roRMOSA,- l . ~ . !.~.- 1?-t J1. CJo. .•• AJ~, ~ - s) 1'f.SO. - - - - ~ v - ( ~ ?,1.,,..~) The late t tonight 1s a report that the State Department 1s urging American citizens to leave Formosa. This would follow the precedent set when the Chinese Reds were ewe ~ p 1 ng the mainland - Americans in their path urged to evacuate. Now the same thing 1n the case of rormosa. FORMOSA W a shington i s rev e rberatin with Republican bla ts against Pre 1dent Truman's decl a ration on Formosa today. President, in a blunt statement without any qual1!1cat1on wh a tever, declared that the United States will not do anythin tu help ~ "' I the Chinese N a tionalists defend let ••••••j Be . . . U4-2 s aid there would be no American aid o! any kind, neither armament or even military advice. Nor does the American g overnment have any idea of eetablish1n1 military bases on Formosa. In other words- non- intervention, co m plete and absolute. On the one hand, the President directs h is rem a rks at Soviet propaganda, which has been chargin g t a t American i m perialism seeks to grab rormoaa. Th e Truman answer to this 1s t h at the United States does not want any part of the island. On the other hand, the Pre s ident talked in t h e dir ec tion of the Republica n s, wh o have ~ ~ been d e m a. nd1n g ~ me r 1 can m i 11 t ary ,Zo ai,. d fend P' o r m o ::J a t nst th e R e d s . e sa i d t h t an y s uch FORMOSA - 2 intervention migh lead to shootl~g. and ~et this co ntry into a war. All this w s backed up by S 8 cretary of State Acheson who told a news conference that the Pre 1dent took action today to dispel a lot of confusion caused by a lot of talk. The White Bouse move was quick, even h a sty•- Acheson saying that J the Truman declaration was made without consulting Congress. That is, it was not in the usual pattern of the bi-partisan foreign policy - which calla for joint Democratic and ~epublioan agreement. {( The President, in laying down his China policy today, ~id not confabulate even with Con r eesion&l Democrats - let alone Republicans. Hence the loud cannonade reverberating tonight - with Republicans assailing the ~hite H oused ~ 1s1on in bitter terms. Sen tor Fergu on of ' 1chi g an s aye the Pre s ident has, in his words - •kicked the i-partisan forei g n policy out of th window.• TQRKQSA - 3 Sen a tor Ta ! t of O h io s a ys t h e W h ite H ouse d e clarati on is contrary to o ur a n ti- Com m uni s t p olicy ever y w he re els e i n th e world. Senator Knowla.nd o f California demands th a t t h e o p inio n s of our mil t a ry leaders be consider e d and m ad e public. N ext week, Se c ret a ry of State Acheson is to ap p ear before the Foreign Affairs Committee o f both b Houses of Con g ress and the California Senator insists that Acheson •• ahall present to the Committees the recommendation• made by General MacArthur in Japan, and by Admiral Radford, Commander of the Pac1!1o Fleet. Senator Wherry of Nebraska calls for ~ General XacArt h ur to be brought to W shin g ton..., A g i v e Congres s hi s views o n the question of Formosa. T h e s e views h ~ ve b e en rep o rted - the Su p reme Co m man d e r&■ said t o b e inf vor of milit a ry aid. Th e R ep u b licans a r e s ay ing bitt er l y th a t t he T ru m an t a t me nt 1 s an o ut r1 h t 1nv1t a t1o t o t he C hi ne s e fORM0s4 - 4 Communi s ts - to t a ke Formosa. The y ca.11 it - abject surrender. QHIHJ. On the island of Formos a , its e lf, an air of crisis is d vel op in g . The new s di s p a tch cal ls it - 1 nv s 1 n j itter s . Today the N a ti on alist authorities orde:red a blackout, a n d tonight thins a re in arkness - s a ve for sea r chli g ht s th a t sweep the skies to pi c k out Commun! t plan e s, 1f a ny should ap p ear. The Chines e R 0 ds haven't any Air Force to speak of, b u t ~ ~ ~ i;; do some amount o: bombing.;,•• •~~~ ~-ltt~~~~~ 6M ~ : ' . --.. i'ttt ~rormQl&a is the big island · oiaa.1nan, which expeote _,._.R' invasion at any moment. The Reds a re said to have ssembled thirty-eight hundr . d junks a.nd other craft for descent on Hainan. In fact, th e re have alre a dy been two attempts tt 1nv s i on - the anno u ncement b e1n made today th t Nat i onalist • artillery drove off fleets of junks on w o recent oc ca io n s . Simult a neously R e d g uerrilla s on t he i sl an d s t . e d a n u p risin g - b u t t h y w re b e a ten 1n h a r d ! 1 h ~ 1n g . BB.ITAIN - CHINA The story from Lo - don is th t the British government has already recognLzed the Red regime in Chin. The re p ort 1s ihat London telegraphed a 1 tter to the Communist officials at Peking, stating that Britain now regard s them as the legal government ! China - full recognition. This will be an ounced publicly as so o n as the ChinAse Reds confirm the recPipt of the message. The announcement is expected tomorrow or the next day. In granting recognition to the Chinese CommuniAts, the B~itish · o not withdraw all rec o gnition of the Nationalists - they being g1,en a sort of status, in so far as they are actually in contr ~ l at Formosa. In other words, 111 continue to deal w1 1 the present re 1me 1« at Formosa - while recognizing the Communists as the overnment f China. r ,. t ATOMIC Pre ident Truman sa id today he was hard of h a r 1n - stone deaf, in f a ct. That is, on the subject of rumors a.bout a super-atomic bomb, usin hydro en inste d Of ura.ni um. This 1s being alked of 1n tone~ of wonder and mystery - with sta ements that the o v ernment in W~shington 1a con idering an - ~ 0 iant atomic project for d veloping a bomb with QK hydrogen as the atomic explosive. Hydrogen - regardea as the source of atom1 ~ energy in the sun. Hue ear scientists are said to consider a hydrogen bomb a feasible possibility - a super-bomb that would devastate -111,! .... """ ar as for fifty or s1xty~m1les. Recently, Sen a tor Jo h nson of C olorado, a emb r of the Ato~ic Ener y Committee, made gu rded ref~rence to an A-bomb a thousand times more powerful than the standard uranium explosive. So in his news con!eren · ce tod y, Pre s ident Truman ~ as ask .d - what a bout t h is sup r-atomio omb ATQ Ic_ - 2 us1n hydro nt His r usal to an B 1 e r was made th m o r 1v1d, b 1 indication that d idn't ~ven hear t he ques t i n - sayin he was s t on e d e a . he Pr e ident had not . . in t o say , 11 ew 1se, about a report th a t Sov1 t Rus s ia 1 s · Q ou t to s t ag e another atomic p losio. This was announced 1~ Lon on to day b • Kenneth Decourcy, editor of a - privately oircul · ted publication called •Inteil1gence Di est•. ~ast year Decourcy m a de a prediction - that Sovi e t Russia would complete its first &tomio bo . bin June. Which was borne out, more or less, when in September President Truman announce d th tan atomic explosion had occurred in Russia. So now Decourcy comes forward with another - sta ement - t 1s time in ·p recise detail. He says that th e Soviets •t• will put on an explosion &t midnight on January eeventh, the day after tomorrow, - Satur & • The only qualificat1 n bein - that some technioal..-hitch might cause the blast to be post oned until January tenth, next Tue day. T od&y - President Trum&n said he k ne w n othing about 1t. rn, nc - 3 He n o1nted out that, in the ca s e of the previous atomic •x,s explosion of Soviet Russia, he did not know abo t it until after 1t had ha pened . WEA'l' HER T h e re a t c o ld 1s ovi ng a st - t e Arctic wave of w e ather th t has been fro ting the Wet. It w , s t h irty-five below in W o m ing today - and the bitter cold spread acros s th e ississippi Valley, movin toward the Atlanti Co st. T o ni t the Jun -in-January is at an end for the Eastern states - that fre a k o f weather which for a s brought summer 1n the middle of winter. The sweep of the cold, blowing away the · warm, brought storms of rain and sleet in the middlewest - followed by floods. Illin i s and Indiana had some of th worst inundations in recent y ars, as rivers p oured over their banks and washed out hundreds of homes. I New York City the June-in-January ., paradox made t h e " ater shortage worse. In temperatures virtually sweltering, people used more water -- especially for bathing. The~e h s been little rain to re _ lenish supolies in the reservoirs - and it all a ds up to a other day dedicated t ■ m the saving of wat r. This w s WEATHER - 2 a n n o need b y officials for Janu a ry Tw e lfth. So next week the cit i z . ns of t he Big Town wil l have a •b a thles , shaveless• Thursday. So e of you o lks w o f a ncy od d ities of i tory, wil l be inter e t e d to know t _ a t t e re re left in all of En land oily six exa les of the oad plat. Yet, in tim e s lon gone b y, the British race - s dist in ui hed b o . e strange p c ul1arity, and t a t was - Woad. Back 1 the diys of ancient Rom e , the w rriors of Britain dyed their bodies blue.(sc we are told by no lee an authority than Julius Caesar, who wrote about the blue battlers who assailed is l gions~The 'dye the Britons used was made fro a p lant with a yellow flower - the Woad plant. But now-a•days the British, while they may have some occasion to feel blue, do not dye t .emselves wi h tints of azure. And the Woad has almost died o ut. Today's information co me from a botanist, w. Fitzallan Howard, who says th · t Woad was u s ed to dye cloth at one time. PIE - 2 • Y family• he rel ate s •r a n a : e nty acre Woad f a rm fro m th e a rly Seve n tee n t Century until Nineteen Thirteen - when th e invention of synthetic dyes killed the demand. I h ave now six plants left.• All that 1s left o~ the Woad the ancient B~1tons used to dye their bodies bl~e. PRI S O ;ER. A t L o n Beac. , C al if o r n i a , r s . Rub y S 1t h f C e vict io fro her home - t w i fe of one of th tw o N vy f lyin m e n b ld y th e h i n e e R e ds. r dile m li e s i n t h e f a ct th a t f o urte e n onthe a~o s h e and h e r h u s band p t fl teen hundred d ollar s in e s cr o w to buy a house, and she o n . ot mak e t he m on e y avail a ble - not without her husband's si gn atur e . N a vy flyer William S m ith is being held by the Communists at Tien Ts1n, and Mr s . Smith has asked President Truman t request the British Consulate at Tien Tsin to try to persuade t h e Reds to let the prisoner si g n the necessary papers - so that his wife will not be evicted f ro m her home. HART A t Los A tol1 a out 111 offs11ent mo vie~. le a tr n tory is b e ing S . a rt , t o ldti me ccw b oy s t a r He di d in Nin te e n Forty-six, and left a mil ion L oll a r e tat - o f which he be ueathed nothin at all t v his son, Wil l 1·m S. _art Junior. So n~w the son 1s sue1ng, and alleging that the cowboy star w s •dowinated by his sister•, Mary Ellen HartJThe lawsuit claims that the s1 ter kept Hart from marrying one woman, an otres . with whom he appeared on the stage. Then - broke up his marriage with another actres turning husband a~~inst wife and against the son that was born. Hence the wil - which William S. aart made because he was, it is claimed, under the domination of his si .• ter. CORKY In b in to n t h er 's a on bu in s s a n w h o s . o 1 d o r 1 . e w o rl d o com e rce an finan c e. i p r e sent bi d e al consi of -- reselling a presidential a nd hake. His nam e i "Corky" s ven ye a r old son of Con ressman Huber of O 10. And J e terday hews amonb:.. number of con ress1onal children w o attend e d t 1 e delivery of the report on the State of the nation. Corky happened to be sitting on the aisle, and the President passed him on is way out - stooping for a handshake. He ask d the youngs:er: •would you k■ like to be Pre s ident some da.yt• Corky answered: •No•. Probably figuring a Pre ident doesn't make enough money. That produced a Truman grin, and a really vigorous handshake. So to a Corky was in business. A little while ago, the young capitalist ot a handshake from General Eisenhower. Whereupon he fond that the other kid wa ted to sh ke the hand t a t shook ..... PANv I G GIRL ow , r 1 H . r ' a i pa t c h t 1 i Chic o ha i h r i d t w 1 v E t a da ncin g trls. uite a l e · acy' . He 1 C i t J s r . op e r m e s , a.n 1 o r· er , whos e ncle , eek re olo 1 s t, died r c ntl 1 E ynt - l e i a ar e. tat . T he re a r three heir s , the widow of the arc . i aeolo 1st, a foundation to b ld a world un iver 1ty at Atben, and the Chi c a o xaJ■ 1 port r . f The propertie c onsist of te t ousand cres of land alon the ile, villag son the at e~t t e , mules and cattle, f1v hun r e d camels - and tw lve dancing irls. What to do with them? Th widow doesn't want / a world them, nor does the foundat1o · n to b uild/\\ax• ■xsu university at At , ens. T h ey s y they need profes ors - not dancin xx girls.t So th a t leaves it up to the import r a t Chicago - and he's thinking about rin lng t e dozen danc1n lrls to the United States. ?h e on ly trouble ts that his wif doesn't thin anythin of the sor t. So what t o do with ta ■■ th a t it m o f th estate? If any of ou AliQING GIRLS - 2 ntlemen t the radi o audiences o ld l ike to ve t elve E pt1 n anc i: ■ irls k u ,