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ON TODAY'S EDITORIAL PAGE 1 10 a FINAL Men and Measures: Editorial. Aftermath: Cartoon. A Fifth Wheel Rolls: Editorial. Vol. 101.

No. 60. (70th Year). ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1948 56 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS I PATCH D.N.

ASSEMBLY CIVIC LEADERS DISCUSS ANOTHER T0BIN SAYS NEW LABOR LAW WILL BE TAKEN UP EARLY Pictures Legislation 'Fair to Both Workers and Management to Replace Taft-Hartley Act. TRUMAN GREETED BY CROWD HERE ON HIS WAY TO CAPITAL AND 'BIGGEST JOB IN WORLD' Voters' Choice Here Again, With Family AM so happy; President by telephone last night. "Timing of action on the new law," Tobin said, "will be up to the new Congress, which is the legislative branch whereas I am in the administrative end." Tobin said he believed he would continue to be Secretary of Labor In the next Truman Cabinet. Tobin said the Department of Labor would be returned to- its "former size and importance, after having been cut down to the size of a minor bureau." "It will be given a status," he said, "such that it can render labor services comparable to those which the Department of Agriculture renders to farmers and the By a Poet-Diepatch Staff Photographer. PRESIDENT and MRS.

TRUMAN and daughter. MARGARET, on the rear of the presidential train at Union Station during a one-bour stop this afternoon. (Additional picture in Everyday Magazine.) CABINET MM TRUMAN -BARKLEY OLDEST VICTORIOUS PRESIDENCY TEAM BOSTON, Nov. 4 (AP) Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin said today one of the first things placed before the new Congress would be the writing of a new labor law "fair to both workers and management" to replace the Taft-Hartley law.

Tobin said In an Interview with Dow Jones he could not be spe cific at this time, but: "Such action definitely will be one of the first things to be taken up so far as my own recommendations are concerned. "I also think I accurately re flect President Truman's views In saying this will be one of the most important re.commendatlons in his January message to Congress." Tobin said he talked with the LONDON VIEW: TRUMAN 'AIN'T NO CHURCHILL BUT WHAT THE (Picture in Everyday Magazine) LONDON, Nov. 4 (AP). BRITAIN'S joy over the re-sults of the American election was reflected today in banner headlines in London newspapers. Some samples: "The states go wild about H-a-r-r-y" (Mirror).

"Harry's secret weapon was people" (News Chronicle). "Truman did it all single-handed" (Mail). "He ain't no Churchill but what the heck" (Express). "Now Truman has it all his own way" (Graphic). STOCK MARKET RECOVERS AFTER ELECTION SETBACK Some Shares Advance as Much as $3 Block Deals Are Frequent.

NEW YORK, Nov. 4 (AP) Stock prices recovered as much as S3 a share today in a sharp rebound from the post-election mar ket slump. The march back up was fast with blocks of 1000 or more shares selling frequently. Despite the gains, though, the price level was still substantially below Monday's pre-election figures. Among a wide variety ef issues attracted support were United States Steel, Inland Steel, General Motors, Chrysler, Goodrich, Wool-worth.

International Harvester, Distillers Commonwealth Southern, Radio Owens-Illinois Glass, Santa Fe, Standard Oil (N.J). and Eastern Air Lines. The turn-around followed the worst beating the stock market has taken in the last two years. Yesterday, with the sound of the Democratic victory ringing through Wall street, roughly three billion dollars was trimmed from the quoted value of all shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Individual issues chopped down one to around six points.

Volume passed the level, a high since the bull market of mid-May. ELECTIONPLEASES ENGINEER CALLED 'LUNATIC' BY DEWEY Voted for Truman, Says He Was not Influenced by Opponent's Remark. EVANSVILLE, 4 (UP) Lee Tindle, locomotive engineer whom Gov. Thomas E. Dewey called a "lunatic" for backing his campaign train into a crowd at Beaucoup, 111., said today he is "well satisfied" with President Truman's victory.

"I was as surprised as anybody else that President Truman won," Tindle said, "I voted for Harry Truman, but I had given up hope." Tindle said that Dewey re marks about him did not influence his vote. "I would have voted Democratic anyway," Tindle said. AMENDMENT TO LEGALIZE DIVORCE VOTED INS. CAROLINA State Is Only One That Now Entirely Bars Granting of Decree. COLUMBIA, S.C, Nov.

4 (AP) It looks like South Carolina voters want to make divorce legal. At the polls Tuesday they favored by almost 10,000 votes a proposed constitutional amendment to legalize divorce. It would permit divorce on grounds of adultery, physical cruelty, desertion and habitual durnkenness. South Carolina now is the only state that bars di vorce entirely. CTESFS RED OPPOSITION Vote, 40 to 6, Follows Re-jection of Soviet Pro-jiosal 'for Control Adopted Resolution Urges New Talks.

By FRANCIS W. CARPENTER PARIS, Nov. 4 (AP) The United Nations General Assembly approved today, over bitter Russian protest, the Western plan for world atomic control. The vote by the 58-nation body was 40 to 6, with four abstentions. The Russian bloc nations alone voted in opposition.

Earlier the Assembly turned down Russia's counter-proposal and two- Indian amendments to the Western plan. The rejected Russian proposal called for a treaty harring the atomic bomb and a separate pact setting up controls, the two conventions to be effective simultaneously. The decision on this, too, was 40 to 6, with only the Soviet bloc states voting in favor. By voting for the Western plan, already approved by a majority of the 58-nation Political Committee, the Assembly did this: 1. Approved the majority plan for atomic control as the basis for establishing effective international regulation.

This is based on proposals made June 14, 1946, by Bernard M. Baruch of the United States. 2. Expressed official concern at the impasse between Russia and the West. Russia, objecting to the inspection provisions of the Baruch plan, consistently attacked it.

3. Requested the United States, Britain, China, France, Russia and Canada to consult to determine whether there is a basis for agreement and to report to the Assembly not later thar the next session. 4. Called on the Atomic Energy Commission to pick up its work where it left off last spring, when It decided it could not do any more work until the east-west deadlock was broken. Two Amendments Beaten.

Before this vote, an amendment by India to approve the Western plan "in substance" only was rejected 15 to 9, with 26 nations abstaining. The West insisted on full approval. Then the Assembly beat down an Indian amendment calling on the Atomic Energy Commission to resume work and draw up a treaty incorporating the commission's decision. The vote on this was 31 to 5 against, with 15 abstaining. It was questionable whether the action of the Assembly moved atomic energy control any nearer to realization.

In effect, the day's proceedings produced another standoff with Russia rejecting the Western plan and the West rejecting Russia's. The whole thing now goes back to the commission and the big powers for more talk. In debate leading up to the voting. Russian Delegate Andrei Y. Vishinsky declared anew Russia's opposition to the majority-backed plan and demanded aproval of the Soviet nroDosal- He said there was no basis now for agreement between the Western and Russian plans- He charged the United States did not want international atomic control.

Criticism of Truman. Vishinsky brought President Truman into the atomic debate again. He quoted the American President as saying recently in Milwaukee that the United States must continue to develop atomic weapons until the "correct" form of international control is in effect. Gesturing with bis arms as he spoke, Vishinsky asserted that this apparently meant the Americans would continue developing atomic bombs until the Western Continued on Page 2, Column 1. Occasional Rain THE TEMPERATURES m.

m. 57 9 a.m 61 63 69 71 71 72 71 2 a i 5 57 57 58 58 58 10 a.m. 11 a.m. 12 Nooa 1 p.m. 2 p.m.

3 m. 3 a.m. 4 a.m. 5 a.m. 6 a.m.

7 a.m. a.m. 5 4 p.m. 71 Normal maximum thla ate. 59: normal minimum, 42.

Ystrday high, 59 at 3 p.m.; low, B5 at 9 a.m. Weather In ether cities on paie 1 A. Official forecast for St Louis and vicinity: Cloudy with occasional rain or thunder showers tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy; cooler and rather windy tonight and tomorrow; lowest temperature tomorrow morning about 48; highest In afternoon near 60; Saturday fair and cool. Missouri: Generally fair in south clearing in north preceded by light MARKS THE EXPERTS. POST-DISPATCH WCATHCRBIRD m.

mrr. rain in extreme north portion early tonight; cooler tonight except in extreme soum-east; tomorrow fair and cooler; lowest tonight 35 to 40 in northwest to 55 in southeast; highest tomorrow 55 in northwest to 60 to 65 in southeast. Illinois: Bain tonight; tomorrow partly cloudy and cooler; windy. Sunset, sunrise (tomorrow) 6:32. Stage of the Mississippi at St.

Louis, 5.0 feet, a rise of 2.9; the Missouri at St Charles, 13.9 feet, a rise of 1.5. aeraturee, ntroHad rr U.S. Weather Bureau.) All weather data, iaeludin forecast and Mm- APPROV ATOM PLAN OVER 4-M VOTE ON SLUM Steps Taken to- Allow City to Take Advantage of Any Mass Housing Bill Congress May Pass. By RICHARD G. BAUMHOFF Of the Post-Dispatch Staff.

Steps were being taken today to permit the city to take advantage of any bill for low-rent mass housing and slum clearance which the new Democratic Congress may pass. In the meantime, civic leaders are discussing the desirability of resubmitting to the voters a slum clearance bond issue, possibly at the city election next spring, when i the mayor, comptroller and half the Board of Aldermen will be elected. Such a bond issue would be an important adjunct to rehabilitating old neighborhoods under a new federal housing code. Mayor Aloys P. Kaufmann has soon with the Anti-Slum Commission and other interested groups and individuals to determine whether the original $16,000,000 slum clearance bond issue plan, or some adaptation of it, should be placed before the voters again.

Some civic leaders have told the Post-Dispatch they believed the slum clearance movement 6hould be continued aggressively. One question which doubtless will arise in the Mayor's conference is whether it would be better to submit the proposal in the regular city election or at a special election when it will not be confused with issues in the mayoral campaign. Housing- Bill Prospect. While last Tuesday's election brought the defeat of the $16,000, 000 bond proposition, it also gave rise td the prospect that the next Congress would enact a housing measure similar to the Taft-Ellen der-Wagner bill, which the last Congress shelved. This lively hope is based on the unexpected shift of congressional control to the Democrats, whose national plat form Dledges them to such legisla tion, and the election of President Truman, an emphatic advocate of public housing aid.

Under the T-E-W bill, federal rrants of $2 for each $1 provided locally would have been made for nssistance in urban slum clear ance. It is likely an effort to include such a provision in any new housing act will be made in Congress. Thus a $16,000,000 city bond issue might result in creating a $48,000,000 fund, through the provision of $32,000,000 in federal money. Provisions of the old measure were broad, applying to numerous municipal in eradicating slum districts. They were proposed in addition to the federal aid for low-rent housing.

Arthur A. Blumeyer, chairman of the St. Louis Housing Authority, and Paul J. Kaveney, its attorney, will go to the regional office of the Public Housing Administration at Chicago next week to "reactivate" an old application for federal aid in building 12,000 more low-rent homes here. The St.

Louis Housing Authority, an arm of the city government, now operates 1315 dwellings at Clinton-Peabody Terrace and Carr Square Village. The Circuit Clerk's office is completing the record for appeal to the Supreme Court of Missouri of the suit to establish tax exemption for future low-rent public housing here. Kaveney Is arranging other counsel to have the appeal Continued on Page 17, Column 3. HOG MARKET OFF 75 CENTS TO RETAIL DROP LIKELY A drop of 75 cents to $1 a hundred pounds in the hog market today at National Stock Yards brought predictions of a corresponding reduction in the retail price of pork next week. Today's break in the hog market sent the top price for hogs down to $24.50 a hundredweight, equaling the lowest price since last May 20.

The break was attributed to heavy fall marketings, receipts today being estimated at 10,500 head. Pork roast would seem to be the housewife's best bet for an economical Thanksgiving dinner table in view of the high price of turkeys predicted for the end of the month. Retail prices of pork have fallen 20 to 25 cents a pound in the last two weeks. TWO IN TIE FOR LEGISLATURE WANT Tft SHARE SEAT AND PAY New Hampshire House Committee to Take Up the Problem In January. ROCHESTER, N.H., Nov.

4 (AP) A Republican and a Democrat who tied for a seat in New Hampshire's House of Representatives have decided to share it. Republican City Councilor Albert Nelson said he and Democrat Albert M. Jones would have half a vote each and split the pay. Secretary of State Enoch Fuller said the House Elections Committee, would take up the problem of the tie vote when the Legislature meets in January. EVEN FAITH IN KINSEY SHAKEN Woman Reading About Polls Wonders if 'Report' Can Be Trusted.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UP) An elderly woman put down her newspaper, turned to her companion on the bus and said: "I can't believe the polls any more. I don't even know whether to trust the Kinsey report," CLEARANC BONDS HE SAVS, BECAUSE HIS OWN STATE STOOD BEHIND HIM 'Hope You Continue to Stand by Me Has Station Gates Opened for Greeters Wife and Daughter Appear. President Harry S. Truman, returning as victor to Washington, and promising an early attempt to seek enactment of Democratic platform pledges, was in St, Louis for an hour this afternoon.

An enthusiastic crowd of about 2500 persons, headed by Democratic local and party officials, gathered about the rear platform of the Victory Train, as the President appeared there, waving his salute, even before the train had Arrival on track 35, near the east end of Union Station, was at 1:30 In the gathering within the train shed, which pressed toward the last car as the train backed in, were Democratic local and state officials and committee members. John J. Dwyer, Democratic1 city chairman, and City Treasurer, headed the group. With him were Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder; Robert E.

Hannegan, former Postmaster General and former national party chairman; Postmaster Bernard F. Dickmann; the three representatives elected to the Eighty-first Congress from St. Louis districts, Frank M. Kar-sten, John B. Sullivan and Raymond W.

Karst; Representative Melvin Price of East St. Louis; Mayor John T. Connors of East St, Louis; William L. Igoe, James A. Waechter, Charles M.

Huttig, Myles Dyer, and Collector James P. Finnegan. tt the People ln. -While the smaller part of the welcoming crowd, composed of officials and party workers, was ad mitted to the train shed, the larger part, the general public and some travelers in transit; were separated by the glass inclosure from the track, and were pressing against the glass when the Presi dent appeared. He did not leave his car, but shouted from the plat form to the station attendants: "Open the gates! Let the people in!" There was a moment's hesitation, and the President called again: "Open the gates!" The gatemen pushed back the gates and stepped inside, and the publio crowded in.

A few minutes later, a passenger train, backing in on the track next to the presidential special, caused some scattering. As President Truman made several brief appearances after his first speech, all who came were able to see him. Just as the crowd Inside the train shed formed about the rear of the train, and the President made ready to speak, Miss Margaret Truman appeared beside her father, and a loud cheer arose. "I Am So Thank you very much." Presl. dent Truman said when the group had quieted.

"I appreciate what you have done for me. We have been through a tremendous fight, and a fight that was for the country and the people. "The reason I am so happy if because my own state stood behind me. I hope you continue to stand by me, because I have got the biggest job in the world. "I hope everything continues go well here for you.

We must al work together and pray for thi welfare of this great country." As he finished his brief talk which brought an enthusiasts demonstration, the i looked back into the car and said "I'll have my wife out here it a few minutes, after she geti through handshaking." There wai a laugh, In which he joined, tbei the President posed with Hanne fan and pickmann for a photo graph. "One for the Book." After the -President finished speaking someone handed him copy of an early edition of yesterday's Chicago Tribune, with a banner headline: "DEWEY DEFEATS TRUMAN." Laughing heartily, Truman held the papei aloft for all to see, and said: "That's one for the book." Then Mrs. Truman appeared oi the platform, and while the crowi cheered, posed for pictures witl her husband and daughter. The station crowd, both insid and outside the train shed, wa much larger than that which wa on hand when he arrived last Sat urday evening to deliver bis fins campaign speech. However, at tha time thousands of persons wer waiting along the street and Convention Hall to see him.

Some spectators crowded arouni the car platform, seeking th President's autograph, but he smil legly refused and said: "I can' sign any more there are just to many people here now." At 2 o'clock, the President wen Inside the train and stood nea the rear exit of the last car. Ther Continued on Page 6, Column 1 Continued on Page 18, Column 4. SPENCE EXPECTS PRICE CURB BILL, FREEZE Democrat Who Will Head House Banking Group Says Living Costs Out strip Pay. FORT THOMAS, Nov. 4 (UP) Representative Brent Spence Kentucky, who will head the House Banking Committee in the next Congress, said yesterday the newly-elected Democratic Congress would pass "some kind of a price control bill." He said it is "premature" to discuss in detail the anti-inflation and housing legislation the Congress will pass.

Spence said he must confer with Administration leaders before saying "just what our price control and housing bill will provide." Spence refused to stand on his statement of Sept. 9 when he said if the Democrats controlled the next Congress, he would introduce a bill calling for an immediate freezing of prices and wages. He said he did not now believe wage freezing would be attempted. "Wages are regulated by collective bargaining and we can't tell a man he must work and what he will be paid," Spence said, "but I know that wage inereases don give the wage earner relief." Spence said "there is real danger to the economy of this country if we allow prices to spiral continually." "High prices are picking the pockets of every person in this country," Spence declared. He asserted "the responsibility of doing something about inflation is now entirely en the Democrats where it belongs, and we will make an honest effort to meet it." LESLIE L.

BIFFLE, TRUMAN'S POLLSTER, HAS LAST LAUGH Former Senate Secretary Toured Country in Overalls. Said President Would Win. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UP) Leslie L. Biffle, President Truman's old Senate crony and personal pollster, said today he guessed he had the "last laugh" on the professionals.

Biffle, who presumably will regain his secretaryship of the Senate with the Democratic victory, donned overalls a few months ago, got himself a farm truck and sounded out "average voters" in several pivotal states. When he returned to Washington, hV announced matter-of-factly that "the people are for Everybody laughed at him except the President himself. FLIES TO LONDON TO BUY NEW AUTO, THEN BALKS AT PRICES Burmese Motorist Settles by Buying Shiny Handles for His 1939 ModeL LONDON, Nov. 4 (AP) Burmese motorist Myint Daw flew from Rangoon (fare $1092.40) to see London's automobile show and buy a new car. "Prices are too high, he said, as he climbed back into a plane for the return trip.

His only purchase: Four chromium-plated door handles to brighten up his rusty 1939 model. RETAIL BUTTER PRICE UP One Dairy Announces Charge of 74 Cents, Another 73. A 2-cent rise in retail price of butter, to 74 cents a pound, was announced today by St. Loujs rtuirv Cn. A 1-cent rise, to 73 cents, was announced by Pevely Dairy Co.

Increases will be effective tomorrow. Price changes reflect fluctua tions on the Chicago butter market. laughed and said: "It's terrible for an old rabbit like you to get all this advertising." The sendoff crowd of 150 was smaller than usual, mostly because Independence had virtually knocked itself out the last two nights listening to the election returns and then celebrating Truman's victory. Just before the train left, Mrs. Truman expressed concern over whether the Truman cook, Vietta Garr, was aboard.

Told that she was, Mrs. Truman smiled as did the President. NO WAG New Vice-President Is 70 Executive Younger Than First Harrison, Buchanan. WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (AP) By outrunning Republican rivals 31 years younger, the Truman.

Barkley team became the oldest presidential victors in United States history. At 70, Alben W. Barkley will he tne oldest of the nations vice presidents, while 64-year-old Harry S. Truman is the third oldest man elected chfef executive right behind William Henry Harrison, 68, and James Buchanan, 65. The Democratic- triumph also marks the first time two former Senate colleagues teamed up ft win the White House prize.

Back in 1888 the Republicans took the honors with a congressional combine when Senator Benjamin Harrison was elected president with Representative Levi Morton as his running mate. Two other senatorial graduates James A. Garfield and Warren G. Harding moved into the White House, but neither of their partners had served on Capitol Hill. WHOLESALE PRICES DROP FOR WEEK; FOOD COSTS DOWN WASHINGTON, Nov.

4 (AP) Wholesale prices dropped nine-tenths of 1 per cent in the week ended Oct. 30, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Lower prices for fresh meats, dairy products and livestock were chiefly responsible for the decline to 163.8 per cent of the 1926 average. The new index was 2 per cent below four weeks ago and 4.1 per cent above the corresponding week of last year. Farm products declined 1.7 per cent in the week to a level 3.1 per cent below four weeks ago and 3.7 per cent below a year ago.

Average food prices declined 2.2 per cent in the week, and were 4.9 per cent below four weeks ago. Prices of bacon, fresh beef, lamb, mutton, veal, pork loins, butter and cheese were lower. The bureau will start Its new weekly wholesale price index on Nov. 19, discontinuing the present weekly index baaed on prices of about 900 commodities. A JOURNEY FOR MARGARET? Miss Truman Offered Series of Concerts in Britain.

LONDON, Nov. 4 (UP) Miss Margaret Truman, daughter of the American President, was offered a singing tour of Britain today. The Lynford-Joel promotions concern cabled her a proposal for a series of concerts in 1949-50. TRUMAN APPEARS STATES; DEWEY 1 6 304 Electoral Votes Indi cated for Democrat, 189 for Republican 94 Pet. of Ballots.

Nov. 4 (AP) With about 94 per cent of the vote counted. President Truman 'had won or appeared assured of victory in 28 states with a total of 304 electoral votes. Gov. Thomas E.

Dewey seemed certain to carry 16 states with 189 electoral votes, 77 short of the 26S needed to capture the presidency. There had been no change in the electoral figures since yesterday noon. On the basis of incomplete re turns today, only two states-California and Idaho conceivably could shift against the President. In both states, Truman's lead ap peared sufficient to give him their combined 29 electoral votes. With 2695 ot California's 16,802 precincts unreported, Truman had 1.579,138 votes to Dewey's and Henry Wallace's 150,305.

California has 25 electoral votes. In Idaho, with 59 of the state's 834 precincts unreported, Truman led, 105,395 to 99,502. The only state now in the Dewey column which conceivably could shift to is Indiana, with 13 electoral votes. With 967 of the states 4U06 precincts still unre ported, Dewey held a- lead of to 765,963. In popular vote, returns from 123,205 of the country's 135.864 voting units gave Truman Dewey 20.466,202, Wallace and States' Righter J.

Strom Thurmond 887,699. Total 44.725,643. On the basis of Incomplete returns, Thurmond, the Governor of South Carolina, carried four states Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and South Carolina, with a total of 38 electoral votes. States making up Truman's anticipated 304 electoral votes are Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming. States giving Dewey his 189 electoral votes are: Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Nebraska, Continued on Page 8, Column 4.

of breast of tough old crow en glace. (You will eat turkey.) "The Democratic National Committee has agreed to furnish the toothpicks to be used by the guests who (it is feared) will require months to get the last of the crow out of their teeth. "We hope you will consent to deliver the address of the evening. As the dean of American election forecasters (and the only accurate one) it is much desired that you share with your colleagues the se cret or. your analytical success.

"Dress for guest of honor, white tie: for others sack cloth. "The Washington Post will be happy to arrange this dinner for any date that suits your convenience and pleasure. WINNER 28 SHIFTS EXPECTED; SNYDERJAV GO President Likely to Drop Conservatives Tobin and Brannon in Firm Positions. By EDWARD A. HARRIS Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 Specu lation in the capital turned to day to the major shifts President Truman is expected to make in his administration when he starts his new term next year. Observers pointed out that Tru man in good conscience can make many top-level changes if he so desires, since a number of those in the Cabinet and other high-ranking administration officials wrote him off months ago as an election possibility and declined to go out slugging for him in the campaign. Underscored also was the fact that the President, for the first time, has a clear indorsement from the people of his progressive policies and aims, making it unlikely that he will temporize with the more conservative elements within the White House circle, as he has done at times in the past. The name that comes to the minds of most political writers on this point is Secretary of the Treasury John W.

Snyder of St Louis, who failed to make a single major campaign speech, and who is believed to have disapproved strongly of Truman's fighting leftish stand on many vital is sues. Snyder is one of Truman's oldest friends, and the President's strong sense of loyalty may save Snyder from replacement. But it is anticipated that if Snyder does stay on, his counsel will no longer be given much weight in White House policies, in contrast to the St. Louisan's closeness to the President's ear three years ago when Truman plucked him out of relative obscurity to place him on the national stage. Differences With Marshall.

One of the first tasks confronting the President will be to find a worthy successor to Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who is authoritatively reported to have decided to resign in January regardless of the outcome of the presidential election. Under Secretary of State Robert A. Lovett is expected to go out with Marshall. Some of Truman's most intimate advisers are known to have become incensed at botn Marshall and Lovett over the crucial Palestine issue, with the President willing to go much further than these two aids in assuring the new state of Israel of ample boundaries.

The White House, it also is reported, was displeased with Marshall's statement to the press last month in which he indicated that a near- Continued on Page 12, Column 4. BLAIR TELLS HOW HE WON: GRABBED RIGHT C0ATTA1LS JEFFERSON CITY, Nov. 4 (AP) Mayor James T. Blair Jr. of Jefferson City, Missouri's next Lieutenant Governor, takes no credit for his own election Tuesday.

"I'm an adult," he said today. "I know how I got elected. "I just took hol of President Truman's and Forrest Smith's coattails and held on." Washington Post Offers to Eat Crow, With Turkey for Truman Truman Jokes About 'Red Faces' In Washington on Boarding Train WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (AP) The Washington Post not only ate its political crow in public today but offered to arrange a crow banquet. The newspaper termed President Truman the only accurate election forecaster and invited him to be guest of honor.

The following, a telegram sent to Truman, appeared on page 1: "You are hereby invited to attend a 'crow banquet' to which this newspaper proposes to Invite newspaper editorial writers, political reporters and editors, including our own, along with pollsters, radio commentators and columnists for the purpose of providing a repast appropriate to the appetite created by the elections. "The main course will consist INDEPENDENCE. Nov. 4 (UP) Before Harry Truman, the man from the "Show-Me" state who showed the world with his stunning victory at the polls, boarded his special train today he told a trackside crowd: "There's going to be a lot of red faces in Washington." He joked with reporters and photographers and shook hands with friends, among them H. R.

Burgess, an expressman at the Independence station. As he shook hands with Burgess and flash bulbs popped. Truman.

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