Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that President Truman, in a White House conference with Congressional leaders, urged Congress to pass legislation for control of atomic energy. Some members expressed doubt that the President's goal of outlawing use of the bomb, as advocated the previous day in a message to Congress, could be achieved. He had also called for creation of a commission to be appointed by the President for the control of atomic energy, both domestically and internationally.

The President, without explanation, delayed temporarily the order of Government seizure of the oil refineries involved in the strike of 42,000 workers in fifteen states.

U. S. Chamber of Commerce president Eric Johnston conferred with the President regarding the strike and stated that labor and management would have "to use their heads, not lose them" to resolve the strike.

Senator Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin commented that strikes were sabotaging the reconversion effort and that one which deprived the people of transportation, food, and communication was "well nigh treason".

The President signed an executive order abolishing the War Production Board and replacing it with the Civilian Production Administration, to be under the supervision of Reconversion director John W. Snyder.

General MacArthur ordered all bars to freedom of speech, religion, and assembly be removed by the Japanese Imperial Government, that the "thought police" still active in Japan be disbanded, and that the Government release 3,000 political prisoners, confined for years under harsh penal conditions for having spoken out on ideas unacceptable to the Government.

It was reported that there was no reaction by the people when pictures finally appeared in the press of Emperor Hirohito meeting and shaking hands with General MacArthur at the American Embassy the previous week in an unprecedented act by the Emperor, who lost his face.

In Paris, Pierre Laval, former Premier previously convicted of treason in absentia for having sold out France to the Nazis, but still entitled to a new trial under French law, was expelled from the courtroom at the beginning of his trial after M. Laval shouted, in response to the judge refusing him the right to make an opening statement, "I am a patriot and I will prove it." He then slammed his briefcase on a table and continued: "Well, condemn me now. At least the situation will be clear then." Witness testimony would begin the following day with the defendant not present.

A round the world flight by a C-54 transport of the Air Transport Command was starting its last leg from California to Washington with six men and one woman aboard, having left Washington six days earlier. The total trip would be 23,000 miles.

A C-69 Constellation had established a flying record from Miami to Burbank, 2,355 miles, in ten hours and ten minutes.

In Chicago, a young student of an elementary school held a gun on kindergarten and second grade classes while he plundered the purses of the students, obtaining $1.50. A teacher told him to put the gun down, but he backed out of the classroom with it still pointed at the teacher and the students. The money was later recovered in the hallway.

The student may still be at large. Be on the lookout.

The former King Edward VIII of England, the Duke of Windsor, was flying to London, would stay in Marlborough House, home of his mother, Queen Mary, whom he had not seen in nine years. He would meet with his brother, King George VI, whom he had not seen in five years.

Were he, however, to miss the Royal question to be posed, he would be flown back to France, never to see either again.

In the World Series in Detroit, Hank Greenberg hit a three-run homer in the fifth inning to enable the Tigers to rally to take a 4-1 lead over the Chicago Cubs. That would remain the final score, to tie the series at one game each.

On the editorial page, "Reorganization" looks at the bill before Congress to provide President Truman broad powers to reorganize the vast bureaucracy of the Federal Government executive branch. Such a bill was passed in 1939 but Congress retained veto power to restrict the hand of President Roosevelt. The War Powers Act of December, 1941 had provided broad powers to the Chief Executive to reorganize, but that would expire six months after the end of the war.

"Georgie's Genius" begins by asserting that it was not too soon to begin writing an obituary for General Patton after his having been relieved, as reported Monday, from command of the Third Army occupying Bavaria and being transferred to head the "paper" Fifteenth Army, engaged in research. General Patton, it posits, was one of those military geniuses of limited usefulness, needed in time of warfare but an albatross during peace.

"The Mint's Case" urges new memberships to the Mint Museum as it stood at the threshold of becoming an established art museum. But without support which assured its viability into the future, donors of works of art were hesitant to make contributions. The answer lay in more patronage.

"Out of Reach" finds the anti-poll tax battle in Congress, as usual, to be probably headed for defeat in the Senate after having passed in the House. But the Southerners who would normally filibuster were willing to allow a substitute measure to pass, sponsored by Senator O'Mahoney of Wyoming, allowing the matter to be determined by the states in the form of an amendment to the Constitution. The Southerners believed that there would not be enough states to ratify it.

The excerpt from the Congressional Record has Senator Glen Taylor of Idaho, the former cowboy singer, explaining the full employment bill by first referencing a book which he had read, written by King Gillette, inventor of the safety razor. Mr. Gillette's view was that the whole country should be operated as a business. Senator Taylor stated that he was greatly influenced by the book, mindful of the fact that Mr. Gillette died broke, having cared more about his fellow man than his personal welfare.

Drew Pearson comments that many in the Government believed that the American people were entitled to see the many Nazi documents seized in Germany, especially pertaining to the cooperation of I. G. Farben, the Nazi cartel, with Standard Oil of New Jersey. Mr. Pearson had obtained a copy. It showed that American businessmen unwittingly had aided Germany in its preparation for war. The Justice Department had brought an anti-trust suit against Standard for making the deal with I. G. Farben prior to Pearl Harbor, to maintain synthetic rubber patents out of the reach of the American public.

The fourth in the series of reports by the State Planning Board takes a look at fruits and vegetables. The state produced a lot of apples, eleventh in the country in production in 1939, primarily in the mountains.

The state ranked sixth in 1939 in cabbage production, also in the Western counties. Yet, though the country produced 8.5 million dollars worth of kraut in 1939, North Carolina had only one small kraut canning operation.

Yeah, and let's keep it that way, after six years of fighting the bastards.

Unfortunately, some idiots didn't see it that way by 1972 and afterward, didn't so much take up kraut as lots and lots more hogs.

Marquis Childs again discusses the responses to the letters he had sent to all members of Congress eliciting their opinions on overseas aid. As he explained the previous day, the majority of the Senate favored it. The paucity of responses from members of the House were inconclusive.

He quotes from one letter, from Representative J. W. Trimble of Arkansas, who found it imperative to aid Europeans, many of whom had actively fought for liberty from the Nazi yoke. Likewise were the statements of others, George H. Bender of Ohio and F. Edward Hebert of Louisiana, the latter having recently gone to Europe with the attitude that the United States had played Santa Claus long enough, had demonstrated more largesse than Diamond Jim Brady in buying drinks for the house. But Congressman Hebert had returned with a different attitude, that without American financial aid, Europe would turn to Communism.

Congressman Albert Gore of Tennessee expressed the belief that the country had obligations from the war, not just to the liberated lands, but also to Japan and Germany, to prevent starvation during the coming winter.

Samuel Grafton comments on a proposal that the United States provide five billion of its twenty billion gold bullion reserve to aid Britain, thereby avoiding the necessity of borrowing for the purpose. "The idea is, too, that the American public would swallow the dose better if it were sugared up in this form..."

The better path would be to convince the people of the necessity of the aid for the collective good.

"Mr. Roosevelt would have told us quite simply at this point that we can't do without a prosperous Britain; he would have made each of us taste the truth in his own mouth; and while Mr. Truman avoids some of the cussing that Mr. Roosevelt used to draw upon his head, he also fails to get up that fine glow of support which Mr. Roosevelt used to evoke by daring to set up correct 'long lines' of world policy."

He found that President Truman's "short lines" of policy had thus far been too concerned about not harming the tender feelings of the opposition, "or the tempering of the wind to the loud Congressmen."