STRIKE The latest in the strike crisis is -- Onion opposition tDthe government seizure of the strike-bound packing plants. Tonight the P resident of the packing .ouae wo r k rs decla r es that government sei z ure would be - - in h is I o rd s - - " p 1 ay in ~ in to th e ID a a p a ckers ' hands." T h is follows st ~ tements from W a shington that the gov e rnment ; as p repared to take over the ■eat w a r t ~ plants under Pre s ident Truman's powers,b,f:t ove# troa ~ I . ~ - - but the now expressed opnoaition of the Onion may chan g e th a t. Meanwhile, th e com p any anJ}3nion are presenting their c a es to a gov ~ rnment fact-finding board at . Chicago, and there is talk of allowing the packing companies n increase in the price of ■eat to counter- balance w h a t it would cost the ■ to pay the higher wages 1WMM. the Onion demands. In the steel strike the word is th a t production of the vital metal va s lower today than at any time in STRIIE - 2 fifty-three years -- &1rCt only five percent o f ~ normal. fiir::::tdriia = d - a : y ~ And at the same tiae no sign of a settleaent of the strike, although the government is workin~ bard~ On the automobile front the Onion today applied ~ increased pressure by shutting downAtool and dye General Motors. In tool and dye factories at Detroit, workers were ordere~ to hold up all production for General Motors -- while going ahead with equipment for other automobile companies. The one favorable bit of news today is in the electrical world -- where two hundred thousand strikers accepted a goveraaent offer of mediation. This is differ from the fact-finding business -- old-fashioned mediation with Secretary of Labor Schwellenback naming two mediators. The strike crisis is expressed by the figure one-million----eight-hundred-thou sa nd. That many workers are out -- for an all-time strike record. And it is believed that within a week the figure will be two million. J ! , ' ' I , , f : Th latest from the U.N.O. in London is that the British are going to ask the Security Council of the United Nations to investigate the situation in Greece, the Retherlands East Indies - and Iran. This British move, which we bear will happen tomorrow, would see ■ to be in the nature of a shrewd aaneuver - sounding like smart play in the United Nations game of chess. The combination of diplomatic strategy began with the subject of Iran - the ancient land ot Persia tossing a bit of dynamite into tbe U.R.O. proceedings.the very ■ o ■ ent the World Org1nization lRfl got going. in It is needless t9 repeat the fact tbatAnorthern Persia, Azerbaijan, where the Red Ar ■Y is in control, an uprising occurred and a new government was set up under Soviet sponsorship. The Iranians claimed that the Russian army prevented them from putting down the rebellion, and intimated that the Soviets wanted to get control of northern Persia by means of a Communist puppet government. That's dangerous controversy, and U.N.O. - 2 ------ what did the Iranian government do - but toss it into the lap of the U.H.O. In London this disconcerted t h e World Organization no little - having somet h ing so explosive - ~ - ~. put before it, wJ,en t~e 8,R.O. wn ~ardly on its feet r • \ed~i~-i-afHt.. There were immediate complaints tbat thfj:i~d lations ought not ' - be · submitted to such a ~ -.110 It ■ial,t ii1r11,, •••r1•hi11g, ~•:for• What would th~oviets do? Moscow is not famous for being among the aeek and long suffering of the earth. Would the Soviets per ■ it their actions in northern Persia to be questioned by the U.I · O.? Or would Moscow cast its famous veto, and cause the Iranian plea to be tossed out of the window - for a big Teto exhibition to start the United Rations on their way? That would be a shocker to hll idealism. So, what did the Soviets do? Instead of waiting to do any vetoing, Moscow put the Persian bombsh111 in the shade, by launching a bombshell of 1 its own, a bigger and better bombshell. The news this ■ orning told how Soviet Delegate Gromyko astounded the World Organization bJ entering a proposal that the U.R.O. investigate British actions in Greece and Indonesia. Greece - where the British telped to put down a Left Wing uprising. And Indonesia. where British troops have been fighting Indonesian insurgent• to support the Dutch government. In other words, instead of defending - the Soviets launched a counterthrust. It being proposed to investigate the ■, theJ replied bJ proposing to investigate the British. Which caused the London government no little pain- since the British delegates, themselves, had been distressed by the Iranian complaint against the Soviets. The British did not want that to come up - did-"liit want the U.N.O. to have to face the dangerous issue. And now, jabbed by the Iranians, Moscow was countering by taking a spear thrust at the British. Which might not seem exactly according to Hoyle. ~ &• n~'the Briti a=:e=.-.:t:n• to make their aove - and, as reported in the dispatch from London, it '.ts neat. The British say all right, let's investigate Greece, Ifldonesia - and 1 Iran! The cleverness of bat retort is said to lie in the British belief that an i~estigation of their actions in Greece and Indonesia will do thea no hara - quite to the contrary. They are said to welcoae a United lations inquiry as a good thing. They belie•• it will result in an okay fro ■ the U.K.O. So why should the Soviets object to an investigation into their doings in northern Persia? Bo• can Moscow fail to welcome that - if the British are willing to have an inquiry into their actions? All of which would see ■ to leave the next ■ ove up to M 0 scow in the diplomatic ga ■ e of move and counter-aove. lf;uch depends on what really bas been going on in northern Persia. In France, the political partie s have agreed on a new president to succeed DeGau l le. Be is Felix Gouin, a member oft e Socialist Party. This represents a victory tor the Communist,. At first they wanted a Communist as successor to DeGaulle. They couldn't get th t, and then turned to Gouin. The more conservative elements wanted anot er Socialist, a member of the Right Wing faction of that party - Vincent Auriol. The Qommunists wouldn't have him - and finally, today, the conservatives came around to their point of view, and accepted Gouin:Yror a wile Gouin said be was not interested.to - be elec\eib ~ A changed n is mind when he found O.S that all parties bad joined with the Communists in selecting him. w~ hear th a t he will be formally elected by the Chamber of Deputies tomorrow. PALESTINE --------- Another element of d iscor d in Palestine, - an Arab rejection of a British plea that more J,ws be admitted. According to the o uota now in force, there is to be ~••x~••"no further Jewish immigration into Palestine during the time that the joint British-American Commission is making its study - a period of four months. So the British authorities made a proposal to the Palestine Arab Higher Committee, a proposal tbat during that interim period the immigration of fifteen hundred Jews a month be permitted. But the Arab Higher Committee today said - No. And that will emphasize the crisis. Meanwhile, British troops have surrounded an entire Jewish township, forty-five miles north of Jerusalem - in search of terrorists. They are trying to find the Zionist extremists who d ynaaited a Coast Guard station Sunday nig h t - an ex.losion in w hi ch fifteen Britons were injured. PEARL BARBOR - - -- - --- At the Pearl Barbor Committee General Short is presenting his case -- • Aray Commander in Hawaii at the time of the Jap attac k . General Short's defense is along the line of the argument that Admiral Iimael preseated -- the contention that W a shington did not provide the vital information. Like the Admiral, the General Ix stated today that he had not been given the intercepted Japanese messages~iodicated an attack on Hawaii. Be blamed the War Department and Chief of Staff, Geo ral Karsba11:tf'Ancl,,he emphasized a particul a r point in his own case, the fact that he had reported to the War Department that he had put into effect a sabot a ge alert. Be got no answer to that message and assumed that Washington considered the s abotage alert the proper thing -- not an alert against an air att a ck. Al s o, like Admiral limmel, General Short a ccused 'asbi ngton of try i n g to shift the blame, stating that they bad ma ea scapegoat of him. PO!II -- - -- In Tokyo, Hirohito has written a poe ■• The Jape, in spite of their barbarities in war, are a poetic race, and it's an old custo ■ for the E ■ peror to produce effusions of Terse - those short, rather epigra ■■atie, bits of Japanese poetry. One traditional affair is for the Emperor to hold a poetry-writing contest - witb bi ■ self as one of the contestants. And this 7ear Hirohito has followed the ancient precedent - holding a contest in which fourteen thousand, five hundred poe ■ s were subaitted. The laperor bi■self pr1scribed the the■• ot all thie Tersificat.on. The poe ■ s were to be about - •snow on the pine trees.• Today, the contest culainated in a •poetry party• at the Ifflperial palace - and the best five of fourteen thousand, five hundred poems were read. ~ of tbeN was Hirohito's. Probably it is also a the One A Japanese custoa for the E ■ peror's poe ■ to be among a-4l ~ ~ ' - ' - • th o s e ch o sen A.AP, ·~w+nfi.tri-cm--rl~Ti-e-¼ POIII - 2 ---~ And bere's the poem that Hirohito wrote. I'll recite it - and don't be afraid, -ilte Jape don't go in for those long poems like •Paradise Lost 1 •✓ ~ - ' ' ATbey make them short, a~d, if possible, snappy. On the subject of • • tl,e ■w u'f • snow on the pine trees•, the Emperor of Japan coapounded a lyric as follows: "-a..e.. - - 0 . , like t~e pine trees, Which do not change color, Although they bear The weight of continuously falling snow.• 0 Which is not auch bad poetic advicejE:";t the Eape~~\ia aubjectaj ~.:C .. A . , , l ~ - - oolu-. ■ eua&a1 ~ t'k persevere I unaltered,~b i - le ,., •tbe weight of continuously falling snow" is not such a bad simile for the luck the Japs had in the war. JUIIP ---- ' -rt::.-4t Port Chester, Rew York, • paratroope~ · (1 ~drea■.'/ B1s name is To■ Thomas - which should please all of us Thomases, ae a uaee~ using a good na ■e twice. Anyway, To ■ Thomas bad a drea ■ that went back to the days when be leaped fro ■ planes and caae down by ~~ parachute in the war. In the drea ■ • • his old sergeant, " and and the sergeant r. roared: •Ju ■p!• So To ■ Thoaaa Juape4 - IA ,.4- th•~ was no drea ■• Be took a dive out of"- first floor window • ~ landed at the botto■ ot a; air■batt thirty feet below. It took the Fir;epartment to get bi ■ out, but Toa Tho ■ as wasn't hurt. As a paratrooper he had been taught bow to take a fall, and be re ■ e ■bered that - eTen in bis drea■. • Here'• another of t h o s e ~ • ~ i e a t.JL• with a different- The wife took precautions. a. l'4Hl•■ baNd.-t,he pee1ieilitJ ef the bu1~aDd •••i•g ~•ea., It happened at St.Joseph, Michigan, where the • wife• s informed last larch that her ba1band, a aariae, had been killed in action on Iwo J1 ■ a. Then, a•••• two weeks ago, ahe got ■ arried again - wedding another aarine, a corporal who had been wounded at Tarawa. Bat, she re ■ inded her new husband - it was always: possible that a report of a soldier killed in action aight be incorrect. There had been cases ot that - thoae f::td~es. iJ;i~ ~ p ~ & -;:!!-:.~~- ~~p~P!:t.~"::d . • h•ppen = stre w o8'¼d go baek to he1• fir at tnseband a !o- lD this the second husband agreed. "- Well, it all happened that way. The first husband has returned, the report of his death having been incorrect. That would see ■ to be no particular proble ■ - the wife having arranged for just that ~ Today t~• wlea stated: •1aturally I'll ~ possibility. go back to ■ y first huaband.• The only trouble is - that she hasn't beard fro ■ hi ■. Ber first husband baa tailed to put in an appearance. Be is down in · Arkansas, after haTiag beea in St.Joseph, Michigan - but he didn't go ho ■ e, did ■'\ ■ how up to see hia reaarried wife. Well, it would be Just too bad if, after her arrangeaent to take care of t t i e ~ ~ s i b i l i t y - her sensible precaution turned out to be needless. TROUBLI ------- At Hollywood an actor is in trouble; - not unusual out there. It's woman trouble - and tbat isn't jail, unusual in Hollywood either. The actor is in ~ - ~ - t t . c . , " " E , and be is also being sued. A handso ■e young t"- widow charges that be promised to ■ arry her, and she gave hi■ four thousand dollars•- ihe \.s suing hi■ for that. And the same sort of accusation is aade by a pretty blond artist, who says the actor gowed he'd wed her, and borrowed fifteen hundred dollars fro ■ her. Worst of all, is the attitude of an eighteen year old heiress to a two and a half ■ illion dollar fortune. She is the one he aarried. But she won't have anythin1 to do with hi ■ - won't even put up bail to get bi ■ out of the hoosgow. All of which is considerable woman trouble - even for Hollywood. EISENHOWER ------------ Genera Y Eisenhower was defeated today. Re comm~nde the victory in Europe, but faltered in the face of a delegation of women. These were soldiers' wives, demanding that their G.I. husbands be sent home. They cornered congressional the General as he was on his way to a oommitte8 meeting. • E i s e n h ~ ' into the office of Committee Chairman Congressman Ua7 - flt asking the ladies to enter and discuss the matter. Be told the• that if all the husbands and fathers were demobilized at once, the armies of occupation would vanish. ~ ; h e wives of G.I's responded ~ with their own arguments. One of them asked: •Bo• do you think we feel when we see pictures of fraternization going on in Europe and in the Pacific and everywhere else?• General Eisenhower found difficulty in answering that one - how the ladies felt. Re described his encounter with the contingent of wi ves as •emotionally upsetting.• -61....J "V\....-w ~ - ' ~ __p_ - - ~ . ~ ~ .