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Show . WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS , Act to Check Labor Disputes; Honor 4-H Leaders in Chicago; Hit Jap Monopolists in Roundup Released by Western Newspaper Union. (EDITOR'S NOTE: When opinions r expressed In thee column, they are those of , Western Newspaper Union's new analysis and not necessarily of this newspaper.) BRITAIN: Pull in Belts No self-contained economic unit like the U. S., Great Britain, faced ' with a fight on its hands to regain world trade markets to obtain foreign for-eign exchange for importations, took its first big pull on the belt with the I labor government's recent increase in overseas purchases of raw ma-! terials for manufacture into ex-, portable goods at the expense of con- sumer items j Timber, paper-making materials and wool were among the raw materials mate-rials whose importation was stepped up while purchases of food, drink, tobacco and oil prod vie U were reduced. re-duced. In concentrating on the export of processed goods in order to recapture recap-ture trade markets, the British hope to reverse the wartime necessity of importing more than they shipped out. Because of the need for converting convert-ing plants to war production, Britain was unable to balance purchases and foreign sales, with the result that friendly nations have some six billion dollars worth of claims against it. In this respect, a long-term long-term U. S. loan would help the British Brit-ish repay this tremendous debt while at the same time enabling them to maintain a fair level of imports T.o shore up living standards. j Lindy Scores in Combat 1 1 1 'i I In the Pacific as a civilian expert on I long-range flying, Col. Charles A. IatuI-1 htTtrh nnf nnlv nirlfA in mrrfnuna the I ' ' f ' r ' ' ' I ,( - i y . I " ' -A . . , - A A t TJ " ' - ' ' ' t ; I & i ' gg' ' Receiving ZW scholarship E . y ifi j A ..' . - awards in held crop contests pt ',1 -u congress in Chicago were i f i I 1 A (lcft to r'Bht) David I,errera- 19' f l ' V " Mesquitc, N. M.; Bryan Coates, . if f j S " 17, SmithHcld, N. C.j George Mil- ' I " ler, 20, Flemington, N. J., and Uiw II 1' i 1 Merle " 11 Humboldt, Kans. ft iA I efficiency of f. S. planes but also proved a cracker-jack cracker-jack fighter-pilot as well. Concerning Lindbergh1 Lind-bergh1 s technical activities, Gen. George C. Kenney, chief oj the Far Eastern air forces, declared that j through his expert knowledge of throt- LABOR FRONT: V. S. Acts Pressed by congressional demands de-mands for government action to check industrial strife following failure fail-ure of the labor-mangement parley in Washington, D. C, to shape effective effec-tive procedure for voluntary settlements, settle-ments, President Truman asked for legislation that would serve to bring warring disputants closer to agreement. agree-ment. In requesting authority to set up fact-finding machinery, which would throw full light on the merits of a labor-management quarrel and indirectly in-directly force settlement under public pub-lic pressure, the President suggested the very machinery which the union and capital conferees at Washington shied at recommending in efforts to preserve their bargaining advantages. advan-tages. Under the President's proposal, fact-finding boards of disinterested citizens would be empowered to call upon individuals and demand records rec-ords to secure all information needed for a just settlement. To be evoked when collective bargaining and conciliation failed, the new machinery ma-chinery would also require a 30-day strike deferment to permit the drawing up of evidence for public study. At the same time, the President ordered 225,000 United Automobile 1 ' I Workers members to return to their jobs at General Motors Mo-tors plants and also told the company to get production going go-ing again. Presidential action ac-tion in the G. M. strike followed sharp maneuver-ings maneuver-ings by both company com-pany and unions in an effort to force settlement of the CIO's demands for a 30 per cent wage increase to maintain main-tain high wartime asking the UAW to permit re-sumntinn re-sumntinn nf nroduc- last two counts of the indictment, I charging offenses against humanity, mass murders and enslavement. The Reds will cover Nazi activities activi-ties in the east and the French those in the west. 4-H: Award Youth The tops in a membership of 1,700,000 youths who produced enough food during the war to supply sup-ply 3,000,000 fighting men for a year, collected sufficient scrap metal met-al to build a fleet of ships and bought or sold $200,000,000 of war bonds, 1,200 rosy-cheeked country boys and girls attended the 4-H's 24th annual congress in Chicago. A somber note at the meeting was struck by Secretary of Agriculture Agricul-ture Anderson, who predicted that 50 per cent of the young people on farms today will eventually have to seek other occupations because increasing efficiency and mechanization mechani-zation will permit greater production produc-tion with a smaller working force. Sharing the limelight at the congress con-gress were Donald McKnight, 21, ol Street, Md., and Mary Arlene Nelson, Nel-son, 20, of Humboldt, Kan., national leadership winners,, and Ora V. Callahan, Cal-lahan, 19, of Rushville, Ind and Eldora Janzen, 18. of Kremlin, Okla. achievement champions. All received re-ceived $200 scholarship awards. In 10 years of 4-H work, young Callanan has earned $15,397 from livestock, corn and soybean projects, proj-ects, while Miss Janzen's income has totaled $4,119 in nine years. Chosen on a basis of submitted records and dental and medical examination, health champions include in-clude Eleanor E. Chapman, 17, oi Centerburg, Ohio; Louise Hale, 17, of Randlett. Okla.; John Harold Savoy, Sa-voy, 17. Cameron, La., and Harris Reinboldt, 16, Marshall, Minn. One of six to win a $200 scholarship scholar-ship award for food preparation, Mrs. Cora Jean Applegate Var Dyke, 19. of Helena, Mont., said though her husband of five months never complimented her for hei cooking, he has gained 23 pounds on it. JAPAN: Widen Net With the recent arrest of 59 prominent prom-inent Japanese, Gen. Douglas Mac-Arthur Mac-Arthur reached right into the ranks of the imperial household and the big business monopolies in a roundup round-up of suspected Nipponese war criminals. crim-inals. A relative of Emperor Hirohito and a supreme war councillor foi many years. 71-year-old Prince Mor-imasa Mor-imasa Nashimoto topped the list ol those scheduled for detention, with big business leaders including Ki-yoshi Ki-yoshi Goko, former president of the Mitsibushi Heavy Industries company; com-pany; Seihin Ikeda, Mitsui financier and former governor of the Bank ol Japan, and Chikuhei Nakajima, founder of a fighter aircraft firm. In addition. MacArthur continued the apprehension of leading political politi-cal and military figures, ordering the imprisonment of former navy chieftains Toyoda and Takahashi, and Field Marshal Hata, who once directed the expeditionary forces in China. Along with Generals Koiso and Tojo, two other ex-premiers were to land behind the bars. Meanwhile, MacArthurs staff furnished fur-nished Edwin W. Pauley, U. S. reparations repa-rations chief, with a complete inventory inven-tory of Japanese industry, including production figures, war damage, plant equipment, and foreign assets. as-sets. Besides furnishing data on what material might be transferred to allied countries in payment of war claims, the inventory also provided pro-vided information on what industries indus-tries might be destroyed in eliminating eliminat-ing Jap armament potential. tie selling and gaJ- charle LlndberIh oline conservation, the "Lone Eagle" taught V. S. airmen how tn obtain the maximum from their engines tn widen their operation range. j He also invented a device for boosting bomb loads. Though Kenney possessed no official information on Lindbergh's reported combat with apst it was reported that the famous flyer had shot down a Zero during a raid on Balikpapan, Borneo, when the Nip dove in on a V. S. bomb- er plastering oil installations. After that, Lindbergh, then 42, was ordered not to make any more fighting missions. WORLD AIRWAYS: . Curb U. S. British efforts to divide world air travel and check U. S. monopoly of transoceanic flight transportation loomed in London's announced intention in-tention of granting American lines additional operating privileges in the United Kingdom if they charge mutually acceptable rates approximating approxi-mating $375. The British declaration followed close upon their refusal to permit Pan-American to increase their scheduled landings in the United Kingdom from two weekly at a New York-London rate of $275 plus tax. Besides Pan-American, the American Amer-ican Overseas airline makes five flights into Britain weekly at approximately ap-proximately $560 plus tax. but intends in-tends to shortly shave this to $375. In seeking a mutually acceptable rate, the British are looking into the future when they will be able to put an enlarged fleet over transoceanic trans-oceanic routes. Presently, they have been confined to use of three American-built flying boats over a southerly winter course, bringing costs for transport from London lo Baltimore to approximately S650 plus tax. UNO: I Agreement Appmved With little real opposition forming, form-ing, congress moved toward approval approv-al of arrangements for U. S. participation par-ticipation in the United Nations organization or-ganization designed to preserve postwar peace. Beating down efforts to curb the power of the U. S. representative to UNO's security council to vote for j use of American forces without prior congressional approval, the senate agreed to the employment of such military units upon the President's order. At the same time, the senate re- , buffed efforts to submit arrange- j ments providing for the number of I men to be assigned to UNO. their preparedness and distribution, and i the nature of assistance and facilities facili-ties to a two-thirds vote of the cham- ber, rather prescribing a simple majority ballot of both houses In addition to the U. S. representative represent-ative to the all-important security council of UNO, with its enforcement enforce-ment powers, the senate approved of selection of a deputy-representative and five members to UNO's genera assembly. i RUBBER: With discussion of postwar rubber supply commanding attention, interest inter-est focused on a report that 16 of the other American republics supplied sup-plied the United States with more j than 92.000 long tons of natural rubber during the period it was at ! war against the Axis. I Figures show that imports of rub- I ber from the other American repub- I lies amounted to approximately 7Mt per cent of total rubber imports -if 1 526.311 long tons receivec from ill! world sources of supply. tion of parts in com- Walter Keuther , , . .nd C. E. Wilson PlantS t0 SUP" ply other auto manufacturers, man-ufacturers, G. M. Pres. C. E. Wilson precipitated a storm within the union itself, with fears that partial re-employment of membership would lead to dissatisfaction of others. oth-ers. Meanwhile, the UAW's Walter Reuther called upon business, farm and religious leaders to study the records of its dealings with G. M. as a proof of its sincerity. WAR CRIMES: Second Count Interrupting the U. S. prosecution prosecu-tion of 20 top Nazis on the first count of the war crimes indictment indict-ment charging conspiracy to wage aggressive warfare, the British took up the second count in the case accusing ac-cusing Hitler's henchmen of promoting pro-moting conflict in violation of international inter-national treaties. In pressing the prosecution, the British were to show how the Nazis worked against international agreements agree-ments in their broad program of conquest, starting with the absorption absorp-tion of Czechoslovakia and the development de-velopment of war against Poland, Britain, France. Denmark, Nor way, Holland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Luxem-bourg, Yugoslavia and Greece. The testimony promised to point up the diplomatic usage of treaties as expedients ex-pedients for obtaining temporary advantages in the international political po-litical play. Following British completion of its last phase of the case, the Russians Rus-sians and French will handle the |