GOOD EV NIN . VFRYBOD Y: ----------------------- Price controls are off cof f ee; and OPA s s that ceilin o n ot~er m jor foods, and commo 1 ities and, . er, ice s , will be remove by November Fir st . Accor in g toCPA, t h e only i ems t1'at may remain under con t rol after t a t date will be or ang e,s, banana s , sugar, flour, and flour p ro d uct. However, 0Pa is adamant a bout rents, and rules out ny e a r ly de c o n ro 1 of rents or buil di n g materials . or price s on new houses. ROOSEVELT ---- · ----- In Ol1 rn pia, Washin ton, aetWWWL~--.ae., Elliott ~ RoosevqltAson of the late Pr eaident, made a statement to the effect that the lifting of price controls would send the cost of bread to Fifteen Dollars a loaf or more. ~n/},..;./l ~ ) U N I ~ ~ '"- A ~ t ),HU""- ~--~1.::Upptllh■t~ to bet a Thousand ltoll••• on his prediction. Two Ol1mpia businessmen have dispatched a ~•legraa ~,,. ~ .J,l-1\.fl~,•- t o)Ll:&.!fiJ.it'e, ed M" • If prices go tha.t high, our aoney will be w orthless anyhow and we'll be glad to -..;o~. give-. it to l t t 11," They've deposited a Thousand Dollars in an Ol1mpia bank, promising 7oung Roosevelt that the aone7 is his the day bread goes to Fifteen Dollars a loaf. WAGES --- ith price controls vanishing a n d prices sky- rocketing, the immediate problem in Washington is wages~ liY Ngee -lellow prieee 01tt» e,I •i-allt.Ji- JJ.h• aa1wer -ie -pro~•lt~1'•r.--" Reconversion Director John Steelman has worked out a wage decontrol program for submission to the President . -- and according to reports, Steelman is ~A.t-:f:ff ~ ready to cast aside~laeu1' al control~• wages. The final decision, e:f Pma111cq, will be made by Mr. Truman,1'ut 1 the decision may be delayed if the ' Pres~dent gets too involved with foreign affairs,- discussing the Paris Peace Conference with Secretary of State James Byrnes. !c nomists, who have been C known to be H "l~ t: wrong, ._. t h is to say about the abolition of wage and price controls~- There is a period of •cuaulative all l · ead1·ng~t"Dis:=1 ■F11■-g.■■fi{J..~•~•• maladjustments• ahead, -- - I - • - • •But,• say the Econo m ists, •the nation bas strong recuperative powers and will begin the up-bill pull WAGES - 2 ----------- to high production and employment and moderate prices after the adjustments are made.• Robert - ~ - ~ d"t---,;(_, u.. 4 - ~ , Y. But.chins, e du cator, is taking a dim A view of the future. If educators and professors and prognosticators were always right, we would q1lver at what Hutchins, Chancellor of Chicago Oniversity, has to say. Here's Hutchins' prediction: •If the human race tr w ,,., isn't killed in the next few years, JI be bored to death.• Hutchins is horrified by the . thought of what he calls a •push button• existence, saying that •technological advancements which produced the instruments of total destruction will also produce a 'push button' industry and will greatly increase leisure for the individual.• Wi&R~\ hope Dr. Hutchins is right, I'm a great believer in l e i s u r e , ~ ~ 4. Md)- • •. '"2-:J~-f:t, c'4 ~ ~ ~~,~~ ✓~ - a,...-\ • BYRIES ______ _,_,.... Secretary or State Byrnes hopes the Foreign Yinisters or the Bii Four powers will accept the peace terms that were drafted during that stora, conference in Paris. That w as the first thing the Secretary said on his arrival today, when he stepped••• down fro ■ the Sacred Cow, Mr. ~ruman's special plane. Then he straightway went to the White Bouse, to report to the Presidant- Washington newsmen are guessing that this report was pretty gria. President Truman will no doubt r~fer to it next Wednesdaylhen be speaks at the opeaing of the General Assembly of the Ix United Nations. And in his audience will be Mr. Molotov, who is reported to be bitter about the Paris conference. resenting the way the Soviets and their satellites were out-voted by the Western powers. Molotov aade no pretense about bis feelings. On the oth r hand, Mr. Byrnes denied that he considered the Paris conference a failure. He said much rrogress had been made -- with both credits and debits along the road to Peace. "On the whole the balance is , hopeful,• said Secretary Byrnes. RONTING ------- Twenty-four Nimrods, all members of the Onited Nations Military Committee, arrived at ~inot, North Dakota, today for a little pheasant shooting. But, it wasn't as simple as that. North Dakota prohibits aliens from obtaining hunting licens~s, and it looked, for a time, as though the e~pedition would~ stop~efore i!'!;arted. /\ However, Horth Dakota gaae wardens are tolerantr global-minded citizens. They say they'll wink at their guests' hunting activities. Exclaimed one: "The state of North Dakota's · integrity if involved - the hunt._ must go on/• • h~ && ts the».. JI, ielesatea, seGd h•atia1 ia- BJTLER_!2Ji~W <;UE)!!! ~ ~~ ~ revived speculation about Hitler. A former chief of o. S. Army Intelligence said toda7 that Bi~ler aay be dead, but that no insurance firm would ever pay off on any policy on his life. lot enough proof to s atisfy insurance experts -- nothiD& to substantiate the claia that Bitler bad died. A Lieutenant Colonel, who is now a ciYilian Deputy Director of Political Affairs in the Berlin military government, believes that not only Bitler, but Eva Braun and Martin Boraann, are also ali~•• Perhaps in Switzerland or Spain -- in disguise. Or even hiding high up in the Bavarian Alps. lell, I suppose that will provide fuel for conversation and arguaent for years to come • • JIIDSOR And now..,~ the case of the ~uchess of Windsor's jewels? Vanishing fro ■ her boudoir in an English countr7 house, while the Duchess was downstairs having tea. lo fewer than fifty aen of Scotland Yard are working on this aystery tonight, Reither they aor the Duchesa will say what part of her array of gorgeou ■ jewels are inYolyed. They were . appraised, by an expert, in lineteea Forty-four, pen a value of a cool millioD dollars. The dispatch froa London reports that thi ■ aay turn out to be oae of the moat daring robberies of aodern times. The Duchess's boudoir was on the third floor of a country house eighte~n miles outside London. The Duke was in the city, Yisiting his younger brother, ting George, at Bucjingham Palace. P rhaps discussing that new job the Du~• of Windsor would like to haYe -- maybe to be Governor General of Australia. WINDSOR - 2 ---------- That would be up to the Prime Minister and the Cabinet. When the Duke got back to the country, he found the Duchess in a great dither -- and no wonder. A ■ong the other guests were the ix Duke of Buccleuch and Lady Burleigh, members of the inner circle of the Duke' friends when he was Prince of Wa~when be was Iing. All this within a matter of days after the Duke and Duchess had returned for the first time -- nine years of exile. The Duchess's jewels include aany famous geaa. One is the dia■ond and platinu ■ tiara that the Duchess wore when the ting married the woman for who ■ he gaYe up a throne and an empire. In the center are four large diamonds and three upright fingers of smaller dia ■onds. There were other sets of diamonds, sapphires, rubies, emeralds, and so on. She had a set for each day in the week; soae were ' heirlooms. The men of Scotland Yard say a burglar could haYe reached the suite occupied by the Duchess only by RETAKE to tl e rin ci l of democr cy, fi frien ly to the Uni d ' tate a nd hopeful for he su c cess of the U nit ed i• ·tion s, a e not aut omatic lly anti-Russian. ---0--- w s . B uch~••/\ the · jist ~f his mess ge to us and to the world - and to Messrs Yolotov and Vishinsky in particular. But with n thr~ats, no promises, no sabeP rat ing. 0 Meanwhile our State Department today charges the Communist government of Jugoslavia , Russia's most enthusiastic partner, with another brutal crime, a crime against aliinternational law, and against common decency. YUGOSLAVIA -·----- -- now one hundred and sixty-five American citizens are being held in servitude by the Communist Regime of Tito, the Red Despot. And al least ten other Americans have died because of inhuman treatment while in slavery. This is disclosed by an American p9atest to Tito -- a protest against a cri ■e as revolting as the aurder of the five Aaerican air ■ enr shot down by Tito'• fighter planes to a flaming crash. This ti ■e it's the cri ■ e of slavery, with American citizens enslaved. The tate Department protest, banded bJ A ■ erican A ■bassador ~atteraon to the Tito people taiJJ todaJ, is in•• wrathful terms. The A ■ ericans enslaved were arrested during wartime. The only charge egains t, them was that they were of German or partly German ancestry. Hence the l•s•i Yugoslav Communists accused them of having collaborated tth th, Nazis during the war. None of them bas ever been given a trial on these charges. They were simply arrested and thrown into slave camps. XllGO§LillA - 2 They are made to work at forced labor, and are hired out to private employ ers , who pay Tito's people for the use of the slaves. hey are forced to work twelve hours a day on farms and in factories. All they get is the food these private employers want to give the~ 1 enough to keep the■ alive at hard labor. - -t:he way ten ha•e perished -- victi ■s of brutalities inflicted on overworked serfs and peons. in Be / work, ges .r ted sya(ea JUGO&LAVIA ;';rllment d, - 3 / ly ne i■ ~ t , . The State llepart■ ent further declares that there are a11erican slaves in Soviet rtussia. 'h.lcF-Utl A ■ erican citizens whoa the rted Ar■y picked up in Poland and the Balkans. They were transported to Soviet Slaye Ca ■ps where they now are, laboring in brutal servitude. Our government is trying to get the ■ out. If it fails, a protest will be aent to Iosco•. The enslave ■ent of Americans by the Co ■■ uniata would see ■ to be incredible news -- except that we haYe it fro ■ the official authority of the State Deparatnet 1n Washington. It's an outrage hard to believe, though we anow that slave laDOr is a standard practice under the Soviets, the modern servitude, later day slavery. ---=----........ --- ..... ~ the Ju oslav mb ssy in Washington doesn't d e ny the American ch ar e th · tour citizens are being held as Serf or slaves it doe deny that thee unfortunat e s are citizen of the United States, saying that und r Ju gos lav 1 w they o e allegiance to Yarshall Tito, like it or not. Says the Jugoslav char g e-d'aff a ires in Washington, most of these persons are native-born Jugoslavs ■ z of German descent who emigrated to the United States and took out citizenship papers, but t(J that doesn't make them American c i t i z e n s . ~ ~ ~I~ all Jugoslavs. ~Also considered to be Jugoslavs by the government in Belgrade are those persons now imprisoned who were born in the United States of J ugoslav parenta e • ., e~~ •ft"Wft..r ..,f. ~ttP.e-e-., -e.e~le.11 1 t ~s-w~t.@d-~f.,.e -&Rf-6M -e,,f... Mitler, while ali¥e, held ~e the belief tha~ ~ONMlllIST The alleged secret boss of the American Coamunist Party is now revealed as being in New York. The disclosure is made by the ~eds theaselves -- the Co ■muniat Daily lorker today printing an interview with Gerhard Eisler, alias Bans Berger. Yesterday we heard how Eisler had been identified as the aan of ayatery naaed by Louis Budenz former editor of the Daily Worker, who has ab a ndoned Co■■uni■■• B u d e n z ~ that the A■erioan Co■■uniat■ toot ■atiz order• implicitly fro ■ Stalin'• undercoYer eaiasary, Eisler. Today '1h• Daily W o r k e r ~ that Eisler ~ was living in a New York apartaent, and described hia •• an anti-Kazi refugee, whose activities in this country were entirely literary. The Coa■uniat paper extolled Eisler'• activities during the war, as a writer against Ritleria ■ -- also aa an air raid warden. Interviewed, Eisler ia quoted as utterly denying the charge that he is the Chief Irealin Agent in the United States -- •Too ridiculous to answer,• say1 QOIUAUNIST - 2 he. B e says that he was at on e time a member of the German Communist ~arty. But, as for giving orders in the name of Stalin to the Comrades over here -- he wouldn't dream of such a thing. T hat ■ ight lead one to wonder1-- suppose Eis l er were the Ire■ lin's undercover agent . directing the American Communist Party, would be adait it? Our story yesterday noted an interesting detail, that this Eisler has a sister · in this country who aakes charges against hia -- corroborating the atateaent that he is the aeo~et boas ot the Aaerican Reda. She.,. used to be a aeaber of the Geraan Coaauniat Party, and was expelled. Today's Daily lorter interview with Eisler touches u~on the aatter of his sister, of whoa Eisler says: •I have a sister, Buther i ' ischer, a Trotskyite who rune a gutter sheet which has denounced every anti-Fascist as a Stalinist, from Roosev e lt down.• Now that's a fine Co ■ munist brotherly sentiaen 1 callin g sister a Trotskyite. !INQSOR In £ngland today, the Duke of Windsor claimed eighty thousand dollars as insurance from Lloyds of 1 ~ ~ London - - - ~ for the jewel treasure stolen fro ■ ,, his American born Duchess. The former Edward the Eighth states that the total amount tat,n away by the robber• ca ■ e to a hundred thousand dollars' worth. He is a little annoyed by stories of a million dollar theft. In their get-away, the burglars• dropped precious ■etal and ge ■ s a ■ ounting to a hundred and twent7-fi•e thousand doll So it would appear that ~heir original haul oaae to nearly a quarter of a aillion. ]!AIL You've heard about thin gs disapp ea ring in the mails, but here's a case of ninety thousand dollars s ~anishing as it passed through Uncle Sam's p~t office. lbe money was being sent to a banking coapan7 in i i i Alabaaa. 'f he bank had called on the tederal ReserYe for oDe hundred thousand dollars. Thie was sent i•* in two packages. Ten thousand in one, ninety thousand in the other. The ten thousand dollar package arriYed in due tiae, but the ninety thousand yanished. The Alabaaa Bank states that the Post Office Department, aasuaing the responsibility, has paid._. the ~ loss in full -- with ~ · ederal Agents w. on the case.zta•' ,, " -,;;:d - . . You can imagine the aaount of sleuthin81,:inety thous-'and dollars disappearr1in the mails.--~-~ we llet• Housewives of Portlan d , Ore g on -- one h un d r e d t h ous a n d of them are ju s t p la i n mad , ma d a t t h e s pir a lin prices of d a i ry products. A nd they're doing so m ething ab o ut it. They're fi g hting it by boycotting all d u iry products unti l p rices re ~ ede. the parent-teachers Association, the League of Wo ■ en - - Voters, the Federation of Women's Clubs, and other W-Cil■ ...,.,. groups • Starting right now, ■dll eacL ~~ 1o ~ rili tug., a chain telephcm ~a•paign, phoning five other w o m e n ~ cooperation with their three- ) / \ point boycott pro gr a m . ~ · ~ : - ~ tltl 1pPt1gl a:1Cia1 Dri-fi:ir:: at no milk, eat no ice creaa, butter or cheese. Limit chil dr en's milk ) consumptio~ to one pint daily, which, they say, is a n approved a nd safe quantity. Final l y, buy n o d ai ry products except for invalids · and inf a nt s . ~ That's by the la d ies - ~ a buyer's strike la or x•tio11:; a of Portland1 ~ - . e-t rirk1t PORTRAIT The latest p roblem in ashington is -- who scratched President Truman's face? o was it that inflicted a g sh an inch and a h alf long on the left cheek of the Presidential countenance? Not that the C . ief Executive hi ■self has been scratched, not in person. He has emerged from all those economic snarls and political tangles without a cut or a bruise -- with the ~ w - 1 ~ ~ ~~o~■-ybe, of l:c;~ted • feelings./\-1:t?rt'lle ~residential portrait,~••, been scratched -- a painting in the Smithsonian Institution. In the National Museum of that learned establishment hangs a handsome portrait of the President. He is pictured in a gray suit with a maroon necktie, sitting at his desk, pen in hand, as if he were about to sign something -- ~ let.ter to Henry all ace, or a document abolishing~ 0. P.A. pt tr•l2'iifl s"- The " port~ait has been there for a few weeks -- and,has gone right through the meat crisis without a change of expression. Now, however, a disconcerting th ing has been noticed. Across the President's left cheek there's a mark, a scratc Who an inch and a h alf long. ~did it? Some vandal bent on malicious mischief? Or wasf t an accident in soae fashion or other? Today the artist who painted the portrait, John Slavin, was c~lled in to repair the damage. He To•• that somebody scratched the President's face deliberately " and on purpose.--With malicious and insulting int e nt; says Artist John Slavi~. tL The authorities at~Saithsonian, however, point out that recently workmen haTe been on the job in the auseu ■, fixing up the electric lights that illu.inate the pictures, and you know what can happen when tsa ~ ~~~~~~. repair man is on the job!" So the authorities are inclined . toil think the damage was an accident. In any case, it makes an interesting riddle - who scratched the President's face? TREASURE !!UNT In Chicago they're having a treasure hunt, which thus far has yielded a total of more than eight hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. They're seeking the ~ ~-~ earthly possession left behind by,~inky Dink Ienna, who died last week. Students of A ■erioana will recall Binky Dint, who years ago wae one of the ■ oat powerful politicians in Chicago, though hardly the ■ ost refined. Bew s a - W \ ~ ~ - oonte ■ poraryl',.ot Bathhouse John Coughlan, an equally ~•preasiYe stalwart of the ■ Gre rugged days of politio1 in the windy city. Binky Dint and Bathhouse John aade legends -- though not of a kind tor a Sunday School. Ward, the deference Binky Dink'• bailiwick was the old Firat roaring Firat lard -- as they called it ia to its riotous rephtation. Binky Dink •••+ politi~al oYerlord of the roaring First Ward, and hi• labors were not unrewarded -- ae is illustrated b ; the news dispatch today. It has been noted at one time or another, that p oliticians haYe shown a lik,in g for safe deposit boxes jREASURE B~ll - 2 as a place to keep t h eir sundry a s sets -- stowing mone1 in a safe deposit box entailing a minimum amount of bookkeeping, r e cords, and other awkwa r d evidence in writing. So, when Binky Dint passed along)to a better world -- we hope,-- a hunt began for sate deposit boxea that he might haye had. Today they found · one, and out of it oa ■e two•hundred-and-tifteen-thouaand,-two-bundred-and-fift7 dollars. Yesterday, three were opened, and they netted more than six-hundred-thousand. Two ■ ore still reaain, two ■ ore Bink7 Dint aatety deposit boxea. These will be opened to ■ orrow, and it i~ belieTed that their conteatl will boost the tota; • into · tbe millions. Binky Dint labored in the political •t■ IIB~SOR - 2 England across to France with their loot. The scene ot the theft was conYenient for that. Ednam Lodge, on the estate of the Dute of Bedford, is only two hours ..,,.,1.,. troa the Channel Coast, Doyer, and in tour houraAthe crooks could ha•e been i~ ¥ranee. The search has spread to the Uaited State, and South Aaerica -- in the belief that the robber, ai1h\ try to get their treasure across the Atlantic. The polio• oyer, here were warned to · be on the lookout, aad a liat ot th• article• atoten has been broadcast. The•• iaol••• riaga, olips, brooches, bracelets aad earriaga, the aettinga in diaaonda, e ■eralda, aapphirea u4 aquaaarin•• a who JIDIA In India, warplanes are in action against Moha■aedan ■obs of Eastern Bengal. Refugee Hindus are pouring into Calcutta, twenty-ti•• thouaand of the ■ la flight fro ■ crowds of crazed Moha■aedan tanatica. Diaturbance1 baye apread fro ■ Roabkhali northward.- to the Tipperha Diatriet. liye thouaand Bindua are reported to haYe been kille4. The authoritie1 at Calcutta ha•e aeat pl•••~ to apot the aoba ra ■pa1iag aaoag Bindua Yilla1••• •~11• Troopa oa the around ao•e againat th••· Soldier• ha•• tired ••••ral ti ■•• on ■ a44eae4 lo1lea1, who are arae4 tor the ■oat part with two-edged•••• aworda -- with~•~ wllei ~ k .rw. they a1aail th•r,•ill•s~,t ,e IP• Ital •• iQJllT CULTURE The ~oviet Eabaaay in Washington ■ ate, aa accusation against the A■erioan Depart■ ent of Ju1tice in the case ot Auasian Delegates to a Slay Congre11 in the United ~tatea. Thi• co ■plaint haa been aade kf before, and now Stalin'• laba11y tate1 an unusual atep to e■pha1i1e it -- a new, conference. Only twioe prtYioualy, since thi1 countr7 went into the war, baa Soyiet Diploaatic Headquarter, in laahington called in tbe new•••• for a conference. So the aatter of the delegate• •••t be iaportant1 They ca ■• oYer here to attend tbe Slay Co111n11 a after which they were to ■ate a tour ot the ceuntry - - •A cultural tour,• it ia called. They were going to ■ate apeeohea here, tbere and the next place. A clai ■ of diploaatic atatua waa aade for the■, but the Depart ■ent of Justice ruled that they oa ■e under the heading of forei1n propagandiata, and *~•• ■■f therefore would haYe to re1i1ter aa ~oYiet Agents, under the law. The Soyiets were indignant about this, and called sk1 their . delegates back ho ■ e -- eleYen of the ■• Three others, two Bulgarians and a Czech, §QJIET CULIURI - 2 went ahead and regiatered, according to the regulation•, and stayed on to attend the Slav Congress. t\. ~ ' i < . . . • ~ Toda7 atA'411,Preaa Conference, the Soyiet E■baaay charaed the Depart.aent of Juatice with inJaria1 cultural relations between the United States ud tht land of Stalin. An l■baaa7 Spokea ■an denied that tbtre wa1 anything ot a propa1anda nature in the apeeohea the Deleaatea bad iatended to aue -- it waa all caltart. lhich ••••• to oall to aind the recent caltara · p•r1• la Mo1cow, the theory of which waa that the purpo•• of caltart ia Stalin'• laad waa to aapport the Soyiet Beal•• -- in other word1, propaganda. JQBEIBliBQ Today brings a denial of the story that Goering aay hawe hidden the capsule of poision in an old wound, under the akin of his abdoaen. The Aaerioaa prison ph71ician at lureaberg atatea flatly that Goeria1 had a no such wound, no cawit7 under the akin, in whioh •••n the ■Tnute Yial of potaaaiua cyanide could ha•• bee■ hidden. SaYe for that negatiwe point, there'• no further inforaation. ( The inquir7 directed by the inYeatiaatioa board of three officer• ia go inc on, · but nobod7 i1 1a7in1 anythin1 -- a dense Yeil of secrecy concealing dewalopaent1 in the a7atery of bow Goering contriwed to cheat the 1allow1. le are not ewen told anything about th• three notea left by the foraer nu ■ber two ■an to Bitler. One was addreaaed to the A■erican Colonel in couand of the p rison, and he aaw it -- but it••• in Geraan, which language he does not know. The three notes were turned ower to translator~, and since then hawe disappeared fro■ the news.