Th ory of' , h mu g in rin Ahi ln mun·tioris to Pal tine w a s dramatized today by a search -MYlf or wo I\ truckloads of high exolo i ve. The police of eight E stern st 8 ere lookin g or consignments of the devasta ing s uff, ch ca ble of leveling a city. Rine men llas h d been arrested, .and a-hundred-and- twenty-one thousand pounds or high exnlosive bad been seized - but two truckloads were m ssin; at large somewhere. All this followed the accidental discov~ry or a h•1• lot of TIT being loaded a~oard a freight ship at , Jersey City, contraband munitions in violation of the United States Neutrality Law. thereupon got one t~ail that The police and the r.B.I. ~ ed to" Rew Jersey far, e lonely place near FreeholdJ '4here they found seventy- two thousand pounds of cyclemite - which Army men t■a■ tll describe as six-and-a:.half-times more powerful than T.N.T. Later in an Asbury Park warehouse another fifty thou nd nounds of cyclamite was seized. 0 • h f a rm a Fre hold nd thew rehouse at A bur rk ar one by Ch rl L h o ey, w o o erates an ex res comnany. The cycl ite as obtained a the eneca Ordnenc ork, Romulu, e Yor, an Army ,er Surolus D o. ore t n sixty tone hAve been seized thua fer; but, it w s kno~n that yesterday two more truckloads were procured - and these could not be accountea for. They were missing. here they·went was unknown. !ach truck had ons eboerd, enough to lay a city in ruins, if there were an explosion. Bence the activity of the - polioe,a search in eight states or he missing ruokload of cycla ■ ite. This ne s, with its element of suspense, is no followed by word hat the ruckloads h ve been hree of them. They were picked up at Lake [ trine, Ne York, and were found o be carrying a total of a hundred-and--thirty--eight . -thou and- ounds, sixty-nine tons of the exulosive which is six-and-a- half t . · me rnor o rful h n TT. O n lly he rucks ," ere on i y t Jersey: ~ but, th ,y ~ p 1u divert ( , 1, farm at Fre bold, New hen . h police swooped don on hP Ne Jersey Farm. The trucks were ordered on another ~oute, and,eo-tw, were found today at Leke I trine, Rew York. They were icked up because the drivers, the ■ selves, bee me suspicious. They didn't know the kind of freight they were handling. They were doing what they thought was a mere routine trucking job. But they heard the news of explosiv•for Palestinf, and began to wonder. att They notified the fzl%1 r. B. t.; which brought about an immediate i vestigetiea. The truckload• were examined,p eking caees opened, and there it was -- the cyclamite. - .....___. F ·-------- ( i ch e 1 fou ht in Nor h rn Pelestine today, when en Arah inv din force besieged to Jewish towns. Th ie e was raised by British Troops and a det chm nt o the Jewish Army, Haganah. The number of Arab raiders is iven as between six hundred and a thous nd. The ••z• crossed into Pales ine from he Lebanon in whet·appears to have been a regular military operation. Of the two Je isb towns attacked, one bears the familiar biblical name of - Dan hence the old ■• expression - •rrom Dan to Beersheba•. The town of Den,..,. ~t the extre ■ e north of biblical Palestine, wt.NT Beersheba was at the extreae 1outh. The Arabs strikinf from the Lebanon border threw siege lines around the two places - whereupon the Bri ti sh and Raganah struck swiftly to bre~k the siege. For the first time in•the Palestine •t ■ tz disturbances the British used artillery, while strafing planes raked the Arabs with fire . from mcahine•guns and roctets. The loalems were driven off, the siege raised - in an PAL STTNE_ -2 -- opera ion of regular warfare. hich indic te'how gravely things are developing in the Holy Lend - from Den to Beersheba. I In th na warnin w s iven od ib r ion o h Marsh 11 Plan, th t Am ric n a id to the sixteen re n ion of E rope deoends . . ,.., much on wb t oee coun ri s o to el th m elves. This reservation came from both sides, Republican and Democratic . ih~ t,.w~ 3oia in~ -in- a~yiAg tJ.a.-t.r l:r he six teen free n8 t ions are to get the American billions, thefmust make an all out effort for their own reconstruction. ~ ,i.1e ~,lee i11 wit.lr---a.. «M.a,atela '1-om London •Idol ~ & t ~ that e move is being made to stage a conference ~ P . ~ ~ - - of he sixteen nations - - ~ N the -eellj.eeti ~Jtelpla9 ~give the American Congress grap~ic evidence that the European countries in end to make every effort.~ Today's t witness before the foreign Relations CommitteL wee Lewis Douglas, f-e~m~r Ameri~~n Ambassador w-t:.o to Great Britain, ""is being mentioned as a 1 · ~ely -,-.,, ~ ~ c+ choice • Administrat.or of the Marshall Plan. aad ~i-a A \.dLiMOA.¥ t,e@lay •troftgly \:ll'held that of the SeeretsePJ-- ef State yester~a,-_ Dou 1 s declared that, if the Plan European Relie~l••Ais not okayed by Congress communistic dictatorships will spring up in estern Europe. hereupon the result will be that this country will have to turn itself into what Douglas called - •An Ar■ ed Camp.• Secretery lershall,·•eenwhil~ denies reports U-wl h e ~ resign N !.f Congress cute dow~he sea■ et money needed. A :a.eek "' +.he -lree 111t I ne.. Tlle warti ■• 9hief • f 8$aff ~ ~ h a t to quit, aa a protest, would be out of line with everythin he learned in his long years as a soldier.1fHe added with a smile, 11-eweM.., that he might be invited to return to bis Virginia ho ■ e. --------- - -·- FRANCE ------- r nee hz:a ro f! n ri ish Ame ic n ro os 1 for a uni ied ov rnmen , of es ern Germany. w1· h the failure f L o the on on Conference at, Foreign ~i-ni"t,e~ to agr.ee on · a uni ied government for all Germany, irat lt@lt Britain and he United States went ahead on heir own -- takin measures to set up a government .. ef Wes~rft Sf!NlftiLJ. Hope was expressed ihat France would join in this. an4 w11tt, the J're-n&k !oa.e:. But now Paris makes ax strong protest, ~ delivered by the French Ambassadors in London and Washington today. The French position is that•••* no strong unified German regi ■ e should be established.• Paris wants Germany to be organized as a series of loosely feder ted states, semi-independent -- to prevent the rise of a new po.,erful Ger a n y ~ ~ • curious r i bein a di pate on be autho~i y of pr·n e in Berlin,)) Germ n ne s agency licensed by the Bri ish. I uote r. a high ~ovie officer, 8-8 intima\in~ t.~&t the leet,ra Allie"• BT'it 1st.,- Ame:Pie111e.. ~ Lieutenant-Colonel Rezarow, Deputy-to-the-Chief'-of-the- Propagande.-Department- of- the- Sovie.t Mil 1 tary-Ad ■ in i1tratio Sellweanieke, the BerliD CbaiP■ aa ot t1ae Cer■ en Li\era.J. »e■eeratlc Pa1ty • an an~i Goam~aie\ G»ou,:w'The story ia tha Ghe liberal Deaocratic Party held a rally in the SoTiet Occupation Zone. ~Soviet Officer was, there, and he told the German Liberal Leader the following: •Why do Ji :,ou, • demanded lazaro•, ·•carry on anti-SoTie ca peigns, when :,ou know there will be only one occupation power in Berlin in the near future?•) German This was overheard b:, the Secretary o the Leader, who confirms the nuotation - ~Russian statement that the Soviets will soon be in • ■ ti sole control of Berlin, the western powers out.) • TUR[EY Turkey t. get ing submarines - American undersea craft. This was disclo ed in ashington today in a statement revealing tha our N a vy is turning over o the Turkish Re u lie fifteen naval craft, beaded by four 1500 ton submarines. ,hie ie being aene an~@"' - ~~:~\:;teaed b7 Red aggreuhn, ~ ~ • ■ --- e of the·late■t type;- though they were built as recently as lineteen Forty rour 1 ~ - . , are powerful weapons of undersea warfare,~the tind that could be exceedingly useful in the defense of Turkey's narrow waterway, the all important Dardanelles. A U B lire is an ite ■ th a t may turn out to be of consi era b le i mpo rtance to a num r of countries, inclu in g o ur own. Bayard Dod g e, for twenty-five years h ea d of the great Americ n University at Beirut, Syria, has retired. His aucceesor is Dr. tephen Penrose, sp cial aavisor to Secretary of Rational Defense Forrestal. Bayard Dodge, over the years became reoogniaed in the Near and Middle East as far ■ ore than an educator. Se grew to the stature of a top statesman, in fact an elder statesman to the people• of half a dozen nations. His successor baa an opportunity to play a ■ajor role in world events -- perhaps an even greater role than Bayard Dodge because of the rapidly growing i ■p rtance of all th ae new nations at the eastern · end of the editerranean. IParn A tremend ou s opportunity for the right man. ~ BRITISH 'INES -------------- Frem lendea eeaee wePd t~at ~ation lizstion under Soci lism is not such profitable business.~be Bri ish coal boar announces that, during the past six months of overnment ownership, h coal mines of Brita! lost ■ ore ban one·million-aN·seven-bundred-and-forty- fi•e thousand pounds s erlin1/- ~•• nearly seTen million dollars. Which is running in ' the red in a big way. {nuring the same period in Rineteen-Forty-Six 1 under priTate ownership, th~ British coal sines made a profit. They earned a net of ■ ore · than sixteen million pounds, nearly sixty-seven ~tllion dollar1 Quite a contrast. Uater a1tt0Nli1a4len, \he 1011 eo•••--t.¼ '\he t~rn the g ttin or owne ship t ~RITISB_Ml!! __ The coal mines are /-\ he third governmen~ ~•ned enterprise to show a loss durin the first ■oath ■ o f ~ nationalization. Earlier this week, he Bri ish -~o~c - <&rerseas Q.irways <aorporation announced figures showing /\ a..,- thirt,...two million dollars in the red. ""'British uropean airways, also nationalized, lost nearly twelYe ■ illion. P COLA ORS ---------- In shin~ton , Harold Stassen had his say today f before a ongressional a,,.;~~ Committee. " • ~ I I U1R he had information that eleven overnment insiders cleaned u a pro i of four million dollars, by apecula ing in food,l\since the end of the war. ,a■ff '""°•'• ••t ••••11 iafeP■ a~iea, Be offered to giYe ' the names to the committee in & closed session - not public. di el rson, nt . i ~ ase~n / / e7 adfasgui~ the enator Tobey of New Ha~~hire comes -rG 1.u~ b \ ~ out for Eisenhower for President.~ Senator Two predicts that our World Wa~Comaander in Europe, as candidate for Lhe Republican party will sweep In th~ Sen~ od y Sena or Dennis Chavez, Democrat of New exico, said that the Democrats should draft Secretary of S ~ h a l l to run with Ir. Truman. Many Democrats support him in tbia believing that the wartime Chief of It•• Staff would ' ' make a ~ V i c e Presidential candidate, but b"'-• larehall bas ~1.w1•, me~e an emphatic ata ement that he will not run. •eanwhile, t'f'~shington, Go~ernor l■eta Warren of Californi:,:..>)a \he eapi\al feP a Qe•••••••• l■al■■• CenfePene~old Rews ■en that he would accept the GOP residential nomination, b u t ~ baa - no interest in t=:R second place on the lwpa,ttsaa tlctetj ~ ~ ~ ~ - - ~ t . , - . . q 1 M r i i e . . , ~ Ml& •no burning desire• to be President. Ne Orle - n h d d a r cor -br akin robbery toda - holdu men seizin - hundred-and-thirty-thousand dollar~ at the iberni n N ional Bank, and makin a clean geta ay. But they were romptly hunted down, and ■ •,•* captured - most of the loot recovered. The story of thi quick golution o a record- ~••kt•~x~ ■ t breaking holdup case is curious. The police ~~ got a tip from a woman,~ blonde. She told them that she kne• about the robbery in advance and had tried to tipt' a police captain that i was about to take place. She heard the crooks talk over tt.eir p l a n ~ e w a s drinking with them. La st ni ht she~ tried to phone the police captain, but couldn' get him on the wire. Whereupon she forgo about it, ent to bed. She clean forgot. She was remin4e4 today when the ne s of the robbery flashed. I ■■ So she called the cops again, and this time gave them the in r~ation that enabl d hem to grab the crooks in a hurry. One of them bed thirty thousand do~ler hidden under he floor of his house. Two others were picked up with a suite se crammed full of nn--:v.. ROLD-UP he new of s crile~e, a ~r ~ C a m ridfe, Uassachuset s, tells e11 s ro bery - a Harvard hold-u : thre crooks s a ed a spectacular raid on the Harvard Co-op on of the raditional institutions of hat vener le university. The co-op on Harvard Square, cater, to studen son a cooperative bRsis, and today was crowded with some wo hundred undergraduates when the crooks aade their appearance - in a cloud of smoke. lntering, the) threw smoke bombs, and in a ■o ■ ent the place was filled with a dense clous. It aee ■ s like a new technique of robbery, the application of a military smokescreen to a hold-up. This bad one peculiar ffect~- The correct thing to do was to call the police. But with smoke pouring out of the Harvard ~ Co-op a passerby called the fire department. ell, where there's smoke there's fire - only there wasn't. In this case you could revamp the old proverb and say - where here's smoke, there's robbery. The thieves operating under be cover of their s ■okescreen, went 0 the cas ier's cage and seized a HOLD~JL -2 bagful of money - fifty thousand dollars in cash. Ordinarily, the Harv rd Co-op would not have that much money around, bu funds had just been brought in fro ■ ' ' a bank - to be used in cashing checks for Harvard ,,,,, ,,,, students. Which would mete it seem as if the crooks had some exact knowledge -- app~opriate in a way, since RarY rd is famous for its knowledge. When the smoke cleared, · the three bold 1 1p ■ en were gone. The polio, are looking for them - and I, for one, refuse to attempt any jokes;~1ike - it must I ha•e been three Yale. ■ en.