- MECCA Here's a dateline · e e ldo m see. News from Mecca. A di atch fro m the Forbidden H o ly City of Islam. Its weather news - a heat w ve in Mecca. That city of west Central Arabia, near the Red Sea, is normally one of the hottest places on earth. - Today's dispatch calls the heat - •abnormal.• And this ~~~- .. -~~~ is the t~x pilgrim season, withA.pious ~oslems flocking from allov r the Moham edan world to obs e rve the feast of Qarban Bairam in Mecca. Cairo hears that two kuz ■ • hundred pilgrims have perished - from sunstroke in the past two d a y s ~ . o . t oslems come from countries where the people are familiar with hot weather; so the te mperatures must be s■zzt■a torrid indeed, as pictured in this - news from Mecca . • TIB E T The C h i . ese Communist r d1o announces tlla · t Red oocupat1on troops have entered Lh sa., the capital of Tibet. This, so the Com unists say as pa . rt of the agree ent between the government of the Dalal Lama and Red China. But •agreement" would seem to be too •t~ mild a word. It was Tibetan surrender, forced by bayonets. FOREIGN The Forei n i~ist e rs o f t h e Bi Three renort an a g ree m ent for a • ace contr a ct• 1th western Ger 1a ny. That's h a t its c a ll ed - •peace co n tract•. Not tr ea ty. But it would se m to mean much the same thin. This occurs les than a eek a fter the San Francisco sining of the peace ~z&■ treaty with Japan. Meeting 1n Wash1ngton, British Foreign Secretary Morrison, French Foreign Minister Schuman and American Secretary of State Acheson announc , d the terms to a ay. West Germany to become an independent na.tio~Ltfllti establish d1 loma.tic ties with othe countries, and run lts own foreign trade. But allied occupation tro o ps wil l remain, and the Bi g Three will su pe rvise any negotiations with Soviet Russia for a unification of West and East Germany. Full partnership in the west rn alliance a g ain s t the Soviet 1s assured - with the est Ger m ans prov1d1n th 1r s h are of soldi r s for t h e int rn a t onal army of en e r a l E ise~ h ow r. T h e '11 r e cr it t e ir own r oo , ut t e s e wil l be r at d s •Euro o ean soldiers• roR,IGN MINISTERS - 2 not a German military force. West Germany will produce armament, but not atomic weanons - that 1s forbidden. (To ay in Washington, the Foreign M1n1atera ordered the Allied High Commissioners in Germany to present the •peace contract• at once to the western German government. Apuroval ~x•■ is considered cert&1n~ . All of which reprtisents another diplom&t1c setback for Soviet Russia - after the r cent Red failure to block the Japanese peace treaty ~t San r·a.ncisco. CZECHOSLOVAKIA We hear the Red government o! Czechoslovakia has register P. d a formal prote t a ainst the aerial •quarantine•. The west e r n p ow e rs h a ve ba nned all Czech plan e s fro m flyin g over West Germany - putting an end to Red airline operations in w . stern Eur o pe. Today France cancelled all future flights by French planes into Czechoslovakia. The British did the same thing last Kay, and American p lanes have kept out of the Soviet satellite country for the past year. So now all flying oonnect1ona are severed, an aerial quarantine - as a protest against the Red imprisonment of Associated Preas Correspo n dent William Oatis - and other citizens of the western powers. HIROHITO The way things have ska••• chan ed with respect to Japan is shown by a bulletin from Tokyo. General atthew Ridgeway will c 11 on the Emperor Hirohito at the Imperial Palace, next Tuesday. This 1a the first time, since the beginning of the occupation that a Supreme Commander has paid a visit to the Mikado. Previously, Hirohito called on General Douglas MacArthur. But now, after the San Francisco treaty, Japan 11 a -lovereign nation once a ain - and things are different. ~ • JOREA In Kor a today, the Alli e d Forces ham m ered t he ir way f o rw a rd all alon g t h e fi g htin g line. The g ain1 •••x were s m al l but steady - 1n f a ce of bitter enemy resistance. East front action f eatured Banzai ch a rges by North Koreans who surged forward 1n masses against ne, ly won positions held by the Marines. Today's news dispatch saye •the Leathernecks mowed down the ••• screaming Reds with point blank fire.• On the western front, tha day was featured by an ominous ap p earance ot Red armor. Six enemy tante w e re spotted - and assailed im m edi a tely by artil l ery and planes. Field gunners hit and damaged a tank with shell fire. The planes came swooping down with bombs and flaming jellied gasoline, blasting one tank and leaving the other a mass o~ raging fire. M e anwhile, the Reds continue to build up their Air Force north of the Yalu River, the Manchurian sanctu a ry. Tod a y, Major General Frank Everest, commander ot the Fifth Air Force, declared the enemy has massed more tha.n eleven hundred aircraft, mostly 3et fighters. His own fifth Air Force can't att ck them - not in tha, - - Manchurian sanctuary. But he says he assumes that, if that Red Air Force goes into acticm against the UN army, his own bomb e rs will be allowed to bla s t the baaea north of the Yalu. ATTLII Here's a surprise 1n the news, and the one who creates the astonishment le - Clement Attlee, Prime Minister of Great Britain. Today, the head of the Labor Government gave a warning to Iran. Same old 1ubject - Iranian 011. Be ea1d the Iranians risk economic ruin - with their present 011 policy. All th11 in the UIU&l Attlee Way. The head of the Labor Government 11 no ball of fire as &n orator -- much in contrast to hie gre~t rival, Winston Churchill. But Attlee, today, went into a surprise paragraph - with nimble wisecracks and puns • ._,.ta.._ I - be--.~~ some verbal fireworks worthy of Churchill himself. •011• he quipped, •11 highly inflammable. There have been occas1ona• he ad d ed, •when oil question, have raised Great heat. The problem of Iranian 011•, he continued, •mtght be described as a burning question.• Hear! hear! &IHI TRAINING Something new 1n education - schooling given by the Army. Wash1n ton says that someftraining camps give course in gambling to the G I's -- to keep them from b comin g victims of card sharks. Not standard army training, just local innovations at sorre camp ■• Because of ca)sharke lurking in the neighborhood - cheating green rookies ,at po~er or blackjack. 4YTQS Autom bile Manufacturers are permitted to rais e prices - so announced in Washington this afternoon. The Office of Price Stablization has D\\.A okayed increases flf whole series of ca.rs - retail /\ price-increases ranging from fifty-five to four hundred dollars. How ver, dealers cannot hike the figures for the public -- unless and until the Manufacturers ralse - ~ their factory prices. One supuosition is that some - - companies may hold off - may not put the increase into effect immediately. FLOOD Neva from Alice, Texas - still raining. That's the •• tovn1 4. & hundred and twenty m iles north of the Mexican border, w he re a cloudburst let loose a deluge; fourteen inches of rain. Today the town of Allee was flooded, two thousand people waahed out of their home~ water e1x feet deep in ■ ome places, motor boats sa navigating what used to b e streets. Every railroad bridge for miles waehe4 out; highways blocked. A state of emergenby proclaimed - ind, today, it vaa still K:But 1 it was only a drlssle, fortunately, and the flood waters of San Diego creek are now recedln1. In aplte of the overwhelming cloudburst, no live• were lost, . nobody S•ii injured. HURRICANE Mexico is having a hurricane, and the news ~ angle has a strange twist. The big blow struck Mexia . . ~ •Devil's Ialand.•ra1s1ng havoc with a penal colony of desperadoes. The nlace is off the Ve~t ~oast, out in the Pacific, a small archipelago called Las Tree Marias. There, twenty thousand of Mexico's toughest or1m1nals are confined. The s■a■ tempest la called a •baby hurricane•, , not large; but, v.1olent. Reports · are that numbem of buildings were blow.n away by the wind, or washed out by the deluge of rain. Urgent ca11, for help have been received, and the Mexican government has ordered warship• to evacuate convicts, guards and soldiers if necessary. ~ The hurricane raising the devil on Mexican Devil's ) Island. FR NCHOT TOE Tonight movie actor Fr . nchot Tone is in a Hollywood hospital, suffering fro m a brain concussion. a broken nose, and a fractured cheek. ~his afterno n. there w a s an onerat1on to reconstruct the nose and the left cheek bone. That's how violent things were in Bollywooa•s latest brawl betwe . n movie stars. Fr nchot Tone was slu ged by aetor Tom Neal, who has po,erful muscles. That fact is indicated by the reult of the fight. It was also - the cause of the trouble to begin with, an affatr of romance. The fr cas was bout movie actress Barbara Payton. who after getting a divorce was free to remarry only yesterday. Her first choice for remarriage had been Franchot Tone - but then she ohan ed her mind. That waa when she saw actor Tom N al at the seashore in a bathing suit. She told friends that - the minute she saw*•• his muscles, she kne1 he a the man for her. •1 knew we had to et arried• she 1s quoted as saying. So the b e came enga e d, d the wedding was set for tomorrow. FBANCHOT TONE - 2 \ But yesterday ther w a chan e of heart. Neal says: •she gave me the b rush off. Yesterday she spent t e wh le da with Franchot Tone.• Muscles or no muscles, she wae going back t~ - her previous choice. Whereu on the disappointed suitor went to the lady's house, and was , a1t1ng for the couple when they arrived. The dialogue that ensued is given by Neal as t■• follows: 'Tone said - we' 11 have to settle thia. Let's go out on the lawn.• I aaid it was silly for us to fight, that I was younger than he, and used to be an amateur.• But says Neal, Tone took a roundhouse awing • What could I do!• He asked. • I ducked the punch, and then I hit him ard. I knocked him about ten feet.• That was followed by several more punches, that knocked Tone out cold. Neal thinks his wedding tomorrow with Barbara 1s off - I shouldn't wonder. She admired his FBANCHOT TONE - 2 \ But yesterday tber w a chan · e of heart. Neal says: •she gave me the rush off. Yesterday she spent tte wh le da with Franchot Tone.• Muscles or no muscles, she waw going back to • her previous choice. Whereu on the disappointed suitor went to the lady's house, and was f &iting for the couple when the¥ arrived. The dialogue that ensued is given by Neal as t■■ follows: •Tone said - we'll have to settle this. Let's go out on the lawn.• I said it was silly for us to fight, that I was younger than he, and used to be an amateur.• But says Neal, Tone took a roundhouse swing at him; •what could I do!• He asked. •1 ducked the punch, and then I hit him &rd. I knocked him about ten feet.• That was followed by several more punches, that knocked Tone out cold. Heal thinks his wedding tomorrow with Barbara is off - I shouldn't wonder. She admired his p4JCHOT TONE - 3 muscles on the beach, but not the way h~ used them 1n her front ya.rd. Barbara her elf did not emer g e unscathed from the battle. It s ee m s that she w a s screaming at the two br a wlers on the sideline, but somehow - got ir the way of a punch. Today she had a black eye. The latest -- F r a nchot Tone was still us unconscioue in the hoeo1tal. Q♦BIJYAL Here's one for anybody's collection of 044 1no1dente - a three-way colliaion between a railroa4 train a merry-go-round, and an automobile. All - in a silly scene worthy of a foolish comedy. On a highway near Cincinnati, a oarnlval show w a s moving along - with the amusement devices towe4 in trailers. Going up a hill, two trailers broke loose, and went rolling b a ck - speeding down the slope. In one wa1 a miniature train belonging to the carnivalJ in the other - a carousel, a merry-go-round. Whlch excited boundle1e aatonlehllent ln Walton Thomas of Cincinnati - because in h11 car he was driving~ th{hill, when he saw the trEn and the merry-go-round coming strai ht down at him. All he could do was throw his auto in reverse, and start backing, ho p ing to go faster. That waa the a1lly ~cene - the train and the merry-go-round chasing the back-pedalling automobile down the hill. They won - the train crashing i nto the auto. Q ♦IIJYAL - a The merry-go-round craah1ng into the train - ~ ' tM. lively a spill, tangle and mix-up, as waa ever seen A ~~ 1\ ~ ~-y,.. on a highway. ---