( c.,. - r. ... JJ . ..:;,4, -w:s, lf4-#. ro m i ' a. n i nt O l ' 'U i n a nd t ow C 0 . r o l t l 0 0 b ' re t n i 1 p e· nc of S ov · t .L r l r - but i l Cl to ex lo e ro p rl ) Le "'ar i · n paJ e y ·t ' i t ir 1 r aiion from a form r m mb r 0 .r th .9o v iet n r l t f t , · ho is no che i t in .:>out limeric c1 . I l i officer is quo a as uecl·rih h t the •us s ian Atomic te ts ere sta ed on a peninsul a in th ~aspian ~ a. 'l'he bombs ere maue o tomic •at rial th t caw from t plants desc ri bed as - the boviet Oak ~id es . these ar e said to be at Altai ana S1ou d ian ka , in ~iberia . The boabs, moreover, had a new type of detonator , invented by a ussian En ineer . his account pictures r remier talin ana a g roup of his olitburo ~hieftains , ath rea at that ~e niasul a in th ~a spain a - watc in for hat ,as to be a auplica ion of our on f ·m u a tom omb tes~ on th ~ ae xico esert . Two bomb re x lode, ut so l in · ent a ry. .1.n each oase th blast ent of · r m tur ly , an u · ed " ' ~ - --- '-' - - 0 . t . l, . 0 fl, - l V r C 1 l, · , 0 I ow r . h r · on ..., . i 1 ru r n ,, t cnn · c u. ro .t' 0 t- lo · roct. I O I r ' 110 r , ~ 1 n 0 i c omb tl s r.utumn . ~L __ ___ ' t lin 0 t i , rial r n ort f le t rou lin in i. n fo t a n a n ly on a new f l in i 1 . 1 • hich e n t,he 0 er t ion o f the ' e 1 irport, com p let ed two month he a d of time - to pr ovi d n a cilities for he Ai r iit, wbic is y-pas in the ~oviet lan bloc ade. That fir t plane broug t a cargo of two · enerals and twenty thousand pound of cheese. n oad as ortment - but I suppose the Jimericans · need the Generals, and the erman population certainly oes need the cheese. To help in the celebration of the new airport, the winterized Air ~ift brou ht in mor , thatn forty-five hundred tons of fooa and fuel - in spite ~f the miserable eath r. (c in '!' rum 11 on oda sent i s con r · tul tl o · to resicten~ cti n, · n t th n ap p eal)- ~ remi r ,on or meri an ai to 1 .- t \.. ian a1- e Government survive) all merican ilitar dependents, iv s ana families o army men, h ve been ordered out o1 the area of i:>hanghai=lanking. • h i c i ~ very heart of China. ~ . ~ their con q ue s t of "'anchuria, the l;ommunists are m ass in g fo1 a drive into ~entral China, the valley of the langtse. Here• later n ~a. n ull tin 1rom Nan ing. ener lissimo 9hian - ai-~hek ' a iven Gener~l ~u soe complete comman over military operations in northern Ch ina. The ~hinese President's order so sweeping that the natio ~a list ~eneral is virtual aictator over the whole area. He'll decide where to fight, and when, and be responsible only to him elf ana to the Cbinese natio l , . Chiang grantin hi• unli ■ ited powers. 8r 1 ettin arm m nt f rom be ld n a t be l. r on u rt, · in - th t w a maJor he line today. he tor tell of a supply ine by air, operatin from · om11uni t zec Ot3lov a ia to Jewish 'l'el Aviv. Israel getting weapons in ' zechoslovakia, the great •koda orks. lso irplanes - which A a procured from various countri a , taken to ' zecboslovakia, an~ flown from there to Tel Aviv. Te planes are deacribed as bein g of every sort, hritish and American lighters, German .-ess rschmitts, merican ' .lran · s ·· orts. the pilots on the dupply line are international free lancers, flyers of many nations, ho join up for good pay. Some of th m have de s e · ted - and they give tbe inform at ion about armament lown from behind the lron Curtain t o t Jewi s h ~tate. 11 of wl icb, i f true, w oul be a violation of the rmistice in k'alestine · - the .lruce proviain Arma; £imb · r o. or ttu h 1 t - a t ~ a r tme · n o n II t in ic tin tlat a r ue st a b en aae to zec boslov aki l o sop l 1 hi , nt of arm o 1 r ael . t r e l y 1,;nsati act ory. ,l po~esman t the ta t ~e a rtm e ni sa s that ~zec hoslov ~ia does not de n y tlat armament is bein sent to the Jewish state. hut as for stop in this . the ans r is what the spokesman calls - "entirely unsatisfactory ana evasive.~ Another late bulletin. E gypt aai claiming that t he troops of Israel have opened an attack on Moslea positions in Bethlehem, the Jewish forces hurlin& shellfire; the Egyptians shootin g back. '! ' his, aa the unite d nations asks !srael to withdraw from,•• position• - - captured Trecent fighting. 'Lhe government at Tel Aviv " ' refuses; and we hear that they c a n•t do a nything else. -rr.f-they'd be faced wi th an israel Aray revolt. 'l' I\ ------ e f ro m \ s in ton 1 ive m at ri a 1 or in c ontra sts a com ari o n o thi da i 1 • un d y before 1 st. o a i three da s a f e r el ct.i on. That un ay as n ine as bef or tte attle of ball ot s . o resi a ent Truman returns to has h in ton. then -- he le f t t be 1~ at ion a 1 Ca p i ta 1 for h is las t c a II pa i g n j a u n t, only twelve nays of difference• - t::! I I' hat a stunning contr as t. Sun d ay before l a st, r ' sictent · .1.ruman v.ent to the ' ashington railro ad station, almost alone. Those ever- present .Secret 8ervice men trailed along, as did some close advisers. DP. Is for ch e rin g cro ds, there •ere none. ~ig political lea ers1- 6onsp1cious by their absence/ llarr 'l' ruman left ashington a lonely figure, as lon e ly as only a sure loser can b e. lie was off on w at as re rded s the last as of a h o pel s battle, and few veo ~l e w e r int ere st d in the man w ho · as not oin h t o b e elect ed ~ r e sident • ... - oday-remarka le h , .,, i t a n o t t /\ s me . the cane - pe c ta c ular. ron o f a il ion roar e d a · e .. c om - ♦ h Y "'" i 1 ,-0 ~ d , t t· n n rov e t rou tr str ets - he s e route IIIS b ha t en, lone and i gnor ' 0 hart· t i e bef or • · · o a he re cei ve u a n ovation uc h r eta a c on uerin hero, an acclamati on from the multitudes, the hearti st of al con r a tu a tions from the politiciana. I Qne of the bi est day th t as h ington has ever seen. It would be interesting to·kno what the tresident thought about it today, whether b~ indu i ge~ in any reflections about-fair weather friends. I wonder- did he take note of a lot of beaming, important faces that smilea in glowing hom g e toaay but ere conspioious by their absence when he was•leavin asbington1 any a cham ion bas noted bitterly h ow his boon- companions aa v a nishe d from a~ounu im af t he has lost. th e bi g fi ht. with Champ ion Trum n, it t he oth r w a y arouna -t h ;.; ch ~ r i g cro .. ,as missing before - he fou t the bi fi ht. H was s u~ os a to have lost it in aavan~.lfut h e difference that m es. ian't lose - and hat a 11 1 of hie 11ust be c use for wedi t tion by hilo opher ruman. 1,f o, h · G e pin i t OU hts to hims l f . Tod. y , s resi ent Trum · n, e bea med on ---- ever boy, ad a rat ul mile for nu un r • un the uhite ou e ortico, du ressed t e cro~a, and a ll he ha to ay as hat he as been saying ever since Election Da -refusin to loat, refusing to crow. k ' e h a ve tonight a ch al len in J propo 1 i the r ea lm of geography. It come s from . ,ihi ttemore Boggs, pecial dviser on Geo r phy f r the t a te Department in \ ' ashin t o n. x · ert Boggs makes a sug estion that one thin£ the world needs is -- "A1 A tlas of lgaor nee." that is, a lot of ap showin ° , not what we ~ now, but what •e do not Know about this world of ours. Ignorance of Topography, Oeology, ineral esources, types of soil, k inds of life, climate, and so on down the line of the many things we don't know. So that would be the tlas of Ignorance. And it ~ade me thin right away that I could make a contribution of ignor nee. That is, I could nae a number of areas on the map about ~h ich i 1 hty little is known, and which cry out for investigation and nowledge. Some years ago I was in A fghanistan, itself one of the least investigated of countries. I was journeying alon the Old Caravan oute, the Golen Road to S amarkand, ru nin~ deep into Central Asis, the a cient tr a de route fro Indi a to Turkestan. c u r van route that had been t r v e e f o r · e i n ly b e c hant a d th e i lon c m el tr i ns . et .o · i t le · · e K o w ab o ut uc o f t e r g io n on o it her i d e, t i ld ou n t i s e e e rt. St i l l as l itt · nown about it as in the d ay s o f lex a n e r t he G rea t. I th o u ht of t h e fabu l ous thi g s th t investig a tion cou l d accom p li s h. By digging in many parts- a lmost anywhere alon that Car v a n oute, you m ight uneart me ~ entos of the dim past, coins of B a ctria, bits of pottery left from Pre-Historic civilizations in the Valle7 of the Indus, weapons of long ago, sword hilts or dagger blades dating back t o the times of Tamerl a ne, the Persian Hosts of Darius the Great, the ryan Inv er s o f India and Persia. Thinking a b o ut that today, I wondered - if th re were not some others who h a ve e a ch a f a v o rite s pot of Ignorance. So I phoned people wh o sh ould k now a lot about w h at we do not kno ab o ut thi:3 w o rld. I talked to Vi lh . a l mur t efans s on , the famous retie ~ xplo re r, n d h e ppo m ptly sa id L e s. I W .)ndered a bout t h t, a d · t ef e x l a i ned . old e r m ap s, b ef re the ti me o f He sai e ri 1 C t t o ur rt i n , sh o w the Arctic region, like the torth ro hor a of ~laska, C anada and 8iberia, to consist of solid luna. ~ut erial mappin 6 no discloses that thi was all wrong, and that these polar l a n s are, in r ality, a network of lakes. This prevalence of · ater is because the ground • underneath is frozen, an water on the surface cannot drain downward. The water stands in the fora of a vast nuaber of lakes. 80 the ol~er aaps, picturina great spac s of dry land, were all wrong - and aerial mapping is only be~inning to show the Arctic Area to be spotted ana Qotteu every here with lakes. ! called ~eneral James a. Doolittle, and aake~ bia for an angle of Military Aviation. The '-oa11an<1er of the Eighth Air ¥orce in the bombing of ermani, has been flying in the north of 'late, on tasks of Arctic Research. lie told me that ·there were actually three north poles, the geogra hical pole, the magnetic pole, and the weather pole. fhis last, the eather pole, - - is the spot of i norance that he wan · to em hasize. r he said it is un d e · stood that the number one generatin place for the weather we have is the Green- land icecap. The~s the weather north pole. American- ------ Canadian Air ~orcea are working hard on that point. Hight now weather stations have Deen established in areas of the weather north pole, and a job ia beia1 done to eliainate that s;ot of lgnorance; ■ ak• it ~Do•• by aapping tbe air cu~rents, tbe generation ot weather. What about mining, minerals? i telephoned the worl •s most famous mining engineer former ~resident ~oover--who made his first success in the develop m ent of minerals in theOrient. •e told•• Be pointed, in particular, to China's Western rovince, Sin iang, a vast primitive area known as -- the Chinese Wild West. He said there is evidence to believe that Sinkiang has a wealth of mineral~ and the South Chins~e Province of Yunan, too. For World Commercial Aviation I consulted Juan Trippe, President of Pan American World Airways, with ~am Pryor who spoke of Soviet Russia as the areat so far as•• are concerned. The Russians, th••••l•••• probably made extensive studies for their own aYiatioa, • but, •• don't know about that. So one large place in\ Atlas-of-Ignorance belongs to the vast land behind the ~ Cu~tain. WAR BRIDE -- · ----- The I mm igr a tion Dep artment a de a deci ion tod in another one o f those war bride ca s es. ~ r g eant G a ber of Pittsburgh met ~lizabeth Sa uer while serving in the ocoupation forces. They became engaged. He returned home, and sent for her. She arrived in Pittsburgh, on condition that she _ and th• former Sergeant would be married within ninety days, th• Immigration Law limit. But at the Gaber home in Pittsbur&h, the German giri met brother Iarl. Whereupon the complication ensued - but nothtna angry or acrimonious. In this war bride triangle, the three principles got together, and talked it over brother Ralph decided to atep out of the picture. But there still remained the Immigration Department, which had admitted Elizabeth to marry ttalpb, not Karl - within a period of · ninety days. 1he authorities were notified of the change of plans, the right-about face in the field of romance so what'• their answer? They say it's okay. They don't care which brother t he war bride marries, so long as she does it WAR BRIDE --------- The I mm igr a tion D e pa rtment in another one o f tho s e w ar bride c a a de a decision tod es. ~ e r e ant G ber of Pittsburgh met E lizabeth Sauer whil e serving in the occupation forces. They became engaged. Be returned home, and sent for her. She arrived in Pitt s burgh, on condition that she and the former Sergeant would be married within ninety days, the Immigration Law limit. But at the Gaber home in Pittsburah, the Ger■ an girl met brother Iarl. Whereupon the complication ensued - angry or acrimonious. In this war bride triangle, th• three principles got together, and talked it oYer brother Ralph decided to atep out of the picture. But there still remained the Immigration Department, which had admitted Elizabeth to marry ttalph, not Karl - within a period of · ninety days. the authorities were notified of the change of plans, the right-about face in the field of romance so what's : · their answer? They say it's okay. They don't care which brother the war bride marries, so long as she does it WAR BRIDE -2 --- ---- in ninety days. nd now here's Nelson, who may have some advice for brides.