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Show i , WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS ' Labor Curbs Sought as Costly Coal Strike Cripples Nation; Disclose Black Market Profits Released by Western Newspaper Union.. . ..,, nnlnlons ar expressed In these columns, they are those of (HU1TOR S NOTE: P'n analysts and not necessarily ol this newspaper.) (Western NewPP Lmon i p" ' , COAL STRIKE: Congress Stirred Congressional clamor for restrictive restric-tive labor legislation mounted as the soft coal strike continued after ,the breakdown of initial efforts to bring the United Mine Workers and operators together and government seizure of the properties loomed. Having consulted with the UMW's 250-man policy committee, commit-tee, John L. Lewis stuck by his demands that the negotiators first discuss a health and welfare wel-fare fund before considering wage and safety issues. Keiter-I Keiter-I ation of the UMW demands fol-j fol-j lowed federal conciliator Paul W. Fuller's attempt to break I the deadlock in the parleys and get the miners back into pits I while a new contract was being drawn. As the strike dragged on and dwindling fuel supplies slowly crimped industry, utilities and transportation, Senator Knowland (Rep., Calif.) demanded early consideration con-sideration of labor disputes legislation legisla-tion if the deadlock was not re- Lewis Sticks to Demands. solved. Seeking to forestall restrictive restric-tive measures, Senator Barkley (Dem., Ky.,) administration floor leader, cautioned against hasty action ac-tion just because congress "is mad at somebody," meaning Lewis. President Truman laid the groundwork for government seizure in declaring that the extended ex-tended walkout amounted to a "National disaster," hampering reconversion, threatening public pub-lic health and affecting all segments seg-ments of the economy. While the chief executive was belabored bela-bored for not stepping in immediately, im-mediately, it was said he was biding his time until governmental govern-mental intervention became absolutely ab-solutely necessary. In seeking to extend dwindling stockpiles of coal, the solid fuels administration ad-ministration restricted deliveries to utilities supplying electricity, water, I gas, sewage disposal and street transport; railroads, laundries, hospitals, hos-pitals, food processing plants and refrigerating establishments. Shipments Ship-ments also were permitted to steamships or tugboats hauling essential es-sential commodities and home users us-ers with less than five days supply. BLACK MARKETS: Huge Profits Indicative of the huge profits being be-ing made in the black market, the Chicago district collector of internal inter-nal revenue disclosed that approximately approxi-mately four million dollars in delinquent de-linquent income taxes have been paid by black marketeers since March 15. Payments of two illegal operators totaled one million, dollars dol-lars each. Because the treasury is concerned con-cerned with the collection of taxes that are due rather than in the legality le-gality of the source of income, black marketeers may escape prosecution if the revenue bureau has not opened investigation of their cases. Meanwhile, reports from Washington, Wash-ington, D. C, indicated that the department de-partment of justice plans an all-out attack on the black market, with Att. Gen. Tom Clark holding that the best means of throttling illegal ille-gal operators is by nailing them on tax evasions. At the same time. OPA has doubled its enforcement staff to 850 and is receiving FBI aid in assaulting the black market in meat. PAN-AMERICA: Defense Plan In asking congress to authorize U. S. training, organization and equipment of South American countries, coun-tries, President Truman declared CIVIL SERVANTS: Municipal employee organizations were formed in 68 cities last year, the civil service assembly reports. With that -increase, nearly 60 per cent of the nation's cities over 10,000 population now have such unions. Big cities are ahead of smaller municipalities in municipal employees em-ployees organizations. All 14 cities over 500,000 have municipal employees em-ployees groups or unions, while less than half the cities between 10,000 and 25,000 have similar units. that such aid wouia enaoie uieui tu participate in hemispheric security as envisaged in the charter of Chapultepec. As the strongest Pan-American Pan-American nation, it is natural for the U. S. to assume defensive leadership, lead-ership, he said. As precedent for close U. S. and Pan - American military relations, Mr. Truman pointed out that this country has collaborated with other hemispheric republics for several years within the framework of the good neighbor policy. Military and naval training missions have been sent south of the border and limited lim-ited supplies were lend-leased during dur-ing the war. Implementation of the program would not result in an arms race or materially increase the level of armaments in South America since this country would not countenance uncontrolled distribution of munitions, mu-nitions, the President said. FAMINE: Ends Study With Japan the last stop on his globe - girdling famine study, ex-Pres. ex-Pres. Herbert Hoover stressed Nippon's Nip-pon's need for 600,000 tons of food by July 1 and again called upon Allied countries to co-operate for prevention of starvation before the next harvest. Declaring that without food imports im-ports all Japan would be on a ration ra-tion little better than that which the Germans gave to inmates of the notorious Buchenwald and Bel-sen Bel-sen concentration camps. Hoover said that shipments were necessary if occupation forces were not to be endangered by disease and disorders. dis-orders. Calling for joint Allied efforts in averting famine, Hoover said that the whole world food situation would be greatly eased if Russia would divert some of the foodstuffs the Reds secured in Manchuria to China and Korea. While hundreds of millions of people will be on short rations even with Allied help up to the next harvest, the rations should be sufficient to tide them over, Hoover averred. ARMY: Budget Pared Down from the 1945 figure of 52 billion dollars and the 1946 outlay of 19.3 billions, the army budget for the year ending July 1, 1947, has been set at 7.2 billion bil-lion by "President Truman subject sub-ject to congressional approval. Twelve times the outlay of 626 million dollars in prewar 1940, the budget envisages a reduction re-duction in personnel from 1,550,-000 1,550,-000 men this year to 1,070,000 next July 1 Approximately 182 million would be spent for reactivating reac-tivating the national guard and organized reserves. Of the 7.2 billion dollars requested, re-quested, over 2.5 billion would be spent on pay and travel; 621 million on the quartermaster service; 509 million on the transportation corps and 69 million on the medical department. depart-ment. The air force would receive re-ceive 1.2 billion; the engineer service 802 million; the ordnance ord-nance department 338 million; and atomic service 200 mil-linn mil-linn A half hillinn rlnllor. l-i ..... u.iuu umiaia WUUIU be used for administration and relief in occupied territories. ARABS: United Front Reacting quickly to an Anglo-American Anglo-American commission report that 100,000 Jews be admitted immediately immedi-ately into Palestine and allowed to reside there on even terms with the Arabs, the entire Arab world united into a single front to resist implementation imple-mentation of the recommendation. Complicating the situation for the U. S. was Ibn Saud's alignment of Saudi Arabia into the Arab camp since long cultivation of this powerful power-ful monarch resulted in development develop-ment of friendly relations between the two countries and U. S. acquisition acquisi-tion of valuable petroleum concessions. conces-sions. By taking his stand beside the Arab league of the near east, embracing 33 million Arabs, Ibn Saud could wield potent influence in negotiations with the U. S. and British over Palestine. Native Christians as well as Moslems joined in protest against the admission of 100,000 Jewish refugees ref-ugees into the Holy Land. In protests pro-tests to King George VI of England, Eng-land, Pope Pius, Premier Stalin, Generalissimo Kai-shek and President Presi-dent Gouin of France, Arab Catholics Catho-lics declared that enforcement of the commission recommendations would result in crowding of Arabs from Palestine. Quotes in the News . . . "One person who saves a slice of bread a meal may not be able to see just how that will help feed people in Europe. But such savings, multiplied in millions of American homes each day, will most certainly enable this country to load the ships with the food that is needed need-ed to prevent famine overseas." Chester C. Davis, chairman of the Famine Emergency committee. FRANCE: To the Right b Though greatly strenghenJd France's rejection of the PP0S" new constitution supported w leftists, the rightist Popular Rep u lican Movement (MRP) Pledge,T remain in the coalition govern ment so that the country's repi sentatives at the foreign ministers meeting in Paris would enjoy unitea backing in the diplomatic negotia tions. ,ifl, The popular vote on the constitu tional issue came at a time when French delegates to the Pans conference con-ference pressed their claims to parts of the Italian border and demanded de-manded an arrangement for controlling con-trolling the. vital Ruhr and RWne-land RWne-land to prevent the rebirth of German Ger-man militarism and threat of future aggression. As a result of the rejection of tne proposed constitution, elections will have to be held June 2 for the selection se-lection of another constituent assembly as-sembly to frame a new charter. Since the voters turned down creation cre-ation of an all-powerful legislative chamber with the right to elect top administrative and judicial officials, offi-cials, it is expected that the new constitution will be modeled after the U. S.'s. ALCATRAZ: Prison Flaiv Designed to house the nation's most incorrigible convicts, the prison pris-on cells at Alcatraz possessed one small very small loophole which permitted a scheming and wiry desperado des-perado to attempt the sensational jail-break that resulted in the death of 5 and wounding of 15. Atop a tier of cells in Cell Block C runs a gun gallery for guards, with the horizontal bars enclosing it 5 inches apart but the cross-bars 18 inches apart. While in the cell block on prison duty, wiry, little Bernard Paul Coy, Louisville, Ky., bank robber, spied, the spacing and figured that he could wriggle through if he could only bend the horizontal bars. When released for cleaning duty in the cell block the first day of the break, Coy watched until the guard passed on his rounds and then clambered up to the gun gallery like a monkey Equipped with a "spreader" devised from odd pieces of pipe, Coy managed to bend the horizontal bars enough to wriggle into the gallery, where he waited until Guard Bert Burch appeared. iDiugguig linn wiui ma aicauci, Coy then took his coat and keys and a 30.06 Springfield rifle, with 50 cartridges; a .45 caliber automatic pistol, with 21 cartridges, and several sev-eral gas "billies." It was with these weapons that the desperadoes held out after being released from their cells with the captured keys. FOREIGN MINISTERS: Work Hard The Big Four's foreign ministers, meeting in Paris to speed up the formulation of peace treaties for enemy countries, worked feverishly feverish-ly on Italian and Balkan problems in an attempt to avert a deadlock which would further aggravate the economic disorganization of the continent. con-tinent. While there were indications when the foreign ministers first met that the troublesome question of Trieste would be settled between Italy and Jugoslavia along racial lines, Molotov of Russia balked at the proposal. In seeking to have the strategic port and its surrounding area turned over to Soviet-spon- i v ? . j i I i ! J Sen. Vandenberg (left) and Sec retary Byrnes leave ministers' session. sred0 ? YuSslavia, Molotov offered to halve Russian repara ion claims against Italy anf Unquish demands for a trustees! Z over Tr.politania in North Afr" astride Britain's Medi'terrn the UCV MolWs offer he U. s. and Britain asserted no Italian N government could shm peace treaty giving awav " inantly Italian Tr"Lte 11 possessed no title to T vUSS'a and could not consWer K?nla as its own for bartering. l0ny Cotton for Germany The department of agricult,, u arranged to ship 154 0M h , 6 has government-cont'olled'c t0nae0St, U- S. zone of occunatinn . the many, Secretary o, ? n G"" Secretary Anderson said , or shipments to Germanv i P'an lar to that under wWch ?h. h 5imi" nt is supplying 6 0 0M h ,Part-cotton ,Part-cotton to Japan. bales of |