I C."J.-S--a....4'J1?"11..!+~ /2J.n~ , ,, ,q,n. E!fltQSION_ . O '--er-- ' (Toni ht's account from alveston Bay of men ent ring a world of horror, rescue ere s penetratin the heart of the avoc at Texas el ls Tree hundred drove deep into t till smolderin r ins today • ... They ,ore heavy gloves, we a . r tol~ ~ prot ction against gas gangrene. A number of the injured are reported to be infected with that kind of gan ren that comes from searing gases given off by chemicals. So he rescue crew1 ore gloves to protect their hands, as they dug into • eckage s•dden with chemical gas. They are in a realm of death, digging out shattered bodies - and living persons, too. One report - from the Coast Guard today stated: "Live people are being uncovered in the ruins of the Monsanto Chemical Plant.• Two oil fires still burned today, but they were dying out. There was fear that a couple of reat tanks of explosive propane gas might blow up, sk but that terror has diminished. ( Th count of lives lost if still far from com l ~ t - hundred of eople still iXPLQ IQL - 2 missing. It is now thought the final figure may run as high ass ven hundred, but offici ls admit fttM this i is only a g uess) - From the ~orld of labo r, news of optim'am comes tonight. The United Press begins a late dispatch with the following lead: •A year of labor-management peace," it says, "App ared to be in the making today on the basis of a fifteen cent an hour increase for c.1.0. workers in h avy industry." To back that up, is a dispatch that the United llectrical orkers, C.I.O., have come to an a1z■ agreement with e tinghouse,accepting a fifteen cent an hour pay boost. That settlement today is virtually identical with the one between the ~nion and the electrical division of·General Motors. Westinghouse has seventy-five thous a nd workers, and the General Motors deal covered thirty thousand - bringing a- ~ hundred-and-five C.I. O . members into the patt e rn of a A fifteen cent an hour increase. However, a similar offer is turned down by the auto workers. General Motors proposed the same kind of wage boost for two-hundred-and-twenty-thousand members of that union: but today Walter Reuther, Union SIEEL - 2 - President, said it was - •unsatisfactory.• But that's being negotiated, Reuther making a hurried trip to Detroit for the purpose today. We have a report that United States Steel has made a wage increase offer to its own C.I.O. Union. A diapatch fro~ fittsburgh states that this has eased the tension over a possible steel strike. TELEPHONE . - In the t elep hon e strike, the union is bidding for int e rvention by the Pr e sident. Strike leader Joseph Beirne stated today that he is going to lay all the facts in the labor dispute before President Truman. T he union leader says he is not making - an appeal • . But it all amounts to a tact request for White House A intervention. At the same tiae, there is a union peace feeler thrown out in the direction of the telephone companies. Strike Leader Beirne stated to ay that the walkout would end quickly if the companies woul offer, •kt what be called a •down payment.• That is, if they would concede soae kind of wa g e increase as a down payment, while the whole uestibn of wages and the other issues are being settled. . Me an while, the American Federation of Labor iax today is sued a demand wfth ref ere nee to that other form of communication - telegraph. The Federation wants th e governm nt to t ake over and operate ~est rn Onion. This was s tat ed today to th Federal Communication llLEPHONE - 2 Commission, a union attorney arguing that the telegraph system is a natural monopoly, and that therefore it should be run by the government. UI -- Un~le Sam scores a major victory at a Security Council Meeting. The council today rejected a Russian resolution giving the U.N. supervisionorer Americ n ai t o Greece. Which virtually amount to U.R. approval P esident Truman's four hundred million dollar loan t Greece and Turkey) Also, the Security Council voted to leave a peraanent comadsaion in the Balkans, to watch for border violations, another proposal sponsored by the U.S.A. Shortly before today's decision came, on the Greco-Turkish aid proposal, American Delegate Warren Austin announced t•at regardless of how tbe vote went, he would not veto it. ' That as aiaed at Gromyko, of course, who is alwttys vetoing. Gromyko came back with charges of deceit against the American delegate. •1 admit the situation of tbe United States has ende vored to deny that the proposed ~lp will be used as a political weapon in Greece. However, the proclaimed p lans say it n t only willbe, but should be used for such purposes. Decide J ■ for yourselves• said Gromyko, •wher e there is absurdity and where there is truth.• Whereupon the celegates did decide. They rejecte the Russian proposition that American aid to Greece and Turkey be supervised by the U.N. , A o r t of tragic aradox as oint d out ngrily today, o~cried by ormer Pre i · nt Hoov r. He stated that in con uered Germany the forces of American, B itish, Soviet and Fr nch, a1·e busy fertilizer plant~, of which Euro eh s de perate need. 11 turope, saia he, is gasping for fertilizers required in food production. Yet many German factories, capable of turnin out an enormous roduction of fertilizer, are bein demolished. The former President st ~t d this to the newsmen, as he emerged from a·congressional committee hearing, at which he advocated the bite Bouse Bill for general for ign fooa r lief. Presumably, he had told the committee in no uncert in terms bout of the erman Fertilizer plan~, because Herbert Hoover w as boiling about it when he emerged. · dm · tted that some of the plants might be used for manufacturing war mat~ri 1 u nd that ointed up the a ox of t e hole thin . It h ens, by an HOOV~R - unlucky tv. ' ist of sci nc , t a t both x l . si v s · nd fertili er ar nitrat e - that p rotean element c · lled nitrogen bein the b s is of the tuff that blows u bnd the mat rilil of livin thins. itr t for modern war. lut, ni tru tes re also needea for th growin:1Acrops. Ger■ 1 r ina. us try shoul lants.~tctory • be d e s t r o y e d , ~ • munition th4t ~an make exploain nitrates, can also m~ke fertilizin nitr a te nd vice-ve sa. So no, in tearing down the one, they are tearing down the other.1f And post-w r lurope, with its grim problem of hun~er, is in desperate need of the fertili~er that could be roduced by the demoliahed plants.~11 the nations of Europe, th victora as ell a v~nquish d Germany, ,... haraed thereby. Maybe that's o ay ith somebody who thinks only in terms of a ~ossible revival of German military menace but it' s in f uri tin to a food ex ~rt, like Herbert Hoover, ,hose thought is in erms of feeding the hungry. To c a.y e t the p ar ox in~ arp terms for the American eo le. We h veto end to Europe huge supplies l)f f ct, which m - ht be roduc d over a there with the help of the fertilize r from the Ger un plants, Even more directly to the point, e are sending great cargoes of fertili l er - hich mi~ht be turned out by t e demoli hed f~cto r ies over there. e Ame icans are bearing th bi ges t art of th'e burden, imm nae in ter■ s of money - the burnen er ated by the d~molition of the fertilizer lants. lnditnant H e rbert Hoover, emer ing fro ■ the Committee hearing, was on his way to the bite House # for a conference ith Presi · ent Truman. There, no doubt, in talking ith the Presi a ent, he continued f the theme ... -- . .... of tragic paradox, the destruction of the fertilizer lants, ~ hen f rtilizer is now so ae per~tely needed iA Europe. e hav a ne~ t rm fo · o ur politica l voca ula y, o n e rovid by 1n ton hurchil t o da y. The term - s_ r y t - C om u n t . 'ti i ch i v s a v i v id en o ugh im 1·e · sion, "c r y pt ee" me nin 6 - hia en , ob c u re . hurchil himself , p ovi ~o a i f · niti o n, sa yin that a ' cryptl•-Communist-'111 - . •one who ha S-n'et ~ot the courage - A to explain the destination for hich he is making.• la apt description of those Lefties and Pinkoes who play the gaae of Red dictatorship, and can never quite brin& themselves to face the fact that what they favor is totalitarian tyranny. Britain's wartime Pri ■ e Minister coined th~ term in talking about our own Aaerican Benr7 Wallace - sayin g that Wallace, over•in England, was in cahoots wi th Britain's small minority of Cryptic-Communists. They~o p o sin g the La b or Government po licy of solidarit " wi th the U.S. A ., and w a nt Britain to team up with Soviet Russia. Well, it has been stated that Henry has been derivin ' is ides from British Left Wingers visitin America, nd that they instigated his trip abroad to ca aign a · inst he Truman olicy of checking Coamunism. The assertion has be n made that these British Left in ers ere using Henry as a means of asailing the ro-American ro~r m of the labor &overnment in London,. in the hope of changing this over to pro-Soviet~ So now we find Win ton Churchill supportin that view by giving us a picture of Henry over there hobnobbing with the Cryptic-Communists. •The object•, says he, •Has been to separate Great Britain from the United St te , and weave Britain into the vast system of Communist intri 6 ue which radiates from Moscow.• Churchill made a wry reference to the blasts issued by Wall ce, · the former Vice-President, charging his o • n country with a ruthless imperialism and •~r-mongering. Which is a precise echo of the fJminations that emanate from Moscow. Churchill, the CBURQfil1L - 3 - leader of the o ~o ition to the L bor Governm nt, used acid hraseolo g . •r•ve traveled quite a bit my elf,• said he. "I am r c ivea abroad ith much kindness in ~urope and merica. Bu~, when I am abroad,• he remark~d, 1 1 al ays make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my country.• To which he added with sly humor: •r make u for lost time when I come home.• i;R_QRYB£RI~L Well, Henry when h e re urns may be weari n a alo. Tonight we her from St o ckholm ha heh s t ken official co g nizance oft e C . urc illi n comments and has turned the ot er c eek. • Rays Henry: •1 unders and t e -G re British leader, to whom we all owe gratitude, . as honored me with the term - cry~to-com . unist . . I re f use to be disturbed. Peace can neve be served by namecalling or hatred. Hatred sunders people, but love encompasses. he's goin to attack the Truman anti-Communist policy at home as well as abroad)T e former Vice -Pr sident , upon returning hom, ill m a ke a coast-to-coast speaking tour, preaching his usual gospel of "appea s e the Soviets .• le announces this rom Sweden, 'in which country he has just arrived from England. Today Hen ry made an address in Stockholm, whic was different somewhat from his pronunciamefs in Britain. Yes, he again attack - d the U • • A. for having I d ,, war fever,• nflamed by propagan a, aid Henry Jr°But in Sweden today he did not limit hims lf to charges against his on country, ash did in Britain. He included ••• Soviet Russia in his casti ation of imperialism and ag re- ion. His critici m of the Soviets was in contrast L o his attitude bile he in Britain - frat ~ rnizin 1 it the Crypto~Com m unists. BELIGOLA@_ - In the North S g, not f r from the German oast, there was a tremendous explosion today. Fire and saoke shot up into the sky - the blast assuming the mushroom t orm made familiar by the atomic bomb. It was all according to plan, the British avy blo ing up the fortresa of Heligoland. Since the days of world war one that North Sea Island bas been famous as a naval stronghold - a base for the fleet ot the Kaiser, later for the warships of Hitler. The disarmament of Germany implied the demilitarization ot eligoland, so today tLe mighty fortifications ~ere blown aky high by a huge bltst of eY. ~ lo ~ ive. The plan -~~~~- is for eligoland to be tramformed into a peaceful A . haven for North sea fishermen. ell, the Dodgers have a manager. Pr sident Branch Rickey today announced a succ ssor to Leo Durocher who has been suspended from baseball for a year. The new "'llil. 1D ,, leader of the g,eloved vums if is Burt Shotton, who will recall memorie of old-timefitohing.1f'As t I recall, Burt on the mo _ unt ~ t h e St. Louis Browne, Shotton was a star A i•••• twenty year ~ ago. Since then he has had an industrious career as a manager, running teams in both the mQjor and minor leagues - and now the Dodgers. .[ORD Henry Ford's will was off red for today, and it hows the fabulous motor magnate 1 avin his immense fortune in two parts. One, consisting of the voting stock of the Ford Motor Company, goes to his family, chiefly his grandchildren. Motor Company control is vested in Henry Ford the Second. The other part of the fortune consisting of non-voting stock, is bequeathed to a fund for scientific, educational and char ~ table purpo~es)The executrix is Henry Ford widow, s. Clare Eryant Fora. It is clear from the terms 'of the will th~t it was mage out before th~ death of Henry Ford's only son, Edsel because he is mentioned as living. , The terms are much the same as those in Edsel's will he having similarly bequeathed his own immense fortune, derived from his fath~:::lit!e voting stock to hie /C - - . 1'- family md the non-voting stock to a fund for benevolence We are given no official inform tion about the value of Henry Ford's estate, but there is unoffic:ial I tQR~--=-l- word that it comes to mor P. ~an ev n hundred million dollars. Edee~s wealth has been e timated at wo undred million-- w ic would put the total amoun ford fortune at close to a billion dollars, the figure at which it has been rumored. And now Nelson how' your bankroll? h· V n u ly i ctur o coal min rs liv . T e un · 1~ sa.nt ictu • i h way the ainted by dl c 1 m·n - - · i ni t i n, ,hi ch m ke a nation i ' e 1 rt on c o n itions in co 1 minin g towns. In many of h 0 "sq o • " T 1n th t h e c o 1 m in s - nationa ai gr ce ." 'l'h is w i 1 0 ~ l1 ' f . . ' b d 1 a~scr1 s one ~ · es mi ra l and hobby, ini tr t ion calls them - "A surprise to us, who in co 1 mine , clnd have com m of !_O mi ni mi n 0 l n nion conditions ar - ~ 1 1 , N " ~ ~ living. per toad ~'IA.-~ ~ But in too m ny o the accur t or is or. " ~ o is to b l · me? Th r e , ort of the mines - tion istr · t th~ , u i 1 t e u j - on the n r , t "onn .,_,. Le .. i Uni . ' n the C oal I t ew · lv . Th in lll · t all t r e ' company an<l miner tak it to o much 01' · ... nt t t ' ix livin t n ·r ' in COd l min ar bad, · nd .c MINERS - 2 ------ nothin much ne be o n bout . t. It's i:lD old sta r ' 0 eo e t ems V 8 b 1n sunk i nto apathy about the o.y th y exist - · n d t.i;s. mplo y r ana t:tr. union caa .. equa y d h t · c . Th C a l ad i n i t tio n r~ ort recommends con.::e1·tea effor t to r l c oal mine livin standards. ia The recomm na d ro 0 ram · o cl uae s the t achin of hea lt and sanitati o n t m ne f~mili s; an~ laws to compel mine •• owners to uild nd maintain b etter housinb. ~e re~ort rmari z es: " it is th cust.om that lor, it is time fort at cu t o be abolished.•