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Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Small Nations G et Voice in Peace; Parts Strikes Hit Auto Output; Vote Furlough Pay in Bonds I , Released by Western Newspaper Union. ' " I fFOITOK'S NOTE: Whrn opinions are expressed n theie columns, they are those of i VVt-atern Newspaper L nion a news analysis and not necessarily of bs newspaper.) ? ; f i it , . . .' . " ---.: .: :-. V 5 v S - 1 y I -Vy , ' v v ' I ' , : v l i H - f i if v j r I f - - - i it- - - ' 1 " ' J ; ; v , is i ! I , j ' '- ' : ' ' ' I lv '.i Grim-faced, Russian Foreign Minister Molotov (at left) and aides ascend main staircase of Luxembourg palace for sessions of Paris peace parley. PEACE PARLEY: Open Discussion Smaller nations won the right to discuss any question pertaining to the peace treaty drafts for Germany's Ger-many's former European satellites at the Paris peace conference in a surprise concession by Russia. The Russian action followed Greece's demand that the conference confer-ence be allowed to consider any item which relates to a just and durable peace. After hearing Yugoslavia Yugo-slavia and the Ukraine of the Soviet So-viet bloc attack the proposal, Russian Rus-sian Foreign Minister Molotov advanced ad-vanced his compromise. By offering offer-ing the opportunity for thoroughly discussing the treaty drafts, his plan would permit the molding of a sound peace, he said. While moving for free discussion of the treaty drafts, Russia continued con-tinued to insist upon a two-thirds vote for the adoption of any recommendations recom-mendations for changing or altering alter-ing the terms drawn up by the Big Four. Backed by the U. S. on the two-thirds rule, Molotov pointed out that such a majority vote was in effect both at Versailles after World War I and at the United Nations conference in San Francisco. KKK: Under Investigation Ku Klux Klan activities, in seven states were reported under investi- gation by the justice jus-tice department as the government sought to prevent widespread outbreaks out-breaks occasioned by Negro voting in southern primaries, dislocations of populations pop-ulations resulting from the war and congested living Tom C. Clark conditions. Heralded by Attorney At-torney General Tom Clark's statement state-ment in Philadelphia, Pa., that "we must rid ourselves of such things as organized bigotry," the government investigation reached into New York, Michigan, Tennessee, Tennes-see, Florida, California, Mississippi and Georgia for federal violations. While the inquiry was concentrated concentrat-ed in the seven states, the department depart-ment revealed that it had received complaints from all . other parts of the country against Klan activities. activi-ties. Complainants included individuals, indi-viduals, labor unions and civil rights societies, it was said. PALESTINE: Plan Partition Unless substantial American financial fi-nancial aid, estimated at 300 million mil-lion dollars, is forthcoming, British officials declared that they may have to reconsider an Anglo-American plan for partitioning Palestine into four spheres to solve the complex com-plex Jewish resettlement problem. Of the 300 million dollars, it was reported, some 250 million would be advanced to the Arabs for self-liquidating projects, if they could not secure a loan from the international bank set up at Bretton Woods. At the same time, another 50 million dollars would be granted outright to the Arabs for economic development. develop-ment. While the cost of Jewish resettlement resettle-ment was estimated at 280 million dollars, it was said that Jewish agencies and individuals would put up 260 million dollars, with the remaining re-maining 20 million drawn from Germany Ger-many in"" reparations for Nazi qon-fiscations. Under the partition proposal, the Jews would receive the northeast section of Palestine and the Arabs chiefly the central part. Both would have the right to determine the number of immigrants to be admitted ad-mitted in their sectors. In addition, addi-tion, the Negeb desert area in the southwest would be open to Jews under British administration. AUTO PRODUCTION: Face Drop Up to a postwar production record rec-ord of 312,576 units in July, output of cars and trucks threatened to take another slide this month as strikes at supplier plants cut down the flow of essential materials to booming assembly lines. Because a walkout of 80 tool and die workers at the Dura division di-vision of the Detroit Harvester Harves-ter company in Toledo, Ohio, affected af-fected shipments of door handles han-dles and interior hardware, Studebaker was compelled to lay off 4,000 employees and Hudson 12,000. Meanwhile, Ford announced that unless labor differences were resolved re-solved in plants of seven critical suppliers, it would be forced to reduce re-duce operations. Strikes were tying up production of ball bearings, interior in-terior hardware, truck wheel rims, bolts and clutch disc assemblies and covers. In calling for a settlement of the disputes in supplier plants to assure continued high auto and truck output, Henry Ford II took a crack at Walter Reu-ther, Reu-ther, CIO - United Automobile chieftain, who had asked for an industry - wide union-management conference to increase production. The answer for higher output lies in uninterrupted uninter-rupted activity, he said. General Motors, Chrysler, Hudson, Hud-son, Packard and Nash echoed Ford's stand in rejecting Reuther's bid for an industry-wide conference. Of all the producers, only Studebaker, Stude-baker, Willys-Overland and Kaiser-Frazer Kaiser-Frazer accepted the UAW invitation. The threatened drop in production produc-tion came as' manufacturers boosted boost-ed their August goals to 453,148 units. With July output showing a big jump over previous months, the half-year total for 1946 aggregated 1,292,214 cars and trucks, of which 862,628 were passenger autos. FURLOUGH PAY: In Bonds G.I.s entitled to pay for unused furloughs will receive their money in bonds if the amount exceeds $50 under a bill approved by congress. Disbursements in securities was decided de-cided upon after the administration warned that payment in cash would have an inflationary effect. To be issued in amounts of $25, the bonds will not be redeemed before be-fore five years, thoygh they can be applied against U. S. government life insurance or national service life insurance before that time. In cases where excess sums do not total $25, payment will be made in cash. Under terms of the bill, G.I.s are to be credited with leave time at the rate of 2A days per month between September 8, 1939, and August 31, 1946, with payment for the unused portions. In addition, a buck private would be entitled to a subsistence allowance of 70 cents a day and a staff sergeant to his own subsistence allowance plus $1.25 for dependents. t WAR PROFITS: Garssons Kick Denving the war department's charge that it made excessive profits prof-its on war contracts, Erie Bas"in Metal Products, Inc., asked the U. S. tax court to bar the government's efforts to obtain a refund of $358,-874.58 $358,-874.58 for the fiscal year ending November No-vember 30, 1943. The company was an important unit in the Garsson munitions empire em-pire under scrutiny of the senate investigating committee headed by Senator Mead (Dem., N. Y.). Representative Rep-resentative May (Dem., Ky. )was charged with having exerted his influence in-fluence with the war department for awarding the combine war contracts con-tracts and high army officers in Washington, D. C, were shown to have frolicked at the Garssons' expense ex-pense and pushed their interests. Erie Basin asked the tax court. to overrule government refusals to consider certain rentals, salaries, maintenance expenses and depreciation depreci-ation charges as legitimate expenses. ex-penses. Further, it asserted that the U. S. failed to consider such factors as efficiency, reasonableness reasonable-ness of costs and its contribution to the war effort in charging it with excess profits. RED CROSS: Continue Work German war prisoners stood to benefit as the International Red Cross committee, meeting in Geneva, Ge-neva, Switzerland, authorized the collection of $3,750,000 from affiliated affili-ated societies and governments for relief work up to 1950. Humanitarian in its motives and recognizing no distinction in race, color or creed, the IRCC record of achievement during the war was especially noteworthy. The IRCC revealed that its activities included maintenance of a 27 million card index for 15 million prisoners of war; 900,000 inquiries to regiments regarding missing soldiers; visits by 420 IRCC delegates to POW camps in 56 countries to check on conditions, condi-tions, and safe delivery of 107 million mil-lion letters or postal packages. Of .the $11,250,000 the IRCC received re-ceived during six years, the Swiss government and its private citizens contributed nearly $5,000,000. France was next in line with $980,-000, $980,-000, followed by Great Britain with $720,000, the U. S. with $650,000 and Germany with $500,000. HUNGARY: Riding High Uncontrollable inflation hit Hungary Hun-gary much as it hit Germany after World War I, leaving a stricken populace with bushel-baskets full of money virtually worthless in buying buy-ing power. As postwar production and distribution distri-bution collapsed in the face of heavy demand, the government printed more and more currency to IHPt Street car fares went up 2,100 times in inflation-ridden Hungary. meet the need for additional money for the soaring price level. Whereas a clerk or typist earned about 425 pengoes ($85) monthly before inflation, he got 32,000,000 by March. Street car fares went up 210,000 times and flour 2,200,000 times. Five pengoes were worth a dollar before inflation, but by May, one billion were valued at only 10 cents. As a last resort, the Hungarian government gov-ernment decided to retire the pengo by this month and replace it with a new currency unit, the florint. OPA: Farmers to Pay More Farm machinery prices were scheduled to rise as the revised OPA took steps to comply with the compromise bill designed to assure as-sure dealers of adequate profit margins. Heeding the congressional provision provi-sion for restoring dealers' peacetime peace-time profit margins, OPA granted a 6 per cent boost in retail ceilings for farm machinery. Previously OPA had compeUed dealers to absorb ab-sorb part of higher manufacturers' prices on the grounds that large volume and less selling effort would afford sufficient return. Higher fertilizer prices also an peared in the offing as OPA granted producers of ammonium sulphate a 10 per cent rise in ceilings and per mitted importers of Chilean nitrate of soda and nitrate of soda-potash an increase of $5.50 a ton in their top. BOOZE FIGHTING: State Business Boozefighting - in the curative sense of the word-is an official business of Connecticut now thn the state's new Commission on Alcoholism has taken over the YalP Plan clinics for treatment of alco holies. .u- Three other states have ear marked funds to further treatmpn" of alcoholics and 14 cities through out the country have well estab alcohor'"603 fr edUCati- on |