IRAN A dispatch fro L on o n ~ tells o f B ritain's first eco omic m ov e s a in s t Iran, following the breakdown of the Teheran oil t a lks. Earlier todaY, ~~e,1-p~ we had word that,,'-Premier ~ e - a - ~ would deliver his ultimatum to Averill Harriman tomorrow, for forwarding ~~ - to London. The Iranian not~ demands that Brit ai n open ~ l "ii(- - - • n gotiations on Iranian t e rms within t o weeks, fatl1ng )1, .,4- - ich t he British staff re to be expelled from the -44--~ Abadan refinery. Tonight the British replyJA.the},uJ,.. -H. treasury giv~ an explanationhf its crackdown on the /, , - Teheran government, which is d scribed as •not & '1\1 repr1s&l. 1 The an 1 ouncement from London - states that "the government has be e n compelled to withdraw certain exceptional financial aid granted Persia, because of her 011.• Fro m now on, it seems that Iran will receive no more dollars in exchange !or oil sold to countries in the sterling ar ea .**-•& At the same time the British Bo · rd of Trade saf~ that all exports of scarce goods to Iran must cease. N o mo r e export licens es will be is s ued for such items .i . s r ilroad IRAN - 2 e ui pme nt, metals and sugar. {ea nw h ile, anoth e r British crui se r, H.M.S. Mauritius, an d four of the latest su pe r-destroyers, are steamin~ at to p qi~ speed to w ards the Persian gulf. - ~ Brinin g the fleet at anchor off Abadan to 1, fourteen ships. BIG TREE In W a shinton to da y iKR&X■ X Secret a ry of State D e an Acheson had a con f e rence with . British F or ei n cre ta r y M orrison. What the y t a l ke d about is a clo s e official s e cret. The understandin g is that Ach eson ur g ed Morrison to renew negotiations with Iran on that all-i mp or t ant subject of oil. M orrison's view is th at strong action is needed to bring the Iranian government to a mo re yielding state of m ind favorable for a compromise. The United State is tryin g to u ■ z ameliorate on both sides. in Z da s talk epara ion for / st J'6 d that lr1 tai is w esmen/ B1g;r(ree wh1 / Czec slovak a. 1 be ~ u s •,9(1 ADD MORRISON The late s t from Washington. At t h e en~ of today's meeting b tween S ec ret a ry of tate Dean Acheson an d Herbert 1orrison, a lar e crowd had g a th e red outside t he State Department. As the Secretary ~f State came into Si ht he was greet e d with loud applause. As a State Department spokesman later remarked: •It bas been a long time since something like that happened -- that's news.• KOREA In Ko r e , the enemy have t hr own a new we ao on into action. New f o r t e Korean war, that is~ actually, a Russian secr e t we a on first u nveiled in action agains· the Germans. The news comes in an ann o uncement from Tokyo w ich states that Russian-made rock e ts have been falling behind the Allied line s on the East Central ~ "'11W, front,"'for s veral days/, These missile ~ it appears, are launched from large trucks, fired ~ e n at a time, f r o ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ y ! o m b . The charges are heavy, described as hundred and thirt y -two m i llimeter projectiles, with a range of six miles. Iron Meanwhile, fighti~has Triangle. In ~ a ~ l e UN flared again in the forces gained the pinnacle of a mountain commanding the inv a sion corridor to Seoul. In this sector fighting is de er bed as "bitter, with close quarter bayonet struggles• as the Reds were cl ea r P d from foxholes and bunker~. Censorship blacks out details of ~~t•~•g fi hting els where in the Iron Trian l e a r a , and little contact is reported on ot l e r parts of the front. KOREA VIOLATIONS ( 1n t h e fant a sy of true vi o lation s , A m eric a n officers to d ay m ade a n investi ga tion of - char e numb r t elv - . Th e re have been a do ~e n p rotests by the Reds each alleging a numb e r of inci de nt s . Which raises the fi g ure for alle g ed individual violations to quite a tot a l. In fact as the New York Herald Tribun points out today, the Reds declare that allied airp l anes, ...... alote, have violated the neutral Kaesong zone one hundred and thirty-nine times. (complaint number twelve a&t claimed that a UN plane blazed away at some houses three-quarter, of a mile f rom the plac e in Kaesong where the truce talks h ve been hel1So this is the •1ncident• which was investigated today. A report is made b y Air Force Colonel Do~ Darrow of Tacoma, Washington, who says they found bullet mar~s on a group of houses, si g ns of machine g un fire - from several directions. The Reds claim that th e p lane m ade an one pass at the buildin gs . Which certainly does not fit the picture , of m a chine g un fir e from n ev e r a l d irections. The KORE~ I OLATION S - 2 inv es ti ga ting team declares that ther is n o proof that an alli d plane m de an att ck, or that t he re - was a ny attack. The whole thing turned into a farce, when they interviewed a Korean woman who lives in one of the houses. She declared that she heard the noise, but did not know her house had been hit. ' I thought "' it was a ~ouse,• said•• she. The Communist mountain ~ laboring, and bringing forth a propaganda mou s e. DEWEY Governor Dewey will make a renort to Pr e sident Truman. Thursday noon, at the W ite House, those two lon time political rivals will meet and Tom Dewey will tel l Harry Truman about the fort . y-thousand mile tour of the Pacific he made - visiting critical areas of Asia. Three years ago they were battling it out for the Presidency. Today hite House Secretary Short said: 'The Governor ha-s ma.de an important trip to the Pacific. Be is coming in to report on it.• Some of the things he will say can be surmised. The other evening Tom Dewey gave a talk t a gathering of neighbors, and went all out in giving his opinions of the u.s. Ar•r in Korea. He was at tbe war front and he saw a lot of both officers and G I's. With all the em~hasis at his command., he told us that the U.S. forces in Korea right now are the most effec t ive fightin~ units this country has a ■ z ever had. As soldiers, they are tops. Today's announcement arous e immediate sp e culation. Th e re has been t a lk from time to time DEWEY - 2 that r ~ 1dent Truman might name 1 R e nublican rival for President as Secretary of State - upon the retir e ment of Dean Acheson. People close to Secretary Acheson have been sayin that Acheson would like to retire, as soon as he has•• vindicated his reputation - in the face of bitter attack. That moment, according to some has now arrived -- after the high success with whloh Bean Acheson handled the San Francisco Conference, thew y he dealt with Gromyko. So now he might want to step down, and Pre . 1dent Truman might let him. That is the line of sneculation, and all you need to do 1s to add the fact - that Gov rnor Dewey will confer on Thursday with Pre ident Truman and make a report on Asia. Political soothsayers take one gaze into their crystal-baJl, and see the possibility -- Dewey a pn ointed Secretary of State. That 1s the latest in the U.S. gues ing ame. SENATORS In Washinton this afternoon, the Senate ~ witnes . ed a ri , . . . dramatic scene, during the debate on the Sixty-One Bil ion Dollar military - appropriations bil l . For a•- an hour, Democ r atic Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois had b e e n ' ~ ~ - ,, ~ l n t i l r t t ~ calling for a Billion Dollar cut in military spending. Senator Dougl· s had accused the armed services of extravagance and recalled 1 The ~••z*~ improprieties of some procurement officers.• Democratic Senator 0 1 Mahoney, Floor Manager of the B111 t ■ x then interrupted and aid he feared Dou g las's words •would be broadcast by Tass behind the Iron Curtain.• At which point ~enator Douglas put ~ ~ his head on his desk; 1 suddenly~ across the floor. \ I, After a fe feet he sto o ed and let out a loud er~ startling those present. Douglas then ran to the cloak roo , where he 1s •• reported to have alked "emotionally" 'before a doctor could be sum m one~' a:t ~ cl,;~t ,..JJt.:t-, ~ ~ ~ ~ 9fN~--,.. - ~ -saw 1 ,•he eemed dee p ly affected by what Senator O'Mahoney said.• SENATORS - 2 7P Earli r in ~~~~ 9' the " awful we 1 gh t 1, _:s-~, t e d bate,ADouglas had comula1ned of h ~1n to pass judgment on the ~~~ enormous military budget 1 • ~ had •prevented A I\ hlm from sleeping for a month.' How ver, less than half an hour after his ••I~ collapse, Senator Douglas was back on the Senate floor - ap arently fully recovered. M e ~ h ~ ¢ t o r $ the Senate he had no intention of implying that Douglas was •giving aid and comfort to the enemy.• HOAX Th e s e arch for survivors fro m a !our engined bomber, w h o e ten man crew were reported parachuting into the Atlantic or Greenl an d, 1s off. Today the Air Force order e d the Coast Guard Cutter Humboldt,-wl:J2"6.c. ~ scouring the Atlantic w-<Molll return to 1 t s weather patrol • A 1 so , rec a 11 e ~ 1111\ U. 8 • ~ Air Force, Newfoundland a nd I c e l a n \ p l a n e s . ~ The reason - it all turns out to be a hoax. The original faint SOS message was heard yesterday afternoon, on both sides of the Atlantic. Last ni g ht a British airliner, bound for New York, sent word of •a heavy green light• in the vicinity of the search. This, how . ver, is now thought to have been a meteor-- hur tling / al.ong a t low altitude. ~ F r o m ~ Air Force Base, outside A Oklahoma City, comes the explanation of the fake ~ sos ~~~~~~-~~t ha t t ese 1 w ere transmitted ... ~ ~~~- by an ~ radio m an at the ~ v • -f:•r1'~4,, k i \,\o r e ason =. g iv en.!-6-r~s--tno.t..iTJ~ • I was a.a HOAX - 2 ~ malicious thing to do•, sx was the only comment from the director of Air Rescue Operations~~~" / / , ~ that this we.e the first - ~ ~ e a 2-'ftW 1 floeoa~ ~ time he has h . a.rd - of such a 1 , CONTRACT In London last ni ht, the curtain went up for the first time on the stage of the "Mermaid Theatre•• ~ would seem to indicate something Shakespearean, the old Mermaid Tavern for instance. That famous inn ..c. whe_e Will Shakespeare and Kit MarlowAwould chew the fat about their latest plays over a foaming beaker of porter&. With a.n eye to hist or · y, Bernard Miles, a Shakeapearean actor, has just finished his own private theatre; Ml" 111.e 47aek--,gas6ea--GC., - M ~ . . !'Nae-,,... ~e, MA tollow~ exactly, says th8 dispatch, Sentii-r7--G-:L.oh 1>q,e.w,...,_ Sha.kespe~7e~~ "Globe" Theatre in London, not far from the Mermaid Tavern. The show?- Purcell's opera, •n1do and Aeneas•, written not lon g after Shakespeare's time, and baaed on the love _ story of Di do, legendary :rounder of the ancient city of Carthage. Starring is Kirsten Flagstad, the Norwegian o _ rano, for whom Bernard Miles drew uu an authentic s venteenth century contract. CONTRACT - 2 For his part, the manag e r, promises •room and board' also "to prize, treasure, adore, idolize ~ and dote on h e r,Ato ap p oint personal slaves who shall wait on her hand, foot and finger; to write her letters C: and little poems; and1 to feed her two pints of oatmeal- stout a day.• For her part Flagstad promise• •to sing all the notes in .ime and in tune, with no false or gratuitous notes.• The management 1s also permitted to •1ook down her throat whenever they need encouragement.• HIPPOPOTAMUS If you want to buy a hippopotamus - the price 1 going down. I don't know why you'd want the monster; but 1 you m ight sympathize with - - p ~ ... Putzi, the homeless Hippo. And also - you might - A ,... . tr (;r.. J i ~ sympathize with city councillor Julius Ansel of Boston - Some while ago the Councillor ordered the hippopotamus, which was shipped to Boston 1z■k from South Africa. He thought the hip~o would make a addition to the Franklin Park Zoo, and was sure the City Fathers would pay the price. But no -- Boston refused to have anything to do with any hippopotamus den.l. So Putzi, the homeless Hippo was sent to a wild animal farm leaving City Councillor Juliue ~ .. nsel in a quandry. 4 The hippo was offerAd for sale - price ~ - four thousand dollars. There was no rush of buyers~ f and today the price was reduced -- to thirty-five ~ hundred dollars. .~ ~ So there's your chance - if you want to. ✓~ provide a ome for Putz1 - t e holll!less Hip o. k'