Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS lewis baffles battles taft hartley lavy la baruch sees tola Total mobilization eisenhower repeats lis his refusal leti isa released by feature features EDITOR EDITORS 3 NOTE when opinion opinions are expressed in these columns they a r re 6 thase those of western newspaper union a new news analysts and not ly of th i a i pap per LABOR lewis fight john L lewis and the taft hart ley law were locked in a mortal struggle his united mine workers were still out of the pits in a volun tary objection to the companies alleged refusal to provide them with a a month pension plan most of the miners were out fish ing lewis himself was out gunning for the uie taft hartley law enactment of which was largely the result of b h s activities in the first place after the miners had gone out president truman acting under the taft hartley law had appointed a fact finding board to investigate invest gate the d es but when the board asked john L lewis to testify be lie refused then the board issued a subpoena requesting that he appear agam lewis refused stating that the board had no right to demand his presence before it he said he based his tion to testify on the facts that neither he nor the had 1 done anything covered by the taft hartley law thereby null tying the president presidents s invocation of the law and two of the three board mem mern 2 bers hers were biased and poeju diced and in honor should not serve finally minutes before the dead 1 ne tie the burly bushy eye chief appeared it was obvious of course that the chef ch et was out to break the taft hartley enactment apparent ly he was determined to drag the pension dispute all the way through the courts preferably as high as the supreme court to get a final verdict and any way it turned out the process would react for the miners immediate benefit while the courts would be mull ng over the matter the date tor for the annual renewal of the mine workers contract in june would be approach ng the longer the present dispute remained unset tied the worse the nation s coal situation would grow thus putting lewis in a good bargaining position to extract a favorable contract tor for next year MOBILIZE controls bernard M baruch approves of selective service and universal mill tary training tor for the present quasi crisis but he does not think that is enough to meet all the ons the world on holds the financier and presidential ad called also for an economic mobilization plan and said that america americas s failure to muster all its resources now tor for peace would leave no alternative but to mobilize for war in the future baruch told the senate armed ices committee that he was afraid that if the nation suddenly and with out preparation were called upon to mobilize and prepare tor for a b g war such forces of domestic inflation would be set in motion as could blow the country wide open and leave it defenseless he suggested the appointment of someone to watch the impact upon our economy of the partial mob I 1 za tion we are entering upon and to maintain a constant inventory bat anming all our growing commitments against our resources it had not been a hidden threat but baruch s statement had focused attention on the possible danger that a sudden spate of military spending could bring about ruinous inflation As a result talk of reviving the defunct OPA was being heard in washington baruch s warning touched off informal d in congress about the pos sibil ty of re biving wage price controls rat on ng and other curbs on the domestic economy th s of course had been an in tegran part of pres dent truman s famous 10 point program aga ast li fiction which he proposed last year but most congressmen virtually had gagged at the thought of re imposing price and wage controls and the pres dent was accused of trying to set up cometh ng I 1 ke a police state now however congressmen were not so sure they were beg nning to wonder if the mil tary spending necessary to contain russia might not have to be buttressed by con at home greatest killer A glenn L martin pioneer aircraft builder revealed that the U S has developed an offensive weapon superior to the atomic bomb he ile called it a radioactive cloud the greatest killer of hu man beings ever devised martin said also I 1 d be in favor ol 01 using it before I 1 d become a slave to another nation LUCIUS on war nerves Pha pharone ronze said lucius to his helpmate as he arranged a qui wrinkle in his brow d ayou you think were thun denn toward an other war soon as you open your mouth I 1 I 1 fig figure ure we were re in for at least a skir mish retorted Ph aronie aronte if you spent half as time cultivation my peace of mind as you do fotr vo ar soybeans we wouldn t have near the arguments we do she impaled the elder statesman of Pa coun ty on a sp glance dang it pharone Ph aronte why do you have to drag your chair mill milt taoism into everything I 1 set out to do a little on ona one of the reasons you married me in the first place was to get security now you got security but you still want to fight the light of creative achievement gleamed briskly in lucius s eye say by gosh that there gives we me a right smart idea for an aphorism nothing I 1 like better than an abhor ism wl at d you think of this pha rome between 1941 and 1945 we were united with russia in the bonds of holy warlock but now the hor hors V moons over the lock is busted and there am t bothin no thin left of the ong inal idea except war mister you can pa p that out in the corn crib with the rest of your aphorisms commented the critical Ph aronie debbe so sighed the eld r statesman but it worries me not knowin how to feel about this here world situation I 1 m gettin on toward 69 so I 1 could afford to third think that in order to have peace and a secure foreign policy we first got to ng rig up a strong backbone at howe holve and a strong backbone right now means a strong army and navy and air force REPEAT ikes W no gen dwight D eisenhower Elsen hower fair haired boy of both political part es said it once more he would not be a pres dental dent al candidate on an any body s t ceet there had been a lull following his unequivocal refusal of republic I 1 can overtures and then the pro eisenhower Elsen hower sentiment was reeled in the hearts of no fewer than four w dely d groups probably the most un que ap was be ng made by torrey steams stearns a new york public rela eions man who harbors the op n on that E isenhower sen hower is a republican he conce ved a people for eisen hower bower movement the method is a nat conw de tat on of voting cit zens to send in postcards bear mg ing this signed testimony I 1 want to vote for general eisen hower bower for pres dent in november I 1 am a citizen of vot ng age on june 21 steams stearns announced all of the statements will be pre dented to the republican nat onal convent on as ind table evidence that the people of the united states demand the nominal on of dwight D eisenhower Elsen hower tor for pres dent but eisenhower Elsen hower was having none of it speaking through a statement by maj gen floyd L parks army press chief he ind bated that his no politics statement of some weeks ago should apply to all part es and groups of voters TO WALLACE veiled hint henry wallace whose third party movement was coming more and more to follow the standard corn eunist party line had reached the status of a complete pariah as far as president truman was concerned in his st patrick s day address in new york the president had re acted angrily any notion of accept ing wallace s support in his cam laign even it it cost him the elec tion then during the course of re marks made at a dinner meeting of greek americans in washington mr truman turned on still more heat he issued an acidulous thinly veiled suggestion that wallace take his third party movement to russia where mr truman obviously thinks it belongs I 1 was going to tell you that the greeks had a henry wallace the president said to his listeners I 1 was going to tell you that the greeks had a statesman an orator a dema gogue they had the greatest demagogue of all times was a famous atheni an who after committing certain indiscretions was forced to flee athens he went to sparta and there betrayed secrets of his coun thymen which were instrumental in bringing about the fall fail of athens mr truman continued if it tan gators of that ancient greek con quedor want to see liberties subverted I 1 suggest that they go not to the rocky mountains that s tine fine country out there he ought to go to the country he loves so well and help them against his own country if it that s the way he feels aw drop dead k A few people can appear more hu man than this quizzical simian as he bestows a suspicious glare on photographer arthur sasse and obviously is thinking he wants his picture taken about as much as he wants a bole hole in the head sasse staunchly unafraid in his belief that no animal would attack a photographer has been taking pic pie tures at new york yorks s bronx zoo for 28 years HOMEBODY ao meeting with the arrival of spring and the yearly rebirth of hope eternal a second hand rumor suddenly was re vi ved across the atlantic it had ad to do with the rebuilding of the stripped gears of east west rela eions the rumor which was being cir widely in europe said that president truman was ng a trip to the continent tor for a big three conference with attlee and stalin another version as given cur rency by newspapers in turkey re ported that the pres dent might go to europe sometime in april and poss bly visit turkey and greece all this was good tor for a hurry flurry of elc bement but in the end it tum turned d out to be nothing more than a clutching at straws mr truman the white house an bounced had no plans for leaving the country and there was no proa pros hect of a big three meet ng SPIES in germany conditions were getting back to the cloak and dagger state with a dramatic dare flare radio mos cow charged that russ a had un covered an american d erected spy ring of former german army cers operating out of western ger many austria and sweden to learn soviet zone secrets leader of the group functioning in the soviet zone bone had been captured and had confessed moscow re ported the broadcast claimed in part he confessed he was a member of an illegal fascist organization ex 1st ng in the western occupation zone of germany consisting of officers of the former german army who are being used by the american in telli gence service tor for espionage is in the soviet zone PIPELINE junked the canol banol pipeline that m I 1 lion dollar project constructed dur ing the war as a means of getting an emergency oil supply from nor man wells in northwest canada ta to alaska is end ng in the junk yard all that Is left of it now is being trucked out for sh ament to hunh dealers in the midwest united states state s F aty trucks work night and day out of johnson s cross ng on the 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