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Show mi.imniiniimni.iiii i mb ., . . ii i s , I ! . News 1 V ,. - At v 1 IV rev--. LiW "':,.. ' . 111 WASHINGTON . Welter Sheod WWff IPuftiaftoa Buraiu, MM y St., . V. 'Little People' Protest Crippling of OPA MANS ENTERTAIN PAGE BOYS . . . Ninety page boys of the senate and house were guests of Presl-.i Presl-.i . ntn. Troman. The boyi were brousbt to the east win? nf whit .. . - . " nuw v racy met luc ricr at M Ftat L3y of the I-na, then they were escorted through the White House by their host and host-4 host-4 Here we the Xrnmans with the future senators and representatives during their recent visit to the ill House. They represented every state In the Union. i ' 7 I X 4f 3i OLT ON THE "ROCK" QUELLED . . . Upper photograph shows members of the San Francisco police Mrtment, who together with jnarlne corps and coast guard aided guards at federal prison, Alcatraz, the .'ock in Ban Francisco bay, when prisoners revolted. Before the revolt had been brought under control ' prisoners and two guards were killed and scores wounded. Insert, view of the "rock." i 1 4 I , 1 s i 1 1 , I :hvAi I . ; if ,FfST GIRt DUNGAREES . . . Tnrn about is fair play. ar. i e practice t 8M students appearing for class clad In i decifl Ti . teee Stnents of the Robert E. Lee school, Richmond, tto !? ,uri1 ttB and arrived at school wearing dresses. the daring trio. . w 'W mut y vf 1 ' ' A if i ? SAVES Hvm... . . .. ... mi:.. ' "w,ve ne electricity shortage oy riggwg up - "fk. wn00! te h!s e pnmp. with Dick Frederick doing the f iadi r . osnmer, happy to get gas, looks en from bis Chioi'JhortaSe brought about by the strike resulted In j industries being curtaUed r completely shut down. 4 r f ll-.i VA tyfwritfiiwifiiifiiiriiiMirfff-ifflri-ftfa UNDERGROUND HERO . . . General Gen-eral Tadeuss Bor - Komorowskl, Polish underground leader, who commanded the uprising hi Warsaw War-saw in 1944, shown as he spoke at the 155th anniversary of Polish constitution, held at Chicago. General Gen-eral Bor, as be is usually called, addressed the colorful ceremonies st statue of General Kosciuszko, Revolutionary war hero, in Humboldt Hum-boldt park. h. . s. 1 S- PARIS GETS NEW PHONE BOOKS . . . Paris hasn't had sny new telephone directory since before be-fore the war; so the Issuance of ene was an event. A pretty girl sits on stack of phone books here. VI EMBERS of congress are now 1 J reaping a whirlwind of mail trom constituents condemning so tlon of the house in passage of the sill crippling OPA so badly that It cannot survive. Members of the tenate now considering the measure ire receiving mail in s ratio of ibout 25 to 1 urging that body to correct the house action, and to extend ex-tend OPA another year without crippling amendments. Probably the most bitter denunciation denunci-ation of the house action comes from the "Army Times," national weekly aewspaper for the United States irmy, giving congress something to think about. For (his paper gives the stand of the fifteen million returning re-turning veterans on this important Issue of continued government control con-trol of prices and critical materials. The "Army Times says: "Afraid to dare public wrath by voting against such postwar necessities as emergency housing for veterans, extension of the draft act and continuation con-tinuation of price control, the members mem-bers of the house have adopted pattern of cutting the heart out of the laws and leaving only a skeleton end a tombstone bearing the original origi-nal name. Then after destroying the effectiveness of the laws, they rote a resounding 'aye' ostensibly to provide emergency bousing; extension ex-tension of the draft and continu-ttlon continu-ttlon of price control "Actually, however, most of those congressmen voted against veter-sns veter-sns housing, against extension of the draft and against continuation ef price control. Nevertheless, on the record they can go before the electorate this fall and Insist that they voted on such legislation. "They are hypocrites at heart," Inflationary Danger The newspaper further warned that extension of the OPA price control con-trol for at least another year is the only way in which this country can bypass a wild inflationary period and that end of price control now "would make a mockery of the pay raise now pending for the armed services; it would devalue terminal leave pay for enlisted men, decrease de-crease the value of mustering-out pay, void the worth of a possible early bonus and engulf the civilian wages of newly returned veterans." Accusing both Democrats and Republicans, Re-publicans, "Army Times" placed the major blame on the GOP which, it said, "is seeking to capitalize on the petty discomforts which all ol us suffered during four years ol OPA control." "It is a vicious and stupid attempt at-tempt to gain power at the cost oi the little people ... the guys whc meke up America ... the workers, the veterans, the masses. We've all railed at OPA," the editorial says, "we've cussed It for everything." Still, in the long run, it would be hard to find an American family of low or moderate means that wouldn't' vote to continue price control con-trol if the vote was theirs. "Unfortunately, however, they delegated their vote to a bunch ol Job-seeking politicians who now prove themselves to be representatives, representa-tives, not of the people, but of power-conscious political machines and mercenary and selfish Interests." And this reporter would like to point out that duringjconsideration oi the full employment bill certain senators led by Senator Taft of Ohic declared it to be the policy of th government that they could not guarantee anybody anything in the economic field, particularly employment. employ-ment. Protect Dealer They were very careful, however, to place in the OPA bill an amendment amend-ment which guarantees to manufacturers manufac-turers and dealers a profit on each item of manufacture and prohibits the OPA from requiring wholesalers wholesal-ers and retailers from absorbing part of the higher costs. If government as a matter of policy pol-icy cannot guarantee jobs tor workers work-ers then how can it guarantee profit! for industry T It may be that the senate will eliminate these two features fea-tures of the OPA bill as it passed the house, although opposition tc OPA in both house and senate would like to see the bill so loaded dowr with inequities and so impossible of administration that the President would be forced to veto the -measure . . . then they could pass th onus on to him as they have dom in the draft extension bill. Many business men are now be coming alarmed at the inflationary features of the bouse OPA bill They foresee disruptions of their budget! tor operations. Their buying price! getting out of hand and their wage costs unstable. As a result of this chaos they see a continued shortagf on commodities instead of full pro duction, as flambouyantly predicted by the National Association of Manufacturers. Man-ufacturers. The N. A. M. is flatly contradicted by Frank Ratnje, president pres-ident of the American Bankers' as sociatlon. He does not believe high er prices would boost production. APPLAUSE FOB LEWIS . . . Regardless of how the rest of the nation may feel about John L. Lewis and the soft coal strike, ho is still popular with his own forces. Photograph shows the coal ciar, leader of United Mine workers, drawing applause as he arrives st a meeting of his 250-man policy committee, in Washington, D. G. 4 V " w 'a i 1 m Jt- ?n in St f- ! tm, -f. XvK. VIWH.ll Vrit IrAMM.uiawiiwi! WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS QUIN iS. . . Above Is Dr. L. J. Smith with the Fairbury (Neb.) Cornhusker quints. They have been named after the Big Five. Left to right, England, Russia, China, United States and France, Ail but France are bulls. Although less than half the weight of average beef calves at birth, at H months4bey are fully as big and as Weighty as beef calves of the same age born singly. They will tour leading fairs this summer. Chamber of Commerce at Fairbury has built them a modern home. Wayne Photo. I j z , , , XI . mi . ,"r ' ' '. ' . r i' v St CHINA'S FAMINE CORRIDOR . . . Chinese lad Is shown carrying his starving mother from their Hunan farm Into the village of Rung Ping, in the heart of Hunan's famine corridor. Hunan sustained greater great-er losses ef men and material than any other province. Estimates are that 637,400 persons were killed, 1,500,000 wounded, 945 buildings destroyed and 612 animals killed. Starvation la even worse today. ; v I flj ii 'i l mi vtiim &s-at--aiiii PIONEER TO TEACH ... Dr. Lea Do Forest, 73, known as the "father "fa-ther of broadcasting, bat ao cepted the position of director of the veterans training program la Chicago television laboratories. Ho will have 1,200 veteran students Do Forest is veteran of the Spanish-American war. He developed devel-oped the three-element (andlon) tab. vt ,7 r ii FOB OFA . . Secretary of the Treasury Fred M. Vinson, as ha appeared before the senate banking bank-ing and currency committee, conducting con-ducting hearings on bill to extend life of OFA. He nrged that the office of price administration be retained tor the common good. I r i (f--- -n - ' Behind. ByPAalALlON' GETS NEW PAL . . . Life was meaningless for six-year-old Johnny John-ny Conklin when his dog, Rex, was killed by an auto, but things brightened bright-ened when he acquired a new pal, six-weeks-old Lady, given to him by a sympathetic reader who saw bis -picture In the paper. f V' a; I ' ' ' ! -Is I MARINES IN DANGER . . . Says Gen. Alexander A. Vandegrift, to senate naval affairs committee at hearing on proposed merger of the armed services. He stated that the unification legislation will In all probability spell extinction for the marine corps. - refit, - r V CSO SERVING G.I.S IN BRAZIL ... In Brazil, home of the coffee bean, G.I.e patronize the USO cafeteria for a enp of American Java. It accompanies the steak smothered la eggs, which Is the most popular popu-lar dish with aervicentea at the Natal USO. The USO stm carries en In almost every country and section en the globe where G.I.s may be found. Much of their work Is now devoted to troops on foreign soil. PROSECUTES JAPS . . Joseph B. Eeenao, representing the United Unit-ed States, as chief prosecutor at Japanese war crimes trials, as ha presented the S5-count Indictment Indict-ment against the criminals to be tried. Blsad by Wasters Newspaper Vnloa. CIO LEADERS MANEUVER TO OUST COMMUNISTS WASHINGTON. The epochal ' movement within leftwing labor to shake off the Communists Is being; quietly helped by the White House. What Is behind tt can now be set forth ss follows: Since Mr. Byrnes firmed his bade against further Russian encroachments encroach-ments in world affairs, the mora radical CIO-PAC crowd has been arousing criticism against President , Truman and the administration 4 , or was until lately. Statements and speeches from the southpaw people took the Moscow lino on pending International issues, adhering to the same technique as when union picketed the White House to call Mr. Roosevelt a war monger for helping Britain before Russia was Invaded, and mora recently when the state department was picketed by a union urging ouster of Mr. Byrnes for opposing Russia. The latest rousing of criticism got under Mr. Truman's skin, as well as some verv hlsh union labor hld. - Important labor leadership imme diately became Involved in an In- which have not vet been disclosed. The CIO-PAC director, Sidney Hill- man, has been conspicuously laying low, while some unions in CIO have been taxing steps to revise their constitutions to bar Communists from office and membership. Hill-man Hill-man has close relations with the. American Labor party In New York, for whom the Communists have been the most active doorbell ringers sna voie-nxers. Apparently this element of labor hates to lose Its Communist schemers with an election campaign In the offing. MURRAY TIRED OF IT But CIO Pres. Phil Murray Is reported re-ported getting tired of Communist use by CIO-PAC, or what might., more accurately be called Russian use of them tor International policy purposes. Soma labor authorities report him cool toward Killman, Suggest Hillman may bo replaced as head of CIO-PAC or predict a showdown between, Murray and HiUman. Regardless of these reports, any fount n M nl-tnT mam M Will . man is caught In an enlgmatio whirlwind. If he lets the Communists Com-munists go, ha may lose his organization; organ-ization; if he keeps them, the organization or-ganization may crack. I would not be surprised if the White House aided in the cracking, strange ss this may sound. Latest appointments of an undersecretary and three assistants In the labor department went the AFL way. CIO has one labor undersecretary and is pressuring Truman through him. The latest appointments, however, have been followed by reports that AFL no longer intends , to split administration ad-ministration patronage with CIO on an equal basis, but will see what It can get for itself. Then AFL is going into the south to organize unions on the greatest scope of opposition it has yet presented. pre-sented. CIO plans in the south are supposed to call for 200 experienced organizers working under leadership leader-ship of the Textile Workers union, men who have been trained In the Hillman school of action. In competition com-petition with this activity, AFL Is planning an even greater organizing organiz-ing campaign in the south, and the catch-all district 50 of John L. Lewis has marked out an antl-CIO organ Izing campaign to get in all the loose unions otherwise unclassl liable In AFL. INTENSE RIVALRY COMING Thus an Intense organizational rivalry Is springing up which may reach its bitterest proportions In the fields of textiles, telephones, chemicals chem-icals and plastics. I say these are apt to be the sharpest fields because be-cause few observers expect the rivalry In the south to be of great industrial consequence. In the first place, there is not much Industry in the south which is not already j organized one way or another. The I field there at least is limited by comparison with the greater Industrial In-dustrial sections of the country. Southern organizing, especially the CIO-PAC kind, is apt to cover political politi-cal activity (ousting of southern congressmen and senators who have resisted labor legislation) rather than develop any great new numbers num-bers for the unions. Out of this high pressured situation, situ-ation, observers are commonly predicting pre-dicting a new wave of many hundreds hun-dreds of small jurisdictional strikes during coming months, and a period pe-riod of exceptional labor unrest I want to find the man who changed UNO to UN. UNO is a collection of letters fa euphonious order conveying the thought of unity. It Is not cumbersome. cumber-some. It is accurate for the "United Nations organization." UN is negative. Alone It cannot be pronounced except as an enigmatic, grunt. And. as It signifies the opposite oppo-site of what the United Nations organization or-ganization stands tor, the mystery surrounding its origin may be worth perusing by authorities who have greater facilities than X. jV |