# .. e ~ / uf.t 7 v7 J I , ( kll r CO l · r l l' n 0 L · l o l' ~ 0 1 · ~ l i l • L H<-tn l I . i 3 o u ri, o. l U l C . I 11 1 " ' i c ·c , • C 0 r uC e r l . . C t r ' · l , _ , 0 d y ~ .. n l L t, t. a · V 11 e · i t , r 0 .) l l" .KV u I' i ' r ' . a house b ill in (i 1t - ] o t ·- i d nu fr m riv er, It he1 · G\ m · rk oy, in th t 1 · point of a re c o r r br Toauy the v. - t of tha mark. 1 g 1nun ion in i t n Fifty-One. flo in 6 he hous "' i th in a foot Th fhther-of-w ters is hurlin the - - delu e that ha~ looded a milli on ucres in the State of Missouri alone - ana another hund a thousbn acres 1n Illinois an · Io . Tw v thous~n pea.le are homeless, fifteen liv 10 s t ,.,,,,,. ~ • T ~ ~is o ri xix 1s on th r pa ~ to o - the riv e r b r tin 6 1 r o u 6 h twenty• iv levee - one L n so co p L ly nu1 uc1 t a t11at only th to ::; of h f.l!QQ.I! _ _ ,: __ roofs r v'sible. Tens o · thous n ds of er s r floo ed, thousand s hom les -- a th Missouri contributes its own avoc to the f loo of the Mississippi One result of the delu e is a r vision downw~rd the prospects of cops in the Middle est. The he vy rains that c used the floods have et back spring planting in the corn belt, and the inunda ion o f the farmlands has ruined a vast amount of growing grain. At the Hannibal National Bank, officials set u a human ferry service. WParing hip boots, they carried girl cashiers and stenographers, on their shoulders, across the flooded streets. Water lapped all day at the entrance to the Mark Twain hotel. In spite of this thirty rotarians showed up at noon for their weekly luncheon. Some in row boats, others in amphibious jeeps. n g oti tins Fr m Sa n Fr n cisc o c o s or t h t tween five CI O m ar it im u n i ns an d s i p own r ar ta lem at e . Th r p o rt is that a s tr5k e 1 s c rt ai n u nl ess lab or contracts ar e ~ign d withi n f iv e d ays -- which the uni o ns say is not li ly . Officials of four w es t coast EI 0 unio n s hav e 1 ~ t San F rancisco for New York to discuss matt~w~th East Coast wat e rfront work rs.- t.o~ ✓~ ~ # The i i CI O Marine e ngineers are asking for wage increases up to six percent. Tonight it look~ as though"~ ~e headed for another strike like the one last fall that tied up ship ~ ing for twenty days. ---0--- Meanwhile, beads of labor organizations are sending fin al appeals to President Truman asking him to veto the labor bill. Phil~ Murray of the i i C I O says the Taft-Hartley plan would change the American HIP , G - 2 --------- - go v ernme nt ro m one el ct d t o s rv the p o pl e· to ne to d o the biddin o mployers. legislation i an anno unc ement fl that the forces of reaction want a sho wdown with free labor and want it now.'' I f. i n C on t, c:1 t, t ' l t I' · n no 0 n t bl l ' l e i < c:1bo r ~ l ' Co n l ' VI 1 1 l ' 0 · n O J' ru. t C nt · - tri [:. . T C l a i o r Ir by o n I' • .:,man Httrt y of I J l' j ' l l ' Lil a f. 0 . th H o u bor Com 1t ' and one on ~) r . 0 h bll th at. hc1 be~n va a. T he on I' SlliaO tat a that ther h e incr~..1.si Sl n that Cl ~ene 1 trike i . , in his o r 8 ' " ithin th min o f labor le a ders.• As evidence he pointed out that in the pa~t thirty deys morl thttn nine hunor d r trike notices h d been filed - "fhr above the axa normal number,• s id he . "It is obvious ." headed, ~ that the unions w~nt t e tn a po ition to strike as soon as the pre nt bil b E come a law." That is, if the President sin s 1t , r i f Co n r .. s p~o ~s the bill o v r th nhit Bouse v t . 'I'o al oi' his Con re sman Ba ·tle y m a t e ol ow in com , ent. "lf the l c1 bo leaae · s try Lnb 0. - - - -- 0 mo11 1' 1J CU I 'f ~rn _. r tl I' . l ' n 1 I' l II II I • \ 1 " • c:,. O U 1· i II ' 11 (.. b. h 0 in l' t t ai n ::>t t 1 0 ! ' - t, J. c u l o ul I n coul m 1 n 1· i n V n c1 ln n a . '1',. L O Lj' l t 1ne re shut 0 n 0 I i tb union a er d ec l a ring ~ tha ~ w al xout ar un u 1 o r i z d - , i 1 Ci:1 st r ke 6 ainst th abor bi In l>etroi e Bri p ny es Q - whi ch woul ti est a cer of aies f J. the ~ l J( l yli W Ol'O I L e a det-s • ,;ert ~t ill try in 1 0 settle pro r s report d. One bit of good news however, in a bulletin from Detroit. The strike scheduled for tomorrow morning against the Briggs Manufacturing th Company has been cal le d off. CI O officials and the company getting to ge ther just minut sago. C: u IT U I --- -- --- -- t r 11 1n n " - .. h r 6 h ' V n l' I 1' C '- t, l u . H c ro ·e h J I' ; l 1 I n n o 't . oo n .. n t1 l:,U , J mo au:i CO l ' u 0 110 .; t,a - t 1 gr omin ·o 1 t t, o rth. Hu e cr0 wa w r out to see t e r ' 1aent o · t, Unit d. t · t~s , bod lenty of color as r 0 vid a by th Rea Coats o; then yal ~ana i~n Mounted Police. The President will adaress the Otta~~ Pdrliament tomorrow. n 1' 1· ,. n c l' l I' I co 0 t u n 1 0 1 · c . 1 l c l ' l 1' "' O a. ' l' "1 tl.O l i • , ri r · to th 11rmy no co 1 t run l' nd r m 1 it ary rule. ror fiv ~ ~ r · 1 · o c rClilr uc:1 h· V b en cri p l d by the ~al.kout, c a lled by e Comm ni . -.IJ om .inat a Unio,. ff, ct () i h ci S 1 d lo I Rea . L t 1 ing 1 · ap e a or c:1 r s , t · e tha he o. i 1 r1 i., r · e e ril to t• then t ional conom 0 1 Ir nee. Thi 1••~•at roducing nor sult, Ramadier inf o rm d the tr nch Ncitional Assembly tonitht that . unl s the strik rs r tur·n p1·om tly to their jobs, he wil mobilize fiv hunar d thou~ nd of them int the Army - tog t the rai roads runnin again. U.N. ----- Here's news/- Q tole ra nt, c eerful, concedin liromy of The o viet Dele ate fo the U . N ., who usually kai has a loamy ead- ~ a n expression, w· s rem rkably differ nt today. Beam · n · ,itb smiles , he told the other Delegate s that he wa , in his own w ords, "jut full o com p romises." Well, that's cuase for thanksgiving - Gromyko full of compromises. The more s o - bec~use it bapyened t a meeting of the Jtomic tnergy Com m ission. lh ich is exactly the place whe re we could use a lot of cheerful Soviet concessions - in the matter of outlawing ~be atomic bomb. l'hos e romyko . compromises, however, were mostly of a ver bal sort, and on minor points of ~hraseology - which will h · dly impre ss us as being of such vital consequence, One, 1n partic u lar, has . a peculiar sound. Gromyko compromised on an argument concerning the differ nee between the words S hould world a tom control - ~ - - -- ... ~ -- U.N. - ---- be et u b an int rn tio 1 tre t o r an int ~ rn tional c o nvention? Lat .e ~ the Soviet Delegate insis d that it houla be done with a conventio. Our me ican i ■ ;z Representatives tho ght the o · o oite - vointing out that, so f r a int rn ional pacts are concerned, the ••••x~i~• constit tion of the 0nited States uses the word "treaty•. that vener~ble document provides, for example, that the enate shall ratify tre~ti s - not conventions. To this Gromyko t~ve a stern rely. He was dead•pan-gloomy ~t the time - last week. lie let the United States change its constitution. Our Delegates couldn't quite agree to that - they cou dn't change the constitution then and ther to suit Gromyko1 so,the usual deadlock ensued. But today it was all settled - by the new and ch~nged GromyKo. Being •just full of qompromises,• ne m~de a conc~ss1on in favor of the h~erican Constitution. Be agreed that the set-up of · orld atom control should be hr sed i n t ese u ordo - "by a tre ty or treaties, U.N. - J ---- convention or conventions." So I sup p o that, nless some other difficult intervenes, we Americans can have an atomic ~ - # L . . s ~ treaty - bile the £Jk · c a n have a convention. ,( . Q~ECHOSLOV_~IA_ Ber • ~stonishin ne - fr om C u echoslovaki~. In a villa~ of Southern Bohemia, the entire local Communist Party h~s joined a society called - •friends of the United State." A lot of loclil eople, who admire this land of the free of ours, formed an organization to promote friendship with America - and all the Reds have joined. lhy? A• Coamunist spokesman explains in these words: •we just didn't like to be left out of any village activity.• /"\ I ell, . we • ve h ard of the Red habit of infiltrating into groups of many kinds, but that Czechoslov~kian instance ould aeea to be the liait - the local Co ■ munist Party infiltrating into the society of the friends of the United State~. EI S Lt R ---- - - Th r e wa s d tac ion 1 th e c onv i cti o n t h i s a ft e rno o n o f Ler ha r t t · sl er - who h a s b ee n describ • ed a s an a 5 nt of t al i n h o ve or d.e · s to th e A me r ican Com m uni b . P a rty. Ch rge d w it h cout mp t of Con g r s , he g ot h i s in a hurry. Week s a go he r e fu se d to t ~ ke the oath an d testify befor e /~fcm m itt e e on un-Ame r ican activitie~ n d tod a y the Jud g e told the jury th a t, if i t wa ~ cl · r that E i s ler a had Qeliberately refused to giv sworn testimony, he aust be found guilty of c o nt e mpt of Con g ress. Things e r e aade - even ea s ier by Eisler hiaself - the b~ld, mousy middle-aged Communist who is alleged to have bossed Aaerican Reds in belaalf of i&l Stalin. He testified that he would have been willing to take the oath before the Congre s sional Committee, if he had fir s t been p ermitted - •To make a few remarks•, as he ,,..-at. Howeve 1· , a Congressional Committee doesn't have to list e n to a f~w p reliminary rema r ks. E isler a ded EISLER - ~ ------- that, o fal' as the Commi tt e e was conc ~ 1 · ned, h e w as , in is own wor d , "ve r y u c h conte mp tuo s .• T he J u ry took ju s t five minutes to return a ve ~ aict of uilty - which c 11s f or a sentence of a ye r in rison a nd a thousand doll r fine. On top of p h ich - l i s ler will immediately face further ak•1•• c harges of pa s s p ort fr a uds'. The speed y proceedin g s in the courtroom today kept right on, with iederal Jua e Hulzoff iamediately c~lling u t he c . se ag a in s t b ixteen others accused of conteapt o f ongress. Headed by Howard fast, - . nov~li d t, these defendants are meabers of the Executive Board of the joint · Anti-Fa cist Refugee Committee. ' ! ' he charae against tbe ■ is that they conspired to prevent Congressional Investigators fro ■ havin g a look Refugee at the records of t heir anti-Fa s cis;ci ■1••~Co ■ mittee. The allegation is, of course, that the whola outfit is ~ast night in j ■ menti o ning the Ar■y's new bombing plane, the giant B-thirty six, I said that it was built by Boeing. It turns out it's actually a Consolidated Vultee plane, the sa ■ e company that turned out the B-twenty-four, the - - Liberator. LYNCH - - ---- Th r • a q uicR m odram in an labnma loin toa a y - the r scue of a negro from a lynch mob. the noose w al r · auy r und t ne r o's necx, and he was about to b strun u, ~hen th ton ayor interv ned. Th story is tha the negro tried to att~ck a bite woman. She screamed, and neighbors Cb ■ e runnin. They seized the negro, and the swarming of neighbors turned imme4iat~ly into an enraged mob. Soaebody brought a rope, and in another minute the lynching would hav been completed. Just then, Mayor Huh Van and three emplo ees of his office arrived - they having heard of what was happening. The Mayor was able to stop thl han~ing, and he and his assistants 6 ot the negro off to the town jail,!.ut that didn't end the affair. •ord came that ~noth r lynch mob had formed, and was on its way. So they had to move fast again - the negro put in a car ~n~ driven to the ia State LrNCH - 2 -- - -- ·~ ntia aaa ed ri mil .Penit y t a. hcav, u · r on 8 a v. y. M yor Vc1n st a t s tha while in h"s cu touy, t negro con ' ed th t he ad r vi oua ly c1ssc:1ulted · whitE: wom n - at Buffalo, New YorJt. 11 , DB G ' -------- In ' a hin • ton, a terl'ifyin 1d t:a we1s ropounaed todli ' , some 1 t e you Gentlemen;- thou h the La ie mhy s il e. A:, hin gs are now, ther 's a g ov rnm nt t x on 10m n's h~nd ~gs - and todliy, b ~ fore i a con gr 1 nal co mmi ttee, a 1end in human form rgued that it as unf ir to hav~ a tax on feminine handbags, ~ hen ther is no tax on men's pockets. He c lled it - • n ut dna out inconsist ~ ncy and unque tionable discrimin tion." Sot e inhuman lo ic was that if you tsx h~n~b~~• you s hould p ut a tax on ~~ p ockets also. This - in fairness t the ladies. ~ My ill fellow citizens - think hat we haa to pay on each one of our pockets. HANDB A G - 2 ----- - as seventeen poc ket s , n o t c o unt i n h si e oc k t you may have i n your h · rt. n o, my _ llo · itizen · , im ine a vin to ay n in ivi u u l tux Jn e a c h of n e rly t i k t / 1. • 1· h t k ld twen y pa poc es. E ure o ; e m y your oc ets wou be afte r t hat .1"The enemy of a nkin d - and f riena of womankind - who sug ests al t i s , is a i r c tor of the Na ional huth o rity f or the Ludies' Handbag Indu&try - Kr. braham itenthal. The omen folks will applaud hia, bee use Abe's re 1 purpose as to get the tax taken off ladies• handb gs - the luxury-tax of twenty per cent.•B• argued today that handbags instead of being a luxury were a necessity, an utter and absolute necessity. To prove this, a Abe performed what c n only be described as a Herculean la J or. de told the Congrea1ional Committee, in full detail, all the uses to which a woman puts a handbag, all of the many and varied things she carries in one. «You know how lon a list that is. I, for one, am kept in a state of p rpetual astonishment by the unexpected items a lady can dig out of he handbag - all - 3 the way from her compact and hairpins to the mis in~ autoaobile keys and the letter th at Hubby gave her to aail last week. Handbags are a necessity all right, but the price that wifie pays for them helps to keep hubby's pockets eaptJ - now there's tit of putting a tax on his pockets, too -- aeaning your pockets, Nelson. PALi'TINE -------- The a.t c t e isoae o f violenc in Palestine a come to ~ uic and umm ry conclu ion. The two ~riti h po ic office r · , kidn p ed y e ~ ray, came b ck tod y. ' hey had been eei ed as h · t ge to be held f o · th s ty 0 iv embe of Ir un Zvai eumi, ho a . ·e n o on trb1l. but they reappearea oda.y, ana said tney hdd just al~ea out from the seer t lace wher they had been held risoner. lhis resu ts from joint action in pcrtnershiv bet · een the dritish and the Official Aray of the Je1ish Underground, Baganah' - which for the first tiae collaborated actively with the British in coecking t doings of the Extremists of the Zionist Underground • . Ba.,anah cooperated v_,rously with the British Authorities in the hunt for the two kidnap ed police of1icers, and the effect was decisive. The episode tie in ~ith the l rg r internafional scope of the Ma proolem of Pale tine - the United Nations inq iry whicn is now beginn1n · . The PALtSTINE - 2 ------- Jewish a 0 ency, ~hich air c ts H n f 1 t th e i d n p i ng of ho tag~ woul d harm the J ew ish cau in thee es of the O.N. o the Ag ncy and it und r round ·r my a&ll•• called u r on the entire Jewi s h Community in Palestine to give all a v · illible in formel tion about the kidn · p ing - ~ive information, not to the ritish Qutho ities, but -17 to the official under g round army. Ha anah is much larger and better armed than the band of Extremists, like Irgun Zvai ~euai 4nd tbe Stern ang, and ~as a le to turn the trick in a hurry. Information was obtained that the two ~olice officers were bein g held in a suburb of Tel Aviv, a neighborhood of Oriental Zionists~This ord was convey i• to the British, who promptly threw a cordon of military patrols around the area. The patrols had hardl7 ta~en their positions, when out came the two police officers. They had been aeized yesterday while swimming in a bathing pool, and •hen they reGppeared today they still wore their swimming trunks. It would appear that the kidnap pe rs fA~l§I!!l---=-l bad learned that Baganab ba d discover ed t h eir hidin place. So their guards g ot out in a hurry, leavin g the prisoners to walk out whenever they pleased.