LISBON~. F°4. - - The Lisbon conference got going today, with delegates : I of fourteen countries in the North Atlantic Treaty organizatio~ beginning their session. American Secretary of State Dean / Acheson urged them to act promptly in treformal creation of an international army of Western Europe - including German units. A treaty is being drafted, to give General Eisenhower tourtee French divisions, twelve Italian, five Benelux, and twelve Oel'lll8.n. British armed forces are separate - though allied) Secretary Acheson told the Nato delegates that an agreement has been work~d out between the Big Three and Western Germany - as a result of conferences with West Oerman Chancellor Adenauer in London. Which settlement, in fa~t, makes the Lisbon conference possible. ADD LISBOI Later in the day E isenhower a ddressed the gathering, and urged the immediate creation ot a network or est European airfields, to support a ground al'IIY ) SUBSTITUTE TRUMAN-CHURCHILL The latest tonight ls a declaration by President Truman - that he made no commitments to Great Britain for 0 ~ sending American troops to any part cf the world.AThe President a f ter Congress had voted a demand for an answer. Did he, in his talks with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, make any cOIJlllitJle n ts tor sending U.S. troops abroad? "No," say the President. ift ~ ~ e n e e KOREA - TRUC E In the K o rea truce talks, the deadlock is just the same. Staff officers today made progress in settling minor p oints, t , ut the latest point of ataleu.te remains - the Red demand that Soviet Russia be accepted as one of the neutral c ountries to preside over a Korean armistice. One enemy negotiator, today, said the U.N. delegates were creating the deadlock - by rejecting Moscow. Toniiht brin11 a couple of journalistic report• about iaportant figurea in the political picture. One, Chief Justice Yinaon, who baa often been aentioned •• a deaocratic noainee, it Preai4•nt ,raaan does not ran again. But the laahington Poat 5 ••~ it ha1 learned that the Chief Ju ■ tic• •oul4 k r1j1ot aa, 1acb no■ ination - would retua• to b• 4r.af\ed. Bia Tie•, aooordin& to th• n•••p•p•r, 1• that a Supr••• Court Juatic• ■■■l 1bould k••P out ot poli\loa tor•Y•r an4 oo■pletel7, ia th• iatereat ot leport •••b•r two atate1 tbat G•neral laolrthar pr•f•r• ,aft ot Ohio•• th• GOP Preei4•ntial oaa414at• ba\ - that lacArthar woul4 1upport •ith•r - - 8\111ta or liaeahower J Thi• 1efltate4 b7 •••••••k - la111ine which 1ays that th•J ha•• it oa tb• authority •f CoD1r•••••• who ha•• been talkin1 to laclrthar. One 11 11• 11 - a 4eaial of report• that laclrtbar and Ji1eahower are not friendlJ. laclrtbur ia quoted 11 117iin1 •1 . baYe a strong feeling of frieadahip ,ni alaoat a per ■ onal affection for bl••• Wbicb ia ooatrary to uaaal aappoaltiona. t a.. LOOISIAHA ELECTIO _. In Louist- Y, n election count piled up a landslide for Judg Kennon, who now becomes Govennor of record-breaking defeat for the political machine he late Huey Long. The vote, almost complete, shows - ---red and thirteen thousand for JUdge Kennon. Two · mlll ~ ~ and fifty-three thousand for Carlos Spaht, backed by t , chine. The resul_ o - sweet revenge~the country / Judge. He has been c= i:~u~ the dynasty or the Kingfiah tor a 11neteen Porty-e1,gbt, ~ brother ot Huey - lingttah. But h~ enthus1as • ' teated J1.m in major elections, In ran£r aovernor against Earl Long, In ltneteen Fitty, he •de a bid in this year - although his effort no organization support, was backed by t the Long machine split - with the te Huey Long backing different r LOIJlSIAIA ELECTION - 2 .. ~andidat&s for governor. So, 1n the three-cornered affair, Judge Kennon came 1n second. Louisiana law provides that, in case of no outright majority, there must be a run-off - and that brought the landslide victory fDr the c . ountry judge. ALIENS There's a charge in W 8S hington that contractors are forcing illegal aliens to work - practically for nothing. So stated by Congressman Francis alter of Pennsylvania, who . ' accuses employers at New York and Newark, aew Jersey. He says that two hundred thousand illegal aliens, some of them kept in barracks, are under-paid - intimidated by threats to tum the■ over to the 1•1grat1on authorities for deportation. This appears in connection with legislation to deal with "wet-backs." That is, Mexicans who swim the Rio Grande, crossing the border illegally, for e■oloyment - as workers 1n the southwestern states chiefly. /. The Pennsylvania Congre // / / ltk~that goes on in the rtheast - wtiere aliens jwap shiP, / , / / and eLhe counj;ey illegally. ' ue 1s asking the Bouse Rule■ / / / / / / , COnm1ttee a bill to punish all who -' conceal Ulegal altens - / --- . , / / lit that sOlliethtng / tboae / e , loyers who { he claims, under-p~hose ~/, / unde threat of exposure. PIWfCE - TRIAL In France, a criminal trial began today - and, inevitably, the American newsmen over there make reference a Broadway play, half a dozen years ago. "Arsenic and Old La about nice old ladies, who had a genteel way of poisoning people. In France, at the old city of Poitiers, Madame Narie Besnard faced the court today - charged with twelve murders bJ arsenic. Madame Besnard, they say, looks ltke the kindliest, mildest old lady that ever slipped a dose of poisoning 1n a plate or soup. Her victims - two husbands, her father, her ■other, her motner-til-law, a u~other-in-law, a sister-in-la•• two cousins, a great aunt, and two neighbors. The motive - profit. They say that,from her v1et1118, she inherited two farms, a hundred and twenty acres or other lands, three hotels, and ne residential properties, not counting a bundle of cash~ So there's a large financial angle - tn the French version of "Arsenic and Old Lace." lfUMBERS RACKET The Detroit police have smashed what they believe to be the biggest numbers racket in the Middlewest. Arresting - forty-six prisoners. One - a retired policeman. They say the syndicate was taking in twenty thousand dollars a day, selling tickets to pepple betting on the nwabers. -1(.t:' They've seized huge masses of record&~ the financial details of the racket. One bit or evidence is a filll, which the detectives made - motion pictures of one of the top racketeers depositing numbe1·s racket money 1n a bank. This individual, up to a year ago, was a patrolman on the Detroit Police Force - a copper retired from law enforcement, who went into the nwnbers racket. !ILLU - 2 They found the suspect had gone - after having bought a battery for bis automobile, which was in the neighborhood. So the two searched, found the car, and aade the arrest. The pants salesaan, aeanwhile, bad seen the cops go off, and thought - nothing was happening. Be must have . ade a ■ istake - and hoae be went. Then, within a few hours, the news was full of th• capture of Willie (the actor) Sutton. Schuster was th• ■ ore interested - because of reward• offered for the capture of the notorioua bank robber. Today, Patrol■en Shea and McClellan adaitte4 - yea, in their excite ■ent, they had forgotten to tell bow their headline arrest bad been on a tip they bad fro ■ the Brooklyn pants aalea ■ an. The news tonight confirms the disillusioa -- in the story of two Ne~ York police ■en, heroes in the capture of Willie (the actor) Sutton. light before last, we heard how they bad spotted tne notorious bank robber, one of the ten fugitives ■ oat wanted by the f.B.I. After which they were in the liaelight for two days. Promoted by the Police Inspector - and today they were to have been congratu- lated by Mayor Impelliteri, in a ceremony at City Ball. But that was called off, suddenly - when the truth caae out. The one who recognised lillie (the actor) Sutton was a Brooklyn pants aalesaan naaed Arnold Schuster - who was riding in the subway, when hiaeye fell on a man sitting across the way. face - faailiar. Arnold Schuster bad seen an f.B.I. poster, with a picture, a face - crook wanted, Willie (the actor) Sutton. So there was that saae face. The suspect left the subway in Brooklyn and went to a gas station - Schuster following him. on the street were two cops in a p olice car. Be told them of hie supicion, and they went over t o t e gas 1tation. They found the suspect had gone - after having bought a battery for his automobile, found the car, and aade the arrest. The pants sales ■ an, ■ eanwbile, bad seen the cops go off, and thought - nothing was happening. Be must have made a mistake - and ho ■e be went. Then, ~ithin a few hours, the news was full of the capture ot lillie (the actor) Sutton. Schuster was the ■ ore interested - because of large r•rds offered tor the capture of the notorious bank robber. Today, Patrolen Shea and McClellan adai , tted - yes, in their exc i te■ ent, they had for1otten to tell how their headline arrest bad been on a tip they had from the Brooklyn pants aalesaan. DOOLITTLE Today President Truman ordered all federal agencies to cooperate with the Doolittle investigators - in their study of the problems of great airports in heavily populated areas. Which, of course, follows the series of disasters at - - - the crash ~ Elizabeth, New Jersey - ~ of planes flying to A i( and from the great Newark airport. The outcry has been such that the White House appointed a special investigating c01U1ission, headed by Lieutenant General James H. Doolittle - I Conander ) or Tokyo bombing fame an~ In• ■, of the Eighth Air Poree U.S. in World War TrAo. Jimmy Doolittle, retired from the~Air Poree, 18 a ~ executive in the oil industry, but he takes tille out ~ X to study what the White House calls - "the safety, welfare, and peace or mind" ot people living near big airports. SHIP --- Tonight, the stern of a shattered oil tanker 1s on its way to port - and on it are thirteen sailors, who refused to abandon what's left of their broken ship. Today the stem of the Fort Mercer was taken in tow by a tug, which started on a voyage to Block Island, at the ■outh of Long Island Sound. Scheduled to be the t1rst stop - 1n an effort to get the fragment ot the ship to a dock at Rew York. It 1 s a slow operation, but the~re 118k1ng all the speed they can - to avoid new dangerous gales that are predicted. ........... . . .. ...... .... . .. ... .. .. . .... ........ 0 Fro ■ the linter Olyapice - new• of another triu■ ph for Andrea lead Lawrence. The nineteen-year old housewife fro ■ lutland, Yeraont, won her aecond gold aedal today, when she came in firet in the regular alalo ■• In apit• of a fall in the 1lu1h7 ,now, Andy won out. And to linter 1port1 fana \hat•• 1enaational newa. The nineteen 7ear Yeraoat 1irl doing what no Aaerican 1kier hae eTer done -- \wo Olyaplc 1old aedal1. San Francisco's traffic aix-up arises fro ■ a small cause - apparently. Six workers on those traditional cable cars protested against working conditions - and that resulted in a full scale transit strike which halted every atreet car and bus in San franciaco today. The traffic jam was fantastic but thei aay it •ould ~ve been worse if San Francisco had not scheduled its first full dress air raid. Tb• police were aobilized for that. lhicb helped in the handling of the fantastic traffic snarl. • DliL A trial came to a strange conclusion at Albuquerque, lew Mexico, today. The judge told the jur7 to return a verdict of not guilty, because of a t1cbnicalit7. But the defendant refused to accept the verdict, and deaanded that he be found - guilty. This was in one of those conscientious- objector cases - a college atudent, Carlton Owen, bavin1 faile4 to register for the draft. Be adaitted 1,1r7thin1, but the judge ruled that, under the law, a confeaaion ••• not enough - that was the technicality. lut, whe the judge directed an acquittal - \~e defendant told the jury be ahould be sent to pri1on tor ,iolatin1 the law. Be think• this country, insiea4 of preparing for defen1e, ahould apply the Golden Bule. lat he didn't explain bow to peraua4e the Soviet• to apply the Golden Bule! So the Jury obliged - and voted a verdict of 1uilty. Wll..:..i- • aoat unu1ual case I•• ••er seen.• And - ordered .. piychiatriate to examine the defendant who pereuade4 the jury to find hia guilty. LOAI -- At Terril, Iowa, Lewis Johnson, eighty-four years old - has received a letter offering payment of 8. debt. One hundred dollars - which he loaned forty-six years ago. The offer c0111es from an eighty year old widow - whose husband borrowed the money. Mrs. Etta Cloake of Doyle, ca11tornia, writes how, yeara ago, her husband told her that Lewis Johnson had lent hill a hundred dollars, when the two men worked together 1n a brick-yard at Spencer, Iowa. He tried to save enough to pay it back, but had ~ever been able to. Before he died, he asked hia wife to settle the debt, it she ever could. So now she writes: "After four yeara of saviDI, day by day, I have the ■oney." Likely enough she won't have to pay it. Today Lewis Johnson said: "I have enouch to provide for 1111 needs." At Columbus, Ohio, there's a Minister of the Gospel - brandishing a stone ax. A prehistoric weapon wielded by a ca•e ■ an twenty thousand years a1o. The leYerend George IYane, bead of a good-will charity group, has the ato»e ax, and the State Departaent in laahington wants it. The atone age relic caae aa a donation to the charity group. So ■ ebody, nobody knowa who - included it in a contribution. le'•e heard about button• in the collection bask~t - but who ever heard of a ca•• ■an•• weapon of war? You ■ ight think it an Indian relic - but no\ a\ all. Archeologi1t1 declare it'• of the •Chert• \7pe, not found in A■ erica •amlx - but in northern Europe. Datin1 back to the neolithic period, the new Stone Age - • up to twenty thou1and 7ear1 aao. Yaluable, too, the B•••rend George E•ana declaring: •te~•• had 1o ■e pretty nice offers fro ■ collector• for that old az.• Probably brought over here by an American ... aol4ier of lorld War Two - a aou•eair picked up b7 ,oat G.I. A ■ useua piece - and the State Departaent think• it should be sent back. But the Re•ereod George l•ana ••1•: •The State Departaent better pro•• it know• wboa the•• - - b1lon1• to.• To which be adda: ••••r• liable to ,ounce it o••r aoaebocl1'• bead.• ~ - lhicb would be quite a pictar•JA a preacher orowaiag a cliplo■at with H • • ~ Stone • • • ~ \ f-