Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS security council bouncil on oets gets berlin inconclusive meeting stalls action ac tion russia proposes big four parley parle y by bill staff writer W 1 1 notel NOTE I 1 abon opinion aft r i in n those ahe cola collinns inns they are re those ot 1 e an fn Nw NoW paper anleu 0 ROW nw ana aal 1 a tid 4 cog n necessarily Be frU of t tills al 1 DEBATE inconclusive for better or for worse the U N security council had become wedded to the problem of what to do about berlin but there was no honeymoon russia had boycotted the security council debate and although andrel soviet delegate attended the first meeting in body he remained monstrously aloof from the proceedings proceeding tn in spirit THAT FIRST session was waa not only inconclusive but downright dull no one would have thought that the 11 men mulling over this world crisis in the chaillot palace in paris were engaged in dell deliberations bera of so momentous a nature that they might turn the balance for peace or war in the world while sat dourly and silently playing the part of the vicarious witness to the hilt tho the american and french delegates read polite tirades against the tha manners and morals of soviet motives and politics WHEN THE TWO western speakers were done juan A Bra gramuglia muglia of argentina acting president of the council was forced simply to drop the whole business temporarily at least with a hollow thud after tho the french delegate had completed his review Bra gramuglia muglia waited expectantly for a time then observed mildly that since he seem to havo have any more mora speakers on the list the meeting would be recessed it appeared probable abla th that atthe the delegates would take consid considerable erab le time for studying the charges of the U si S great britain and france against russia before meeting again there was a possibility too that th the security council might delay further formal meditation on the off chanca that russia might lift the berlin blockade and the big four foreign ministers might take up the entire german question BIG FOUR more afore talas russia whether the kremlin admitted ailt lt or or not was dissatisfied with the way its pet berlin situation was being handled the soviets wanted it out of the hands of the U M N and in the hands of the big four foreign ministers EVEN WHILE the united nations was deciding to discuss the issue soviet i foreign minister V M molotov was sending a nota not to tho tha U S britain and arance urging that the tour foreign foreleg ministers meet to consider both the berlin berli n crisis and the problem of Germany as a whole it was a peculiar development inas inasmuch muchas as it set et the tha wes western ternna na eions to wondering how the soviets could clotild justify such a conference in view of their flagrant defection in the long futile and disillusioning moscow talks which had ended recently vs note however claimed that the U N security council did not have the authority to deal either elthor with the berlin crisis or the overall subject of germany REVIEWING toe the six weeks of negotiations in moscow the note said that the talks did not break down over a russian demand for control of all air traffic in and out of berlin as tho the allies had contended all AH that russia wanted said molotov was some control over air transport to prevent black market money deals U S ambassador bedell smith had agreed with that condition molotov M 01 insisted and quoted him as saying it Is quite understandable tho the soviet government wishes to have certain guarantees against utilization of air transport for illegal currency deals or black market operations satisfactory guarantees of such kind could easily be secured IP IF SMITHS statement is correct molotov reasoned then the soviet union believes it Is possible an agreement may be reached between the four powers on a mutually tu ally satisfactory heals basis anyway molotov continued righteously he h be see e wh what A t 0 all I 1 1 the fuss was about lie ile claimed there wax was no bloc blockade kada of berlin adding that the defensive protective measure did not threaten international pence peace and security INFLATION what price bread Ever since the price of wheat do de cline dunder the impetus of this years bumper crop a good many in harried americans americana have been asking when the price of bread was going to take a corresponding drop the answer is that it probably wont and the reason is that although tho the price of wheat Is down the cost of the other basic bread ingredients are not BAKING INDUSTRY leaders in a considerable ferment over recent cha charges rge s that bread prices are de libera toly being kept aloft have sald said and with some justification that the present costs of bakery goods reflects a remarkable achievement in resisting inflationary pressures they base this contention on bureau of labor statistics figures which show aifong other things that the baker today iod ayls li paying tor for the four major ingredients of bread that thai cos thim in 1939 THAT FIGURES out to an increase of per cent inthe in the cost of raw materials yet the american housewifely housewife la paying on the average only about 63 83 per cent more dorher for her bread than during daring the 1035 39 base aase period used by the bureau of labor statistics in computing its cost of living index last november figures show hour flour reached a record of per cent over the base per period icid and jn in december wheat of the type used tor for bread flour hit a record high of per bent cent over tho the base and although flour flour and wheat prices have slid somewhat recently the hour flour used in bread bre ad now on the grocers shelves was purchased by the baker several weeks ago whew when prices were up r OF THE FOUR major maor broad bread in gradients hilour flour sugar shortening hg and milk only sugar now hl haa a 3 a lower index than bread and still another factor which has the bread makers beside thein themselves selves singing in 1 the wilderness Is ahe mounting costs of other elements involved in producing the staff of life such ns as labor machinery distribution and packaging any way you slice it its still inflation fla tion assistance tor president Former President herbert hoover who knows whereof bespeaks be he speaks when he dw dwells ellson on the rigors of being the nations nation chief executive has a campaign under way now to add more members to the U S cabinet who could act as operating rating vice presidents assisting asil sting the president HOOVER IS chairman odthe of the nonpolitical government reorganization commission which will recommend additional cabinet members to act in that capacity ile he did not specify how many will twill be ba urged beyond the present nine man cabinet but bui members of his commission sald said the flaura under consideration was three every president has recommended additions to the cabinet said bald hoover there are nearly 60 10 independent agencies of the government running around loose in addition to the nine cabinet departments members of the commission have revealed that chat among uie the additional cabinet departments ants that have been considered but not decided decide d upon la is a social security department including p public i health public works and edu education atlon they are separate bureaus now THE reorganization commis islon which Is working on all a angles of government reorganization was appointed under on an act of of the ifie lost last congress president tr truman I 1 uman appointed a third of the commission and the senate and house each named a third anti ahti truman it was tin an accomplished tact fact that s sooner or later john L lewis would have Ws his say about the 1943 1948 election tio feeling as he obviously does that no political campaign would be complete without his having expressed an opinion on it at the united mine workers convention in cincinnati the olef chief shoved his foot in mr tru mant mans campaign machinery by turning a sour and sarcastic eye on the presidents bid tor for re elec tion I 1 PRESIDENT truman la Is dangerous to the united states said lewis and he had his mine worker convention contention delegates agreeing with him they made it clear r that they would not go along with the bulk of CIO and other independent unions now working tor for mr tru manx mant election while the delegates cheered and applan applauded his criticisms lewis declared that harr harry y truman to Is totally unfit for the position his 1111 principles are elastic ile he is careless with the truth I 1 he e has no special knowledge of anything ile he Is a malignant scheming sort of individual who Is dangerous not only to the united mine workers but dangerous to the united states of america proceeding in this vituperative vein lewis devoted 25 of the 60 50 minutes eshe he took tor his speech to derogating the president in general and specific terms ile he charged that mr truman ve toed the tatt taft hartley labor law only for the record ot of his campaign he said the president prosecuted the tha mine workers and had them fined twice because he was too cowardly to send me to jail 1 I WAS WISHING lie he would put me in jail lewis went on reminiscently which is what a white man would have done rather than rob you john L lewis was saving his opinions an on gov I 1 thomas E dewey the republican Republic ani i candidate for a later phase of the convention lewis especially like dewey either URANIUM nelv find practically nobody except the ilie people who look for it and work with it knows much about gran uranium turn the raw material of splitting atoms but the world tor for that metal Js is constant often frenetic and of inestimable importance tance 4 CLAIMS THAT another uranium deposit has fias been discovered are becoming more and more frequent re quent and more often than not the discovery flops completely or it it does turn out to be a possible source of supply the whole thing Is immediately wrapped in atomic secrecy and the world hears nothing more about it the latest of 0 these discoveries announced recently by columbia uni varsity ver sIty might turn out to be productive enough to be of vast significance ance to the world scientists shave have unearthed a new green mineral which was found clinging to mine walls in the belgian congo atas it Is a relative of the yellow from which the U S gets its domestic uranium in the rocky mountains Carn oUta is one of the two best sources source of the atomic element uranium whether the green mf mineral Is plentiful Is not yet known it now Is being analyzed at columbia university ver sity like the yellow it contains about 60 percent per cent uranium it if the ne new mineral proves abood a good uranium source the discovery might be the most important import antof of its kind since the ato atomic m ic bomb bom first burst upon the world more than minerals containing uranium ar arc 0 known but the element has been too difficult to extract root of 0 evil two and coal are responsible tor for most mosi of the disco discomfort M and quite a few of the major ajor troubles in the world i a re report rt by thea united nations nation s econom economic c affairs department says scarcity of basic foods and coal have lamed reconstruction efforts provided on an impetus to inflation and generally upset the worlds economy by reducing human strength to work and produce |