Toni e ht's ex lanati n of the sudden postponement of the railroad strike on Satur d ay, is that the unions consented to postpone it because President Truman promised them that he would o~erride his own Fact-Findin& Panel and giYe the ■en a higher increase than the panel recommended. Authoritj £or this information are the Onion leaders themselves, Alvanley Johnston of the Zn&ineers, and Whitney of the Trainmen . . They had a long ses1ion today with John R. Steelman, the President's adviser, at which they aaid they are willing to resume diaoas1lon1 with the railroad managers, on the basis of a raise of eighteen-and-a-half cents an hour. Originall7 the7 were demanding thirty cents more per hour. The new deadline for the strike -- in case the 11anagement refuses to meet these teras -- four o'clock Thursday afternoon, Standard Tiae. --o-- Here's an optimistic report: Another Onion officia announced that it's quite possible the whole railroad J!AILRO_AQS - 2 dispute ~ay be settled tonight. So says Thomas Barkim of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. In bis opinion the prospects are excellent for a satiafaotor1 conclusion. COAL ---- 0 ~ y. os of the he vy em ha is in a shin t o n ~ o n av rting the ~~~ I p o s s i i 1 i t y 1 ,o f th e r a i 1 r o ad s r i e , ~ @ i a g--- -flt e tHi■ e ti-• .JI' The t o week t r u c e ~ John L . • ewis concede~'¥ M enl,t tur y.Sc- someth'ng h o be done be f ore then. P. uring the absence of the Presi "ens in Missouri, t.he White louse Seer tary said that so far as he knew, Mr. Truman had no immedi te inten ion of taking over the soft coal mines. TRUMAN ----- Pr iden Tru n o d y, in hi h e m .. s a e, took A sh r cra c k at people who are c o ns nt ly criti izing wt!. t:L.~11-fvor- bu)' never really se a bout accomplishing anything. As he pu t it, we don't need captains and quarterbacks eo au h, particulerly Mond y mornin quarterbacks, but w-t '-o ~ p l e willing to work for the thins they claim they " believe in. The President was speaking off the cuff, no prepared text, st Liberty, Missouri, where he accepted an Honorary Degree fro• Willia ■ Jewell College. It was the w e , 1 1 . f ~ nw.t. ..... ~~ Ninety-Seventh Commenc~ment of thatj(.ollege. rooD -- A world food administrator is needed to deal with the present world e ■ergency. So says foraer President Hoover said it today before a special session of the Food and Agriculture Division of the United lations. As Yr. Boover told us in that great speech oa the air on Saturday -- perhaps his greatest -- the worst of the fa ■ iae crisis will have passed by Septe ■ber lir•t.• although there will be shortages for so ■e time after the lineteen rorty-siz harvest. However, until Septe ■ber the••• aeed in ■aa7 lands is desperate. lo one who li1tened to the for ■er President on Saturday could fall to realize how staggering is the e ■ergenc7. Ir. Hoover's proposal is that a world food administrator should be appointed not i ■■ediately, but !fter the worst is over. Re feels that this world food administrator sho · Jld take over the functions of OIRRA so far as food is concerned, . _,_ _ _ also of other food a encie, inclu in the An lo•- American-Can di an Food Commission . Unrra is sup osed to stop o p era in° in Europ~January First, and in the Far Eat by March of next year. Ae Mr. Hoover explained his idea, the world food administrator should have the services of a small • advisory committee, most of its members coming fro ■ the nations which produce surpluses of food. This coaaittee should only function during periods of scarcity. rt should also direct its efforts to speeding up the of normal co■merce)\(t'B~over then said: ftTbe world auet I\. give up charity as a basis of widespread food distribution.• And he explained: •1 can't too strongly emphasize th a t charitable distribution is largely wasteful and inefficient.• Presi ent TrumanNas represented at this session A by/a mess a.~ e which he sent, with the warning that every FOOD - 3 ---- country that is able to, mu t help Ill fight world famine. His mesa e contained an im pl ied rebuke to Ru sia or r e fusing to help. But a dispatch from Yoscow indicates that Russia is not as able to contribute as the propa g anda reports from Moscow had maintained. Today's news fro ■ the Soviet Union clearly indicates a crop failure in that huge country. Today it looks as though Stalin's promise to M'\. ~ U. S.S. R. """'- abolish food rationing sa1 ••~1" preaature. Several ~ I\ days ago, inspectors for Unrra reported a severe drought in the Ukraine. Today's dispatch fro ■ Moscow brings word that the Soviet Council of Ministers has sent a directive to all sixteen republics of the Soviet Onion, ordering the quick ploughing and resowing of la nd on which winter crops had perished. These resowing• are compulsory. An the President of theCouncil of Ministers of the U k raine has reported th a t it is necess ar y to mobilize FOOD - 4 -- farmers to h a rvest cro p s by h a nd b c a us e there is not enou h m ac hinery. Getting b a ck to the emergency session of the Food and Agriculture Comwittee of the United Rations, John Boyd Orr, its Dir e ctor, went even further than Herbert Hoover, in picturing the gravity of the world " crisis. Shortages,according to thrEnglishman, will continue for three or four years. And he urged the delegates not to waste too much time discussing the aize of the co ■ ing harvest. For, as he pointed out, after tht\ ,1 Nineteen Forty-Six harvest, the world will be just as badly off with food as before last year, because this time there will be no great reserves of foodstuffs carried over from the previous year. O.P.A. ______ .... If Con es wi 1 c o n inue O . P .A. for another ~ l v nths, he Tru a n anminis r ion ill poi ively f ld i up e h _ nd of a year. The s an off r made t the B nkin Commi tee of the Sena ~~ Democratic leader, Senator Bark l ey. -.r. . However, here'll be a string to 1 ,=a:t •tas ■ n**••••• e::/111pa~I The government will get ride of O.P.A. ~ as such; l=W=t. other agencies~ill have control of commodities that are aca~The President will report ~-t~~ to Congress next April ...wla ■ t l;hsLJt commoditi e s 1 m and , \ , ~ ~ what a encies he proposes to control them. /\ The administration forces in Congress also are willin to concede the removal of ceilings on plentiful i ms by the en of thie year. But there's a string to th a t. be done provided~ the incr ase s in prices do not unstabilize th ric~s ~f other commodities. If such wer to ha ppe n, then O.P.A. ou ld resume controls. This o ffer did not pa cify the southern Democrats and Republicans,who are unqualifiedly op p osed to O.P.~. S e nator stewart of Tennessee thinks it should be abolished now,~ost of its functions turned over to other ,.. agencies. Republican Senator Capehart of Indiana, wants to throw O.P.A. out lill the windowa and han d its duties over to the Civilian Production Administration. Sen a tor . . Tat\ of Ohio wants to establish a de-control board within th• O.P. A . to com p el the reaoval of price ceilings as soon•• co m modities become plentiful. 0 At Chicago, the Department of Ju tice subaitted to a federal gr a nd in beer, a million jury,evidence of a huge black ■ arket ~..s. dollar affair. The la1ted State• **t••• ,4 that there is a black market traffic and Philadelphia, also between the north I ; the south. Re declar e ~ ~ that three distributors in / / and fourteen jreweries are s l l ing beer at a I - ase-over-ceiling-prices to aouthern distributora. beer sellin g for fifteen cents retail is sold iD and night-clubs for forty and fifty cents. 1!!!1 to re p orts from Tabriz, Azerbaijan and the central Iranian government. The leader of the Azerbaijan democrats announced that the ~ people of that province 11are on a wer footing w i t h ~ "'1-ntral government, deter■ined to preserve whst he called their wnewly acquired liberty.• An evening newapaper in Teheran carried•• interview with Premier ~ Gbava•~• 'f'9v~ hia saying there had been a minor clash between the A1erbaiJaa that ar■J and the forcea of the Iranian govern■ ent. Ghavaa ~----~~ ~la ... ■ t Cl&~ the fighting is uniaportant 1 and that it i• oYer. by now. leverthelesa, Uncle Sam's Consul in Tabriz advised all six American residents there to leave th&t- province,t:1tqu•••~ The situation, said the consul, is deteriorating. The six Americans ~heN are th~ee elderly !BAI- - 2 central government attacked t.!!.!..m, on a hundred and tift7 mile front at five different points. So there is a ~ ~~ .. ~ ... ~ dieeidet NPt•~-b-;\ween the official accounts giYeD out at Teheran and at Tabriz. In New York, the Security Council of the Unite~ · ,~ . Nati;f:' ~1;:'rficial report fro■ the Teheraa gove~n ent. This will be due at midnight, Eastern Daylight Time. But the report is expected to concern chiefly · the withdrawal of Russian troops fro ■ Azerbaijan. According to the Azerbaijan government, there are no Ruasian . soldiers remaining within the province. !RIAL The Ger•ans began to violate the teras of the Versailles Treaty almost before the ink on it was dr7~ At luremb~rg, today, Gran~Admiral !rich Raeder, Coaaander-in-Chief of the Kazi laYy under Bitler, said so; and he should know. ls early aa lineteen Twent7-fiYe, the Ger•••• were building aub■arinea in Bolland. Admiral Baeder explained t~at there were 10 •••7 ane ■plo7ed aab■aria• workers in those days, and as a consequence of their work, when the Anglo-Geraan laYal ~reat7 of lineteen Thtrt7- five announced that the Germana then could b•ild 0-boa\a, wb7 new aub ■ arinea were all read7 to be put into coaaisaion -- within eleYen da7a. And, by lineteen Tbirt7-five, Adairal Raeder had thirt7-four thousand officers aad men in his navy, dthough onl7 fifteen thousand were allowed under the Versailles Treaty. All of which ■eana that it was not jast the lazis who prepared for war, Even the government of the leimar Republic was doing i t • • sub~rosa. , IJARt.. - DUBIii_ . A group of distinguished citizen,, headed by GoYernor Dewey, ■ et in lew Tork today to discuss possible ways of tracking down the greatest killer of our ti ■e. They were meeting to tor■ a council to tackle the problea of diseases that etfeot 1'. the heart. According to these gentle ■ en heart affliction• cause more deaths, in \his country, •••r1 -- year, ■ore than cancer, tuberculosis and polio sR' " co■bined. They further report that the study ot di1eases of the heart has been 1adly neglected, ••• they propose to rai•• funds to re■edy this. ,riot that they h••• any hope ot eli ■ inating heart ail ■ ent ~ . B•t, they are conYincecl that ■11cl ot thE eutfering 1 ancl the economic burden..,.. which so often accoapanies heart trouble)can be redueed. The council plans to raist three hundred thousand dollarR by public aubeL~ip~ion darin1 linetee~ forty-se•••Jfor this all iaportant work. I.I.K. --·--- Th e fiery cross made i t s ap e ranee in the ne ig hborh o od of Los An g eles last ni g ht, fl'a•,n ■ I■ other proof th a t the Iu Ilux Klan le faei>, tl:w~• eries . a g ain is on the raapage. of incidents in southern - ~ C a lifornia ehowing the I.l. I . ~~~~~WW4e ~~ the cal1iiu~••,the burning of a flaming cross on the lawn of a Jewish fraternity house at the University of ~ CaliforniJAThe letters I.I.I- we r e painted in black 1'>~~ on the front o f the house. hl'."'bi,hei-w~ vandals broke into a synagogue at Hollywood, destroyed a sacred acroll, and p ainted f': ~ec:::l;■i-ili■e- aa the walJ:"t ■l•- . ~ _--t(, w.J/1. offensive words~ Qep■ a~ The scroll was a particularl} , valuable one, which the rabbi of a synagogue smug g led out of Berlin eight years ago. Another fi e ry cross was burned in a field in north Loe An g eles over the weekend; still aata ■ another on the la wn over a r e spect&b l e ne ro family. - ~ 1 o ~ In Georgia, the Iu Klux Ilan is defying the /I State government. Gov e rnor Ellis Arnell~~.__~ the ' Ilan .;c.t making the name of Georgia ridiculous, because ttl-l-!1--4btt._ ~ r l i l l ie the he ad quarters of the organization. Arnall has asked the At,torne7 General to study the laws of · the State and find what can be done legally to crush the I.I.I. The Grand Dragon, whose name ia Dr. Samuel Greea, threw down the gauntlet to · the chief 4xecutive of the State, and said, "The7 can't take our charter away fro• ua legally. It is a legally constituted body in Georg _ ia. What annoyed Governor Arnall most waa the burniaa of a huge cross on the top of Stone Mountain, aignifyi•I the revi •al of the [lan. It was that cereaony, said he, which brought the name of Georgia into ridicule. ~~ SINATRA ----- Fran Sinatra today denied the charge th this crooning - or wha ever you 11111W c 11 the sounds •t•I he a~kes - has a Red tinge. This 1P9'9 in answer to a charge brought by the ir ctor of the · Su pr me Council of the Inigbts of Columbu~~openly accused Sinatra of bavin1 lined up with the Communists; .... po int.,, to t be fact that. last Friday night the crooner spoke at a Red rally of· Mriaer..,.he•e•al Left Wingers in Madison Square fJardt,n~ s : natra protested that it could not have been a Red rally, a lthoug h it was an affair promoted by•>• outfit celling itself the Independence Citizens ~om■ ittee . ~.J~L...~ of the Arts, lciences and Profesr•a tftN ~•• teas :111-ia -/1,~ ~ reported~ bet&g aetuwt,. a facade for Red f~llow ~ ~~ ... ':-tl-. ~~~~ r veers and the•• e&llei IaaependeB~e haa ••••• beep -· ,, ri,·paiae to deny i4'-. _., ~rl~ th Sinatra jxeelere e / ' - ,, Dir ctor of the lnighte of Columbus who brought the ch a rge a ainst him did not know what.he ~s talkin~ about, in f a ct, · s ; jd Si~atra •The guy 1s a Jerk.• u ~ ~ ~ r: --w . '