q _ L ; ; 4,_ L► · -~ ~ ( . ~ surpri s e presidential proclaaati o n today puts e d to one of the three r · t 1 1 e o f wa r. re " ident Truman i U P _ t h e o :t · · l d 1 t · .. 1 1c1 ec ra 10n that hostilities have ended ich terminates the la e Pre ident Roosevelt's proclamation for a state of ho s tilities. This, of course, followed the Pearl Harbor attack. Two other measures are still in force -- the proclamation of emergency issued by President Roosevelt in Nineteen Thirty-nine, and again !,orty-ane. That -- and the state of war, the declaration of war voted by Congres cancelled by Congress only. This can be Today's presidential proclaaation puts an imm e diate end to twent7 important artime laws, which 1 ere enacted for the duration of the state of ostilities. These concerned chiefl7 such matters as th e .. r esidential power to· seize industries tied up by s tri ·,: s. Industries already taken over by gx the 22 t • d · t ly ,, ff e c t Fdi r.o ve rn ment a rer,._1mme 1 8 e 0 like the Fed eral authorities can r e tain control of coal · nes. TRO M AN - 2 _......-.---~----- .. these for a p eriod of six months following today's . ► cancellation of hostilities. Other statutes abolished ~ ~ k . a M " " " ' ~ are measures of taxation. Taxes on fura, liquor, jewelry, cosmetics, and ot h er luxury items are now taken off -- a cut of revenue that · ill ammount to one-billion--- two...hundred an d fifty illion dollars. To this there is immedi a te reaction on the Re p ublican side -- leaders . . .... of the new Republican Congress stating that the7 will ma ke up for the loss of taxation b y reducing govern ■ ent • expenditures. They add that there will be still furth_. cuts in taxation -- like income tax reductions. Congressman Knutson of M i nnesota, ••■J who is to become Chairman of the Congressional Committee that deals with I taxation,, repeats his former contention, that it will be p os ible to make an income tax cut of t ~ ent7 percent. President Truman's proclamation of the end of hostilities marks a major step in a reversion to J■aa■Si ~ peacet i e conditi o ns -- and comes- )' XIIIIII !RDIJAl_-=-J ' dramatically as the new Republic an Co~trol~ngress is about to meet. To a large •egree it anticipates a generall7 expressed Republican determination to make an end of wartime legislation. BILBQ --- Si g ns of a Republican attempt to oust Bilbo increased today, with a decision by the G.O.P. Steering Committee to start ouster proceedings against The Man. ~ .Q.t.:t'.._ .. _;._ .. ....J ..t.: rr-1"'-.. ... 4 . . . . . ,., ~ ASenator Taft of Ohio, Chairman of the Committee,~ hi• gro~p will m a ke this ~ecommendation to the Republican w en it meets Thursday 8.fternoln~~he Ste . erins Committee will offer the proposal ~hat Bilbo be denied a seat in the Senate. - /Jnd a recommendation', the Steering Committee is certain to carry a lot of weight. The Security Council ' of the United N~t lvns has postponed action on atomic control .J., disarmament-until early next week. Today the Onited States demanded t that the right of way be given to the American progra■ for outlawing the atomic bomb, while Soviet Russia insisted that the Soviet plan for immedi te disar■ ament be taken up first • . The Security Council heard the two contradictory arguments, and then put the matter off until early next week. SOEZ -- Canal, -:. -- ~ We all know that Lesseps built the Suez A ;\ - ~F.vi.J- '6'JL•••,-- tbat great French engineer having won immortal /\. renown in the digging of the canal across the Isth■ua at Suez. The news today is A -- thatALessepa has been arrested for trying to destro7 the Suez Canal. That ia - -..\ gr E ndson of the origina/'Lesseps. ,.. This grandson tonight is in a !aria prison, charged with playing a partJ:'.tlfartime attempts by the Germans to boab the Suez Canal. The French Govern■eat says it has unearthed evidence that the grandson of the canal builder tried to sell to the Iasis land he owned in Turk~J -- land to be turned into a Geraan air base for raids against su · ez. On his side, ti. arrested PLesseps declares that the whole thing is a French Govern ■ant scheme to get out of paying forty million doll rs that it owes hia. CLE ENCY AP A L ---------------- T · s New Year, a woman suffering from an incurable malady, is 01·ng f c l f ram a i ornia to Jackson, Mississippi - to appe al for the lives of two negro youths, who are under sentence of deato. She is irs. Blanche eiers of Oakland - and she's the mother of eight children. The doctors h ve told her that she has-iJit long to live, and that sombre fact bas incited her interest in the two teen a g e negroes. They are fo~rteen and fifteen respectively, and have been convicted for the robbery af and murder o f ~ Miss . issippi aaw■ ill operator. Uri ' der sentence of death, their case is now being considered by the Governor - who has before him a plea of clemency, based on their youth. Tha t p lea will be urged by the woman from C a lifornia, who hash~t long to live. Today she explained? r.r w n t to do something good before I m eet God. I' ■ the moth e r of ei g ht children myself, and I cannot ~elieve that ever, under any circumstances, boys hardly more than children, should be given the extreme penalty.• That's the argument she seeks to place before the Governor - as she makea a Bew Year'• trip from ( California to Mississippi. All over America there bas been uch d eb a te today r egardin g the calling off of the annual A rmy- Notre Dame football game -- Nation's Numbe~ One gri d iron . ' fen r e f e r r ~ s the cl a ssic. ~~ the ~ series ende next season after Azmy pays a ~ visit to I\ South Bend. • ' I lleve just been talking it over with John tieran, age of INFORMATION PLiASE. John, as most of you know, built his first ereat reputation as a sports w riter. And he still is a top man on-just about everything that concerns sports • .a. I asked him for his slant, and here's what he·said:- "lt seems to me there is none d to look i or any other explanation than that offered by General Taylor, S uperintendent at West Point, and Father Cavanaugh, head of Notre Dame. The g me rea~ly h d gotten out of academic control. It had become a public circus. The beh a vior o f the players was fine on the field• Wut, • aCded John K ieran, "the behavior o f some s p ect a tors • left much to be de s ired.• John Iieran, wise when it comes to so many things, went on to say th a t in his opinion, it is a wise decision, asd' one that will benefit not only the two institutions, but intercollegiate athletics in general. Re also remarked that it was a grand gesture ; ~ p a r t - i J , ; ; . ~ o , ou.t to Notre Dame for .,_. "- ~ • g a me, ~ t - - + ~ r r G v & t h S..mt "1Pill ~ - the series on a high plane of sportsmanship. One o f the w eirde s t events happened in a Rew Yort 1 sub wa y.to da y . - ~ ~ ~ w i t h a la .... s t.....,.~"'-- /\. r, sh o tgun fire. A woman was standing waiting for a train, wh e n a pretty blond irl stoo p ed, a nd poin~ed a fancy Christma s packa g e - whereupon the roaring shot rang out, the Christmas pa c kage containin g · a sawed off shotgun. The woman, waiting for a train, fell to the station platform - badly wounded in the iegs and hip. 1fhen th e police ca·me, and asked her who had shot her, she said: •yy husband shot me.• She w as Mrs. Olga Rocco of Brooklyn, who had been wounded in a previous shooting. That lf'1A«.as in the be~inning of November, and her h u s b a n d ~ sus p ected. He 84. disappeared, and the police h~b•_en , loo k in g f or him ever since. So now the wife, shot by the blonde, s a i d immedi a tely - "My husband shot me.• .91.1,h e blo d e, m ea nwhile, w s st a ndin g in an utter d ze. hen the police arrested her - she told a story as -,p antastic as the shooting in the subway. She sai she had been employed by a man who represented himself as an insurance investigator, an he had instructed her to follow Mrs. Rocco - a job of shadowing, - 1 4 ~ Be had given~ the brightly wrapped Christmas package, telling her that it contained a camera - with •hich she was to snap a photograph of rs. Rocco's legs. He had shown her how to operate the \hing. 9 JUSt point this end of it at the object to be photographed - nd then pull the rigger.• The blonde had followed instructions, had trailed Mrs. Rocco to the subway station, and there saw her chance to get the pres•med picture. She pointed the alleged camera at the woman's legs, pulled the trigger, and was astounded at what ha pened - the s coting. Her story is the more plausib l e, becau e the employ T' h n m h dis pp l d from hi add ess - a n the blonde ha t nt a tiv el y identi fie d a picture of occo's hu b a nd a th t same employer . St. LOUIS --------- I m a not be V ry , Ne Ye ~ r•s Eve r ~ r ro i -- for he cele r nt · t 1n . L ouis. Not t e ' e w il l in g to lay ou all ni g or , lk ome. For t. Louis, a city o f one milli n p eople face a cri l in tr~nsport . tri e, to be called at Midni g ht, toni t, New Ye r's Eve. The President of the bus d riv rs and street c r o erators associatim 1 . in St. Louis h a s been pleading with his men all day to submit their troubles~ arbitration. But so far the worke s are ad mant. So it will be a woldc t strike. Whether the strike is authorize or not will be of little interest to joy-bent citizens of St. Louis who may be left stranded at midn : ht without transpor tion h me. Every hotel, rest A urant and night club in the city bas been booke at solid for a gay evenin. And a lon, cold walk home after t~e festivitie coul be a re 1 anti-cl~ m x. Ii (fo low St. Louis) Forte mer - aker in S n n Fr 0 cisco, +h a . me bed ne 1 .) u i n 1 er e ree. About one t!'lird yb g one - 1 o f S n Fr ncisco' c b riv r re 0 out l so. A at the p scr o o ic l ime, midni . t. So San Francisco, after mi ni ht, · ill see its h p p w n r i r~ c ~ in evenin cote ridin g ~o . e in street c r . Ano era in g xi after twelve o'clock il l be o l d mine for its driver. The Fi President oft e Luxor Cb Company as b ndoned his own plans for New Year's Eve. He now p lns to drive one of is taxis; el reap the bolden arve t. An o th o f t h o s e aho pr ob l ems was decided tod a y by he Un empl o ymen t Com p ens atio n B o ard of Review at Ha risbur, ennsylvania, which ruled that an employee ha s no right to quit a job, even though the boss is a little late in makin g coffee for him. This d ecision of Solomon was rendered in the case of Stanley Novak, who worked in a pool room run by Gus Glumac. The wa es were normal, in addition to which. Gus agre e d to make coffee for his pool roo ■ employee, evert afternoon at five o'clock • . That went alon g all right, and the working conditions w er e satisfactory, until one day Gu• neglected the coffee. The petition today gives the reasons as foll ows_ •due to several distractions.• I sup ose Gus ha to fix up some pool tables, rack up the cues - or maybe get behind th e eight ball. Anyway, h e faile d to make coffee for his pool roe ■ worker until ~!~Q!_ffiQ_~~----2 four our 1 er. er upon uit t job-- and cl ai e un sin i n ~nt em loyee vment com ens tion ! G O O -~---- Th ma be o ld hunt u p r ound o nire al - n ' i f so , it · i 1 b e v ery much li 6 ild e oose ch a se. Th ne s to y t e lls h ow Walt er Jork bou ht a bi fat ~ ' g oos e for New Ye a r's dinner. He t o ok he g oose home, and was dressing it - when his eyes bul g ed. As he split the gizard, he s a w the leam o-f yellow metal - g° old. 1P. In the izard of th a t goose there was a mixture of gold nuggets and bits of quartz - the type of rock in which gold is found. In the gizard of the goose waa fort1 dol ars' worth of gold, and ~oday all Montreal waa wondering, where was that goose accustomed to eat? -(Apparently the bird had been grubbing for food in groun d th t had a lot of gold bearing quartz. So the trail of old would depend oft a search for the feeding pla c e of the & oose th t, while not layin g any g olden e gg , h ad old in its gizard. SAD I CK ---- --- L a s t ~ i ht, y ou,-W reme m ber /\. A.. ' rivate J a e Bil l , wh o was Iing for a Day at California's Hamilton Field)until he dmitted th the hadn't foiled a burgl a r y in the post finance office after all. This Ne Ye r's Eve Private Rill is peering out at Nineteen Forty-seven from behind mountains and mountains of potatoes. They all need peeling, and the Army ha s decide that Prankster Rill, why, he is just the lad to peel them. Bill's commanding officer says that naturally the boy will not be allowed on sentry duty again until he is sent overseas three months from now -- but that there is a post for him in the G.I. kitchen. Which, by the way, is the only punishment Bill will get for his fantastic y a rn about battling armed robbers and saving the payroll, a tale which interested his commanding officer, the San Francisco newspaper s , and the FBI. The real loser in the whole affair ap ears to be t w enty-ye a r-old Ro emary a tson who w o uld have l married Hill tocror ~ ow h a d not fate n implacable Army disciplin e interfered. But o emary is being br a ve about it. Says she: ffl'll keep ri g ht on loving m y Jimmy, hero or bum.• ~U-flt - ~'(~~ ~'I--- BIRTB~X. .... ------- (. J ~)1-..-.. ~ / • ,- .. . , ( ~ ,;/.j( I 's t a r t he _ tri. in to have one's -'4 birthd a y o nl\ Ne Ye r, a nd it mi g ht seem to be remarka le for two brot ers to h a ve their birthdays on New Ye ar 's Eve and New Year's Day respectiv ely . Howev e r, the two b th i th . (year 1 ro ers n 1s accou nt are twins - and thi~ •••,4 one of the twins celebrates his birthday in Nineteen Forty-Six. The other one - in Nineteen Forty-Seven. At Hollid a ysburg, Pennsylvania, Oakley ' Stifler was t ,, enty today, while his twin brother will be twenty tomorro w . Oakley was born shortly before midnight on December Thirty-First. Then, shortly after midnight, bis twin brother ,as born - which produces a few odd twisters - for twins. For example, in a technical sense tonight_ the elder t i n will be a year older than the 1 o un er t w in • • Th e n e ws all over the country · today ha be n deb i n th sever a n e o f football r lations bet wee n th m y nd o tre Da me the n at ion's number one gridiron cl as sic ca lled of, a f ter a final Army-Rotre Dame next d All t he experts are expertizing ao I thought I'd a pea l to a sports writer whos e name is legend. John Kieran,' who h a won radio renown on •Information Plea s e", built his first great reputation as a aport• writer, and he still is a tQp man in writing on topic• of sports. So tell us, John, what do you think of that Army-Notre Dame headline? lie ll!RAl1- I see thftt some footb a ll f11e are won4er · n 1 what's be ind the official at t•••nt •••• oat by Major GeaaPal laxwell D. Taylor, Superlntea4eat ot the Military Aoadeay, and rather Joha J. Ca•ana11b, Re•t•• of lotre Dame. I don't think there's 1n7thia1 behin4 1\. I bell••• it's all out in front. It••••• to•• that there'• no nee4 t~ look for any other ••plaaa\loa of \lie en41a1 ,t tbl• faao•• football 11rl11 thaa that off•••• ,, th• head• of the two la1titutlon1. 1Yerybo4J ••••••i wltb football tao•• that the tleket 1ltua\loa ••rro1a4~ tbl1 1••• wa1 i■po1alble to 101•• wltb ••111tl1fae\loa to an1body oonoeraed. And•• th• offiolal 1tatea1al e al4, the 1••• really had ion• out of aea4eal• •••trol. la1tea4 of a co11•1• 1portla1 01ate1t, lt •••• \1 •• 1oaethla1 of a publlc olr•••• Th• beba•lor of \bt football pl•1•r• ••• tint, ,at th• behaYior of 10■• of •• r. D. ath•• alaanl nor atudeat• of the 1peotator1, who A • tither iaatituttoa, •••oath• rou1b ■ ldt 0 • •••1 oooa1l na. tbl of a 1boot te It naturally•••••• • 0 •• •a 11, tJIIA1 - 2 hear that• 1••• ao fa:,01 ••• to be 111\ \o \b• •••••l aporta calen4ar, but I bell••• tba\ rat•n Ca••nau1h aad General Taylor ••4• a •l•• l11l1loa ••• oat that •111 bea•tl\ not oaly tbe two la1tlta\loa1 bat iater10ll•1l•t• at~l•tlo1 la ••••••1• II I••• aoa4•■ lo ooara1• to ••••h that d11l1loa. I 1al7 btJ• that the head• of other •~•••tloaal u laatlt•tloa• that••• haYlDI athletle pre,l••• •111 ' ' •t••llJ •l• aa4 lo• · br11bt l• f1n4laa • ••1 o•I of th•l• . 4lffleultl••• It'•'••••• 1••t1rt oa the p••I •I Ar-, to 10 o•t te lo\re Da■• fer t•• la1t &aiii et tb• •••l••• Tb1 t11lla1 bel••• &•111 ut let•••- llai beta Ila• ••4 l•lea411 1lao1 •••1 '••• la ■bet•• Tblrteea, aad thl1 111\ 111t••• •11111.111 t• •••lN oa a blah pl••• of 1 p ort1aaa1hlp. • A s a o ne-ti m e Grand Giraffe of the Tall Stor, Club, I'm al w a ys int er e s ted in the varioua whopper c o m p e t i t i o n s ~ in this truth-loving land of oura. So I noted with deep interest today the lew Year award made b7 the Liars' Club of Burlington, Wi ■ con1ia, which ba s elefted and cro w ned - •the chaapion liar of Bineteen Forty-Six.• I was not onl7 interest••• bat al•• a bit critical - when I studied the whopper tbat woa tile first prize for mendacity. C.We ••••" wati ifPliiJ hailed who•• couched w of the down Atanacio tkarz Then there's Robert Ileinatuber of luffera, lew York - who crossed a beagle hound with a toa cat, and the result wa~ a critter that looked lite a 401 ••t aeowed like a cat. Thia astoni1hing aniaal aaw a aboal of catfiah - so he meowed at the■ like a cat la a I all• 1i way and thereby drew the catfish i\ •hallow nter. ltter which be awa ■ out like a dog, and cbaae4 the eatf1 onto land • ..,. Thea. when ~ h ~ cu■..I a tree, the astonishing bfbri4 cli■bed right up after the ■, like a cat. That combined old cat and fish etorJ 1eea• to•• to have a s much championship quality as the fish that b~ I !:to a violent perspiration - a cold sweat, no doubt, ala •ae in the chilly water.