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Show THE LEIII SUN, LEW. UTAH .WEEKLY NEWS Favor Vets in Home Building; Act to Admit War Refugees Into U.S. Under Immigration Laws Released by Western (EDITOR'S NOTE: Whfn opinions lire expressed In these eolumns, the are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysts and not necessarily of this newspaprr.) . ' ". f n 5 A," i y Transportation was among vital services impaired during; Buffalo's worst snowfall in history, with more than 50 inches falling within a three-day three-day period. Picture shows passengers trying to push stalled bus on William Wil-liam street. BUILDING: Favor Vets Vets will have first call on all home construction of $10,000 or less under the administration's reconversion recon-version building program designed to relieve the acute housing shortage. short-age. At the same time, the government gov-ernment will check on both selling and resale prices to assure reasonable reason-able terms and work against an inflationary in-flationary spiral. In developing Its building program, pro-gram, the administration allowed for the issuance of priorities on about hall of the country's supply of 10 critically short materials to vets or contractors, giving them first crack on purchases. Though some two million vets are expected to be In the home market, the government gov-ernment (Will not set up quotas for particular regions unless conditions dictate. Before a contractor will be able to put up a building, he will have to submit plans to the Federal Housing Hous-ing administration, which will then make a check to see that the selling price is in line with costs. In cases where vets have not directly built, they will be given 30 days in which to purchase or rent a new structure, struc-ture, with a placard in front of the building announcing that the house was built under the government reconversion re-conversion program favoring servicemen. serv-icemen. FOREIGN MINISTERS: Treaty Pattern Moving slowly toward agreement In the give-and-take of diplomatic exchange, the Big Three of world politics the U. S., Britain and Kus-sia Kus-sia drew up a formula for the settlement set-tlement of European peace treaties during the quarterly discussions of their foreign ministers held in Moscow. Mos-cow. Under the compromise pushed by U. S. Secretary of State Byrnes, France will be asked to participate in the composition of a peace treaty with Italy, while the Big Three will deal with Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary. Britain and Russia will draw up the terms for Finland. Following the preparation of the treaties, all the nations which took part In the European war will then be called to review the settlements in a general Allied conference scheduled for not later than May 1, 1946. Suggestions for any alterations altera-tions or modifications of the terms then will be in order before the final documents are drawn. IMMIGRATION: Aid Refugees In going on record against pending pend-ing congressional legislation forbidding forbid-ding immigration. President Truman ordered the admission of 39,000 refugees annually within existing quotas of 153.879, of which Britain and Eire get half. At the same time, the President asked the secretary of state and attorney at-torney general to arrange for a retention re-tention here of war refugees presently pres-ently situated at a relocation camp at Oswego, N. Y., rather than have them returned to their native countries coun-tries for formal application for re-entrance re-entrance to the U. S. as immigrants. When they were brought to this country, President Roosevelt declared de-clared that they would be sent bacK to their homelands after the end of the war. In announcing his immigration program, Mr. Truman pointed out Model Plane -Making Because it boasts three million zealous practitioners, model airplane air-plane building today is the nation's No. 1 hobby and, under the impetus of war-glamorized aviation, is still spreading like a raging grass fire. Launched on a rubber band, the model plane sport today is becoming highly technical with gas-powered creations bigger than their youthful creators .competing for space with ANALYSIS. Newspaper Union ' 4 4 ', ; s , that migrations slumped severely during the war. Of the quota of 39,000 for central and eastern Europe, Eu-rope, only 10 per' cent was filled in the fiscal year ending in 1942; 9 per cent in 1943; 6 per cent In 1944, and 7 per cent in 1945. As of last November No-vember 30, only 10 per cent of the present fiscal year allotment was filled. In permitting the entrance of war refugees, the President promised strict observance of present regulations regula-tions prohibiting entry of Irresponsible Irrespon-sible persons. Welfare organizations will have to guarantee that entrants will not become public charges. ROYALTY: One Less With formal U. S. and British recognition rec-ognition of the government of Mar shal Tito of Yugoslavia, Yugo-slavia, another European Eu-ropean dynasty went into the discard, dis-card, King Peter having been removed re-moved as monarch by the legislative assembly of the country. Though the U. S. disapproved of Tito's denial of ba King Peter 1 sic freedoms to the Yugoslavs, and declared that the recent elections did not provide an opportunity for representative selections, the state department hoped that future developments de-velopments would spur the growth of more democratic institutions. Husband of the cousin of the duchess duch-ess of Kent of Britain, the 22-year-old Peter has had rough sledding since being called to the Yugoslav throne after the assassination of his father in 1934. Resisting German demands, the youthful monarch fled the country after the Nazi invasion, then fell out of Partisan graces for his support of Mihailovitch's Chet-niks Chet-niks during their civil war with Tito's forces for control of the nation na-tion even during the period of Nazi occupation. WAR POWERS: Grant Extension Compromising on the administration administra-tion demand for a one year extension exten-sion of war powers, congress settled for six months, with only minor changes authorizing the overloading of ships to permit a speedy return of overseas vets and the reuse of nickel In the making of five-cent pieces. Besides continuing rationing and priority allocation, the extension of war powers allows for treasury sale up to 5 billion dollars of securities to the federal reserve system without with-out going to the open market; disposal dis-posal of property seized for war purposes, pur-poses, and the exclusion of volunteer vol-unteer government employees from the Hatch act preventing federal personnel from participating in political po-litical activity. Meanwhile, the President signed a bill permitting reorganization of the executive branches of the government gov-ernment to simplify procedures and effect economies. Though exempt from, any break-up, the1 interstate commerce commission, federal trade commission, securities and exchange commission, the national mediation board, the national railroad rail-road adjustment board and the railroad rail-road retirement board may be assigned as-signed additional personnel and duties du-ties of other agencies subject to reorganization, re-organization, f Grows Into Big Industry their full-scale big brothers. Of watch-like precision, the little engines turn up as high as 8,000 revolutions per minute, and can thrust their hand-made planes- over roof tops at better than 100 miles per hour. Long-range designs have flown as far as 300 miles, have stayed aloft as long as 12 hours. Even Jet-propelled models have made their appearance. A few have experimented with Li CHURCH: Neiv Cardinals With the worldwide distribution of new appointments to the cardinalate of the Catholic church, the non-Italian non-Italian membership of the college of cardinals rose to its highest figure fig-ure at 42. Of the 32 new appointments, 4 were in the U. S., where Archbishops Archbish-ops Francis Spellman of New York, Samuel Stritch of Chicago, John Glennon of St. Louis, Mo., and Edward Ed-ward Mooney of Detroit, Mich., were' selected to receive the hat, traditional tradi-tional symbol of the cardinalate. Including In-cluding Cardinal Dennis Dougherty of Philadelphia, Pa., the U. S. now has five Princes of the Church, the highest In history. , ' Besides the four Americans, seven sev-en other appointments were made in the Western hemisphere, Brazil receiving two, and English-speaking Canada, Cuba, Chile, Peru and Argentina one each. Distinguishing the ... International character of the appointments was the selection of Msgr. Tomasso Tien of China and Patriarch Gregory Greg-ory Peter XV of Turkish Armenia, first ecclesiastic ever chosen to the cardinalate observing the oriental rite. Though the appointments left the Italians with only 28 of the 70 seats in the college of cardinals, observers observ-ers pointed out that their influence will remain strong since many of the key posts In the Vatican continue con-tinue to be held by them. Besides assisting and advising the pope on the government of the church, the cardinals can be called to formulate decrees which become binding on all the faithful when ap proved by the pontiff. PANAMA: Quash Revolt Two months out of exile, ex-President Arnulfo Arias of Panama was arrested by the government on charges of being the leader of an abortive coup to take over the government gov-ernment of the vital neck of country coun-try through which runs the strategic American canal. Of a minor character, the revolt was short-lived after skirmishing broke out at the police station of Colon, at the northeast entrance to the canal. While fighting was carried car-ried to the city streets from roaming roam-ing automobiles, a strong guard was thrown around the telephone exchange ex-change to prevent seizure of the vital vi-tal utility. In arresting four men, Including two known Arias supporters, one week before the revolt for allegedly smuggling arms purchased from American soldiers, Panama police were on top of the trouble from the start. Apprehended at his home on the night of the insurrection, the dapper Senor Arias, an ardent nationalist na-tionalist who has attacked U. S. policy toward his country, fervently denied participation in the plot WAR CRIMINALS: Sentence Admiral Held responsible for the mass execution ex-ecution of 98 American civilian employees of the Pan-American Airways Air-ways on Wake island in October, 1943, when heavy aerial bombardment bombard-ment led the Japanese to believe that the U. S. was preparing to retake the territory, Rear Admiral Sakai-bara Sakai-bara and Lieutenant Commander Tachibana were sentenced to hang by a U. S. military commission. Under issuance of their orders, the 98 Americans were marched to a desolate beach in the pale moonlight moon-light and then mowed down by rifle squads while blindfolded and shackled. shac-kled. Prior to the sentencing, Sakaibara lmpassionately assailed the U. S. atomic attack on Japan, telling his judges: "Now as we are to receive the decision of the American court, I would like to make a request that the people who planned and carried car-ried out the dropping of atomic bombs on Japan should be regarded in the same light as we are." TIRES: Pinch to Persist Despite a steady increase in production pro-duction and the removal of rationing, ration-ing, passenger motorists still will find an Insufficient stock of tires to go around before late In 1946. With estimates that around 40 million mil-lion tires will be available for motorists mo-torists during 1948 following extensive exten-sive allocation for new cars, and with many drivers able to use two or more cords for replacements, dealers will be compelled to Institute Insti-tute a rationing system of their own to begin with to effect any kind of equitable distribution. OPA also promised to keep a close check on prices to keep them within bounds in view of the tremendous pent-up demand. To assure a maximum distribution of available tires, new cars will be equipped with only four, and restrictions restric-tions will be maintained on white side walls. Exports also will be curbed. Rubber Available Measured, against prewar consumption con-sumption and even greater postwar requirements. 1946 will continue to be a "famine year" as far as natural nat-ural rubber is concerned, though synthetic syn-thetic supplies should make up the deficit Trade circles expect an all time, peacetime record consumption in excess of 900.000 tons of rubber in this country in 1946. of which between 250.000 and 350,000 tons should be of natural vintage and 600,000 to 700,000 of synthetics. tjLyr ' y3er -Tr ' ' President Maintains New Deal Policies Year-End Check Shows Some Change of Faces but Not of Any Principles; FDR Intimates Remain in High Posts. By BAUKHAGE IVeitJ Analyst and Commentator. WNU Service, 1616 Eye Street, N.W., , Washington, D. C. Sufficient time has elapsed since President Truman went Into tie White House to warrant a year-end Inventory of his reconstituted federal fed-eral setup, and the result adds up to many changes In personalities, but little switch of fundamental policies. poli-cies. In . its numerical aspect, the changes wrought by the President suggest more of a shakeup than actually has taken place, for there still are many Intimates of FDR In high positions, some of them promoted pro-moted by Mr. Truman. James F. Byrnes, secretary of state and top man in the Truman cabinet, was lifted out of the relative rela-tive obscurity of a "career senator" from the southland by Mr. Roosevelt Roose-velt He came within reach of his present eminence under the guidance guid-ance of the late President, who appointed ap-pointed him to the United States Supreme court, made him war mo-bilizer mo-bilizer and economic stabilizer, and took him to International conferences confer-ences which built him to the point where he was a "natural" for the state portfolio when Edward R. Stet-tinlus Stet-tinlus Jr. was moved cut by polit ical party considerations. Byrnes was schooled In the Roosevelt ways and he continues along those paths. Henry Morgenthau probably would have remained as secretary of treasury had the President who appointed ap-pointed him lived on. But while he was more a personal friend, he was less a political associate of Mr. Roosevelt than was Fred Vinson, the present secretary. And again, it was FDR who brought Vinson to the forefront made him a federal Judge, then took him into the White House to share Byrnes' multiple functions and burdens. He had little more than passing acquaintance with Truman, and his present post wall a promotion for a "Roosevelt man." Robert E. Hannegan, postmaster general, was slated for that office oefore Mr. Roosevelt passed away. tt Is political custom to award that plum to the winning party's national committee chairman, whether the Democrats or the Republicans win. Robert Patterson, secretary of war, came in during the Roosevelt administration as assistant to Henry L. Stimson, creating a team of Republicans Re-publicans In the top spots of the department de-partment He was advanced by President Truman when Mr. Stimson Stim-son retired, although there were strong representations made to the White House on behalf of other candidates, can-didates, practically all of them Democrats. Original Roosevelt cabinet members mem-bers retained by Mr. 1 rum an are James V. Forrestal In navy, Henry A. Wallace in commerce, and Harold Har-old L, Ickes in interior. Anderson Took Off 'Heat on Food Clinton P. Anderson, the secretary secre-tary of agriculture, won White House entree during Roosevelt days by taking the heat off the administration adminis-tration with a food investigation. Labor La-bor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellen-bach Schwellen-bach has been described as "more New Deal than Roosevelt." Continuing, it was President Roosevelt who brought Tom C. Dark, the present attorney general. Into government service, placing him in line for the advancement which Mr. Truman gave him. Paul V. McNutt, who left recently to become be-come high commissioner In the Philippine Phil-ippine islands, was originally a Roosevelt appointee. Even In the intimate surroundings of the White House will be found several "hold-overs," notably' scholarly schol-arly William D. Hassett, a presidential presiden-tial secretary whose typewriter has turned out many of the lyrical speeches delivered by the late President Pres-ident and whose skill can be detected detect-ed by Washington newsmen in Mr. Truman's more formal addresses. J. A. Krug remained at the head of the War Production board until it went out of existence, although the new President was often critical of WPB when he was presiding over the senate committee which bore his name. ' Almost every move made by Mr. Truman In organizing his official family had underlying it a record of Roosevelt association. There has been only one notable discernible BARBS The British tried paying a head bounty for every rat killed in rat-ridden rat-ridden Hong Kong. They gave it up ... the enterprising Chinese Btarted rat breeding farms to make more money. The Japanese worrit js federation iggests that every Japanese worn-in worn-in give up her kimono to raise funds for food imports. Strip for warmth. r at-. - I- ," I ? V. ! 1 " - ' J ii istinafrifisnin ranr"f"&-J-"T departure from the administrative status quo so far as fundamentals go, and that was the appointment of John W. Snyder as chief of the office of-fice of war mobilization and reconversion. recon-version. Snyder was a friend and mmnary Duaay oi a auarter of a century. But Wash- ington hears that the OWMR director direc-tor Is being sidetracked, that the President Is taking counsel with Secretary Vinson on subjects that rightly fall Into Snyder's bailiwick and that a resignation has been offered. of-fered. . There is nothing In the Truman appointments to Indicate whether the President is turning to the right or the left of center using FDR as "center." Mr. Truman is franker than most public figures and commentators com-mentators he says he frankly doesn't know what "center" is, imagines he's about the same as his late chief. Opinion is growing in the capital that the government is "reconverting" "reconvert-ing" too rapidly and that the force of speed without direction will have harmful results. Except for a few generalized thrusts, the White House has shown no disposition to come to grips with the wage-price dilemma, hasn't attempted at-tempted to develop a comprehensive program to eliminate the element of chance, and, in the opinion of critical crit-ical congressmen, is simply trusting that things somehow will work out all right in the end if left to their own devices. There is a striking example of the haphazard system which has been followed, and that is the retention of OPA while permitting the National Na-tional War Labor board to go virtually vir-tually out of existence. WLB exercised exer-cised a fair degree of control over wage and salary levels, and with wages the largest single item pf production costs, there is today ho agency effectively operating in that field. Both management and labor agree the President's radioed speech on the subject clarified almost al-most nothing. The result has been to cut the ground from beneath OPA in its efforts to maintain price ceilings. Another example Is the War Production Pro-duction board, which was permitted to go out of existence on November Novem-ber 3. Odds and ends fell to the newly created Civilian Production administration, but there is today no raw materials allocation plan and efforts are being made to create out of export licensing a means by which domestic industry might have its needs fulfilled. The theory is that refusal of export licenses for needed civilian materials will back those commodities onto the market here. But its effort upon restoration restora-tion of foreign trade is making congress con-gress unhappy. There still are agencies in Washington Wash-ington "winding up" the business of World War L and it seems entirely possible that history will repeat after aft-er World War II is officially over. That day will be fixed by President Truman unless he tarries too long and congress steps in to do the job. Dissolution of the Office of War Information In-formation may supply an insight into what happens when bureaus which came into existence since Pearl Harbor cease to exist. Except Ex-cept for changes in the top positions and discarding of the domestic branch, which always was a minor part of the operation, OWI seems to be a very live corpse. Blanketed into the state department depart-ment may be upwards of 5,000 OWI payrollers. They will continue, and expand, a worldwide plan of information infor-mation dedicated to the purpose of teaching other nations more about this country, its people, their aspirations, aspira-tions, their accomplishments. About 2,000 more have gone Into the bureau bu-reau of the budget to continue their present assignment which is publication publi-cation of the United States government govern-ment manuaL Closing of the do-mestic do-mestic branch actually affected fewer few-er than 200 jobs in Washington. Larger, actually, than OWI's foreign for-eign branch will be the informational information-al office of the state department for it will Include also the public relations rela-tions section of the office of coordinator co-ordinator of Inter-American affairs, which beams its material to points south ef the Rio Grande and which heretofore functioned independently of OWL Hy by B auhha ge It is the boast of the Koreans that it was through them that Chinese culture reached the Japanese and led them out of the Dark ages. The Japanese idea of repayment was to return the Dark ages to Korea. Faver Castle in Nuernberg was "modernized" by a rich wife. Now during the Nuernberg trials 200 guests share the three bathroom, THE1fe$f D V KMIL f lALlON JS Released by Western Newspaper Union. ADAMANT ATTITUDE WILL GIVE US MORE POWER WASHINGTON. Sec. of State Byrnes goes to Moscow! He says the Iranian government will make the trek also. So both Mohammed and the mountain go to Moscow. The senate, as all knowing individuals individ-uals here, Is worried. Realizing this, before his depart ure, the state secretary sec-retary took both the senators and the press into his confidence In off-the-record meetings. meet-ings. The attitude of the worried senators sena-tors and individuals individ-uals is this: The Truman-Byrnes Truman-Byrnes foreign policy has been Sec. Byrnes working well, by comparison with the appeasement policy of the Roosevelt administration, designed to goad the Russians to ever great-er great-er war against the Nazis. We have not established much except our position in China. We have lost in Iran. The Russians are In the process of conquering conquer-ing that country. But at least we have not lost abjectly. We have won and lost, by defending our position, the Raosevelt Atlantic charter, against make-believe freedom. We ceased our losing because we had an adamant attitude, for whal we believed was right. Does Mr Byrnes' trip to Moscow mean we have abandoned that attitude? ATOMIC BOMB MAY BE USED AS APPEASEMENT Frankly, the senators think 11 may. They think generally appease ment of Britain (with money) is tc be followed by appeasement of Rus sia (with atom bombs, concessions eye-blinking regarding Iran, China and similar pretensions that conquesl of Europe and Asia by Russia is unthinkable). The mere fact that Mr. Byrne? goes to Moscow with atom bomb ir hand reminds them of Chamberlair at Munich. That also meant "peace In our time." Remember? Their understanding Is reinforces re-inforces by two facts which I think have been unpublished, certainly have not been mentioned men-tioned prominently: (1) Mr. Byrnes dropped his adviser Jimmy Dunn for the Moscow trip (Dunn had been charged by Moscow enthusiasts as being Fascist, Catholic and otherwise unsympathetic with , Moscow causes), and (2) Mr. Byrnes is taking in Dunn's place Freeman Mathews, a butterfly diplomat, who has skipped around the world in bis assignments, assign-ments, yet never got the reputation repu-tation of being against Russian interests. Mr. Byrnes Is also taking Johr Carter Vincent, head of the fai eastern division, which Pat Hurlej said was sabotaging American for eign policy (the Democrats sun stopped Hurley, didn't they, Senatoi Connally?) In answer and apology to this line of thought Mr. Byrnes' people ex plain a crisis of the United Nation organization is now at hand, due to Russian lack of co-operation. Ii UNO is to be saved, Mr. Byrnef must save it at Moscow, they say Unless Molotov shews up at the January 7 meeting of the assembly In London, it win mean Russia hat turned thumbs down on the Roosevelt Roose-velt formula for world peace. REGULAR MEETINGS OF FOREIGN MINISTERS The meeting has been advertised as a routine assemblage of the foreign for-eign ministers, as promised by Stalin to Roosevelt and Churchill at Yalta. My inside information is that Mr. Byrnes went to his office on a recent Sunday and began reading read-ing the Yalta agreements. They say he found the agreements eaWng for meetings of the foreign ministers every tnree months. (They also eaiiea ior independence of Iran.) These meetings had not been held. The publicity men may claim that the San Francisco conference confer-ence came la April (against Yalta's January) and Potsdam came in July, nd London In September but these were not meetings of the foreign ministers as preserved. 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