ATO IC --- A contract has been signed for the development of a n atomic engine to 1 hi rope war s. That i how far th is atomic mir cle is getting along. The announce m ent was made in Chicago tonight, the atomic energy com m ission placing the order with Westinghouse El ctric. The Chicago ~anager for the Commission states: "The object is to produce a nuclear power plant which may be adapted to the propulsion of a naval ves el•. The contract provides that this is to be done in the •~•z*d shortest possible space of time. So we have arrived at the point where atomio driven ships have reached the contract stage. It has been said all along that the new miracle would be fir tap lied to oceanic vessels, becau . e of the amount and weight of shielding needed for p~otection e~ainst dangerous radiation. RE CUE Ca The ictur tha t flashes from the Greenland Ice ✓ "" is a thriller - a~~ C - 47 Air Force Transport plane, uipp d with skis and rockets. With propeller roarin - , the pnderous plane slides on the A - ,1 skis, and then th rockets blast, a-aAdri~the C-47 into the air for a steep climb. That was how they rescued the aarooned air■ en today - twelve of them, although the number waa re p orted all along as thirteen. The Air Force now explains that only three men not four were in the two gliders that atte ■ pted a rfacue,_ and could not be picked up. The heroes ot today's exploit are Lieutenant Colonel Baudry of Manchester, lew Ha■ pshire, Pilot, and Lieut. Charles Blackwell of San Antonio, Texaa, Co- Pilot. ~ ' l ' h , are cold weather experts of the Air Force, who flew to ureenla nd for the perilous job on the Ice Cap. A B-17 bo ■ ber tried the task, and cracked up. Repeated glider atteapts failed - day afLer day the e RESCUE - " tension m o unted. with h licop ters, an th Bernt Balchen, t:t:w famous rescue as accom p lished before either hRd arrived, Aircraft ~arri r or Bernt Balchen The fact is that Colonel Beaudry, a ■uch decorated co bat veteran, was just waiting for a break in the A1ctic weather. There were Arctic storms, with winds up to a hundr d miles an hour, then the weather took a turn, and today was quiet with clear skies. So off they went, winging to thtglacier, seventy- aeven hunfred feet high. They made a good landing, the skis touching for an easy slide along the snow. They piled aboard the castaways - al l of the in good condition. 0 /~~ ~ e m o r a le take~off, boosted 11P into the air 1a ~ ~~ i:<:.ac1-,f'., by the blast of rocketa,>can be vi1ualized with r ference to a newsreel picture now runnin. We worked on it over at Mo v iet ne, a picture of a big i in a Mid leatern Air Force Transpor~ sitt ng heat riel d , w h e r it h a d be e n for ced d ow n. N o r ~ for i h lo n g r un n d d to t a f s th t o • o ey brough in A rocket b o s t e r s , and th e n wsr l pi ctur 8 show the hug pla n g tting off in six hundred fe e t - virtual l y hurl d into th e air, wh il the exploding rocket s tra i l t eir long strea ■ ers of smoke. r o ■ A General Vandenber g , b e ad of the ~ir iorce. There was plent7 of talk about the Navy send i ng an Aircraft Carrier, intense rivalry was peported, with aany a glance at statements by Air force officers that Aircraft Carriers were obsolete. S o now the avy was out to --rescue the Air l"orce. - and with a Carrier. Op there in Greenland,v the Air Force was eager to forestal l any sue humiliati o n- and make the rescue before the i•avy could . get there. hicb th e y did. Wo what do• has Air lorce ~oamander General Vandenber g £:I say to the ~av T It is all in the - proper s p irit, praise and thanka. General Vandenberg A Profo und Air rorce gratitud e to th e lavy ex p res se s BESCJJL.::.J for s e nd i n g th e Carri e r Saipan, and says it was - "In accor d anc e with the highest tradition of our Armed ervices." T u I ----- r i nt • ives r · n n o xµl Et n&. ion of hat e me t . l y 1 en e s ia th · t in the oviet olitbur t h r ' s · ct i o n t at ant to come to an r 1 t · th t e Uni tea ' t t s. To 1:1 he s u rie t bis h ome t n, Inde naence, issouri, Y re orlers - ho rem ind ed him that his rem · rks ad cued ide-s read s • ecu atio1. The resiaent grinnea · nd said: "You will have to continue to s ecu ate." In th r ords, e eaves us gues · in • ell, there is lenty of tuessing, and the one surmise in a hin ton is that President truman, having tno 1 a e of a e ~ ce urty in the olitburo, s oke out in an effort t bring about ome h rd thinking and soul- searching 1n t t 11-po erful gr up hich rules Russia. Tody the voice of nmerica in i ts broadcast bea e at uss1 , f atured the resi entiul t tement about a ~ ~ ce lirty in tne o it uro. hich tting to the 1 ,ssi n p ople, mi ht ,ell 1 ive them omet ing to think bout. In i 0 ic Ci c es the o inion is J:lllil - i that, whatever the pur ose of the President ■ ay h••• been, his declaration is likely to have reverberation ■ in Russia. IYIB An agree ■ ent in the question ot the Ruhr - the United States and the Western European lations announcing a progra ■ for the reviYal of preduotion in that great induatrial area ot ~ Geraay. ibis ia to be acco ■pliabed uader the control ~ ot an international authority, with eYery preoau\ioa to preYent a reYival of Qer■ an ailitaria ■ • JUIGARI ( 1n Budapest tonight the charge of treason again t Cardinal Mindszenty was made public, with gaudy details)The Red regiae says it has eYidence in the form of documents found in a metal box buried in the cellar of the Cardinal's •J palace. Tho•• {aocuaents are said to pro•• that the priaate of Hungary was engaged in a Royalist plot to aake Ott of Hapsburg the Iing of Hungary -- that sa ■• Otto who is the heir of the ■ ! ■ old ti ■ e Au1tro- Bungarian Eaperor•) Thie alle1ed Royalist plot ~ies in with the United States in a clo1e way -- Car4inal Speilman or Bew York being ■entioned pro ■ inently. The story related by the Hungarian Reda is that laat summer Cardinal Mindszenty came to the United State• -- and, in a monastary near Chicago, he met Otto. IQIGARY _ 2 They talked things over, and were•• of the opinion that, in the event of a third World War, the Unit e d States would support a rederated Iingdoa in the lands of the I••~ Danube. On that basis, they decided that the Royalist j ■ movement in Hungary should be expanded. Then the Hungarian Cardinal went to lew York where he aade an agreement with Cardinal Spellman - whereby Otto was authcrized to repreeent Hungarian Catholics outside of Hungary, includin1 those in the United State~. To all this there is iamediate reply, one de&laration being that, on th• day that Cardinal lindszenty was supposed to be conferring out in Chicago, be was actually in Canada, attending a . religious meeting at Ottawa. In Rome, the Vatican I newspaper declares that the Cardinals real cri ■ e was that of opposing Co ■ munis ■• EGYPT - ( Today's assassination of the Preaier of Egypt is startling evidence of undercu~rente of violence --p_,£ .. in the world of ~,lam. ~remier lokrashy wu 1hot ~ down near the entrance of goYern ■ ent offices -- by an Egyptian student, who thereupon tried to kill hiaaelf. The act was one of aad fanaticis ■ - the student a ■ e ■ber of the Moale■ Brotherhood. Preaier lotrashy bad outlawed that outfit of extre■ iatj aad arreated its otticera, ~o now he baa been aurdered •1 an a11assin of the Moalea Brotherhood. tgypt ia tense tonight, · all precaution• tatea against an outbreak or fanatic lohaa■ edan1. ID Cairo a new Preaier wa1 naaed &t once,-- to face th• critical eituatioD. All of which points to a - atate of anar1 dl1ooateai not only in Egypt, tiut al•~ in atber Arab oountriea. The aituation ate■• fro ■ event• in Paleatine, where the araiea of the Arab nations baYe been defeated - thoae of Egypt aore than an7 otb~r. - - ... --· EGYPt --2 T his has come as no great surprise to observers who know the 1!_ear East. I, ayself, have been among the Arabs, and have talked with people recently returned from those parts, people who know ailitary affairs on both the Jewish side and the Arab_ especially the Arab. On the Jewish side, the~ is no ■Jatery. Iarael ia a Western type of State, with a leatern type Gt Aray - a ■ all, but well ar ■ ed, well trained, and well organized. It ie a ■ odern ■ ilitary taice. The Arabs, on the contrary, have State ■ ot an Oriental type with ar■ iea of an Oriental type. Tbe Arabs are great warriors in their own atyle of battle. They are the historic fighter• of the deaert - wild raiders, indi•idual gladiato?s with pri ■ itive weapon• on the eternal aanda. But the Arabs have little gift of organization - Desert life and Deaert warfare do not call for it. Which teadeac: ruasyn the~itaryd~~\~bliab: t " ..iJi ~J.o,-~, aenta ~rITTt■tea. -fhei weapon• are uauauallJ ~ h dli thea - and their inferior, they lack skill in an ng liXPt -.J organization lhen the Jewish State was born, friends who knew the iear East gave ■ e the prediction that Israel, with a small, well trained Ar ■y, organized along Western lines, would beat off the ■uob larger, but ■ uch lees efficient.,.. force• of the Arab Statea. But the Moale• people• did not uader1taad aur- - thing of the kind. lo 1 they aTe aatoniahed aad disappointed, a n ~ ~ r l y bla:f1beir g•••r■■e■ta - the whole atory au■aarized in ■urderou, ta1hioa today by the pistol akots that felled tbe Pre■ ler of Egypt. fALEBTIBE In Palestine, violent fighting is reported - Both 1J ' • . . - ~~.:s-~. sides claiming auccessea in tbe legeb ~ A i ~ i&rael announces the capture of a 1trategi0 hill - in the drive to•~rd the sea that tbreatnena to cat off the aain force of Egyptian• that in•aded Paleatine ■ olut.ion, i / nctiona agaiy\ larael. urged t ~ ••• - ti The wedding via trans-atlantic telephone was finally performed today - -- the international aarriage cereaony spanning distant contin nts, fro ■ Fort orth, 1exas, to the ~ ~cient city of Milan in Italy. The story tells how ~ergeant John Ient of the Army was trying to aarry the girl he ■ et in a wartiae roaance in Italy, Senorita Dina Macchetta. But he waa here, and ahe waa there. Yeaterda7 he waa at Shreveport, Louisiana, with a Baptiat liniater, ready for the cere ■ ony - by telephone. But ao ■ ethin1 went wrong, and the Senorita allilll waited vainly at the office of the United Preaa ia lilan - a aodera trans-Atlantic version of the •Bride waiting at tbe church.• But today the bella rang out - both telephone and wedding. The Sergeant, having proceeded o~ to Fort ortb, was at this end of the wire - the bride on the telephone a few thousand ■ ilea away. The Sergeant said: •we are ready to be aarried, honey.• Whereupon the bride uttered JEDDllG 2 so ■ ething of a classic, which may have been said by many another young woman on the subject of ■ arriage. •I've waited long enough for this. After which they both aaid: ' It 11 about ti ■ e.• lAIE EMEBIPI ROOSEYEU A late story tonight qu o tes Mrs. Faye E ■ erson Roosevelt as denying utterly that sh& att~•ptad to take her life. Such e, atter it/as f o und ke~taent and offici faaily g~arrel, follow a by razor blade laabing • !t restrained • Faye E■eraon B oaewelt ba0o doing futher jury to he~lt. tonight's 1tory quotes the actress•wite of Elliott Hoosevelt aa tel l ing the lew York Joarnal A ■ erican that it was all an accident, and gi•in1 the following account. There••• a chriat■aa pa r t7 at the liooaevelt Estate, Hyde Park. Eight people were ther, including E lliott Roosevelt, Faye looaevelt, and Franklin D. Jr. •1 had a headache,• aaye the••• actreaa, •and went to the batbroo■ for aspirin. I reached into the medicine chest. My left wriat bit a razor blade. [4YE.EMEBSO.L.Jl.QQ.SEVILT. 2- I cried out," she continues, "and pulled the blade out ■ f with my right hand. In so doin&,I cut ■ J finger." t o this is added ao ■ e e ■ phatic co ■ ment by Elliott Roosevelt, the Journal American quote• him as inti~ating that the stor) of atte ■pted suicide might have political ■ otive1. IEIIIE El: enator c el a r of ennes s ee is an elder sta t e m&n - eig ty years elcer. At t a t a , you'd think~ egis ator would h~ve the calm, serene wisdom of a patriarch nd a p hilosopher, but some of those old boys ure ~ n ue scra y. Tonight, in ashington, the ~enator confirms a story r e ort d by ne s columnist Hobert Allen, who tells of a fr cas in a ashington hotel, there wenator Mc!el ur enc o untere the publisher, a top ranking journalist from his own stute of Ten · nessee - ~illiaan ~vans, of the Nashville Tennessean. the two had been at odds, the Nashville Tennesean assailing enator clellar. ~o th re they were, · race-to-face. Colu■ niet Rob rt Al en qu otes publisher ~illiman ~vans as saying • enator, e ave differed po itically, but there is no reason why there shoula be any enmity bet een us.• The benator's rely is described as - •a smashing blo to the face.• The i g hty year old law maker land in ~ a hefty swing, so face-to-£ · ce turned into fist-to-face. IIIIIESSEE 2 ublisher Sil iaan ~v ns, back in Nashville, as queried today. Be says: "I simply folded ay hunda behind my back, and did not return the blow - because I had no desire to strike the Senator, in view of hie a e.• Well, the publisher ■ ight also have retorted - • ct your age, ~enator, act your age.• SUBSTITUTE TENNESSEE ---------- · -- · -- Eight news about Senator Maciellar of Tennessee, battle reports on the seventy-nine year old legislator, who is in line to beco . e President Pro Tem~ of the Senate. Earlier in the day we heard how the Tennessee law maker had heawed a punch at newspaper publisher Silliman Evans of the lashville Tenneeaean. Later news brings a story from the Senator hiaaelf of how - he smacked a reporter. But why all ibis Senatorial belligerence. Maciellar says he••• annoyed with the -•shville Publisher becau e, in the Senator's words -- •he ha, been writing about me as being old and decrepit•. So, when they met NNO~},J in a Washington hotel, the lawmaker swung and hit the publisher in the face. Today, Silliman EYans stated: •I simply behl.nd my back, and did not return folded my hand d n o desire to strike the the blow -- becau e I ha Senator in view of his age." A s for th e reporter, wha works for Columnist Drew Pearson, Maciellar says the trouble came when Newsman Jack Anderson said - - •s n t . ea or, how old are you?" And refused to leave until he got an answer. Tonight Maciellar says •1 kicked bi ■ out.• Reporter Anderson admits the legislator hit him on the back a few times, Be describes the blows as •pats of a powder putt•. lell, after ~11 that, I shouldn't want to get into trouble with Senator Maciellari but it't• on record that he is Dean of the Senate, haYing served in the Upper Bouse longer than any other living member. SOIG - Here's the story of a shotgun-aong. It tella how George Iorson is a stu~ent of A ■ erican folklore..-, who seeks out old songs in the backwoods, traditional tunes and ditties, and aake recordings of these. Me ~ gets a ■ ,ng Hill Billies who have bee 1 · /' o ■ e coa ■ 1aers 1 and fro ■ a seventy-three year old patriarch,._ he procured a gem. This-. a senti ■ ental ballad of the bills, called- •The Young Lady Ibo larried a lale Driver.• That classic was duly put on wax tor tbe Library of Congress. All of which ia followed by - The Sbot-gua 10•1• George ~orson tells bow he recorded a 1erie1 of little known ballade, one ■ iner after another ainging a aong - each a treasure of almost forgotten A■erioaa folklore. George was packing up hi• equip ■ent, wbea a burly coal digger stepped forward, and announced: •1 want to sin g a song - and you can take this down too. I• ■ going to sing Mother Machree. • 1 · d politely that Mother Machree Georg e exp a1ne ••• beautiful, but it was not exactly the kind of ' almost unknown folk son g suitable for the Library of "-on g ress. Whereupon the miner hipp e d out a s h otgun and repeated: "l'm going to sing Mother Machree.• So George, at the muzzle of the shotgun, his e q uipment, and made a ~ec3rding - although Mother ~~~~~-~ Machree is known in every bar roo ■, and the coal A