Page One of the Sunday Herald Tribune

Most of the the front page news was also covered by The Times or Sunday News and details can be found on those pages. Here is what made page one.

HOUSE VOTES TO BAR DRAFT OF TEEN-AGERS

The paper did not have the later breaking news about the vote to suspend the draft.

NEW YORK CITY MEAT SHORTAGE LIKE EARLY DAYS OF RATIONING

The newspaper reported this story largely from the vantage point of the big meat packers who blamed the shortage on price controls and on their independent competitors who they claimed were buying up the cattle at above ceiling price to feed the black market. Several distributors, wholesalers and retailers were quoted to support this point of view. The big three meat packers—Armour, Swift and Wilson- had a two-fold agenda. The immediate goal was to end price controls. But they also wanted government action to help them regain their former oligopoly under which they had handled 80 percent of all the meat market. They painted their smaller, independent competitors as criminal enterprises run by the swarthy races. But their own hands were not clean. Down toward the bottom of the story the H-T acknowledges that other theories were propounded on the sudden, mysterious, near total disappearance of meat just before a major holiday and just as Congress was about to consider extension of price controls.

REPUBLICANS SAY TRUMAN BUNGLED JOB

The paper provided a detailed report on the partisan case being made against the president and his first year in office.

WORLD’S FAIR SITE OFFERED TO ALL OF UN

FORUM HEARS LEADERS TELL PROBLEMS OF PEACE

The paper gave an extensive report on the speeches delivered at the Youth Forum it had sponsored. The meeting was attended by representatives of 400 high schools. The Herald Tribune was running full text of the speeches Monday.

UN OFFICIALS ARE COOL TO FRANCO

LAGUARDIA BIDS BRITAIN DIVERT RESERVE GRAINS

COTTON SENATORS ATTACK BOWLES MARGIN ORDERS

CHIANG OFFERS TO COMPROMISE ON MANCHURIA

POLICE KILL TWO HOTEL BANDITS, BUDDIES IN WAR AND CRIME

The Herald Tribune interviewed the family of one of the thieves.

7,000 CANDIDATES TO RUN IN ITALIAN GENERAL ELECTIONS