IAR~lli\l,i,_fltA~ <;;:;✓-..._.9Q;J qL~,~,/~7-'l In raris toni~ht, the Representatives of sixteen c ou ntries of Western Euro p e have a s embled - ready for the beginning of the Marsnal l Plan Conference to ■ orrow. The word is that they'll try to co ■ plete their taak in a hurry.1fthis task consists of the appointaent of a General Coordinating Coa ■ ittee and half a dozen aub-coaaittees - these latter on special aubJecta li~• coal, iron~griaalture'!f11t~ fast work in appointiag the coaaittee and the sub-coaaittees, the hope is that the7 ~ will be equally apeedy in accoapliahing thei~ ..,, ta1k1 - the drawing up of a conce r ted program for European . ••lt- help, together with an estim a te ot how much A■ erican • • aid will be needed. That prograa will be aubaitted to the United ~tates - and, if accepted, will be the plan. .----~-- In other words, the International European report, it o~ay with Uncle Saa, will be the Marshall Plan. ---- ... -- - Meanwhile, we hear - there's to be a Soviat, Plan. Moscow is said to be buzzing with a scheae ot autual aid between the Soviets themselves and their • ~ satellites. Russia to give wha~eded, the Soviets on /'. their side o : the.lronEurtain, playing the part that A■erica plays on the Western s i ~ a t will1■ake the cleavage co ■ plet - twenty-two . we tern countries on one side and eight Soviet satellites on the other. ti). ~~echoslovakia had accepted, then rnersed itself - under ~e~vy Moscow pressure. One report i1, that the Soviets were willing to let la Czechoalov~kia have its way and join - but the other satellites ""'1:t.t proteat~d. If the Czechs cauld get inw Aaerican grav7, /, why couldn•t the7? So, to a■ - keep the otber puppets iD . .. line, the Soviets had to aake Czechoslovakia ■ua1■ change around and turn uown the Marshall Plan - wbich aust have co ■ e hard with the Czechs, who traditionally pride ta ■■ the ■ aelves on their western ways, their democratic liberalisa.aa As for ¥inland, we hear the Finns debated long and hard before succumbing to Soviet pressure. They too wanted to join the West, but were afraid. lell, who can bla ■ e them? After all, the Finns fought as bard as no help they could against the Soviet giant - and got AR_R~ from libertarians of the West. / , - c!) ~o now the two worlds, the Comauniat ~nd the bee, are farther apart than everJ-rJ. Soviet autuaJ. aid plan to compete with the Marshall iax Plan! lt reaains to be seen ho• much economic help, goods and supplies, the Soviets will be able to ship to their satellites - as compared with the productive capacit7 of the U.1>.A. ~eanwhile, in Washington, salutary word• were apoken today. ~wight·Griswold, Chief of the ~aerican ••• aid mission to Greece, gave warning about Congressional delay in providin~ the three hundred ■ illion dollars voted for assistance to Greece - againat Coamuniaa. He said that any reduction of the anti-Coamunist aid to Greece would weaken our whole position - as moat obviously it would. lore so than ever - now that the Marshall Plan is to• operate in competition with a rival Soviet scheme. And today Secretary of State arshall ia s a id to have warned the Senate Foreign ~el a tions ~o ■■ ittee that the incr ~ asing cleavage be t w eefi t h e ~o viet world and our world aa'1 i t • • ■ ore and ■ ore i■ perative for us to bolster the economy of the free nations of leatern turope. SUVI£T OFFICER - FOLLO ARSHALL PLAN. --- - ---- - ---- - - - - --· - -- -- -- Here•s a bit of comfort for us Americ~ns who realize that, in our own country, people are not always as well informed about foreign lands and custoaa as the7 should be. The Soviets don•t seem to be so well informed either - as is illustrated by the story of the A ■ erican Sergeant and the Russian Lieutenant in lorea. To the ~oviet Zone in iorea, aaixi an aaerican deleiation went for censultationa. i ule • ._ /t was Sergeant Jia McDonald of lorth BollywoodJ- ~ a cameraman assigned to photo 6 raphic duty. There was no personal friendly contact between Russian• and !aericans, except in the case of a Soviet Lieutenaat, alao ussianed to picture-making duty - •ho grew chu■■J, thanks to A ■ erican beer and ci1arettes. The Sergeant tells how the Soviet Lieutenant oeg~n by asking: •Are you a Co ■•unist?• . •Definitely not,~ replied the Sergeant. hereupon the ~ussian asken - •nas the late President ~oosevelt a Republican or a emocrat?• The Sergeant told him, after which the ~oviet officer noted regretfully: •President Roose.it - yes, he Wd& a goon man. But this man Truman ••• • And he let out a stream of explo ive Russian. •ee sounded,• a a the ber1eant, •like some people ba.ck ho ■ e used t o • ~ -Atha subject of Roosevelt.• The aaerican for who ■ the Soviet Lieutenant expressed the greatest admiration of all was - '-rl here, they having kicked Browder out aa their leader. •1e know hi ■ very well,• said the Russian, •A good ■an, a very good man.• The Sergeant was g~tting a bit indignant by now, and ventured the opinion that Bro•der would never be elected Preaioent of the United I States. That ended a beautiful friendship. •It kind of broke up the ••••■ xx conversation.•$ays the Sergeant~- 1and I never got a chance to talk to any Russian after that.• London is to have a ~orl Dongreaa of chemists - but there won't be any discussion of atomic energy or the bomb. That's for~idden. The Eleventh Interoational Congress of pure and applied chemistry will be attended bf. two thousand scientists from twenty-eight countries - includin Soviet Russia. Three hundred••• and eighty-one technical papers will be preseat~a, but not one of these wiil touch upou the secrets of atoaic power. II eneP&J• Be said: t»hat oalJ ~e•t 1ae p•••••t ·~ lf' hadioacti:vi ty 1--•,. taboo. The nec:,.rest thing will be a lecture on a radio chemical laboratory - radio •·nua the activity. IID!4 Out in lndia, the belief was expressed today that the ~ have maae a daring and clever move in appointing Lord Louis Governor General. The Mountbatten to be their - ~ -to Present/'-Viceroy~ecomee first the official head of the Hindu Division of Partitioned India - ~ theAdoainion of Hindustan. ' The Mohammedans have acted otherwise - with their Pakistan. They have named a native Indian as Governor-General of the Mohaaaedan Division, their own A leader Mohamed ! l i linnab. Ur rather, ii•••~ Jinnah is said to haYe appointed himself. · we are told that the MoaJeaa decided not to ■ ake I•••*• Mountbatten their ~overoor because they wanted to eaphaai1e the ideatit7 of itazxx11 Pakistan, its coaplet~ separation froa I\. Hindustan - by havin g different Govermors. - Opinion today was that the Hindus have • scored a point, have made a gain in the establishment of favorable relations with the British Empire - by the selection of Viscount l ■ ••*• Mountbatten, whose nephe• is to aarry the heire s s to the Cro w n of Britain. Out AeM in Indi•, w ith it s new self 6 overnment, a Hindu st a t~sman haci a bri g ht idea today something that had to do with monkeys. If you've ever been to the fabulous · land of Hindustan, you will have vivid• aemories of swarming monkeys - soae fll•.,.~ ~ overrun by them. That, in fact, is the trouble in the copital city of le• Delhi right now. ■ •• • ~elhi, with ita up-to-date and m odern addit'ons to an . age-old site of dark and fateful history, h a • ~ • new and sumptuous archit e ctu r e put up by the Briti1h. But, juat the aaae, it still is India - anu teeaa with mon~eya. . ~~ ~;::t'"~ 1";t that the ■unicipal ~ i : " ' w Delhi decided to do so■ethin& about it. thereupon, in the deliberations today, a Hindu i~a~•• Statesaan arose an~ proposed - round up the ■onkeys and send the■ to the United States1But why? What would we over here do with the monkey le g ions of Mew ~elhi? Th e Hindu statesman explained by declaring - 'there is a big demand for monkeys in the United ~~- IU..-- St a tea) ~ hich may be news t o ~ - but that Hindu atatesaan knew the ••••zx answer. There •a~h• explained, a bi g aarket in the U.S.A. - for aonke7 glands. ~onsequently, le• Delhi could not only get rid of its excess d aonkeys, but could aake a profit on them by exporting the ■ as. ■■■■t monke7 1• gl a nda f or ~••ricana. However, the aotioa was turned down - which, l auppoae, was because of the old Hindu prejudice againat killing an7tbing, alt the wa7 fro■• baboon• to fleas uci gnats. ~~::;:dil:l!f ~ ~ J I aoaething else - round up t~e aonkeya, transport the ■ out of town, and turn the■ loose - far enough awa7 so t h e y ~ b e able to walk back. ~That• a what theyk~ cloiog. - Q.od we Aaericaa■ ■ ill have to g e t along without the monkey glands. Two un · red top American scienti ts met today at Palo Alto -- at Leland Stanford. And from this gatheri&g comes the word that for the firEt time in history man has brought the cosmic ray within his grasp. The cosmic ray, a mysterious force, powerful beyond all comprehension. The scientists listened to a description of experiaents conducted over the last seven months with the new four thousand ton cyclotron at the University of California, the world's largest atoa- 1aa1her. With this huge cyclotron they have en probing further into the mysteries of the universe, exploring the sub-atomic world, enabling them to photograph, for the fi · st time, a man-made replica of the cosmic ray. ~~ Govern o r "8111. D ey.,e y e-t l l f t e ~ ••~-~-.lMHi /- Colorado tonight1 on his way to the Gov rnor's conference at Salt Lake.&ttfl, Al t h o ~ a vacati~~ith his familJ t h is afternoon the De ey Pullman compartment was visited by a procession of Colorado Republican lead e r') m any of whom boarded the train about a hundr d miles out of Denver. Some observers refer to Colorado as a Taft stronghold. And some of these same observers interpret the New York Governor's visit as an indic&tion that the DeweJ forces intend to battle for every Rep blican delegate to the Nineteen Fort7-eight convention. But Governor Dewey stil r e fers to his tri p as a normal visit to the Utah gathering of state executives. The dramatic thriller of the Tennessee cave turns into a low grade farce - another ex mple of weird things people will do to get publicity}ffor days there was a breathtaking hunt in a cave near Shell ■ ount, Tennessee, a man said to be lost in the aysterious rece111 ~ believed to have been drowned in a dark subterranean pool. lould-be rescuers•• risked their lives in what turns out now to be a fraud, a hoax. Today they located the gentleman, not in tbe cave, but in le• rork. tie is John Tuck Burn - who, to1ether with two brothers, owns and operAtes the cave •• a ai&htseein& proposition. Business of late had not been good - so he decided to try a publicity stunt, ancl thereby attract new cv.ato■ers, 'l'oday he d e c l a r ~ told aot.hing of this to his two brothers - nor to his wife. Pretending to go exploring underground, he waa ta£en across the subterranean pool in a boat - after •hich he made his way out,/\crossing the pool with the aid of a life preserver. He went secretly to Birmingham, then to Me ~ lork, laving behind him the ■ akings ot aelo raaa - man lost in cave. Tod a y in iew lork he said he never guessed what wou l d happen. •on the aquare,• he declared, •1 ju1t didn't r e alize how big it would get. I thought it would be about a two-day ator7, but it ~ot bigger and bi6 ger until 1 • ~ s afraid to go back.• I ahould kax•■ ul think he would be afraid --- - witb hia neighbors doing all the7 did to _ find bia. Tbt police, the Bo7 Scouts, the Red Croes, the ■ational Guard, and volunteers of all sorts - riskins their live• in the weird recesses of tbe caYe, with ita dark under1round pool. -Afra i.a to 1111 bi!i, be was in q:tcr:tw -. . - pH1U,e1M1At - Hi a.ore ao bei!IUll.s/j,h • ~ d three children, -.a knew nothing of the a ■ as hoai\ . Be finally telephoned the ■• He sa7s bis wife was greatly reliev d - but I wonder how auch her joy is shared by the neighbors, not to mention the p olice, the Boy Sc uts, the Redxlaxla ■ 11 Cross d th ' an e M a tional ~uard. In Shanghai, there w · s a riot of barbers today. Two thousand ~hinese, who shave beards and cut hair, stormed a Shanghai theatre. They were enraged b7 a plai, a ~hinese aelodrama - which, they claiaed, brought dishonor on their ancient profession, slandering-. bar,bere:Cthe whole thing is a bii Chinese, but i i I'll tr7 to explain it. the pla, is one of thol uproarious €hineae thrillers, the title of which can be roughly translated •• II••••• •Phoney •i Husband and Wife.• There••••• to be no husband and wife in the draaa, which concLrD• a aillionaire and a concubine. Tbe barber in the play ia represented as getting*• in~o a romance with the concubine, to the detri ■ ent of also seem to be a Ohanghai were insu~ted. ~ ~ - •1 two thoua1:&nd of the■,..- went in a ragibg 1110b to the theatre and r& ~ for the actor who Ji&J■• plays the pa~t of the barber. They s id they •anted him- so that th,y could give him a beating. The u1nq1_lAU!l§... __ :_g actor aade his escape through the back door -- whereupon tbe aoti of ~arbers had to content themsel~es by ripping 4o•• the big posters in front of the theatre. With tb• . police arriving Just in ti■e to prevent tbe■ fro■ ripping · aowa the whole theatre. I 4oa•t know wbat Contusio•• would 1ay about that laJbe he woala eagelJ remark: •Bapber, he shave beard, out bair, that'• all.• Or l abould aay Bugh, that'• all but you! That•• all but y.ou -- lelaon. al~.RII_ - 2 year old convicted of burglaryfThe Ua istr a te ia a wo■ HDt lleanor ~ershai, whose father is a Canon of the Church of tngland - which means; presumably, that her Honor wus reared to the tr~ditions of old. Anyway, she revived the tr~ditions of old in the sentence she imposed on the two boy burglars. She decreed that suitable authorities should proceed to a roadside, pick a good sturdy birch tree, and ■ trip some branches theretroa - Allt# these to be used as the bir-ch;l\faailiar to British School boys for ■ any a lon aeneration. M •• aait■axaaaxi•••• ' ~Latin and Greek has been inStalled through the aediu■ of the birch than Cicero and Demosthenes ever dreamed ot. tpioch boy bur lar to be given six strokes of the birch - to teach them honesty, if not Latin and Greek. All of which was duly accomplished\ the juvenile c1ime wuve bringing back to old En~land one of its olaest institutions - the bir9h. In the British city of Manchester, a court has decreed a kind of sentence that hasn't been known for fifteen years -- birching. Thia come as a cli ■ ax of a ~uv 0 nile crime waTe i lagland. A report from lcotland Yard showing that in a year nearly. thirty-five hundred youngsters under ri••r• of age, bav.e been arre1ted for. crimes that bur.gla~,, bouae-breating, autoaoblie ste~ling. Ot all th• abopliftera arrested in London during the year nearly a third were fro■ eight to thirte~n years of age. The juYelile delinquent• op•r• in gangs. And of 1aag leaders arrested five were only eight ieare old, and n nearl! forty were age nine. That's the background for the court proceeding• in Manchester -- a ten year old and an eleven year old convicted ot burglary. The Magistrate is a woman, Eleanor Ier3haw, whose father is a Canon of the Church of England - whicb means, presumably, that her Honor was reared to the traditions ot oid. Anyway, she r e vived tbe traditions of old in UlMJlll-'~-=-2 the ••ntence she im~osed on the two boy burglars. She 4ecreed the suitable authorities should proceed to a road1ide, pick a good sturdy birch, tree, and strip 10■• franches therefrom -- these to be used as the - birch 10 faatliar to British School boy.a tor ■ any a long 11neration. lore Latin and ~reek has been instilled through the ••4iu■ or the birch than Cicero and De ■ osthenes •••r drea■ed of. laoh boy bar1lar to be given 1ix stroke s ot the birch - to teach the ■ honest1,, it not Latin and Greek. All of which••• duly acco ■pllshed; the crime wave bringing back to old lngland one of ite olde1t in1titutiona -- the birch.