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Show NEWS REVIEW Mine Pact Draws Fire; New Aid Parley Opens BETRAYED: Mine Pact Rep. Fred A. Hartley (Rep., N. J.), co-author of the Taft-Hartley labor la-bor act, has charged big business and big labor 'with betraying the public in negotiating the latest John L. Lewis coal mining contract. Hartley's attack followed shortly after southern coal operators followed fol-lowed northern and midwestern operators op-erators in signing soft coal contracts con-tracts with the 400,000-member United Unit-ed Mine Workers. He told the house that "at least one clear violation of the law" was contained in the contracts, referring to the section providing for a "checkoff" from the miners' wages. The Taft-Hartley law, he said, permits a checkoff only for union dues, but the contract calls for a checkoff of initiation fees and union assessments. Hartley added that ! other sections of the contract "vio-j "vio-j late the spirit and intent of the law." ' Noting that the contract afforded j a "prime case history of the evils of industry-wide bargaining," he said that there was evidence of "collusion between the mine opera- j tors and the UMW with the intention inten-tion of violating the law." R.S.V.P.: Paris Parley Pro-Communist Hungary turned down its invitation to attend the Paris conference on European reconstruction re-construction as 17 other nations lined up to participate in the talks, first step in carrying out the Marshall Mar-shall plan for aiding prostrate Europe. The conference, previously boycotted boy-cotted by Russia on the grounds that the Marshall plan will be a foothold for American intervention in the internal affairs of Europe, will attempt to set up a scheme whereby Europe, with the aid of American dollar credits and supplies, sup-plies, will be able to lift itself from its economic morass by its bootstraps. boot-straps. In addition to Hungary, four other Communist-inspired governments those of Poland, Yugoslavia, Romania Ro-mania and Bulgaria also refused the invitations sent out by Great Britain and France. As the deadline dead-line for replies approached, Finland and Albaniahad not yet been heard from. NAVY RESIGNATIONS GROW Higher pay and a more satisfactory satisfac-tory home life are the two main lures which have drawn the most bright and capable young career officers from the navy and army into civilian jobs at what is called "an alarming rate" during the past year. In the last 10 months more than 1,700 naval officers have resigned commissions won at "Annapolis to take higher paying civilian jobs. During the same period, the army lost only 259 West Point officers via the resignation route, but they are men whom the service can ill afford to spare. & FARMERS PROSPER Both farm assets and farm in come have expanded tremendously since the outbreak of World War II, according to a late report released by the National Industrial Conference Confer-ence board. Total assets increased about 90 per cent from 53.7 billion dollars at the beginning of 1940 to 101.5 billion dollars six years later. Gross income from agriculture shot up 124 per cent over the same period. That income, plus government payments, totalled about 11 billion dollar's in 1940 and only a little less than 25 billion dollars in 1945. Virtually Virtu-ally all the gain was registered by income from agriculture. Government Gov-ernment payments were not changed during the years covered by the report. Cash receipts from farm marketings rose from 8.3 billion bil-lion dollars in 1940 to a very considerable con-siderable 20.8 billion in 1945. Real estate was by far the largest item among farm assets, rising from 33.6 billion dollars in 1940 to 56.6 billion in 1946. ROMANCE: Royal Road Princess Elizabeth, 21-year-old heiress presumptive to the throne of England, and Lt. Philip Mount-batten, Mount-batten, 26, former Prince Philip of Greece, are formally engaged to . be married .this autumn, probably in October. King George VI and Queen Elizabeth Eliza-beth cleared the road to royal romance ro-mance by giving f'fr unqualified approv-I approv-I v " ' ? I al to the match and t announcing the en- 1 j 4 f gagement in a tra-l-w " J ditional court circu- C , f 1 lar- 1 f Lt' Mountbatte 1 v -S ' is a second cousin I " to the king and a t K II great - grandson of Queen Victoria. As Princess tlle nuSDand 0f prm. Elizabeth cess Elizabeth, he will be Britain's first prince consort since Queen Victoria's Vic-toria's husband. Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg. He cannot become king, but probably will be given a dukedom shortly after the wedding. King George is expected to ask parliament to increase Princess Elizabeth's income and perhaps give her husband a special allowance. OIL EXPORTS: j I Supply Russia - ' A special export license for the shipment of petroleum products to Russia was grarited by the department depart-ment of commerce hours after Representative Rep-resentative Weichel (Rep., O.), chairman of the house merchant marine committee, demanded the license be refused. Weichel previously had telephoned tele-phoned William C. Foster, undersecretary under-secretary of commerce, urging him to halt the movement of 248,000 barrels bar-rels . of petroleum being loaded aboard three tankers on the Wes' coast. |