Show WEEKLY NEWS ANALYSIS braden resigns U S shifts ts policy approve bill to unify firmed armed forces corn borer onslaught foretold braden quits spruille braden longtime advocate of and principal force behind this count rys hard handed attitude toward fascist inclined argentina has resigned as assistant secretary of state in charge of latin ameri can affairs to succeed him in that post president truman was expected to nominate norman armour of new jersey topflight career diplomat armour previously served a as s american envoy in the argentine and is well known and liked there latin american reaction to his appointment armour was expected to be highly favorable acceptance of Br adens resignation by president truman was generally regarded as a strong implication that the united states is ready to swing back to a policy of appeasement in latin america it was anticipated that the AM changed anaed attitude at ja bould 0 u 1 d take the srm of just a little appeasement of latin L a t i n american fascist dictators particularly juan D peron president of braden argentina braden long a foe of peron and his methods told mr truman in a letter that personal responsibilities compelled him to return to private business his resignation is scheduled to become effective june 30 departure of braden from the state department followed closely on the heels of his being overruled by the administration on two basic issues in inter american relations supplying of arms to latin ameri can nations and formation of a military alliance with other republics in the western hemisphere braden had opposed both of those policies NEW DANGER fear corn borer already impaired by constant rains and cool weather which have harried the corn belt this spring the corn crop faces a new danger of infestation of corn borers because t i the late season the this year the damp weather did not permit much corn to go in during the normal may 20 to 25 planting period so most of the corn was planted later wet cold weather also held back the emergence of the first brood of borers and as a result the late planted corn which would ordinarily be safe from attack now will be subject to damage from the pests last year the corn borer caused 37 million dollars crop damage throughout the nation the borer threat now is so serious that special radio broadcasts have been set up to keep farmers aware of the pests progress STEP STE P DOWN bigue jrygue leaves brank rank hague hammer swinging political boss of new jersey tor for more than three decades has resigned as mayor of jersey city one of the last representatives of the era of great american political bosses hague made it clear that he will keep his power as city county and state democratic chieftain and that he will remain as vice chair man of the Perno democratic cratic national committee hague said that his nephew frank hague eggers would succeed him in the mayoral spot until the next commission election in 1949 TRAVAIL labor and 1948 the hotly contested labor bill to impose restraints on strikes and unions emphatically stamped with top heavy congressional approval poses for fora president harry S truman possibly the most difficult decision he has faced since he took his seat in hi the white house to veto or not to veto that is the question and the answer undoubtedly will be reflected in the 1948 presidential election backers of the bill however are certain that the measure will become law regardless of the final presidential decision because both houses of congress are able to muster enough votes to override a veto some major provisions of the bill on which the fate of the next election may be riding would 1 authorize the government to seek injunctions to halt national emergency strikes for 80 days while mediation is carried out 2 ban the closed shop and forbid various kinds of lesser strikes and boycotts 3 permit law suits against unions for unfair labor practices 4 create a new agency outside the labor department de p artmont art ment to mediate labor disputes ONE HEAD unified services unification of the nations armed forces advanced a step toward reality when the senate armed services committee approved a measure to put the army navy and a new separate air force under the unified direction of a secretary of national security the proposed legislation has been placed on the congressional calendar for senate action this session and debate on the measure was expected to begin in july high ranking naval officers assailed the bill as merger legislation which the navy has consistently opposed however the unification bill specifies that there shall be no merger of the military services it would establish a national security organization under a secretary of national security with cabinet rank the secretary a civilian an would fix general policies and exercise general direction of the army navy and air force those three departments would be headed by secretaries without cabinet status the measure also provides tor for a war council made up of the tour four secretaries and the chiefs of staff of the services a research and development board and a munitions board not for free things like this cannot be made light of congress has been told by a large match company that the excise tax of two cents on 1000 matches is the beginning of the end of about the only thing our people get tor f or nothing the free distribution of billion wooden and paper matches annually about 60 per cent of total production is fast fading from the american scene the company complained no 0 bird story the milwaukee road news bureau respectfully announces that so I 1 far this spring it has received no report of robins or other birds nesting in the roof sides or running 1 nin g gear of any of the cars almon along g ailt its s system consequently the president general manager superintendent or other humane official has not issued an order to the effect ithe that a car must not be moved until the eggs are hatched hell stay pitt A af 1 sa vm hungarian minister aladar sze gedy maszak says he will reject Hun garys new procommunist pro communist governments order calling him home from his duties as envoy to the united states PARTITION line Is drawn people of india restless and disturbed under the impact of the proposed british plan to partition the seething country into separate hindu and moslem states have been told by lord louis Mount batten viceroy of india that the nations chandi dissents AIo Moli handas andas K ghandi stood barefooted on his belief that partition is bad for india Indi indiabet abut but said that he would not oppose the british plan for a hindu moslem division of the country armed forces would be used to prevent trouble during the transition from british rule to independence Mount batten emphasized that moslem india and hindu india would be completely independent under the partition plan and that each would be wholly free to leave the british empire or remain as a dominion he said that partition was against his own better judgment but added that it was the only way that india could achieve independence speedily i some suspicion continued meanwhile that great britain was splitting india in order to retain influence at least in the moslem part but much of the bitterness arising out of that attitude had vanished TO THE SWIFT atomic race directing attention of the united nations to the fact that the world is galloping down the uranium track to the finish line in an atomic race the united states has repeated its plea for international ownership and operation of dangerous atomic activities frederick osborn american representative said that 10 12 or 15 nations had set up lip atomic agencies since the U N atomic energy commission began its efforts for world controls a year ago he said large sums have been appropriated tor for development of nuclear fuels in such countries as england canada and russia osborn further sharply attacked russian proposals for an international inspection agency of atomic activities coupled merely with orders from the united nations to national authorities that plan he said would bring U N in constant conflict with the national agency of every cou country 11 it would breed antagonisms dis trust and suspicion from the start osborn asserted BUSINESS why wh failures most important cause of business failures during 1946 was the scarcity of merchandise and materials says the U S department of commerce which has been investigating business growth and failures since the end of the war nearly 47 per cent of the firms contacted in the departments survey listed shortages as either the major or a contributing factor in their failure that percentage ran higher for retailers of durable goods and for contract construction concerns difficulties in securing competent employees took second place among the reasons for business failures particularly in the field of manufacturing and transportation third among the failure factors was the substantial increase in labor costs and fourth place went to lack of customers a surprising disclosure in view of the great demand for consumer goods built up during the war other causes of business failures in 1946 were listed as lack of capital rent increases and difficulty of getting equipment and repairs FEED PRICES to stay up prospects for the 1947 feed crops will be an important influence on feed prices according to a department of agriculture report the very strong foreign demand for grain is expected to continue to su support aport prices through 1947 and into 1948 although if production of feed is as large as in recent years feed prices probably will decline at least seasonally in the last half of 1947 corn prices this summer the report predicted will average higher than the june 1946 ceilings but lower than in the summer of 1946 after price controls lapsed the departments survey went on to reveal that reports in early may indicated that approximately million bushels of 1946 corn would be marketed this season that figure would be 50 per cent greater than the 1938 42 average and 14 per cent above the previous record sales from the 1944 crop farm sales of other feed grains from 1946 crops also ran generally larger rail crisis looms fears of a minor crisis in railway shipping in mid july have been expressed by federal transportation experts in view of an apparent slowdown in car construction contributing factors are mounting industrial production coupled with increasingly heavy wheat export movements and officials predict that the minor crisis could swiftly develop into a major transportation por tation block unless steps are taken to ease the traffic slowdown or prevent it from occurring with fate of the now financially embarrassed office of defense transportation still undecided the interstate commerce commission has been requested to assume full responsibility for continuing orders requiring full loading of boxcars in the event that congress does not extend the life of beyond its june 30 expiration date meantime has sent investigators to freight car building companies to probe reports that allocated steel tonnages ton nages have not gone entirely into the a month car construction program reports for the first half of M may ay indicated that only 1751 freight cars were built 81 short choit of the number constructed during the coric corresponding sp period in april explanation offered by the car builders is that inadequate steel supplies and strikes strike s within the industry have been responsible for the grave decline in freight car construction st that view however is discounted by federal officials who point out that the government forced the steel industry to provide the necessary tons of steel for the a month goal AIR SAFETY may add chutes parachutes for passengers may be installed aboard at all transport planes in an effort to curb the number of fatalities among air travelers wallace S dawson safety director of the civil aeronautics board says his office has been studying feasibility of such a plan for several months but has not yet reached a decision adding that there is a chance that CAB may recommend the move paramount consideration is who would pay tor for the cost of putting parachutes on transport planes dawson said pointing out that the plan would mean also that every airplane crew in the country would have to be given special training in supervising passengers in use of the chutes admitting that in some cases parachutes would be useless dawson said that in most accidents pas would have time to don parachutes and escape DISPLACED persons at a hearing before a house judiciary subcommittee sub committee a proposal to admit displaced persons from europe to the united states evoked accusations that the bill was a move to grant admission to crackpots communists and troublemakers ble representative stratton rep ill author of the measure termed his the only logical humane and practical alternative to letting displaced europeans starve or to supporting them indefinitely at a cost of million dollars a year the bin bill would permit persons a year to enter the united states as non quota immigrants over a four year period principal opponents of Strat tons measure were representative gossett dem tex and representative rep ky who held that U S immigration laws should be strengthened rather than weakened all that glitters q 0 4 4 of baroda packs a fortune in jewels on neck fingers wrists and ears and she can afford it because her husband an indian maharajah mah arajah is one of worlds wealthiest men BROTHER ACT r another nazi adolf hillers Hit lers foster brother joseph mayrhofer Is no angel either he is going on trial shortly before the peoples court at vienna on charges of carrying 0 on illegal nazi activities and of profiteering under the nazi regime in austria mayrhofer will be the third of the late fuehr ers relatives to be prosecuted hitler when he was still adolf gruber was a ward of father a farmer and after he left the nazi chief kept in close contact with the mayrhofer family joseph became an early nazi party member in 1932 being elected by the national socialists to the linz city council mayrhofer who later became an insurance agent is said to have profited hugely from his relationship with hitler less than a year after austria was absorbed into the third reich brother joseph was appointed commissioner for insurance released by western newspaper union |