L For t fourth ay 1 ·n succ . s1on , earth shocks ; re " e l in th ~1·t mad fam b n· ous y 1vorc and gambli n. • e might h av thought that nothin g could shock R no, but old moth e r ea rth is doin juat that. Th uakes today ~re mild, mere gentle tremblings, but t hey ke t t h c i ty in a s tate of alarm. Numb rs of t. he p e op 1 e g o t out. of · town, i n c 1 u d i n g me II be rs of t be divorce colony. There as a crop of nervous rumors, one l of which spread insistently - and the police and newspapers were swamped with telephone calla. The report was that a major earthquake, the big shock, ••• expected at ten-forty-two A.M. today. Nobody knows where this fantastic word originated - a ru■ or that was able to name the precise minute of an earthquake, forty-two ■ inutes p ast ten. The seismologi'sts are at a loss to account tor t,be · of t.remblors - which began with a n~ succession Shock l · n empty country along the border fairly severe of ievada and ~alifornia. Today, al the University or .QJlAKE eva a, · m,1 g ist r o r 1 ian . lla ta~ d t,n t i r c r i i trum L e r r is rin tr more. " e a r et lin occa ional uivers, ays he, "and every on~ in a while a stiff jolt_ hicb can felt ind wnt wn no." Just to round out the story, a large earthquake was detected today by the seie ■ograpb of the Oniversit7 of California. The needle kept regi tering violent shocks each half hour. Where were the7? lell, the calculations show that the qaake was a little ■ore than a thousand miles from ~an Francisco. lhich direction? lell, either north or soutti. The professor, at tira\ reports, could not tell which. if north, it would be way up in British Columbia. If aoutb, somewhere in Central :.lexico. SOB_1~AD_QOAKE -- Late The exodus from tteno died down toda7 -- eYen though minor earthquakes •ere still shaking the cit7. Numbers of people get out of town, including members of the divorce colony, but today departures tapered off aa Reno seemed to get used to a slight tre ■blor now and then. CHINA ------ A late bu ll etin froa lashington states that t e on·ted States will give no more help to China, until Generalissimo C hiang Kai Shek resigns from office. T hi is attributed to an official high in the ad ■ inistration, who refuses to let his name be used.) Th~ dispatch just in quotes hia as saying that President 1ruman will not ask the new ~ongress for any more funds for China -- unless Chiang Iai ~hek st&pa out of the picture. While this statement was being made in laah- ington, the Generalissimo in Banking was •••tin& with hi• top ailitary officials -- deciding on what to do in the fact of the sweep of the Uomauniata. 'l' be espion a ge story breaks out with a statement that the Red spies ran a regular production line. t his emanates from new testimony given by Whittaker Chambers, the former ~ommunist courier. Be is quoted as declaring that the Heds had in his words 'A veritable espionage production line out of the state department and other departments of the government the output of which was being funnelled to Moscow by way of a skilfully-run transmission belt." As an illustration of wholesale spying, Chambers told the co ■mittee on On-Aaerioan activities that he hi ■ self handed over fifty-one batche1 of secret docuaents from the ~tate Depart■ent. These he gave to a ~oviet agent, and the fifty-one batches included confidential paJers on the Norden bombsight -- a top war secret. The committee i n announcing this declares that four members of the Chambers group were government officials doing spy work as late as nineteen forty-five -- the end of the war. ' • SOB ESPIQ __ Q~ -2 --- The committee announces the resignation of its chief investigator, Robert E. tribling, who h.s been so prominent in the spy disclosures. Investigator ~tribling is quitting to return to private business in his home state -- T exas. He leaves to the tune of the highest of praise lavished by the committee. Ifil!MAJ P r id n t ' ' r u man issu e d a deni a l d - an t h i 3 on l y shows how f ar rum or can go. i d V ice P r e sident e ! ect B ark ley , o n hi s r c e nt tri p to ~ uro p e, h ave a secret meet i n g w i t h Soviet l e~der s ? The Vice President made a C hris tm a s j ourn e y to th e A merican forces in Germany. But - did he actually go abroad for the purpose of contacting the ~ oviets, as a preparation for official American-nussian talks? At a news conference today, the President ■ aid that this report had been relayed to hi ■ during hi ■ holiday stay in his home town, Independence, liaaouri. But is there anything to it? othing at al ! , declares th e Pr e sident - and he adds that it's jUllt another e . xamp l e of how r,r speculation can go. To which the echo would seem to be - a ■ en. Senator ar 1 Y , just returned f r • urope confirms t 1 e nia l - and says that, · G in eraany, he did not even enter the Soviet zo n e • .., Anothe r Y. asb ingto n ite a;- our Jiabass11dor to Mosco has res igned . A 1 te dispatch c onf iras the re p ort that General ~e dell Smith is trying to give up his p ost in the ~oviet capital. However, President Truaan has not yet agreed to the resignation. Aabassador Bedell Smith saya: •1 sure hope the boa• will accept. I've been out of the couniry for aeven years, and it's ti ■ e I got back and becaae reacquain\•4~ Well, ueneral - Here's to a plea ■ ant reacquaint•• T n pa t in t e ,&ind zenty. atican as xcommunicated eve ryone who bad a r r st of th · · · t pr1ma e of H ungary, Cardinal T he y dr described at •infamous", and the excomm un ica t ion is such that only the Pope himself can raise the ban of t he church. We ll, th e time was w h e n ~ ~ ~ excommunication could make them s t p owerful monarchs tremble. In the .!,.iddle yes, that thunder of the church coapelled the German Empe ror, Henry the F ourth, to go to Canossa, and stand waiting barefoot in the snow. And Henry the Second of En land s uffered hi J self to be scourged by the monks of Canterbury,· for the murder of Tho ■aa A'Bec ke tt. But those days are long past, and one wonders how much effect the excommunication of Ro■e will 1 have on the Communist dictatorship in Hungary. to be notey In V i / wae made tba £e , Red re me is / of the y ■■ uniat the Reds Th w o r f r m Wash in gton is that there •ill be - tax i ncr a What k ind? Incom Tax? That, we hear, has n o t yet n de cid ed . erhaps - higher levies on cor o ra t ions, o r an excess prof1"t ta h' b x, w 1c •a . ny democra ts in CGngr s advocate. The reason for• tax increase is illustrated by figures from · ·ashing ton. These show that during the next fisca l y ar the total government revenue, with taxes as th y are, wi 11 amount t.o thirty seven billion, (> six hundred million tollars. The amount of govern■ent spending will be - forty-one billion, live hundred million. Which will leave a deficit of three billion, sic hundred million. So, to balance the budget there will h av e to be more taxation. REPOBLICA S -- T he b ttl f e o the ttepublican Party got going in a big way in · ashin g ton th1.·s · evening -- •hen one f a ction of the G. u .P. nominated Henry abot Lodge of M assachusetts as candidate for chairman of the enate Policy Committee. That is the po w erful committee which directs the action of the G.O.P. in the upper house. " be chairman right now is .)enator Robert Taft of' O hio. T hey are calling the conflict •Young Turk Yeraua j Old Guard" -- the young Turk faction calling for a change, progress. Senator Lodge, on being named tonight, declared that he would make the fight in the interest of what~• called •A more modern-minded philosophy.• Be said •A new approach" was needed. Senator T aft accepts the challenge, declaring that be will be a candidate for re-election to Committee chairmanship, and predicting that he will will win by what b e calls •A sub•tantial majority.• O ft Monday when forty-two T he showdown will come " Republi ta n S enato . swill meet to select th•ir party for the eight y -first officer s for the ne x t two year s ; I I RIPDBL!.2!! S - 2 - ~ongress. So Monday will tell the story -- of ho• young Turk Cabot Lodge fares against Old Guard Bob Taft • • §QBS!IT U T _ _ E _ y T t c o 1 c o r in u ges in some subtle res onio i n a e c i ion rtainin to Jack Benny. B ur e a u f l n L r n a l ev e nue today sent a notice to the famous ra d i c o median that he will have to pay ~ ?. ~ a tax A It all grows out of the transfer of ~e Jack B~nny program from BC to CBS, in which Benny sold the · abow • . £-or fou• millioe eel l a1a. His program was incorporated, and he transferred it, as one aight sell a corporation. If that comes under the heading of capital gains, the tax is twenty five percent. ---l..eaving ~h•a& ■ i . lia ■ aoll&IE oat of fnar. But the tax collector says -- o. The deal ia regarded as a aatter of inco ■ e, and that calla . for t --total -- tt1ree ■ il"!ie• a tax of seventy seven percen • a&Q ei ~bt y theueand dollars. wbicb 10::!d lea•e Jeck Benny nin e httaaPe~ end twenty tboaasnj of fottr :rd ll i o tt. The u b tle part of it is this. The Internal Revenu e Bur au argues that in the incorporation or tbe Jack Benny sho , the aorp -• oration 1· 8 really Benny himself. So how can he sell hims lf? Today's ruling can, of course, be appealed, and it might rovide some intricate legal arguaent. Can a man be a corporation? And, if be sells bi ■ ae - lf incorporated, is he selling himself as a person? Which $ight be slaver y . Leave it to the lawyers to do a lot with that. Later news gives the Jack Benny version, aa related by hi , s lawyer in Hollywood. "lhe attor.ner says that the transaction was entirely according to Boyle and it is no , case of somebody incorporating hia own self. He explains that the amusement enterpri•• which was sold to .B.S. did not consist of Benn1 hiaaelf at all. lie declares that the radio coaedian'• personal services were not part of the assets of the corporation. Those assets were a variety of other things, Be e~plains that C.B.H., purchasing the fir■, did not get Benny's own services, •The status of Mr. Benny,• says the •ttorney, •remains completely unchanged. Sta services as a r a dio artist will continue to be paid for b y his sponsor." .§ATELLI' ' E cientists are confirming the iaplication of that announcement last night by Secretary of llefense torrestal, who told of what he called -- •An Earth Satellite Vehicle Program." The idea being -- that a rocket shot into outer space would circle the earth as a satellite. Gontrolled by radar sign•ls, the astronomical guided missile could be plunged to earth, and bit an enea1 target. Today the scientists nodded their heads and said -- yes, that's the idea. After wbich (he7 ca■• forward with so ■etbing still more fantastic, ■or• drea■• like. The1 Tision D t rt in / r ' n hit an e Mmy / / 1 ui d mi l e. e are / / / t.~e 0 ~ S~oond / · orld the / / kind, J f ~ - ' st 11 / r a d y scie. o ibi ity of a catellite-vebicle in . which men woul be a ion - roe ets revol~ing around the ea . rth, i th er s aboard. The s would be in outer space, at least five hundred mile above the surface of the earth, oing round and round, like a string of tiny, ■ an-mad moons - and inhabited by hu ■ an beings. hat oul be the purpose? Well, that could be ao ething horr n oue. Today one scientist declare• that th sat lit vehicles could be the ■ost devastatin eapon v r dre med of. The crews in the little ■an­ aade moons could u e iant mirrors, which would focua the sun's rays on a target down below, and v·rtually b Scorch the crops and dry up urn up an en my country - water supplies. UTILLIII J It sounds altogether too ■ uch like i ■gination run riot. But here we have Secretary of Defense forrestal annoµncing that the ar ■y, the nayy and tbe air force are working on - an •Earth satellite Yebiole • program. In these ultra-modern days, we've becom fairly well acquainted with !ir force lingo, the special kind of talk used in the world of av1·at 1 ·on. Th e war gaye ua a lot of that. 4,11;~~-e.a-a,-A-_._A,,p r,-»ev.id-~••~-.---,.M1h But what would you think, if somebody said - •A wick willy got into bis blow torch, sparked up to a steady boil, turned up the wick, and · leaped ott?• I'll tell you what it ■ eans - we have got to learn a new _!.ir f.orct lingo, the jargan of jet. The new race of jet pilota, which the air foroe ia turnin1 - - out, disdains the slang of propeller aviation. They - talk jet. - The fiery strea ■ of the jet engine 11 called - the wick. So a j,t pilot is a •Lek willy. Be is alao - termed - a fire-can jockey, a fla■e flier. The jet plane is called - a blow torch, a blast furnace, a stovepipe. or, ■ ore irreverently - a squirt. You don't start an engine - you build a fire. A saoothly k O l ·t 1·s a - steady boil. running motor - coos. r, lET LINGO 2 ben a mechanic is fixing the engine, be 1· 8 t i i - r •• ng the wick. So now you see the ■ eaning of that t apparen 17 oonsenical double-talk. "A wick willy got into hie blow torch, sparked up to a steady boil, turned up the wick, and leaped off." In Jet circles the term •horsepower• is replaced by tbe word - "Thrust.• They ■ eaaure the thruat ot Jet propulsion. So, when a wick willy wanta to indicate ' that its good weather for flying, he aa71: •1 tlru ■ tJ day.• Well, ~elaon, it~ raining outside, and tbe weather is not so tbruaty. But let'• hope it will be ~ Ccc, _ 3,f', . fr on on - dra ■ rtic details about a acient.if . ry, which ••a the big headline ia Briti n n s a rs today. They ar e announcing a drac that r one u s s l turn a vast area of Central Africa t to ca t::.e ranch. In Central Africa, including Britiab Tanganyi a, there is an area twice the ai•e of \~e Unl\e States, where no cattle can be rai&ed - becauee of be Tsetse fly, which caus s the dread sleeping aictn•••· Otner•ise, that i ■■ ense land would be ideal for lar1 1ca e ranching. But no• a new cbeaioal bas been de•elopecl - Antrycide, which render• cattle i ■■une fro■ \be Tae •• fly. The British belie•e that,• a reault of aa\r7ci•, there will be ~~re cattle in Central Africa tban \here are no• in th Argentine - wbicb baa thirty-three aillion nead. itb all this co ■es a dra■ atic stor,, telliDI of researc for fiv e years by the Iap&rial Cbe■ ical Ind st.ry. [x p eri ■ ent.s were begun at Manchester, experiments usin g tsetse flies brought fro ■ Africa. But th e r e was fear that some of the peat·1 t i 1 en nseota mi gh t get away, and inf e ct British cattle - - aaking the Isl e of Britain a land of the deMstation of the tsetse fly. So the research as transferred to Central Africa, the wilderness of [eny.a. There the acientiata were plagued by the lions, th ' e king of beaata attracted by the cattle uaed in the research. So they recruited tall black warriors of the tribe of the Maaai, wbo ••• great with apears against lions. Then, things happened to the ■ ice tbe7 uaed tor tests. These were eaten up, ~ut not bJ liona. An any of sol d ier ants got into the experi■ent, tbo■ e tropical insrcts that seem to ■arch in vast legions. The aoldier . ants devoured the teat ■ ice. On top of which, a scientist••• dri•en up a tree by a rhinoceros _ and forgot all about tsetse fliea tor a while. These mishaps cul■ inated in a tragedy, but not in DBUG .J - Ce ntral Africa - in London. Th · e maJor credit tor the scientific e x p loit is given to Dr. David Garnet Dav-ey and Dr. Francis "'ur-d. neturning hoae, r. Curd was killed in a British train wreck, only a aonth ago. Dying, his last words were to railroad officials, telling th e m to take care of the papers be had with - papers recording the secret of Antrycide. All this made scientific drama in the London newspapers today, together w1th so ■ e gloating. Britain has to depend on imported food, especially OD beef ~roa the Argentine - and the Argentinoa have a way of puttin1 up the price. The British government ia expecting a visit an Argentine economic official na■ed Miranda - to discuss a new beef contract. so the British newspapers today, with unaniaoua · · to Argentina - and to Miranda. TbeJ voice, gave wa . rn1ng t ntrycide, the Soutb said tat, wi j the discovery o American cattle industry would soon have a rival in Central Africa. Hence, the Argentinoa ■ ight ,tart JUIUG L cooperating a bit - and put the beef prices down a notch. §ATELLI TE cientists are confirmi"'° the 1 1 . . -~ ■ p 1cat1ona of an ann o unc em nt by the Se cretary of Defenae last night. In h is first annual report a, head of the uaified Bationa l De fense, Secretary Forrestal aade a auaber of suggestions for improved unification of the araed forces and g reater centralized authority. But what struck the imagination was his mention ot what - an •Earth satellite vehicle progra ■.• le have heard about notion• of shooting rocket, to the moon, but the Defense Department ia not working on that - we are not likely to be at war with the aooa. The program is more re■ arkable still - baaed oa a theoretical possibility of shoo~ing a rocket into apace, until it escapes the grawity-pull of tbe earth. The roc k et, according to theory, would then circle tbe earth as a satellite. But hy should the ar■y, the navy and the air force bother about anything so aatrono■ ical? lell, th• idea is that a rocket-satellite •ould be aucb 81 to ob 1 The es p ionage story breaks out •itb a state■ent that Whittaker Chambers, the former Co ■ · t. c i ■ un1s our er, turned over fifty-one batches of secret iocu■ enta fro• the tate Uepartaent. These be ga•e to Soviet espionage, and the fifty-one batches included confidential papers on the Morden boabsight - a top war aecret. In ashington, the apy b~ntera·aeclare that this is on Cha ■bera' own evidence. un-A ■ eric ilctivitiea, of Louisi-ana, Mundt of South ~akot accuses them of and adds: "The of the coa■ ittee oa Con1r•••••n Hebert a againat hi1 Con1r•••••• Mixon of Ile ■ e ■ber• ha•• the eye of the whole co ■aittee. are making a show of helping local parishes, repairini churches, making themselves agreeable. The Cardinal acted in opposition to this, and that's the reason h , e is in pr i son - says the Vienna story. In t ~ is kind of situation, the Papal excomaunication might have an effect - in turning Hungarian Catholics against the persuasions of the Coa11unia t dicta torabip.)