Con g r e ss was told today that atomic develop me nt in this cou ntr i e i g focused on weapons. For the time bein g , the ad A ption of ato ■ ic energy-,. peacetime use is being given second place. the eaphaaia bein g on new ways of atomic war. This information is e ■bodied in the firs\ formal re p ort to Congress made by the Federal Ato■ ic Energy Commission 1 i c ·J oints to the manacing 1tate of affaira in this world. The security of the nation requir e s all-out effort for the invention of still •ore powerful atomic weapons. le ■ust not be content wlt• merely guarding the secret of the atomic bomb. le •••t go further, go beyond the ato ■ ic bomb. We are not told anything about the new atomic weapons being produced. That, of oourse, is• military secret. One report, of Australian origin, ta that the a tomic bombs now being made are six hundred tim~s more powerful than the one dropped on lagasaki. That would mean a bomb with a power equi•alent to th• devastation of twelve million tons of T.I.To""" f"""' to · e ~ e . ; ; t . ; , q . . a . ~ ~... ::;t; •aj_ ~ ~ ... -4'4 A ~ !TOIIIC_ - 2 - The re p ort of the Atomic Energy Coamission touched off new agitation in Congress on the subject or Communism. It was stated today that Communists have 10 aa_ into aWt atomic Energy Coamission itself - and naaee wer e named. Charges were made identifying persona ~ ... - -- connected with the Atomic Energy Coa■ ission as Reda. - - - - These accusations were received with a 1004 . deal of skepticism - but_,just the saae, direction• were given for a l ■■J loyalty check. The F.B.I. right Dow is looking into the political background or everybo4T having anything to do with the atomic energy ~o•ai11ioa, 't:if!a report on the charges of Coaanniaa is to be ••4• A to Congress. liE'w LEAD LABOR - AF of L President 1·111 1 aa Gree, •• wrote a letter today to CI O Chief Philip Murray, a letter that aay become a historic docuaent in the archives of American l~bor. Green proposed the creation of one aammoth labor organization, taking in all preaeat members of the AF of Land the CI 0 - all in one super organization. This to include all anioai1e4 ~ workers in the United States. Green, in his letter to l■•aJ•J larraJ, stressed the need tor •labor unity and labor solidarity. It would mean• said he, •that aillloa1 of workers now represented by di•ided union• woul4 stand together, speaking as one and actiDI aa one, united solidly into a strong, progresai•e ■o••••at.• The letter, we hear, was written with the unanimous appro•al · of the Ar of L ixecuti•e Council•• now aeeting in liaai. And we also hear that John L. Lewis, President of the United line lorkers who broke away fro• the Ar of L to tound OJ LEAD LABOR - 2 the CI 0 •~• and then le f t it becaase of political disputes, returning to the AF oft fold __ John L. Lewis has been named one of the men to aeet with Murray and discuss the~•~ proposal. The possibilities of this moTe are obviously tremendous. Perhaps a nationwide union beaded by iaaaxl John L. Lewis. There is no indication that lurrar will aubait to a joining ot his group, the CI O wi\b \be AF of L. But it is no secret that both union• •r• worried about the current anti-labor feeliDI in Washington and the likelihood of anti-latior legislation in the near future. l6P STBlIE I n J ap an, a general strike of governaent workers was ca l led off today iij dramatic circumstances. the strik e with a demand for a wage increase ot three bun are d p erc e nt would have taken two million, six hundre4 t hous and wo rk e rs from their , jobs, would ha•e stopped the railroads and oth e r p ublic services, and would haYe t1e4 u p Japan in disastrous fashion. The menace ot the waltoa\, which was said to be Co ■ auniat-inspired, was so 1r••• • that it caused a shake-up in the Tokyo Cabinet, with the ousting of ten ■ inisters. Then General MacArthur took a haad. Yesterday officials at th• MacArthur Headquarter• oalle4 in the s trike leader, Yoshiro Iyi, and told hi■ the walkout bad better be called otf. Iyi held a ■eetiDI of the strike coa■ ittee, which voted to ignon the aaggestion from the Headquarters of the Supre ■e Co■aaa4eP That was followed by a MacArthur order issued toda7 - f b .d 'k So · what did the strike leader or 1 ding the str1 e. do now? lyi hedged. He said he hadn't been giYen • copy of the MacArthur order. So he was haDded one. 111 JAP STRIKE - 2 ... came back w ith anothe~odge. Be said: 'General r llacArt.hur •• announcement p rohibiting the strike ia not binding, since it does not bear his handwritten signature.• Whereupon Iyi was summoned to the lacArthar e 1 dquarters to be ' g f y ~ ~ ~ a a eaphatic aa 11111 handwritten signature. Be was informed a■ ong other t•iag1, that the crack First Cavalry Division ot the Vatted Staie Army had been alerted to preserve order in Tokyo. The f ii · at Cavalry w a s one of the original Aaerioan Ar■J 8■111 to enter Japan after the surrender. And ljitz Iyi ta•• it was no fooling. When he eaerged fro■ the oonf•r•■o11 he said be would call oft the ' strike i ■■ ediatel7. This be did, Be went on the radio todaJ and read this announce■ent~& ql aak all unions to oall off the strike. If it is MacArthur'• order,,•• cannot do anythin g else but call off the strike\• ~ ~~. In that fashion, Japan today e1caped • ti a disturbanoe that huge walkout with Red implic a ons, might have brought the most · serious trouble since the Aaerican occupation. PALES1'1BE - In the London Bouse of Coaaons, a deaand was made today that G r eat Britain"•-~ turn Pal•tine over to the United lations - unless the United Sta t 1 will share the responsibility. The demand was made bJ linaton Churchill, who argued that Britain should not continue to deal with the Palestine situation alone. He aaid that A■eriaa should join in the troubled administration, and iaar half of the burden under a joint Britiah-laerican polioJ. It the United States will not do tlais, then Great Brltaia should get out1alestiae coapletel7 - aad tara t between the Jews and the Arabs oYer to the Uaite4 leaYing the U.1. to adainiater the Holy Lana. Churchill put it 'in these 1Jorcl1: •1t th• earliest possible aoaent unleea we are to h••• the aid of the United States, we should giYe no~ioe to di•••' ourselves of the re,ponsibilities which •x••• we are failing to discharge and which, in the prooeee, are covering us with blood and shame.• But suppose the British should withdraw, PALE S111!! - 2 - what would happen? Churchill said he thought there W ould be ~ ~vii ar between th J e ews and the Arabaj~ this would be ~ proulem fo~he United lationa to . and le. (1n Palestine, ■eanwhile, all Britiah wo■e■ a nd children have been ordered out - to1ether with a certain number of men evacuated between now civiliana.) T hey are t,o be and next lueaday - aent fro■ Palestine to Britain. Thie i• oo ■pulaor)) - t~•J'll have to go whether they want to or not. Wives and children tif, so■e two tbo•n• British fa■ ilies are involved. They are beiag \atea first ■■ xa■a& to what are c~lled •aeourity area~ lot safety,then to ships to carry the■ ho■•-~h• erier fo this gives the following terse and gri■ explanatioa - "ao military operation• will not be ha■pere4.:) When Jewish leaders in Palestine learae4 today's order for the evacuation of Briti1h • 0 ••• and children, they ~ aid they were shocked. They hadn't expected anything so iaz drastic. ggyERIQJ! Tiae changes all thin•a and e ti ■ e pla1 a labor governaent in London is bringing a new GoTeraer General to Australia. One Willia ■ John lolell, to replace H.R.B. The Duke ot Gloucester. The Dute, a brother of the ling, to be succeeded by a toraer boxer and boi l er maker. Uclell, the ■■ aon of a butcher who later becaae financial 1eoretar7 ot Australia's boiler makers union. And, the appotitaent baa been oonflr•••• But, fro• Canberra, Au~tralia'a capital, th••• o•• horrified protests. Says Australia'• foraer Prta• Minister, Robert Menziea: 8 Thi1 appoint■ent 11 a shocking, hu■ iliating and ■oat deplorable laoiifat.• Menzies added that •it is apparently de1f1a•4 \o lo•• the Governor-Generalship in significance and••'••••• Meanwhile, Mclell, who currently 11 tb1 Premier of the Auatralian · ProYiDC°- of le• South lal••• is busy winding up hi• att affairs 10 that he the boxer and bo i leraaker, the son of a butcher, can replace the Duke of Gloucester•• Goyeraor-Geaeral of Australia. l,LJily The world of · comm e rcial aviation heard today from its key men in the business ot flying _ the p ilots. In Washington, A Congressional Co■aittee 11 holding a he a ring on the subject of the tragic aeriea of air crashes that have occurred lately. And oae today was David Behncke, President of the Airline Pllota Associa tion 1 1~ atatefte · concenaue the greatest hazard ot ' ...+& pilots~ that ..,~.,._ . . of the co ■■ erAlal tlyla right now.-. - fire. He added that there ..r.. no exo••• for this. •The fire hazard by this ti ■ e should be licked , • ~ ~ • The President · ot the Pilot• was aate4 abNt the radar ground control approach 1y1te■, whereb7 ra4ar on the ground brings in a plane in blinding bad weath•~• Ther e have been soae headline exa■ples ot planes brought in safely by radar ground approach, but 1 the Chief ot the Pilots Association stated that there • 81 atill, wha\ he called •too much margin of error.• Be s a id the pilot• favored instruaent landings that place responaibility . IJ;JIMG - 2 in their hands, rather than in the hands of radar crew■ on the ground. JIRD Down on the South Polar Continent, aen•a i■aginations are stirring - explorers dreaaing of what strange thin g s they aay find. Ad air 1 s 1 rd, haYiaa flown from an a ircraft carrier to hia old baae d"-Li\tlt America, is preparing to strike out troa thaL bo■e baa, - strike out through the sky. Right now, he and his ■ en are 1•ttiq 1iz planes ready, planes equipped with both •h••l• aa4 atta, wheels for aircraft carri~r take-ott1 aa4 laa4lq1, a .. sties for the explor expeditic,.n. The planes are go1n1 to •i•I ••ok aa• ~ . forth a c r o s s . t h ; ~ Coatiaeat, aero•• tb■ •••lb Pole - and one thing that Adairal B7rd ha1 particularlJ in m i nd is to deteraine whetheP i~■ it'• o•• Antarctic Continent or two - ma7be two great islands enoaaed in ice. What's e•en more in Byrd's mind is the tao\ llBD - 2 that, on the other side of the Polar Continent, the planes will get a glimpse of territory never before aeea _ parts of Antarctica that explorers have• never reached hitherto. So what will they find tlaere - ia that area of the unknown? That's where the taa11aatioa coaes in - the vivid imagination ot the explorer. Today's news dispatch froa the Antarotio quotes Admiral Byrd as saying - what a wonder i\ wo•14 be if, on the other side of the Pole, they were t,o find what Byrd called •A big voloanio area with boill . . water coaing out of the ground,•lil,\ la otherwise eternally fr~zen world. UIITS_ • wllffl • A We have an explanation of ihat i t, ~ • at4 comedy f errors}•!--.•' ·,,, ••• six np; , . . lociaeed•yMer - ,;.,caiJt•o• •••• , ••• report was out t . t the President was authorising a ten per cent increase in rents all oYer the ooaatrJ, Milk ON followed by a hasty aai pa•••••••r lhite ■•••• denial. There was •• ■e confusion••• 1o ■ewbere aat lashington laughed over - the co ■edy ot errors. Republican Senator Tobey ot le• Ba ■pshire ■ade aa irre•erent jibe. Be said it was a oa1e of what, ht oall - 'So ■ebody putting the overalls in Ira. lurpbJ'• chowder." The explanation was giYen toda7 b7 ~••porarr s.,ontrola Director Philip Fleaing, te1tif7ing before tb• Senate Bankin g Coamittee. ie ••ii •ksl •• bit u1ftts1' WM, Pl:tiea•ida r rse\:--bnl V• llb le4&ft&lr, bit tli Ptlill1aa$ Director Fleaing told ho• datJgathere4 b7 his office indicated that the rent ceiiing• were bltti•I RENTS - 2 ----- the l andlords hard. So Fleming thought a countrywide increase of ten per cent would be the right solution. lie prepared an order to that effect, aa4 gave it to Deputy Director Follin for publication. After which Fleming, himself, left for Chicago. Be departed for the Windy City blissfully ••■x••••••• unaware of what was about to happen. Word of the rent increa1e 1ot aroaa4 ia Washington, and the ru ■ ors were put on the•••• wir••• It appears not to ' hne occurred to Diree.- ti:!I Fleiing that the President aigbt fail to a1ree with,._ rent increase. A White Bouse okay••• taken for 1raa\et. le +,eeay iaemi · ng - w11i-- IFW ass • ••••••• •••P* 1••• • 11•• -. Preieide■e etru11trn 1J••••• •h• • wb9¼e ► 11116■! • 0 •ar zllf ta.a ... Director F'le■ ing takes full responaibilitJ b i f • • are to for the Coaedy of Errors. It was he .,!.:!l JIITS - 3 accept Senator Tobey's figure of speech - •Put \be overalls in Mrs. Murphy's chowder.• Here's an example of Roose•el\ fruaalit.J, extreme conservatism about money - be cautioua abou\ spending. The story concerns the late r.D.R. aa4 tell• of a t h ree generation Roosevelt suit of olot.h••• In Edinburgh, they'•e just publi1he4 by Lieutenant Colonel Arthur Murray, a aol4ier and ·.n it is reprinted a letter •rit.ten bJ t, be l•t• President Roose•elt - a letter that 1tate1 \ht tollowing: •In Eighteen Seventy-Eight,• wrote r.D.I., •My father had~ tweed suit aade in ldiabur1h,• all .., four years before I was born. Be wore the--•• 1uit constantly until his death in linet••• l•a4re4. ~ ~ I inherited it," continued the late Preaideat., Ii•& wore it steadily until line~een Twent.y-Six, •b•• I p assed it on to ay boy Jaaes. B~ 1till ha• it., aad m wears it in the winterti■e when ht i• in tb• oouat.17. A good example of Scots craftsaanship; the let.t•r concluaes. Well, if Jaaes Roosevelt is still wearia1 that suit of scotch tweed, aade in Eighteen Se•••t.1-ll&~ _....__t ~ h ~ e suit is sixty-nine years old, and had bad t.bat. •••J iYIT OF CLOTHE& - 2 ,ears of wear. Out in the lest, when I waa a boJ, han4- ae downs were a thrifty faaily , institution - bat•• n•••• went quite as far as the Roosevelt& and their three- generation tweed suit. Of codrse, in aatter1 ot goTernaent money, the F.D.R. · frugalit1 ••• le11 ia .1Sut then, how could you have a hand-ae-4own ia P•••~•l fiuanoe? In that loftier real■ the word la •haa4-• , w ~ ~-11 ... ,&-o ~ ~ · ~r-! lOOTB!LL_ Ga- J) ~ ~ . ~~- th A . \ e ray , • an1wer to Blanchard and Davis: The ans•~--no, Tbo■e two superstars of Army football, together with their teaaaa • ij a rney Poole, will not be given turlou1h1 to enable to play professional football,) The mighty Blanchard and »••1• offered big money to play tor a aeaaon •• profe11io1al • eo::::tltiJ.., ~opt.hfll Ti"tb Poole-, Niei ••• , . . , w · 1t111 , The word fro ■ iaatiinl n 11 that tlae applications were greeted by the frown, of blah ■ ill\ officers, •ho reasoned that if the football pl•J••• were given furloughs to play as profe11ioaal1, •hJ t~ea other officers would be entitled to ask tor 1••••• \o pe~mit them to 10 into private ba1ine11. So, with the Bi&h Coaaand expre11i11 lt1 disapprobation in no unoertaia t•r••• the !ray's verdict waa banded out late thi• atteraooa by Secretary of War Patterson. b Patterson an•••• it.at•• Just off the wire 1 t e •Tbe reauirements of military training ant 1er•ice for ,oung officer are such that the lar Depart■ent aannot favor bly consider ranti ng extended le~vee of ab••••• for eng a ing in rovate enternrise.• That is final, no appeal -- and now what will They do? Ii l they ■ J step out of the Army to take advantage of the big ~oney they can get. thea. Blanchard and Davis are in the top college footabll stars and can comman4 iame4iate ••• in thr professional game, eoae extra dollars that ai come in mighty handy if they later on reaaaed aill\ careers where even Lieut. Generals get juat ■o . . li•e on. The news wire has just brought word that the American Federation of Labor ia propo1in1 tbe formation of one all-inclusive labor or1anl1atlon to include both the AF of Land the CI&. The bulletin, just in, states that the AF of L plaa is for all the meaber unions of the two r.iYal a•••P• to join one mammoth oraanization. Ul,EStlNE - ) All of which ties in with a that revolves around"fme■ber situation menacing of the Jewish Underground named Gruner, who has been sentence to deatti by a military court. Jewish Extre ■ ista' Organi1ationa bave threatened deaclJ retaliation, if Gruner ia executed. Be ■ ade an appeal, but the word todaJ ia that Gruner, who claims the treataent ot a . prison•• war,h•• repudiated the appeal, which aeana that •al•• the law, he will be hanged - unleaa the Briti1h Co . . ._.._ in Palestine arbitrarily coaautea the death •••t••••• All of which baa create4 auch •prebea1ioa the Holy Land, that today Jewiah leader• report, ne•apapera not t, publish th"a•J-,\tbat withdrawn his appeal. Gnaer bad