GOOD EV HING f.VE YBODY: The latest from a bington: Ne oti ins between union and manageaent ere resume ju an hour union leader~ . redicting that t e telephone com any will ■ ake a wage offer settling the strike. , LABOR ------ M a y Day The m o st import a n~i•••~ event in the U.S.A. was a me e ti n ~ of ten men ar o und a t b le in a 1 la1t:Grib:'H' Washington hotel. They were the ten foremost labor leaders of the country. The A.F. of L. and C.I.O. w v d - ~ ~ chiefs ~at t 118ult1~ to see whether their organization• 4 a t ( ~ ~ " could bury the hatchet. for gwcl aact>a:tl; I t ) a matter of /~consequence tu ,r- .::CSfotZaea■t:t,o If the C.I.O. and the A.F. of L. were welded, they would have one big organization of no fewer than thirteen ■ illion ■ embers. The meeting came about in the first place as a result of a suggestion by the C.I.O. that they get together in order to co ■bine their opposition to law• for controlling labor.Willia ■ Green, President of the A.F. of L, felt that labor unity would be the first and ■ oat important object of such a meeting, so he sent out the invitation in those terms. LABOR - ___ ...,_ There a s highly dram ic b c ground o the a , for it was the first time thats veral of those ten men hal., Utet 1 C spo en to e ch other in years. A There, for inst a nce, were John L. Lewis and C.I.O.Cbiet Phil Murray ahakin bands for the first time since tbe7 broke off rel tiona in Nineteen Forty-One. After they had shook bands, Murray aaid: •John, how are you?• lnd Lewi . a countered with, •&ow are lou?• That waa all. lo smile, no comment. lucb more friendly was the encounter bet•••• lillia ■ Green and Murray. Green welcoaed Murray with a •Good- ■ ornin~ Phil•, and Murray replied: •&ow are you, Bill?• Obviously neither of the ■ expected an answer to bis question. The ataoaphere continued to be decidedly atiff, until Ian Tobin, the blunt spoken head of the l••••••i Teaaatera, who sat between Lewis on one side, Murray and Green on the other, exclaimed cheerfully: •sere I aa LABOR - ------ et een thr ee mi n ers•. Th n h turn d to Mu r r a y nd said: •But you're no lon r a mine · o r er, are you Phil? You're a steel wore, ax1•t«l■ zJ a puddler(h e pronounced it poodler), eh?• S a id Murray in a voice loud eno gh for Lewis to hear: •I was kicked out of the Mine Wor·ers.• Lewie never eYen twitched an eyebrow. It was Lewie who bad expelled Murray from the Mine Workers Union. Den Tobin waa not discouraged,an4 con\inued: •tell, be patient, Phil, we might get you back.• Then he added: •we got Bill Green back, and be was out woree than you.• And still the burly mine worker•' chief said not a word. They couldb~t either draw hia into an argument or squeeze a aaile out of hia. e Hou e a se R t ontro Hill a nd enl i e enate . h me , . r i l l continue Fe er 1 rent control at le stun il Dece ber irt -Firs bu~ it ives strte, county, and city o vernments power to en control~ if, in their opini on , a housin g mer ency no longer exists.'{PTbe final vote on the easure - two-hundred- a nd-four to one- hundred-and-ei gh ty-t o.~The House plan, which now g oes to the Senate for ap roval, has been criticized by both sides -- ~ advocates of rent I\ . co trol, who maintain th a t the bill has too many loop-holes; and by enemies of rent control who say it will not gr nt enough relief to landlords. Tax relief; it's a uestion stil h~rassing Con g r Tody Senator Lucas, Democr t from Il l inois, demanded that the Senate Finance Committee scr p the Bouse- approved income tax cuts. Be would have them replaced wbith his own plan: •Give the money back to the variou1 income groups the ay we increase the tax load.• That•• the way Lucas phrased bis proposal. Be wants to lo er taxes, but to do it by raising personal exemptions. Republicans, howeve~ seemed deterained to go aheaa with the Bouse aeasure. It would cut taxes this ~x 7ear by thirty percent in the lowest incoae bracket• aad twenty to ten-and-a-half percent in the higher brackets, with all cuts retroactive to January First. C 0 e u t o f t e 0 i , · .e use en ere· or o r e r ,. i ,.. n d w orl d . C 1 " ex i c.. " be' in ap its ~ ent t, e " i- 1 "" " B u n o w ~ - have · o l ite w or for i ; n d , o t is day Rear Admir a Roac e Hi en · etter to d y became h ead of the Centra lntel ' i ence Bure u, to provide • infor t i n for ur a rme services and for the State Department. This is an ix enterprise for wbic our gener3ls and admirals, as \rell a many ne s paper , , ave been cryin for lon time. For centurie e've be . n practic a lly the on y nati n in t . e world that ha c no e Departme i n recent decade had such thint. bare handful a ents, and t itar ches ot' our with almost n out the outbre a k ac f th e re Word , ars , nc e m n ob i e u to rovi e r or soi Admir 1 Hi en · oe ener R l Hoyt V ndenb r 0 . r y . ri tis ' , . r ' e q ovt:1 fr m u ieutlenant o, at t e r n ue of the Chie o St~ · , return to se ice Forces. t e . rmy Air u Upon resibnin & , Genera . Vandenber - who commands the 9th Air Force -- testified b fore a committee of Con · re smen, explainin~ the vit l neces ity of is bure u. Tellio~ how t e men who make Uno e Sam's forei& policy must be fu y aware of the inter e ts, intention• and capabilities of al othe nati ns. T od , said eneral V ndenberg, Europe and Asia borer n the Unite · St tes almost as closely s do Canada and •xico. So -- we ~ust be forewarned a · ainst ossible acts of a g ression~ ~ . a.nd to be pro erly forewarned in this atoaic era, we must have complete intelli g ence. In the first orld War and also the secondlorld lar, rely Uncle Sam bad to,{zall~ upon the already established, well organized and efficient British Intelligence Syatea. One result of our unpreparedness in the matter ot 4 ~ intelligence wasAthe Pearl Barbor disaster. Unc~~~;{l ~ h t napping again. I u h Lo fo r n n i e i t i i f P 1 e en e -- e 1 , i 's 1 o v e r. Te G ener 1 As e bl of 1 e U • • u t a f e w h o u r ag o ov e r h el ~ i 0 l y r ej ecte d l A ra b r o sa l . Final count on t he vote t w enty-four a g i n st fifteen in favor with ten abst a ini n a nd seve. a b s e t. S o no w wha t w ill the U nited aations do about Palestine? Prob bly adopt the British re ~ uest for the a p poi n tment of as ecial committee to investi g ate the Palestine situation and make a re ort to the General Assembly session scheduled for Septe m ber. Before the roll was called today, aetM,t Aranha of Brazil, General Assembly ~resi d ent, p ro ~ ised the Arabs that t h ey would have full opportunity later to argue all a s p ects of the a lestine case. Also today t h e Onited tate~ reversing its st a nd, initiated a move to g ive the Je w s a ch a nce t o be heard at o m e st e of the future ? alesti e d eli b erations. h n tit ti o n ne In i a i l contain cl i-us u rant e ein jus ifi abl fun • he Constituent Ase ly now meetin en 1 ri hts • t ew Delhi agreed 7P uoon i ~ - ~ - 8:l;d.So f a r the Ase b ly has been able to d o ~ in behalf of India's mi erabl Untouchables, whose numbers a re estimated at . ore than fifty millions. 1r For centuri s the term "untouchable• a meant literally that. Even their Hindus. !n some parts of India they long have been forbidden to own property. I allowed nothing but the most disagreeable jobs. -..., lwlW ~ a w ~ y h ~,he,-,i,.l nf111e1\ ~ ( v e r since the Constituent Assembly convened1 and the abolition · of untouchability 4"14 proposed, fifty Hindu hoiy men, adhus they call them, in saffron robes, have been conductin a daily demonstrati n outside the hellJ½he . li 0 ht of the nlouchables has been a sourc e of much orry to INDIA ___ -_2 Mabatm Ga n d 1 and Pun i J wa ~rl 1 e ru, and ot er leader ~ but it al w y seeme impos ible to devise legis tion to wipe ou t t i s a ncient curse -- it being a matter not of law, but of tradi t ion -- tradition of centuries. But now by law -- in their new Constitution, they hope to break with the past and wipe out the age-old tradition that some ■ en-- scores of millions in fact -- are lower than dogs -- untouchable. la for accidents in the air, Boward Rughea claims to have developed a new device, s radar altitude indicator. Be believes that if this ia used, it w$? wealft eli ■ inate ninety per A. a{)/" cent of airplane ;I crashes. j£~- /?, To pro•e ~ b ~ f in a plane fro■ ;.. ,Ar-=:--14 ~ Cul•er City, California. ~ \ e r n ~ e a ~~.~ ~f~.;' Be took hi■ craft into the aouatai■■ then, ti ■ e after time, he waited until bi• indicator showed danger ahead, and each tiae be 1teered bia plane out of the •~1 with the areateat of eaae. ~ Be tol~newapaper■ en that there ia not a place in tbe United State• where hi• radar indicator would aot gi•e the pilot a■ple tiae to get out of trouble.~ ~ ~accurate up to a aile. Eng l ish newspapers today~ almost aflame with " headlines screaming about gangsterism in London, mob wars, and a ctime wave into which they dra g the name of poor old Chicago. In cold fact, there have been a number of hold-up• in the British capital, some succesatul jewel robberies, and burglaries of fur sbopa. In Sohoe, a diatrct familiar to most A ■ erican travelers, riYal ■ obs have been fighting it out not with toaay gun• •• they did in Chicago, but with raaors and blactJact1 the for control o f • vice racket. " 111 of which diaturb• not only the minds, but the pride, of peaceful Londoner• who in the past had boasted about the difference between the cri ■ e statistic• of London and those of some of our cities. But the uproar caae to a head yesterday, whea a London taxicab was found ninety miles north of the city, with thedead body of its driver huddled in the back seat, riddled with bullets. Scotland Yard has it LONDON - 2 -------- figured out th is way ! - Three band i ts " ' " ho 1 ding up a awn shop in London. The dead taxi driver and a passerby went to the rescue of the embattled pawn broker; the robbers killed the passerby, and evidently seized the taxidriver's cab, drove it north, and then ■ urdertd hi ■• Wh e n the story of the London crime wave was received in Chicago, the executive director of the Chicago Cri ■ e Commission said that hi• people wouldn't consider London's experience ■ ucb of a criae waYe in Chicago. Then be aentioned that on Septeaber Second, lineteen forty-fi••• there were fiYe aurder• iD one ' da7, and three of the Yicti•• ••r• police officer•. In Deceaber, lineteen Forty-FiYe, tan people were killed within eight da7a. Laat year'• coroaer•' juriea in Chicago returned a iulred an~ aeYeat7-oae ■urder 'Hrdict■• ~ ~ 1((. Wile'- ~ 4~. H EAL ---- - - I n Ca ir t o , a o b s e e e , some t h i n o u t o f B i ic 1 times. All over a twenty-year- o ld r m e n ian "-JJ!.:£ Da6dP£D 8 vA/,( Fa ith H eal )A;ho is comin to the United tates to attempt to cure the paralytic so n o f a mil l ionaire California w ine m erchant. Thousands of blind, crip p led, ' and ailin g ~ prostrated themselves on Cairo's streets today as the Healer's automobile p assed them by -- on the way to the ship an d the United States. The wine merchant, Yr. K. Arakelian, feels this is the last resort for his son, now thirty-seven years ol•,•ho bas suffered paralytic strokes ever since he was struck by a bus and dragged fifty feet at the age of ten. The father has poured more than Two-Bundred-and- Fifty Th o usand Dollars into tre a tments for his s~n, WH•~~• F,~,Pseventy . skin grafts, six other ajjor operations, all to no av a il. And s o he~resorts t o t h e faith of is Fat er9:., for K . Ar ak elian is Armeni an and res p ects the ancient a nd m~stic art o f fait h Heal i ng aH pr a ctice d in the E ast. 77;'e ha• he ard th st r y of Ti e .Be arded A vak who dreamed i n Ir a n t a t he must dev te ~ ls life to wor hip and healing. And now lh e .lear ded Avak is on his way .. to t h e Onited States hoping to use his mysterious powers to cure the p ar a lysis of t h e so n of K. Arakelian. • O[LAB O l&A _,__,_ ___ ___ Th er e is a n inte re ting ar a dox a o u t p l y s a nd n vels. Th e or e inten si vely t he y express the s p irit of the scene in which they t ak e place, the m ore they have universal a po eal. T a e for loth in g c o uld be instance our ■ usi c al play •otlaho ■ a•. ■ore - ~ - • - - ~ laerica■• / ' A You would sup p ose th a t the people ~f other countriea ould look upon it ■ erely as a curioaity. But laat ni1b\ •otlaho ■• was perfor ■ ed for the first ti ■• in London, at biatoric old Drury Lane · Theatre. And what did the Londoners 4o? They went literally wild about it. I••• the critic• toot down their hai r and duatea off all the adjective• in the lexicon of praise. The reviewer of the Daily Ex p ress called it •a g ea, a jewel in the Drury Lane crown.• Be said peo p le ten years fro ■ now would be talkin g abou t Ninet e en Forty-Se v en as the year in wh ic h they saw •O k la h oma.• OILABOIIA - 2 ------------- The Daily Telegra h c 1 edit •terrific.• Even the staid old Lon on Ti~es e~upte ·nto enthusiasm. As for he audience, they gav p it fourteen curtain calls, as many as in Oklahoma City, and insis ed upon encoring the final nuaber twice. There see ■ s to be so ■ e sort of ■ oral for. writer• in this. If you bope to caputre the attention of the whole wide world, just write as best you know how aboa\ your own countrJ, your own state, your own town, or better still your own Tillage. lelaon, what ia your ho■e town at the ■o■eat?