L A .......... - n ~ h'n ton) 8 imony i a ju t hP. n 0 iv n out Con r ssm n Ma n v id nc of ment of thre thou dol rs rom t \.tarsson Munitions Co i ne, iC L i nd r inve tigatio n ~ o . r ro f it ring. T itness s a ormer s cretary of the ar on's, Mr. Eleanor ball. She stated that she had uit th . b-l- JO · A caus her P.m loy rs ere, in the words that she us d toda -- "A bunch o crooks.• Sh told about t . le hon talk•~ between Congres~man ay and an em loyee of the Munitions Combine na■ d ,·re man. "At th€ • nd," she testified t day, I "Congressman May saiu rather abruptly -- "hat about that thre thousand dollar? Mr. ir eman told him it would be along in a day or so,• he stated. To this the wiawi witness added that ahe thought the te phone conversation had ao11et ing to do ith lumb r i c l r e called th fact that Congressman ay' ~ead of t i itar Affair ommitt of th Bouse 0 f I r s atativ 8 ' is 8 i - to have act d a had 0 a lumb r com any, r . al y a suh i iar of th M n i ti one Combine. , v L_D 2 T in id _ o rty - t ou .· n l a s t thP r C m an - - ror ha n v . r d 1·v rd, it i i . . · i tn ss to a~ clar d that in th a · s son ■ E SJli or aniztion t b - co p namP- or CongrPs an ay' which t ey u d in talking about him -- ancl this code nam figur~d, h d cla red, in another . bit of money talk about one thous nd dollars for \;ongressman Allay. This l a t testimony followed the story given earlier oday by still another former employ ot the Gars son ' s . 0 · r r ,.i inv i tio Pr a OU - - n a out t as C , a · · u r 0 h. o C led i ,.,, . t 6 t a 0 r cr'=t ry one to a d ro the ic an to s. p sai to • sh~ V r in n hat s i C:' nd coul on y give an ac aunt o o ca 1 hom. I is rod ce a 1 is t of 1a lf a aozen abere r Congres · . 0 ' ongressman a~• The •i tne s d eclar 11d t at Congre call d ~ h .. o"' . ice two man u r o . or t e . tim a _ k. "-D hat t ~a s o. 0 iced ca led tl e l;on ressman -- "0 t n · r than th at", sl'lid s e. or over, th f o rm r s , . re t ar :,. t e s t i i e d that .:, h e f t e . t e e -J honed to Congr s ,iona o · · c ' , oo in or t e G rssons -- to et t em on t ir . s ... id r~ac ~d th in ongre an a .. 's of ... ·ic ~ ~ · 1r or f ·v ~ e ftD hr ' f u i e t e f.ice 0 0 an Sa ath. . 8 · al that OD r hf' I inoia t ' D d n ua 0 C an C "O C a . w " in i rr G 0 n f t . o brot · er, e rved t im p · c · , l i ,- v t · g to · f tJr Cong : r si · nal a ' Rn SAbat, a Com ittee l V ti : tin on old s. th r e isL t o _ on th · t . .. l hone liat a a Con i k :- t it ' , f N . w York. The former er tar i :\ t · a t, , the f fice se~eral · ars-s n tim • · An · ~ ·~ u ican S nator Ca ehart of Indiana called Th . to na m 5 on th 1 i t · s tb.a t of ~ . . . ...... .! ..J Senator .Barkley of [.entucky, the !Jemocratic"'Leader, ~ . ~ ~ e ~ - 4 . . e t - ~ ? ~ ~ . ~former secreta,-y stated that ~en . at or Barkley himaelf · a never call d h Jar one, · o far as she knew, but ------ ' l S of rice bad,A..a , n em lo. ee, a rs. ance. To this wa. . s ad .. cd t tatem nt that the busl:>an of th em • , lo,,e in .:) , .: na tor " r 1 y's f f" i C ! Visit · d the of ices of th e ft of' im . " ai .. the witn~ S e- - o z . ns ' s t e c n r - · · s· nal contacts : it · t uarss t ns. O.P.A. ---- at n w a ou the bat of thP O.P.A. -- t S at -hou P. conf rence br e a i don this aft rnoon. tw i ~ ~ - - i ~ Q..ru'lfle, t - Y ar ,,;(71iri!LC&½&a;i,A ■1-:.Jar apart th nat ro J sing t o r trict thP r viv ~ d 0.P.A. V r he u d iri to viv thP. pric -fixing agenc as it as. lo no . ach aid~ accu eJ the other of an the failure to mak ~ rogres toaay -- the joint conf r . nc br a in 5 u · with mutual r crimin tions • • E L R __.........------ Thi aft rn on o nator r C nc ~ dod • · f a in th ... ont n imar • 1he vict r is a f rmer J ti . i t t ' i toric am J of L if Erickson -- r~ca in · th Vi in i f o en tor h ,:; . l r, in a formal st tem . nt, attri ut d hi" def at to his ~ngtime o os tio to of~· ial olici . ~ o thP- .lJemoc ratic Party meaning, mo ~ t of all, his bitt rant onism to the war olicy f tn _ 1 t President .rtoosevAlt. Time was wh n -urton lhe ler w s a number one supporter of Franklin V. Roo sevelt. lut 1 he went into oppostion on the issue of the bu reme Court; he fought the Roosevelt Plan denounced as court packing. Hostility d epened wh n h caa~aigned bitt rly againat tPtting this country into t e ar -- h is of uaker ant cedents, op os d to war. T Hoos velt-•h0 1 r Ulity carriPd on right do n int o this y ea r ' s '' on tan a c:, 1 e ct i on - - J am e s Ro 08 eve 1 t ~ ,. ~ 5 0 n actively against~ arch-o,.on nt-ef hie letheal ■ On th other hand, the nator he e r m nt of Pr ~ident Truman, ho defend d him 0 i nti- a r. o rt- ., or in t h · . r, a concerted drive b, th . . o. and the ailroad Brotherh ods. li 8. m .. a · .., 1 · r It i n't c rt in hat no Ul I ati is t Pnator ' el r, beat n , ma run in tbP e eotion t. · · e an r and Acrimony of the ~ri ary au i i · ty to that. Or ere i a at, with h ~ ler staying out, hi• resentful ay stre gt 1 nth neou licsns. VITCj The bitterest personal drama of the war came to its tragic end today - with the execution of General Mikhailovitch a foregone conclusion. His trial at Belgrade was ■erely another of those totalitarian parodies of law and justice. The regi ■e of coaaunist Marshal Tito had 'stated in advan~he faaed leader of the Chetniks would be conde■ned and executed. The time was when Mikhailovitch and hi■ Chetnits •ere applauded and accla.i ■ed, world-wide, as heroes of patriotic resistance to the lazi.Then th•J were accused of treason and pro- azi collaboration. Tb• real guilt of likbailovtich ••• that ot haYing fought against the Coamunista~ as well as the lazia;;aaainat Tito aa well•• Bitler - in a bitter triangular feud of Chetnika, lazia and Reds. The execution df General Mikhailovitch, together with eight other pro ■ inent Jugo-a1ava, was accompanied today by a huge demonstration in Belgrade in fro of the ~merican, Bri ish a,id .JXQfk French • MI VlTuij_- 2 emb ssies. Fifty thous · nd Ju o lava. with coamuniat flaJs, gave the communist salute of clenched fists, and denounced the western democracies with yells of •down with reactionaries, down with i ■perialiaa•. I n $ at t e, uov i e an t , ic l ~i R ~ in · not ·u t t od H ac uitt d of c i arges of a It w s a · e -- tion of .i . v acity a g in t that n Amerio n nine r w ac u e th uovi t ••i Naval L i e u n a t o try i n to buy m i 1 it a ry a c e ts • · 1 · he e v id en c,.. e c ~ iste in 1 r part of tele hone transcri tions that turned o t t be unint lliaible or • in i ni "icant. Upon einu fond not uilty, Lieutenant din w ent to the Jury Box an s ook han :. "L dies an uentlem@n of the Jury,• -I sai , •r ant to t k you or the fair trial I have . r in America ." T IESTE _____ ..,. ______ _ 0 kn : h r th ran ry Am rican soldiers in ~ri st succ e d din th ir unt oda, . . I.' in fu 1 batt e ... ui 1 m nt, s archPd th countryside as a ins who last ni ht ambuscaded an Am rican jeeo, 1 illin the or·v rand wo ndin t o other American soldiers -- t e j p, out of control, cra ~ hin into a hill. The enra 6 ed Am ricans concentrated on a section of swamp near cam of two thousand Jugoslav Partisans of Communist arshall Tito th b li f being that the killers ight be in that a r a . BE L!L The news from Germany today brought a series of contr ditions in the case of the two American officers who have disappeared in the Soviet zone of occupation in Berlin - Lieutenant George Wyatt of klahoma City and Captain Harold Cobin of Newark, I•• Jer ey. The first dispatch this morning, stated the at , to officers were being held}J Red Army headquartera,M Potsdam. Then that was killed, contradicte~ by a dispatch from Frankfurt which passed along a Soviet denial that the two merican officers were being held prisoner by the Russians. Anj American army spokea ■ an stating: "Russian officials have sworn on their_l!_~~or~ _ 1--- ---- - - - - Then, later, a high merican official in Berlin state~that the Lieutenant and Captain .!!t~~lieing held at Red Army headquarters, Potsdam. And Soviet officials now said they would make an inve tigation of the possible hereabouts of the missing Americans - this ds:.vi _J_ ~~~ after that ••• sweai•ing c , nAhonor~ ~ • The rather absurd set of ai ■i•• admissions and contradictions ■ ight perhaps be explained on the assumption that some Soviet officials don't know what other Soviet officials are doing - one deparbment not being informed about the actions of ao ■ e other department, bureau versus " · ureau, #hioh is often the way of bureaucrats. BERl,l[i - .3 It • s disclosed in Berlin today that a total of twenty-six Americans are issing, listed as what the news dispatch calls - "permanently absent fro ■ lierlin without leave•. American army officials stated that there was no indication that the twenty-six aiaainc Americans were in the Russian zone. they said, there ia nothing unusual about it - there always being a certain number of cases of A.I. O. b. Jlean•htle, the three Soviet spies caught Red in the American zone, two ot the ■A,Army officers in civilian clothes, were scheduled to be handed back to I th ican n ritis arf' .l r l . n t f c ~ t i n -- or c no i »• r r C or t · ,. r r i 1 start in a fp it if e trP.nch ouln j in in thP i ic tion d sin a t ut - n n to h economic blockade et e n ~6 ne s. hat bout to us~i n? 1l~y seem to be out O i it -- on't ha v anythin~ to do ith he merger. The U~it d tats issued th invit tions to work out a unification patt rn -- but no P lJ was r ceiv d from the us ian. Th a rican ant tog t conomic mattPrs • r in 1 n such a hi n that th ~ rma n can become •• ~ f- o rtin -- at e s t in art . 4 • ~'d-..:V I bl &DI ~ tt;. CH.~ ~=, c tin "m ican t . yer two l.u n·r ~r,...\..\..~ ~ " ' " ' ~~~~. 01 · at y.birA · . ic 1 woul em ft fine rP. ult o~ mi lio total victor thn. C n u r r having 0 .Su ort th con er d - t av n t C 11 out m1l .. io a u on i l ions to • ay the i l l r t J . 818 in 0 OCCU f, ation zonP. I such ar f victo t th rP ard h ict . h nro t r tcy. m rio n f"'icials ve t # r · nt to t a to t. t drain on th@ c et of the meric n t, I millio 8elle¥g a art an the only way to do it is to f man conomic merg~r of ■ ea ■ ati ■ • occupation ~L~~~ .,;d. zo es. •=1,t JolAg ~ •i·t~ thP. .britis 1 ,and ro ab y"the r nc • It o l : i t e ov i · t s w lei coo er t et u t a . 1 .. r I t t.e ~on't. the food Z UKOV ......... --------- o P. of t .. e n w s it ms t ha .. _ ..,.::. ,:.;_,...._ .._......,_......._ n ot o int r r tati The o cow ir flashes a r port that ars al Zhuk v has been named Com ander of 0 · ssa il · tary District. An · that could mean a lot of t t in s, say Editor of th United Press, arrison balisbury, who w s rrc ntly • the to . U.P. Correa ode t i n o cow. Mars al Zhukov came out of th war with the - ilita~y Le ders. For a hile he comma ded in conquered Germany, as the opposite number to our own G neral Ei ~ nhower. then he ~as put at t e head of the g ound fores o the Hed Army. Also e w s made a memb r of the Presidium of the Supreme Sov i t. All o w i io was the highest kid of promotion or ars al Zhukov. ~o what about the new po ■t to hich e a b ED transf rre? Harri·on Sa isbury remark that hiftin 6 o hukov to Od e s a ou d be abou~ the ssme as transferrin G ief of ~taf Gen ral Eis J nhower to th 0 C a 1 o an rm ost at ~ Orleans. • U I V ~~----- u r '· c _ , it o u ld o o k i l U r n ar Co ad~ had fall . n ut f vor t the r It i ht mean an c i s of arshal Zhukov 's k>i=i•g•t bri .. t a i in y tar. An that ooul ave an rtant r in o 1 ~ u ti o~ 1 t' go · n.a to n in Vi t h i a - - •a t r ..., t in . o will take r? =---- - - - - - Bttt, Wte 10 1 a aRat >a r BPile e i itar District of Od ssa reall,,,7 so .i unim, rtant ~-- ~ika • ■eao AP■ f 1iRart et.. ~•~•1•r111•s•T► The O · di tri ct is near the Balkan & , and h historic P rt of OdP.s a is on the Black Sea -- ti ereb · related to lur ~ itev, the Darda . lles . Soviet am bi ti on s i n t hat a i r c t i o . a•r not i o us• bta • S • u i o 1N GOP L:I'G 1 (t .. .. i:e@ lie pfiea "~ibi a•• I 0 cow co kin u some w SC m in that a · rection? I~ o, t , ost at i t 0 um r n im 1 - ance • aaa ,a ig bl 12 ~QiP 11 numb@J SEO C8 ■■ ••it1ez like B l! !Ir.au •• ) tr r f ar n an ·1 ort nt of al a 11a£ssr ; I ts ID lg) a.:. d v lo mmts to com in the i ectio of th Ha ans, Tu rk ' t . , !Jard· n elles. I L ---~-.-.. ' 1 i ro ram, it's a ro ... riate t a s a o L a ton· in i a out t e ind s :t i l Q i t - i~ t am shir ~ . -iR f a mily sur ~ riael-- It's a ,r i r • It's c mm n no or 0 irls to be born, , C n S by t · ki a lo k aro nd. But in the in amil of New m shir there hadn't been a girl or nin ty-fiv ears. Th re were lent of children -- b t, gen ration aft g ne r ti on, hey a 11 ere boy a. The l a t time a au ~ nt r w ~ s born was in eighteen if -o e. · o it ' s e I s 11 r i h to re 1 ate that II r. - and rs. Kn th inds of Tilton, re~ Ham ~ shire, have a