,. The ' ederal Council of Churches made formal move today for a Protestant-Catholic World Conference to aam consid r the menace of Communism. In New York the txecutive Committee of the Council requested an international meeting of Protestant and Catholic Church leaders, and app o inted bishop Oxnam of the Methodist Church to s e ek the approval of the World Council of Churches.~his is another ~ step in the d · irecti o n of tn.)rnit.ed front*• of the , two great sections of Christianity - for the purpose of combatiing the anti-Christian war waged by Soviet Russia and the Red satellites. .I R Y.KAI At the Little r.hite Hous , Key W . st, silence, Qs the day went on. No comment from President Truman ~ i e s of ~ministration defeats in Congress, ~J~~ - ~ to Y . ~ & 4 ~sosevere that the news dispatchesfare aa7isag - black 1r A Tuesday. Three defeats for the President in rapid succession:-- he lost the battle of the filibuster, which came to an end at about eleven o'clock last night, iushington ti ■ e. Previously the liouse of Repr e sentatives had passed its own rent control bill,(.{ ~ much weakerAthan the White House wanted--jthe Tru■an version to1aed out~Bitterest of all, as a personal matter, was the suamary way the ar ■ ed Services Committee of the Senate rejected the appointment of President Truman's close personal friend, former Governor Mon •algren of Wsshington as Chairman of the ~ational Resources Board. Seldom has the Whit n house taken three such blows on one day - Black Tues day f,-,,-tl.... bo everybody is wondering - what will ~re ident Truman do about it? everal weeks ago, I!lY.lll! - 2 at a Democratic inner, be intimated that, if Congress failed to enact his program he would go to the country again. lie W{Q ld rep at that strenuous battling tour, from one end of the nation to the • ~ . _IJI'} other, which -"e1e th November election. That.~~"""' I\. ., ~ t u r n e d him to the •hite tlouse, and crushed his I\ number one object of hostility, the Republican -,p controlled Eightieth Congress. Well, the Truaan luck ~ t o ~ • no betters ■ with the De ■ ocratic Eighty-First I\ Congress. So, if the President had any real intention of stuaping the country again in an anti-Congress caapaign, he certainly has ample reason now. Of course, this time, he would be aa&li.ling a De ■ ocratic ~ ~ j ) ~ e ~ - - U Congress,/\. k:111~ he asked the voters to put into o f f i ~ ~ i c h might be slightly embarrassing. ~ut a!;?!~ tr:;:::a, no news from the Littlelhite House at Key West, no sign of what the President intends to do about his triple defeat. ,. TRUMAll - 3 The magnitude o f the filibuster catastrophe wa s indicated by developments today. The Southern D emocrats called off t h ir l o ng d istance oratory~ as the r e sult of a d e al with the Republicans. Thep-egular ~~~ U emocrats •ere left out of it. - a GOP- Dixiecrat A transaction.Which eans that Republicans and Cl:e- Southerners,in a coalition, hav e sei} e d control of The arran g ement bet w een the■ would see ■ to indicate hat there will be no anti-filibuster measure right 1Al::::::&::t=a+~ ans that the Tru ■ an racial ~ : J i ~ prograa B:::f79' the disca d. let that"1ssue of civil ./\ rights was dominant in the Truman presidential campaign, a le a d ing item among all the pro ■ isea the President ■ a d e. - - The sharpness of the issue is illustrated by a disclosure m a de in lasbington t oday. It is revealed t h at, y terday ..,...- there was an angry flareup etween ' I..IUUIU - 4 Democratic National Chairman Senator McGrath and the leader of the big Negro or g anization, Walt e r White, Chairman of the National Association for advanceaent of colored people. The story, as told today, ia that McGra t h encountered Walter Whi t e in an ante-room a few steps fro ■ the Senate chamber, where the southern filibuster was going on. The leader of the Negro organization was in conversation with Democratic Senator H umphrey or Minn . sota - that sa ■ e Hubert liuapbrey who brokethe racial question wide open at the Democratic conventi on . Remember that exciting day last June? Re■ e ■ ber how a coapromiae appear ~ d to have been reached between the Truman leaders and the Southerners on the subject of•• civil rights? But the delegate from Minnesota, Hubert Humphrey went to the platfora as ~~ a leader of liberal Demo era ts and ~t •■ped Ua• convention with a fiery demand for an all-out racial plan k .- The plank was adoptedi - which brought about the secession of the Dixiecrats. llQ.11!! - 5 In the el e cti o n, Humphrey himself was chosen enntor ~ - and now~••~ was in conversation with Negro organiz tion leader Walter White. 8=9 in came De ■ ocratic " National Chairman Senator McGrath. le hear that McGrath was sore because Whi t e • • had been charging a democratic sell-out in the business of racial rights and the southern filibuster. They started talking, and Whi t e is said to have s h own a press release h~ was about to issue. intimation 1Rl=S that the Tru ■an ad ■ inist · ation was about to give ~ ~ the press up•• on the anti-filibuster fight; ., release called this H-'"-ppomatox in reverse•. The northern victory over slavery in I the civil war - changed around. The response of McGrath was violent. The L emocratic •ational Chair m an brokeinto a loud and angry tirade against the chairman of the National Association for the advancement~ colored people, " and charged him with conducting a whispering campaign _ whispering that the Truman leaders to newsp a p e rmen j_!!MAH - 6 w res lli n out tm the r e . c rat h to 1 bite t e w unfair y ttacki d m c ra ts hoJ said c rath,"hav sweat d and bled in your cause." The leade r of th Negro or anization ia de cri b ed as making n o re ponse, as McGrath .ent on ad on until he w , s quiet d down by Democratic ~enator Myers of Pennsylvania wbo intervened. This ashin g to n story of flaring temper might well be an illustration of th desperation of the Truman leaders- whoAhave lost control of Congress to an alliance of Republicans and Southerners. " 1h 1 t st~an ry wor d from Democratic 1 80 r na tor Lucas . e c ha r t, t Repu l icans ~ aurren er t Lh ou t ber n i l u t, r, a nd d mi . s 1 t at the i i land oratory as wh C 1 1s - "a funeral r vi ce or c i vi l ri ht " . " ---- 0 1 -com 1 t h d ·a n up a r nt., 0 ro ill i h w u l t i C 8 0 iv r· C nt ch . ' h 1 J ' by a sub- C mmit i fo if en mo th s , and now leaves 8 subj ct for uenat ebate - wit the t provision for tn s fiv p roent increase o rent. ------ m s t, nt 1S t h ro a r d l oni l b ins a ollo1rs : It o n I I rch 16th. ur a a b ca f t nr j i l r t.o a y. 'I k •• n r a fe lin acr 8 t. co 1 li nent nat a i lomatic crisis ~ith, nus ia w s in the making. he ai patch O F. on to say that diplomatic cir cl 0 s exp ct a new ovi e t ush n the col d w r, an d t ey h l i e ve it w il l happen th · s comin g summer - v.ith .ttussian m oves in th e 11ear est mo t l i ely. Right now •oscow is put.ting pressureon Iran, th · s featured by a violent illr•ll.8 propaganda campaign. The Persian 1 overnm nt t.od ay described the R . press an d radi insults a s b ein g beyond - "c · v ili zed standardi." lt all sounds like a prelude to Soviet activity in the direction of ·ran, and today an official of the fore ign office at leheran taid t.hal his coun t ry should join the line-up of western powers b y making a military alliance with the km Uni ed ' tat.es. ti - 1 m re to the poi nt i s the news of the formali o of a lern r d fpnse ro r - a mast r p an for velo in th mili ary ~~•% power of the fr e nations. · his was drawn u p at a meeting in Lon on. 1he military Chiefs of G eat Britain, Belgium, Holland an Lux mburg have compl t d a two-day meet. in - und r conditions of what amounted to war time s cracy. hey c.irew up a program for ach country to arm as fast im as it can. Fach i to manufactu e all the weapons it can - the United Stat . s to be asked to provide additional armament. W hear that the secret defense conference - drawing up a master plan, en t so far as to c boo s a mi l i ta ry 1 i n e to b n ld, in ca e of war with kka oviet ussia - a line from ~witzerland alon the Rhine, to the North Sa. C ,h•eat .briiain is takin lhe ~ lead in the .,. intf;n'nati nal re-armaJDent, the Lon on government announces t, ,at t, 1e ritis.11 jet r·ghter str e ngth .., ~ w being doubled - rush in ro du cii o n of J~ planes. - 3 ri t ait lie re t o · t f r n c m anu : a c tur t l t i h v m p ir j t, ' i t r . · - c o U at F 1nce ma . u i i t. Air " • i t -1 0 c e e t, p e C. t, rs t a t fl y at f ' lU n o r t i r ty o ne mi l s an hour'!f Tbis master efen e l n is pr • parati n for t e ex p c d th·s s u mm r. vi i that t, e w tern p o, r s h ·, d better h v p n y of u ns and plan ,h n the crisis comes. The they wil l b in a posi ti n to sit down nd t c. lk 11ith Stalin1 ~ un ders tan d th language of g uns ana plans. From ~a hington e have comm e nt on the jitters r epo rted in iurope.American diplomatic and mi 1tary officials ~ gree in the expectation that there will be a new rise of Ea&t-W s t tensi o n, hut they do not think the ~oviets a re in any osition to risk a w a r. y in T oL yo n int rn ati on l m e tin w a h la , bo vi ts an d Wetern po · rs. o b r e ne ws: ver · thin , nt of f s moot hl , n ot a i n of an argument. ot a sin le e xchange of international tr insult • he nlli d Council fo r Japan w ent into session, and ave a monstration of ho• East and 7P Wet can et alon g in perfect harmony.There was no ar gume nt, because nothing• s discussed. Th e re was n point of disagreement, becau e no point of any sort was brought up for oonsideration. That is the regular way for toe Allied Council out there. They meet once every two eeks - with nothing on the agenda~acArthur is run ing Japan, and that is that,- l h e Allied Council for the control o f the conquered country eing a mere matter f form. In .1.arlier days of the occupation> the boviet member mi g ht et up and de nounce MacArthur in h eated f a s h ~ " " t £ e ~ American delegate would rep l y with equally heated ,, defense of t h e Supreme Command er . But the S oviets have lon g since got tired of that.So no~, t he re it. ; R - no thine. _ _!.IQ - 11 o f ich w il l u trat d vivi ly oa y. b Allied cou nci for Japan went into s essi o n, East and est - nd a journed in half a i nule. hich certainly oula seem to e one ay of g et t in alo ig with the ovietsf- consid ring nothin at all in a sessi n of half a minu t e! - L 4\ n e s i. p a t. c h t t .. th a Lo n o n i s p u z z 1 e a .., r - Lon on is h ving a l im p s e f Los An g ele - an ey ful of a car cteristic feature. ' he S o u th e r n · a 1 i f r n i a m e t ro p o l i s h s a r e p u tat i on f or , ueer cu ts . kllf I nt of mystics, prophe ts, and won d er work rs. ~ London ri ht now is /\ gog g ly-eyed over K:risma Venta, a mes{ia fro,o Los " "" ~n gel s. ~Irishna Venta sounds Hindu an d t hi s Kessiah g o es barefoot and wears flowij g robes - like some sort of high priest • ~ Yo g a, Vedanta, or esoteric Brahminism . today's London headline about lrishna Venta, is that he bas changed his place of residence •to get closer to the people" , as he puts it. lie is movin g from a thirty-fiv e dollar a day apartment to a-s e venteen-dollar-a-day apartment, hich~ still..- wou l d hardly seem to be the sidewalks of Picadil l y. 1h e Kessiah from Los Angeles - " I o es net ap p ear to be in any lack of funds, and r.is change of residence is ot because of economy. He was living at ~ -£, Cla ri dg e's, ~ was simply too conspiCllJus and exotic /\ r lhat ot 1 of Royally - •il r s of p ople t Gout e rn C if rnia n v i or o f t lorld. The high-toned management at ~larid e's • rais e d a superc~lious rit.ish eyebrow, and preferred that rishna nta move on. ~ But anyway, he is hittin ., the headlin f" P, ~ London b p uzzled b this limpse of Los Angeles. One British newspaper today~reach~for f- A adjectives~ describ~ him a:d.~le~ the Los A --\ ~ , , Angles Messiah~ centrally heated hot gospeller." A J _ _ _ __ UI ' r r l ha t r i r C m ., n, Jo L i. .. , wi 1 t · v · rtu 1 c on ol o hP r i ze ... i hi bu i ne in co u n l. ry • That i , the or anizati o n in w ic h th form r cham p i associated , ith •o p artners. eh ar that the w · 11 buy out 1 J a cobs , "h o r u n s b o x i n a t ,~ e w Y or k ' s · ad i son ' uare Garden, thereby as umin a king _ in position in the game of punch an d lug. Th tatemenl is ~m made in a magazine called "~ports", edited by ~tanley roodward, formerly of tte New York herald Tribune. H points out that M1 e Jacobs, not nly controls Maison Square Garden, but also has leases on the t o New York ball parks and the Stadium in Chicago and Detroit - for boxing purp o ses. So the Joe Louis combination, by acquiring these, would have a virtual domination of big time boxin g . Such is l he s tory. I_ ' h £.,~ Ji n w i w cla· y - t 0 e y l ' g r nd mo th r. Mr . ay a I' 0~ Lewi ton , Iaah is tv,eniy nine y a l'S old and a ro n mo L . s a a he r i rs t, c h i 1 d w he n h e w ~ s t, irteen , a irl, wb n o · b a tins at sixteen. i' e t\", nty-nine y ar old gran · mother has veal oth .. r aughters, and Lo ay st e said, "l h ope can r army three youn · t daug ver so they will have mor ense." I am roa ca tin toni ht fr o an improv · s e d stuaio 1n th mi st of the giant t r es for which tne Sierras of ~al i ornia are so f mou s . a:mi bove tne trees sheer cliffs, rock walls two and three A.. thousand feet higher than the Valley floor. If I were t open the window you l ight hear the sound of rushin water lunging over one o f th e cliffs, water drop ing down downL so far that before it stops falling it has turned into mist. d from that those ' """' of you who have travelled .t;io the Sierras aaa will I\ know where am. Yes, in Yosemite, at the great -----~ •hich reminds me that over the press wire .. this af t. ernoon came word of the opening of an ..-1.nn ';1( ~;-a.,., ~ ~ L.,#YI ~ 1-C. rll'I.Lo,I IT"II , . , - • with an appropriate , name~ It's called the Sha~rock and of course tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day. The hamrock is in Hous•on, Texas. nd there are those w ho say th a t nouston Texas one day wil be the largest city in North America. Judging by the Shamrock tney must ettin d f th t d /... g rea y o a ay 1 I for it 1s ei hteen stori . c high, costs a mil ion I \ ol ars, ~ --- fif teen acre~ on Houston's famous ,!_ai n !_tree t, a:nrl has a thous an d car ara e) wim~ing pool with un de rwater lights, t elve thousand square feet of kitchen space where they agree to turn out any dish •• un d er the sunJ ooms equip . ed with radioA television, sho ) S, a bank, promenades, five hun red original ~aintin son the walls, motion picture theater, an elaborate medical department. -4.-t? • / ~ /4) thin in quite bi& Yes, they ~ = :doia~ s 8 way in Texas these days. And on the eve or st. l'atrick's Day, from the glorious Awahnee, at the foot of Yosemite Falls, here's a salute to the l Shamrock, in which J OU may wish to join me [en.