COAL C.' - P.,-.JJ. W-~ , !J. Jr.- f-, , 9.srJ The government has ordered a twenty-five p er cent reduction of all coal burning freight traffic on the railro a ds. Also - a further out 1n passenger traffic. This - as industry all over the country reports difficulties because of the coal shorta g e. Bally1ng to the side of John L. Lewi• a.nd the union - comes the O.I.O. steel workers. This afternoon C.I.O. President Philip K~rra7 announced financial support - a five hundred thou■ an4 dollar glft, to back up the coal strike. QQ4L There was a.n explosion in Washington today - a John L. Lewis explosion. Which certainly oan be loud and violent. The blow-up occurred at the hearing called by the Pre~idential ract 11nding Board in the coal strike - all a prelude to a possible injunction under the Taft-Hartley Law. !he uproar broke out in the middle of a ,,atement made by company negotiator George H. LoTe, who told of something he claimed the union chief said at a meeting with mine owners. He quoted Lewie as proclaiming: •tou have the coal, You want it mined. I have tour hundred thousand coal miner• that I hold in the pal• of my hand ••• • At that moment, Lewis leaped to his feet, and shouted: 'George Love, I hold that that 1s a dirty, deliberate, infamous · lie!' The company spokesman tried to continue - but Lewis, with a ferocity of eyebrows and thunder of voice, bellowed on: •1 say to you, George Love, that you are a liar by the clock.• AAAL - ...• a Which were strong words, for so dignified & gathering - a.nd the Jaot finding Board worked hard to restore order. 'Kr. Lewis,• pleaded the 0••1r ■an, 'we don't want to deal in personalities here.• 'Why not!' growled Lewie, a.nd he eat 4own, still glaring at George Love. .. APP QQAL (sub the following for the last paragraph of co a l) The meeting adjourned, then 1t resumed this evening - eight thirty Washin g ton time. But there 1s no sign of ct.n agreement. ,,011c Here's a question that has occurred to millions - •Will the hydrogen bomb workt• That same sort of question must have been asked a thousand times in the inner circles h a lf a dozen ye~rs ago - would the A-bomb work! Well, it did - as we all know. Tonight we have an opinion from Dr. Harold Urey, a top ranking atomic scientist and Robel Prise wtnner. Be saJJ there 11 •still hope.• Hope, he aaya, that the hydrogen bomb wD.1 not work. Hope - ; that Aaerlcan attempts, and preauaably Soviet atteap,a to construct a hydrogen bomb - will tail. But Dr. Urey says he believes that - it will work. He'• ~ afraid that t h e ~ bomb will become a reality~ (Moreover, he expressed the opinion that sedret information given to the Soviets by Dr. Xlaua ruchs, the British scientist under arrest, may have put the Russians a year ahead of us in research on the hydrogen bomb. He says that, the moment the A-bomb was exploded, the scientists over here immedi a tely AT OKIQ ••••• 2 ' e a the poee1b111t1es or - hydrogen. And Elau■ ~ ruehs was in a position to gather all the secret l knowledge t a t we had - and transmit it to Moscow~ Dr. Urey gave this opinion, after testifying before a Congressional Committee, at which he described an al a rming possibility - of Soviet Russi& forcing the surrender of Western lurope by an ato■ lo threat. He said he expected the Russians to make & serious aove this year, Nineteen 1ifty, to alienate the West iuropean P ' wers from the United States - and one way of doing this would be to put atom1o bombs in tramp steamers, and sneak these Quietly into big ports of Western Europe. Then - warn the countries in question of what would happen, unless they came to terms with Moscow. Dr. Urey gave the impression that this kind of atomic plot might succeed - with nations deserting the American side, .z- rather than see .,_bombs exploded in their h . rbors. I\.. , APP AZQMIQ To all of which the scientist remarks - that we might• well watch our own harbors. QQPLQH At the New York trial of Judifh Coplon and the Soviet Engine e r Gub1chev, a blonde secretary in the Department of Justice testified this evening ,obtain 1 that Judy Coplon tried toA• ■t•~•Ake y s to files containing •top secret documents•. Margaret McX1nney gave graphic evidence against her 1■1S formar fellow employee in the Department of Justice~ who is accused of red espionage;- and then there was a passage of question and answer which 11luetr&iea the intellectual level of the defense at some of these Red triala. Lawyer Archibald Palmer asked Margaret McKinney if she had ever had a disagreement with the defendant. The witness laughed and said: 'She told me I was too fat.• Which got a laugh 1n the courtroom because Mar1aret McKinney is tall and slim.Whereupon the lawyer said courteously: •when she said '!at' did that refer to pour headt• •stop that, Mr. Palmer, • roared t h e ~ ~ , QOPLQI - 2 •the 1mpl1oat1on might refer to your own head.• Well, it seems as if, in all this Communist business, even good manners are going. POST orrICI SWIHDLI Today brings the disclosure of a huge swindle by an official 1n the lost Office Deparlaenl, - 1""~-, ~ Washington. ABarry r. Ambrose - who last month was forced to resign a Job of special assistant to the postmaster general. Be ran a tour hundred thouaan4 dollar game - baaed on stamps. Ambrose 1a a relat1Te by marriage of Senalor O'Kahoney of Wyoming, his wife a niece of Kra. O'Kahoney - and he got his first post office ~ob on the recoamen4at1on of the Senator. He waa unlucky 1n business deals, and ran into debt - which led ht ■ to cook up an ingenious fraud. It was baaed on coameaorative stamps - issued to celebrate some special occasion. Rare stamps can bring high prices from colleltors, and the scheme was to buy up huge blocks of commemorative stamps, corner the market, and run up the price. The '" .. b,, rank of special assistant to the post~....H..N general ~ gave plausibility - and~peculators to invest. Some of the money was used apparently to purchase lQ■ T PllIQI SJIIDLI ••.. a commemorative stamps - as a front, show business. But, actually, Ambrose used most of the cash to bet on the r a ces. Pretty soon investors in the acheme wanted to know - where were all thoae big profits? So Ambrose would hand over some profits - by getting other speculators into the game, and using their money. The old idea - of robbing Peter to pay Paul. ' But that sort of thing can . . t go on foreTez and, recently, some investors began sending lawyer• around - visiting the Ambrose home. Krs. AmbroAe found out, and insisted that · her husband go to Senator O'Kahoney a.nd tell him. The Senator, hearing the story, sent Ambrose to Postmaster General Donaldson to make a full c~nfession - and you can imagine the surprise of the postmaster general,,~ it-=..rl11.~e~1~•~u ow• e.11.r1rn ~eek tA mere thlWl tocn- l1u18:are4 n1ouaana dellasr1 fre ■..I"" The latest - postmaster General Donald1on states that one of the charaoters implicated in the four hundred thousand dollar stamp de&l 11 Joe Adonis, notorious Bew York gambler and racketeer. IVB PL♦NI Tonight a helicopter and a ground party are making ready for a dash to a shelf on a mountain slope 1n Yukon Territory -- to bring back survivors of an Air rorce transport plane, which crashed yesterday. There were twelve 1n the plane, .« and At we 1 ve are a · 1 i ve - though one bas a broken leg and another a chest injury. They were apotle4 from the air today, and immediate measurel were taken to get them out . It 1a all parl of the quest for a C-54 which disappeared in the frig14 two weeks ago w1th forty-two persons aboard. !he plane that crashed yesterday was taking part in the still-continuing search. IAIIIBX Down 1n Arizona, the bank of Douglas today had a couple of visitors - with mops and ashcan. Looked as if they wa.nted to clean up the bank, and they did - robbers who stole ~ a hundred e.ol,:,R; thousand dollars. A negro and a Mexican, wearing half-maaka - \hey held up bank employees, one after another, aid locked them up in closets. All the while, they had mops - 1n addition to guns and a knife. The idea was - to look like 3an1tors. Ivery time one of the two bandits passed a window, he'd be sure to be • carrying a mop - as lf about to scrub the floor. The purpose of the garbage-can developed, when they forced the cashier to open the vault. !he loot was nearly all 1n small bills, ones, fives and tens - a hundred thousand dt:>li'ars' worth of that is a lot of paper. They crammed it into the ca pa oloua garbage can. Which was all the more useful when the7 ma de their getaway, lugging the garbage can down the street to a w a itin g a utomobile - still ac ti ng like • IAl!PJ ..... . 2 janitor,. Tonight a big manhunt 1a on 1n the southwe ■ t - to mop up those bandits. •i Birmingham, Alabama., J. w. ldmondson had a tug of war with a lion - and comes out of it with forty 1titches taken in his leg. It happened at a private zoo, where the twenty-tour year old ldmonaon was admiring the ferocioua ma3esty of lhe king of beaata. Be got too near the cage, and the next thing he knew - the big paw of & lion reached through the bars, sank its claw• into h1a leg, and atarled pulling. Id.mo on pulled back. !oday he said: •1 pressed my otheT toot &&a.inst the oa.ge bar to keep the trapped leg from being dragged into the cage - and yelled for help.• If the lion had been able to drag the leg into the cage - you can imagine what would have happened. He yelled for help, and help came promptly - several people who grabbed Edmonson and pulled, trying to drag his leg from the claws of the lion. So it was a tug of war, w1th four men on one side, and the king of beasts on the other. There was anther lion in the cage, and he LJAI ••••• 2 started clawing at idmondson's other leg, ripping his trousers and inflicting scr tohes - wh1lo two bears in a nearby cage got all excited, and tried to break out. So there wa p&lldemonium in the zoo. It all ended suddenly - as ldaoneon explained today: •After what 1eemed like hours, ttie lion turned loose all at once, let go of •1 leg - sending the four of us, all sprawling backwa.r4■ .• Which can happen in a tug of war, a whtle llne-up . . . going flat on their backs. Bo permanent damage was done, luckily - la - - ~ »(J ,t&J,., th&t f&nt&at1c ecene 1n & zoo.- -----r T -• ..L.._ ..._-1., J. -lo r\ll-•"-, ~ J... ··-~ ~ . , ~~- DQPI The Bew York Police have hit hard at one of the biggest of dope rings. Two men arrested - and in their possession the detectives found a lar1e quantity of heroin, worth two a1111on dollars, according to prices in the underworld market. !he arrests were made when a drug peddler was caught planting packages of heroin in a telephone booth 1n a big hotel - h~ing 1t for a purchaser to ~~"'----~-~ ~•ethodlof delivering dope. p1ck up. A ·1 p - tc h from L 0 rin lon o m e com ent on t e 1 e t st o ry a ou th u k e a nd uc e s of ind o . A Lo n on o sip c o lum n ist p ublis .ed a report t a t t e f a mo cou p le would soon ke , their horn in E gland - do a er ueen M ry h vin relented towart t e D c ess. ·ht:bh certainly ul c be - t long last. It 1 more than a dozen e a rs now since the abdication of Edward the Eighth for •The woman he loved - the American divorcee, allis arf1eld Simpson, upon whom the ueen Mother frowned, a.nd has never ceased to frown. So has she now cban ed her attitude toward the Duchess? The report from court circles 1s - no. A source close to Buck1ngh P l~ce is quoted as sa.1ng: •There is nothing to su ges th a t ueen MFry has c a nged her mind . • To 1ch he adds: •and there 1• nothin to s g est t h at ueen Elizabeth has different 1 deas. • Further, we a re told: ~ t tbe ttitude of ~~e two queens is shared by Princess Elizabeth, heir INDS ORS, ••.• 2 to the cro n. The fin a lity of 11 of thi ould seem to be confir m ed by a London newsp per story today, which state that the 1ndsors are planning to build a - -""""""' house for themselves • Paris - nermanent home, " permanent exile fo r the former king . QUEEN ARY Toni · ht in London a record-br eaki n throng jam d into the Victoria nd Alb e rt Museum, the b i est croid xm ev e r to pay a d missions to see a sin le object. y all t h e excitement? Well, t h ey o ured in to a v e lo ok a t a handsome rug - needlework of Queen Mother Mary. This piece of carpet, a b out which we hea rd the other ni g ht, is to b e sold to the highest bidder in t h e United States - dollars for the British Tre a aury. Britain may be soci a list, but they still do love their royalty. JAPANXSE 'IDDING Here's another one of those corrections - to rectify an error in a story we had last week about the forthcoming wedding of the Jap a nese Princess Taka, daughter of the Emperor Hirohito. The news dispatch from Toky~ said that her imperial highness was marrying a twenty-dollar-a-week clerk - member of an old aristocratic family, but now a government employee at twenty bucks a week. Which drew protest• on the ground that it belittled and humiliated the imperial family. Today in Tokyo, the prospective brld~groom, himself, was queried, and he said the twenty-dollar- a-week part of it was wrong - so this pro · ra.m 1a making a correction. Be told newsmen that, after his wedding to the Princess Taka, he plans to make a visit to the United States, to study railroading, and take back to Japan plans and models of American trains. These to be placed in the Japanese National Railway Museum, where be is employed - working as a clerk. ' JAPANESE WIDDIN~ ..... 2 The re p orters mentioned the f a ct that ther e have be e n prote ts bec a u se of the statement th t h e 1s a twent y -doll a r-a-we e k clerk. To which the fiance of the imp e rial princes s replied: •1 don't make t a t much.• In the interest of accuracy, he wants it understood t h at he makes less than twenty bucks a week.