to join in the rally. So thous a nds of men left the aaae■bly lint and ja ■aed Cadillac Square to liaten to apeech••• The rally completely shut down the olanta of the ford and Chryaler Co ■ panies. General Motor• reported that ■ o ■ e of their assembly lines were still producing. According to some estimates, h a lf a ■ illion men joined in the demonstr~tion.