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Stalemate
THE United States dropped a
hint last week that Russia
and her satellites might be able
to buy more American goods if.
they would mend their ways.
It is the first intimation and on
what conditions the U.S. might ease
a tight, IS-months-old ban on -Soviet
purchase of industrial materials. -It
came from Secretary of Commerce
Charles Sawyer in a speech at the
Canadian International Trade Fair in
Toronto.
: Sawyer said Washington is utilizing
export control to implement Ameri
can foreign policy but declared that
no "rigid formula" had been set up.
He declared:
"It is clear that so far as possible
w should, and we wish to, permit
the free flow of trade . between all
parts of Europe and between all
parts of Europe and the United States,
. . . If improvement In relations be
tween eastern and western Europe
takes place, we can look for a larger
volume of trade to the benefit of both
east and west."
Vain Search
Meanwhile .at Geneva, Switzerland,
representatives of east and wwt la
bored in search of a way of exchang
ing information to help expand trade.
' The new Committee on Develop
ment of Trade, set up by the United
Nations Economic Commission for'
Europe, deadlocked on its primary
problem collection of information
on which ah increase of east-west
trade could be built.
Paul R. Porter, American delegate
to the Commission, said, "The meet
ing was a Complete failure, resulting
from refusal of the Russians to dis
' close any information which had not
already.' been published. -With . this
Russian refusal, the satellite coun
tries, regardless of their own view,
fell in line
No Soviet view on the meeting
could be obtained.
Officials of the commission's secre
tariat do not view the meeting as a
complete failure, however. They say
the meeting brought out all the issues
Involved and governments of east and
west now can determine how far they
wish to go. x
Wool Conference
Also In progress, at Florence, Italy,
was the 18th International Wool Con
feience, concerned with economic,
technical and scientific problems In
the production and manufacture of
wool. The U.S., Canada, the Union of
South Africa and Australia are par
ticipating, A technical commission is studying
expects of reform of the international
price and quality arbitration system
In force before World War U.
There was unofficial talk that world
Wool stocks, which had been expeit
- ed to last four or five years, were
Dealing exhaustion.
Science
Prospecting by Air
Buried oil and miner ab now can b
f junri 'quickly and economically by
aerial prospectors. A new technique
makes use of magnetic, gravity nd
electrical records of the earth taken
frim the air, which show' likely spot
where oil and mineral, may lie.
This aerial prospecting takes but a
fraction of the time needed for iru.s
toinary ground surveys and costs run
from I 20th to l50th as much.
A Canadian engineer, Hans Lund
berg of Toronto, described the new
method last week ina report to the
United Nations Scientific Conference
on CMiservation and Utilization of
Resources. .
In use now with airplanes is the
magnetic airborne detector, developed
duung the war to find submarine
It records differences in magnetic
A Id in the earth, and indicates the
lota t ion of likely oil-bearing rock or
ether ore-bearing formations.
"Already the new routine has been
tried in many parts of the world and
in all cases it has proven superior,
cheaper, faster and more - revealing
than routine surface surveys," Lund
Vberg said.
Sidelights
The Post Office reports that the
Writ Virginia town of Mole Hill pop
ulaUon S3, has officially changed its
name to Mountain.
Id Buenos Aires, Princess Ileana of
the exiled Romanian royal family
pawned a jeweled crown for fSt.000.
It is now for sale at the municipal
pawnshop.
At Dravosburg, Pa., work on a new
high-level bridge across the Monoo
gahela River has been "detoured"
around a steel pier on which robins
built a nest and hatched two eggs.
Bridge workers built a steel rage
about the pier to insure privacy and
put up a sign: "Danger Keep Away
IX Not-Disturb Robins.
In Houston; Tex, Ella friddle fUed
suit for her seventh divorce in five
years from her husband George. Ella
is W, George 59. They married for the
first tisne in 1944 after a Lonely
Hearts Club correspondence. George
and Ella were each married four
'times before they started marrying:
each other. George has eight children
and Ella two. "Six months married
was a long time." EUa said. She said
it was the longest time they had been
. married at one time since they met
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QUAKE DAMAGE Workers prepore to repair the 100-ton cupola
atop the Olympia, Wash stats copitol, damaged In th April
13 earthquake. The 210-foot fnctined hoist will be used to
lower the massive stones on m cradle held by steel cables.
People
Haven for Gerhart
Gerhart Eisler, described by a Con
gressional committee as the t p Com
munist agent in the United States,
succedod last week In ducking be
hind the Iron Curtain.
The British dragged him off a Pol
ish liner a fortnight ago at the request
of tie UJ5. State Department. Eisrier
had jumped bail of $23,500 dad stowed
away on the liner in New York. Then
a British court ruled the United States
had failed to prove Eisler had been
convicted of an extraditable offense.
The dciilon held that Eisler's falsifi
cation of passport information was
not the equivalent of perjury under
English law. ,
Ki'sler triumphantly quaffed a mug
of English. beer, addressed a few Brit
ish Communist meetings. The best
thing for the rest of the world, he
FUGITIVE EISIER
... freed to Kmm . .
orated, would lie a few more setbacks
like this for American Imperialism.
Lajt Monday he boarded a Czech
airline plane and made a non-stop
flight to Prague. lie was accompanied
to the London airport by three Czech
embassy official but his name was
not on the passenger list and his bag-'
gatt bore no labels.
iivr L I iiiJ4i ruin iitii iii ictrjim
had iued him a travel permit Eisler
nlAnnod to p. k to P.,!. rv4
then t Grrmany where h" had been
offered a professorship at Leipzig
University in the Rusitan zne.
In Prague, Eisler said U.S. Attorney
General Tom Clark j. a "damn
foul" who ought to be fiu-d. In Wash
ington, Clark said be did not care to
comment '
' Last week theCommuxust-dominated
Peuple's Congress, meeting in the
Soviet sector of Berlin, named Eisler
one of 400 candidates for the People's
Council, highest body in the republic
to be set up in the Soviet zone of
Germany. . ,
In Short . . .
Killed: In a traffic accident near
Washington. W. A. Julian, treasurer
of the United States, whose flourished
signature appears on every piece of
currency.
Placed: By the. Bolivian govern
ment, the whole country under a
state of siege; officials declared strik
ing AMietn tin miners brought about
a "state of civil war"; the death ton
exceeded 30, including two American
engineers, i
Agreed: President Truman and bis
Congressional leaders, en a new Sen
ate legislative program, giving repeal
of the Taft-Hartley Act priority ewer
the North Atlantic Pact
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Dates
M n day, Jane t
Anniversary (fifth), D-Day. in
vasion of Normandy, France.
American Medical Association
meet at Atlantic City, N. J.'
Swedish Flag Day.
Anniversary (105th), Yjmrvg
Men's Christian Association.
Wednesday, Jane 8
International labor conference
op-n3 at Geneva, Switzerland.
Thnrsday, June 9
National Open golf tourney
opens at Medinah, III.
Saturday, Jane 11
Blmont Stakes horserace. New
York.
Botany
:New A Ho Ha Strain
f American agriculturists, combing
'the world for alfalfa to resist diseases
attacking th American variety, came
acruss a single, amazing alfalfa plant
in a Turkish goat pasture.
The 'plant covered several square
feet. It grew like Bermuda grass,
which no known alfalfa .had done.
From a single root, runners spread,
putting down roots at short intervals,
and sending up leaves at that point.
The alfalfa plant has changed ge
netically in self-defense. The Turkish
goats had grazed so closely that the
alfalfa could not produce seed. But
instead of dying, the plant had devel
oped runners which replaced seed.
I This single plant was carefully dug.
iand nurtured during a month-long
trip - to the United States. Here the
'new alfalfa proved unadapted to this
country.
Thereupon, says Dr. P. V. Cardoo,
administrator of the Agricultural Re
search Administration of the U.S. De-
t m . ti . . . .
Ptment ofnAir?cuJtare-. J?:
" wrT called in to finish the goats
work. The breeders produced seedless.
still like Bermuda grass, that grows
well in the nurseries of several states.
1 The potential value of this new
Strain, says Dr. Cardon, cannot be
overestimated.
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PARIS: Talk, Tallcj Talk
THE Big Four! conference went into a familiar tactic last week
in Paiis. The, foreign ministers stopped talking on a subject on
which thy could Inot agree and started talking on. another. ThVtheory
is that somewhere in the shifting, if they can talk on long enough and
about enough topics, someone somewhere may make a concession.
The subject on which the Big Four deadlocked was the political
unification of Germany. Soviet Russia
Radio
War of Words
American and British broadcasts to
Russia now are breaking through
Soviet' jamming only for brief and
scattered periods.
Voice of America and the Brit
ish Broadcasting Corp., working to
gether, are able to use only 61 stations
to beam broadcasts over the Iron
Curtain. A Voice spokesman said that
as many as seven and eight Soviet
transmitters are being used to jam a
single Anglo-American station.
Boh British and Voice programs
have been drasticailry changed. AH
music and features have beln dropped.
Only news, commentaries and head
line summaries are broadcast on a "24
hour a tfay basis. j
The Russians had beer jamming
Voice programs intermittently for
months Two months ago they stepped
up jamming operations, virtually
drowning out Voice! broadcasts in tfce
Russian language.
The Voice has 36 transmitters 1ft trie
United States, four in Munich, two in
Manila, one in Honolulu and five
leased from the BBC. '
A new Soviet jammer, used for the
. first time last week, consists of eight
inui-al note broadcast simultaneous
ly at high power. The discordant blast
bloti out everything else and makes
'use of earphones extremely unpleas
ant. Britain
Conservatives Alerted
Winston ChurchilL has railed on the
Conservative Party to mobilize for a
possible general election in Britain
thm fall.
The ruling Labor Government is
empowered to call a general election
at any time. Normally, general elec
tion are held every five years but
there is no specified time for ballot
ing. The last general '. elec tion was irip
1945 when the Labor Party swept
into power. The Conservatives made
substantial gains in the elections of
big city, borough, district and rural
governments in England. Scotland
and Wales early last month
Churchill said he had heard the
opinion expressed that it might be
better for the Conservatives not to
win the general election and to leave
the Lahontes "to reap the folly they
liave sown." -v
He said he hoped and believed "no
such attempt to sabotage the free
workings of constitutional goverh
ment" would be supported by the
British people.
Stage
Good Will Ambassador
U.S. Ambassador Lewis Douglas
and British public leadWs praised
American stage and so et-n star , Dan
ny K3e last week at a luncheon in
the Savoy IIoteL
Douglas, wearing black glasses to
shield his injured left eye from the
glare of Kl;eg lights, described Kaye
as "a better ambassador ol good will
fthan all the. sedate personalities of
officials."
The Lord Mayor of London de
clared: "I'd like to see every meeting
fjol ministers preceded by a little turn
of Danny Kaye. That might even
have an effect on Mr. Vishinsky."
Kaye, in a nearly gagless speech,
said be thought emotions were the
same the world over. The actor, cur
rently at London's Palladium, has
made a terrific hit with the English
public, attracting repeated visits by
members of the royal family.
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recently. f.S. He wasn't there.
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wants a centralized government with
headquarters in Berlin and. of course,
a veto power on all decisions. The
western powers want a federalized
democratic state for, all Germany
under the Bonn constitution, already
adopted by their three occupation
rones.
Both sides were adamant. Each re
fused to accept the other's views
even as a basis for discussion.
Experts on the staffs of foreign min
isters foci now that the only hope for
any agreement in Paris is to arrive
at some working arrangement for
revival of east-west German trade
ahd solving the Berlin problem. Thoj,e
were the next questions on the doc ket.
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AERIAL: Big Bomber Probe
The B-36 Controversy
The B-36 is the world's biggest
bomber in mass production. It is ca
pable, says the Air Force, of deliver
ing a formidable bomb load any
where in the world.
Its specifications are awe-inspiring.
They include winjspread 230 feet,
speed over 350 miles an hour, opera
tional ceiling over 40,000 fevt, range
10,000 miles with a 10.000-pound
bomb load, armament of 16 20 mm.
cannon, rrew of lS. It is powered by
six "pusher" engines with a total of
more than 20,000 horsepower The
newest models are equipped with
four jet pods.
Service Rivalry
The Air Force claims the B 38 is
the nation's first line of defence, that
no fighter plane can shout it down at
the high altitude at which it operates.
The Navy says its new Banshee jet
fighters can take the B-36, and so can
some foreign makes.
Since the first of the year, the Air
Force has cancelled contracts with
four other aircraft companies in or
der to build up its fleet of B-36s. In
January the Air Force, with approval
by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, cancelled
orders for 81 lighter bombers to con
centrate on the big 38. In April or
ders for 43 Boemg bombers were
voided to find funds for 33 more
B-Ms.
Louis A. Johnson, who took ovet
as Secretary of Defense on March 28,
quickly squelched the inter-service
fight One of his first acts was to halt
rtataZS RtIiUTU Jswup of PrWcj Afy
was macf ofYer weckffng at Vallaurit, Franca.
Atonp Quarrel Splits
Official Washington
TTO fight between David E. Lilienthal, chairman of the United
States Atomic Energy Commission, and Sen. Bourke Hickenlooper
tH-Ia) lst .week became one of the most bitter, wide-open quarrels
in recentWashington. history. It concerns the whole atomic energy
program and the way it is being handled.
The eyes of the world, some of
V
Dr. Cecil Nertbeef executive
secretary f the LondoVr Mission
ary Society: "The freedom given
to the Christian Church irK Soviet
areas is a freedom of condescen
sion and sufferance."
Frank J. StarseL general man
ager of The Associated Presi.
"Courage in the editorial chair is
the real bulwark of freedom. Our
way of life cannot survivexonce
we succumb to the sugar-coated
pill instead of the .bitter draught
of straight, unvarnished facts and
truths.
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ADVISE OTHERS
construction on the Navy's superear-,
rier.
Congress Stirs
Within the pat foitmght, reper
cussion of the feud boiled up on the
floor of Congress. Rep. James Van
Zandt fit I'a.i, a Navy Reserve rap
tain, called for. a complete Cohgres
btonal investigation. He noted the fol
lowing claims:
Consolidated Vu.tee Aircraft Corp.,
maker of the B-3G. is cooti oiled by
Floyd Odium, reported to have been
a heavy contributor to the Demo
cratic campaign last fall.
Defense Secretary Johnson fas a
director of Consolidated V'ultee be
fore he Ix-came a Cabinet member.
Theje were ruljfTors that Air Force
Secretary Symington is about to re
sign and accept an executive post
with Consolidated V'ultee.
Fact and Fiction
Democratic House leaders rallied
to the defense of Johnson and Sym
ington but quickly agreed that an in
vestigation was necessary to sift fact
from gos:p about bomber procure
ment and the relations past, present
and future of top defense 'official j
with commercial aircraft interests.
Chairman Carl Vinson (D Ga.) of
the House Armed Forces Committee
personally asked his committee to ex
pedite the inquiry and made arrange
ments to conduct public hearings.
One of the first prospective wit
nesses was Air Secretary Symington.
He said he welcomed the inquiry as
a chance to prove that VancZandt's
statements about him were " obvious
ly and demonstrably false."
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fmm wfiifa Onan railway aiea look oa. Nan-Cammwnist
worHra damandW payment tW watt rathe than east marks.
them hostile, shifted from the Paris
parley of foreign ministers to the
more dramatic and potentially more
dangerous show in Washington.
Hickenlooper began the quarrel by
attacking Lilienthal. charging him
publicly with "incredible mismanage
ment and demanding his removal.
Lilienthal, a veteran of many Con
gressional hearings, was stung by the
attack. He said it went Jbeyond "politi
cal scuffling." and accused the senator
of "smear" and ' un-American" tactics.
Ceefrmtatioa st
The Senate-House Atomic Energy
Committee, of which Hickenlooper is
former hairman, ppnod a public
inquiry into the charges. P.th an
tagonists confronted each other be
fore the committee with Hickenlooper
presenting hi case first.
Both llickenl.ter and Ijlienthil
asked full public exploration of alt
the facts. The AKC chairman sa:d the
gravity of the charges was sikIi that
unless they were prove. 1 f.ile they
would "undermine the confidence 'of
this country and the people of west
ern Europe in the principal security
enterprise of this country.'
Sen. Bi ten McMahon (D Coon), the
joint committee chairman, said he
hoped the inquiry could be com
pleted in three weeks, but indicated
h was not too optimistic about this.
Full. Fair, Factual
"The Arreric.in people are not oing
to !e satisfied with anytlvn? Ies than
a' pretu complete report from 'the
rommitti-e, and a f.iir one." he said
"Let it be written on the events that
are to come.'
The. Federation of American Scien
tists, which include; many of the men
who' helped develop the atomic bomb,
lined up,m Lilienthal's suppoit. They
said on the basis of evidence, so far
presented, none of the attacks on com
mission policy appears well-founded.
Sen. .Robert Taft of Ohio. Senate
Ropa.blican policy leader, supported
Hicke.ilooper. Taft soid he voted
agiinst Lilienthal' confirm -it mn t vo
years ago because "I didn't think he
'was the right man for the job and I
don't think so now."
Labor
Cars & Coal
The Ford Motor Co. and the CfO
United Auto Woikers opened t.'ks on
a new contract last week while the
bulk of the company's lOo.OoO woik
ers stifl were in the doldrOms ('-. uU
ing ihr: the 24 -Jar strike on pP '
up char p,es whirh ended lat Siintbv.
Ford t xerutivei estimated it m,"ht
take another week to 10 da s h-f i e
full production could be rcMiml.
They said the key River flour plant
will have- to get inio full swin; mak
ing parts befuie th.- otner 41 Fin d
plants in the nation can rew.li nor
malcy. Crfitract negotiations had been
slated to start May 15 but Ford V
fused to entT them while the flare
up strike continued In the nw con
tract to start July 15, the umon if
asking a ?10O month pension plan,
health -and andent insiiramv anJ
ionie foi m of wage increae.
Safety in Mine
Meanwhile in Washington. John L.
Lewis aked 'Congies to art now for
greater safety in the nation's coal
mines by apiroving a propositi ixll
giving federal inpc-Urs the ribt la
c lose diiruiL-rous mines.
Lewis dramatically denounced
some mine operators as "poll-cats'
with no concern for human life. Tes
tifying before a Senate labor sub
committee, the United M"ine Workers
chieftain iUid 1,259.081 miner hav
been "maimed, mangled and killed"
in the coal mines during the post 19
years.
Glowering and shouting. Lewis said
if he had the powers of a magician,
he would march "the quick and the
dead before Congress so that law
makers might see for themselves the
blood and gore on which the indus
try is run.
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