I HO --- f,.:1. - ~ , o , J r.,i. :J.......,,, ~-~1'1'7 - s c ssion - that's th ugly word in Bo i e , Idaho toni ht. T he north v rsus the south, just like th civil war days; but n bloodshed. orthern Idaho wa nts to secede from south rn Idaho, draw in some parts of Ea tern Washington and f orm forty-ninth state. State Senators and r ep resentatives froa ten northern Idaho counti es to da y introduced a measure in the state legislatur e to bring about this secessation. the miners It's all part of a long-standing quarrel, - ~ - t £ C-Cu- de L ~ -4,:, and lumb rjacks of northern Idaho....,. ~ een threatening such action for eighty years, ever since the stat• capital was moved fro• Lewiston to Boise. Wel l , the Idaho statesmen have done their part•now it's up to the State of Washington. ' . I~ashington legislature approves the proposed seccessation of the eastern half of!~! territory, then plans wil • and forty- ninth 80 aided for the creation ~ v..tJ to state..,- Con g ress. A A of a new i ht now feeli n g in northern Idaho is running pr tty high. la•J Says Senator Badelin, 8 Democrat from Bonner- that's in the north - •jast giv us north Idahoans a chance to vote on the ue tin. In fact, just give us a chance to vote f• on anything. What we want to do is get rid of South Idaho.• · Pr s 1 . nt Truman plans t · ~ • ~ o u r ~ ,( good n e ighbor olicy with a flying visit to Mexico City arly in March. Presid e ntial gress Secretary Charli 2 oss sa ys d e tail d p l ans have not yet been completed. Ho ver, Mr.Truman will be the guest ot Mexico's new Pr e sident, Miguel Aleman. The surprise ••i announcement of the proposed journey coincided with Ur.Tru■an•~:;:L -P/'\.8-C. that he has decided to as~Aleaan to visit the lhite I\ - ~ ~ - House, ■ nd Aleman's visit, ~~~~~~ will ■art ~ \ the first journey of a Mexican iresident to Washington in an official capacity. The White House, in announcing these plans today stressed that no pressing proble■ s exist between Mexico and the I ■ United States, that it was ~ ali part of the good will program. A REQQ !l_ -- m. n e in Con re · to y for an inv ti at.ion of the ·l y f o ~ b . rs ., n ., 0 ~ 8 0 f o . t i r e rt e nt • T r t i C 0 ur r, s, of course, that · r. 00 e (' t ' s er ") rv of t e Tre.,sury ffqnry , or ~ ent . u, "' ") 1n os . es . i o n of a hu e lot of material rom whic f, co pilin g r icle and al a book. Re wil t ke the~ . t r u w~en he returns to New :York in week- e is in Los An eles now. And tod y brou t anot er disclosure about record t ken • r ~ y b not . er Ne Deal cabinet member- H n r o ld !e ke~ , t e self-style cur u eon ho was Sec ~ et ry oft e Inte ior. An uninentified spokes~an at the Dep rt ent of the Interior states th~t Ickes carted of en ~ u ~ records RECORDli - - to fil l r ift ' ilin g c a s. le s was ask e d about that ay, and he neith e r con f irmed nor denied anythi,f:,. ~ t e n t e d hims e lf with one of those blazing verbal assaults that ekes knows how to deliver, ~- with barbed epithets. Be delivered a skin-'em-alive diatribe against the8epartmmt of the Interior Official who kept himself anony ■ oua while telling about the fifty filing cases full of docu~ents that Ickes is said to have taken away. All of which brought Congressional de■ and1 today that the whole thing b~ in•estigated - deaando aade by the Republicans. In the Lower House, Congreas ■ an Hoffman of Michigan referred to what h called -- •The ••• le• Deal's Iron Curtain.• And he aid: •1 fayor lifting that curtain and finding out what's behind it.• In other words, investigate the taking away of docu■ent1, and find out what's in the documents. In the Senate, Aiken of Vermont had the following to say: •I•ve heard reports in the laS t two years that official records have been destroyed, but 1 0 n " · 'i ci. () T' n y the ri 0 P. p i1 . 0 n n n '1~ 0 I ' not ' r t UC i 0 • 0 nti 1 n ent oc nt " . I i e n t - t t e or nthau diary COJleS to tot , 1 of n ne un r VO er. And it's h r to t in . t t enr t ile er . r of the Tre sury, ti e to rite nine hundre volumes of di ry. T t woul ' . o t copius liter ry pro uctio --in act mi culou . at mic A- Th r wa s arnin in ashington today about in g . avi d Lili e nth a l , who has been n arue d • adAthe A tomic E n rgy Comm i sion, asked for a secretw & e n t e h e ~ rin g - to rec e ive confidential e vid enc about fo r eig n spies who p ry into our atomic 0 ts . th same time, Lilienthal said that a lot of •••~•ta secret atomic information had been disclosed by American scientists, who put it out in scientific publications. He said the worst violation of secrecy was the p ublic tion of an official government report aaaxtJ shortly after the first atomic bomb hit Japan. In this re p ort the scientists described fo1r ways of splittin g th Q atom. he Lilienthal testimony followed the a pearance of former Senator Austin, American Delegate lo the United N tions, wh o gave solemn warning to the joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. He stated that thi s country must, under no circumstances, disclose its atomic secrets, until an effective system of st0 mic > Our overnment tod·y m ade a formal statement dn the matter of the Polish e lections. The t a t e Dep rtment issues the official charge of what ~ all along. Poland md not A the news has b e en giving us hav e a fair and democratic election. The overwhelming sweeprmade by the Communists was the result of coercion, viol e nce and terrorism. The American declaration today states that P oland failed to carry out what it calls - 'Solemn ' p ledges." The election .... a violation of the agreements ' made by the big powers at the Yalta and Potsdam conferences. These charges were issued at the direction A C n ~ o f ~ Secretary of State, General Marshall. What are we going to do about it? The word from Washington is that we are not likely to break diplomatic relations with Poland - because a break would merely deprive us of diplomatic representation in arsaw. Our Embassy there is one of the few sources of information that we have behind the iron curtain of l■i Communism. ' ., f ALE ST,1@ In Pal e s t i n e , t he two hostag e s have be n released. he banker, kidnap p ed on Sunday, Major H.A.R c l i s, w s turned loose today, in the rain, on the aJ outskirts of Jerus a lem. Judge Ralph Windham w s set " free on the beach near Tel Aviv. He had been kidnapped yesterday from his Tel Aviv Courtroom, waring his robes of the Ju icial Office, including the traditi"on British wig. The release of the hostag s followed an ultimatum from the British aut orites, which threaten to apply the rigors of martial law on the Zionist of Palestine. Jewish officials appeale to the terrorists to comply, and they did)- after issuing an announcement that the banker and the judge would be s e t free. The underground group, Irgun Zvai Leumi, handeQ a statement to the United Press in Jerusalem - in . hich they explained that they were not releasing the hostag s because of the British ultim tum. Irgun l~aix••• Zvai Leumi explained by pointing out that the PALEST ll.!t - 2 --- kidnap p in s h d occurred bee us e of a death s en tence imp osed by a British militar court on one of their members, nam e d Grun r. That death sent e nce had now been repri e ved - en c e the r el ease of the hostages. T he British, on their s ide, say that they did not repriev e G runer b c a use of the kidnappings. Th e reason,w a s to give his lawyers a chance to appeal to the privy counetl in London. ~ The wor~ that the British, in the face of the terrorism of the Jewish Underground, 'l'wconsiderin1 a plan to evacuate all women and children fro ■ alestine - and 111111 establish security areas for the p rotection of civilians who remain. ► The S ovi ets ar e ma in g n e comp la ints aga in s t Ge ner 1 Ma c Arth u r , · n d t hi s time the mail fro ■ 0 co w is about a c h urch m att e r. You may wonder w hat th e Com m unist s of th e Kr mlin have to do with cbu~ches _ t h e g os p el of M arxi s m be in g strictly At h eistic. Howe•er, Mos cow to day charges t ha t General MacArthur took unfri e n d ly action a g ainst the Soviets in the matter of the Rus s i a n Orthodo x Church in Ja p an. It ap p ears th~t tever since the old days of t h e Czars, there has been a group of Orthodox Christian s in Japan, w h o recognize as their spiritual c h ief the head o f the churc h in Russia. In Nineteen- i ■f Forty-Five, the Patriarch at Mo s cow died, and his succes or was invited by the Japanese Orthodox group .,J,(,,._~.t...---~, to visit Japan. But this has been blocked by MacArthur. /, T h e Moscow claim is that, after the A merican Occupation of Japa n , Gener a l MacArthur brou g ht influence to bear on the Japanese Ort h odox, and p ersuaded t h e m to accept an American Orthodox Bis h op 88 their leade~ At th ~ Patri · arch 1 · n M osco w was not allowed e sam e time, the 1: A ~ l 1 ■ UP!!_ - 2 to visit J p an - w a s refused a visa th a t would enabled him to enter the country. a ve All this th . of f ici a l Soviet news agency denounced today as unfriendly to the Soviets. The oscow vi ew is that the lead rship of the Orthodox c h ristians in Japan belon gs to the Patriarch of Moscow. The r e asons are not far*•• to seek. The Soviet overnme 1t, for all the Atheism of the Marxian Doctrine, is now upholding the old Russian Orthodox hurch - for p olitical reasons, and what would be ■ ore shrewdly p olitical than to have a group of christians in•Japan under the rule of the Moscow Patriarch - who, in turn is dominated by the Soviet Governm e nt? The authori t i e s 1n Ind · ana are investig a ting the wreck of a Cininnatf- Chicago Flyer last night - four lives lost. The accident took on a sinister appearance when, tangled up in the wheels ot the locomotive, was found a large bale of wire. This ponderous role of wire, lying on the track, caused the wreck. At first it was supposed that the bale might have rolled down an embankment, and landed on the track.But this is now denied. A State Police detective states that the big roll of wire could not have got onto the track b mere force of gravity. Be states: •somebody either placed the wire on the track, - or got it caught there while intending to steal it•. In other words it was either deliberate train wrecking_ or thieves...,. having to abandon the ~ ire, left it on the tr ck, where it wrecked the Cincinnati-Chicago Flyer. In Europe, th e bitter winter they've been avin g is at a climax - a new cold sn p. For seven days - - ~ ~ \ « . ~ ~ ~ - - it has been sn o wing in En g and, and today still another ~ A blizzard swept A.upon the isl8JVi~••l "- w..•• - - ~ ~ -8,..(l.~ ~ ~ - < n,"l_,c.. ~~ .s th•-- .... "'' - _.,,,...,.,,, On the Continent, the cold wave is frosty s far sou . th as Portugal. It snowed today in Lisbon - :it~ t h at seldom knows the white flakes ot winter. And Paris shivered in a snowfall, the cold snap all the more shivery because the canals froze and blocked the transportation of coal. Well, every s tory should rise to a 1la■sxa cliaax - and this weather report from Europe does just that. In Paris today it was too cold for a duel, At daybreak, two contestants were to have appeared on the field of honor, but the field of honor was too frosty. So tne duelists_ they stayed in bed, pulling the covers up snugly.11:f'hey cherish their honor but not with frostbite. The deadly quarrel - or not so deadly - caae bout when Monsieur Maurice Garcon, 8 lawyer of EUROPEA -- ~ EATHER - 2 ... -- ... -----~ renown, passed a mort 1 insult at Colonel Henri Groussar , a , arrior in the French Resistance Movement. Monsieur Garcon intimated that Colonel Groussard, before joining the resist nee, had & ■ ii•~•• collaborated with Vichy. That brou g ht about a challenge to a duel. 11 Paris was excited about it. A duel is always a favorite subject along the Boulevards; and the two anta 0 onists in this affair were of headline prominence - Monsieur Garcon, tall and portly, Colonel Groussard tall and ball-headed. The interest was all the keener, because t ~· is would be the first big-time duel aim 1f~-t: lorld War Number Two began./'lhich had a special ■eaniDC for Paris, a meaning of hope and opti ■ is ■• The Par~aian1 fi g ~red that t i s return of the code of honor signified that conditions were becoming noraal in the post-war period. When Frenchmen - fight duels, things are normal in France: As a result of this public interest, the Par 1 · 81 ·an at exceptional pains to cover newspapers were the duel and get the story. ~---- - - - - --7~ EUROPEAN WEATH_ -3 -- --------~7., a l l last night roups ~ o newspapermen aited out s ide of the homes of Monsieur Garcon and Colonel Groussard, ready to follow them to the field of h onor with th e comin g of daybreak. The newspapermen nearly froze to death, t h e col d snap being what it was. They stamped th e ir feet and beat their hands, shivering and blowin g s team ~ ith every breath. Finally, daybreak came. The winter sky began to grow light over Paris. But • ■ igas neither Monsieur Garcon nor Colonel Groussard appeared. Then the shivering newsmen got the word - duel called oft because of cold weather. It isn't known what weapona were to haYe - been used - save that Colonel Groussard, the so]dier, preferred to duel wit h sabres, mile Monsieur Garcon the lawyer, preferred pistols. Anyway, it was too coid to swing sabres - that wouldn't go so well in overcoats. And it w a s too frostr to ~ et shot at with pistols. So Paris f a iled to have its first poet-war duel today - because the duelists bad sense enough to atay in bed, and keep warm in the oold snap. ~ ~ ---------- It's likes ring where I am, (lre you ~~ b lmy t o o ~ . . , ~ I me· n is it balmy where y.ou are? Th overnment of Ju oslavia brings an accusation against Gr t Britain - blaming the British f or the killin o a Ju oslav Diplomat. This happened in Italy;but the regime of arshal Tito is not blaming the Italians. The killing was done sat a camp of Ju ~ oslav refugees - where the British were in control. T is camp was visited by two officials ot the overnment of Tito, and one of the two, a Jugoslay Consul named Glumchitch, thought he'd make a speech to the Jugoslav refugees. From Italian sources we are told that the British tried to o do anything of the ort.- Tne refugees being anti-Communist. ' Jt wouldn't be safe to give them any z■ Red oratory. · But Glumchitch persisted, and the refugees assailed him and the oth r Jugoslav Official. Today's complaint from Tito states that the refugees beat Glumchitch to death •ith iron bars, and severly injured his companion. The Jugoslav accusation describes the killers as Chetnik Bodygua rd ' of a British ajor in comm nd of the camp. The Chetniks, of course, vere anti-Nazi heroes of World War Two_ t 'k f 'kh · 1 ~ t 4 ~ those Che n1 s o 1 a1 ov1 ch, ~ were afterwards J\ executed by Tito the Communist. atural ' they hadn't any love for Tito and his henchmen. Today's Jugoslav statement, putting the blame on the British Major in command of the camp, declares that the res onsibility must be assuaed by the British Military Authorities in Italy. /JI)_~•/) L A - ~ ~ +.hose weirti eaea f»am--J.e ~~ wf:..u p-.n. a Japanes e carpenterLrus~ up to General MacA th A .. .... 'J-1 ,,- r ur, ad :ba'}. Jap ~ sword!-From Tokyo v. e hear t h a t , . } A MacArthur me rely grabbed the Jap and handed him over to the M P's, telling them to take him a w ay and teach him some•••• manners. The official statement today says therw./l real purpose of the Jap was to get himself killed,-- . . . not • do MacArthur any harm. He expected that an American soldier would shoot him down, and that his death would bring attention to the sufferings of J/11 m.J::4-p &I Pl&bSl'. 9 a • a. 4 I B the---, 1 ... a e d: 111 s,ro ••, ..... • • T;ed t o ~ w ooden swo · r ~ a letter. The letter began;-"! am determined to com m it suicide by the shot from a rifle of an American soldier". Then it w ent on: "The Ja anese peo p le are in miserable condition, living in dugouts and shacks as a result of unexpected defeat in wa r. I ' orry for them and wish to petition the Unit e d States for aid." T h en the Jap got d t h' a ro un o 1s son, appealing to M acArthur: "I have onf child 1 nineteen. Please, General M acArthur, take i■ him into you~ c a r e . " ' A Employ him in any capacity, even as a messenger or a janitor." Strange •J way of getting your son a job, .lJut then, the Japs have strange ways. 2 We may take economic measures in retaliation - refusing any further handouts to Communist Warsaw. But then we hear that the Governaent at Warsaw no longer expects any lavish gifts fro ■ Uncle Sam, and economic pressure is not likely to have any great effect~In other words, it doesn't look as if we could do anything auch except protest against the totalitarian•tyranny in Poland.