Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Issue Is Joined on Labor Measure Senate Group Okays Atlan ic Pact Unemployment Increasing in Nation EDITORS EDITOR'S NOTE When opinions arc expressed In these columns they ther nrc those thoo of Western Newspaper Union news analysts and not necessarily o ol of this newspaper LABOR BILL Issue Is Joined The long-awaited long fight on repeal of ot the Taft Hartley labor law had begun Debate had started in the senate with Chairman Elbert D. D Thomas Thomas D. D Utah of ot the labor committee opening for the adminis adminis- Government forces were committed to an attempt for outrIght outright outright out out- right repeal of the measure but all Indications pointed to a compromise compromise compro compro- mise or nothing Meanwhile John L L. Lewis declared de de- de dared that the and CIO dO had betrayed organized labors labor's cause by reportedly agreeing to a com corn promise Urging adoption of the administration administration adminis adminis- bill Thomas said the voters last November decided the Taft Taft- Hartley law was a mistake The administration seeks to replace it with a mod modified version of the New Deal Wagner act Thomas called for quick repeal of the Taft- Taft Hartley law In telegrams to all aU 96 senators Lewis head of at the United Mine MineWorkers MineWorkers Workers union said he had heard and CIO ClO leaders had agreed to accept four oppressive amendments amendments amendments amend ments to the administration bill blU An official pooh Lewis' Lewis charges of a a. secret deal As a matter of fact fac he said the convention L in Cleveland recently recently re reo re- re agreed to accept the four amendments that borr ed Lewis These four amendments called for 1 t 1 Power for the federal government govern govern- ment to seize plants involved In national emergency strikes 2 T The Te e filing of financial returns by unions 3 Tb The filing of non Communist and nd non Fascist affidavits by workers workers workers work work- ers and employers alike 4 4 A guarantee of free speech In labor relations ARTICLE ARTICLES 5 What Import The senate foreign relations committee committee com corn in reporting favorably the North Atlantic pact had almost bogged down on Article 5 5 That is the proviso in the pact which binds signatories to the rule that an attack attack attack at at- tack on one pact member would be bean bean bean an attack upon all aU and binds each to take such action as is deemed necessary including the use of armed forces to restore and maintain main main- tam tain the security of the area THE WORDING of Article 5 created in some minds a fear that its effect would nullify the right of congress to declare war and might put this power arbitrarily into the hands of the President Senator George D. D Ga who had expressed concern about the interpretation interpretation interpretation in in- of Article 5 finally said that he was satisfied that under it the President could not declare war nor employ troops to enforce any particular action aimed at certain cere tam tain European countries without congressional approval Senator Pepper D. D Fla took the same tack He said the provision provi provi- sion slon neither adds to nor subtracts from the war powers of the President President dent as in commander EVEN SO it was a difficult point The extent to which a President might go toward involvement in war was dramatically disclosed Inthe Inthe in inthe the Roosevelt administration when the commander chief admittedly committed the nation to everything every t thing hing short of war in what was purported to be an attempt to avoid war Under such a policy actions may go so far at the chief chie executive level that there would be nothing I left for tor the congress to do but declare de de- de clare dare war in a situation in which It had no authority and no voice NEW WEAPON Top Secret What is being produced at the Plutonium plant at Hanford WashIngton Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington NO one would say but Carleton Shugg deputy general manager of the atomic energy commission said the plant was handling a product that needs a better name than deadly poison Was it the weird atomic fog about which there had been so much speculation Shugg wouldn't say He said Instead that he be was merely discussing certain phases in the production of plutonium plutonium one one of two fissionable materials used in making atom bombs The other is uranium SHUGG'S statement was made during his testimony before a senate senate senate sen- sen ate appropriations subcommittee during the congressional investigation tion of the atomic program Barred yf t I Steve Trumbull Miami Herald Herald Her Her- ald aid reporter was barred from the Florida state senate cham- cham chamber ber after he be questioned the manner in which a bill was brought before beCore the senate It was reported his cheekbone was fractured when he was struck by a senator tor UNEMPLOYMENT Sudden Sudden Increase Whatever its significance many economists were expressing concern concern concern con con- cern over a sudden upswing in the number of unemployed in the na na- na- na tion BETWEEN April and May the number of US U.S. jobless had Increased Increased increased In in- creased by to bring the totally unemployed to a probable postwar high of more than nillion million These figures were released released re- re leased eased by the federal bureau of the census The rise in the unemployment figure figure figure fig fig- ure at a time when it usually drops might be attributed the bureau said to the sudden rush of students for summer or j permanent permanent jobs The bureau did say that two-thirds two of the increase in unemployment could be traced to young persons of high school and college age AT the same the bureau reported reported reported re re- re- re ported total unemployment was rising principally as a result of seasonal activity on farms Despite the conflicting reports there here were some among the country's country's coun coun- try's industrial and economic leaders leaders lead lead- ers who feared the unemployment situation might grow worse before getting any better SOVIETS Appraise Guests In Moscow the Literary Gazette sought to evaluate for its readers the Russian appraisal of foreign diplomats and newspapermen who live ive in the Soviet Union THE Gazette printed a poem written by Sergei childrens children's children's childrens childrens children's chil chil- drens dren's poet playwright and coauthor coauthor coauthor co co- co- co author of the Soviet national anthem Translated freely Sergei's poem went this way We met them you and I These friends who arent aren't friends The uThe jackal wolf wol and swine And journalistic snake In other words those who are being sent here We know them all and can recognize recognize rec rec- them Even if f we arent aren't doctors NATURALLY there will be zo Io comment from the pilloried pilloried not not while they're still in Russia HE HEART ART STUDY Used Emphasis in heart study now rests in the development of artificial cial hearts Dr Alfred Allred Blalock of Baltimore widely-known widely blue-baby blue specialist was the authority for the statement SPEAKING at a general scientific title tilie session of the American Medical Medical Medi Medi- cal association Blalock said The most interesting thing in surgery but still in the experimental stage is the development of mechanical devices as substitutes for the heart He reported that he considered as most promising a pump developed by Dr John Gibbon at the Jefferson Jeffer son school of ot Philadelphia Dr Gibbons Gibbon's pump will pump blood as the heart does Dr Blalock Blalock Blalock Bla Bla- lock explained He is working on onan onan onan an artificial lung to aerate the blood II BLALOCK said Dr Gibbons Gibbon's pump replaced the heart of a dog for 48 minutes and the dog re reo re- covered If It one can substitute for the the A heart for 30 to 45 minutes one can open it and see what one Is work working ng ngat at he said saith With a heart substitute substitute substitute tute we can do more things inside the heart II ARMY BOSS Was Buck Private I IThe The Cinderella story would take on new interest for ie e GIs GI's In Un Uncle le Sams Sam's army And there was a particular rea rea- son Gordon Gray a time one buck A private In the army was nominated b by President Truman to be secretary secretary secretary secre- secre tary of at the army GRAY now undersecretary Is 40 years old a North Carolina publisher pub pub- lisher Usher and lawyer He has been acting secretary since the resignation resignation tion of Kenneth C. C Royall on April 27 Gray born in Baltimore is not an army career man But he served three years in the army en en l listing as a buck private in 1942 But he had something on the ball then and rose to captain with the army group in Europe THE new secretary would be the governments government's youngest head of at an executive department For the past 16 months Gray has been the army official responsible for the industrial industrial industrial indus indus- trial mobilization and procurement official on his department JOHN L. L LEWIS A Severe Blow A federal district court of appeals dealt a heavy blow at john frohn John L. L Lewis and arid his United Mine Work Work- work work-I ers Lewis and his union found guilty of contempt of court for failing failing fail fail- I ing to call off oU the 1948 coal strike had been fined I They appealed The higher court upheld the finding and indications II were that Lewis and his attorneys would lose no time appealing to the United States supreme court for a I final decision THE CASE grew out of Lewis' Lewis I defiance of the Taft Hartley law I last year for ignoring a court order Issued under the law that directed the miners to call off aU a old month-old strike in In the soft coal fields The district appeals court ruling made It clear that the decision was based on the fact that Lewis and the miners waited until the demands demands de de- de mands were met before finally callIng callIng calling call call- ing off the strike when they had been previously directed by the court to do so Justice E. E Barrett Prettyman said on behalf behal of the court THE SUPREME COURT has held held involving these same appellants appellants ap- ap that he who fails falls to obey a court order is punishable for criminal contempt That decision governs us here The supreme court already had upheld the conviction of Lewis and his miners for defying a similar court order in the 1946 coal strike It t was that ruling to which Judge Prettyman referred NAZI WITCH Not Through Yet Ilse Use Koch called the witch of Buchenwald infamous German prison camp of World War II definitely deli deli- was to face a German court courton on charges of mistreating Germans at the concentration camp ONCE sentenced to life imprIsonment imprisonment imprisonment imprison imprIson- ment by American occupation force verdict on charges of unspeakable unspeakable unspeakable un un- un- un cruelties to prisoners Use Ilse had her term commuted to only four years by US U.S. Gen Lucius D. D Clay on grounds of insufficient insufficient in in- sufficient evidence Among other charges she faced was one of having made lampshades lampshades lampshades lamp lamp- shades out of human skin The announcement that Use Ilse would have to stand trial again was made in Munich by an official of the Bavarian ministry of ot justice THE US U.S. authorities have turned over to German officials the records records records rec rec- of ot the case in order that they might determine whether she could be tried by the Germans for mistreating mistreating mistreating mis mis- treating their own citizens at Buchenwald where she was the wife wile of the Nazi commandant Top Man 4 b br r r 4 k Top man in the graduating class at West Point US U.S. military mill mili tar tary academy Richard T. T Carvolth Carvolth Car- Car Peckville Peekville Pa had his choice of any arm of oC the military mili mill- tary services He lie chose the air force and here adjusts his second second sec see ond lieutenants lieutenant's bars on his brand new uniform JET FIGHTER Tests Complete The United States air force was proud of its newest jet fighter fighter- the Lockheed F 90 which had successfully suc sue completed its flight tests at the flight test base in California There was an air of secrecy about the planes plane's performance Some facts which did emerge were vere The plane weighs pounds pound climbed feet in 10 minutes but that wasn't its maximum the pilot lU a i I |