| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS ats T I 1 non political I 1 dal cal tou tour r breaks precedents hit hits s snags senate fights to recover aid slash 4 by iii lii ill stafe staff writer erotide whom to those colon i are ays oboes r Woot effA valet ss rewa news enta asta bya bys a mot not at mew bew waver it ad ODDS da ON SECURITY RM see seeking king to e end nd what be he termed a des desperate ramble with the tho nations security sen chan gurney inep EL 8 D left opened benato debate on the measure to draft youths aged aeed 19 through 25 chairman of the senate armed services committee gurney here Is in discussing the draft bill with senators senator leverett inep kp meba and It ichard kichard D B russell dem ga nonpolitical NON POLITICAL Truman 9 tour president no cal wing swing through the west could be b described ai as nonpolitical non political only in the th sense that mr truman as a candidate for democratic re nomination had jettisoned jetti many of the rule rules of standard stands rd party politics it was a lone iono wolf fight he was waging going over the heads of party leaders loaders to talk directly to the people and most of what he had bad to say bay ay to the people concerned the th republican congress and what he termed its inaction in chicago speaking before ime iny via pie swedish pioneer centennial asso aso clation elation he be harn hann hammered out a plat form upon which be he can be expected to bas bae his hia chances chancel for it was a platform for mora more snore and better democracy from chicago the president with his hia entourage headed for the heart of the farm belt omaha neb neba and it was there that he was wax set let harp ly back on his hees heeds he ile continued his lambasting lam basting of the republican congre congress this time concentrating on GOP farm poil poll policies ties in a speech at the ak sar ben coliseum in omaha fantastically in the coliseum which has a capacity of fewer than 2000 persons were present to hear bear mr truman talk this phenomenon was wai variously interpreted some said baid the pre vre president at box office appeal had wilted others claimed the nebraska democratic machine haldone had bad done dons a miserably inadequate job in promoting his appearance probably closer to the truth was the plain fact that the ampo no li label of the presidential trip had backfired back fired seriously he made a poll political speech and had expected to get a crowd of friendly democrat democrats to fill fin the hall ball for the occasion but the white house previously had told the democratic organization in omaha to lay oft off the political hoopla hoop la and the organization acted in compliance with those instructions payoff came cam ewhen when nobody else showed up to till fill the aching void vold which the democrats created by staying g away it was an unpleasant blow for the camp campaigning algrant mr truman ai and jil one that might produce gray grave political lotical repercussions but the president was ic resilient and in a more or less happy frame of mind he left omaha on hits his train and rode away agy into the setting nn stin in search of happier hunting grounds AID alb SLASH less recovery sen en arthur anthur was was fighting mad at what the housa house of representatives haddo baddo had bad done neto to his political baby the world recovery program sra gra by slashing nearly a million miwon dollars from the appropriations for the europe asia aid ald bill on the republican foreign policy leader from michigan rested the administrations hope of reclaiming the appropriations cut in senate action on the measure certainly certainty has a more than usual affinity for global aid program since it was he who labored to steer the marshall plan to congress congressional iona lona lap approval last april what the house haldone had bad done was to approve a total foreign aid expenditure aitu re 0 of f 3 1 to be spread out over ovir a period of 15 months the administration had asked 1 I as the minimum fund needed for a 12 month period secretary of state georg george marshall fighting hard against the cut had bad asserted that the tho smaller appropriation would mean putting europe on a relief dole rather than helping it to its feet but rep john taber rep N X Y chairman of the house appropriations committee went right ahead and swung the ax ex he said the funds his committee proposed were all that could be spent with any degree of prudence paul G hoffman head bead of the european recovery program said he certainly hoped congress would restore the cuts ERP was hardest hit in the fund cut whereas congress previously bad authorized up to 4 billion dollars in 12 months for that 18 15 nation mation recovery project the appropriations bill as passed by the house knocked that figure down to 4 billion dollars for 15 months other reductions assistance to greece and turkey was cut from million to million dollars and aid to china cut from million to n million allion 1 D DRAFT UT debatable in the waning days before adjournment journ ment of congress the senate had buckled down to the task of producing action on a limited revival of the military draft the house was wax waiting only for the senate to dispose of the question benore before its members waded into the tricky currents of a similar inea ines measure sure legislators in both houses were treading gingerly about on the issue throbbing with the knowledge that this is an election year and furthermore there az are ere any number of american parents ready to offer material objections at the ballot box if their boys are called up for military service in the face of all this the senate nevertheless was trying to do so boma some me kind of a job its measure provided for the drafting of men inell 19 through 25 in sufficient lent numbers to bring the armed services u up to their authorized strength the bill would permit 18 year olds to volunteer foz tor a yearb years training thus disposing of a universal military training act for the present among the side aide issues that arose aro during the senate debate was the old bugaboo bit olt civil rights A aser an abortive two bour hour tul fUl filibuster buster by southern democrats democrats the ste sedate voted 97 37 to 35 to outlaw the poll poli tax an a a requirement tor for voting to tu federal elections sa so far as members of the armed toree forces s are concerned actually it 11 was a minor issue inasmuch as most of the seven southern bouthern poll tax states aliu still A have live in effect wartime suspensions of the tax tor for members of the armed services under the senate measure the draft would be authorized for nive five years but the program is left flexible enough so congress each year could raise or lower both the regular and reserve forces to meet shifting world condit conditions bri dratted men rhen after completing two years of service would have to serve in the reserve for five years or as d a matter of choice volunteer for an additional year in the regular servi services c es or two yea years rs i in n the nat national i onal guard LATEST in I 1 n B bombers om b ers army air force if Is developing another new long range jet bomber which will use propellers propel tors lors driven by let jet turbines it is called the 52 32 the experimental plane other effort by designers designer to overcome the high fuel consumption and resulting limited range of jet bombers but still retain the jets or high speed jet driven pra propellers ellora mir provide a partial awer MINE NM tales more snags As ap usual john I 1 L lewis newis was mining the channels of possible agreement in the latest series of contract discussions between him and representatives of the soft coal mine operators no the explosive the 61 chief f planted this time was a demand th that t the operators first guarantee welfare aid for distressed p miners before tore fore they can ex expect hect his union to sign a new contract thus the lewis lewis situation in the united states was wax being brought to the fore again already the possessor of enough government injunctions to paper the den of his springfield home lewis jet jei j elved another one before he would consent to bargain wi with th the operator opera tori op on a tw net 49 contract the old contract expires june 30 U S district judge T alan goldsborough issued the latest in 1 junction ordering lewis to bargain with the southern coal producers association the mine chief pro bously had refused to bargain with the association because the 14 mem ber ben groups were being represented at the contract talks by just one man however lewis bowed to the injunction and agreed to talk in the course of this talk one of the first things he did was to call the mine operators fat cats and then wave an arrogant club at them with these words we assume that you would deplore any impairment of your abnormal income after july 1 such an assumption would seem to be a logical predicate for the making of a new wage agreement before that date briefly it looked as though lewis was determined to strike again deprived of one snag he immediately grasped another As a result the first round of contract talks was fruitless transition 4 P IV 4 xv V 1 x anz 17 X 8 or gen dwight D eisenhower easen Elsen hower in the manner of all old warriors probably will win remal remain a soldier at heart till the end of his days despite the fact that thit he be has discarded his military trappings tor for the cap and gown of an educator ike has settled down as president of colombia columbia university and the only kind of president he wants to be he saya says GERMANY new plan pivotal point of a healthy and prosperous europe germany long has been under scrutiny by the allied powers who have been searching for a way to return it to the world family of nations without starting another squabble zonal partition of germany perhaps has been the biggest hindrance to the formulation of such a plan and russia consistently bas has objected to rs establishing reestablishing re an autonomous german government now how however a new plan was wall afoot the U S and ft nive five ve other friendly powers britain france belgium luxembourg and the netherlands revealed a scheme for geif self government in western germany at the same time notice was was served on russia that occupation troops will win remain there until the peace of europ europe is secured 7 the plan calls for international control of the ruhr and for steps toward convening a german constituent assembly in the three western zones to prepare a consal constitution tu U on ton tor approval of the ing states that was wax the sk skeleton eldton of a program which might put germany back on its feet ite Ile action reaction in the U S was favor able the state stated department hailed it as is a major step toward recovery in europe and it also was regarded as a body blow to russia in the cold war but although the plan asserted with some vehemence that germany must not again be permitted to become an aggressive power there was some worry as to whether france would approve app rov roy it does the decision to go ahead with the political rehabilitation of western germany to the exclusion of eastern zone mean that the defeated nati nation is finally and irrevocably split U S officials dont think thin so go the theory is that although it was russia itself which forced the western powers to act without russia the new program does not preclude the participation of the rest of germany to in the tho new now self governing federation if and am when the people of the soviet iet donw osa ona ose want la bl |
