Show NEWS REV REVIEW iea W mine pact draws fire new aid parley opens s BETRAYED mine aline pact rep fred A hartley rep N J co author of the taft hartley la bor act has charged big business Pu business siness 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 fol lowed northern and midwestern op orators in signing soft coal con tracts with the member 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 sect on providing tor 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 late the spirit and intent of the law noting that the contract afforded a prime case history of the evils of industry wide bargaining he said that there thee was evidence of collusion between the mine opera tors and the with the anten tion of violating the law RSVP pans parts parley pro communist hungary turned down its invitation to attend the pans paris conference on european re construction as 17 other nations lined up to participate in the talks first step in carrying out the mar shall plan for aid ng prostrate europe the conference previously boy 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 sup plies will be able to lift itself from its economic morass by its boot straps in addition to hungary four other communist inspired governments those of poland yugoslavia ro mania and bulgaria also refused the invitations sent out by great britain and france As the dead line tor for replies approached finland and albania had not yet been heard from NAVY resignations GROW higher pay and a more satis fac 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 civil an jobs at what is called an alarming rate during the past year in the last 10 months more than 1700 1 naval officers have resigned commissions won at annapolis to take higher paying civilian jobs during the same period the army lost only west point officers via the res ignat on route but they are men whom the service can ill III afford to snare spare FARMERS PROSPER both farm f arm assets and farm in come have expanded tremendously since the outbreak of world war II 11 a according cc to a late report rel released eased by the national industrial confer ence board total assets increased about 90 per cent from 53 7 billion dollars at the beg nning of 1940 to 1015 5 b ilion dollars six years ears later gross income from agriculture shot up per cent over the same period that income plus government payments to about 11 billion dollars in 1940 and only a little less than 25 billion dollars in 1945 virtu ally all the gain was registered by income from agriculture gov p payments a y in e n t s were not changed during the years coveted covered by the report cash receipts from farm rose from 8 3 bil hon dollars in 1940 to a very con sid erable 20 8 billion in 1945 real estate was by tar far the largest item among farm assets rising from 33 6 billion dollars in 1940 to 56 6 bill on in 1946 ROMANCE royal road princess elizabeth 21 year old heiress presumptive to the throne of england and lt philip mount batten 26 former prince philip of greece are formally engaged to be married this autumn probably in october king george VI and queen eliza beth cleared the road to royal ro mance by giving unqualified approve al to the match and announcing the en ga gement in a tra dit ional court cincu lar lt Mount batten is a second cousin to the king and a great grandson of queen victoria As the husband of prin princess elizabeth cess elizabeth he will be britain s first prince consort since queen vie vic tona 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 lizabeth s income and perhaps give her husband a special allowance OIL EXPORTS supply russia A special export license for the shipment of petroleum products to russia was granted by the depart ment of commerce hours after rep rep 0 chairman of the house merchant marine committee demanded the license be refused previously had tele phoned william C foster under secretary of commerce urging him to halt the movement of bar aels of petroleum being loaded aboard three tankers on the west coast |