1r KOREA - ~ Soviet Russia has achieved a victory 1n eastern Aeia without firing a shot. ( ort iiern Korea today - proclainled, b ~ A ~ ~ , . . . t . ~ radio~• an independent republic.Alt was publicly announced ~ Russian arms, • •att:i =• •• at,ber ■11 ,aa ! a • •1, connanded and trained by Soviet officer:.):t calls itee1r;'the al'lll,Y or all ., 1r Korea. The capital of ~his so-called republic is at Pyongyang, ,r headquarters of the Russian army of occupAtion. The national 1P. flag will be white with a red horizontal stripe. The country ~~ 1W m governed by peoples' committees, committees set up A - in the Soviet zone as long ago as August, Nineteen Porty-Five. All national resources, all foreign trade, under gove"1Jll~nt ownership or control. \ae n~'- atep woYlfi be • • eet.ahli1A111en~ ef -a 91' aeH.ed wt'-d->4 ~ , iadepeftden~ go.-.enVne?lt-~ The spokesman for the new government announced that they wwa1d soo~nd their control to the w-21£. ~.\ ~ rest of Korea,~ Seoul, in the American zone, •=•14 b• th national c a p i t a l ~ ~ - - ) KOREA - 2 QfQ"+~<r-t-~ '!1111 I1w1ea, I ~ is an international affront to the United Nations. Thiworld organization sent a committee of representatives of nine nations to Korea to conduct elections in both southern and northern Korea for the formation or a a national government. Those elections were to have been held 1n March.]lut , the committee was refused admission to the Soviet zone. PALESTINE ••~,as "lnis evening •ha□ the Palestinian Caaittee of the United Nations published a report appealing to the Security Council for an international 8l'lll.Y. That army ,tf..lt be ready I\ to move into the Holy Land by the Fifteenth of May\ . . . thus ii avert the failure of the program for partitioning Palest1ne,-- wh1ch would be catastrophic. ~~ It is expected that the,A. Counci will begin d1scuaa1ng A t - ~ -tt..,, this repo~t /r:l:te 10:S~ and thatAdebate ffill 1• ■ 11:t sea t ■ liilljt decide once and tor all whether the United lfat1ons 11 going to be an effective 1.nlltrtment tor world peace, orA:;s;;f;., ~ ~ 4 ' 1 K ¼ f : ~ League or Nations. 11Jcn,.,, 1 tid1;J:, '1Fsecretary-Geaeral Trygve Lie announced today that the next meeting of the General Assembly of · the u.N . will lte at Paris. -~ 44" 1l'lM a largely 1;119 result of the devaluation of the Franc, A /\ which will save the organization and most of its members 1••• ~ ~ & . a - f • le~ of money. To get back to the Commission's reportf it included PALESTINE - 2 ' the declaration that force-.: urgently and compellingly ,... ~ necessary. If an international army is ~ot organized to see I\ that the partition program is carried out, it will be a dangerous ~~A~J and tragic precedent. a:• · 11 ' , ; \ be a non-Palestinian -rrJ~~~'4../111'1~' ~ ~ fore.~- I - /l the evacuation of the British forces,on the tennination of the mandate,will be followed by uncontrolled, widespread attire and bloodshed . . 'lhe White HOuse announced today that President Trmum ruJ sent personal appeals to the heads or state of the Middle I\ Eastern nations, imploring them to exercise restraint 1n dealing with the Palestine situation in the interest or world peace. From Palestine, the latest 1s that a Haganah forceJ guarding a small settlement on the Jordan River 1n eastern ... Palestine, defe•ted a l11•p band of raiding Arab5; lllllt k i l l ' thirty or them. A British warshi p t oda y st e a med o u t from a South African naval ba s e, d estin at ion the F a l land Islands. Her equipment included torpedoes and Antarctic clothing for the crew. This followed imme4iatel1 the news that naval fore , s of Argentina and Chile, actlni in cooperation, are operatini in the waters around those islards • ich the British claim belong to xi The Empire. Most of us, I suppose, remember the Falklands principall1 because of the battle that was fought nearby in the first year of the First World lar; the one in which a British squadron under Ad iral Sturdee avenged the destruction a few months earlier of the British lest India squadron under Sir Christopher Craddock. is•z••• Sturdee sank the fleet of the Count von Spee, all except the cruiser Dresden. A victory remarkable because of the element of surprise. Von Spee went there expecting to find a weak British squadron. But -{J the London Admiralty~ secretly sent two of its most , owerful battle cruisers to join Sturdee. Von Spee never had a chance. and the victory virtually cleared i the high seas of German cruisers -- German raiders. Durin~ the heydey of Britain's empire. her title to the Falkland Islands was questioned, though the South American countries did nothing about it. Ro• that the Empire is passing through troubled daya, Argentina and Chile actually have invaded those dependencies otf the southern tip of South America. Shortly after this present warship weighed anchor at Simonstown, South !frica, a question was asked about it in the Bouse of Commons. Whereupon a Minister of State announced that Argentina and Chile not only have naval forces in British waters, but have - landed parties and propose to set up a military command in British territory. The British government offered to put the issue up to the Iffte~national Court at The Hague, said they would accept th a t court's decision. But Argentina ani Chile both refused. A spokesman for the London ~overnment now declares that the British can only ~egard that refusal as evidence that Argentina and Chile have no confidence in their ability to dispute the legal title of the British. What happens when this British cruiser aTrives in Falkland Island waters will be interesting to watch. GREECE ~- - ----- - - ore money for the Qreeks -- and, more money for the Turks. Those three hundred millions in cash and supplies we sent to Athens won• t be enough, · ays Mr. · Truman. In bis report to Congress, the President that there bas been an ever-increasing pressure over there, by Communists; meaning, of course, by Bulgaria, Albania, and principally Jugoslavia, with Soviet Ru ■ sia in the background. Be adds that if this guerrilla - menace increases, it will have to be met with greater · resources than are at present available. Ur. Tru■z- recruit~ most drafting, gainst their the When the R destroy / illages, a , inbabi ~nts have of strategy, the refuge in the alreadi ( four 1111 towns they become public cha~ges and the supplies we've sent to Greece. More than / ' thousand Greeks in the No refugees in this fashion. S ,I pilt up more m on'1. All of which was p1adicted when we first appropriated the three hundred millions for Greece and a hundred million for Turkey. The expens . . of equipping the Greek Ar117 ancl Ravy, we hear, has been greater than at first eoti■ ated. Also. more of Oncle Sam's soldiers and sailQrs are being • sent to Greece. As for the Turks -- what we are doing for thea has been done in a more orderly manner, with careful planning. The President doesn't mention an1. figures, but others estimate that at least two hundred million more will be needed, for both. SOCIAL SECURITY .... ..-- - - - - - _ _,....... Social security in the o.s.A. will be expanded if Congress passes the bill introduced today by Representative Robert Iean of New Jersey. At present, aany. workers,including far ■ bands, are not covered. But the new measure will put them in. Another new feature of the bill will be to increase minimum benefits for unemployment or old-age pension. It also will enable a man who has retir~d, to earn up to thirty dollars a month without forfeiting bis old-aie pension. At present he ■uat not earn more than fourteen dollars and ninety-nine cents a month. All this will take money. Bow is it to be paid for? A tax of one per cent on the first four-thousand- two hundred dollars every year from every man's salary or wages. At present it's only one per cent on the first three thousand. In other words, it will cost people who earn that much forty-two dollars a year instead of thirty dollars. Says Congfessman Kean, that w ill mean no extra cost to anyon~. RUSSIAN MUSIC - Last week we heard about the rap over the . 1muckles tlat the three foremost Russian composers received from the central Committee of the Communist Party, which accused them ot writing music that was undemocratic, full ot formalistic distortions; 1:n short,horrtd bourgeois music. 'fflose three composera are Arm Khatchaturian, Sergei Prokot1ett and 1-itri Shostakovich. So what happens today? The Soviet Ellba1sy, 1n lta monthly information bulletin just out, declares that the JIU.Ile ot ArBIII Khatchaturian is d1sttngu1ahed by clarity or thought, richness ot col.or, and fine range ot melOdy. It praises b11 ortg1nal1ty, me!odtc g1t~a, Vi1rtuos1ty of techntque,1Jivent1vene1■ of hamony and richness ot orchestration. Then tt goes on to pomt out that Aram Khatchaturian has been awarded the Stalin Prize on three separate occasions. This bulletin is dated February Eleventh, the same day that the Central Committee of the Communist Party at Moscow _ publ1.shed its blast against Khatchaturian and his two collllagues. , For some reason it was only made public t day. It's a fair guess that the man who wrote the eulo g y in the So¥iet Embassy bulletin and his editor will soon receive a~ittle billet doux from Uascow -- ma7be a return ticket, calling them back to the Steppes. SAB T AGE. 1 At ~on Be a c h , C al ifornia, a navy landing craft, recently converted into a car o vessel for the Saudi Arabian Government, was foun d to have been sabotaged. Just before t e s h ip in company •ith another purchased vessel, · was about to sail, A ■ erican engineers found that sand and other abraaives had been put in the engines. A deliberate attempt to aabotage .Mf!vessel:s., All eight of the engines taapered with•· I 5 so much sand in the main gear bo~that the abaftS would,_nit rotate. T at prose~t, just the evidence that the s a boteurs did a thorough job which will e ntail a complete overhaul before the sbipSc a n leave port. PRICES ._,__.........~ ...... More news from the commodity markets: The break in prices is over; or seems to be. Grains actually ent up on the larger exchanges -- also livestock, butter. cotton, cocoa, coffee, bides. On the other hand, Chicago reports that the cost of food at nei~hborhood'atores went down. But to housewives woo have the job of buying food, all tht5 new1 of a drop in retail prices aay sound ironic, .{~Ticlenc~) because they have seen little~t•••••~of it. RENTS The federal statute controlltng rents throughout the United States is not unconstitutional, definitely not. That is . ·v< • .s.. - ~ ~~ the position or the Supreme Court, written by Aaeoc1ate A IJffJ A J... Justice W1lltam o. Douglas. ~ s e t s a ruling •de by a lower court at Cleveland last November, in which the Judge said Congress had no more authority to re~late rents atter ' President Truman declare• hosttltttes at an end, lfhtl&.WM on A Deceaber Thirty-First, Nineteen Forty-Six. Justice Douglas declares that the houa1'lg shortage, created m large measure by the war, still exists. And even atter host1ltt1es have ended, . congress may lawfully . ct to control forces which the war set 1 r i · ~ C o e ~ attttude ~ A r- would~ :S.ra1yz1ng.+.;f O')( ~ ~ , the Justice war power an be used of congreso, yut may also ,argely obli erate ADD REIITS The 1nk was hardly dry on that decision before the Banking c011111ttee of the Senate reported a bill to extend rent controls until April 'lb1rt1eth, Jfineteen Forty-line, approved it unanilloualy . . . . , . _ . . . , . _ , • . _ ....... HOWies or C o n g r e a a ~ ~ f ..., .. ,. ct--..._ °'- ~ • I ' , T .._. HO V : FEB 17th E i h ty- t ree y e r o l d p ro s ector Fr a nk. E . Gimlet, only re s ident of Arbor-Villa, Colorado 1 is s toppin over in N e w tork toni g ht. Franks is on his w ay to W a shin g ton where he's going to talk ~ 1 rse-eense to the Senate Ban k in g Comaittee. Putting into words all the horse sense he' s picked up in seventy years of Indi a n fighting, riding the ~-IL.c--~~, range•• and searchin6 for goldA Fr a nk says he's made a million, by and large, but he's lost it all prospecting for more. ,, •Tro u ble w ith this country~ says Frank •thy it's . infl~tion. And the way to get rid of inflationrA tG ,4o back to the gold standard. · • What this country needs, s a y - t f ; . , ~ o ~ " - r e ~ nd silver coins in a.,J,~a,ll4w-,,~ circulation. h: as t ~ b~ put the women back on the pede s tal of constancy, modesty, mystery, fidelity,-- an d J - ~l!..,_U,!edne s ~ - that: s Fr a n k ' s w or d for it.'\Y~ a.en• i get \l!e idea --f1 aek ie -lilasgi-1\s- t,b..& aew-l~ u w TA D R D 2 - _...,._ ..... . ____ ,.... __ - ----- ~eee ~ t . gewaoe: wo ■ en, and blc\in• Ae<i t,)la.J;.Ls where old Frank e+,-akea tilis Bea~ .. -IM!-iwt~ ~ ~.. . tssJaysr J=J,at you can't separate women and old and -e igAty JHU'-caa\ ef euP w e a ~ h i>ardner, you ~ o • -e,,;- ,A _.__ -~ - · , , ~~ . nn . .. ~ ' f\,6-\ ~ w-,..,.~.,4V' 7¥\ ~~. e • Pi ' ♦,e 4 • 1 t do it• a g ya• h s r e •o &,et l, a c k e )TO~ '4 .;,L ~ W""i'~. g..eld-...eta&ea1d-=and- i ■p!Per:e t11u at&sA.Pei ef the wi ■■ in. ~ " ~ ± a n y women back i n ~ - ~ --f?~ ~ ~ t - ~ ~ . ~ - - - iiYJ:li\See-/\and a few thousand gophers - are the . ~ sole residents of the old ghost to ' D, that.It ad a popul- - - - t,.,lJ ation• of three thousand, seven y years age. ;-/, ;,.... ~ /?~ __.,A~-t:'e~ ~ J e tA ~ ~ h t 1ai"'-. to tell thed.Senate nking ~ Commi tteeY IIY J au\ plaltl !iore@ ■ ca~ 9-olden money and constant womenr and a-tt--~t + he g oo d old days ., '' when you could get by on ten bucks a month. Tonight in New ork, wher , ~ be' c-- ~ in a sw nk hotel, -d:-f:o~ ,-. __ /) ~:--- 12 9 I ~ ~ t e 11 in An e ¥ mt! n i ,_a:::z. e ~ #ha t ;~ ~ 1 the Ne, York c o p s ~ l e t him to t e bi s six shooter, )(._ }- aDd t,here uatt, a apit.eea ia Pana•; - fll,at, ne ga BORGLAB _,.... --. ---- Nineteen-year-old Arthur Casper. formerly of Bishop, Texas, and formerly of Oncle Sam's Marines, still wearing his Texas cowpuncher boots, left his apart ■ ent in Chicago and went out to buy a newspaper. As he passed by a grocery store where he often buys food, be saw a pane of glass was miaaing. And be heard somebody walking around the dark store. So he called to the intruder to come out, and as he did so, he opened the 0 blade of his knife. The burglar who ,as in the store. rushed out - the door, and jumped at the man from Texas, not suspecting that he was tacklin g a fellow who h d learned hand-to-hand fi g htin g with the Leathernecks. As the bur g lar rushed him, Casper jabbed with his k nife, and the robber fell dead. He turned out to be a man who had been g iving the Chic a go police trouble for years. In his car they found the loot from several burglari e s. So , h a t re~ard do e s the youn g Tex a N g et for his successful encounter with a robber in Chicago? hy, he gets arr es ted. Th e p olice captain admits, however, that it did t a ke plenty of courage to stand up and fight under such c~rcumstances. As for the ex ~ Marine, the lad in the tii~h-heeled cowboy boots, -- he remarked that down in Texas if you kill an outlaw, they cart him away aal everybody taya thanks. While up Horth you go to jail. Meanwhile the ehicago police have modified the -.i · ~ ttin1 I r.igor of custod7 so ■ ewhat. They are ,e•11t•~the young Texan up at a co ■fortable hotel -- inst~ad of behind any bars. - r . s . ~ ~~~· GOAT Two youthful goats n a med Sn itch a nd Snatch to _ a7 b e e me the subject of a deb te in the British Bouse of Commons. During questi n time, the period that gives members of Commons the enjoyable privilete of heckling His Yajesty•s Minister s -- a p rivilege denied to our own Congress . men -- the _ - i ntster o , f :fo rks was c a lled upon to explain why he had refused to allot building materials to one of Iin 0 George's subjecte living at inchome Purley shelter for h er nan n y goat/. materials to erect a The Conserv · tive member of the constituency asked the Labor Secret a ry: flis the Ainister a are that the goat bas since h ad two kids, n med Snitoh nd Snatch~ The Minister as able to assure the Honorable memb e r th a t he was a ar e of that fact. Then he w e nt on to expl a in that if it had been just a ma tter of the g o at , h e . ould have let th i:a lady have the materi a ls. But, he a dd.d, w whe n it also included a home for Belinda, a one-eyed duck, as well a s p rovision for GOAT - 2 - ------ - a gara e --which,• said he, "I think was the real reason fo~ the ap lication, then I think-----• What the Right Honorable gentle ■ an thought as lost in a roar of very Br~tish laughter. And that•s the story. oi Snitch and Snatch and the Mother of Parliaments. ~-~~~~~)~.,