G 0 E N I G E R Y BO Y: (The Pal e stine p rob l em oes to the United N at ions. This is no m de de f ini t e in London. A l l negoti i o ns h ve f a i l ed -- as British Prime Minister Attlee informed the A ab del e gates; to which he added that the Palestine problem now become ~ the responeibil ty · Of th e U. N. The British will renounce the mandate. In so doin they will offer to turn over to the U.N. the mandate to adm i nister Palestine hich they were iven t the end of World liar One.) Meanwh il e, in Palestine, the death sentences of three members o f Irgun Zvai Leumi have been confirmed. British Commander Lieutenant Gen e ral Sir Evelyn B a r k er, who is e a ving Pale ine, h a pl a e d the ent· ire army and LEAD - 2 ---- police forces on the alert - ready to meet the retaliatio that the Jewish underground lrgun Zvai Leumi has threatened if its three members are executed. They said they would strike back with what they call - a blood bath So tonight tension is at a climax in Palestine. ~.RlTAlli Today ~ s action by the British Government had that good old Britis~ spirit. Prim i n is t er A t t 1 e e says •No• to President T rum a n. No, Gr at Britain does not want shiplo ad s of Am rican coal to be diverted from continental E uro pe to Britain, • to ea se the coal shortagt '1ft ,.. '1'1 amaa- n4a t»he ef>fery. ◄--t.hi.& nutr,, wan~~ help the BrHhh l'"•t>l-e.. lr1t- '-eeu--<i a1perat,.,rplig-lu. 0;4 ~ ~ , , ships,carrying American coal to various European countrie~ usaa now on the high seas. The President said we were willing to order the coal ships to change course. MHl-iake~....- tonnage of fuel to England. ~ Today cabled President Truman as follows: t< •r need not say how grateful we are for your readiness to assist in the dif f icult times through which we are ,, passing . in tu rope is no less pressing, and we could not ask that aazaa car goes ebmr!d be divert e d from Europe to the ~ ~ 6 V v _ ~ United Kingdom.• ~ 1th1¥ word.a; t,he J i r ~ i r i 1 1 ~ BRITAIN - 2 ------- a tough time, bu so ire oth e r countries of Europe - and Brit a in does not want to benefit at their expense. The coal crisis eased up a bit today, thanks largely to the weather, the temperatures rising slowly. This afternoon in London the thermometer climbed to thirty-three -- the first time it has been above freezin1 in many days. One news dispatch today tells of a cut in broadcasting the British Broadcasting Company ordered to stay off the air for five hours a day - to save coal. FRENCIL§lllXL France had a taste of a ge n ral stike to ay - fiv e million civil service worker R r Laging a brief walkout. It w s a demonstr tioni- the union wanting to sho w what it would m e an if a general strike were called in dead earnest • . The news dispatch from Paris states: •,oliceman quit their beats, telephones went dead, the State-owned radio stations stopped broadcasting. I Trains, buses and subways ••z ■ a were halted: and teachers dismissed school in the middle of classes.• All France was paralyzed; Paris thrown into a state of bewildered confusion, with accent on a fantastic snarl of traffic. The strike lasted for four hour · s, but it took a long time aft e rward to g et l,hings straightened out. Civil S rvice workers staged monster parades, in which the . Red flag of the Soviet was prominent - and the marchers sang •The Internationale", the hymn of the Communists. Th e Civil Service workers b e long to a labor organization with Communist leadeship - and the Red Union chi e fs were showin g t he ir power today. Q.N. (~efore the 1ations this afternoon, ecurity Council of the United Gr o myjo demanded that we destro our atomic bombs - without waiting for a system of atom c control.)The Soviet Delegat e lambisted the U.S.A. Be declared that we Qre holding our tomic power as a ••• menace of aggression. We should destroy all the bombs we have, at once - says Gromyko. 1.ILIENTHAl, Th di pute over Pr sident Truman's nominati o n of David Lilienthal i ■ grows more and more com licat e d. Mr. Truman s t eadfastly refuse to ithdraw Lilienthal's name, while the ranks of Lilienthal ■,,~ opponents seem to gro. The latest from Washington is that a en a te inv stigating committee is considering a direct appeal to Wr. Tru an th t Lilienthal 's· na ■ e be withdrawn. Top leaders of the Senate atomic committee, Vandenberg of Michigan and CoQnally ot Texas, conferred this afternoon with Secretary ot tate Marshall. Shortly the~eafter a secret aeeting of the atomic coamittee as a whole was held. line of the committee members will comment one way or another, but the word is that the committee has decided to go to the Presid~nt and ask him to scratch Lilienthal off the list. The committee is said to feel that both the White House and the GOP ■ i• majority in the Senate are no in i~pos ible _ positions: Republican ,ilLIENTHAL - 2 leade s fearing the charge of isolationism if they join with southern Democrats to vote af against Lilienthal on the Sen at e floor; and the administration facing the un p leasant possibility of having a major appointment thrown down. Meanwhile the anti-Lilienthal group in the Senate is already casting about for a new candidate to head up the nation's ato ■ ic energy board. Former Senator Lafollette of Wisconsin, and former Senator Admiral Thomas Hart, retired, are said to be leading the field. ~UDGET The Congr e ssional Budget Committee has - - - - - - - voted t h at cut of six billion dollars. Pr viously, a -- - subcommitte e had r e commended that six billion hould be ai slashed from the money that President Truman wants for government expenses during the coming fiscal year~~ich was followed by a lot of argument against so large a cut. Particularly - against the alash ot appropriations for the Army si and Navy. However, the six billion idea was okayed s ■i~ today by the full •tt big committee representing the Senate and the Lower Houae. ~ARSHALL Secretar of Stat Marshall has been looking over the conditi on of world a fa i r , and it is his considered opinion that the are in a •very critical" state. So the new 1 ■ 1 Secretary reported sa at a closed hearing of the Senate Foreign relations Com ittee today. Later Marshall warned Congress, publicly, that the surest way to invite trouble would be to cut down on feeding occupied Germany, Austria, Japan and Korea. Earlier today Marshall held a presa conf e rence at which he expressed the sa■ e view~ - but in a guarded and cautious manner. Washington correspondents are learning that the new Secretary of Stats,witb bis years ot military discipline, is net what you ■-- might call a gossip. He told reporters that the •proble■ of getting money to feed the occupied areas is of immediate concern to the State Department, and he MAR S HALL - 2 - · ---- ur ges Con gre ss to k e p it s e conomy axe off tboe fun ds . Beyond saying th t •world affairs are v e ry critical" Secretary Marshall would make no com m ent. LABOR ---- "'- Q d voc tes of d rastic labor laws were a vi n g the ir in n ings in shi ng ton today -- witnes ~ es ap e arin and de nouncin g union abuses. On e was Cecil ft. D e Mil l e, ln.8 famou Hol l y ood Producer who made h istory in t he real ■ of tl e movies. Addressing a <t.d enate Committee, "'-j-made a dramatic plea for the abo l ition of the closed shop. ~ told of his own experience. in Nineteen-Forty-Four, his trouble'with the Union Back a was in then ws. He was on the radio at the time, with a program of his own. The union, the A.F.R.A. assessed its members a dollar each for political purposes - political action.iat in that hot political year of Nineteen-Forty-Four. Today De Mille told how he refused to pay the as essment, he wouldn't plunk down that doll a r bill - and for that reason he waa put off the air. The union had a countrywide closed shop ith the broadcasting companies, md De Mille was out. Today he stated: •Because I refused to pay ~- a political as essment, I was deprived of the right t~ 1 1A OR - 2 ~ e denounced the Clo , ed Sh p as "monopolistic an undemocratic". He~ argued that its abolition would be a b e nefit to,1;Be American work ~ £ c - ~ .. "It ill free him, " said DeMille, 1ltn-cAl~s rfdom r." un p aralleled in American history since the abolition of slavery." e said the closed shop deprives a man ~ of the ri ht · to ork1 and As hou-ted: "This is not democracy! It is collectivist absolutism! There ia no iota of difference in principle between it and the dictatorships which we have lately defeat don the field of battle/• cri e d De Uille.• Another witn~ss was Vice-Pr sident Harold Story of the Allis Chalmers Co., which is having such a long and stubborn 6trike, a wlxa walkout that has lasted for ten months. He told a Senate Committee today that the Alli C h almers stike was instigated by Com m unist Officers in.the Automobile ~ork e rs Union. And he urged Congress, in enacting labor laws, to put a ban on Communist leadeBship in American Unions. He sa id it would not be wise to forbid Communists Union · tf.J- •emb rship, b u t ~ R Pds should not be allowed to hold of f ice in our American labor organizations. ABTARQ!ICA_ ( Do w n on the South Polar Continent, a plane ~ ~~~ ~ ~--. h as landed on one of th~ Green Lakes" You can ima g ine the thrill of the p ilot, Lieutenant-Comm a nder David Bunger of Co~o, California, and his crew of a d v e n t u , ~ Ant a rctic skies.) Dave Bunger had been one of the fir s t ilots to spot the South Polar Oasi1,I& Ant a rctic Shangri-La.- Q,.d now down he swooped, landia1 a seaplane on a Green Lake. (He sa7s ther e was fee on the shores of the lake, the 11ole section ringed with ice - but there nothing frozen in the lake. Be toot saaples of the and found i t • to be waraer than any other down there - waraer than the ocean, for example) Be reports, howeve, that there was no sign of steam, such as you sometime• find in volcanic areas of geysers and lak••• (scientific aspects of the . Green Lakes in Antarctica are discussed by one of the geologists with the Byrd ex p edition - Dr. A rthur Howar d of the bttti ~.s, 1::ta4;1a Geologic a l survey. Be believes that the ice-free ~ water in that realm of eternal ice are to be explained by the o f hot Oasis, assumption that t~;dr~en Lakes lie above a mas1 rock, deep down~would make th,Antarctic thlSouth Polar Shangri-La,something lite Yellowstone Park. !he geysers and other hot water phenomena of Yellowstone are attributed to an underlyina mass of heated rock. The absence of steam, reaarka the Geologist, might not ■ ean much- because in the area there could be steam holes, which the fliers d■ hadn't been able to spot. One clue to the problea ■ igbt be found in the sam p les of water the airmen brought back fro ■ the Greta Lake they l a nded on. Dr. Boward says that an analysie of the water may disclose chemicals to indicate that the · ater originated at a great depth, where the rocks are hot. ~ He thinks 1'81# the explorers may find other ice-free regions in the vast depths of the Antarctic Continent.frThe oasis of the G re en Lakes is not very ANTARCTICA -3 ------- - - large - some t ~ elve hund r ed square miles. The geologist th . k ~ ~ ~ . ·1 ~~ h l b 1n S ~ .J:ther s 11111 ar areas ~•3JI. auc arger, iVrt editions ofAAntarctica Shangri-La. Meanwhile, the adventurers down t h e r ~ ~ stGging their first long range push along the ground. * h ~ A a l l i g ~ ~ are on the tra~ right. now - a trail of powdery anowA.east of Little Aaerica. hundred and~rt7 The ground party is to travel four five miles, establishing an advance weather atation and an eaergency landing field in unknown territory. That is in the glacial wilds spotted by the air but untouched hitherto by men on foot. !!lfiL!IE (The government bas sold Big lnch and Litle Inch those two great oil pipelines built durin g the war.) Bow auch does the government get for theae two aighty Inches? Offhand you might think - co ■ paratively little. Projects and equipaent of war _ emergency have a way of eelling for a aong when a war is over. But in tbia caae it's not ao. (rb• price announced today ia more than a hundred and forty-three aillion dollars. litbin two per cent or the entire original coatJ The adaini1trato• I of war as1et1, Robert•· Littlejohn, deacrib , _ the ••l• as •the featest award and best deal the lar A1eet1 Adainistration so far hab aade.• The purchaser of Big Inc~ and Little Inch is a natural gas company down in Texas, which will use the two great pipelines to carry natural pas fro ■ the southwest to the Atlantic Coast. A hundred and forty- three million for these famous Inch es. One of the few places here this could happen is Alaska. And that's just where it did happen. In the Alaskan panhandle, at Ietchikan, there's a public library that not only serves the town but also the prospectors and trappers••• passing through.The Library relaxes its rule soaewhat for the woodsmen becau e -- well, because sometimas it's easier to get into the woods than to get out. So sometimes the books aren't returned right away. Which is usually okay with the library at Ketchikan. Soae time ago a prospector borrowed a copy of Adolf Hitler•• •Mein Iaapt• and, when he didn't come in with it af~er a time, the library wrote to the prospector, wherever he was way off in the bush. Uore time elapsed, and then the answer came: •1 can't return the book, a bear ate it! Ple~se send me a book on bear hunting!• The library obliged and finally was rewarded from the remote wilderness. The prospector mailed in a badly cbP1ed-up edition of •aein kampt•. BEAR - 2 --- Evidently, that hardy•••*~ sourdough ,,. .. ,q_ learned a grea~aore froa the book on bear hunting than he did•• from Hitler's •Mein Iaapf•. I wonder how the bear liked •Mein Iaapf?• Krs. artha Truman, mother of the President, is said to be resting comfortably today - after having fractured her hip last night. Word from the Presidential home-neighborhood out in Missouri is that ninety•four year old• Mrs. Truman slipped and fell in her home - just one of those household accidents. She brokea her hip, which a ■ aiiaxa sounds serious at ninety-four. But tonight we have a report fro ■ Miss Yary.JalTru ■ an, the daughter with who ■ the President's ■ other livea, saying that the elderly lady was -•resting very coafortably.• --- - - - - _ - _ -----:_ - - - .... - _ - ~----=--=-= --=--= --=-=- - -===iiiii-ii --iiiiiiiil liiiliiill ,gBEECE_ In the quarrel between Greece and Yugoslavia, the Jugoslavs delivered a counter-attack today. A United Nations Co ■ mission is over there, investigating the clashes on the Greek-Jugosl&v Borderl and 1 .today, at~ hearing in Athens, the Co ■■ isaioa heard from the Jugoslav Representative. He charged that the Greeks• were arming and sending into Jugoslavia, what he called - •war Criminals.• Meaning, of course, Anti-Communists who are hostile to the Red Regi ■ e ot Mar1hal Tito. Jugoslavia makes a long series ot co ■ plaints, alleging cases of Greeks helping underground fighters against Tito. This implied, of course, that there was a Jugoslav Underground, battling against Tito and hie Co■■unists.- ~kA~e first ti■e the Tito Regi ■ e has ever admitted anything of the sort. In aakiDI charges against the Greeks, they let the f cat out ot the ba$here is an Anti-Co■■unist Underground carryin on a struggle against Tito. 'Nle Ccsr'cs, •• tbaJ;.:r sides, &,are all •l•as Here's a late dispatch from Washington - a report that the Senate Atomic Committee is considering a direct request to President Truaan in aanner the•••• of Lilienthal. The request would be for the President to withdraw the controversial nomination of Lilienthal as Chair ■ an of the Atomic Ener17 Coaaission. Eight hundred feet below the surface of Panther Valley, Pennsylvania, . thirteen coal miners are spending the ni g ht in considerable comfort. 1-.t■■ x a'l)dtllJ.~ a sitdown strike)deep in the a i ne, five leYels ~ down. The sitdown strikers of Panther Valley are staging a deaonstration because the coal company docked their pay when they left work after aining their quota of coal. Their fellow ■ iners in that particular coal pit rallied to their support -- the twelve-hundred going on strike. And today the syapathJ walkout spread throughout Panther Valley - six thousand going out. Deep in the aine the thirteen i 1itdowa strikers have been receiving supplies of food, cigarette• ~blankets, fro■ thJr fellow iners on the surface~ who ft have even sent down an electric heater to keep thea !at tonight. Not so uncomfort · le - at eigr hundred feet K below Panther V&lley.