STRIIES_ . 1 - Lat e n · a on the strik e front t 1 s o a couple of /\ l ocal steel plants and their striking employees com i ng to ter ■ s. it In Utah, the e aployees of the Geneva Steel Plant today voted to acce,t a wage increase of fifteen cents an hour. In le• Jersey a steel plant has agreed to accept the union •r ■ s, the pay boost de ■ anded by the CI O -- upping wage• s ■ eighteen and a half cents an hour. 0 On the broad front of the steel strike ~resident Tru■ an seems to be fa gathering tacts move. and figures for his nex~•••• ■ x Be has asked Price Ad ■ inistrator Chester Bowles to return to Washington at once. The ~rice Adainistrator ha• been ill, oonvalescing in South Carolina. The fact that be is called back to Washington for the eaergenfy can only ■ean a aatter of -- prices. It is aasu ■ ed that the President will discuss with hi ■ possibilities of allowing an increase in the price of steel -- to make up for the boost of pay ~ tha t,AC I ' - ,,. ~ O deaand• of the Un~ted States Steel ,.._ ~ ~IJ!llES. - 2 Corpora t i on . iz•x In th e automob il e strik e , Gen e ral Motors and the CI O continu e d th e ir negotiations today - - with the CI O ■ aking a demand concerning seniorit~ !he union leaders ask that work e rs be promoted on the basis of seniority, the coapany wants promotions to be made on a basis of aerit. 0 Violence flared in the autoaobile strike today -- with a disturbance at LaGrang~ Illinois. Two thousand pickets blocked the roads leading to the plant, and attacked two autoaobiles, turaing thea over. The reason for the out break, .... , a report that two war veterans would try to lead a back-to- work aove ■ ent. VlllB.ilS. It may be that General O ■ ar Bradley is wishing right now that he were back in the stor ■ of lazi shot and shell, the Battle of the Bulge; that ■ ight see ■ less disconcerting than a high adainistrat•e job in Washington. Six months ago amid cheers all •••• around, General Bradley took charge of the Veterans Bureau, and what do we find today? The A ■ erican Legion, the ■ oat powerful of veterans organizations, co ■ es forward with a deaand for a congressional investigation of General Bradley's Adainistration. The Legion declares that the General should be replaced, replaced by what it calls •A seasoned business ■an•. The co ■plaints are centered around hospitals for veterans, sa ■Jx••J the way they are being run. Recently General Bradley ~lixl had a reorganization and this now is described by the A■erican Legion Co ■aander as •wholly inadequate•. There ~~ are, moreover, co ■ pl~ t ~ the handling of insurance for veterans. A ■ erican Legion Co ■mander Stell charges that half a million ap p lications•••• for disability paya nts lie untouched. Also seven thousand ap p lications fro ■ veterans who need hosp·tal care have not been acted on. On the side of General Bradley it is pointed out that the Veterans organization turned over to hi ■ had been fopaed on the aasuaption that there would be five millioQ veterans. Now there as are twenty ■illion. An~e Bradley ad■ini■tration has siaply not been given the facilities to handle a job so greatly increased/- {;) Maybe the f'act that more doctor• are being released tro ■ the Ar■y will help -- doctors and s■ dentists to be discharged at a ■ore rapid rate during the next f'iYe ■ontbs. Today the lar Depart■ent announced that the •••••t•i de ■obilization of Doctors has been liberalized. A new ruling bas been issued that lowers the point require ■ ents necessary f'or immediate release. The ar ■ y is going to discharge . ~ doctors who have sixty poants, thirty-nine ■ ontbs of ,._ actiYe duty or who are forty-fiYe years old or ■ore. .§OLDll!!LfAMILI E.§ Soldiers of al l ranks will be allowed to have their fam il es with them overse s - but on a couple of i•• conditions. Wives and children •ill join the soldiers ab~oad when acco ■ modations are available to take them across oceans. Also - Gl's in order to have the privileges of being joined by their families will have to agree to•• serve at least another year over seas. They'll have to stay abroad for a period of at least twelve ■ onths after•• the wives and kiddies arrive to join the ■• There has been co ■ plaintl because ot the talk of letting officers and top aon-co ■ missioned officers have the privilege of being joined by their faailies and now that is answered by the extention a. of the priviiege to all -- ~ proviso which ia designed to persuade G l's to continue on duty overseas. ; PEARk_HAfiJlO!L. Th e statem e nt w s made tod a y that the ~avy Department immediate l y after Pearl Harbor, ordered all ~avy communications officers to keep their mouths shut, and destroy all ~•• notes they ■ ay have made concerning the events of that weekend of the Jap attack. Thi. s was testified by liaval Captain L. F. Stafford before the ~earl liabor Investigating Co ■aittee in Washington today. Captain Stafford j ■ was chili of the Ifavy Securit7 section in liineteen Forty-~ne, the year of ~earl Harbor. He was in charge of coamunications officers, who ■ ight know about secret infor ■ a tion that the ~avy 11ight have had about Japanese planes. And, his stateaent today would see ■ to indicate that soaething was being covered. Captain Stafford declared that the order to be silent and destroy notes was giYen by word of ■ outh, about the middle of the week, follow1ng Pearl Harbor. The Captain moreover states that he saw a translation of what they ail•• called •winds Me~sages•. There has been much talk about the fact that, when the f E Afilt.JIA .B BOR - 2 N ava l I n tell i gence brok the Japane se secret co d e it was found tha t Tokyo had arrang e d a s et of ex p res s i o ns to warn tk ■ •• its d iplomatic af agents ' about the immintnc e o f war e xpressio n s that employ e d terms of wind and weather. There has been much qu es tioning about wh e th e r any such 'Win d s messages• had been intercepte d messages that might have given a tip to the Jap plan to attack Pearl Harbor. Tho/evidence has bean confusing, but i;lla1 Captain Stafford testifies/~lli today that he saw a translation of a'linda Message• in Washington, aeYenty- two hours before the Pearl Harbor attack. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ tLt--t:12.124{' ~~~ - ~i=Z~. Q_]_Q Fi r e w o rk s a t t he UN O in L on do n c o tinu e d tod ay an d a g a i n it wa s Vie h insk i versus B e v i n. ' Tho s e t wo state s m e ~bot h s tand f or socia l ism of two d iffer e nt varietie s . ----i~ a l ong you might think harmony would be to toss a rock-bound capitcuist ---- rom th e way th e y get the way to ~t peace and rea l communist, with - The subject ~ o u might say -- " the debate today was Greece. was in the fire. Vishinski hav i ng won a ■■ s on the subject of the Soviets, -. A proaptl7 the Iranian took up the Russ· n complaint against the British doings in Sophocles the c / ~ i c a l land of Bo ■er, Plato and Vislnski de■~ndei tha ~ the British troops Greece -- where, as the European war ended, they he l ped the z ■ government to put down a Red revol. The Soviet Vice Commissar charged that there is a reign of terror in Greece.-- · with what he called Fa s cists assailing what he called the De ■ ocratic elements. Viehinski read telegrams~ he said he received from Athens during the past few ~ys. Telegra ■ s U..JL_Q - 2 de s cr ibing -- terrorism. They told of Fasci s t bands riding throu g h the city in cars and brandishing mach i ne guns, in m e nac e again st the fo ll owers of democracy. Vishinski de cl a r e d that the present government of Greece is thr e atening the peace of the with world~•••~plans of aggr e ssion against Albania and Bulgaria. Vishinski asserted the Soviets had three ti ■ es previously tried to bring up the question ot Greece -- at the Potsda ■ Conference between President Tru ■ an, Prime Minister Attlee, and Generalissiao Stalin. Tb49 bad lL.so at the two conferencEE of the Prime Ministers of the Big Three, at Londonjand then, at. llos cow . ~ e at.t. eapt.s had ' led t.o no resu u.., and now1 Vishinski was sza trying again. The Vice Coamissar was answered by British Foreign Secretary Bevin, who lashed back --and Bevin Jnloae ••• \e lash, Be · stated that Vishinski'a story about terrorisa in Greece was -- Moscow porpaganda. To which he added the gentle remark that the Communist party was the greates~ danger in UN O - 3 Bevin admitted that the Soviets had brought up the question of Greece on previous occasions, as Vishinski had alleged. II ,. But, declared . , , . Bevin, this was always in the nature of a counter attack. The Soviet concern about Greece was always made manifest when there w re protests about what the Soviets were doing in other parts of Europe. Being accused, Moscow would counter by dragging up ,, the matter of Greece. Bevin declared the Soviets had no right to raise any question concerning the ancient land of has the Hellenes, because•• MoscowJrefused to do anyt~ing toward the promotion of deaocratic govern ■ent ~ in Greece. De ■ ocratio elections are to be held,"and these are supposed to be supervised by the big powers. Moscow has been asked to ~ay its part in the supervision, but has ref~aed. 0 Meanwhile, the Asseably of the UNO bas made formal the choice of · i• a Secretary General. Norwegian delegate Lie (L,ee) was chosm by the ] _ JLQ._ - 4 Sec urity Cou ncil , an d to d ay th e As s em b ly g a v e i t s . \ o ~ ay by an ov e rwhelm i n g v o t e . So no w , it t s Ur. Secretary Gen e r al Li e of Norway. Anoth e r matter b e fore the U · N O is the setting up of an information bureau. And th i s today brought from American delegate Senator Vandenberg a biblical quotation: •Let there be light•. The also urged Michigan SenatorAwaax•••1Athat the UNO should set up an inforaation ••• bureau that would really pass out - information - not propaganda. And he warned against the kind of bureau that would distort and pervert the news, a kind of UR O press agent outfit. Be said;--"let there be an honest infor■ ation bureau! let there be light! •• And now, the inevitable, the one thing ' that had to come out so o ner or ~ater in the proceedings of the UNO. The question of cash. It is going to take •••J ■ oney to run the wor l d organiz a tion, quite a bit of the old aazd ■ a. Bow much? Jell, for a starter, twenty-five - million - dollars. Today, the ]_N O - 5 financial experts of the UNO recommanded a budget for this year -- Nineteen forty six twenty, -1-;:llion dollars of which mout eighteen ~illion would go for secretarial expenses, the cost of running the r o u t i n ~ c ~ of the UH 0, financial experts of the U IO recoamanded ~ budget for this -{,,;;;11100 dollars year -- lineteen forty aix -- twenty, - - of which mout eighteen ■ illion would go for secretarial expenses, the cost of running the ~-tt.... routine an~.Kecords of the U IO. About the attempt to cliab Elk Mountain, in Wyoming? At the top of which is believed to be the wrecked airliner in which there were 1it~ eighteen passengers and a crew of three? Well, todal . one part7 of searchers, trying to scale the peak, was driven back b7 a blizzard -- raging snow and wind. Later fifty soldiers joined the rescue forces and this afternoon a deter•ined band of ■ ountaineers with skis~ snow shoes, and sleds were fighting their wa7 up the frost7 slopes, battling against the bitter hazards of winter in the ■ ountains, as they sought to reach the wrec~age of the plane. lyo ■ ing can be one of the coldest parts of lorth A ■ erica at this season. And there are beav7 snows on peaks like Elk Mt., where this crash occured. rescue may be almost as tough as though it had occurred in Alaska, where a big plane did . crash against a peak alongside Mt. McKinley during the lar and a rescue party led b7 fa■ ous ■ ountaineers bad a time reaching it. Driving down through the South to Florida, we passed, at me place or another, signs inviting J& the passer by to see the snakes and aniaals. Signs saying: •see the reptiles, the aligators, the snakes, the porcupines, the ■ onkeya.• And now coae1 a. news dispatch saying that Governor Caldwell ot Florida has ordered and •••~•niaal 1howa. ,aaate an investigation ot t~eA•••• lhy? Because the G9vernor . aa71 he thinks that the reptiles, the aligatora, the porcupines and the aonke7s are aerel7 a front, a front tor 1•l gaabliag. If that be true, the real aeaaiag ot snakes ai1ht be, 1nate e7e1. lad t~e aligator aight stand tor Ada fro ■ Decatah. Ia other words, the exhibits of the wonders ot natural hiatorJ would really turn into the airaoles of crap ahootiq and poker gaaes -- a airacle if you win. In Chic a go Mrs. P a nsy Lieberf a rb went to court to have some initial s removed from a fter h~r name. You know how some n a mes are followed by PB Dor LLD. The British have V C, C 8, and KC B, ICM G, etc . . lell, Mrs. Pansy Lieberfarb!s naae.waa followed by DD D. That's tbe way her ex-husband made out her alimony checks to Ira. Pansy Liebe~farb, DD D. The ex-husband is Dr. Ratban Lieberfarb, dentiat, and hie naae may be followed by D D S, · Doctor of Dental Science. Rowever, t he dental science baa nothing to do with the case of Mrs. Pansy Lieberfarb. Today she told the Judge the significance of those letters - DD D. She said: wThey ■ ean - Dirty Darn Dqg. Be told ■e so over the telephonew; those were here words. Whereupon tbe Judge issued ~n order forbidding tbe ex-husband to •ake out the ali ■ ony checks in that highly academic fashion - DD D. And now here's Bugh J ■■ es G G - neaning Gre t Guy. Back to you, Bugh.