_ 'J_ - -p.., i:J, ~ - ;J, .JJ: .!J. 5. IC/ Y-./. ( ovi et ~ ~ ~ l i t . L u s 1a a definite an o tri ht C nc o n t o th nit ' t t e s . Mosco ag ree,/that · ho h v e t,e acifi lslan s e a r e cl imin g - - ~ , the so trusteeshi un de r the United Nations These, of course, are mo ~ tly the arshalls and Car ol in es , which our fi 0 htin men conquered from JapanjThe Soviet concession seems to be wit h out condition or qualification - Moscow admittin that the sole American trusteeship of the islands is "entirely fair". Because, as the Soviets note, we played the number one part in the winning of the war with Japan. All this was related today by Secretary of State Marshall, who promptly was aske a question that pop ed into the m inds of the news men.The complete a re~ment of the Soviets with our demand ca~urprise-hthere was immediate guessing - ',A maybe oscow was giving in to us for the purpose of a bit of horse trading. Maybe the Soviets will follow up ith some demands of their wn -- out ther e in the Pacific. 2 Secretar of Sta e ars all was as ed did e thin t t ussia was giving something to get sc~ething? He said he had o comment toma e on that score. T test i n t atte r o i e i a nds i• ab Le t · n r o b · d u·rt e rs i• o f the United a i ons, a re ort of much sati fa ction.The de egates on the curity un ci are q uoted as s ayi n g t h t the · oviet agreem nt to the m e ric a n claim i s an e xc eedi n g y favorable si gn -- a n i ndicat i on that aa•J ma y smooth the wa y for the s ttlement of other uest io ni. l ispute bet w een the Soviets and the US A over the trusteeshi p of the acific islands would have tan ed t h in gs up badly for the United Nations. At the same time, American de lega te Wa rren Austin s p ea k s with o p timism of progress 4n the control of the atom bomb. He says that in s pi te of many disa reements -- "great S o, all together, has progll! s s "'\ ••,t be en this was quite a c hee rfu l day on the international front. made. Gr t Britt in ch c es th t t e U n i te d tates rec·ed th n e oti tions for~.ttl eme nt in "' Palesti ne. British for e i n ~ecret a ry E rn es t Bevin l aces th e -~ ~ me on Pr sid e nt T ruman - a i r ~ demand ~ 'A for the imm dia te entrance f or one hundred thousand -::r~ ~ emmigrants into the Holy xxaaa Land) -rr . Bevin's statements were made to the House of Commons• J and the blunt spoken secretary w as at his most forthright. He indicated that American politics were at the back of the Truman demand which caused the Palestine conferences to break downJ- according to Bevin. It · s, he declared,' a matter of our o w n ~ interna£i:craN politics getting mixed up with a difficult international problem. The story that Bevin told the House of Commons today was as follows: Be said he knew in advance a bout the message on Pa lestine that President Truman inten de d to issue. This as at the time of an internation a l confer en ce in aris, and both Bevin and A F..ST I NE - - - - ------ ---- -- - m ri c• n e r tary of tat e Burns er e th r e. told hi m ti, p ro ress ;.... I\ • o Be v i n ent to u r n s , n t e ritish t alks wi th t h e A rabs , ~ and the hop th t B e vin h a d of etti ng the Arabs a nd et. Z ionists to g ether for settlem e nt. A · h a t he fear e d as th a t the A m ri ca n deman d for the immediate ad m i s si o n of on e hundred thousand Jews into Palestine would ••t• antagonize the Arabs and stiffen their resistence. So he asked Secretary Burns to try and pursuade P r sident Truman not to issue the demand. 11'4 begged that the statement should not be issue<I_, b u t ~ ~ to-4_! {that i~ it was not issued by Mr, ~ be issued by Mr. i•x Governor Dewey of New York1f'To which Bevin added, spea in g to the House o f Commons: "I really must point out that, in ias■ • international affairs, I c a nnot sett l e things, if my p roblem is made the supject of local el e ctions." This charge of Americ a n p olitics int rfering ith the negotiations on Pal stine is serious indeed. This the British foreign secretary , understands clearly enough. He said: "I t1 ink every country in the orld ought to know this." N ws fro m , as h· n ton brin a t o a djectiv 8 __ whic s oun sl ig htly con adictory - "humane but to g h". 'i et t ey are exce lent adjectiv e s when a p 1 i '-- to the a u b j ct they d f : scribe - - American relief po l icy in Europe. In sending food su plies to bun ry nations across the Atlantic, we are going to be - humane but tough.That is, we're going to feed the hungry, as a work of mercy.But we are not going to /Promote allow our relief supplies to be used to~11z■■■■s■ totalitarian antagonists of ourselves.~ w-e. tA t,::t ~ ~ - t i ... ~ 'l!-irM -w,1t,8----s,.,tra~e'1.-~~ ~Under Secretary ~~~ of State Clayton, a -~,testifying on the subject ;, of the thre~ hudred- and-fifty-million dollars t ~ resideni.. Truman has asked for foreign relief. peaking before a congressional coa ittee, he said that the supplies to be b o u g h t ~ would go only to countries that admit freedom of news and inforaation to American newspapers and radi correspondents -- countries that is, that are democratic enough to observe the ordinary customs of free nations.And that - does n t m n ovi e t ussi .T t ec n t t u r o v e r m of sen in foo u / t o e t, e C ' ,r Un r · c a 0 res ;" n oover / no h d ' jus from a food / / t . / nv s 0 / ,,- t , i-o ... n to-ur o ~ Euro / ' ;" /'a e is ~ o o . 0 I · m in ' l t kxak ■ L ke C ity toni g ht, an h d l un ch to wi th a Ne Yorker. He w as, in f c t t so un ds l i itor o f l°h e Ne . Yorker - w hich h rdly t h i s R oc ·y o un ta in · st. But t 11 en, Haro l d R o ss w a s born a t Aspen, Colorado, and began his . c a reer on th e n e s pa pers in S alt Lake. _.,. So h e ~ back home, on a tri p - to his native town and to his o l d newspaper haunts. At th e table with us w ere Yrs. Harold Ross, our old radio friend, Colonel Lemuel Q. Stoopnagel,'J I Salt Lake City United Press Manager, Murry Moler. W e w ere kept in an uproar of laughter by the tales Haro l d Ross related of old ne w spaper days in Salt Laite C ity. He told us a••• success story, an always i ns p irin g thing - how he first m a de good on a alt La k e da i ly. He worked in the Sports Department, where he h a d one claim to fame - he could a l ays g et to Jac k Dempsey. Jack lived in ~alt Lake City at the time - he was then prominent as a challenger for the ROSS---- 2 ------------ heavy weight championship. Harold Ross told us that in the estern newspapers of those days the sports editors were men of great dignity, who would never go out of their offices to talk with such celebrities as prize fighters. Prize fighters had to come to the• - to the newspaper office. In this the sports editor for whom Harold Ross worked was inflexible - the only trouble being there was one prize would~•••• go to a newspaper office~- ~ t a . Jack Dempsey. ' •My boss•, said Harold Rosa toda7, •would never have had a story froa Dempsey - if it hadn't been for me.~,.......,_ I · was just a cub but I always knew where to find Jack, and he would always give ae a statement.• We asked the editor of the Re• Yorker - how was it that he could always get to Deapsey? •oh,• he replied, •I knew a bicycle rider. 4 waa a fellow who used to ride in the seven day races that were popular in t . ose days. Be had turned meanwhile, into bycycle delivery man, 1nd used to deliver dinner to Dempsey, -- dinner · from a restau~ant -- and was friendly with him.• •so that,• Barold Ross concluded, •is how I achiever a newspaper career -- I knew a bicycle rider.• And that i's the success story of the founder and editor of The New ~orker. Sounds like a story for The New Yorker. iikil~LR L RU DS There's good news fro the rai road labor front.Late this afterno u n President W hitney of the Brotherhood of Railroad trainmen predicted that there will be no railroad s t rike. Be said that the dispute ~~ l a s t ~ ~ over ru~es which caused the walkout will be settled by collective bargaining no repetition of the strike of last spring. It turns out that the government drive ag ainst the black market in sug a r traces back to a Los Angeles was candy manufacturer, who approached by the black marketers. This manufacturer was offered illicit coupons for a million pounds of sugar. And he could have used the sugar. But, that Los Angeles business ■ an was not the sort to de&t with the black ■ arket. The men who approached hi ■ are .. identified as two Chicago lawyers, and he strung the ■ along the F.B.I., ■ eanwbile. intor■ ing The F.9.I. told himto carry through and go to Chicago and aeet the two lawyers for the black ■ arket ■ cbeae. An undercover rendeYouz. The two lawyers didn't show up. Instead, they sent a ■ iddle- ■an who offered the Los Angeles candy aanufacturer sixteen thousand stamps for procurring sugar illegally. The sta■ps turned out to be some genuine, ao■e counterfeit. The price - for them was seven thousand dollars. Just as the deal was being ■ade, r.B.I. agents ■ tepped in, and aade arrests. ~~g!fi ___ ::_i In San Francisco toc}r there were five arrests. Polices y that the five taken in custody had and sold eighteen thousand counterfeit sugar staaps. A bulletin from San Francisco inti■ ates that the sugar black market was being run by book ■ aters. •who else except the bookies,• asks an assistant U.S. attorne •would have a · nation-wide organization big enough anl well enough organized t · o flood the country with fraudulant sugar 1ta■p1? Fro■ Chicago:-- A grand jury today i1aued seTen indict■ents against twent7-aeTeD persona -- charged with sugar racketeering. llSCUE e have new dramatic details about -liJ' JJ. spectacular rescue of~eleven marooned army airmen . . 1/,wlG.&L~ .. in the Arctic wilds of Northern Greenland.•· did their share in enabling the rescue plane,""'big C-fifty-four transport, to land in that realm of treacherous po l ar ice. Thee even aurvi•ors turned themselves into human markings for a landin& field runway. To~ the••• hero , of the exploit, pilot dW,,t.? j,,., Bobby Joe Cavanar o Oklahoma, told how he flew ~ to the point where the eleven airmen, in their B- twenty-nine bomber, had been forced down -- a point - - waJ..., l,oo d'-1- .. ~••1' miles ..,,. the Horth Pole. Be aaya: ' I sighted the B-twenty-nine crew on a frozen - - lake and began circling to look for a good landing strip. Then the survivors aeeaed to realize I••• having trouble and they started spreading out o•er be the ice". First,} didn't understand what they were Ri~CUE - 2 doing. ~ he ~ f realized taa they were showing him the bet available strip for landing in the neighborhood. Five lined up on one side, and six on the other -- hum a n landing stri aarkers. They stood about three--hundred yards apart, aar~ing off 11 strip twenty- five-hundred feet long - - and they waved for him to come in, which he did -- with all the confidence born of the knowledge ■■ that eleYen experienced airmen had picked a strip for hi ■, aa4 were marking it. The twenty-two year old pilot aaya that no tiae was l o s t , f he was afraid tJ1111'L hia transport. plane would get stuck in the snow that•••••• covered the frozen lake. Bia plane was equipped••• not •ilh skis, for Arctic work, but with ordinary wheelat and in the bitter cold, the snow aight freeze in. So he piled the eleYen survivors aboard the plane as fast as he could and got going in a hurry -- using rocketss on the wings to give him a blast of speed for the difficult take-off. 11Q~~x_ o ~ Th e r e's a de m and in Holly w ood that acade m y aw a rd s should be g r a nted to a type of motion picture a r t i s ~ s . f k a ~ ~ ~ ~ c , L ) - ~ o . . ~ e~.l.:Q ~~ • That is -- the m ake-up man. Those expe r t s of the rouge p o t •ho fix up the faces of the atara, argue that the stars who •in the awards J ■i■* owe a lot to the fellows who fix up their faces. There ia, for example, Fred Phillips who achieved a ■ aaterpieoe in turning Rosalind Russell fro ■ a chicken of fourteen to a wrinkled old lady of the grandma stage of lite. From this magician of grease paint we ha•• a few inside disclosures aa evidence that a makeup Oscar should be awarded. Who is it that disguises the large optics of Bette Davis, which the inelegant call popeyes? Who is it that takes the accent off Joe Crawford's nose which some might consider large? We are told that Jeannette MacDonald's eyes would be too round, and Greta Garbo's•• nose would be too large, and Claudette Colbert wouldn't have any nose. C l ar k Gable's ears would flap in the breeze- if it weren't for the make-up man. Then there's the problem of the fac of the ■ ovie actor when the years begin to catch up with hia. •when a star gets old," says Fred Phillips, we have to glu~ his double chins -- *k• and the sagging brows ander hie hair line. •1 wouldn't aention any aanes, • he r , aarka discreetly •but the late John Barryaore wore cbin straps. Since we are on opposite sides of the continent I guess it'• safe to suggest this: hitch up your chin 1trapa, lelaon, and carry on. Our old friend lelaon Caae. ilfLOSIQl The mystery of the man who blew himself up in a iashin ton telephone booth has been solved. He had just made a phone call, when h e touched off a dynamite bomb that blew him to bits. The call has been traced, and it turns out th a t he was talkin& to his wife. He was a t enty-five year old Aray veteran, whose wife, living in Virginia, intended to divorce him. On the phone in the telephone booth in a restaurant he told her: •I've got dynaaite, I'• going to kill myself•. On the other •••i end of the wire she pleaded with hi• not to do it, but be cut her short, and a moment later detonated the bomb, a sort of home- made grenade -- and the explosion roared. ' Recom m endation-..,; made for a ten percent I~ raise in rents -- with the retention of federal rent contro l to the first of next year. This advice emanates from a ~enate sub-committee, which alao recommended th a t rent ceilings be transferred out of tile control of the O P A. The coamittee voted in favor of the ten percent rent increase along party lines - Republicans for, Deaocrata against. H re's ne s -- about news. Things have been lo ~ing up for the newspapers of th 1 d e an -- they have had a record-breaking year. Hineteen- forty-~ix as the best in newspaper history. So we, learn from the international year book of Editor I and Publisher, which bas just been issued:'f"So what was the record-breaking circulation of American •••••• newspapers? The answer is more then fifty- aillion-and-nine-hundred thousand -- that many newspapers sold last year; five and two tenths ,r ~ , percent m re than ever before. And advertising~cllR ~ t.went.y-f our percent. bet.t.er than in I inet.een forty-{ive.'17During the past year twenty-eight new dailies appeared, started in business; and only fourteen folded -- ~~~ fourteen.So how aany newspapers are there in this country all together? There are 8ne-thousand- seven-hundred-and- sixty~ three dailies, three-bundred~and-thirty-four morning and f■• one--thousand- four-hundred- and--twent1- ~ dt ~ -~ ~~ nine afternoon. ~ SAN D IE G -------- The fair city o f San Diego wa defended by its mayor today, who iu Washington replied to insinuations that ia• San Diego had made a &Q.Od thing out of a navy aqueduct. The deal that was made aiKii ■ i provided that the ia~ City should pay the Navy five hundred thousand dollars a year for the aqueduct -- while, at the same time, collecting eight hundred the Navy. ••s ■ z in •a...t..&.r.. rates fro, thousand a year~z•l"iffl'xl&XJxfazx1aa To a congressional committee in ashington, Mayor Barley Inox p~ointed to the bonded indebtedness of the city . in the matter of water -- that ••■sa■z and other financial complications. The committee chairman hastened to assure the Mayor that there was no accusation of San Diego.