!ACIJIC /That Uncle Saa, in the future auat pla7 a predo ■ inant part in the Pacific, is the opinion of Ill Go•ernment of Auatialia. So ••1• Dr. Herbert IYatt, tile ~ 1 aa tral laa luatralian Minister of Foreign Affair a. The -,..• . Go••raaent, he sa7a, want• Uncle Saa to keep bi1 baaea ia t.be Pac it ic. And th• be went on to ••1 that be ,opea the United States will abow ■ore iatereet in Paolfic affair■ in the f u t a r ~ Thia, b7 tbe ••1, caae ae a • flat oont.raclio\loa te the belligerent atateaent made a few aeatba ago,, General Sir Thomae Bla■e7, tbe Aaatraliaa Couaaur-la- Chlef, who accused the Oniljd Statea of grabbin1 off b•••• la the iacific. The Auatr ' alian Foreign liniater aaicl ; ~ that General Blue7 •••·po~ · •peaking for Aaatralia. One thing Australia wanta, however, la t~e •n•t - · laland of ■•• Guinea; a trusteeship over it •• . . l&t&I -< ... In Tokyo, Premier l ■ PO.. Shidehara resigned with ~ ~ -e.,. his whole Cabin~l:r-~-E-;peror Birohito~••ked bi■ to --...... ~ 'Ji. . 1ta1 on the job.AShidehara ia seventy-three, and Mt.., ~ , = » ~ A kc w~For six months 1111 has had a difficult ti■• /'!- trying to stand in the aiddle oth• conflicting current• . of Japanese post-war politics. The Mikado asked hi• to keep hi• office until the si~uation can be cleared apj 8hidehara declared that he bad finished hia job b7 .bringing about fair election• on April Tenth, in which the Japanese chose the lower Bouse of tbe Diet. Be baa had enough, with £oa ■ uniata attacking him, atorming bi• house, and trying to get bis acalp. llil The g overnment ot Iran evidently has become ~•it• ,r,J&•~::--o- A 1o i.a,,, •",t the new regime in the province ot Azerbaijan. Pri■e lliniater Ghavaa •e••11~i••• th• N&i . . aN offered a aeven point settleaent, which will give the Coaauniats "''tt complete autonoa7 in the northern■ oat pro•ince of Peraia. The people of Azerbaijan will elect•their own aayors, governor• and judgea. Their na ■e• will first be aub ■ itted to the central govern ■ent, which will then appoint these elected ■ en officially to their joba. Teberan will have the appointaent of the Governor General and the militar7 commanders in Azerbaijan. But it 1• assu■ed that the Teberan government will~• appoint the Governor-General that the Communists want. Persian will be the official language of the province, but Turkish ■ ey also be taught. This sudden acquiescence on the part of the Teheran g overnment seems to have arous e d mis g ivings in . ' 1UI - 2 ruaor is that the Council may keep the Iranian question on the agend a even after Ma7 Sixth. T h e ~ a auapicioa A .. ,e . . " There are aleo doubt• that the Soviet Ara, really will be out of Iran by May lirlh, and there 1• a a118picion that Moscow haa planted agents in Teberan who are there for good. 11111 American Army o f ficers in - ermeny have unearthed a plot to poison some eleven thousand lazi prisoner• ~ with arsenic. Tbe1e prisoners are of the notoriou• S.S.; as a body di1tingui1hed for their brutality, especially to priaoners. In one Bavarian ca ■ p, ■ ore thaa two thousand of the ■ actually con1u■ ed the peiaon, araeaic, which was put into lo•••• of bread. loat of these were for■ erl7 of Adolf Bitler'• elite guard. lone of the praioner• died, though they were ia a critical condition for ee•eral da71. The plot wae brought to light before the poi1on could be ad■ inistered to the rest of the el•••• thousand againat whoa it had been concocted. Ara, officers have beea unable to find any evidence as to who ■ a7 have been behind thie busin•••· An ••rRee, ~u• aobe,p appe a l for the BritJsh loan was aade today by Republican Senator Vandenberg of llichigan. N- aOn the eve of ■ ailing for Paris to J attend the conference of the Big Four forei1n liniatere. _s-'-'.t/~.-4er, Before be left, 111 delivered•• full dreaa apeech to bi• . A collea ues in the Senate, begging thea to gi•e thr••- billionr •even-hundred ◄ nd-fifty ■ illiona to the Britiala ;, in the for ■ of a loan. Be adaitted that he did it reluctantly. It ie a gigantic •peculation to paes thi1 loan, aaid be, but not to pas• it i• •••• a greater •peculation. On the decision of tbe Senate depend• ' the economic future of the Uaited Statea, whether it • will be the econoaic as well as the political leader or the world. And be believe• that if we do not take thi ■ leadership, ■ o ■ e other great and powerful nation will juilp in. When Vandenberg finished, Senator Barkley, the . J,11•-- 2 aaJorit7 leader, crossed over and joined tboee who were ,hating bands with the Michigan Senator. The chances are that the Vandenberg 1peecb may tip the balance. l1n7 Senators are gravely in doubt about the wiadoa of approving that loan. Bernard Baruch, the wiae old tldtr atateaman of the De ■ ocratic Part7, has warned Congre•• that we ought to take stock or Uncle Sa ■'• • resources, aake an in•entory before we start handing out billion• to foreign countries which, though the7 ••7 be • 1alle4 loana, will probabl7 never be repaid. s-~-- In explaining hie r~luctance, Yandeaber1 4 adaitted that there were thing• about the bill he didn't like. Be obje~ted to the fact that the loan agreeaent was made ~ithout coneulting an7 aeabers or Congress. In future, he urged, Congress ahould be let in on all negotiation• for foreign loans. The Banking Committee• of the Senate and the Bouse should be represented on the loard of the Export-Iaport Bank . . ' • Senator Vandenberg ■ entioned the threat that if Congress turns down the loan, the British will be forced to join Russia and other nation• in an econoaic trade bloc. The great Lord Ieyn,,,before he died, 1pote in the British Bouse of Lords about the loan, and 1aid that the only alternative was tor Britain to eater an econoaic bloc,which actually would not wort. Senator Barkley ia going to pres• for a quiet con1ideration of the lritieb loan. ln unofficial pell 1howa that at present, thirt7-eix Senator• are agaiaat it, thirty-four in favor, eeventeen on the fence • .. The lmerican Federation of Labor today threw down the gauntlet to the Congress of Industrial OrganizP.tiona. A.r. of L. announces it 'ts in the race with C.I.O. to organize worker~ in the southern atatea, where organized labor hitherto has been traiditionally -p~ weat.,A.F. of L. aims to obtain• ■ illion ■ e ■bers south ~ of the Mason-Dixon Line:~ C.t.O • ... expect-::Z. ~ l a .... ~~- . ••••ez wiar; 1ae effeet, ot t,111& cua•••• wlJ.l 111• I The m ost dram tic event in t h e l abor domain to y w as a split in the high command of the United Automobile Worker s . Only a few weeks have elapsed 1ince Walter Reuther w a s elected President and R.J.Tho ■a slid down to Vice-President. Today Thomas caae into the open with a charge that Reuther ie trying to freeze hi ■ out. The continuity of the ator7 is that ao ■ e da71 ago Reuther was out-voted at a meeting of the Executi~e Board of the Auto ■obile Union. The Board ■et to draw up a statement of the Union's policy. Tho ■ as, with _the Secretary, Trea•arer and another vice-president, drew up that statement. Reuther objected, but the othere out-voted him three to one. Thomas said that be and the •*~ ■ a two others tried to confer with Reuther about it, but R e uther wouldn't play b a ll. Thereupon, Yrs. Eleanor Roos e velt, GR LlBDB - 2 commenting on thia event, ripped into Thoaas and hi• colle g ues, s a i d their action was hu■ an nature at it1 worst. fittaaaa td'l!as tltsu••• tbrt • Uncle Sam is trying t~ muster his resources so aa to hand over more food supplies to Unrra, but, it 4.a a tough job. Reporters today asked Agriculture Secretar7 Anderson whether the coabined food board would meet !! 2 w. Unrra Director LaGuardia's demand for seven bundred -nc.a thouaand tons of grain N"Nei& ever7 month. Anderson -JtGr,,,.. replied that if we bad givea L•Guardi'1t••ven huadre4 thousand tona a month •••r, n ■4ila be asked for 1 lllil there · wouldn't be anything left. It 1• going to be hard enough as it is, to meet LaGuardia'a request tor three hundred thousand tons ot cereals immediately. Congress today received a warning fro ■ President Truman that the only means of beading off a disastrous famine abroad would be J•*•* by joint action Pt the United I at i one • It looks as thou g h the O.P.A. and price control will have Jest as tou g h sledding in the Senate 88 &t ta• in the Bouse. The administration whips are doing all they can to whip up senatorial votes for the O.P.A. Organization• like the C.I.O. have been urging their aeabers to write letters to Congre6s ■ en, backing up O.P.A. and further price control. That le =i1tfr11e11ei11• _ , aewt1nin. ~there are aa;r · ing ia the cloat roo■■ that atteapts at price control have failed tor thousand• of Jears, even under the atrongeat, aoat autocratic and the ■oat docile peoples, goYernaents~ Senator Thomas of Oklabo ■ a bas offered aa am e nd ■ent which would restrict the power ot O.P.A. to rents, beer and whiskey.) The fight is beiPg made in the courts too. A group of southern cotton ~lanters and brokers filed suit to enjoin the government froe enforcin g ome of ite ~ . new rules 8 l they cri~ple• the industry. A n d the Supreme c~urt 'of the United State~ handed down a sharp rebuke to th o.P.A. for the w a y 1t ha s tr ea le certain n ~fl s ■ fltn. Jou r nalis - , the gathering and disae inati ~ n of n••• and info r mation to all parts of the ,ital role a n d ~ in world at:f aira. world, h a s a But it caa pla7 it• part, fully, if news and information flow freely 1nl7 that way. We take that for granted. lllil• ln 10 ■ an7 parts of the world, the preaa and radio are 1a1ged. Tbe Pope today, through Barry rerauaon of the United Press, said be regarded ' the free tlo ot ne•• 11 ea sent lal to las tin1 pea de. The Pope t•en went on to dlacuas . the iaternational food crieia; ~•*••••t••••ixt,,•z••xxx" and said how ■uch he b~pe4 the lester• He m isphere would continue aendin& auppllea to countries where star•ation ia rampant -- the countries for m er President Hoover has been visitin1. • I have just had the pleasure of serving aa a judge in an i~portant newspaper competition, the Sixteenth An~ual ~xbibition of lewapaper T7pography. leld eYery 7ear, in Philadelphia, by I. I. Ayer and Son. The purpose, to award an imposing cup to the ••••paper with t~• beat t7pograph7, mate-up and presa wort. M J colleagues -- the two important Judges -- · ,ert Laurance Siegfried,-Proteaaor ot Graphic Art• and head of printing at the Carnegie Inatitute of T,1chnolaa7 and a distinguished industrial desianer, Barold Yan Doren. le bad to decide tro ■ twel•• hundred newspapers. Both Metropolitan and a ■ all town. The ta•~ was staggering but faacinatin&. In the past, the Cup has been won a number of times by the New Tort Herald-Tribune, the Rew York Ti m es -- also by the Lo• Angeles Times, the Christian Science Monitor, and other great papers. Having learned my trade on small-time newspapers I was particularly interested in the paper.a AW--D_2 fro m the s m aller cities and toms. In 117 day tbeJ were not too i m pressiv · e. But, all that has changed, tor the better. The small-town papers are almaat as impressive as the famous dail7 Journals ••■x in oar bil cl ties. But who won this tiae? lell, the top award 1oea to:- The Rochester Post-Bull.tin of Rochester-- ,. llonesota - - the place made faaous b7 the Ua70 Clinic. On all counts, t7pograph7, make-up and press wort, the Po•t-Bulletin in that a ■all but celebrated nortbweaterD cit7, was tops. Firat Honorable Mention? The Courier- Journal; remem.ber its illustrious eJitor of lon1 year• ago -- Benr1 Watterson? The Times-Dispatch of ~ich m ond, Virginia, Second Bonor~ble Yention; and Third Honorable Ma n t ion to the Christian S1ience : Aonitor, . favorite paper of so m any newspapermen. Among the tabloids we •oted top honors to the Gazette and Daily, of Yor~ Pennsylvania. W A!ABD During a luncheon interlude, while the I J•d1•• were being reYiYed, we were talking abo& the ••••• of new■papere,~vith . •••• I the head■ #Wltlt& A. of I. W. A7er,~Curti1 Publi1hin1 Co■ paay, an! S•n Oil.~,. were re■ artin1 how • s t ot th• new1papep1 • la l ■erica haYe the ea■ e na ■e1: The Ti ■e1, The Trib•ne, the S•n, the Herald, the Journal, a■t the • 7Lt Record,- th• Chroniole and 10 on. Out ~ ■ore tbaa ~ thousand-fa,-t.wo-hundted paper• we looted oYer, •••HfMIN6-~n~~•~,---t4'ilh• ■ ost ot the ■ had tbo1e na ■e1. . .Jc.rd¼~ But, there were t tewl--exc-,;tion1.., •••N that r~•Dt 1how fo■• original~ty. Ber• tor exa■ple are so ■e ot the■: Arkadelphia Sittings; The Calexico lundo; Th• lat1onvill• Pajaronian; The Yreka Siskiyou; The lithart Truth; The Rich■ond Palladio■; The Valparai~o Vidette. By the way, I uaed to write for that paper, t~irty five years ago. '\ &II A•~~D - 2 Tbt linot Optic; The Dan■ Yille lew York Breese; !~• Oil Cit7 · 1111zar4; and Th• ~ L•rne4 1••••• Tiller . a114 Toiler. lnd now, oar S•n Tiller ••4 Toiler. Tut aean ■ JOU Bu1h. - .