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Show I WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS Miners Cited on Contempt Charge; Compromise Reached on Gleo Dill; U.S.-Bulgarian Relations Severed (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions are expressed In these columns, they are those of Western Newspaper Union's news analysis and not necessarily of this newspaper.) ! Out and In B"? "T?P W: 5 pr flw W "B&f vwm V?m t ie, I I i X1 " i I - - - I ,4. it 5 ; L . A 1". ..J .' ! SHARING: 'One Great Hour This Sunday March 12, there will occur one of the most unique events in the history of spiritual elevation and man's efforts to help hib fellow man. For, on that day some 100,000 churches with approximately approx-imately 25 million members will join In a coordinated appeal for the support of overseas relief and reconstruction re-construction projects. THE APPEAL will be conducted under the slogan: "One Great Hour of Sharing," and will be made simultaneously in all cooperating churches as part of the regular worship of the day. Church World Service, which is conducting the campaign, is the overseas relief agency of 23 cooperating coop-erating Protestant and Eastern Orthodox church bodies In addition addi-tion to the denominations affiliated with it, it is supported by the following fol-lowing interdenominational agencies: agen-cies: Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, Foreign Missions Mis-sions Conference of North America, Amer-ica, American Committee of the World Council of Churches, and the United Council of Church Women. These affiliated organizations understand un-derstand better than perhaps any other organization can the vast need of relief and reconstruction overseas. That so many millions of helpless people may be helped, that they can be given new hope for the future, is one of the chief goals of these many organizations. Last year, Church World Service shipped materials amounting to more than eight million dollars to 50 foreign countries. These relief shipments included about 24 million mil-lion pounds of farm products, clothing, bedding, medicines, hospital hos-pital equipment and miscellaneous items. But Church World Service knows that more, much more is needed. It is for that reason that the unified uni-fied campaign of "One Great Hour of Sharing" is to be conducted so that all who wish to may have a hand in the organization's humanitarian humani-tarian work. PITMEN: A New Angle Federal Judge Richmond B. Keech wrote a new angle into the continuing contin-uing fight between the United Mine Workers and the coal operators. opera-tors. The judge cited the miners themselves for criminal contempt on grounds that the 370,000 UMW members had "willfully and wrongfully" wrong-fully" ignored his back-to-work order. THE NEW ANGLE was that this time the UMW's boss, John L. Lewis was not even mentioned in the citation. Observers pointed out that the citation could lead to heavy fines against the union. On two previous occasions, Lewis was named defendant when strike issue came into federal court. There was some speculation that omission of Lewis' name from the contempt citation might mean that the government felt that Lewis had been really sincere when he ordered or-dered his miners back to work but no government official would comment com-ment on the subject. Judge Keech's action came as the east was gripped with bittel-cold, bittel-cold, with many housewives' coal bins nearly empty. In the meantime, violence flared in the eastern Kentucky coal field as roving mobs wrecked equipment equip-ment at several mines and beat up at least 11 miners. Ten men were beaten in Knox county and one was attacked in Harlan county. SIXTEEN AUTOMOBILES loaded with six men each visited a number of mines, Kentucky state police reported. Twenty-eight bullets bul-lets were fired into a mine man-car man-car hauling, miners up an incline, and two automobiles belonging to miners were overturned. As for the hope of the contempt citation to end the mine walkout, no one would say how effective it would be. It was recalled ie' there is no limit on the penalty a federal court may impose for contempt, but the Constitution forbids "unusual "un-usual and excessive" punishment, and the supreme court in 1947 reduced re-duced the UMW's contempt fine from three million dollars to $710,000. William Dudley Pelley (left), former Silver Shirt leader, was released on parole from the U.S. prison in Terre Haute, Ind., where he had been serving a 15-year sentence on a crim-lal crim-lal sedition charge. But as he left the prison gates he was promptly arrested again, because be-cause North Carolina has requested re-quested his extradition in order to try him for violation of the state's securities law. OLEO BILL: A Compromise Congress had reached a compromise compro-mise on what should be done about the bill to repeal federal taxes on oleomargarine. One factor helping the compromise along was the striking out of a senate requirement require-ment that colored margarine sold at retail be put up in triangular packages. But the conference committees which effected the compromise put in strict labeling requirements. IF THE SENATE and house accept ac-cept the compromise, it would become be-come effective July 1. The bill had been in the hands of the conference confer-ence committees since February 2. The House passed the measure last year, with one senate version being approved in January of this year. It had been agreed by both houses to knock out federal taxes on oleo, but dairy interests had held out for the triangular-package requirement, arguing that this was necessary to make sure nobody got margarine thinking it was butter. HERE are the taxes the bill would wipe out: One-fourth of a cent a pound on uncolored margarine, 10 cents a pound on the colored form; $600 a year on manufacturers whether their output was colored or not; $480 a year on wholesalers of colored col-ored margarine, $200 on wholesalers whole-salers of the uncolored, $48 on retailers re-tailers of colored margarine, and $6 a year on retailers of the uncolored uncol-ored variety. Unaffected by the bill are laws in 21 states banning manufacture or sale of colored margarine. PADUCAH: War Capital? The city of Paducah, Ky., more famous as the birthplace of Irvin Cobb and the home of Vice-President Barkley than for most anything any-thing else, wasn't any too happy about a new honor which might come to it. The city had been proposed by Rep. John Rankin (D., Tenn.) as the United States' secondary capital cap-ital in the event of war. The representative's proposal met with definitely mixed feelings. The most frequently heard plaint was, "Why do they want to pick on Paducah? We've always lived quietly and peacefully, and would like to continue living that way." SEVERAL PADUCAHANS got a lot of humor out of Rankin's saying that one reason Paducah should be the war capital is that "it is close to Mammoth cave." Paducah natives na-tives knew that Mammoth cave is 150 miles from Paducah, and, as several put it, that would be quite , a dash to make in the event of an atomic bombing. Giving a .serious answer to Rankin's Ran-kin's proposal, John Oehlschlaeger, president of the Paducah chamber of commerce, said: "REPRESENTATIVE RANKIN'S plans poses such a gigantic problem prob-lem it would be silly for me to comment com-ment on it at this time. But I might ask this question. Can you conceive con-ceive of the sudden shifting of the capital of 150 million people from a metropolitan center to a town of 45,000 population? Think of the problems of housing, providing adequate ad-equate building space, and traffic, to mention only a few, that the town would face." It would be a big problem, indeed, in-deed, and one likely to be so immense im-mense that Representative Rankin's Ran-kin's proposal will probably never get out of its original stage. Muscling In BULGARIA: U.S. Cuts Off Uncle Sam finally "got his dander dan-der up" and began to get tough with the Communist - dominated Balkan countries. In one of the toughest U.S. foreign policy actions since World War II, this nation broke off diplomatic relations with Bulgaria and ordered home American Amer-ican Minister Donald R. Heath and his entire staff. At the same time, the state department de-partment demanded the recall of Dr. Peter Voutov and his smaller Bulgarian staff in Washington. DEVELOPMENTS in the same vein included a ban on American travel in Hungary and the ordering order-ing from Communist China of all American consuls. The U.S. action was seen as a climax cli-max to what the state department called a "long series of intolerances intoler-ances and indignities" against the U.S. legation in Sofia. In that, the state department was on solid ground because since the legation was established in 1947, Bulgarian officials and the controlled Bulgarian press, the department said, had been "constantly "con-stantly denouncing and insulting the United States." The department depart-ment charged the Sofia government govern-ment had carried on an "unprincipled "unprin-cipled campaign of prosecution" against Bulgarian employees of the legation. THE DIRECT CAUSE of the break was said to be Bulgaria's demand of January 19 that Heath be recalled for "interference" in Bulgarian internal affairs. Charges of spying also had been made against Americans in the legation. The break was significant because be-cause it indicated a stronger attitude atti-tude by President Truman and state secretary Acheson. toward Moscow satellites with which the U.S. has been waging postwar disputes. dis-putes. , However, there was no cause for alarm as to military repercussions. For, as Winston Churchill put it, diplomatic recognition of one nation na-tion by another does not mean espousal es-pousal of that nation's policies or attitudes it is an act to secure certain conveniences. Conversely, when diplomatic relations are broken brok-en off, it means chiefly that those conveniences are at an end. but not necessarily military action. SEARCH: No Sharp Guide The inviolability of a man's home against search without due course of law meaning a properly executed warrant is now in question ques-tion as the result of a recent supreme su-preme court decision. The court, in a 5 to 3 ruling, held that when police legally arrest a man, they also may search a limited lim-ited area under his immediate control con-trol for evidence of a crime. But the court didn't say exactly how far the police may go. Justice Felix Frankfurter protested pro-tested vigorously. Dissenting from the opinion, he declared that the "decision makes mockery of the fourth amendment to the constitution constitu-tion which bans unreasonable search and seizure. He added that the court by its action had overturned a long series of decisions and argued that the tribunal should "show respect for continuity in the law." The majority opinion was written writ-ten by one of the new justices, Sherman Minton, who said, "What is reasonable search is not to be determined by any fixed formula. The recurring questions of the reasonableness rea-sonableness of searches must find resolution in the facts and circumstances circum-stances of each case." The decision came in the case of Albert J. Rabinowitz, who was charged with the sale of four altered al-tered postage stamps. When he was arrested, officers -Searched his office and found 573 more stamps. These were made the basis of a new charge that he possessed and concealed altered stamps. Bing Crosby, part owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates, gives rookie pitcher Paul Pettit the once over as Pittsburgh opened a rookie school. Pettit is the high school southpaw who was given a $100,000 bonus when he signed with the Pirates. TRUMAN AIDE: Red Link Charged In all the hysteria over Soviet spying in connection with the A-bomb A-bomb and the H-bomb, there was a general tendency to hurl charges and let the result attempt to justify the action. Latest, but highest circles to be linked with Communist front organizations, or-ganizations, was a White House speech writer whom Senator McCarthy, Mc-Carthy, Republican of Wisconsin charged was a fellow-traveler. MEN'S CLOTHES: Going Up Early in 1950, there was much newspaper space devoted to feature fea-ture articles in which a happy era of low-cost men's clothing was about to descend upon the American Amer-ican male. Indeed, the old standby the $35 suit was pictured as coming Into its own again and a man could cheerfully anticipate clothes buying. buy-ing. But apparently It was all a dream, for clothing costs are up. Defense Move Ever since World War II there has been considerable discussion of a proposal to scatter U.S. agencies and industrial manufacturing centers cen-ters so that in the event of another war the nation would not face the threat of complete paralysis from bombing attacks. Now, the proposal had the support sup-port of the head of the office of civilian defense. Dr. Paul J. Lar-sen. |