he • . effort for a 'cease-fire" along the hin coast - h s failed. - ~ wwld Mea, 'Jl:let-v-,,.lear,1'90■ 4;h@ iaeply ""- 8blm1e ~ Qe.i11111rle1u, RW iw&ke , 4'o .tne =1ft¥i1tetl:en seAt t;he• h• ttw \JAlted 1tM ~ . In the Securi t . Council, a New ealand resolution proposed negotiations for an armistice. The Chinese Reds - invited to send representatives to participate in the discussions. But they say - thev will not. Today's camnun1cat1on is not• outright refusal. It merely attaches - impossible conditions; The Red Poreign Minister, Chou En-Lai, states - his goverrnent will send representatives to discuss, not the New Zealand resolution, - - JUt the Soviet proposal before the U.N. Moscow having introduced a motion - calling for the withdrelfal of American forces from the Fonaosa area. The United States blamed - aa the aggressor. As if that were not enough, Chou En-Lai also demands that the Chinese Nationalists be expelled from the U.N. - and the Red representatives admitted, as the legal envoys of ~~ina. To mnke rr.atters complete, the cornmunication from the Reds insists - that, without the participation of Chinese Communist representatives, any decision taken b . the Security Council concerning China would be null and void. Tonight, officials at the United Nations are bitterl, disappointed. The Chou En-Lai refusal - ending all hope, apparentlv, that the U.N. will be able to • d'f"vthtns about a "cease-fire" along the China coast. This, automatically-, switches interest over to London - to Indian ?rime Minister Nehru, who la attending a conference of C011monwealth Prime Ministers. Nehru - advooat1111 private negotiations, outside the U.N. W heard, last night, I that Nehru was pessimistic about the U.N. effort. Thinking - that the best way- ould be to call a conference of interested partLes, along the line of the Geneva Conference. Which - brought about an armistice in Korea. FORMOSA - 3 In Washington diplomatic circles, there is an inclination to think that the Chinese C0111DUntats, 1n their blunt refusal today, ma, be trying to promote private negotiations - along the lines of the Nehru proposal. It 1a noted that Chou En-Lai states that hia goverrnent will support all "genuine efforts" to relieve the tensions in the Par Eut. ISON ERS he t a te p art m ent ha s re j ect e d pro p os 1 - that n ffort s h o u ld b e made for a mee ti be twe e n the imprisoned Ame ric a n a lrm n n d m embers of their fam i l ie s a t Pan-Mun-Jorn. The S U stion comes f~overnor ~ of Iowa - who thinks the Ch nese Reds might agree to such a meeting, between prisoners and relatives, at the old scene of the Korean armistice talks. The State D e partment repl. 'ls - that there's no indication that the Chinese Communists would allow the prisoners to go to Pan-Mun-Jom. Or - th a t it would help to bring about the release of the airmen. A nd the main point is - to procure their treedan. S IET ECONOMY The Moscow R adio gave out a statement of world importance, toda~. A nnouncing - that Soviet Russia h~s changed its economic policv. Shifting emph a sis away from light industry, the manufacture of consumer goods. A nd going back - to the former Stalin polic . of concentrating on heavy industry. The production - of basic needs for war. This has been hinted at - for weeks. Now - it's official. After the death of Stalin, the Malenkov regime made a big play of promising the Russian people better living conditions. More goods - like shoes and clothing, houaehold merchandise and food. Which coincided with a milder tone 1n foreign affairs. The Joviet - "New Look." But now a quick chan g e, in the field o~conomic policy., -•$4Mell~ The change coincides with r e p o r t s ~ ~ of a nother struggle for power in the Kremlin. Between - Malenkov and the Kremlin number two man, Krushchev. Wi th ind ic a tions - that K rushchev, opposing Malenkov, s tood SOVIET ECO OMV - 2 for the ol de r, toug he r po lic . of talin. Tod a. 's announcement is a statement b . Krushchev. W ho decl ares - that heav . indust7 is the backbone of Soviet power. And adds - that emphasis on consumer g oods ls " i nadmissible." Krushchev ridicules what he calls - "woe begone theoriticians." Declaring - thev created a "muddle" by concentrating on goods to improve living conditions. Krushchev stated all this to the Central Connittee of the Russian Communist Party on Januarr TWenty-Fifth. That was the da~ after the resignation of Mikoyan, veteran big shot of the Kremlin. Minister of Internal Trade - a foremost , advocate oft ' e production of consumer goods. Now - tallit11 from power. The Krushchev statemfl.11; of polic.r was made public, .,. only toda . • The timing - significant. The Russian .:> Upreme Soviet opened in Moscow, toda~, - the nearest thing the Reds h a ve to a p ar liament. O b v iousl . , the new Krush c hev econanic policy will be placed before the upreme Soviet - for an oka,. · f K shchev, more and more, looks like the real power in the Kremlin. F O LLOW SOVIET ECONOMY Toda,•s opening of the Supreme Soviet was featured, at once - b, the presentation of a budget. The largest budget - in INI' oviet histor,. Near1, five hundred and sixty-three billion rubles. Which would come to more than a hundred and forty billion dollars - at the nominal rate of currency excbanp All e~s are fixed on the figures for am&J1ent. Which are - twelve per cent more than last ,ear. The reuon for the increase of mone, for weapons, ts given plainl~. The Red Finance Minister stating: "The international ettuatlon does not give us grounds for decreasing our defense needa." Ina tead, the figure is boosted. FRANCE n Paris, tonight, Premier Mendes-France is battling for his political life - as a new turn in the National Assembl . threatens to bring about the fall of his government. The new turn - an attack by a prominent leader of the Premier's own Party. The French Parliament is debating Horth African policy - w!th Mendes-France under assault, because of the way sedition and insurrection has been handled in the French colonies of Tunis, Algeria, Morocco. The chief speaker, tOday, Socialists. Mendes-France is a member of that Party. Rene Mayer - a rival of his for Party leadership • • Mayer assailed, not only Horth African policy, but also the French defeat in Indo-China, and the handing over ot French territories in India to the Indian government. Addressing Mendes-France, he said - he would vote against him. Before this attack, the government was in danger. Tonight, the belief in Paris is - that Mendes-France is more likely than ever to fall from power. h Cha i rm a n of th n- Ame rican A ctiv tiet ommittee ch a r e - that H a rv e. Matusow a s " p lanted ' b . the Communists as a governm nt informer . h eds - usin him in scheme to iscredit investigations of Commun i sm. The Chainnan, Co ressm n Francis W lter, the Penns_rlvania Democrat - calls upon the Department of Justice to prosecute Matusow, immediately, for perjury. llat.a1a 1 was e. "11•efer,r.,te11al lfltneee " f:fltc alalatll be Qnit ,fte 80.maanlst PHI L,v lb NliMbGGli Ptl•!, ■ 0-. sane of ,,, / t Church, while / testimon,y w~ untrue. / and Pltf.trne1Matuaow has turned ri ht around. Sa;irlng - ~ gave spurious testimon. in various cases. In the trial of the thirt ens cond-string Communist le a ders in N w York,~ - 2 in t e n Fi f t . -Two - a nd in the tr a 1 of a s 1 bor lead r 1 t r . lso - i the O wen L att im er c s . He explains b . a. 1 - h needed the f es he got as witness, to enable him to 11v. Co ssm a n alter insists - he's now convinced th t atusow a s a Commun st all along. His break with the Part . - fraud. H as planted by the Cormnunists - as a g overnment iJltanarx witness. M tusow is publishing a book called "False Witness." Th omrni t t Ch a trman s ~rs he I s r ading the book - which, he d cl r , follows the Co1nmun1 st art . line. Inc lltng on thQ partment of Justice to p1•oaeoute for rj ~, C ngressm n lt r t 11. wh a t h 1 11 d, if t u OW 1 convict d. "I w i ll e r on 11 . II S , . he, "r commend to th our to fine hi n amoun 1 o \hr v r h a rns f1•o rn h L. f rthcom1 book. on i 0 to roft from t h t k lnd of busin . t h C r m . F. of L. The erican Federation of bor took a fli t outhern r mo crats, toda . . The A.F. of • ls alread. at odds with the Republican admi nistration, a n now charges - tnat the S outh rn Democrats in Congress a re hostile to higlwr wages and better working conditions. _ .F. of L. President George Mea~ told reporters that labor legislation h a s a better chance in ~ongress controlled b~ Demoorat6 . "But," he added, "a few commi tteee, in the hands of a few Southern Democrats, bring no comfort to us." Well, all the • F. of L. President has to do now - is to get on the outs with the orthern Democrats. Then lte'll be in favor of - n > bod . • CONVENTION The Democrats will hold their Nineteen Fifty-Six Convent on in Chicago - if the Special Convention Committee has its wa y . In Washington, today, the vote was - unanimous for Chicago. Philadelphia - the onl y other city a seriously in the bidding. Today's decision will have to be okayed by the full National Committee, which will act soon. The Republicans .... are expected to choose the same convention site as the Democrats. So it looks as if the two big circuses in 7&: Nineteen Fifty-Six will be held in that same old place~~ Chicago's stockyards. I L _, __ At Joliet, Illinois, Mrs. Anna Meads, seventy- one year old - works as a cleaning woman at a YMCA. For fifteen years, she corresponded with Samuel Gallo, a Skid Row derelict in Chica o. Last autumn, a truck driver called on Mrs. Meads, and handed her a document - which Gallo had aated him to deliver. A wi 11 - the . Skid Row character leaving his estate to his pen pal~ Mrs. Ueads thought - a strange sort of joke. She knew Gallo lived in a flop house, and prowled around - picking up bits of junk. But now Samuel . Gallo has died - and neighbors looked throu g h his room, a flop house cubicle. They foun~ - a litter of stocks and bonds and bank books. The estate - worth about thirteen thousand dollars. No b ody can figure out how the Skid Ro w char cter ever accumulated that much. One of those oddities of life - especially with the strange will and the en pal hetreaa. WEATHER It's cold - all the way across the country, Atlantic to Pacific. Zero - in New York, today. The coldest February / { 7 ~ ~ " ' 7 ~ - Third in the history of the big town. !'-Thirty-eight below, at Plattsburg, New York. Which tells . the story for the eastern states. In the middlwest, and the mountain states - bitter cold and raging blizzards. ~ The passes AlellP the Rockies - januned with I'- snow. ,.....- Even sunn'1 Jelifornia shivered. -..ihermometer - in the tor t1 es~ur1ng the warmest part of the day. Walelt,. ~ ~ Arctic - for California. WO LF From the fro z en l a nds of northem Ontario - accounts of a hu g e wolf. timber wolf j as big as a pon . . Bill Gemmell, operator of a camp, declares he has taken a shot at the giant - eight times . But - missing. A week ago, he g ve ch a se - in a jeep. But, on the ice of a frozen lake, the wolf out-dist a nced the ' jeep. Bill says the animal is three feet h t gh at the shoulder - and more than eight feet...,.frum Mtt nose to 4'tle. tip of Mle tail. A nd~ fyson, an aerial hunter who has killed four hundred wolves in the northern wilderness, tells how he spotted the giant brown wolf - accompanied.by- a smaller white wolf. A ndy was in a plane, flying low over the ice, and killed the -s~H~ white wolf 1th a shotgun blast. :la:& tht big one got away - J. as a fisherman would sa . •