In the flood conference a~ which President Truman held today, w~h seven mid-western Governor,, the President remark~-- that he was not running for o f f i c e / ~ apologized t~ making what might, otherwise, appear to be a political speech. He blamed the deluge on the Congre111onal loonoay bloo -- eaying that they - had prevented a flood control program, whioh would have cheGked the M111our1 River, with 1t1 yearly h&blt of golAI on a rampage. Ai the gathering 1n Oaaba, the President called on the Governor• of the 1even state• ln the flood - to••• join hlm 1n 'lobbylAI' to put through the much-talked-of pro2ect tor flood control 1n the M1aaour1 ba11a. On h1s way to the conf•rence, the Pre11dent -4 had flown over vast area• of the deluge, and)to14 newsmen: 'It 1• worse than I thought 1t would be. It le just as bad as it can be.• Tonight the cr111e ta approaching for Omaha and council Bluffs -- as the crest ot the floo fLpops - 2 approaches the two cities, which are on •~•l oppoa1t banks of the Miaaouri)The day was one of emergency labor with hundred• working on the dikes -- to strengthen them with timbers and sand baga. Every effort being made p to fortify the levee• and kee~ them from bursting under the giant weight of the flood water,, these having already wa1he4 out ten• ~ of thou1an4a of •n•• people, a boat of retu1ee1. A deluge -- that would look familiar to Boah, were that patriarch of the Bible 1omewhere along the Kla1our1. POLITICS-STIYSB§PI ( Adlai Stevenson'• &newer -- m&kee the confusion of the Democr&t~c party oomplete ) Tod&Y ~~ the Governor of lll1no1a~..., hia declaration, A ,._ aooord1n~o schedule -- and 1t 11 a complete neg&tlve • .,...;) _ , _ In these ords}\ •1 have repea,edlJ ea14 that I w&a & cand1da,e for the Governor of 1111no1a and had no other ambltlon. To thle I must add that -- I oou14 aot .. aocept the noalnat1on for &DJ other off1oe th1• auaae. A? (he ooul4 . L n vhlch 11 about ae positive a,,x■■dn~ake lt, 1n saying -- oulD A41al Bteveneon wae, of course, the oholce of the Democratic bl&h oomnd -- Prea14ent Truaa _5tt ..,40 ...:J included. &GMNN~ lna1a,en, report. lenator lefauver of Tenn••••• baa been wlnnlng prl ■arlea, bJ default~&• he did in••• Jeraey ye■terd&~.(Ther1 la plenty of rumor that b6 la t ln go.d4 favor wltb temocratlc big •1&•• look~o St e veneon -- but 1n valn, a.• 1\ now All of whldb mate• the sc · amble for the D n"lna.t1on / &8 • • lde 1 / lOLITIQS-JEW JEBSIY The New Jersey figures a.re such that the reactions a.re 1neY1 table. ( The backers ot General Eisenhower hailing a ~ a.Jor triumph. On the T&ft alde -- jubilant claims that they never expected a result halt as good.) Senator Taft had withdrawn from the primary with &ngry charKes ag&1nst the state politloal organization 1upporttng General Ike. He tried Talnly to take hie name off the ballot, and said he didn't expect much 1upport 1n the New Jersey•• vote. ( New Jersey With the/cGunt nearly all in, it 11 3 r llsenhower, t~re1'"" dred an -\Mr-ty-eae thousa.nd1 Taft o-a• hua4re4 · •~4 aiae,y-alae thoueand.) lieenhow r leading by one hundred &nd thirty-two thousand -- good reason for hla backer• to cheer. KoreoTer, he takes all, or nearly all 1 of the Hew Jersey delegate ■, 1 th1rty-eight. (The delegation selected yesterday 11 I I I I I not pledged. But it la heavily in favor of Eisenhower. lspeo1ally after the in the popular vote. huge majority of the General ~,1..,v..1,L.,~~ But, with _ _ , . • ~ 1 ~ · A . PQLITIQS-111 JQ§IJ - a pe•eeat of the vote, the Taft people have reason to ft-t. obeer ~ strong ahow1ng \heir candidate made. · I\... t2J,lll£i=iQ!IB!QB Bere'a an odd way to appoint a high political official. In Salt Lake City I've been talking with Utah Governor J. Bracken L••• wbo tel11 •• how, when he took oftice, he wanted to ■ elect a coaaiaaioaer of taxes. Be inquired around, and••• told of a top fll1ht executive, a native of Utah, who bad retlre4 receatl7 froa a bi1 buaia••• concern in Cbloa10. So be oalle4 the Salt Lake City boa, of I.C. Sboeaaker aad wa ■ told - be waa away oa a trip to ~hlca10. Ira. Shoeaaker waa oa the phone, aad tbe Governor a1ked her -- would ahe want her bu1ban4 to tate a Job in the atate tax adaiaiatration? •1b7, 1••• replie4 Ira. Sboeaaker, •te1,I would. ■•'• 1ettlag craaty, l7in1 around the houae •1th nothing to do.• lbea Ir. Shoe■ aker returned to Salt Lake City, the fir ■ t be knew about it wa• when be ■ aw bl• picture and the atory la the paper, then••• that be had been appointed Coaaiaaioner ot Tax••· lbereupon be •topped being cranky - having plenty to do. 1111L A r es olution 1n the Sen a te -- cal l ing for &n 1nvestig&t1on of the gov e rnment seizure of the steel industry. Republican Senator Styles Bridges of Hew Hampshire calla it: •The gravest constitutional cr1a1e Since the Civil War.• The steel ~nduetry ha1 been protesting on constitutional grounds, and the Wew B&ap1hlre Senator wants Congress to 1nve1tlgate tbe question. In sponsoring the resolution 1 he 11 jo1ne4 by other Bepubltca.ne 1nclu41ng Senator Taft of Ohta, who 1eeke the Bepubltcan no■ 1n&t1on for the Pree14eno7. llUllBX The naming of an Ambaaaador to Japan brings a flood of rem1n1soenoe. Today, President Truman made the turmal nomination of D Robert lurphy - at presen\ Ambassador to Belgium. That same Robertp Murphy -- who figured 1n the famous adventure of -tt.1- ,._A £ f Clark. ~ thr11r;;'d ~ l d War '~~ ~ General Mark Two -- a ~ secret m111ion.Ato Borth Aftica. In that cloak and dagger affair, Murphy on d1ploaat1c duty in rrench North Africa, W U - ~ ~ ~ those who 1* _.~ Clark at f secret was one of ren4es-vou ■• Later, he wae number one polltlo&l advisor to General liaeohower, when the Horth African landin1• were m&de. The latest -- the Senator Foreign Relatlona Comm1itee ha■ ~u•t okayed the nomina,1on of Bober, D. Xurph7 a, our first poet-war Amba■ sador to Japan. 11,JTAJI (Great Britain promises to g o to the aid of the international army of western lurope -- in - ; t , k _ ~ ~ f t . ~ 1 • 4 4 ~ ~ case of Sov1el attack.) All along ,he•e ia, bee• . '/ ~ ~ -& :,ef\le&~ J''I\ Brltlea.. forces i.Jfthe Vest Europe&n I\, Army commanded by General 11senhower. So now the London Governaenl aakee up for thal; by ple41lng whal 1t call• •all the military and other a1d and a111etanoe 1n an offlo1a1 wh1 te paper;: pa 1 a ■ aea today guarani••• w111 be 1ncorporate4 in a formal trealy between Great Br1t&1n and lhe luropean coualrle• la the Atlan11c Tre&l7 organ1sa11on. IQLIJIA I rrom Bolivia news that sounds o■ 1noua. Tod&Y the new revolutionary government unounce4 thal the Bol1v1&n t1n mlnea would be -- nationalized. The declaration was ma.de by the new Cblet of Bt&te -- Ea~en1aoro - who baa returned fro ■ exlle followlng a revolution ataged bJ bla own political p&rtt. Be was given an ovation - and rlght oft lhe bat announced that there would be m• a natlonallsatloa of tla. Thl• 1• DO ■ove bJ Bedl or Lett1a,,. !he faction that 1e1zed power 11 ullra-conaervatlve. lo lt 1• a rlghl wlna announoemenl of a plaa lo ~~ late over the tln ■ ln••• ob1ef wealth of Bollvla. :.A lllll •nd now -- aoaethiDg aigbty rare Dow daya. Although - frequent enough a year or so ago. ■ ewa fro ■ Tibet -- which reaote Bi ■ alayaD land ia Dow behind the Baaboo Curtain of Bed China. (• di■patch fro■ Boagkoa1 ■tate■ that the Panche'I\Laaa - the Tibetan, told ua be••• a phoney pa■ollA • Ila■ cro■■ed iato Tibe;)aad haa ■et up bea4quarter• in a aountain aona1tery oa the Boot Of The lorld - preau■ably at the hiatoric ■oaaatery of Taabila■po ia the City of Shi1at1e. (1t baa been indicated, all alon1, that the Coaauaiat• would ache ■• to u•• the Panchen La■ a - a fourteea-7ear 014 boy froa lon1 , olla - band picked bJ 1141 and ia4ootriaated with Coaauai••• in China.) It'• hard to picture a co ■biDation of larx, Lenin aal Bu4dbiaa. But, an7wa7, the Bed• by force, are now la1talliag tbeir Pancben Lama, ia for■ al 1tyle -- aa aa equal partner of the Dalai Laaa. Tile Panchen Laaa la auppoaed to be apirltual only. The Dalai Laaa both • TIBET - 2 spiritual and temporal head of Buddhism. Today's dispatch states that the fourteen year old monk, crossing the Thang 1~ Mountains from China, has been received with great ceremony -- by representatives of the Dalal Lama. When we were at Lhasa two and a half years ago, we were told that this same youngster was nothing more than a R d puppet. But now the Tibetans apparently are forced to recognize him -- the DPlal Lama himself being virtually a prisoner of the Communists in his lofty palace, the _ tala, with its gold roofs which is one of the wonders of the world. 1LJQ8 At El Paso, Texae, a court martial tod&J convicted and paaeed sentence on the first of those Air Force officers -- who refused to fly. l~ey ••e first Lieutenant Verne Goodwin -- given two year, in prleon. Hie oaae was tJpical of the other• -- & reserTe officer, Teter&n of the Second World War, who had been called back to serTice. •• use "94ere4 to go ae co-~ilot in a mi!itary •• transport plaae, tlylng \o England and baok -- ~ refued. th1■• be ,. told. the court ■art1a~ wae out · ot oone1d.eration to~ his wife - who waa •• expeotiag a babJ. ••='~• other re■■rYe oftloer■ taoe obar1•• 1n similar trials -- following today's court 11&rtlal, which l ■ posed a sentence of two yeara. OR ILJERS Later 10 the day the head of the Air rorce ~fte4. General Hoyt Vandenberg, nllPPI■ the •atay-down• I ,,r1ke of a1raen as a 111n that the Air rorce 1• 'havlng trouble• in getting fta flyera to keep the planes going. He eai4 to eerv10e, •are being an-fJ;ecoramended that air■en be given •extra flight ,.. the reaerv1et1, called back 1ubJec~to family pre1sure, 1 pay.• ,,,,zox The Loa Angeles police have found the phaniom gunman who killed one woman and ,errorl•ed people for a year. A enlper flr1ng at v1ct1 ■a tor 10•• our1oua reaeon. Be turn ■ out to be a allroa4 1wltoh■an, Ivan Charle• Thou.a, qu1e, spoken, well a&naere4. He ha ■ been oaught because last nllh' he took a ■ ho, at the wlfe ot a tr1end of hl ■ -- ln whoae houae he ha4 lust v1s1ted. !be bulle, narrowlJ ■111e4 the woaa.n, and the po11oe bad a ■ u■ ptc1on of the reoent v1e1tor. They arrested the rallw&J at 1w1t~b••• &A4 be confe1ae4, exp1&1n1n1 hl ■ career a1 the phantom gunaan bf saying: ' I got a pereonal \" r 1a111tact1on out of lt. loae ■ or\ of we1r4 ■ental twt1ter. PIPN♦I ~ So m e 1nter e st1ng aew• on econom1c1 were made " " pellio ,oday -- in ,hat famous romance between 8wed11h movie actress Ingrid Bergman and Italian ftl ■ director Bo1se11n1. In Hollywood, La Bergman•• former husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom baa 1one to court, to keep the actreaa from taking their twelve year old daughter to 411CUI a ion O t -- Be aaya 1he be-rated hi• becauae 1 durlng their domeatlc llfe together, he h&d followe4 & prudent . . t 1 1 1 •why' ahe 4e■ande4 •414 ... ■ A 1nano1a po oy. 1 you ■ &Ye money1and why 414 you buy all that 1n1uranceT Ve could haYe spent money and had fun with 1t.• Whereupon, the Doctor pointed out that, tn eptte of the 1avtng of money, they had, 1n ht ■ Th11 the actres s admitted, but added that IAiMI - 2 ■ he and Bo1ael1n1 lived better -- on debte. ,e•••••'••• '• aer1••• .,.,,. 1 , . ~•• •••••• ~••-••• ,,~._J, ~ •ila h&n~more oar• and more 1erTant1 than you and I ever had. But -- we have nothing but debt1.• So there you have the t1nano1&1 pol1oy - and 11 11 not a new one, at that. In1tead of saving aon11 / run up b1lla ~ In1tea4 of paying wt th oa1h, 11ve on 4ebt,/ The old pr1aro1e path -~!;oonoa101. XPN♦ Yum&, Arizona 11 threatening to secede and 3oin Cal1forn1&, claiming th&t Yuma 1s not getting a fair deal from Arizona. The county deeer•e• more representation in the State Senate. Yuma get• the woret of it in matters of trane p ortation, bue line and air line aerv1oe. The plan, &a announced by the Junior Chaaber of · Co■meroe today, ha• 1t1 po1nt1 of 1randaar. !he 41T1d1ng line between Arlsona and Cal1forn1a i• lbe Colorado a1ver. lo all they have to do 11 ■ake the rlTer flow last of tuaa lnetea4 of Veil - which woul4 put the o1ty 1n1lde California. That 11, dlverl the water, of the ■ 11ht7 Colorado into a new channel. Sound ■ like one atupendou1 job of en11neer1n1. But, ihat'1 all that - when Tua& 1et1 11&41 ltlZBQPAU Oklahoma bad another earthquake laet nigh\, and \be 4eta111 today are more a m using than terrifying. I\ w&I nuaber three in a eer1ee of tremor• tn tbe 1ou\bwe11, nothing violent -- and the worst of lt wa1 to ahake people in their bede. Which pro4uoe4 a nua b er of telephone calla lo the police. One of whloh waa a panicky call fro■ a woman ln Oklaboaa Olly. Ber Toloe was franllc. IM J..,,~, ill 'late tba=,., .. •there 11 a man under ■J bed,• . . ,.1111 •n•e• boa •s ••, •••• =- ■ a r 11 •• • au •-,It: ■ a.• Well, JOU can hardly blame her for belDI alar ■e4, a ■an -iv,_ under,. bed aol1ng like a.n earthquake. ~ "" "''-~----~--- ) ~ , The microphone is yours, ~elaon.