In the Georgia battle of Governors, Talaadge versus Thompson - a technical victory was won toda7 by Lieutenant Governor Thompson. On Monday, be took the oath of office~as Governor,in the State Senate. And today the Talaadge forces tried to get the State Senate to toss out the Thompson oath. That failed, ~ ending in a staleaate - a tie vote. Fro ■ far and wide in Georgia, protests are. pouring into Atlanta I against the wa7 Ber■an Talaa41•, elected by the Legislature, toot o•er as Go••rnor. The ■an he ousted, Ellis Arnall, i1 leadin1 the aa1ault with a blazing vigor of 1peeoh, claiain1 that Talaadg• seized the Governorship bJ the uae of ailitary force. And Arnall is getting reaulta. Geor1i• aasa aeetings are passing resolutions, describing the Talaadge tactics as Razi. The whole state seeaa to be getting into the battle . of G0Yernor1. ~ SENATE T"'Pl--~;rom lashington:•The Republican majority in the Senate has won its first test ot strength• voting down the Democrats. The issue waa whether to continue the old war investigating co ■■ ittee the one headed by President Tru ■ an when he was a Senator:1Prhe Co■■ittee was organized to investigate profiteering, fraud and corruption in contract• durin1 the war -- an(1epublicana decied to continue tbla. 1PThe Democrats were opposed.They wanted the ooa■ ittee abolished.1-■x••*• The vote this afternoon wa1 forty-nine to forty three - in favor of continuing the old Tru ■an War Investigating Coaaittee. UH-AMERICAN. The Un-Aaerican Committee of the House of Representatives announced its new program today. The Coaaittee, now controlled by the Republicans, is going to make a new big start in the task of hunting ' ~ out Communists in the Federal Govern■ ent,Athe Uniona, and also in Hollywood fil ■ land. The Co ■■ ittee Chair■ an, Congressman Tho ■ as of Rew Jersey, states that hi• .s investigators will give, what he call.t, •undivided ~ attention• -- to groups that want to give away our ato ■ io secrets for the benefit of a foreign power. What foreign power? You aake the guess. fORTAL The treasury announces that employers who have to pay portal wage claims for years past will be given tax relief. They'll be allowed to deduct portal payaente fro• their income tax. At the saae tiae, eaployees will have to pay incoae tax on the portal back pay that they receiYe. BOOJER Foraer President Herbert Hoover has accepted a mission to Geraany,to make a study of food condition• in that conquered land. He is assigned to this by President Tru ■ an and will start out iaaediately -- Herbert Hoover, at seventy-two, on still another hard flying food trip. Today the for■ er President stated that the la aajor purposi ot his ■ ission will be to lighten the burden on Aaerican taxpayers. Be said thia country is now spending aore than three hundred aillion dollars a year on supplies to teed its toraer ene ■ t••• -,r;he Hoover investigation will be to suggest wa71 whereby the Ger ■ ans can beco ■e self-supporting in a greater degree - and thereby cut down the huge aaa1 of aoney that coaes out ot the pockets of the Aaericaa taxpayer. fRAHCE France has a cabinet tonight, a coalition ministry. Premier Ramadier announces that he has succeeded in recruiting political leaders froa all parties. His Foreign Minister is George Bidault, head of the popular ~epublican party - who had played 10 - - i ■J•• iaportant a role in lrench diploaatic atfair1 during the past year. The portfolio for Foreign Attaira had been claiaed by the Co ■■ unists, who had also wanted the ainistry of the interior - which is all i ■ portant, becauae it controls the poiice. BoweYer, the Minist17 of the Interior goes to a Sucialist. So what do the Co ■■ unists get? Rational defense. That would see ■ to gi•e the■ the doaination of the Fr nch Ar■y, Jiayy and Air Force.-Wut really it doesn't. Because, aost of the pr ctical power is placed in the hands of •J separate ■ inisters of war, aarine and air and those posts go to non-Coa■ unist Ministera. PARIS MURDER --------- Paris is having another one of those weird mur d er trials - flamboyantly in the tradition of melodrama in the crimin a l courts of France. A man named Meurant is charged w ith the murder of a beautiful ~ C~ntess a little more than a year ago - Countess Saut7 de Chalon. The ■ti evidence in the c a se features espona11, both Soviet and American, and for a cliaax · the atoaic boab. The defendaat on trial gave his version today, ~nd a f a ntastic tale it was. Be stated that ht had been a s p y workin g for wh a t he c~lled - •a forei1a po w er•. The iaplication was - Soviet Russia. Be related that, in his es p ionage, he took orders froa a fellow s y whom he knew only as - •The Mongolian.• A s for the beautiful Countess he caae into cont a ct with her when the Mongolian ointed her out in Brussels, and told hia to watch her. Instead of merely watching her, the defendant st a ted today that he had become friendly with her, and she asked him to drive her to Paris. Be fARILJIUlill~.fl- - 2 consulted the Yon olian about this, and the Mongolian said yes, go ahead. To which he added that the Countess was an American Intelligence Agent who had in her possession papers pertaining to the Atoaic Boab. The defendant stated today that while en route to faris, his car • ~ s intercepted by the Mongolian - who str a n g led the Countess with one of her own stockings, and presumably took from her tae secrets of the atoaic bomb. The story is so fantistic that no one iD Paris in inclined to believe it. Yet it provides about the••• only aotive that can be discovered in today's crime sensation in Paris. I -- \ INDIA has adopted a India, the National Constituent Aase ■bl r e s o l u t f ~ ~ s intention to declare India a Sovereign and independent Republic. lhe ~ote, which was unanimous today followed a debat in which the national leader, Pandit Jawaharlal leh ;C~ that India intended to cut lo~•• fro■ Grea ' \ Britain - secede fro■ the British E■pira) · In all of which there are doubts and difficulties, as was dramatized today b7 seventy-five eapty seats. Two hundred delegates were present, nearly all of thea Hindus. The seventy-five vacant placea eloquently signified the absence ot the lohaaaedana - the Mosle ■ League, led by Maha ■aed Ali Jinnah, boycotting the Constituent Assembly. So~what will the ' Bindu deter■ ination to have an independent Republic outside of the British _ 1\tt!..t- ~ 11- . ~mpireA8mount to, in the face of the bitter feud? The scene shifts fro ■ the capital cit1 of iew Delhi, to an obscure village in Eastern Bengal, INDIA-2 the villag e of Shirondi. There today a strange episode caae to a culaination of Oriental dra■a - when five Mosle■ villages signed an •Anti-RiotHpledg•• at wo ■ an. scene of the ■oat Bind)l'& and llosl au kindne ~,,J.£: OL In the village of S - hi rond i, "•/<found ... A ~oslem spinst e r - in a state of near death. The aged woman was on a prolongAd fast - had refused food for INDIA - 3 - - twenty-five days. Why? Because so ■e of her fellow Moslem villagers had stolen a sword fro ■ a Hindu temple, and had used the sword to kill several Hindus - in one of the bloodthirsty outbreaks of Eastern Bengal. The conscience of the Uosle ■ spinst e r had been deeply troubled by this cri ■ e of her latk Moha■■edaa co-religionists - the use of a Hindu te■ple sword tor the ■urder of Hindus having added sacrilege to bloodshed. So she resolved to starve herself to death - in atone ■ ent. Gandhi went to see her, and found her proatrate,in the last stages of weakneaa. Be iii■• didn't speak to her - beca~se this was one of hia da7a of silence, aa■zz according to his _ _ practice ot a Hindu Ascetic. Silently he placed bis hand on the forehead of the Uoslea spinster. The News Dispatch states that obe gazed up at hi• with eyes of rapture. The Wotha ■medan woman, resolved to die for the sake of conscience, was fascinated by the Hindu Saint. All t h is was most disturbing to the Mosle■ lliDIA - 4 villagers. Their own moral feelings were troubled."'f Their leaders went to Gandh~ ~ro■ise4 th ata if "" ''" the aged Moha ■ medan wo ■ an would agree to break her fast, they would ~ziag give a pledge to live at peace with the Hindus. So it was that today the pact'-of- the -fi••• A villages was concluded, the five Tillage leader, signing the •anti-riot• pledge. Following which the Moslem spinster broker her fast, and drank a glaa1 of orange juice. Thereupon Gandhi continued on his ■ i11ioa. But first he warned the five village leader• that, if their people violated the •anti-riot• pledge - he hi ■ self, would take up the tast that the Ioele■ spinster had now abandoned, would continue it in her stead. ~ Strange turns of aindAbehavior out there iD the East, 9ut that's one thing that we of the lest have to reckon with -- the ••••tat■• sometiaea incomprehensiale soul of the Orient. • I l l LEAD_IlDJAPPIIG kidnapping About that atteapted tta■a,,ta1 ot sixteen year old Alice Devine in Lodi, California, the latest is that Alice has identified the photograph of a toraer Sing Sing and San Quentin convict, who calla hiaaelt Earl Sheldon, ae the aan •• troa whoa she•••• escaped last ni1ht. And the San Francisco police now h&Ye hi• in cuatodJ. ie gaye hiaaelt up, but clai• there i• a aistake, and that he can proYe he had nothiq to do with the kidnapping. Parole otticere aa7 . the aan•• real naae is John lesley Lucas, a one-tiae publicity agent, before his visits to San ~ueatin and Sing Bina. Sheldon -- or Luca, -- stoutly deniea his guilt. ~DROCHER All you fans know that baseball can be a g ame of coaplicatione, but Lippy Leo Durocher of the Brooklyn Dodgers is finding that the gaae of hits, runs and errors is a lot simpler than the institution of Matriaony. Leo-the-Lip is famous for going after Umpires hot and heaYy - but Leo was leas than a Lion today, his lip was aostly buttoned don when he conferred with the Judge on the aubject of hia marriage to Hollywood actreaa Laraine Da7. The Brooklyn Dodgers are faaous tor producin1 weird situations on the diaa~nd, and I suppose it waa in the Dodger tradition when _ the ■anager ot the hilarious teaa got bi ■ aelf into a coaplication ot · ro ■ ance - an intricate tangle concerning bis bride'• divorce. 'l Laraine Day,.., ha• •tsq•~••*• reputation for being straight-laced, pri ■ and proper; ,I:'~ ~ ~ i n fil■land\ and Laraine is hailed as a veritable paragon. So it was a question of vital iaportance - whether or not her marri a ge to Durocher J3UBOCHER - 2 w a s leg a l. There's many a star or starlet in Hollywood ... ~ to whom legality1-'ia1 ■atter like that wouldn't be I\ ~ of any heart-breaking importance; - but, Laraine ia different. The Judge who granted her a Hollywood divorce was indignant when she i ■■ ediately turned around and married Durocher. That wasn't accordina to regulations, and a Mexican divorce that was added to hasten matters didn't help auch either. So toda1 Lippy and Laraine were explaining things to the Jlll 1•• Bia Honor threatened that, if the7 were aarried - he would cancel the previous divorce. lhiah is not a thing you want to ~appen right after you're married. In a tecb"-ical way it tends to aake thing• li slightly bigamous. So today Lip,1 was .trying to persuade the Judge not to go through with his dire threat, he wasn't arguing with the Judge the way he likes to breath fire and briastone at the u ■pires. The Lip largely silent, letting the Judge do the J!UIQCBEB - J talking. And the Judge did plenty. Bia Honor announces that he bas asked for a -.how ca•ae• order, ~ecauae lliaa Day displayed laclr. ot good faith in eloping with Lippy Leo.Thie order at111; bring liaa Day, and poaaibly Durocher, into court to explain why her California diYorce troa airport - executiYe Bay Bendricka ahould not be aet aside. - At today'• hearing Lippy Leo waa •• ia all hi• aartorial aagnifioence, ~--;i'Ji-■.:-- purple jacket. &la ahy bride wearing a wide weddtq ~ ~ " " - • A - ~ , band. J there ••••• to be aoae question " - aa to whether they got to first baae with the I\ CROOIS A strange tale of robbers coaes troa a village in Southern Italy - · two crooks arranging tor their own capture in spectacular fashion. The village of i-H--iste (Ahlee'atay, -.....8"' GD tile ~•c~d a~ll:.able ►, has a church dating back aany centuries, the kind of architecture traditional to the Italian Middle Ages - a ~huroh and a bell tower. The two thieves were profane roigues -- out to rob the church at night. ~bey got in, and everything was dart. l suppose they w e r e ~ ~ the a■crilege ot oh11ro robbing. Anyway, they were seized with a sudden tri1bt when they aaw soaething weird and acarry gleaaing at the ■ in the dia shanows. Actually, it waa a cat - ~ ':£f know how aa1-a, cat's eyes glow at night.i Tbe A two thieves thought it aust be the _ Devil:.,-=L ltCLJ'lir and they ran aw•, in wild fright. They didn't know · where they were going, and ~rambled into the ancient bell tower. There the fri g htened••• crooks lunged about in such violent QROO[S - 2 fashion that the floor, centuries old, gave way, and clutched ■ adly for so ■ ething to hang onto and got ~~ hold of the bell rope, •••v i~if, they hung - suapendecJ.. ~~~ A ~ ~ . , acaa Y~ started the bel'll\ ringingi and the two strug g ling crooks went up and-down - while the big bell rang its loudest, clanging with echoes don . the •alley. In the nearb7 village it was the cuat.o ■-- -- •• a custoa as old as the . Middle · t1 ■ 1 Ag••~ for the oburch bell to call the people, su••~n the ■ in ti ■• af danger or ~lara. So now, in the aiddle of the the villagers heard the church bell pealing - as it ■ ight have pealed to giv • e warning in the wars a . tbousan~ years ago. So they hurried t . o the church, . in traditional way, and there found the two thie••• ••• hanging on the bell rope - while the great chi■e 1 abo1e continued to reverberate down the valley. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ -½ ~ W - 1 " ' \ ~ ,