Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS new crisis appears r in germany As russ threaten berlin airlift rent lent control extension proposed dy by dill bill staff writer EDITORS TOILS NOTE I 1 when opinions ire are expressed in these columns they hey are those hoie of newspaper unions union news new analysts naly ti and not necessarily of this ibis newspaper AIRLIFT new crisis morally defeated in their efforts to make good the blot blockade linde of berlin the soviets were brewing up a new batch of trouble tc keep american planes out of the skies over the german capital the russian military istra tion in berlin charged that foreign planes had flown illegally over the soviet zone of germany and threatened to force such 0 planes anes down if it ever happened again IT HAD all the earmarks of a last ditch attempt to keep the U S airlift from succeeding in kg its mission of supplying food and fuel to germans inside the blockaded abed zones but american officials having any of it in a brittle reply to the soviet letter brig gen C K galley stated that if any americans were injured as a result of a planes being forced down the full responsibility lity would rest on soviet shoulders THE RUSSIAN letter received from lt gen G S Luk chief of staff staf odthe soviet military administration asserted that foreign aircraft not bearing identification marks of nationality had flown over soviet territory both within and without the international air corridors ills his missive concluded with a flat two point threat of red intentions in the future 1 SOVIET air patrols would force down all unidentified aircraft over the soviet zone 2 SOVIET air patrols would force down all foreign aircraft appearing over the soviet zone outi side the limits of the air corridors and greater berlin the incident was tabbed dabbed as the latest crisis in the tha berlin situation but in comparison to the other crises that have hava come and gone this one appeared to be little more M ore than a tempest in a teapot it seemed to convey the impression that the russians were losing their grip that thai they even foment a real hot crisis any anore more not that the affair was to be token taken lightly in an atmosphere charged chang eivich with hostility it takei take ra much more than the anten lional destruction of one american plane to touch off a serious conflict CONTROL on rents one of the promises that president truman made to the people during his campaign tour was that he would secure an extension of rent controls and scarcely had the startling election day passed before a concerted rent control effort was being brought under way by the democrats rent director tyghe E woods announced that he would 6 ask s k the aliw ti cw undress congress not only to fo extend ex tend but butto to strengthen the present rent control law HE saidee SAID he would ask congress to extend the rent law for 12 months past its present expiration date maran afi 31 and to close what he considers three big loopholes in the present act the shortage of rental housing is more serious today especially in the smaller communities that than I 1 it wasi a year ago he declared in addition to extending and buttressing the present law woods indicated that he probably would propose that congress give him now authority to restore controls or Impose them for the first time W 1 I n rena areas that iha imay be boomed by new defense activity these are arc the changes he will fask 1 1 EVICTION CONTROLS restore federal control over evictions now evictions are left to local courts the thai result woods said Is A a serious black market in rents 2 TREBLE TIMBLE DAMAGES give the rent director power to sue SUB rent violators tor for three times the their r overcharge now only the tenant can call bring such suits this means that thai I 1 landlords and lords usually get oil off with simple repayment ot of the tha overcharge 3 CRIMINAL SANCTIONS lONS pro vide jail terms an and ia fines for convicted violators this would give the rent director a weapon to back up lip disorders his orders woods was confident that the new democratic congress would receive his proposals cordially and most sources on capitol hill confirmed that belief LUCIUS on election polls lucius elder statesman and political of Pa 0 county o wore a trained strained expression iss as h opened py the frosted glass and chicken wire wore door 10 or of mayor ryerson buckets af office ice A fornin and a variety of congratulations rye said he mighty glad to 10 see you overflow inthe the same old tole hole in that chair seat that upstart clem gropper cropper that the be opposition put up as a candidate agin you run a poor race he you mean snapped rye bucket the upstart that you were running around the county winding your horn would win the election hands handi down you and your scientific barber roll poll ilal hal the mayor snorted snarled stridently now rye said mister with some 0 me dignity you bould ns talk lath like that I 1 voted voles for you or I 1 it if I 1 sneezed in the voting booth and blow blew out the candle so I 1 see where I 1 was making an X turned out that I 1 gel an X its in any one of those danged con circles lei and what about your yuk barber poll the mayor well now noto that was what I 1 I 1 thought though was a 4 genuine scientific poll from which I 1 thought though sure I 1 could predict the outcome of of the be election I 1 was so blamed objective that bat I 1 ask nobody bothin then how bow its in the name 0 harry could you get any opinions loni mister alister combed bis is whiskers reflectively thaes why I 1 called it a barber poll he said day after day I 1 set in ebenezer Ebe neier enocks barber shop and watched people get haircuts I 1 figured I 1 had a i system when a man come sn in and said to E lib C clippers e ri all around eb 1 I 1 figuered figg ered hh him t for 0 a Demmy Dem mycral craf and anybody who come in and asked aided to have the b sideburns left on well what could he be be but a republican I 1 thought vote vole ac cordin to their haircuts beauty of the system was that thal it involve no unknown quantities like the she quick tin of a mans opinion or ar the deep currents that flow beneath a mans conscious thinking yeah ryeah a beautiful system mister sighed the mayor in a more kindly tone im kinds kinda sorry it work out right thanks rye murmured the she elder statesman and his boy whiskers twitched it way was beautiful A beautiful system INDICTED thonas t red fighting rep J parnell thomas R N Y chairman of th house un american activities committee was in hot water and it was malting making his neck as red as the political complexion of any communist he had ever pointed a finger at AFTER two months of ominous ramblings to the effect that something dire was in store for the GOP congressman who had caused the administration so much trouble by shouting that the government was employing communists the news broke thomas was charged by a federal grand jury of conspiring g to pad the payroll of his congressional office the andl indictment cament accused thomas and his ff former ormer secretary miss helen campbell of conspiring to maintain fictitious employees in thomas office so the salaries paid to these persons could be diverted into Th as I 1 bank account at his allendale N J home thomas growled 1 I have nothing to lo say anahis at this moment but he would have an opportunity to speak when his trial got under way probably in january CHINA WAR panic in shanghai and other terrorized cities along the china coast the words on the lips of all foreigners was when will W the communists come and the chinese themselves torn with indecision doubts and mob violence were wondering the same thing FOOD RIOTS and strikes hared flared in bankow shanghai Shan and undisciplined throngs roamed the streets people were trampled to death or injured police fired on the rioters the evacuation of americans from china was being carried out hastily but efficiently in north central china the position of the nationalist forces was growing worse hourly suchow and pengue were reported virtually isolated by communists the yangtze river was feared open to a red crossing that would expose THE WHOLE economic structure of the chiang kai shek government appeared to be crumbling and sliding into a red ruin in the wild melee along coastal china value 0 the gold yuan plummeted downward the question was not only when n are the communists coming but how long will the central chinese government last this appeared to be the great all ah consuming crisis in chiang kai sheka decade long struggle to maintain a spark of life in the chinese republic but the cold smothering wind of communism was blowing strong RED TROOPS had taken control of Manchu kuo former national stronghold in the north and that victory appeared to be the key which the communists could use to sweep down into the vital areas of china itself for chiang and his woefully weak nationalist government the past 11 years had been nothing but an agonizing battle against imperialism from the japanese fascistic fas band beginning in 1937 to the communist type which presents th tb current peril REBUILT by stassen in the clear bitter post election light the republican party turned upon itself in a fury of sell self examination and like what it saw MOST OF the top level influential party members wanted to see some changes made and most of them 3 seemed to think that harold E stassen was the man to make them As a result the former governor of minnesota now president of the university of pennsylvania may be assigned the job of rebuilding the GOP for the 1852 1952 presidential campaign STILL licking their wounds GOP leaders were urging the youthful stassen to lead a movement to shape the party along more liberal lines those party liberals were planning to meet with stassen for a brass tacks discussion of a party reconstruction stassen was refusing to comment on the reports that he might stop step I 1 as general contractor for the reconstruction job but it was a known fact that he was being sv with requests many of them from republican bigwigs big wigs to un undertake er e the task 1 I THINK the situation calls tor for some reflection was the only corn com anent the man who had been defeated by governor dewey for the GOP presidential nomination would make one of pron promises alses when he dropped out of the presidential nomination fight at philadelphia last june was to work toward strengthening the liberal viewpoint within the party 51 MILLIONS ILLIONS DEAD legally now the united nations has made public a projected world convention for declaring dead the millions of rehi refugees gees soldiers and other persons who disappeared between 1939 and 1945 under circumstances suggesting death as a consequence e nce of events of war of racial religious political or national persecution it Is aimed to solve such problems as inheritances adoption of children and remar remarriages |