Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS soviets express cesire for peace agree to discussion of differences U si S seizes railroads strike off if by bill staff writer EDITORS NOTE when opinions opinion ufa are expressed ta la these columns they i choie t western newspaper unions news new analysis and set of t tui this nom OVERTURE peaceful all of 0 a sudden the air between washington and moscow was tilled md w with ith talk of 0 peace and desire for eo operation exactly what tied had happened to bring about the quick flow of the mill milk of human kindness between betwee n the tha U S and russia was not clear certainly there had occurred no basic change in the potentially ez ex plosive relationship it began with a U S statement ot of position voiced by bedell smith ambassador to russia in the presence of soviet foreign minister V M molotov smith apparently speaking officially suggested that the way is clear for a discussion of differences with russia said the U S ambassador bass bas a doi the present state of U S soviet relations is a source of at grievous disappointment to the tha american people As far as the united states is concerned the door is always wide open for full discussion and the composing of our differences Rus russia sias reply as broadcast by the moscow radio expressed a positive attitude toward improving soviet american relations and stated that russia 1 I is in agreement with a 8 U S pro proposal sal tor for discussion and settlement of existing differences although these developments received a big play in the press and radio ot of both nations indications were strong that the aura of mutual hostility separating the U S and russia might not be dispelled by the wiPing willingness ness to compose our differences neither tide side had modified its foreign policy rather each had emphasized pha sized it in the exchange of notes the U S statement said in part the concern and the determination of the united states have been intensified by the inexplicable hostility of 0 the soviet government to the european recovery pro grama gram a measure in asure which in its inception and subsequent developments development Is so fo obviously only a measure of 01 american assistance tor for reconstruction on a operative cooperative co basis basil without menace or threat to anyone in their reply the soviets contrasted what they termed military threats against the soviet union with the russian governments pursuit of a consistent peace policy at least there was a definition of terms and a preliminary agreement to talk things over whether or not any good would come of it was at this stage problematical there was a suspicion abroad that russia balked in its ambitions to expand into into western europe by the european recovery program might be ready now to try to make some kind ot of deal benl ALL ABOARD trains run U S economy escaped being a victim of railroad paraplegia at the eleventh hour when three rail broth yielded to a restraining order brought against them by the government and called ott off their im pending strike events leading up to that climax had run a course which has become familiar to strike weary americans negotiations between the railroads and the three dissenting brother hoods engineers firemen and switchmen had been fruitless As the strike deadline approached they remained miles away from any kini kind of agreement on wages and working conditions by that time president truman had built up a full head of steam and he opened the throttle wide the U S could not stand ft nationwide tragedy such as the rail fail strike would be he ha said acting under the sanction bt bf a 1913 1916 law which authorizes the government to take over the railroads during the time of war U S Is at still officially in a state of wartime emergency mr truman seized the vast network of tracks and trin trains in the name of the federal government that move paved the way tor for a court order restraining the unions from striking tor for eight days federal era district judge T alan goldsborough issued the order and the nations nation trains kept running for or the time being at least possibly proving that there is no wind so ill that it blow up some good for or somebody one of the major influences leading to cancellation of the rail strike was john L eastern hotspot S OF JAPAN NORIA APAN latest area to emerge as a a pivotal point in the worldwide world wide wido drive communism Is south ern korea where about seven roll mil lion registered voters went to the polls to a elect representatives representative to what Is known as the korean national assembly ms embly prior to a the election communist C 0 m m it n I 1 a t trained agents were reported to have been attempting to ta stir up trouble in the V U B S zone lone to influence the bat bal toting lewis lems who have a w word ord to say about it but lewis had set the pattern the rail union lead leaders ers Al vanley johnston of the engineers D B robertson bartson Ro of the firemen and A J glover jr of the switchmen were uncomfortably aware of what happened to the mine chief when he disobeyed an injunction to call oft off his soft coal strike I 1 they knew that if they disobeyed judge Golds boroughs restraining order they would be exposing themselves and their un unions ions to whopping big fines and pos possible sible jail sentences it was becoming apparent that the government had hit upon a hard fisted way of delaying crippling strikes with labor unrest destined to growth ls summer that moth method 0 d though tar from bom ideal might come e to be the basic formula for inducing arbitration and settlement of strikes DIXIE anti truman although president harry Tr truman tuman had not held forth publicly on the subject of civil rights tor for some time now the echoes of the civil rights program he be advanced earlier this year were ra tiling around like sabers south of the mason dixon line alabama voters had expressed themselves as being antl anti truman in the states primary election they had given majorities to candidates pledged to cast electoral votes against toe the president because of the tha civil rights issue it was the ahe arst first concrete indication that a bolt from the bogul regular democratic party nominee might not be unlikely next november if the nominee like mr truman is 1 committed to supporting the civil rights program and in jackson miss a states rights democratic rally was key noted with a flat prediction that president truman would not be ne elected because ht be is not acceptable to the nation or the southern democrats gov j J strom of south carolina defined the south stand when he toll told the rally that the south Is not in revolt against the democratic party but against its present leadership spark that kindled the political tire fire in the south was mr Tr espousal of proposals to pass federal laws outlawing lynching lunching lyn ching poll taxes job discrimination and segregation of races legislation like that governor thurmond asser asserted teo would violate the historic principle of at the right of states to determine their own attitude toward such matters so fir it was only talk but antl anti truman feeling had crystallized in the south to the point where party leaders were badly worried if the dixie democrats carried their defection lo io the ultimate point of nominating their own candidate the big wigs might as well throw in the sponge for the 48 elections and start looking jo to uncertainty who won just about all that anyone was sure of when th smoke from the ohio primary elections had cleared was that sen robert talt taft had won 44 delegates to the republican Republic ah national convention and nd that harold stassen the wolf at tilts tafts door had captured capture nine how those results should hould be interpreted promised to be a thoroughly argued question by the time the republicans convened in philadelphia to nominate a presidential candidate many held the opinion that the ohio primary resulted in it if not a an n outright defeat for stassen Sta saen at least a brusque check on the tha tans heretofore snowballing campaign stassen had competed with taft for 23 of the states 53 delegates he won nine and taft took 14 of those 23 in a pre election statement stassen had said that the ohio contest could be accounted a victory to for r him only it if he won a majority of I 1 the he 23 disputed delegates thus by his own estimate stassen lost in ohio he lost however to a favorite son candidate strongly supported in his own state by chios powerful political organization it was hardly a victory tor for tatt taft to sh shout ut about in the final analysis the GOP election race had not changed much it was taft and dewey teaming up to force stassen into the rail with sen arthur of michigan coming up fast on the outside rawl ISSUE Tr rather hard put tor for a good earth earthy 7 issue to play upon in his coming campaign pre president aident truman has hag hit bit upon the tha farm arm problem as the vehicle to carry some of his con vict lons before the public henegan he began by planning a 2 liessa message ge to congress on the subject of ion long g range agricultural legislation the idea was originated mated by the retiring secretary of agriculture clinton anderson andersen who opined opened that such a plea to congress con greis would put the republicans public ans on the spot the message which mr truman was preparing would ask for an adequate appropriation to continue the government farm program particularly on soil conservation according to alben alb en barkley senate democratic leader barkley acidulous ly recalled that the president had asked in his budget message for million dollars for soil conservation in the coming fiscal year and that congress had cut that sum to million r many U S farmers would be b inclined to agree WHEAT big crop word from the department of nf agriculture was that the U S would produce the tha third largest wheat crop in history this year the department stuck to that prediction even though it had bad reduced its estimate of the important winter wheat crop by US million bushels bils hels from born the april I 1 estimate except in parts of the southern great plains the crop made good food progress it was revealed in an ofal cial department report As of may 1 prospects were tor for a total ot of 1117 billion bushels of wheat largest crop was billion bushels lat last year production in the 2035 1036 45 period averaged million bushels department of agriculture estimated the fall all town winter wheat crop at about million bushels a decline of from born its april apra I 1 forecast no official estimate of spring wheat was available but a guess was that average yields should produce million bushels PLANT LIFE appetites atomic scientists have learned that some plants like human beings are finicky eaters this new knowledge important commercially li Is the result of exhaustive hau stive tests with radioactive isotopes of phosphorous now science can tell a farmer armer who spends 50 to put phosphate fertilizer ti III izer on his land whether the plant only nibbles or takes a bito bite ble big enough enouch to revay repay his bis exoe nj |