| Show NEWS REVIEW conserve food tr truman c im an UN ado adopts As agenda FOOD PLANS conservation it wasn gasn t hard tor for president tru man to figure out europe is in des need of food from the U S but the U S will leave itself wide open for even greater price spiral ling if it boosts its exports much higher the answer he told a special press conference is food conservation by all americans it is not a matter of eating any less he said but of wasting less in line with that he announced the setting up of a citizens food corn com cittee to develop a food conserva tion program in the nation charles luckman of cambridge mass pres ident of lever brothers was named president regard ng europe mr truman said the food and fuel situation there is too critical to allow time for de tailed study thus apparently in an emergency frame of mind the dent called together congressional leaders to discuss possible steps that could be taken immediately to aid the starving continent if it possible he said he would not call a special session of congress if stop stopgap gap aid for europe could be pushed through without resort ing to that step americans could start preparing for a heavy barrage of food con propaganda TOUGH AGENDA no dodging united nations general assembly proved at least one thing in the first week of its current session it isn t going to dodge any issues after riotous preliminary sessions in which they heard the U S and russia flay each other verbally and U N secretary general trygve lie call for an end to feuding the dele gates voted doggedly to take on the entire list of tough almost insoluble problems standing as a barrier to world accord among the items admitted to the agenda were the partition of pales tine peace in the balkans in depend ence of karea and marshall s pro dosal to reorganize U N machinery to hold a tighter rein on the leni lend peace soviet delegate andrei s resolution calling on member na eions to take criminal action against warmongering propagandists was wholeheartedly whole heartedly admitted to debate probably bably because if it will provide a chance chance to mull over the concept of freedom of the press ABSOLVED hirohito Itro hito even while five high ranking jap anese army and navy officers were being hanged ba b the neck in pay ment tor for their crimes of cannibal ism torture and murder of U S prisoners emperor Hiro hirohito luto was be ing publicly absolved of any cespon sib lity for the pacific war by the chief U S war crimes prosecutor joseph B kennan told the inter national war crimes tribunal that the prosecution believes the people in the dock are really responsible tor for this war if there had been any one else they would be in the dock too headliners IN CAMDEN N J joseph valentine valentino hailed into court for be laboring march mcghee 22 on the jaw explained apologetically to the judge that he thought miss mcghee was his wife got 10 days dabs IN HOUSTON lt gen ira C eaker former deputy commanding general of U S air forces retired readjusted himself to civilian life by taking a job as vice president of hughes tool company IN HAMILTON ONT mrs marshall lounsbury no art author ity bought an oil painting at an auction tor for a song later dincov ered it was palm sunday morn mom ing by century master call sano valued at 20 IN pittsburgh city coun colin oilman cilman E J leonard longtime ad of sidewalk repair cited the danger of increased spills as a re suit of a combination of the new long skirts high heels and broken pavements frightened the city coun cil into passing a ruling that all walks be repaired immediately ELEANOR an old note dear simmer sumner this eisler case seems a hard nut to crack what do you suggest sincerely E R that sumner welles forme run der secretary of state told the house committee on un american acrivi ties was a note he received from mrs eleanor roosevelt in 1939 when the then first lady was interested in obtaining an open hearing on the passport application of one hanns eisler austrian refugee from hit ler the note an almost forgotten me mento of the prewar era was hailed bailed resoundingly in newspapers across the land because hanns eisler was V aa V IP LI mrs roosevelt hanns eisler accused of being a communist he is the brother of gerhart eisler no 1 agent of the kremlin in the U S eisler and his wife finally were issued visas in mexico city to cover their entrance into this country he has taken out naturalization papers and is a song writer in hollywood in 1926 eisler told the committee he had applied for membership in the german communist party bul had dropped out A department of 01 labor report made in 1838 1938 said ol 01 him the evidence establishes pre ponder antly that hanns eisler is a communist mrs roosevelt s attitude toward the affair was lackadaisical ehg note to welles on behalf of eisler was strictly routine she said add ing that she neither knew eisler nor remembered the note |
