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1 'N I j .--.X- , t , TT rr- - J V. v 1 .. v -1 1 ...,.TA 1 . CZECH PRIMATE Arckbishop Jowl Branr TOGETHER Alger Hiss and wife, Priscilla, ar- STUNT MAN noW under "house-arrest." is acclaimed by rive at court where both took ; witness stand throttle of a Vrowds after denouncing Communist tactics. to deny accusations of trOWdS Otter denouncing tommunul taCtlCS. - IO aen f accusaiions or Capitol Hill Ready T?A J.' Uf clglt ;X tf- THERE has been a conspicuous slackening on Capitol Hill recently of criticism against the European rearmament program. This has been interpreted in some quarters as a sign that it, like the Atlantic Pact, will fee. approved at this session o! Congress. The pact must e ratihed by thobenate alone. iotn nouses must mnrnvo thp arm? aid nrorram. .JV.IV ...W " I O When the lawmakers return from their Fourth of July holiday, the docket will be full of high priority bills to implement the Jforeign policy. Global Policy Congress has approved but not yet ppropriated funds for the second year of the Marshall plan. The House passed a bill authorizing $3,568,470,000 to carry the Econo.mic Cooperation Administration (which passes out Marshall plan funds) through fiscal 1950 but a Senate committee pro posed cutting it so deeply that ECA director Paul Hoffman threatened Xj resign. . .Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (R-Mich.) and other sponsors of the Atlantic Pact were disturbed somewhat over the procedure in tyin the arms-aid o directly to the pact's coattails. Sen ate preoccupation with such domestic legislative problems as labor has de lsyed action on the pact and tended t telescope action on the two issues Into the final period. Dean Acheson's return from the Paris conference, with, a picture of dynamic western progress in Europe which must not be slowed down just when the Russians show signs of needing a breathing spell, has had it effect in Congress. Some senators who once "intended to write reserva tions into the pact have declared they would not oppose it now. No Time to Relax Othc,r events abroad are tending to crystalize -the sentiment that now is n t I he time to lose momentum in the campaign to nalt the spread of com n.unism. In Czechoslovakia, 'there was being unfolded another chapter in t:ir struggle between the Kremlin and the Vatican. Archbishop Josef Beran, whose 9. Oou.OiKI ' Czech Catholics comprise nearly three-quarters ot the pecula tion, was denounced as an agent of ftiegn enemies of the People's Re public. Recently Archbishop Beran sid in a sermon: ' Perhaps sori you will hear all prts of things about me. u miiy her I have' made a confes sion . . . but no' matter .how often you heir . . . I hope you will Relieve in riK.'' The sityation in Berlin still is not harmonious despite the limited ac ciid reached by the foreign ministers at Paris. The airlift is being continued into its secoVid year. Russian troops have seized truck convoys of machin ery and again western allied protests .ate being made. People Showman Ojolden More than 2.000 residents of Bay siclr, Long Isl.Thd, just within the in corporated' limits of New York City, -jammed the estate of theatrical producer-philanthropist John Golden lait Sunday to prove theirs a har monious town. " It was an old-fashioned son fes . dreamed up by Golden as an ex ample of racial, religious and nation al harmony in a small suburban com munity. Everyone who lived in Bay side was invited. The more than 2,000 participated in rollicking renditions o popular and semi-classical songs. Choirs and choruses from 11 local churches and civic groups sang religious and gos-r pel songs. - The affair was held on the; spacious lawnof Golden's 20-acre estate, which slopes down to Little Neck Bay. Golden's estate has been open to neighbor's children for years. The producer- built a baseball Idiamond hr them and play areas where, they can romp a IT they want Golden's butler doubles as umpire-in-chief tp settle the inevitable rhu barbs and insure that all teams get an' equal chance to play. - Golden, who was 75 last Monday, explained his open-door policy this way: "I don't have any children, but I'm making a fool out of the little old woman who lived in a shoe." ' tAU Ri0hU Reserved. AP-Nrwtteaturttt BnK. Elections Canada & Belgium : The Canadian Liberal Party won a smashing political victory last week reminiscent of the 1936 Roosevelt landslide in the United States, ' The Liberals, headed by Prime Minister Louis St Laurent, won 193 of the 262 Commons seats and led in all provinces but Al berta in the great est party triumph in Canadian his tory. The Liberal' Party is Canada's near est, equivalent to U. S. Democrats. Their chief oppo- i nents, the Progres- siVe Conservatives who resemble U. S. ' ... ; ST. LAURENT Republicans, won 42 seats. - It was a personal triumph for St Laurent, 67, soft-spoken French Canadian in politics only eight years, lie became Prime Minister last fall when : W. L. Mackenzie King retired because of ill health. St Laurent broadcast a promise to work . for peace, prosperity and Lib eral party aims. One of these is to extend social security to include a system of contributory health insur ance. Canada's present social security system encompasses a "baby bonus'' that piays all parents about $5 a month toward each child's support. v George Drew, former premier of Ontario headed the Progressive Con servative drive. i The Liberals won 56 of 83 seats in Ontario, 68 of 73 in Quebec. The So? cial Credit Party, which governs Al bertaV won 10 seats there against the Liberals five. The Socialists took 12 seats in five provinces. All 19 Communist candidates lost. So did all the 15 women running. Belgium joined the European swing to the political right in general elec-; tions last week. The Liberal Party, Corresponding roughly to U. S. Re publicans, increased its popular sup port about 65 per cent over its 1946 showing to displace theCommunists as Belgium's third party. ;; The Social Christians, only a little less conservative, made, some gains also. ;ine aociai umiswaiis luiieu vy v three! seats, however, to obtain the Parliamentary majority they called for th clinch holding a referendum on the return of exiled King Leo pold III. Li DAILY HICKENtOOPER RATING Whittaker Champers. later made nningnr wngmwn, larer moot fU U CONGRESS grappled last week with some of its most ticklish domestic 'legislative problems labor, housing and education It's been; virtually seven months since the 81st Congress, controlled by the Democrats, started work. Until this week, except for rent con trol, it hadn't enacted one major item of President Truman's campaign promises or the party platform. The case of labor legislation ap peals typical of much of what Con gress has been doing or rather what it Wasn't been doing. It is not at all certain ; even now that' a new labor law' will be passed to replace the Taft-Hartley Act The Coalitions The House took first crack at writ ing it and narrowly averted passing a bill which would have retained most major provisions of the T-H law, get ting rid of only its name. In the Senate, as earlier in the House, a coalition of southern Demo crats and conservative Republicans administered a crushing defeat to the Administration. They forced inclusion of -plant seizure and injunction pow ers for the President in all emergency disputes affecting national health and safety. The new bill, including the major provision of the T-H law, is to go to the House and thence to the Presi dent u , Mr. Truman's veto is considered practically a certainty and thus the Taft-Hartley law may remain on the uwviva vu uccuine a major issue in me 1950 Congressional elections. The Administration ,iared better on Dates Monday, July 4 Independence Day. - Anniversary (third), Philip pines independence. Tuesday, July 5 Venezuela's Independence Day. Carnival of the Confederacy opens in Vickburg, Miss. Wednesday, July 6 Anniversary (95th), Republi can Party, founded at Jackson, Mich. Thursday, July 7 Anniversary (195th), Colum bia University. Saturday, July 9 Argentina's Independence Day. Ymrt, Ituimitlm I'm CONGRESS Gen. Eisenhower grins in an engineer's cap at DOCK j FIRE Smoke new five-star streamliner "the General," which coal loading dock an inaugural run from New York an inawgwrai tvn irwn rww i wi I o) fl fi V vcrUXVL-DL : Seven Months of Hot Debate v Cmwd, A TREE GROWS IN WASHINGTON housing. Democratic leadership in the House beat back a number of crippling amendments to the multi-billion-dollar national housing bilL A year ago public housing was a focal point in the revolt of the 80th Congress. The Taft-Waener-Ellender housing bill was long ard hotly de- bated but finally was rejected. Deep-seated differences over fed eral aid to education have provoked long and bitter debate in both houses of Congress. When the House returns from its July Fourth holiday it will WAR CLAIMS: Pay Off Coming Up .Nearly four years after V-J Day, the govenment is getting ready to tackle the long, difficult job of paying off World War II claims for damages. Congress authorized the new War Claims Commission a year ago but didn't vote funds for it until recently. Meanwhile, with preliminary claims piling up by the hundreds, the State Department has resorted to form statements in reply to inquiries. The commission is authorized to or der compensation for (only certain types of war losses such as those suf- Ma neuvers Too Realistic The first reaction of British resi dents to air exercises testing defenses of industrial England against an atom bomb blitz was that they were too realistic. Thousands of aroused parents, their sleep broken on a hot weekend by low-flying planes, telephoned the Air Ministry to complain. Many said their children, reminded of wartime blitz raids, ran Screaming from their homes. To all complaints the Air Ministry had one answer: "If we are to pre pare an adequate defense, our prac tices must be as real as we can make them." Referees and aerial expert: of three countries were close-mouthed about results of "Operation Foil" in which British bombers and fighters, Ameri can Superforts and jet fighters, and Dutch jet fighters participated. Operations continued all week with another gigantic raid j planned for this weekend. Targets included air fields in Kent Essex, Suffolk and Sussex and metropolitan centers such as Bristol, Birmingham, London, Liverpool and Sheffield. Interception of "enemy" forces was aided by. good weather, according to an Air Ministry communique. It ad mitted unusual summer fogs helped , attackers somewhat. " But war-experienced Londoners, judging by the sound of heavy bomb er formations overhead, knew with out being told that England's capital had been "heavily pounded in the first two night attacks. to Chicago. Coast Guard aided iv wiiwyw. w wwvi, m mixox iTfncR U UUUa Chrnri consider a new bill fashioned along lines of the one passed by the Senate. School Aid The Senate measure would make available $350,000,000 a year in grants to assist the states. Each state would be allowed funds at the rate rof S5 per pupil, plus additional aid tip to $29 per pupil for the so-called "back ward" states. Former President Herbert Hoover and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, pres ident of Columbia University, both Long, Tough Job fered by Americans interned by Ja panese in the Philippines, and By military prisoners mistreated by Ja panese, German or other captors. The commission can receive claims of all kinds, however, by Americans or other nationals. The commission is to report to Congress by next March with recommendatons for pos sible broader legislation. In the beginning, at least, claims will cost taxpayers little or nothing. They. will be settled from the;sale of enemy property seized in wartime which is estimated to be worth at least 300 million dollars. Whether that will be enough to cover costs of all damage claims de pends on future legislation. The time limit for filing claims has been extended to March 1, 1951. Substantial progress has been made in settling a different type of war claim. In 1946 Congress voted 400 million dollars to pay for property losses suffered by Americans and Fili pinos in the Philippines. The Philip pine War Damage Commission set up under that legislation has paid off about 1,250,000. claims of this type.- Vows Times & Customs A Worcester, Mass., clergyman has changed a, portion of the wedding vows which reads "so long as you both shall live" to "so long as you both shall love." The Rey. Gordon B. McKeeman of All Souls Universalist Church says the original version is "antiquated." He holds it does riot conform to the present cultural pattern of society. "My belief is that marriage legally is a civil ceremony and the basis of marriage is love it has not always been so but on the basis of our present culture it is," the clergyman declares. "If a minister says 'so long as you both shall live he is binding a cou pie to take a vow that is not true ac cording to civil law.' The Rev. McKeeman says he sees Im Sct Monitor no reason to asK couples to take a vow they may not keep. The Universalist Doctrine, he ex plains, ! does not bind ministers to any regulations on marriage but the legal requirements. and flames billow. from EAST-WEST on Staten Island, N. Y. Florida and fireboats battling blaze. Jill out marriage license. They were wed in LA, --- W V V POOR DANIEL have come out againstfederal grants to all states on the grounds that it would open education to political pressure. They advocate federal aid only for those states too poor to sup port a high level of education. Eisenhowers position was criti cized by Sen, Elbert D. Thomas (D-Utah). He pointed out that Eiscn- hower had been educated at federally- supported WTest Point and that the general's present school, Columbia, received $18,000,000 in federal school aid in one year. Quotes Superior Court Judge Joseph E. Warner, who abolished the Customary luncheon jecess in his Northampton, Mass.. court: "Eating lunch makes people food addicts." Chancellor Edmund E. Day, Cornell University: "Freedom, though priceless, is not to be had for nothing." TRADE: Cold Shoulder for U.S. Bilateral Pact Britain and Argentina signed a-five-year trade agreement last week, despite American objections. The pact calls for exchanges of goods worth 50Q .million dollars the first year, and at least an equal vol ume in the other years. Britain will supply the bulk of Argentina's im ports (oil, coal, automobiles, whisky and machinery) in return for an es timated 300,000 tons of meat, cereals and other foodstuffs. The pact commits the two nations to virtual barter. Originally the U. S. State Department protested that this violates the spirit of free competitive international trade. Fear Freeze-Out American; businessmen fear th two-way pact may cut this country off from one of the principal South American markets. The State Department softened its attitude later, however, by observing there was more flexibility in the agreement as finally adopted than had been planned originally. r Actually, three-way trade between Argentina, Britain and the U. S. had been practically impossible since 1947 when the British blocked pound convertibility. Y New Crisis Britain was reported facing another economic crisis. London newspapers said the finance ministers of Australia. Canada, Ceylon, India, New Zealand. Pakistan and South Africa were to meet with Prime Minister Attlee and Sir Stafford Cripps. the -economics czar, in London on July 8. Purpose of the emergency meeting, it is understood, is to discuss ways and means of cutting down the drain ilNITY-Cov. Fuller Warren of Barbara Manning of California Atom & THE atom looms large in every nation's concept of security. Congress was asked last week to declare that the United States will not use atomic bombs!, except as a reprisal weapon in the event some' other nation resorts to atomic . warfare. :1 I So far as has been disclosed, the U. S. is the only country!now:ca,pabl of producing the A-bomb, f The 'proposal was, introduced by Sen. Ralph Flanders (R-Vt)He said the A-bomb, like biological jwarfat and poison gas, is not a military de vice but a means for mass iimurder. Sen. Flanders said if an .Atlantic Pact nation were attacked with , an atomic weapon that in his judgment, would be an act requiring retaliation. ' He emphasized, howeye, that the resolution would in effect tell other Atlantic Pact nations thrf U. S. would expect them to adopt th same policy as that followed by this covintrj-.- . Secrecy 4t Security!! A op government scientist! declares that too many people are confusing secrecy with security. Unfortunately, he says, secrecy and proircssare mu tually incompatible. The result says Dr. Karl T. Comp ton, chairman of the National Re- search and Development Board, is that real security is suffering. "True security," he says, :consists in being as far ahead sis possible of any unfriendly compe.itpr "To a rather astonishing degree, in the public and even in; the! military mind, security has come; to mean se crecy. "If we simply sit tighl and lock up our secrets, it will not be Jong be- 'fore our active competitor forges ahead of -us." Brake to Progress; Dr. Compton says scirn lists make progress in an atmosphere ot free in quiry and free interchange of ideas, with the ciintinual mutual stimulation of active minds working imthe same or related fields. Any Jm position of secrecy in science, he said, is; like ap plication of a brake to prnc.re.-s -Compton quote's David E- Lillinthal, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, to support: his view s Lilibnthal is currently engaged in defending his agency's operations against charges of "incredible mis management" leveled by Sen! Bourke Hickenloopcr (R-Ia ). One of Hikcn loopcr's charges has been that secur ity measures have beeh d around atomic installations. v i on Britain's gold and dollar Reserves. U. S. Treasury Secretary .John W. Snyder is to go to London soon to confer with Sir Stafford onjRrtain's dwindling dollar reserves. ' There was a storm ; of -criticism against the British-Argentine pact on Capitol Hill where soo;n the! new re quest for $3,568,470,000 for the sec ond year of the Marshall Plan is to be considered bv the Senate. CaU It 'British Selfish.iew' Sen. Kenneth Wherry (R-Neb.) ac cused Britain of selfishly promoting her own economic interests at the expense of other European nations and the U. S. . "This bilateraf-4rade ; paefr defeats the very purpose of recovery and free exchange of goods in th world," said Wherry. . : j Paul Hoffman, chairman of the Eco nomic Cooperation Administration, in charge of administering the aid to Europe, said he is opposed tnj bilateral r.fireeients. He added, hbwever, that Britain had no other means of ob tiining meat except from Atgentinia. In Short! . Resigned: By Robert F. Wagner, 72, stalwart New Dealer throughout the Roosevelt administrations, the U. S. Senate seat he held 22 year Fstianated: By Housing Expediter Tighe Woods that a tnUljon U. -S. landlords may ask rent ceiling in creases by giving tenants rcw serv-' ices or improvenoenU. f , fj Reported: By, the National Founda tion for Infantile Paralysis,!; $25,728, C00 raised in 1949 by the "March of Dimes": last jear's total: $21,600,000. 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