Show L LOR OR W ON Limited Controls T looks as if the cost of certain I IT key food items isn't going to be controlled very soon after all Price Administrator Mike Di Salle who came to Washington prepared to do a job for the housewife got gota a rude shock when he read the price-control price law thoroughly For Forthe Forthe Forthe the farm lobby had neatly ins inserted certain exceptions to price control and one of them is grain In brief Di Salle has no power whatsoever to control the price of grain or any food made from grain gram So Di Salle Sall will have to go back to congress in January and get the law rewritten Aside from rom this the new price czar has decided that he will not try to control a whole variety of 01 prices but will stick chiefly to a afew afew afew few living cost items plus basic metals and war production raw materials ma ma- Note Note Note-Di Di Salle arrived in Washington Wash Wash- Washington ington from Toledo Ohio to find he had no telephone no staff and no full legal power to stop price rises All he had was a heap of angry letters letters letters let let- from housewives At first he was tempted to buy a return ticket to Toledo but he has been getting to work at 6 am a.m. going to bed after midnight and is gradually working order out of chaos Russian War Plans Outguessing the Kremlin is extremely extremely extremely ex ex- ex- ex difficult these days but here is how American experts trained to do this job size up the immediate war future No 1 Soviet strategy will probably probably probably proba proba- bly be to grab off oft weak and isolated nations one by No 2 will be to lure the United States into committing men and resources resources resources re re- re- re sources in a big war in Asia In this case Russia would throw enough armament into the battle to aid local Communists to hold down American strength No 3 While we were tied up in Asia Russian armies would drive across western Europe The latter move is not expected this year however The Kremlin wants to entrap entrap entrap en en- trap us in other areas first A summary of Soviet war strategy can be paraphrased as follows Russian policy polley is to expand its borders as far as ns the indifference or timidity of its neighbors allow and to hold or draw back when met by determined determined determined deter deter- mined resistance and wait walt for fora a new chance to spring at its victims Next probable Soviet victim will willbe willbe willbe be French Indo-China Indo already torn tom with Communist revolt Siam Burma and Malaya would probably follow Another weak spot which may fall tall to Russia without a battle is Iran Already Soviet pressure has caused Iran to ban rebroadcasts of the Voice of America and the British BritIsh British Brit Brit- ish Broadcasting company on local radio stations Meanwhile a secret Russian station has been calling Kurd tribes to revolt Truman and MacArthur President Truman came into a cabinet meeting some time ago carrying a copy of th the New Republic lic the liberal weekly magazine During the cabinet session Secretary Secretary Secretary Sec Sec- of ot Defense Marshall complained complained complained com com- about the difficulty of getting getting getting get get- ting cooperation from General Mac- Mac Arthur He indicated that MacArthur MacArthur MacArthur Mac- Mac Arthur was a law unto himself Truman Truman Truman Tru Tru- man listened finally held up a copy of the New Republic This is the way to handle that tha t bird he said Cabinet members after the meeting meetIng meetIng meet- meet Ing immediately sent for copies of the magazine It contained an article article article arti arti- cle by former Secretary of the Interior Interior Interior In In- Harold Ickes criticizing MacArthur MacArthur MacArthur Mac- Mac Arthur for violating directives from I Washington v Happy Chandlers Chandler's Tears Senate colleagues always knew B 8 Baseball a s e b ball a 11 Commissioner A A. 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B Happy Chandler as one of ot the happiest men in congress when he served as senator from Kentucky But his smile turned to tears at his annual banquet for major league club owners in Tampa Happy had just been informed by his guests that his year a contract would not be renewed No one was expected to show up for the banquet that followed but Chandler went through with it nonetheless News reports hat the party proceeded without a hitch were wrong It started at pm p.m. two two hours late All but New York Giants' Giants Horace Stoneham and St. St Louis Cards' Cards Fred came is the big gun behind behin Chandlers Chandler's Chandlers Chandler's Chandlers Chandler's Chand Chand- lers ler's ouster The unhappy host refused to take his customary seat at the head table table ta ta- ta ble but sat by himself with his back backI t to his guests Several times he was forced to leave be to room to wipe his eyes Chandler sitting alone said he was sitting where he ho felt he be be- longed Once he sent out for a box of ot cigars and presented them to Joe Cronin of ot Boston as an ironic gift for tor Cronin's Chandler anti vote The atmosphere was tense and electrifying Hardly anyone dared speak to other guests |