L.T. - P&G Jan. 18, 1951. 1 he United ,tates has cal l ed u p on the U I to condemn Red China as an ag1reasor. Chief Dele1ate Warren Austin, today, stated the demand - although he did not enter a formal resolution. That we hear, ia being held up, •bile other nation• are bein1 consulted - to ally support. France ia tbe first country to ooae out in aupport of the Aaerican poaition. 05ciala of the foreign Office in Paris ••1 it• abou~ tbeonl7 t.hin1 the U I can do - declare China an ~agreaaor. Lond ~ n thinks the UR baa •1one the liait• in aaking offer• to the Coaauniata - but a Britiab go•ernaent s p okea ■ an, today, was reticent about the •agre11or• part of it. JORE4 The lorean war continues to be - nz• patrol action. Dispatch e s tell of reconnaissance parties wllb tanks, thrusting far into Bed territory, and then withdrawing in rapid action. One patrol - olaabe4 for ten miles 1n the sector south of Seoul, evaded a Rd move to trap them, and came back after thrilling adventure. The news continues to tell~• of the massing of Red forces, for a big offensive, apparenllJ. But, ao far a s actlon goes, lt wae little more than Ml1t patrol thrusting and stabbing today. The word we hear about the G I's and t~e politicians - sure does so 1 nd like the u.s A . . transferred to Korea. A dispatch is being featured, telling how the troops over there are blaming every- thing on the politicians. •11:1 Who are gett1!ng J cursed - for pr longing the ar, the failu~e to omb Manchuria, the non-arrival of new equipment. The disgruntled soldiers picture the po11t1oiana as bragging~•we will not leave Korea~ To which - the G I's add bitterly: •why don't they come over here and tben say 'we~•. And the refrain is - wait till the G I's get home!they'll fix the pol1t1c1ana. All of wh1cb · 1s a battlefront version of old American tradition, cracker barrels and hot stoves - blaming the politicians. HABIII At Birmingham, Alabama, Jerry Richardson was gi en three birthday presents today. Jerry is a nineteen year old Marine, returned recentlr from the Korean war. So wh a t did he g e t for h is birthday! First - a high school diploma. The young leatherneck went off to war before graduating from Woodlawn High. He is a veteran of battle, but he sure is proud of that high school diploma. The second birthday present 1a Janet Todd. Jerry went with Janet before go~ng off to war, and today she said - yes. So he put an engagement zsa ring on her finger. Now for birthday gift number three - presented by the doctors. Today they told Jerry - they will not have to ampu t ate his feet. The young Marine had a bad case of froitbite in Korea, and tt looked a s 1! he might have to lo e both f eet. But today was the turning point - the doctors giving hlm the good news. So what has he to sayT Well, here it is: ¥♦ BIii - a •1 1 m not a hero•, said Jerry Richardson today, •and I don't like any part of it over there. I w1ah l could forget about it, and never even remember the place again. But,• he added, •1 don't think I cou14 stay here, knowing how it is tor them over there. If they'll let me ( I'll probably be gotng back.• I, tor one, hope they will make him at&J over here - with those three birthday presents. A high school ~1plom&, Janet - and his feet. IILIITII New ■ from Hinton, West Virginia - G&rnet Bogan, seventeen years old, is back 1n uniform. ~our years ago, when he was thirteen, he joined the army. A bi boy, who told a fib az■ about his age. But ht ■ mother fixed that. She told theJrmy the real age of the ambitious GI, and they sent him home - after be had been in uniform for four months. Laier, when he was fifteen, he enlisted in the Air rorce1, and served a whole year, bifore hta mother could get him out. But this time its ttfterent~ Mama simply gave up. Sonny boy, now seventeen, talked ao long and 10 fast, that she surrendered and signe1 the papers, ■ o he's in the Air rorces now -- and for keep ■• IIQIIUQWER (Italy reports a clash today and the police - in the course of Red demonatrat1on1 against General Ilsenhower)h1s happened at a town Horth Italy, where the police opened fire on a mob of rioters. One Com uniat killed, and ~wo wounded. Lasl night there was a similar disturbance 1n Sicily - while at other places the police broke up Red parade ■• ID Rome, the Commun1ats called an ant1-E1senliower strike, but ,h1s failed completely. --- ~awhrW, - Oe-nera;-1 - lice - ,raa- - h&vin-g cr-on-ter-e-nc~ ==- w 1th the heads of the Italian government, and was given a promise of three d1vis1ons, •••~lisa•ts complete t equipped, for his West European armies.) ¥lt~ore Italian divisions to com~. Xs soon aa armament can ~ be procured. PIYSJ ~overnor Dewey of Hew York still support• eneral Eisenhower for the Republican nomination. In Albany today, he stated that he did not chan1e his opinion - that eneral Ike is the one to name fo the Presid e ncy in Nineteen ruty-two)inctJ the original Dewey boom for Ziaenhower, the Genera\h&1, of course, become Commander of the West Europe&n Defense Army. Which might seem to make him lees eligible for a presidential nomination. But Tom DeweJ says -- no, his opinion 1s the same. ZIVMI President Truman says he will welcome formal endorsement by the Senate for his plan to send more troops to Europe. Democratic leaders will present a resolution of approval, as a check t Republican• who who are demanding that no more soldiers be sent acro11 the Atlantic, without._. permtaaion of Con~re1s. The President told his news conference he 414 not ask for the democratic reaolut1on - but he would welcome & ... --- Senate okay. ~t the same time, he gave the new1paper1 a acold1ng;- he ~em~l&!n d- - &bo t _ the w•Y they handled his previous statement,~ that he was consulting Congress, bu t did not need congressional permission to send troops abroad. The White House ob3 # ct1on 11 thatth1a was pictured as• defiance of Congrees - which it was not intended to be. QABIHIT Pres1dent~uman does not intend to take Republicans into the Cabinet. So states a dispatch from Washington, which adds that the suggestion w&1 made by prominent Democrats - that a •crisis cabinet• be formed, including Republicans. The President•• a■ refusal 1s deacribed as being based on the fact that he has appointed plenty . of Republicans to hlgh government office - though not to the cabinet - &l ■ o, that be ls satisfied with his cabinet, as it now stands. %Alt Senator Taft says the United States &nd western European countries must, 1n the Senator'• words: •work together.• But, he contended, Congrees aua ■ t e ould put limitations on the number of American tro o ps President Truman can send to Europe. J This was stated tonight, after areeting of the Republican policy committee - &nd it seem• to represent a softening of the Senator's op9osit1on to American commitments in lurope. 1 AJI roac1 The Air rorce has alerted nearly &11 its reserves - numbering a hundred and fifty thousand. They are told to await c&lls to active duty between Karch Jirst and May fifteenth - &B part of the expansion program to 1norea ■ e American sky power to n e arly one hundred air groups. Calling up the reserves. QQITIQLB We hear th&t a wage-price freeze will be order t . d in about a week. This, from Federal off1c1al1 - after President Truman told his news conference tod&J that a celling on wa1es and prices will be imposed as soon as possible. Defense MOtU1ser Wil1on says a system of allocations may be in effect bj June - puttin& industrial materials under government control. Bui Wilson states that consumer rationing 1• not planned - •in the n , a. r future.• That 1a, the rationing of lhe ordinary goods that we buy in stores. The Defense ba* Mobilizer says he hopes rationing can be put off indefinitely. \411th an increase in production, it mi ht not make it necessary a . all. I QQAL A coal contract was signed in Washin g ton today - with a minimum of hullabaloo. In previous years, there have been all sorts of dramatics, includin g strikes - with John L. Lewie at hie theatrical best. But yesterday, the coal industry gave the miners a voluntary raise of pay - a hike of twenty cents an hour. Today the result was prompt - a new coal contract sig n ed without further adoo. Which guarantee• soft co a 4 production without any d&nKer of strikes - but it may bring about a r11e in the price of coal. One operat ~= predicts a hike of twenty-five cents a ton. TAIE D emocratic l e ader s h a ve 1 sud a notice that Con r e s will not okay higher taxe s , unl . ss t re's cut i ov e rnmen t sen in for oth , r _ urposes t h an d e f n e. Con ressman Dou hton of ort Carolina, Chairman of the ays an d leans Co . 1 ttee, is report e d to ave told Sec etar . of the Treasury Snyder that bis comm ttee wants non- military spe~d1ng slashed - •as much as possible. • Otherwi e, no tax hike. FAIR EMPLOY ' E T Tw e lve Re ublican Senators introduc e d f a ir emnloyment pr ctioe le g islation to d y - res enti n bi l to . t up a com is s ion to d e a l 1th that an le of r a cial ri hts. President Truman, n his bud et mes ag e , ask d Con r e s ~ for similar le islat1on - a nd, at his ne• s conference today, he intimated t a t he m ight set up a commission of his own, if Congress failed to act. But now twelve R 8 publican Senators, headed s~. by~Iv s of New York, go into action - and they deny any motive of politics. Which, apparently, is intended to forestall Dp m ocratic char es that the Republican move is designed to stir up the feud between northern and southern ~emocrats - on the racial issue. 3 I 0 DE TH VALLEY A news dis pa tch give s us a description of De th Valley - picturing an exnanse of rippling waters, wavelets tossing in th e wind, the surro nding hil l s reen with veg e tation, thickets of trees and luxuriant plants. Climate, moist, r a iny, and a bit c illy. But , that was Death Valley t we nty thousand years ago -- so announced by science today. That blistering inferno of sand and alkali was once a lake, or an inland sea, a.A4...-aew- the shore- , ~ line has been traced. Dr. Thomas Clements of the University of Southern California, tells of researches made by him and his wife - and says the body of water was ninety miles long, ten or fifteen miles wide. The geological evidence shows that the Death Valley lake existed back in the ice age, twenty thousand years ago - when Southern California had a chilly, damp climate. Along the shores lived human beings, ancient ma;1merica - as indicated by implements made of stone, " DEATH V LLEY - 2 extremely primitive. The lived on fish in the lake and on berrie s n t e green hills alon the shore - of D ath Valley. \ I ULLFIGHT E RS That sound you he a r, lik e a ~ustling of wind in the trees, is -- a s1 h from Sp a in. The plaint of a mournful bullfighter - who loved and \ost. He is ario Ca b re, t he toreado who hit the headlines a while a o in a story of romance, f e aturing movie ctress Ava Gardner. His rival - , Cron e r Frank Sinatra. Today in Madrid, the bullfighter said he hasn't heard a word rom the beauteous Ava, since she went back to the United Stat e s. Well, Frank Sinatra has radio•• programs and television shows - more suitable to an actress than the bui1 ring. But all this is declared 1n poetry. Today, in Madrid, a little volume of super-heated verse was published - stanzas written by the toreador to Ava Gardner. One tells of the ••11 beginning of romance - like this: It was a dream caught betw en my hands, When 1t came to me on a tender breeze • .Jekr, 1 a -- ULLFIGHTERS - 2 ~ That is - ge ttin a stran le ho l d on a dream. Tent e b 1 fi h e r add r es e s t h mo vie actres t h usly: I sh ould like to ma ke ladles of your dear tresse1 And consume the sweetness there is within you That may sound surrealist - •1ad/es• and •tree es•. But the . , a ladle is a spoon - as in spooning. Finally, the unhappy ending and blighted I affection 1s pictured in thes e tragic words: •All alone• cries the toreador, •with love imprinted on my / face like stone.• Old stone face! In Madrid, the ballads of the bullfighter are being received with some slight cr1t1o1sm. Today's dispatch suggests a better poem going this ways I wish Miss Ava Gardner Would be my lifelong pardner -