At t - e n 1 t d tions, t e A e ric a n d le at1 n 1ssu s a f r a l denial-tat nr iv a te negoti ati ons are on b tw ee n t he .s. and Rus 1a for ea ce in Kor a. This - to scotch a flood of ru ors flyin g a round t h ••x U.N. Vter th 0 corri ors are buzzing with re p orts of t a l k s ehind t e scenes - to end th Korean war. 1 othing to it, sa y s th e A me rican a e le ation. Of course, ther e m i g ht b e m ves for negotiations ' ~••1tt - which it w uld be premature to tal k about. ( In K rea - the U.S. Marines wer , in bitter fighting to ay, throwi~g back three thousand Chinese in human sea attacks :)The Leathernecks declare the battle is as bitter as any n those island campaigns of World Va.r Two. i IQClRTRY mu c h awaited b l a st, M ccart Y a 1nst st v ens on , f eat u r . . d at t c s o n p , onl e around the ~~-~ Wiscon sin ~ en tor pointed /\ to the ·tev en son campai ~ n Mana er, Wilson Wya tt, as a tor er haad of an organ1z tion called 'A merican s for e m ocrat1c action." Its program, says M cC arthy , included t he re ogn ition of Red China and opposition .t ~ 4 " M , ~ - ~ to loyalty oats. He"'-MNl that Stevenson denies being /\ / A - GJJ a member of the A. D .A. b u ~ ~ t h a t a publica tion ) >-. ot that organiz tion listed · h1m as a 'c harte r member•. He notes t ha t the Illinois Governor, himself, vetoed ... a be.11 requiring loyalty oaths. (The Senator named a · series o:t · speech writers fo r t e venson, and quoted them in statem nts favorab / to Soviet Hussia , ana Communism - said t h ey have been affiliated with Co mm unist f ronts.) McCarthy named S t e vens-On as a mem e r of the Institute of Paci fi c R 1ations• which was inv sti ated unds of Communism . by t . e i cCarran committee, on gro . He decl a re d t hat Adlai was r com m ended as a dele g ate e 1cg4RT 1 - 0 an I R P o onf rei1Ce by Al er H iss and Fr n \c oe. T h latter - c · 11 d a Com unis . He s 1 a. t vtevenson's testimony, a chart r 1 ne ~ · for l er iss, w s part of a patter , an quot a a ocument to s . ow hat the mocratic nominee w s closely associa ed wit h .iss. - P - T .e Wisconsin Senatox, speak1n~ at a din . er in Ch1ca~o was followed•• on the air by a Jgpro ram, 1n w 1ch for mer Postma ter General, J1,{arley, d . fended Stevenson as an enemy to Communism. I l,QLITICS ~en ral lk ex p lains h is n romise - to make a r1!> to Ko ' i le ed, H e says it would allow im to •consult w it peo le on the round•. Puruose - to use m or e S ou t , orean tro ops to r ep lace Americans.) Today t e General ~as w tstl -stonping in Pennsylvania twelve h undred peoole to se h im off, when he boarded his c ~~ya1 n t rain at the Thirtieth Street Station, Philadelphia. Thirty-five thousano cheering h im - at Harrisburg. He makes a major address at Pitts bur g h , t on i g ht • General Ike told the crowds: •The ~atriots of Korea can defend their own frontlines.• So - he would make a trip to Korea to work out a plan to replace G l's at a more rapid rate. Here's a diRpatch from Washington, calling that Eisenhower p ro ~ osal - •milit a rily sound.• In worlo war Two, int e Pacific, Lieuten - nt General Ro er t . !c. ~ Alb r r ; ommanded the Eighth Army al',ainst the Japanase _ and, until recently, was an Army lQLIT IC 8 lt t h - -< oonsu an on t r East , •od ay, wr1t1n i n the Magazine U.~. News and World Re ort, he d clar 8 : 'The out h Koreans have improved one hundr d percent 1n the last year - and are now able to take over oat oft e front line fighting.• e says Gener l Ike's ioea is not a new one - it's being ap lied ri ht now. "But• adds Eic el b r e r •f · thin· the oro ress orob bly has not be n as fast as it might h~ e been. • Re aye that Ike - "could soeed up the transiti o n very raoidly.• r s o n z and, A a1 I talk New trip Kore / - • may / ave an arm st lee.• } tevenson / I t t ' t e R ds w I the sug st1on as - !' I n ess. I I I n o tice, tbe McCarth ' I I I I I I I At ' srockt/, Mas ac7setts, 0 r r i e ct • He e n/1 one d the/sub j , o t said: · . .#rl, Steven 0 toni t , a ac d S e n~ t o r 0 rra.n of v . , . l 1n 5 . 1m a a n 0 "us t o b a D emocr t •. Previ o sly, , 1 -- 1 r :ru t com ent on cC ar ra.n, B 1n t , ... t 1 n t kno nou h a out him. Bu ' no · , joins Pre - id nt 1ruman in assa111n the Nevada Se ato r. ,PP POLITICS ~ at New London, connect1cut, the tevenson latform collaused. Adlai felt it gm 1 e way and ot of · f in time. But three movie tars, Hum hrey Bo art, his wife, Lauren Bacall, and Ro ert Ran, were thrown (1$to t eir knees -- as th latform dropped a cou le of feet. 1 i,ottTICS (aa a > --~ In Pittsburgh tonight, thirty tbousan ' peoole :A 11nea the stre ts for Genera(rke, m any oft em carryin red 11 ht d torc h es - ~ k · n~ it asp ct a cular ) ~~~ demonstration. In the Hunt Armory /'■tx 11 eleven t ousand pea.JM,e jam m e to h r- ar him speak. iAe tJQJ.l-ea aeel&r8---tt•i& pe thron~,••t■ta■k outside, unable to e t in, vas even lar g er t J. an t h e crowd in the armory. 'l ' he reeeption1 ...- on e o f t e grea~~st ev P- r 1ven to Gen ral Ike. %BPH4li If Presi d ent Truman shou l d p l a y t he pian o toni gh t, t e tune sh ould b e - "I've btien workin on t h e ra i lroad." Today, starti n • o ut on his final whistle-stop trip, h e roae in t . . e locomotive, as occupyin g the fireman's p lac 1n a big diesel. For more than an hour, rol l in t h ro h Pennsylvanta, H.S.T. played the part of the fireman, and waved to Ml astoni hed crowds along the way. At whistle-stops, h e blazed at the Republican Vice-Pres1dent1a.l nominee. He recalled how he,himself, as a Vice-President - became President. Emphasizing the fact o + uman mortality, he denounced Senator Nixon as a •reactionary.• This cam aign has een one of - big responses. For example, the deluge of telegrams and mail that bailed Senator Nixon - after his famous accounting of the money matters of Dick and Pat. So now - a similar story in the case of the address former President Hoover gave, week before last, outlining Republican political hilosophy. The response was huge - especially the requests for copies of the s eech. In all, a total of one hundred and five thousand will be sent o ut - in what aaounts to a large scale mail-order operati n. .17:Bill Te so . t Q o a l strike 1s endln . Today John L. L ewi or d er t , e miners b a ck t o the coal pits - an. t l Y tre goin back . P re ous ly, Lewis insisted that the strike 1 0 ld continue, but t .a t c an • ed - a fter a Wh1 Huse conf rence ..,.....,~ between the mine union boss and President Truman. We don't know w l et er or not t . coal digi,ers w 11 t et t l . f 1 1 raise of one-ninety a. da - and, probably, we won't kn~• until after election. Economic stabiliz r Ro er Putnam, told a newa conference that, in his conf e rence with H.S.T. Lewis had been given •no assurances.• Althou h - Lewis had insisted that the m in e rs w v uld stay out,unt11 t hey got the full h ike. ' he verdict wil b . 1ven by the s·i;ab111z a ti o n Board, and th Stabilizer was asked - when! At first he sa.14, not until after e lection. B ut then•••• quali f i ed that, making 1 t v a ue. word a.round the Wh ite House is t ha t t he Truman- Lewis conference ~ followed word t a t th e coal iXllli - strike as urtin em ocratic nrospecte. ,e hear that emo c rat 1c S nators Kil ore and Ne ~ ley of West Virginia telephoned the h ite ouse last night, that the walkout was doing no go o d in their state. Row er, that may be, t he c o al strike 1s now removed from the political scene. M♦WeX4 Here's a dispatch from far oft Malaya - which oould have a broader eaning. It might c noern something more than that long Peninsula of Southern Asla. The Communists appear to be calling off their terror1a, warfare. Today Slr lstPCt'lobertt:t Lockhart, Director of Operations against the Rede, declared that, 1n September, there were twenty-one attack• on rubber plantations - compared with one-hundred-6nct--th1rty-eight last February, when terrorism was at a peak. Red Sabotage out there takes the form of slashing rubber trees - nine thoueand cases last month, seventy thousand in February.~ JVAf-~ ~ ~ • . Sir • PR Qlobertt;. Lockhart attributes th1 ■ to a new directive from Communist headquarters - order1n1 the guerrillas to stop the policy of murde and violence, and seek to win over the mass of Malayan people by perauas ion • . Well, we can't help remembering what went on at the recent Con ress of the Soviet Communist party in MW4 -2 Moscow - featuring Stalin's headline a d dress. There seemed to be a change of Mosco• pol1oy - calling for a revival of the old •popular front• idea. That 11, ~o1n up with non-Communist elements in ot h er countr1e1. That could be 1n line with the decline of terrorl1m in Malaya. ~ggo14TIOH Over in England, the Manchest r Gu a rdian s a ys - t h e argu m ent ov e r t e Coronation 1s h aving a bad effec here in A r1ca. The question - to televise or not to televise t h e crowning of her Majesty, the Queen. The Manchester Guardian calls it an •unseemly wrangle.• An4 1ay1: •It 1s doing us a lot of harm in America and the Commonweal th.• Well, maybe so - but haven'\ ~ heard about it"here 1A the U.S.A. I doubt if many of u1 - ... Sew are indignant - one way or another. But there 11 indignation 1n Britain - 10 much - that Prime K1ni1ter Churchill 11 to make a 1tatemenl 1n Parliament on the 1ublect. Today, the Manchester Guardian came out for T.V. contending that the Coronation should be witnessed by the British public - not merely by the exclusive throng able to get into t h e Abbey. The newspaper calls them - •Those who are there by sheer accident of birth.• Well, the philosophy would seem to be - that a Coronation may be Royal, but it s h ouldn't be exclusively Ari1tocrat1c, not 1n these ays of Democracy. - 1121°01 anil a reports - the disappearance of a B-29 1n the heart o f a typhoon. A weather plane - reportin on ,rop1cal tempest. W h en last ~eard from, the p1lo, said he w a s !lying into the •eye• of the typhoon. The o a la space at t h e center - to chart the •1ye•. Whereupon the B-29 van11h~d. The hope 11 - ,hat t h e plane has made a.n. eaergency landing on one of the many small 11land1, the pilot familiar with emergency air1trip1, 1cattere4 1D the Archipelago. Thil 11 the second typhoon to hit the Ph1llpp1- 1n a week. · today battering the 111an4 of Saaar w1,h hundred mlle-an-hour w1nd1. ► IJIRI IC ANI, Miami reports - tho disappearance of a plane in a hurricane. This one - a strange affair. An amateur wizard of weath r, in a small plane - flying 1n the face of a tro p ical tempest. Trying to stop 1t - with a •secret ohem1cal formula.• Like a Don Quixote of the hurricane. The story 1a that Gordon Clauaer, a forty-ei&ht year old resident of Horman, Oklahoma, thought up a • theory of d1aa1pat1ng a storm - by •1eed1ng• them with chem1cal1. 3o, with a bowler blowing up from the Caribbean, he decided to teat ' hl1 theor1:,- try lt out on a real, roaring hurricane. Be toot off secretly, ln a 11ngle engine plane, and flew out over r1orida~tralt1 - a1 the big wind came lashing. That was over the . weekend, and he hasn't been aeen since. Today his wife said: 'He thought he could stop the hurricane! I have no doubt he was in front of the storm, seedin the clouds. He didn't want anyone to know what he was doing, because he wanted to test his t.heory•· • BPIIJAAHI - 2 Today, rescue lanes attempted a search. But 1t was impossible - in a '-11ndin downpour of rain. Tragic story - o! the Don Quixote of the hurricanes. lPlPKI In Georgia, t · se . mt a e solv the myster~ o f t e • ison•iet : er -- which nook out fourteen Texans. It was m& ! led to an insurance company at Austin, Texas, andhad somet in ~nit that made Post Office emoloyees 111, en t e got a whiff of it. So . s 1 ck - t hey ha C1 t o go t o a o s p 1 ta l. • Sound.. 11 k e a l ~ gend of the poison of the Bor ias - and i t s . nt post office inspectors on a sleuthing trail. The le te r had been mailed by a woman &t Oglethorpe, Georgia, ands e •• denied indignantly that ehe had put anything on 1t. In her home, the inspector• found, what they call - •eight or en bottles of cheap perfume.• Some of this, it seems, was spilled on the let er - that cheap perfume. Powerf 1 1 fragrance, ~amant1c, devastating, ~ -- . ~ ~ - --,- - · ,. \~ killin ') -;:_o knock out four•een Texans in Austin.