Fir t -- a B mb s ell -- or obms ell . It's s ak i d on t e ome York state a this moment out of commis · n, but ti rec r u er , ew i oxy e n o , 1 ea er pr ' ,, Y c e r i to • r Howard Eughe round-the-world f i , t o co Te plane radioed s i a e over Minnea olis:- •Heater out! Oxy en one! S e've rlr o p ed down an flyin low and slo. All e nee d o no no is that it's cle a r 11 the ay in to N e· York.• Milt n Reynolds, sponsor of the flight, and navigator, sent the ■ es a e. hen he said •low and e he was ape kin g comparati 1,. Te BOMBSHE fle over Minneapolis at an altitude of eleven thousand feet, doing three-hundred-and-forty-five miles an hour. At its present rate the plane is expected to reac~ tie York's LaGuardia Field, from which it too k off Saturd Y, in about an hour.-- settin g a ne w mark for lobal flights -- around the planet in approxim e iy hours. NELl~!~_TELEP~QNE_ (Substitute all early materi 1.) - . N ot i r tions in the nationwide telephone strike have 1 collapsed. Beth side, company and union, rejecting Labor Secretar.t Schwellenbach's formula for settlement. Here's the situation at the moment; Labor and management :,f-; ..n.c. apparently trrAconcilable,ASch ·e llenbach angry and pessimistic, and the public evidently in for another stretch of impeded telephone service. It the failure of his plan to produce an early back-to-work agreement between the company and three-hundred-and-thirty-five 5 ; - ~ D . I ~ thousand/. 75fi:iiGi?7~ of the Bell twlepeoJMr Syate ■• AitliaHc dan~proposal called for arbitration of ■oat ~ of the union's demands including its bid for a twelve- . ' . . dollar-a-week pay rise. 1if,s SlfTtSF,£,J> /{61 'fH~A Sil)£,,,_ And now negotiations are back where they started ~E.tl!N'rd - on April •---~when operators, maintenance men, and if plant workers across the country struck for higher pay and national union recognition. NE - LEAD TELEP ONE - 2. ------------ It wa s on that last po i t -- nati n al union recognition -- t ha t today's negotiations fell down, the company saying th a t~ could not accept any plan which would lay strike issues open to national arbitration s ./2..c. • and the union saying that/\Schwellen~ach's proposal would l3As.1.a 11ean arbitr a tion on a/\: ~ something absolutelJ unacceptable. The Onion President, Joseph Beirne, announces: "We were already offered !oc!! arbi)ration prior to striking and have steadfastly refused to have our disputes settled on such a basis.• The company, on the other hand, says it would be i■possible for any single arbitration board, such asft .S--&e. • '71-L iebc.r}-Ucr proposes, to hear all the cases and all the issues involved. ~Jk.,Schwellenbach received'notice of the union's and the company's refusal one on top of the other. Be called an immediate press conference at which, obviously an g ry and flustered, he told re po rters that REI LEAD TELEP~Ql!E - 3. - •neither of the parties to the dispute has shown any recognition of the public responsibility they have.• Both sides, union and management, did qualify their rejections, thus sup p osedly leaving the door open for another try by Government . .5..t.c, ~ conciliation experts. However, no member of out any hope for an immediate·settlement of the phone dispute. It'ts even uncertain ™hen union and management representatiYes will resume negotia ions. VIOLENC~- (Follo TELEPBON .) - J r om Denv er.C,oni g ht comes news of violence in the t ele p h ne trike - the first violence in the nationwide walkout. Irate townspeo p le in one Colorado community an d also in the little Utah town of Saint George~ attacked the strikers; so say reports from Denver. . grabbed At Saint George, an an r r groll) of citizens ~ "V~~((-S~~' a firehose and turned it onAt.ell"JMIA•Agirls parading in front of the Telephone Company;--i'we ping I\ them off the sidewalks, At L mar, Colorado, another group of tr-:-bl citizen confron1he p icket lines. Angry words were spoken, then the townspe op le rushed forward u"1 c. H, ,, 6:. • - ~ ~ a~n~d rip ·ng signs nd p osters ,\ from the strikers ' hands. The Chief of the local union in Saint George now says the girls sept off the sidewalk by t h e firebose remained undaunted. their p osts, reforming their lines ~~r ' - ~ S e cr et er of S t ate Marshall has had hie conference to see the w ith Stalin. the General went to the Kremlin ) --1-d •~- ' S . td· t ~~-~' ov1e 1c ator at ten .U. Stalin has A peculiar or k in hours, operating l a r g ely in the dead of ni ht. The favorite time for him to hold an iaportant conference is midni ht. Bis date ith General Marshall today was a little ear ier, ten P.M . . - so maybe ltalin conceded a little to the normal habits of the American Secretary of State, who is an early-to-bed and early-to-rise ■ an. le don't know what was said between the two, but the news ■ en at Moscow are not at a loss for a strong surmise. The meeting bet w een Marshall and Stalin had been lon awaited. The other t w o Foreign Ministers of the Western democracies, Bevin of Britain and Bidault of Fr F nce, have long since bad th e ir talk with the Soviet Pr em ier. But our Secretary of State delayed, an the surmis ac th the ould not o to see St lin u n til the confer nee of the Bi Four had come to a crisis, a climax of deadlock - in hich General Marshall ~~~ would appeal to Stalin for a solution. Sit went to the A Kremlin toni ht, and this was immediately after the stormiest argumen the Ministers of the Big Four have thus far. tlg;z~ th hei ht of an angry stal.ematP flll•4P this afternoon. ~ The troubl~~ lfhen olotov sub ■ itted a alliance to prevent a revival of German militarism. All alon America has been offering to the Soviets this kind of Big Four alliance, and now Eur Secretary of State made the ofter all over a ain. He as ed - was Soviet Russia prepared to consider the four power pact?"\fTo this Uoloto• today replied by presenting the Soviet version of an alliance. hat w s it like? ell, Molotov nted a act RETAKE - and the surmise wa t.hat he ould not o to see Stalin until the conference of the Bi Four had come to a crucial crisis, a climax of deadlock - in which General Marshall ~~~ would appeal to Stalin for a solution. • went to the " Kremlin toni g ht, and this was immediately after the stormiest argument the Ministers of the Bi Four have had tb11S far. ~ th e be igbt of an · ngry atalemate ••4" this afternoon. ~ The troubl~~ when Molotov subaitted a counter-propoaal to the American guggestion of alldttt lip alliance to prevent a reviYal of German militaris ■• All along America bas been ofiering to the Soviets this kind of Big Four alliance. and now Eur Secretary of State aada the offer all over again. He asked - was Soviet Russia prepared tJ consider the four power pact?1fTo this YolotoY today replied by presenting the Soviet version of an alliance. What was it like? ell, Molotov w nted a nact ' CONFERENCE - 3 ---------------- a ainst the reviv a l of German miliiarism to contain clauses on all sorts of other subjects - those subjects on which the conference has been dea d locked week after week) Molotov put into hia alliance the Soviet vie of just about everything the Western deaocracies ha e been opposing.~or exaaple, the aatoundi . ng repar a tions that Moscow demand• fro ■ conquer• Germany} the kind of government the new Germany is to have - and so on down the line: In other words, Moloto• used the treaty of alliance as a vehicle for reviving the entire aeries of Soviet claims, to which the Western " de ■ocracies have refused to agree, revive• the whole aeries of d i s p u t e s ~ ~lready ~ at a stalemate. To this G e neral Marshall replied with an immediate and blunt rejection. Supported by Bevin ad of Brit a in and Bidault of France, be pointed out the £QBFE,Bfili£J - J. obvious fact tha the tr aty of fo u r p ow r a l liance for the simple pur p ose of keeping down German militaria ■ was no pla e to include all sorts of extraneous argument, things that belonged somewhere else and bad no pla c e in a simple pact a g ainst the revival of ailitari••· The Secretary of State told Molotov that be waa making th e lliance impoasib e. He spoke to Moloto1 in the followin downright and ominous words: •If agree ■ent ia imperilled by the int oduc ion of contro•eraial points,• s a i d he, •there ~s little or no chance of sufcesa. That,• adde• General arsbal l , •ia aver, serious st a nd for any government to take.• Yoloto• insisted on keeping all the points of dispute in the uestion of a treaty of alliance, - nd th t ,z•• produced the stormy climax of angry deadlock. Whereupon General Marsh a ll w e nt to see Stalin, ~l.lll!&I - · 5 and the newsmen in Moscow have n o doubt # w h at he They are certain that Marshall a ppe . led to Stalin to intervene, anc overrule Molotov, in the hope of so■ewher~he four power al.liance. Hoping - conference of the Foreign Ministers will •~comp lt 1h gettinc that the at least that much. • ADD CONtlR~NCE American newspaperm n covering the Big Four conference were surprised today when Secretary of State Marshall ordered his Assistants not to tell the correspondents how long he bad talked with Stalin. Yichael cDermott, State Department Public Relations ufficer, was permitted to tell the press only that the Secretary of State had gone to the Irealin at Ten P.M. and had returned at Eleven:Forty-Five. Correspondents who had aited two hours for the usual lesser details of such conferences protested. McDermott replied:- •1 can say nothing about •~en the appointment was made, bow long General arshall was there, or what subjects were discussed.w Suspicion of the press is often part of a military man's training. When Geniral Marshall was Chief of Staff, ·~e often clamped down on ·news stories for reasons of security. Whether it is wise to invoke such secrecy over diplomatic proceedings will be u to our Secretary of State and the future to say. A resolution to rebuke Henry all a ce was put before Con g r ss tod a y. Democratic Representative Rivera of South Carolina p roposed that the Bouse g o on record as accusin Walla e of having d o ne, what the resolution calls - •a grave disservice to the welfare of the ~United States.• WALLACE - 2 ------ Republic a n Congressm a n Eaton, C h a irman of the foreign Aff irs Committee o f the Bouse, today stated: •I would not choose a foreign country as a place of criticism for my country.• But he added that the Wallace denunciation of the American policy of checking €ommunisa •will have no effect - or a reverse effect.• I t ~ hinder the enactment of the anti-Co■auniat program by Congress~ - I t ~ help. WALLACE - 3 ------ ~ - i i i ~ a a I pt ri ate -.fill e iii?' A member of tne President's Cabinet spoke some scathing words about W allace this afternoon -- Attorney General Clark. He accused Benr.y of l ying, and put it in these words: •One who tell• the people 0£ Europe that the United States i• committed to a ruthless iaperialiaa, and war with the Soviet Union - tell• a lie. lt is a ■ oat cruel falsehood,• the A ♦ torne7 General went on, •because it reveals an utter lack of appreciation and understanding of the American way of life.• FIG BT --- There was a wild scene on a great airliner today a plane with fifty-two passengers that toot off from Los Angeles. High in the sky a fight broke out between two men, a fight with a knife•" that bad the passengers in a panic.1f The high altitude battle between the two had some of the aspects of drunken comedy -- though a brawl with a knife, and a terrified scra ■ble of passengers, is not co ■ ic in an airliner. 1f'The1 were a pair of ex-lavy baddies, one-time shipmates -- who were all pal•1.-wal17, slapping each other on the ijack and lau1hin1 in uproarious good-fellowship, as they bo a rded the plane. passing from one to the other a bottle of whiskey that they h d sneaked abo ~ rd. The stewardess told the pilot, a nd both w e nt to the two former sailors and ordered them to give u p the whiskey, which they did, I FIGHT =-1. - meekly and mildly. That seemed to quite them down and settle everything -- but suddenly they got into an argu ■ent with each other, and started to fight. One asaailed the other with a dinner knife, and slashed his aose -- while the other passengers tried to get out ot the wv, ft• frighten_. by. the disturbance as the plane flew high over levada."'\CThj brawl was ended b~ a police sergeant troa Los Angeles who was taking a fl igbt on his day oft. With the practiced atlll of a ' cop he intervened and so on had the two buddies aa quiet as if they were sitting in a patrol wagon. When the plane landed at L~s Vegas they were looted up for making a disturbance in a public conveyance. ~ ~ ~ - ~ ~ ,_.. -~..A,. J2..v..a.. ~ ,~ -..vvvvr1 They got the ueen Elizabeth off the sand bank today - and it was unexpected. At hi h tide, a fleet of tugs tried to budge the eighty-five thousand ton liner. from the Brambles Shoal off the south coast of England. But the giant ship wouldn't move an inch, not wliile the tide was high - which should have been the moat favorable time. with the tide running out, but) W I i i e ~ ■ore try - ~~- and suddenly,Ato the surprise ot everybody, the ■ajestic ~ult of the Queen Elizabeth •lid off the sand bani and out into deep water. Meanwhile, President Truman asked Congress today for still another enactment in the American conflict with Red aggression. Be asked the legislator• to give the administration the authority to eabargo shipment of American armament to countries that are would-be aggressors. Thia is a follow-up to the Truman policy of iding Greece and Turkey in a •ilitary way again■t lo■auni••· fell, it wasn't so long ago that•• were giving Lend-Lease war aaterial to the very countries that we are no• likely to embargo -- now pass a law to keep the• fro ■ getting A■ erican armament. The tele hone strike is: , in the balance tonight. The Company h s just delivered its answer to the Government's proposal for a settlement. IMazu•••' A♦ the moment tber~ is no inform a tion of what the answer ie. Shortly before the Company handed in it• reply, the Onion did the . same -- on its own part. le don't know what the Union said. The deadline set by. the government for the replies wes five o'clock. That• s nearly two houri ago -- nd things are still hanging in the proverbial balance. llill {l ta. Congressional Committee issues an official A denunciation of a Red outfit engaged in spreading Communism in American colleges. The organization ia called American Youth for Democracy, and is described as a direct successor ii; the Y.oung Communist League. Red roup toot a new na■• tor a g a job of Red propaganda a■ ong stud,ats.) The Bouse Committee on . OnAaerican ictiYitie ■ joins J. Edgar Boo•er•a FBI tn atattng: •The spectre of Co ■ munia ■ atalta our college caapuses ■ aske4 an4er the clou of the A ■erican Youth for De ■ ocracri.• Cxta leaders are triined CpCf.uniat propaga diata, stilled in the tactics of a,readin1 Red doct a■ong the students -- this in an undercover way, and hides the real pur;)'ose of serving the cause of Soviet Russia a g ~ t the United Stat.es.) The What do do about it? "committee does not give a recommendation that all colleges should outlaw the A.Y.D. -- that question is left for the colleges the ■ selves to determine. The committee reco ■■ends publicity, give the people the truth about the American Youth organization. wits ■ e ■bers on the••, campus,• says the committee, •should be ■ ad• publicly known and registered as such. Parents, fellow atadanta and faculty ■ e ■bers should be proYided with these membership lists -- together with a candi4 explanation ot the true nature of the organizatio~ and its atf.iliation with Soviet-do ■ inated Coa■uaia ■ in laerica.• The BOMBSHELL is on its way to New York, strea ing along. The around-the-world flight, sponsored by millionaire Milton Reynold&, is sure to aet a record ar o und the world -- unless there is something a■ iss. Tbe BOMBSHELL took off from tl~■zb Edmonton, in Canadian Alberta, at shortly after five o'clock this afternoon, the last lap, ■f a long hop to le• York. ' In Sh n h i to y, there• re thunder~ Chieng Kai-shek, an im ense crowd a cclaimin the Generalissimo drivin g throu h the streets in an aut omobile- only it w sn't the Generalissimo. There w a a somebody else in the c a r, an \,,; he - 0 t.he che rs ~ - by mistake. A Which r mind ~a of other funny mix-ups, a wrong guy ge ing the r nd reception. My tells - how, l ast landed at Ua&ila - summer, he• s in an Army plane that ~~ ••~lieutenant ••••8 ■ a ■,r, colonels. /\. I\ I t • sat the time of the celebration of the independence .... of the Philip ines, and Gen e ral MacArthur was expected.-11. ct -fP. - ~ ~ ~~ . - . e ~ . So im ine the surprise of the colonels, not to mention th e lieuten nt, when they found themselves lan d ing amid stately honor - their irpl ne mistaken for the MacArthur plane. You can also ima ine the cha rin of the hi e h office~s ivin the rec tion when they saw, not the ~ mi hty MacArthur, but"'-•~ colon ls followed by a CHIANG - 2 ----- l l ·eut nant. All of which was mba as · t t r · 1ng, no o say mortifying. Today in Sh~n hai, howev r , th~ individual in t ..t'automobile too!f:!-heers for Chdin Kai-shek without atting a Chinese eyelash. d . ea 1Hteti !tlite _.IM- G.tstAxN"B"i t. -Yle c i - o w i ~ ~ was, in fact, a double - sent out for the s k of safety. Chiang was,=. ~ arriving by lan:;froceeding with little notice to a big military review. There was fear that Communists in Sh ngbai mi ht make an attempt on his life. So a lieutenant colonel, who is dead ringer for the Generalissimo, w s sent in a formal parade of automobiles, to face the chP r . , a so the poasible danger. I wonder h . t a fellow thinks when he plays s doub e like th t. Maybe, if he is conscientious, he feela he hasn't done a r ly ood job unles he ets illed - There w s an old-+im actor who used to pl~ y the part of L incoln. Be looked like Lincoln, and was so deep in the role that, even in ordinar y life, e t lked like L incoln, acted like Lincoln, thought like L,ncoln One day the old-time wit of the st ge, ltlton Lackaye, pointed out that Linco l nian the p ian to somebody, told how completely be identi ied h imself with ~incoln, and added -- •and he won't be satisfied until he gets assassinated.• And lelson here won't be satisfied until he well yiou tell us Helson.