| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS hew new crisis appears in germany As russ threaten berlin airlift flir lift rent control extension proposed by bill staff writer EDITOR EDITORS S NOTE when opinions are expressed in these columns they are those of 01 western newspaper union a news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaper AIRLIFT new crisis morally defeated in their efforts to make good the blockade of ber lir the soviets were brewing up a new batch of trouble tc te keep amer lean ican planes out of the skies over the german capital the russian military adminis tra tion in berlin charged that foreign planes had flown illegally over the soviet zone of germany and threatened to force such planes down if it it ever happened again IT HAD all the earmarks of a des last ditch attempt to keep the U S airlift from succeeding in its mission of supplying food and fuel to germans inside the block abed zones but american officials t having any of it in a brittle reply to the soviet letter brig gen C K gailey galley stated that if any americans were injured as a result of a plane s being forced down the full cespon sivility lity would rest on soviet ders THE RUSSIAN letter received fromet from lt gen G S Luk chief of staff of the soviet military administration asserted that for eign aircraft not bearing identify cation marks of nationality had flown over soviet territory both within and without the international air corridors his missive concluded with a flat two point threat of red intentions in the future I 1 SOVIET air patrols would force down all unidentified aircraft over the soviet zone 2 SOVIET air patrols would force down all foreign aircraft ap over the soviet zone out side the limits of the air corridors and greater berlin the incident was tabbed as the latest crisis in the berlin situa tion but in comparison to the other crises that have come and gone this one appeared to be little more than a tempest in a tea pot it seemed to convey the im that the russians were losing their grip that they couldn coulden t even foment a real hot crisis any more not that the affair was to be taken lightly in an atmosphere charged with hostility it wouldn t take much more than the anten dional destruction of one american plane to touch off a serious con flicht CONTROL on rents one of the promises that dent truman made to the people during his campaign tour was that he would secure an extension of rent controls and scarcely had the startling election day passed before a con carted rent control effort was be ing brought under way by the dem rent director tighe E woods announced that he would ask the new congress not only to extend but to strengthen the pres ent rent control law HE SAID he would ask congress to extend the rent law for 12 months past its present expiration date march 31 and to close what he considers three big loopholes in the present act the shortage of rental housing Is more serious today especially in the smaller communities than it was a year ago he declared in addition to extending and buttressing the present law woods indicated that he probably would pr propose omose that congress give bun him new authority to restore controls or impose them for the first time in areas that may be boomed by new defense activity these are the changes he will ask I 1 EVICTION CONTROLS re store federal control over evictions now evictions are left to local courts the result woods said is a serious black market in rents 2 TREBLE DAMAGES give the rent director power to sue rent violators for three times their overcharge now only the tenant can call bring such suits this means that landlords usually get off with simple repayment of the over charge 3 CRIMINAL SANCTIONS pro vide jail terms and fines for con evicted violators this would give the rent director a weapon to back up his orders woods was confident that the new democratic congress would receive his proposals cordially and most sources on capitol hill confirmed that belief LUCIUS on election polls lucius elder statesman and political of Pa county wore a strained expression as he opened the frosted glass and chicken wire door of mayor ryerson buckets office mornin and a variety of cong ratu lotions lations rye sad sa d he be mighty glad to see you overflow in the same old hole in that chair seat that upstart clem cropper gropper that the opposition put up as a cand date agin you run a poor race didn t he you mean snapped rye bucket the upstart that you were running around the county winding your horn would win the election hands handi down you and your scientific barber poll ha the mayor snorted stridently now rye sa d mister with some dign ty you t talk like that I 1 voted for you or I 1 would ve if I 1 baan hadn t sneezed in the voting booth and blew out the candle so I 1 couldn coulden I 1 see where I 1 was making an X turned out that I 1 doln didn t get an X in any one of those danged cir ctr les and what about your yuk b barber abe poll the mayor well now that was what I 1 thought was a genuine scientific poll from which I 1 thought sure I 1 could predict the outcome of the election I 1 was so blamed objective that I 1 ask no body bothin then hourin hour how in the name 0 harry could you get any opinions mister combed his s whiskers reflectively why I 1 called it a barber poll he said day after day I 1 set in ebenezer enocks s barber shop and watched people get haircuts I 1 fig ared I 1 had a system when a man come in and said to eb clippers all around eb I 1 figuered figg ered him for a Demmy crat and anybody who w bo come in and asked to have the sideburns left on uell ell what could he be but hut a republican I 1 thought they d vote accord ac cordin sn to their haircuts beauty of the system was that tl if duant t MI no unknown quantities like the quick shifty of a man i opinion or the deep currents that flow beneath a man s conscious think in on yeah a beautiful system mister sighed the mayor in a more kindly tone I 1 m kinda sorry it didn dian I t work out right thanks rye murmured the elder statesman and his whiskers twitched if it was beautiful A beautiful system thomas INDICTED red fighting rep J parnell thomas R N Y chairman of the house un american activities committee was in hot water and it was making his neck as red as the political complexion of any communist he had ever pointed a finger at AFTER two months of ominous rumblings to the effect that some thing dire was in store for the GOP congressman who had caused the administration so much trouble by shout ng that the government was employing communists the news broke thomas was charged by a federal grand jury of conspiring to pad the payroll of his congles congressional office the indictment accused thomas and his former secretary miss helen campbell of conspiring to maintain fictitious employees in thomas office so the salaries paid to these persons could be diverted into thomas bank account at his allendale N J home thomas growled I 1 have nothing to say at this moment but he would have an opportunity to speak when his trial got under way probably in january kicked back miss aliss helen campbell campbel ex secretary to kep rep J P parnell anel I 1 thomas 11 N J is S in evolved with the congressman in a federal grand jury indictment on charges that he I 1 induced her and another employee to kick hack back their salaries to him CHINA WAR panic in belp n shanghai and other terrorized cities along the china coast the words on the lips of all foreigners was when will the communists come and the chinese themselves torn with indecision doubts and mob violence were wondering the same thing FOOD RIOTS and strikes flared flare d in bankow shanghai and undisciplined throngs roamed the streets people were trampled to death or injured police fired on the rioters the evacuation of americans from china was being carried out hastily but efficiently in north central china the post tion of the nationalist forces was growing worse hourly suchow and pengue were reported virtually isolated by communists the yangtze river was feared open to a red crossing that would expose THE WHOLE economic structure of the chiang kal kai shek slick government appeared to be crumbling and slid ing into a red rum ruin in m the wild melee along coastal china value 0 the gold yuan plummeted down ward the question was not only when are the communists coming but how long will the central chinese government lasta this appeared to be the great all consuming crisis in chiang kai shek s dec adelong decade long struggle to maintain a spark of life in the chinese republic but the cold smothering wind of communism was blowing strong RED TROOPS had taken control of Manchu kuo former national stronghold in the north and that victory appeared to be the key which the communists could use to sweep down into the vital areas of china itself for chiang and his woefully weak national st government the past 11 years had been nothing but an agonizing battle against imperial ism from the japanese fascistic b and beginning in 1937 to the communist type which presents th current peril REBUILT by stassen in the clear bitter post election light the republican party turned upon itself in a fury of self examination and didn dian t like what it saw MOST OF the top level influential party members wanted to see some changes made and most of them seemed to think that harold E stassen was the man to make them As a result the former governor of minnesota now president of the university of pennsylvania may be assigned th tha job of rebuilding the GOP for the 1952 presidential cam laign STILL licking their wounds GOP leaders were urging the youthful stassen to 0 lead a movement to shape the party along more liberal lines those party liberals were planning to meet with stassen for a brass discussion ot of a party reconstruction stassen was refusing to comment on the reports that he might step i 1 as general contractor tor for the re construction job but it was a known tact fact that he was being sv with requests many of them from republican bigwigs to undertake the task I 1 THINK the situation calls for some reflection was the only corn com ment the man who had been de feared by governor dewey tor for the GOP presidential nomination would make one of stassen s promises when he dropped out of the presidential nomination fight at philadelphia bast ast june was to work toward strengthening the liberal view point within the party MILLIONS DEAD legally now the united nations has made public a projected world conven tion tor for declaring dead the millions of refugees soldiers and other per sons who disappeared between 1939 and 1945 under circumstances sug gesting death as a consequence of events of war of racial religious political or nat onal persecution it is aimed to solve such lems as inheritances adoption of children and remarriages |
