From Tel Aviv comes word of what can be achieved by men of Good 1111. The road to Bethleh•• - the most Sacred Shrine of Christianity, will be open at Chri&aa1 tiae, for the annual pilgri ■ mage. The agreement to open the hiatoric road, along with Joseph and Mary travelled lineteen Bandre4 and forty-nine years ago came about as the •U• reault of an on-the-spot conference~•** between Arab an4 Jewish leaders Colonel Abdullah 11 Tel and Coloael Moshe Dayan of Israel. They met to discuss the possibility of a per ■ anent armistice. And the first thing they 4ecidel was to allow the annual pila-J.m ■ age to take place•• 1sual - the journey to tle birthplace of the Savior. 11th the understanding that all Pilgri ■ s are acco ■ panied by a United lations escort. Israel to proTide the transportation, the drivers of all cars to be Christian. All Pilgrias to be checked by both PALESTIII - 2 the Jewish and Arab authorities. Last year a w. ere handful vi ited the Church of the lativity as compared with thirty thousand Pilgrims the year before. In Palestine a sud••n ■ arch of event• toward• an ar■ iatioe , ana per■ anent peace between the Jew• and the lraba. Iarael has offerred to negotiate an ar■ iatioe with ling Abdullah of TraaaJordan and the aeaert king ia expected to 11•• a fa•orable an•••r •lthla for\J-eight houri. told the Jewiab ageno1 that he will ••pport a J••t•• ata\e -- thia, if Iarael will not oppoae hi• pl••• for a areater SJria. Aa4 ~ - bi• capital at•••••• Tr•••~•rcl•• to4aJ fin& Abdullah waa tor■ all7 proolai ■ed ling of Traa■Jor4aa aad Arab-Paleati••·) Tb• deoiaioa takoa after a 1ixteen hour ••••ion of hi• parlia■eata. Bo\• hou••• finallJ Toted uaani••••lY for the deaert 11•& to rule ••e~ Arab-Palestine. But loal•• leader• in Cairo, we are told, are denouncing Abdulla~. They are warning hi■ for■ allJ that ... if he proclai■ a hia1elf ling of Arab-Palestine he i• Tielating hi• pled&• to the other Arab nation ■ -- l&Jpt, Saudi-Arabia and Syria -- that ple4ge to enaa&• in a Roly lar. lad froa Gasa, the old P~illiatln• capital in 1outbern Palestine where he baa aet up a aeparate capita1, ( 111pt'1 lin& faroat, ••1• that he will ••••r accept the annezation of Arab-P.alea,ine bJ a ltaa •f Tr•••~•r4••1•·) BEB~ll The ne ~ lon-Coamunist Lord Mayor of Berlin baa aaked the We~tern Allies to raise the Air Lift to eight thousand tons a day. lhat ■ uch is needed, he says, if estern Berliners are to pull through the winter. Meanwhile, the news wire tell• of the Soviet Govern ■ ent in Berlin aoving into the Black Market in a big way, in order to get•• ■ any Allied lark• aa poaaible. AU. P. Correapondent who Yiaited Black larket centere, found ~usaiana there in toroe. The Russian• were offering A ■ erican cigarete at twentJ one dollar• a carton, and ~oviet Textile• at two- hundred dollars for enough to ■ ate a euit. The Russians want Allied ■ oney to buy ■ acbinerJ for the factories in the Soviet Zone. Up to no• the Russians often have cracked down on the Black Market with spectacular raids. But now that their Berlin zone is under the Iron Curtain, tbeJ apparently are supporting it. The reason? Because the Western Mark ia worth three-and-a-half tiaes the iEBLII. - 2 Russian Mark; and so ■ e shopkeepers in the boviet Sector won't take anything else. If you want a gla1a ,. of beer you pay i>r it in Western Marke -- or go thirsty. . The Allied -eatern Sectors of Berlin ••1 be aerged into one -- all under the ad ■ iniatratioD of tbe newly appointed IGn-Co ■■unist Lord Mayor, Dr. lrn1t Beuter. At a pre1a conference today the layor aaid the Aaerican, ~riti1b, and French Military Co■■ ander• are conaidering 1ucb a ■ erger. ca114 Across the other aide of the world in Shanghai, E. C. A. Adainiatrator Paul Hoffaan announce, that Aaerican Aid to China aight continue; eTen it a . 11.A. . coalition GoTernaent were to replaceACbiang lal-Sbet~ regiae. ~ - proTided such a coalition were not - do ■ inated by the Coaauniata. Aa be apoke there were near riot• in Shanghai ...,. . . 6.rowda t ~ to atora the goYern■ent bank• w - I\ • • • • • • • ~ · ~ • ; : for gold and ailv•r. A ■ad ruah eeae :i.i'\ --•• China• a Gold Yuan, t.he Chin••• dollar, ciropp~ fro■ thirty .... fi•• - an " Aaerican dollar, to se•enty . and aeYenty fi••· The latest on the case of the pumpkin papera. Bouse investigators today say they ■ ay ask the key figures in this R ed Spy case to submit to lie- detector tests. Ex-Com ■ unist WhittakerCha ■ber1, Alger Hiss, and his brother Donald to be asked ~ to aub■ it to•--•• of th:t electrical device ••lie•,.. --. detects whether you · are telling the truth.••••~- Congress ■ an Mundt of the Un-A ■ erican Activitiea Coaaittee aaya that if they are ■ ade, these te1t1 will be••• behind closed doors. Laat August Whittaker Cha■bers agreed to a lie detector te•t, bat Alger ~ias retuaed. This afternoon Congreas ■ an Mundt further that the Co■aitlee•a spy hunters are sure now fo•r Stat Depart ■ ent Officials had acceaa to tho1e ~ aecret docu ■ enta -- the pu ■ pkin papers,and"they know who these people are. low the investigators are looking for the typewrfter on which the stolen documents were copied -- copied when they were a ~ nt to the Co ■■ unist spr · ring al ■ o s t ten years ago. liSflPIJ,GE = 2 A typewriter, we ~re told, always leavea cluea. lo two aachines are ~xactly identical, and ■ any a criminal baa been traced be ause he lett hia typewriter around. In this case, the Congre•a ■an troa South Dakota aaya his investigators have •o•• iatere1tia1 cluea. They know that the type~riter waa aanutaotur . . between iineteen Twenty Eight and lineteen Thirty. Thie fro ■ a letter written on it. But they want to be aura now that the•••• ■ achine which wrote that letter alao wrote the copies Gt the aeoret doouaent1. illlL!ilI Congresaaan Nixon of California of the 1 Bouae Un-American ActiYities Coamittee, appeared before th• Bew York Grand Jury today which is inYestiaating Coaauniat espionage. Be brought ~ witb hi■ the ■ iorofil■ of two hundred stolen secret go•ern■ ent paper,. Afterwarda, lixon told rep•rtera tbat be••• not going to giYe up po1aeaaion of th• fil■ a. St toni&ht he toot tbe ■ back to la1bingtoa and there be . will hand the ■ o•er \o · tbe fBI tor exa■ iaatioa, b•\ the tilas will · alway• be in the custody of lh• Bo••• -- to tie produced •h•n••er th• Grand Jury want• th••• Meanwbile,,l&•r Bi1a baa te■porarilf giYea up bis twenty thousand dollars a year Job aa Pre1ideat of th• Caraegie Eadow■ent for International Peace) Bi• ottered bis resianation, bat the Endowaent•1 director• ga•e bi ■ a tbree- ■ onths' leave of absence, with full paJ -- no action to be taken now on his resignation. Costa Rica wants an international air patrol to eee that no invader• cross its request aade in Washington borders fro■ licara1ua. Tb• ~~~ . tonight by A■baaaador.•~•tlil, I- The latest,fro■ San Jo••• capital of the Central Aaerican Bepublic 1 tonightJtells of four uai4entif1ed ■ ea killed by a Coata Rican ■ ilitary patrol. ~b• first caaualti••· And that Costa Rica :J a rapidlT · reorui\d · aray 11 holding the invader• to the position• tb•J toot up oa Saturday. Only a f•• day• ago we heard how the Preai4ea\ of Coata Blea bad abolished th• Aray. Arai•• were too dangerous, 1aid be. So Coeta Rica would have none. To the Preai4ent had changed bis ■ 1►4. ••••ing hi• force ■ for a counter-attack be call•d on every able bodied aaa to Join bi ■• ln Managua, the lioaraguan foreign Oftioe baa iaaued a foraal denial that any licaraguans have invaded Costa Bica. The licaraguan ~ overnaent also says it ia stopping all persons fro ■ crossing the frontier, to Costa Rica. IIVASlQI.:~ In telephone conversation with hia E ■ba11y in Washington; Ueneral So m oza, ~oa ■ ander in Chief of the Micaraguan forces says he knows nothing ot any invasion of Coata Bica. lie aaya that if hie lational Guard bad invaded Costa Rica laat weet 1 Union Guate ■ ala, ilitary Aid under, the Bio to help defend aelf a1ainat Alao phanton in•••· n? ~Appealin1 Rica are Dow ailea inaide ical•aguan ■ ountainoua hear that~ aid,nt Truaan • being kept in ormed of all de elopaenta. RETAK ==-~ President Truman today second Adainistration. For this was the day for the members of the £lectoral ~ol1£ge to cast their ballots. In the recent election, Mr. iruaan piled up a total of three-hunarea-~nd-four electoral votes out of the total of five-nundred-and-thirty-one. Theoretically he did. Hut, toQ&/ ~r. Truman lost one vote. Preston Parks of lennessee gave his electoral vote to ~tates ~ights ~anQiQate J. ~troa tburaond. So far as I know this is only the second tiae ia our ~olitical history that an elected President has lost a pleQged vote in the tlectoral ~ollege. lt happened oace before in ~i g bteen Xwenty. President James Monroe was reelecteQ, unanimously. 80 he should have received all of the Electoral College Votes. That was in what was known · ~s "The era of good feeling, when the Federalist Party h~d collapsed, and everyone was backing Monroe. ~ut, in ~he ~lector~l College, William Plummer of Hew Hamvshire kicked _ ov~r the traces and cast his vote for John ~uincy Adams, Tne recAlcitrant Mr. Pluaaer felt th~t no one should share with President George hashin g ton the honor of beio1 elected unanimously. Today Preston Parks of Tennessee joins with •illiaa Pluaaer of lew Baapshire who, back in li&hteen Tweot7, provided a diversion in the ~lectoral College by doin& as he pleased -- which the law allows bi ■ to do. IIAOQVBAtIOl_[OLLO~ VOI~§ Ir. Truman plans so m ething new tor January Twentieth. Be is thinking of etting a precedent -- the firat Chief Executi•e ever to head his own Inaugural parade. When the lhite Hou s e announced thf1, reporters went to the record s - to see whether any Pre1ident ever had led an inaugural. One of the ■ ran acroas a description of the ceremony beck in Eighteen Forty-one. A magazine article told how, on a bleak cold day, with a bitter wind, Ninth Presidea\ lillia ■ Henry Harrison, rode a charger at the head of the parade.Then he remounted at the capitol and rode back to the White Bouse. So, there already is the precedent. lhen this was pointed out at the lhite Bouse today, one of Ur. Truman's advisors said - Ah, yes, but General Harrison w a s not followed by a formal parade as Ur. Truman will be on January Twenty. llAUGURATIOI FOLLO!_VOIES - 2 ~ Those who followed President Harrison were aerel7 a lot of b~ngers-on -- office seekers. lhil• Mr. Tru ■ an•s inaugural•*• will be a real parade. IQIIL There is so ■etbing ■ore in winning a lohel Prize than caah and prestige. In Stookhol■, three lotel pri1ewinnera ••r• awakened tbia ■orning in tb6ir hotel be4roo■ s bJ el•••n beautiful Swediah blond•• in wbite 1o•n•. 11th lighted oaallea in their hair. And theJ ••r•ed tb• atartled pri1ewinner• with breakfaat. Tb• 1lrl• are kno•n •• the Lacia brid••· . _ · They ••r•e -- coffee and oat•• to th• loebl pri1ewinner1 in be4 -- ~ It'• uuU ·· J••t an 014 Swediab c••to■• B•t. 1•• ba•e \e . 4 ~ · ;.....:;....;;;..~~~-:---=--- • 10 to Stootbola to get 1t.,J- ~ ft& • • w lab■l Pet-lM l JAPAI There w a s an uproar in the Japanese Parlie ■ ant today. Such a claaor that the House was ordered to recess, o the Honorable member could cal ■ down. lada ■ e Yaaa . hita, one of Japan'• new women has pcliticians, llaa for ■ e l her own Democratic p1rt7. ~ . One of its objects is to get rid of Finance Minister Izu■ iJa ■ a. lada ■e Ya ■ ashita says the nation's bu41et ahould be in the hands of a woman. It see ■ s that Finance\linister I1a■ i7a ■a when he heard of this invited the lad7 and her cohorts to a cocktail party. Be did this before the formal debate in the diet, the day Mrs. Yamashita intended to launch her attack. Today Yrs. Yamashita stood u p in the Houae and announced that Finance Minister Izuaiyama had insulted her. That when she excused her ~ elf fro m his t V cocktail part7, to take her seat in Par~awent, the ~ JAPAN - 2 Finance Minister took her asid a nd said: "Lady, I love you". That apparently wa the insult. •r was enraged" he aid. "I told him that I h d more important business to attend to - that the diet was waiting to hear••• my speech." •shush" said the Finance Minister "love is more important than business!• Whereupon the uproar. Yale members of the Diet shouted their., disapproval of Yr~. Yamashita. The clamor was so great*••* they adjourned ~~~ ~- .- ABDULLAH King Abdullah was proclaimed King of Trans- Jordania and Pale tine today, after a•• sixteen hour session of h ·s Parliament. At Amman, his capital, in land east of the River Jordan, t he up p er and lower houses of his parliament x ■ si• voted unanimousl7. Abdullah the Desert ting to rule over Arab Palestine. Last week we heard about the conference at Jericho. lord came from there that Abdullah might soon claim suzerainty over pa_ts of Palestine as well as over the adjoining countr7 of Trans-Jordania. Mo lem leaders in Cairo, meanwhule have been ••••• denouncing Abdullah, warning him that b7 proclaiming himself Iing of Palestine, he will be violating his pled e to Allah -- the pl~dge to engage along with them in a Holy War. Later word: Th sraeli For i n Office in Tel viv reports that negotiati o ns ar under way between Israel and Trans-J o rdan -- with some hopes of a peaceful solution by ~hrist ■ as. The report adds that Abdullah has told the Jewish agency he will support a Jewish State, if lsrael will not oppose hia plans for a Greater ~yria. In Gaza, the ancient Philistine City, the Egyptians have set up a separate capital. There today ling Farouk said that Egypt never will accept annexation of Arab Palestine by the [ing of Trana- Jordania. IDlA.tilL_J.lllll C n gressm an Nixon o f California of the ~ouae Un-American A ctiviti es Commi t t ee , appear d efore the Ne Yor Grand Jury today,,..waigb · iQTJest.i:-gat»i:ag O-Oamttnt~~ expi ,, ,u ta.g e- He brought %ith him the - ~ Microfilas ef t.w9 : ~uaawae,j; e.lgl:.e-9' secret government I\ papers. Afterwa~bixon .4( told report rs that he was not goi ng to give up possession of the filaa. Not to a n y o n e ~ because they are the property of the House of hepresentatives~ ;io he is taking thea back to ~ashington. ~ Meanwhile, Alger liissA.te ■ porarily given up hi1 Twenty thousand dollar a year job as Preaident or the Carnegie tndowaent for International Peace. Bise offered his resignation, but the Endowaent•a Directors gave bia a three aontba' leave of abaence, with ful l pay, no action being taken now on his resignati o n. That report e d invasion of Costa Rica b y troops from icaragua, may be just another of thos e affairs in Centr 1 merica. But the latest from San Jose, capital of ~osta hica tells o f four undentified ■ en killed today by a C o sta Rican Military Patrol. The first casualities. A telephone report tel l s how Costa Rica's rapidly recruited Army is holding the invaders to positions they occupied on Saturday. Only a few days ago we heard how the President were of ~osta Rica had abolished the Army. Ar ■ ie•~too dangerous, said be. So Costa ' Rica would have none. Today the rresident had changed bis mind. Maaaing his forces for a counter-attack he called on eYery ab l e bodied man to join hia. In Managua, the Hicar~guan Foreign Office ha• iasued a foraal denial that &DJ' licaraguana ha•e invaded Costa Rica. lhe dicaraguan Govern ■ ent alao says it is stopping al l persons froa crossing the frontier, to Costa Rica. LTP.1948.12.13i.pdf LTP.1948.12.13ii.pdf