MQAATHUR The climax in C 1cago has just ended and it was one of the most spectacul a r events ever s aged. Fifty thousand people jammed Soldiers 1ield, and the cheers for MacArthur were defeaning. He ma.de a brief address in which he said: •The fundamental question remains the same -- what is the policy for Korea! He said the p o licy now 1s confused and uncertain. Afl pub\10 · " As he ended, the victor over Japan remarked that hi ■J life was now closed. To which the crowd replied with -- no! no! The KacArthur address waa followed by a blaze of fireworks, with a,\Portra1t of the General and his famous scrambled eggs hat pictured in b rilliant ~z pyrotechnics. Then there was a match- 11 htin ceremony. lhe lights of Soldiers Field went out, and fifty thousand peo o le lit matches -- for a magical sp ctacle of glimmering light~ 1Jhict1.go did its f proud )'n a ' Mac ~thur. Tomorrow M11 , u / oppgftuntty ~D claim a home-town as the home f Gener _ ,-, MACARTHUR - CHICAGO The L~ Chicago celebr-tion began today in a J. carniv a l atmosph r e. Early this morning people began a ssembling at the airport -- where the MacArthur olane was not expected until shortly after noon. But hundreds wanted to be sure of getting a good place to see the General when he landed, and they came oarr,m1 their lunches and thermos bottles of hot coffee. Many brought blankets to keep warm, and others wrapped themselves in ne w spapers agains~ the chilly breeze that swept the •v1ndy City.• By the time noon came around ..,...thousand, were jammed at the airport. The weather was gloomy, with heavy clouds, and the big tranRpor~ plane •eataan• ) came in on an instrument landing. Then the first cheer• we nt up as the General and Mrs. MacArthur z ■ emerged with their t h irteen year old son Arthur. th roar of cheerin g was a beg1nnin for wha t went on all day -- The boomin of cannon i a seventeen gun salute heralded the be g innin of the pa r ad e, and the sun IAQAiTHJJI - CHIQ4GQ - 2 burst throu ~ h the clouds for the first tlme - as if n joining the bi hoorah. The MacArthur party drove .. ~ .. .;;1.::-.. ... _.?cf throu gh st re et s lined byAthu million spectators. The police rep ea tedly h ad to clear a w ay through enthusiastic thron g s. Factories and business places clo s ed, pourin their thousands into the streets, and myriads of schoQl •~tl children turned out to see the h ero of Bataan and Tokyo. Thia was climased by a ceremony on the / I Bataan - Corregidor bridge over the Chicago River, the General placing a memorial wreath. The celebration 11 being renewed this evening, with a mammoth demonstration at Soldiers 1ield. Chioago did itself proud in a magnificent welcome for MaoArthur. Tom o rcow Milwaukee will have its own ouportunitY to claim a home-town hero. Milwaukee regarding itself as the home of General Douglas MacArthur. Late news fro• laahington announce• the reca l l of Major General Charles lillou1hby who ••• General laclrthur•a chief intel l igence officer ia Tokyo. There waa criticisa of lilloughby and hi• intelligence ataff at the ti ■• when the Chin••• Bed• firat made their onalau1ht into Iorea. lac&rthur i i 1aid to have forae4 bia ••tiaate of the aituatioa on intelli1enoe p rovided by General lilloughby. Suob were tbe cirtici•••• ••• now lillou1bby i• recalled fro• Tokyo - ordered back to laahington. QCilTHOR - TRUHAB Pr e sident Truman etatt~?that he will not gag A General MacArthur, even though heh e the power to do so. Under the Constitution, as Commander 1n Chief, the President has the authority to regulate the utterances of any ■k military officer. -- liut the Wi1ite House will not intervene in the public pronouncements made by the General. So said the President; adding that the Senate investigation next week, looking into the d1Bm1saal of MacArthur, will produce some interesting developments. Meanwhile, Senator Taft., .otl.M waa declar1n that the Joint Chiefs of Staff, headed by General Omar Bradley, are what Taft called 'absolutely under the control' of the adm1n1etration•a Confidence in them 1a - 'shaken• - political leaders. e-e:o said theASenator. • c.Ql'tlOL . The Truman m e ssage t c o ongress today was a complicated a the subject of economic contr ls is likely , to be• But it featured that word so magical down on the farm -- •parity.• The President tells Con r ss that •parity• should be calculated by the y ar - not from month to month, as at present. Which may so nd like a lot of Greek, if not Sanskrit to city folks - although the farmer will understand • . 'Parity• 11 a pr1ce ' f1gure at which the farmer can borrow •oney from the government on h11 crops. Which means, in effect -- 1f the price on the market should sag below •parity• he can still borrow up to that figure. As 1t stands, •parity• 1s calculated on a1,a.sis of the costs of things the farmer h&s to buy, and it varies from month to month, as those costs keep changing. So •parity• keP.ps fluctuating through the year - and the President thinks it would be better if it remained the same for the year. He sug g ests to Con re s that the figure•• for various crops be fix e d at a time when the•~ normal marketing season ao1i10L - 2 b e 6 ins, - n d sho uld remain · t t t l e vel for t w elve mo r: t h s. T ha t i o ld tend to stabilize food prices, and keep the cost of 11v1n on an e ven keel. There is likely to be a fight in Congress over this. The legislators from the agricultural states know that the farmers take a dim view of any tampering with the 'magic formula'. ror the farmers - any fooling around with •parity• can look like a rald on the henhouse "-•~ ~ ~ ~ (Presidential\ . Th~,z••••ttaxa~Jmes s age today, five thousand words of 1t, recommends a whole series of other tb1ng1 -- stiffen penalties for price violators, curbs on com m odity speculat1~n, and so on. But the headline word is -- 'parity•. JOBiA In Kor ea , · rigid s e curity blackout ob cure details of t h e b attle above Seoul ) Delayed front line reports, however, 1!d1.,:/r1ghting around Ui3ongbu, J, elven miles north ~f Seoul, on that historic 1nv sion route t the n•••xorean ~ital. · The battle is ~ described by officer a ■ one on the w e. s t ~ front as A. !\ •trading round for blood.• Dispatches tell of tremendous artil l ery "" , , £..-,Aa4 "'t- barra.ges, ~~ shells fired a.t the waves of attacking ~ C h i n e s e . ~ I'&t"e--Of-~NlllC1"""t" d6 WI nr,., .. ., . ~ In t h e air, night fly,1ng B-26 aasault pl a nes, switched on their ~.._•••••• • •swooped low ~ landing 1 , g h t s ~ t o ~ ! • t Red concentration■ A • Their support mission 1s described as •one of the boldest of t h e war.• he .:cues ; ave h el t n a g 1 ns t yem - j ~ o act ion.• '1>P XQRIA W e n the new day b roke in Kore a , light rain was falling, but that didn't keep the American war planes from taking off, anyway. So, rain or no rain, the round troops are getting slashing air suppor,. The latest -- eighth · Army Commander General - Van 1leet stated that his troo a would stop the spring - offensive of the Rede north of the H a n ) ~ - tf,j- t h e ~ ~ ~ flow• through Seoul, a.n4 le & n&tur&l barrier through western Korea. JOR E A - ANZACS Yester da y was Anzac Day i n Austr a lia and New Z e a l an d c e l eb rating the b loody fi g hting ...... ~ on the b eaches of Palli po li - the Dardanelles - 1n World Wa r One. For the British Co m onwealtb Twenty- Seventh Brigade in Kor a, Anzac Day marked the toughes, and most 1 m por a nt victor for the Anzacs 1n their eight months•• in Kore a . Tlose lean, lanky fighters from the l a nds Down U n d er had been relieved -- pulled from the line and were p r eparing to sail for Hongkong, when the Chinese launched their massive spring offensive. So wit , in t w enty four hours, the Australian a nd New Zealanders found theaselv e e back 1n the thick of it, their •gunners• stripped to the wa11t, sweHting over t h eir smoking t . enty-five pounders 1n a twenty- four hour&■ barrage. The Anzac infantry driving off wave after wave of the enemy, until the bodies of hundr a ds of C 1 1n es e er ~1led up 1n front of their positions. For th e m o me nt, t le a st, the A l lies had re a 1n e d th e 1n1t1 a t1ve, a s the t w enty-Seventh Anzao lAli4 - ANZACS - 3 Brigade r ported its Anzac victory in 1~con1c, Down-Under style: "p ressure eased considerably•. t•asia That was their m odest wa.y of understating wha, they had done. IIITAIH ~ From London~·- ._. word tonight that Winsto / - - - /, Churchill will try a g ain next week to force a general el e ction in Britain. Britain~ le~r~Wn hopes to overthrow the Attlee gov rnment on the issue of raw material shortages for rearmament. Which seems strange, for this was one of the issues that caused the Left Wing Labor1tes, under Aneurin Bevan, to break ~ th the labor government last week. Winston Churchill hopes are to split the Labor /ia.rty's ranks, by forcing a vote ta on this issue. Make Bevan and his followers either vote against their own pa.rty or /in either case would give the abstain - whichli■•t•x1naxt~ ■ xl■a• ■ssatts■axtut Conservative~~/ an■at■•t*~,<'~ majority they need to bring about an e1e~t1on. BP§SIAN RADIO From th fron ie b twe n wes ern and eastern Ger I ny comes a story about two bold Russians. They o rate a mobile•• radio station that is now sending messa es of hope and encouragement to anti-Stalinists ehind the Iron Curtain. They.call 1t Radio Station Free Russia. And it's on wheels. A ~u e camouflaged truck which contains a secret mobile radio transmitter. On . of the two Ruaaians 1s a former member of the famous Ballet Russe. This new station goes on the air each ni ht from a new point near the Iron Curtain. Last ni bt, those t,,o, Vladimir and Gregor, ere joined by an American Uni ed Press C ·res u ondent, R. R. Buckingham, who tel ls thtJ story of how, in the mo nli ht, they set out in their mobile •Radio Free Russ1a•. They drove to an abandoned stone quarry. All highly secret, for the Com unists have sworn to wipe ut t 1 8 anti-Stalinist pro a anda station. Once safely arriv d, Vl dimir an Gregor rig ed a undr d and thirty foot antenna between two fir g~ trees. Precisely at nine o'clock t e rich Russian tons of ballet dancer BUSSIAN RADIO - a Vla 1mir broke the silence, with the words: •Here is Radio Free Russia! death to the tyrants~• Then followed a program talking about Stalin' peace prizes to western Communist sympathizers. It explained how St• , lin is attempting to bribe foreign intellectua,ls to support the Red tyranny. 'thirty m inut . , later, the show was over, Gregor and V.l&d1a1r much pleased with their work -- especially as somehow they eluded all the Red attempts at lamming. Think of the courage of those two llusaiane, with their radio station on wheels - radio rree Buea1&, mperating almos~ on the Red frontier. ISY§PAPERMAB Fro n Czechoslovakia, comes a.n exnlanat1on of th e disappearance of American newspaperman William Cati s of the Associated Press. Oatis had not been seen since he left h1s office on Monday. The n e w s ~ ~ ~ ~ _.:_p Q"1," fr6nit~z~oslovakllc government • ...,_T'be1 · re holding Oatis for •activities h~stile to the state.• Though many newspapermen ha.ve been expelled from Iron Curtain countrl s, this thirty-seven year old newsma.n from Marian, Indian&, been arrested in eastern Eur o pe •. - ls the first•~ to ha.Ye T h e ~ ~ e n t announces three ch a rges for Oatis' arrest, all couched in those usual propagandist terms t h at we have oome to exp r ct, such as •activities hostile to the Czech state. Gathering s e cret information. Spreading •••t~ mal1c1oua information trough illegal news organs.•W'so far, the American Emb a ssy has been refu s ed permission to visit ~ ~ ~ t i - « . . - P ~ " 6 , , , t f f l . ~ , Here•, that coaauni q ue troa - Paria. lo, nothing to do with those Bi1 four talka, which•••• to have reached auch an i■paaae. Thia is a ■arriage co ■■unique about Prince Aly Ihan, a u d his wife, ao•i• actr••• Rita Hayworth. The word co ■•• fro ■ Al7 lban•• attorney, who deacribea ru ■ or1 ot a poaaible diYorc• aa •ridi~uloua, atupid, scandaloua.• Reports ot a break-up in the aarriage of Al7 and Bita, 1a7 the law7er, are o n l7 a publicit1 atunt and he explain• wh7. Rita, it 1eea1 h aa co ■• to the United State• with their daaghter taaaine to ■ate aoae ■o•ie1, or, •• be puts it, •to keep her contract obli1ation• with Hollywood.• Bia red-haired Aaerican prince•• will be back in France tor the aua ■ er racing aeaaon, at Deaubille. That'• the word troa the Prince. The latest - in I•• York Ira. Al1 Ihan•a la•J•r today refused to coaaent on the •co ■aunique troa Paris.• lot to be outdone, Rita's attorney will 1u,_:~&- 1,,u• bi• own communique, this weekeod. At any rate coaaunique veraua coaaunique does sound a bit ar!ike. lo• soaetbing to pacify ua, lelson.