| Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS plan to remove food subsidies atom bomb figures in allies postwar diplomatic movements released by P western newspaper New spacer union EDITORS NOTE when opinions are expressed in these coln columns ra ns they aro are those thos ez 0 t western newspaper unions news analysts and not dot necessarily ot of this neW newspaper A I 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 1 ap 7 w 9 1 it impi WV vv A X A ar no longer capable of doing heavy labor and sick diseased and dispirited pi german prisoners of war released by russians trek through their return to homes in the west SUBSIDIES time removals designed to hold down living costs during wartime government subsidies to food producers and processors will be gradually removed to lessen the impact on the civilian price structure stabilization director john C collet revealed tentative plans call for the abolition of subsidies on vegetable shortening by december 1 1945 cheese not later than february 28 1946 and the rollback per pounds on pork not later than march 31 1946 with the remaining pork payment scheduled to go not later than june 30 1946 in addition subsidies on canned and frozen vegetables dry edible beans prunes and raisins will be terminated at the close of the 1945 crop year with dairy production fluid milk feeder cattle beef sheep and lambs and flour payments expected to be ended not later than june 30 1946 with the department of agriculture estimating the cost of food subsidies for the fiscal year yea ending rending next june 30 at payments on slaughter of livestock are expected to total dairy production flour and beef cattle LABOR INDUSTRY discuss bargaining backed by chieftain william green and representatives of management burly john L lewis of the united mine workers ripped the CIO proposal to tie wages into the present labor industry conference in washington D C and demanded that talks be conf confined ined to establishing machinery for settlement of disputes in spearheading spear heading the opposition to the CIO proposal based upon president Tr wage policy lewis lewi s asserted that the problem of pay should be left to collective bargaining and not strait jacketed by any formula based on cost of living in granting employees increases and adjusting their price structure employers will be governed by competition to assure reasonable costs lewis said even as the 36 labor and management representatives pitched into their task trouble brewed in the automobile and steel industries with the CIO asking the government to intervene following collapse of negotiations tiati ons with general motors and U S steel corporation over wage increases to maintain wartime take home pay ARMY step up discharges mostly european vets originally marked for redeployment to the pacific 50 point enlisted men pre presently sent home on furlough or on temporary duty in the U S have become eligible for discharge the army reported at the same time the army announced that no enlisted man with 21 or more months month of service since september 16 1940 will be sent overseas for perm permanent arient duty except for language specialists regular army personnel and volunteers also exempt from overseas assignment sign ment are officers who have 33 or more months of service or medical officers with 30 months except for those who have chosen to remain on active duty are regular army men or are classed as scarce specialists cia lists nurses who are 30 years of age or have 12 points will not be sent overseas FOREIGN AFFAIRS atomic talk the red hot question of sharing the atomic bomb featured the recent diplomatic news as the U S britain and russia continued their polite tug of war for favorable positions in the construction st of the postwar world dussias Rus sias tough little foreign minister molotov started the ball rolling in an address on the eve molotov of the anniversary of the red revolution declaring that in this scientific age no such discovery as the atomic bomb could long remain a secret and that eventually the soviet would have it telling the world that possession of the atomic bomb should not be used as a diplomatic deap weapon on in obtaining advantages molotov also said that its real effectiveness for preserving peace has yet to be tested indirectly answering molotov in britaina Brit ains house of commons the equally tough foreign minister ernest bevin declared that it was entirely proper for britain canada and the V U S to proceed slowly on the question of sharing the atomic bomb in view of its tremendous pot potentialities enk in finally determining t the h e bombs di disposition ernest bevin he asserted statesmen and not scientists should make the final decision because of their closer acquaintance with political conditions in addressing commons common s bevin rapped russia hard stating that britain had met every territorial demand of the reds only to find them increasing their claims particularly for control of north africa and eritrea on the british lifeline to the east meanwhile secretary of state byrnes projected the U S into the international picture with the revelation of this coun arys support of an allied commis commission commissio n to guarantee free access to the black or mediate mediterranean seas through the vital dardanelles Darda nelles and straits and the release of it alys territorial sec byrnes views by calling for an allied commission byrnes favored revision of th the e present montreux agreement entrusting turkey with control of the strategic straits but countering the russian demand for military bases along the vital waterways to assure free passage in submitting its territorial views italy agreed to readjustment of its french and yugoslavian boundaries and establishment of allied bases in its former north african colonies but asked for retention of certain bertal near eastern possessions of economic value all these diplomatic problems plus consideration of the question of jewish immigration in british controlled palestine were reportedly part of british prime minister att lees scheduled discussions with president truman CHINA battle on full scale civil war loomed in china as negotiations between communists and nationalists bogged and the reds took to the offense in m an effort to prevent chiang kai shek s forces from infiltrating into their northern strongholds strong holds As a result of the outbreak of hostilities tili ties the U S decided to withdraw american troops from the scenes of combat the yanks having been used to aid nationalists in taking over former jap held territory removal of U S units did not signify any reversal of policy in supporting chiang however with reports that the administration would continue to offer him material aid thus did the threat of civil war following close upon VJ V J day dampen long suffering chinas cainas hopes for a period of peace and tranquility in which to unify the nation politically and lay the foundation for economic development and modernization FINLAND try leaders charged with refusal to mediate differences w with ith russia and prosecuting war on the side of the axis instead eight prominent finnish leaders were arrested by the new government and scheduled for early trial in the peoples court in the unprecedented movement of a country to punish former leaders for their official acts vaino tanner dominant finnish politico of 1941 was accused of failing to take advantage of a U S british offer to mediate with russia that year tanner tamer again was named for failure to accept a U S proposition to conciliate finnish russian differences in 1943 along with former president risto foreign minister henrik ramsay prime minister edwin Linko mies gen rudolf walden and finance minister ko POLITICS no trend continued democratic domination of the big cities and republican inroads in small municipalities marked the recent election results and offered little clue to a political trend prior to the all important congressional elections in 1946 most significant feature of the balloting was the CIOs failure again to capture the mayoralty in detruit pit P mich motor car center of the U S and united automobile workers stronghold calling upon the unorganized residents of the city to rally for an impartial rather than a labor dominated administration mayor jeffries won reelection election re over CIO candidate by a comfortable for fort table ble margin maintaining their dominance over the big municipalities the democrats handily won the mayoralties mayoral ties of new york boston pittsburgh and cleveland while republicans won back buffalo N Y and new haven conn after more than a dozen years I 1 sets air speed record exciting possibilities for speedy postwar air travel were opened with the record breaking performance oj of britaina Brit ains jet pow ered gloster closter meteor piloted by copt capt 11 J wilson smashing the former official mark of miles per hour lour set by capt fritz frits wendel vendel of the german air force in 1939 wilson averaged miles per hour in lour four runs over a mile course at herne bay england at wilsons Wil sons rate of speed excited statisticians ticiano figured that a plane could travel nonstop around the horld its in 41 hours from los angeles calif to new york city in in 3 hours and 59 minutes from chicago III it to panama in 3 hours and 49 minutes and from chicago to mexico city in 2 hows hours minutes NAZI SPY tipped og off FBI asserting that his only intention in accompanying saboteurs sabot eurs to the U S in 1942 was to get out of germany a nazi spy disclosed the whole enemy plot for damaging U S plants and facilities and terrorize terro terrorizing ng civilians to the FBI leading to the ear early ly roundup of the entire clique landed by submarine let off with 30 years imprisonment for his disclosure and testimony at the trial resulting in the execution of six of the saboteurs sabot eurs and a life sentence for another the spy george dasch named the other conspirators and furnished information which enabled the G men to cover their movements and track them down in new york and chicago ill in detailing the saboteurs sabot eurs mission dasch told the FBI that the TVA was marked for destruction along with important industrial plants the hell gate bridge in new york city ohio river locks and important railroad in addition the saboteurs sabot eurs planned to terrorize civilians by planting time bombs in depot lockers and crowded stores |
