s i ton re ctic,n to Gener 1 ~rs ll's blu n t ci s i o 1 i 11 favor r ble . V' rm pl" ise an romise of a 1 - ut co op r ti n fr bot p itic partie. in Con re • S u~al· er Joe Martin summe u-p g ngr nl re cti n o f both Republic a ns and Democr~ts way: •se c r eta ry d~rsh all has expres e im e f cle rly s to any p o l itic 1 i . n ic~ti o ns an is statement doe not pe~mit any dsi n t r ret tin. 1 th tti Unotesti on . bly, it puts i in a muc ron l:lt' posit wher he c n more e a i co ope at i o n.• Th e in u ct ion of en r a l arsh a ll a s Se r e t a ry of -re...¼ St a te to a y a s - e li p sed. 1 The ceremony w a s oversha d owed ~ ~ W~the G eneral himself~ the ov e rshadowingA..,. ••••••s• ~a~ he s a i d . ( ~ h e occasion of his becoming Secr e t ry of St a te to g ive an answe~ to rumors that ha be e n mentionin him as a pre idential possibility in linete n Forty-Ei ht - a lik ~ libood of the Democratic nomination, if p · re ident Truman should not run. Gener 1 Marshall's remar k s on the subjectp.complete and /f f orthri g ht1/.-ea~ _ _ . ~ ~h•r ~ - . Be said: fl! think this is as good a time and place a s a ny to terminate speculation re arding me in a politic a l ay. I am assuming th t the Office of Secreta of S a te, a t 1 ast under p resent conditions, is non- p olitic 1 a nd I am goin g to govern myself accordin g ly. /1 wi l l never become involvei in p o l itical ma te r s and ther fore I cannot be considered a candid a te for IIARSHALL - 2 ~---- --- poli ical o ffice) conce p tion th t no matter w h at a man says,he can be dr af ted · s a c a ndid at e for so me political office would be w ithout any force with re gar d to me. I cannot be drafted for any politic 1 office. I am being explicit and emphatic in order to termin a te once and for all any discussion of my nam e with regard to political office.• So that is as direct and ould seem to be that. General Yarshall definite as was a n ~ ~ i c n General, who similarly rejected the notion that he be nominated for the presidency - General Sherman. After the Civil W ar, there was talk of Sherman for President, and Sherman's reply was a classic for br e vit;::!ften quoted. He said: •r ill not accepte if nominated•- and I will not serve, if elected.• 1 Be telep-ra.Jthat to the Chairman of the Republican National Convention in E ighteen Ei g hty-Four. And IIARSB~ - 3 --- now Sher ma n is joined by our new Secret ry of State - as a general in a victorious war who rejects any pr os pect of the p residency. The State De pa rt m nt h a s rejected the Sovi et demand for Kirill A1r!sfs:iJ-,' the latest of Sov ie t diplomas to des rt the Stalin banner and come over to th e side of liberty. Alekseev was connected with the Soviet E mbassy in exico City, from which he escaped and cam to the United Sates - making the statement that Soviet Russia · snow one gi ant concentration camp. Whereupon Yoscow denounced him as an embezzler, thief and crook,- as Yoscow ueually does when on of its henchmen deserts the Stalin dictatorship. The Soviet Foreign Office demanded th the United States extradite the des rting comrade, s e nd him home for punishment - to execution, of course. Tod a y our State Departm nt said - lo, making a ~ publi •h announcement ,(: rn7\ Moscow re q uest has been rejected because there is no extradition a reement betw en Sovi t Russia and the United States. SOVI ET PR J ss _........- _____ _,__ __ Sovi et Russia ha s conced ed freedom of th e press to newsmen ho c over the forthcoming meeting of the Big Four at oscow - thou g h th a t does not necess ar ily mea n freedom of the radio. The State D epar t me nt announces that Sovi~t Vice Foreign Minister Vishinsky has iven a pledge to Americ a n Ambassador General iedell £mith, assuring him that foreign • correspondents may write about the Big Four meeting in M oscow with wcomplete freedomw, no censorship.(T The ar Department announces t h at it has asked former President Her ert Hoover to conduct an investigation of the food situation in Germany. ~~~--mn. So f a r ~ Hoover has not co~mitted himself, but he will talk the matter over with President Truman and other Government officials at a White Bouse - - --- ---- In the battle of the g ov e nno r s, • that politica circus in Georgia - Thompson turns down the sug e e stion of Talmad a e, th at they both resign a n d g o into an election. The Talma dg e proposal was a aurpriae in the Georgia L eg i•lature - followi n g, a s it d id, a vigorou• Talaadge speech defending his right to the governorship. Berman Talmadge bristled with defiant talk, and then offered suddenly - to resign. Be aaid he waa willing to atep out of office, if Geor;ia'• other Governor would do likewise - Lieutenant Governor Thompaon, who cliia• the governorship:(' Talaadge aaid he:d do thie, pendiDI an election - in which the Georgia voters could dee14• between himself and Thoap1on. ie specified that it must be an election, according to the doctrine of white 1upremacy, which he champions - negroes to be excluded froa the voting. Be is sponsorin g the w hite supreaacy which the Le 0 islatur e is expe ted to pass. The !almadge proposal r a ises an intere s ting poasibi l ity. Geor g ia now h a s two gover n ors - and, if both Talmad g e and Thompson r e sined, Geor g ia would then have no goYernor. BoweYer, that see■• unlikely to be the case. The L ieutenant Governor thi• afternoon said he would not •barter• for the office of governor - he won!t resignJso1Georgia will have to atruggl e along with two Governors, inatead of one. The etate mi g ht get alon1 bett e r w i t h ~ That w ould be leas noiay, aD7way. The noiee wa• loud in Atlanta today, the uproar or a huge anti-Talmadge deaonatration. Berman Talaadge, in hi• harange to the LP.gialature,todaye:.denied be had a e ized the Governor's office by military force - by a military coup-d~etat. The Georgia public, however, i• not s o sure bout that, noticin g that Talmad g e was backed -r-,G;v. .. MM,td by the Georgia Ila i o nal Gu a r d . Pt 331 y c" evid <' nce of public disapproval - •••k•~• numbers of ministers of the G o s p ~ ~ sinst the p roce din g s, and a host of atudents sta g ing a demonatr tion today. The student• were joined by plenty o citizens of Atlanta, as they ■arched, carrying an effigy of Berman Tal■adge. There· was a crowd o~even thousand' roaring people in the proceedings - ae Tal■adge was hanged in effilJ• learin1 red 1uependera, badge of the Tal ■adge faction, and decorated with lazi Swastikas - the effilY ••• hangea outside# the State Capitol, and left awingi~I in a bluaterJ winter wind. zg1JAL Congress wa c told today th t the portal pay suit■ entered by unions mi ht cost the overnment three billion dollars. Thia was stated to a Senate sub-committee considering bills to wipe out the portal pay claim• - which no• amount to four bil!ion.-~, Under-Secretary of War Royall told the comaitt•• that the Army a)one might have to pay four hundred aillion ollars back to contractors who worked on a coat-plu• bas 1•. Ilsa a z on pl•• ••••118••••• vf a a1 '8••• •nH . . ,waUJ esvet ex•ac pef •■=,= I mtt,:•pnhl ul I L About t a : mJsteri . u , di ~p e r q nce of the sixteen-ye 1 r- ~ bi u h scr.ool ir _ , t e n,ug ter of a '"Rncner in L o i, Califor ia, t~e F . . I. a , oved in des . ite t e rx fact i t isn't legal y em owered to enter a k'dnap , i c as unti l sev 0 n dayA ha el,psed. Th e f i rs t move of the Fede'!'~ 1 age n t e . a:: t o - order a new blackout on all sources of information. But a Northern California paper broke the story, and then 1 1 the wire services could do was follow suit, Te sto~y was out, ~x but by then the F.B.I. was in, so silence is bein enforced tx in Lodi tonight, nobody talkin. But there is a rum r tt-e . . ir endezvous b An l ·t ap ~r the polic~ ·ant s een 4rr n _ e . th~t mee in to t~ k e pl~ce, t e r ~ nsom to c ~nge hands nd t e girl tx return · rne safely. T . en, t e kidnao hunt c ~ n r et unde · av in eRrnest. Te p olice will b 1 in . f or one "Yr. Gile~ if that' real y hi name, and i f l,e is the man wl-o carrien off Al i ce DP ➔ vinP.. T ev'll be o r kin ~ (Sub ti ltP. e rly a~ory.) About t a mysteri r u; di p enrqnce of the sixteen-ye q r- d hi g h school ir l , t e diug ter of a ~Anc er in Lodi, Califormia, the F.B.I. a~ moved in des ite t e ~x fact it isn't legally empowerea to enter l ·a 1·n n l , c s e until sevnn days ~ad elapsed. The first move of t e Fedet"al agents wai= to - order a new blackout on all sources of information. But & Northern California paper broke · the i story, and then ~11 the wires r vices could do was follow suit, T ~ e story was out, ~~ but by t~en I the F.B.I. was in, so silence is being enforced tx in Lodi tonight, nobody talkin. But there is a rum r t e r i~ ~P rendezvous been ~rr n e . And it ap e~rs the police ,ant that mee in to t,ke place, t e raasom to change hands and t e girl tx return h me safely. Th th k · d 1.. t et under " ' BV 1· n earnest. en, e 1 nap P UD c~n T . e police will be 1 · in or one •Mr. Gile · f th t' 1 1 h · name, and if he is the man who 1 a s rea y .1 carrien . off A c D11vinP.. T ev' l l be lo -- k in for LEAD I tA P 2 ---------------- a man so e t w enty per one in town h~ve e~n n~ spoken to and r ~ a ble to ident'fy. It looks like the end of Scarface Al Capone - king of the Chic ag o liquor r a cket during prohibition. lord from Miami is th a t Capone had a ,azal apoplettic stroke tod a y, and is not expected to survive. For year• the one time big-shot of big-shot• bas li•e4 on "1J.~~l an e■tate a';(_.Kiii?&V~-: where be want after ■ erTing • long prison sentence at Alcatraz. The doctors ■ aJ that tk■ xJ ■az■ for years, suffering fro■ a brain aaladJ, Capone has had the mind of a twelve year old bo7 - the and now he eeeaa to have co ■e to the end o f ~ career that has an important place in the social and cr1■inal hi1tor7 of our time. In London, Scotland Yard is recruiting Boy Scouts, to be trained as detectives -- in a nationwide camp ~ ign a g ainst society ttiev o s. to reinforce the police, who are virtual l y helpless confronted by a wave of jewel and fur robberies. The plundering of the ariatocr~c, by crooks began with the robbery of the ' Duke and Duchess of Windsor, which headlinfrime has long series of thefts -- tens of been followed by a . tbousands of Pounds' worth of jewels and furs taken from fas~ionabl homes by clever crooks. So Scotland Yard is rec~uiting a hundred thousand senior Scouts, between the ages of fifteen snd eighteen. Evening claasef in the art of C • ri••- A sleuting have been estsblished for them . . . 8aa~Ste •:a I b==P e J:b ..-JMee-. The host of Boy Scout THIEVES - 2 ------- • The m e n a ce o f ro bery in En and - a country famed fo r b e in g l aw-abiding, is attributed to two factors. One - deserters. The crooks, a new legion of them, consist mostly of wartime aoldiers and aailora who deserted in Britain and have been livin g under cover The second factor is - fog. Britain, renowned for the murky London peace-aouper, ie havin g wor•• fog• and more of them th a n in any ye a r for a lon time. \II e form e-f Ctfl,@ lt,w rpl I Ag f . , L I tll Tb . t " e : ! - --u -~P> · e SOCle y thieves have been wo r k ing under the cover of the p ea-souper - a b la nket of i n visibi l ity. Whea i•e f•I I f... Today, another fog rolled over London, blottin1 out the sun. At noon the city was ao dark th a t the atreet lights w ere turned on, without doin g ■ ucb g ood. And in that blanket of inviaibility, tb~eves tod a y broke into an apartment and got away ith jewels a nd fur coata worth nineteen thousand dolla r s. ~ i ncl uded a p latinu■ fox coat, worth e ight thousand d oll a rs: eiftM. one of the few of its kind in En land. And a hom e in Essex was looted, , the robbers making o ff with a valuable collection of gold jubile e -coins. - Robberies in the fog. ' l'.I 7 I l The University of London announces its l atest p ost-war project - an intelli ence test of the octopus. e all know the octopus has eight legs, or tentacles, bu~ we never heard much about the intelligence of that critter so ~earsome and fantastic_,,. called - ' the •devil fish.~ ~ The professors figure that an investigation of the intellect and thinking powers of the octopus will teach thea something about the intelligence of ue human beings - if any. The idea is that the origin of our human «iadom, or folly, may be found in the aental reflexes of the lower forms of life. The octopus baa been selected because, of all -'?... the invertebrates,Jthe devil fish has the biggest brain - A / which helplw- when the anatomical professor does a bit of dissecting. It is pointed out that the ant is a highly intelli g ent in e ct, but the brain of n nt is so small that the professor can hardly find it, let alone cut it up into a lot or pieces for a more minute inspection. So they're g oing to make an intelligence test of the octopus - ~ith •,• expe~iments devil fish reacts to coloA:ights, to see bow the musical sounds,and taet.Sof various kinds. The musical experiment should be the beguiling one - maybe the octopua will dance, equirming rhythmically with all_, bis eight lega. Which ought to be something to watch. The professors admit the octopus intelligence tests will be difficult. They've tried them before - an4 what ha pp ened? When they took the tests before,tbe devil fish, the octopus,merely squirted a cloud of ink, and disapp ea red in the murky blacknes. I should think that would be a 4 retty good test, showin g that the octo p us has intelli a ence. ROYALTY ............. Well, the Princess dance d wjth the footm a n, the other Princess waltzed w ith the wine waiter, while the King Etepped around with an upstairs maid. That might sound like Gilbert and Sullivan, or Alice in Wonderland.- E a ch year the aervante ' of Buekinghaa Palace have a rece p tion and ba l l, which ie traditionally attende4 by the royal family, who join in the revelry,li.,/now we hear a bout this year's event.~he , aervants arranged the program carefully a nd assi ned d~nce partners for royalty • 1 A Princess w4 argaret RoseAattended for the first time, and stepped gra c efully a round the floor with a footman. Princess Elizabeth, heir to the throne, weDt waltzing with a dance p artner from the royal cellar, Robert Irvine, whose job it is to s e rve the royal wine. Be d i ~ ~ ¾ , ~ A The K ing ha d two partners. ROYAL!Y - l -™ ste p with Jo a n Ke p , augbter of a p a ge to the Queen, and went whirling in a waltz w ith Lena M e ad 9 one of the upstairs maids. In a Cinderella story, the footman and the ; ine waiter w ould marry the two princesses -- but the ting, having a Queen alre dy, could hardly marry the upstairs maid, now could be? Y\Ja~,Q er",~