Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that beginning at 11:00 a.m., the UAW, a CIO union, had struck at General Motors in frustration of their demand for a 30 percent wage hike, to maintain war wages based on the shortening of the 48-hour week. At Buick in Flint, the strike had begun a little before the strike of 11:00. By 2:00, 162,000 employees, the entire production complement, were said to be idle. Governor Harry Kelly stated that the State Police stood ready to supplement local law enforcement to meet any outbreak of violence.

Whether Ford would join the strike was not mentioned.

Oldsmobile, of course, was part of G.M.

Birds would come later.

The House Military and Rules Committees voted to send to the floor legislation which would penalize unions for violating no-strike clauses in contracts by causing them to lose collective bargaining rights for a year, releasing the employer from obligations to the union, and making the union liable for damages to the company for lost production.

In Washington, bus and street car transit workers, seeking a 30 cents per hour wage increase, walked off the job again, the second time in two weeks, causing workers to have to get to their jobs by thumb. The previous strike had lasted 36 hours. The taxi drivers also threatened to join the strike.

Employees of Montgomery Ward, accusing president Sewell Avery of "reactionary methods" in dealing with labor, also had voted to go on strike for a week, beginning Monday.

At Nuremberg, the reading of the lengthy indictment against the twenty alleged Nazi war criminals before the bar was completed and each entered a plea of not guilty. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, lead U.S. prosecutor, then delivered his opening statement, accusing the Nazi leaders of plotting in 1940 against the United States to bring about war. He cited Nazi records which showed knowledge of a plot by the Japanese Ambassador to Berlin to kill Josef Stalin in 1940, and generally argued that Nazi documents, not a prolix list of witnesses, would convict the defendants. Mr. Jackson's opening statement, consisting of 20,000 words, took up the entire day.

Only Rudolf Hess, who answered his opportunity to enter a plea with an emphatic "no", appeared disinterested in the remarks. Hermann Goering, who answered that he was "in a sense not guilty", had sought first to make a statement before entry of his plea, but was denied by the court the opportunity to do so, irregular at that point in the proceeding.

The joint Congressional committee investigating Pearl Harbor heard testimony from Admiral J. O. Richardson that he had been relieved by President Roosevelt in March, 1941 as commander of the Pacific Fleet because, according to the late Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, Admiral Richardson had hurt the feelings of the President. He stated that the hurt feelings regarded the disagreement he had with the President for the Admiral's having wanted to bring most of the Pacific Fleet to dock in San Pedro.

While Admiral Richardson understood that such a disagreement with a senior subordinate could create hurt feelings, he had remarked to Secretary Knox that he had never seen any commanding officer relieved from duty as he had been. He added that he had harbored no resentment toward the President regarding the duty relief—the Admiral having been fairly irregular in presenting an argument which would have left the 6,000 miles of the Pacific largely unguarded at a time when most in the chain of command agreed that Japan could attack at any time, thought, however, most likely to come in the Philippines, Malaya, and the Dutch East Indies.

The President, said Secretary Knox to the Admiral, was planning to meet with him to explain his relief, but never did.

Admiral Husband Kimmel was his successor.

The 39th installment by General Jonathan Wainwright tells of his group of officers and men being transferred for the last time on December 1, 1944, from Sheng Tai Tun to the Manchurian village of Sian where freezing cold greeted them. The camp commander made daily inspections of the barracks and officers' rooms, making certain that the men followed strict orders on where every item had to be placed, each item being required to reside in a particular spot on a specified shelf. Even the wastebasket, spittoon, and fire bucket each had to be situated in a certain spot.

The men were forced to work in the coldest weather without proper attire and were generally treated as badly as at any of the other camps in which they had been placed. Food was bad but more nourishing than the former rice diet. They were provided Red Cross packages the day following arrival, but after two days, had them removed and then the food parceled in tiny portions thereafter.

According to General Wainwright, he spent an equally bad Christmas to that he had endured in 1942 at Karenko. The men again decorated their quarters with scraps of paper and the like, having been told by their captors that they each would receive an egg, plus five chickens for the 34 officers, and each a Red Cross package, which included meat, milk, cigarettes and candy. But instead of the Red Cross packages, they received only canned butter, cheese, and jam. It was a disappointment which darkened their Christmas spirit.

On January 1, 1945, two privates presented General Wainwright with a chair they had constructed for him, making his remaining time in captivity easier.

In Chicago, the American Legion, in convention, reaffirmed its support of the United Nations Organization but urged the United States to adopt a definite foreign policy.

The District of Columbia Baptist Convention pledged continued support and prayers for President Truman, in the wake of the recent controversy in which the Texas State Baptist Convention had instructed Baylor not to award the President with an honorary degree because of his occasionally playing poker and nipping of bourbon.

Major Bowes, the former moderator for the radio radio amateur hour, on the air for more than a decade, was not dead, as had been rumored. To the contrary, his attorney asserted that he was in excellent health. He regularly attended art auctions and was interested in music. He had turned his three yachts over to the Navy and drove a less expensive car than the $32,000 model he had driven at one time, but still had a superior collection of vintage wines, rare liquors, and fine cigars. The program had ended its run eight months earlier.

London was gripped in a dense fog, so thick that Londoners could not see their hands in front of their faces.

Cold but clear weather was expected through most of the United States for Thanksgiving.

On the editorial page, "Disintegration and Drift" comments on a Liberator having landed in Arkansas, a young pilot who had flown the plane on 64 combat missions then watching dispassionately as a crane proceeded to tear the ship apart. He felt no remorse at losing his bird. It had served its purpose.

"The Captain and His Dream" comments on Captain Frank Lillyman, recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross as a paratrooper, becoming a guest of the Pennsylvania Hotel, being catered to at every whim by the staff. Captain Lillyman had become the symbol for the soldiers. He had written the hotel to inquire as to how much it would cost to have his family stay with him at the hotel, whereupon the hotel had responded by treating him, gratis, to all amenities. The hotel had received in return ample free advertising.

"The Great Pituitary Secret" discusses the nice measurements of Hedy Lamarr, posing as a standard for feminine pulchritude, presumptively the sole reason for her rising star, her acting skills demonstrating the "histrionic qualifications of Elsie the Cow".

Even so, she was not a natural physiological specimen, but rather the creation of George Antheil, a lonely hearts columnist and composer of a few symphonies and Le Ballet Mecanique. He was also a "practicing glandular criminologist on the side", who had managed to speed up Ms. Lamarr's pituitary to achieve the results she visibly demonstrated.

Now, you know the Hollywood secret, hush-hush and on the Q.T.

Mr. Antheil announced that he would soon make the secret available to every woman. Keeping the pituitary functioning at an optimum, youthful level was the secret. Overactivity of it resulted in circles rather than curves. Underactivity would have the consequence of straight lines.

You may read all about it and the secret to control of it in Mr. Antheil's book.

We understand that Miss Marilyn Monroe was a devoted follower.

So, rather than being impolite in the future, the gentleman may simply address the lady before him, standing less than physically attractive, by merely suggesting that her pituitary is either overworked or underworked, and then referring her to Mr. Antheil's book. By contrast, the well-informed cad, seeking to mask his ulterior motives with high-sounding rhetoric, may say to the lady who appeals to his eye that she must be keeping her pituitary in excellent order, surely a devotee of Mr. Antheil's classic work.

But, warns the piece, as soon as everyone would become endowed with the most desirable Hollywood measurements, then, no doubt, fashion being as it is, whimsically vicissitudinous, always subject to the valuation attendant the laws of supply and demand, "a new crop of Hollywood heroines will arise, distinguished by their severe vertical proportions." That would lead to the need for hiding the curves behind straight lines.

Enter Mr. Nixon and his twigs. In perfect time.

By 1955, the piece predicts, Mr. Antheil would write a sequel explaining how he had managed to put the pituitary of Miss America for that year completely off its natural stride.

Well, draw your own conclusions.

Notes a little filler at the end of the column: "'Down with the capitalists!' cries Prof. Laski—which raises a question in many minds: Where did the character find a soapbox during this world scarcity of soap?"

The answer is quite elementary, Penguinally speaking: the National Trust.

Drew Pearson first discusses the mess being created by war reconverter John W. Snyder, having during the week informed the President that he would not testify in support of the proposed 65-cent minimum wage, that he did not believe in it because some employers could not afford to pay it. Many were of the opinion that replacing Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau with former war mobilizer and reconverter Fred Vinson had been a mistake. Mr. Snyder, a Missourian and friend of the President, appeared not up to the task.

George Harrison, head of the AFL Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, asserted that neither the wage increases sought by labor nor the proposal of management that it would recognize collective bargaining without a guarantee of wage increases, would be passed by the conference. He suggested compromise whereby management would withdraw its proposal and the CIO would drop its demand for wage increases. Management agreed; CIO head Mr. Murray did not, seeking a vote on his resolution.

Both Mr. Lewis and Mr. Green were seeking ways to avoid such a vote, to avoid being on record in opposition to wage increases. Management also could not afford to be on record opposing the President, who had insisted that wage increases were essential.

Thus, the conference stood deadlocked on the eve of the G.M. strike.

Marquis Childs relates of advice being given the President regarding the housing shortage for veterans. He cites the statistics forecasting this shortage, to increase as more soldiers and sailors would be released from service.

A letter writer assails the opinion of the president of the Charlotte Real Estate Board on the housing shortage. He asserts that living in trailers was preferable to living in small apartments available in the city, and the trailers were not, as the Real Estate Board representative had suggested, slums. The $15 per week apartments were under a staircase or off hallways where whisky bottles proliferated. Trailer living would be, as an alternative, just fine for the returning veteran.

Another letter writer from Evanston, Ill., gives praise to the free enterprise system along with the Sherman Anti-Trust Act and other laws restricting monopolistic practices.

A third letter compliments The News on recent editorials, "The Baptists Raise a Point" and "A Place for Conflict".

Samuel Grafton expresses sympathy for the tough decision facing the President regarding disposition of the atomic bomb. If he made the wrong call and the country were later attacked after sharing of the secret, his name would live in infamy, to whatever degree remaining civilization would permit. Yet, should the secret be maintained and later discovered by the Soviets, historians would criticize him for not having shared it when the time was ripe to achieve concessions.