t - e l ~ - 4 ' U· e r i~ u "' O n e e ~ .Pr u ~ . ~ NPm e i ~ t ' :.coo:._,c i:.::::;t.~~ :1 • g NaA ann Cz~ ~~r,;rp:.~ ~~ :::;s. ""--"-:n..~~ ~ ~ ~ • u Q~~ ~ l=orm ~ r €Beenoeloo!ki&n •re althoo-gh "11.- bas nm le 1,we 1'\i.b~---e.ppee.PaAeee ~,_e,waePei, ~~~~ New i t a•••s the on ce etrong me~ ef Gse eh e. · r n e e 1 s "'till : i · t -1r- ou ~ a g ov e rnment. But c c or i g o t e nite Pre s ' or r P remi _ r chuman ~ye'1e ~ ~ ~ • k - - = ::X .1. v ~ :nt- ecm?; deutr-= abe,11+, ~ bat. kn s s a 1 s Ul'. ., ± ~ w i 11 an r. o u n c e h i s m ; i t:: 8 ~ mi n i 8 t er 8 le of t h e ro d Ca inet. WStheUt.='lR!Y' "{U) De Gaullist~ an no C om m unists. tomorro -- a mi Th is afternoon President Auriol warned the former Premier that he must form his Ca inet quickly; ' w steno time. That ev e ry ay France ~ without a government, .wM an invitation to the~ommunists, or the ~ De Gaullists, to seize power. So Premier Schum a nAwlu vpeeF ~ ~ c & Q . ~~•12A, r lier to 1ay , the news told of the French C om uni ts tr ying to f~!~! a general election. This nois y demon tr tion an strik e s ; with of a general st~ike if Communists were not inclu ed in t h e ne w government. Also a section of the French press began clamoring f o r ~ DeGaulle to take over -- ~!! ~ :..._ ~ ~ ~ ~ o ~ t .:.. ct ~r ne e f rom the Com ~ m~u~n~i~s~t~s~-.... - - - - • • ~ • • • • e remlin ith A t r t ay's eet1 ·n g a th K. o lo t ov h e e ter nvoys 7-r::J-c:.c. e ri of onf r.en c es in o s coll. "British envoy Frank R obert s w nt to the A merican Emba s sy im on le vin the Kremlin.ti~ ~ ~ s s a d o r e ia tely Bedell- S i t ') i he.,. t a 1 k e d for three li o u rs . D \i pi a g wl\ i e Ast says the 8ewewire, eeer1taPiee were makiag aurPiei- ~Pipe with ■ eeeagee. Twice, between eight and eleven, th« e~~~ ~J. ~ French Ambassador !voe CbatalgAeaa• ,11114 aa• l!Cld- A- ~ - g _ ~ - s ~ t eleven oclock S ■ i~h amt. Roberts took an hour off. ~ A. A A ~ at twelve they were joined aoain by the French enWJ ; ...... At thr ee A • • Moscow time they were still taking. ~ Th e sugge tion i s t~ t there is~ disagreeent ome here. P ~ rhaps bet · een the e s tern nvoys themsel e s. C hataigneaux i s s a i d to have taken little p a rt in to a y's conversations with Molotov, but he is t h ought to h a ve puid those two hurried vi s its to the A e ri ca a , s. to · g ht to m ., ke . im elf c l a r on a : ertain oint . A t r i ch w e i vi e to come to a l k t ng over , o t)le bi 0 th t newsmen have een ai tin or all ay -- the announcement of an greement bet een the our ow er s on a single Berlin currency and the lifting of the Berlin Blocka e i not come off. " ash i ~ton I ounc ~ d th t I aY, s me ~ as a I but only , Am bass adr/r I would be no I ould int r port of ow to ay { a - he th 1/ the exp · / t ed e. Th t o n - DIDIA , " n a, comes word From far off Kashmir 1n northw~st 1 1 ~ € t i ~ -~~ of a battle fought nineteen thousand feet g q Q 11 ' /... '$. A ~ m e higher than the top of Pikes Peak or Mount Ranier. Almost as ~4&~ high as the summit of Mt. McKinl~y ).. . A dispatch to the Hew York Times describes the fighting between the troops of India and Pakistan as the first operation of modern armies 1n the lofty Himalayas, ~ highest~in the world. From the valley floor or the- lovely Vale or laahllir b o R L J u ~ ~ ~ 4 - . s ~ , I ~it takes the troops three weeks to reach the battlefield. 'l'he • fighting is at Ladakh, only two hundred miles tram Srinagar, capital of Kashmir. But Ladakh is the capital of what 11 called Little Tibe1'. The troops have to wade through snow au waist deep. Their supplies are borne by longhaired yaks, far up there on the Roof of the world, 1n air so rare that ~ater boils at a temperature too low for cooking. So all boiled food must be prepared at a lower altitude and carried up to the front. t I IIDIA - 2 The f ghting can only be carried out by small groups, with no armament heavier than a light machine-gun. It being impossible to get heavy equipment into those snowy mountainS where not even a yak can get over some of the lofty passes. The New York Times tells or~ detachment of Kashllliri scouts battling against Indian troops on the slopes ot the giant Karakoram range. Both sides have to depend on cool1e1 and pack animals to bring their supplies, And, as there aren't enough coolies to go aroundt each side uses the same bearers. One day the Indian armJ gets them, the next day they go to the Kashmir irregulars. And often the mules and yaks head toward the wrong camp, on t'he wroog day. Whereupon the side which is expecting its supplies, yells at the coo11es, and usually the side which can shout the loudest gets the cargo. An In dia n officer says these shouting matches are good fun, with the s c ores usually even -- both sides getting somethin to eat. This ar on the roof of the world is one of bluff and subterfuge. On one occasion a small Indian convoy scared the Kashmir troops that were about to wayla7 them by using the old hat trick. They kept poking a stick above a rock, first with an Indian Army helmet, then with a 8ikh turban, then with a local headdress -- to make it look like heavy reinforcements. The Kashmir iroops withdrew in alarm. Meanwhile a Onited Natione Security ~ouncil • Commission is trying to negotiate a cease-fire arraig ement. But they are having difficul-t, even reaching the scene of this Himalayan war -- in far [•asbmir -- in the Iarakorum In ew York to ay, Whittaker Chambers, the ex - Com m uni s t, i den tif ed Alexander Stevens as th e man who h a d worked with him in the Communist underground in Washin ° ton. Steve n s, said Chambers, was then known as "J. Peters." · He evidently is the mystery man the Comaittee has been lookin for. Previously Stevens had b en served with a Committee subpoena at a deportati o n hearing ordered by the O.S.Immigration Department, where he was also known as •J. Peters." Today he refused to answer slat the Committee's questions, claiming constitutional iamunit7. ~ All he would say was that his real name was Alexander - Stevens, not J. Peters. Wh&n he was brought face-to-face with Whittaker Chambers, his accuser, he kept silent. Chambers said he had no doubt that Stevens was the aan with whom he had worked dlosely in the ~ommunist ring in Washin g ton before the war. · Be said he had talked with Stevens on pa r ~ J work in New York City Automata. Still not a word from the accused. I I I , r- 1 ESPIQ!{AGE_.::_g ----- Two o f the Committee members were so angered by thi s silent defiance, that they say they'll ask the Committee to cite Stevens for contempt of ,C _ on~es . s. After Whittaker Chambers had finished giving his testimony,~he Committee w e nt into close session to hea Adolph Berle, former Assistant Secretary of State. Cha previously testified about going to Berle in Ninet•en Thirty-nine, warning him of Uommunist ac~ivities insid the Staie Department and the gove~nment.) Berle afterwards told reporters the gist of what he told the sub-committee today. That Whit taker Oha ■bers in Nineteen Thirty-nine told him far less than he has told the Committee. ~erle said that at that time Chambers seemed to be a very sincere man, but no action was taken because Chambers didn't ant hls name to appear in the matter. Berle also said that be checked the record of Alger Biss; and it was good. Further. that Dean Acheson of the State Department, had known the Biss family from childhood) Also, in his opinion, the idea of ~--~;;;__ - ESPI O NAG E --1 --- Biss workin for the overth.1•0 • of the go rernment of the Onited States was ridiculous. A newsman then asked the former Assistant S ecretary of State whether president Roosevelt knew about the report made by Whit taker C hambere in Nineteen Thirty-nine. To which Berle replied, •The President alwaya kept very close to Intelligence reports.• q / TELEVISI O N ----- ---- I f th e re ever is another war, we'll all be able to w a tch it, b television -- a ctually see battles on the screen, at home. This g rim prospect as pictured today by Rear Admiral Ralph Jenning·s, aboard the aircraft c a r r i e r ~ LEYTE. The Admiral spoke after the Navy televised a mock naval battle. He says he's sure television will play a large part in any future war~ Th t just as radar showed our fighting men where the target was in the last war, from now on television wiil show what the target is, show it to the Generals back at headquarters - and show it to all of us. War · correspondents able to ax cover a war as some reporters covered the recent political conventions in Philadelphia. When it got too hot out at Convention Hall, some of the■ went to hotel rooms and bars and watched it on the television screen. Once the problem of extending the television horizon is solved -- it's limited to about a hundred miles now sets will be carried on guided missiles or - - pilotless plan• and will somehow relay pictures back to staff headquarters, thousands of miles away. In the Navy's recent televising of a naval battle, mobile transmitters were carried in planes . The pilots transmitted to headquarters, actual pictures of the targets they were bombing. All of which led the Admiral to suggeat that taxta•xf•t•z• we'll all be jO onlookers next time. HURRICANE ~-------- ft out th t hurricane. The or1 toni ht is th t i ha increased in size and fur. lt•ix A hu n red an forty miles wide -- with winds of g bun red an t enty-five miles an hour. Right now it a s 1 - s~ tha wo hubdred miles out in the Atlantic a n tr a vel ing northwest. It's expected to coae in o ·~ r the lorth Carolina coast between lilaington an4 Cape Hatt ras round midnight. ro m 1' o u n t 1· n Cit - ' , i consin, the tragic stor of t o rnado a the airplane. ith a toll of thirty- s ix liv ye-witnesses ho saw t e big ne airliner c rash i to uffalo Ridge, on the side of the Miesisaip say the plane seemed to come to pigcee in ■ id-air. it was hit by a tornado almost at the moment the tornado was beginning to for~. ~ccording to Buffalo ount " heriff Rhyner, it was a small tornado, a freak storm, but powerful enough to wreck an airplane and then go on to a nearbye town, where it tore roofs fro■ houses. IIYST~,!!I FIRE -- Remember those mystery fires at Charlie Wiley's farm in Macomb, Illinois? Wiley's house was burned down after those brown spots appeared on the alls. It all soun ed uncann1 until soaeone told about in fl ammable roach powder in •~11 paper. But next the Wiley baTna burned down. And the barns had no wall paper! State Fire Marshall John Burgard decided to look for a pyromaniac, a firebug. In a vacant farmhouse, where the Wileys aoved after their hoae burned down, be put a trap; open match box•• left around the house. Sure · enough fires began to break out in the new house -- in different places. All of which were quickly extinguished. The evidence all pointed to Janet McNeill, Charlie Wiley's niece. Finally, Janet confessed.•• says she started all the fires by sticking the matches in the walls, and then ligh~ing them. Why? Ah, because she didn't like where she was livin g . Didn't like living on a farm. Chicago psychiatrists are now tryin to find out what makes a thirteen-year-old girl turn firebu1. OTORIST -- A seventy-four-year-old London cab driver told the Ju ge today that the police were persecuting hia -- because this was the second time they had arrested hia. hen the Judge asked hia when prev~ously the Bobbies had ever o j e cted to his driving, he replied: •tour Honor, they d i ~ is to me in Ei hteen Binety-two. 11 And then it wa-¼la car be had ma e him ~ elf -- one with three wheels and one ylinder. " Said the Judge: •what was the charge that tiae, fifty-six years ago?• To which the cabbie· replied: •Driving without due care. Because I didn't have a aan walkiug in front of me with a red flag.• Bow ,aat was be going? Six miles an hour. 4 - ~ 'v1 - C1~ ~ ~s--~l