o n i. nnounced that Jtr es id n t Tr um n a . a n ed Chri ma oa~dons to one- , h u n - lit - five- u n d r ~ -and- en y- ree men who viol ed he Sel ctive ,evice Ac their coun ry in orld War Two. by refu ing to serve pardons, Thesel\pxri•••~ ho ever, ~ l • /\.on y given a r ~ careful considerati n by the Presiden 'Aomns+y Board which , as revie~ed each case on its merits. Among t . hose pardoned, and hlJ restores their full nolitical and civil rights, are a number of •••••i conscientious objectors; some are Japanese - Americans,and~ otbe s 1 who through •ignorance, careless- ness or honest m : understand'ng•----those •~• are the fC u • words--- refused to .ritfill their obligations to their coun ry. ~~,l~ ;a The President's Amnesty BoardA f"' the suggestion of a peneral amnesty to all violato•s of the Selective Service Bo ~ rn. Tat ·s, there are to~ """° l!I!"' pardons .for wi 1 .f°il draft dodger • Careful And' Pardon s in a number of special corsidemt.ion, yes. . friend nd fami iP or Chri t s . Tr..,, 1 . >- -- · -- - --- - -- - -- - - - - ( i e oon , h 0 (\ r n nt, in i.n ton AS ;i n C h n d on · n · 1 ·t . a on e AO 0~ , b u i of n ma. Thi fol o v. s he p n am n : n p C on l P S ni h t. 0 e a ty hat would v P n hl d t · coun~r o a'nt · b ses fo r , he efen. e o he P n C n 1) The Pan · amall#ian legislature vot, d - no. So no the United Stat s Government aww•••w Announces tha he refusal is accepted, and the Army h R been or ered to evacuate imm diately all o+' i b a es within , he boun ries of the Republic of P nama. The offici al st t emen i~ cold and formal in tone. The news of the t••~ turndown aroused a storm in ashington o ay - an ry dismay in military and con ression a 1 circles. The statement was made that the de~ense o iww~r•• the ~anal will be weakened - the a rmy p ut in a bad spot. ( Our wn Amel'ican · Canal Zone, a et ri o ten miles wide, is insufficien for d P fense under conditions of mo ern wa r -- insuf~ici nt for necessary air bases) Thia ~u ~'T' 'T' ,. , ~-------- ~-- ---- · -- i or "0 C UF-"e , 0 0 he n il id canal on i. 0 ,:,j_ . ~ en r P i jun h ch • ' ' rn kP . p on u • ion 0 flyin iP s lltixftx di fi.cul . ,.nn x nsiv. enc t n ed o b sea on Panamanian soil for h de n e ~ h Can p A ---- - - On from min y. Th of agreemen C nal. ha pened t ni ht, and refusal because with base nal 7one, need . ed of' the exceedingly Panam nian strip ten mils wide, is conditions Zone is The Re u lie down there on the Isthmus, is, in a way, a by-pro d uct of the Canal - formed in the course of the maneuverinP- h t led to the con truction of the greet w ter- way b ck in the days of President Teddy Roosevelt . • A that time, we pled ed 0urselves to protect the Panamanian Re ~ ublic - and, at the same time, we were P, . N A _ - 2 ------ gr n t. d h e ri I 0 e t ish b es on Pan ma ni n soil. e arP i l l p - 0 f n the l U ic, ut , shortly befor orld T . , o e g ve u h t o he b ees. Th t h ao·n e o~ he l a + e Frank in D. RoosPvelt, and +od y Con rP , m n E n g 1 of ic igan described the F.D.R. action es "A : r R nd eeture." Then, when the war cRme on end Panama Canal defense as in the head ines, an agreement with Panama I was ma.de here y ere permitted to build w artime bases on Panamanian soil. A number of these were constructed - including one major flying field. T-he war over, the Army planned to retain fourteen of these, and Panama was asked to consent. After plenty of negotiation, a treaty to that . effec t was okayed by the Panamanian government - and now the surprise, disappointment and chagrin. ,~., Why has the Pana~anian Assembly rejected the t re ty? There's plenty of talk in Washington about that. Ultra-Nationalistic students are blamed, super-heated Latin-American p atri o s, who are said to have threatened p AM -~ ------- Pana R i n i . o R ev vo tPd o an t fl ' R the r ip to h b es. Ano her tio n i a t . er is u on bet een the Pan manian Pr i ' nt a nd hi~ Cabinet on on side, and t.h e isl t ur o n t t r. One Pshinpton surmise i that the P n ma ni n~ may have ·aeas of get ing more oney out of t he de al . ~or is here any lack of that fami iar m ntion - Communi t. In Congressional circles t.here as a t ndency today to cit} anti-American agi +ion conducted by the Reds, Communism sniping at the United States. 9-"'hat's to be done · about it? Our Ambass&dor to Panama, Brigadier General Hines, ho happens to be in ashington, was called to t he bite House for a conference with President Truman. h es~~e~r ttMhw'~ declared t od y ~ ss1~ou d be exceed"n y reluct nt to vote money to im rove the Pan ma C nnl. Ri ht c n g ., no ' ongress is considerin? propos l to SAend two-billio ,-five hundred million dol ars to urn t~e canal into a sea level wRterway - instead of the present system of locka. A two-and-a-half billion dolla'r Amer'icen investment down there •ould have a considerable financial meaning for the P naman·ans - tend they might not like to see the bundles of cash go flying a~av. Uoreover,(there's Cosgressionsl talk of buildin1 a new Canal) That has often been discussed - s aecond ••J waterway from the Atlantic to the Pacific, a waterway somewhere other than Panama. Members of Congress ,ta pointed out today that, if another l■al Canal were built, the Panama Can~l ~ould take second place, would be a mere stand-by -- withe shift of business and money tha would not at all please the Panamanians. ThPre is mention of a waterway cross Columbian Territory - the Repuhlic 0¥ Columbia holding a strip on PANA fA - 5 -- - the oth r i e o mention of t.he IR , hmus. An c ~ u es - times, , of course, ~ icaragua. ~11 oS ~ PA ~A - £, ----- · - to n ting th@ 11-ell, +ihe~ pa@@ o.f -lt,ia+.Ny mi11lat. 1'@ it,u·n•i MM, according to some congressional t . elk in ashington todaJ.a:, Ricnr• gua)- wHhob I: ,ele&n tuq,as4.&I!! • ln•t• 1,1,19 4!11&., ... ~~ g e t ~ n a tbat~.;;d~nl< as number on■ (Jf/).:1,,,c•use tbe Legisla1.ure of' Panama bes tr turned down " the t treaty for canal defense bases. Th 1 0 he P CU tor ri es o a new e igeren ha _ in tod y President is: H rold St sen e iverin cannonnAde against those lists the ~ov rnm nt is issuins Re u lican Stassen decl res that th lists of operators in the grain markets constitute 1 ha h ca ls - "A bower of irrelevant statistics." The urp se of the lonP series of names is, accordin~ to Stassen, to confuse and distract the public. Harold Stasben, himself, started the by intimating that Administration of~icials speculated in food a a time when they tnew that huge purchases by the governmen+ were about to be made -- purchases that were cert in to ~oost prices. Tha+, waa followed by CongreP.siona action, which brouRht forward Edwin i■■tJ Pauley, soecia1 asRis ant to · my s~cretary Royall. Pauley admitted hat be bad spe 1 uletPd heavily in the r.ain market - but that was be'1~e he took his nre~ent rov rnment. post. The next thin~ es he APPPAr ncP of lis s - Secretary o Agricul ure !nderson, st he demsnd of SPFQUL 'T'OJ!~- -2 - CongrP.ss, m kin g u lie a hol t rin g of n mes of eople who h v e b en oper in in com odities. The fir tin tA lment was published yesterday, and failed to produce any vole nic uproar. Among all th v rig t d names, there w a s only one AdministrAtion o~ficial -- that same Edwin Pauley. Secretary Anderson, hinting th t no other Administr P tion Officials were involved, said the lists would sneak for themselves. a.today i•■ · Harold Stassen co'flt'es back wi ha blast ot scorn - why all the lists? He says the administration, . instead of printing ell those names, should give a ~t quick one w■ ~txaa word answer - yes or no. Did an1 officials of the admin i tration sueculabe in foodstuffs just before the government did a lot of he vy buying ift Februery an March, nineteen Forty Seven? And did such speculating o ficials make huge · profits with the steep rise of oric,s tha follo~ed the government P•~•~•••fx purchases? The ns ~, s we are now gettinr t•, is to be foun d by t ud in~ h erie o ists he names on which ar scheduled o number as many as fifteen thousand. Me ning - you r P ad fifteen thousand n mes. Or rather, the newsman do~ i ~or you. An an ~er of yes or no would s~ve time - no t to mention eyesight. Then s fro t. in e + . sofa erim , . le - -4"u n e , an chflnge o sho . ovPr an open grave. In he cemetery of h ~oun of Olives, they were holdin . he funeral of Robert . t A J i h . ern, ew s - Friti•h nPwe corrPspondent who was killed by Arabs on Sunday. A he body was bein lowered, the gunfight broke out - Arab snioers ~•t shooting from nearby buildings, a police pat . rol renlying with rifle fire, end ru~mbers of the Jewish ftrmy, Haganah, joining in the battle over the open grave . There are re orta of scattered violence fro ■ other parts of the Holy LAnd, the news dispatch notin1 - that therP is no Christmas truce in the Arab-Jewish feud hough why there should ~ea Ch istmes ruoe in such a thorou hlv non-Christian con~liot, is none too clear. Anyway, ther e 's ne cause for disturbance - itb the arrival of new shiploads of Al•.-& Zionist immigrants, these bein~ seized by the British . C OLFRA .......----- Fr ou of , h Epst , c om n "'S to point a mor - th . t.h emon of n ague is ~ g r e t er t h a n a Iing. In more m odern terminology, the ouarant"ne against choler ao lies to , he Crown Prince of Trans-Jorden. The choler plaJ1e that raged in Egypt some we eks a~o has sor a d to Syri R - and the frontier between Syria and t he Leb a non is cloePd by a t rigid quarantine. This, as it hAppens, w s the t · i~e for a Royal visit - a visit to t he Lebanon by Prince Talal, Crown Prince or~,, Tr a ns-Jordon, heir to the throne of [ing Abdullah. Be paeeed th rou~h a part of Syria, wlte1@ Mnr-etreJ.11r=hn -:z ~~ nd ar~ived At the border of the Lebanon. There• he WRS stopped and ~edical aut orities told hi• he would b veto abide by the auarantine rule - which me nt that he ould hav e to wait for three days at the Frontier. T hi s aroused the ire of tbe Crown Prince of Tans-Jord a n. He called it. - a humilit , tio • But the a · n~ the heir to the Crown of doctors were obdur ate , l ' l ·n an angry huff, returning to Iing Abdullah departed CHOLE !_ -2 - Syria an C P in of"f hi vi it t the Lebanon. This may not . m~an ny - hing mucb, 11• except +"or the II injury 0 h Roy l feelinps - although it might create some ill will between King Abdullah's government and the Re u lie of the Lebanon, both of which, as Arab states, are lined u gainst the establishment of a Jewish nation in P a lestine.\\'It would be odd if the Pslestine situe ion were wffected, but f■ J Royal seneibili ies can be touchy, even in the face of such obvious wisdom,., that the demon of the plague is 1wut•••• ~rester than a King. ' -"""- 0 Pr in En nn,A.L VPTpool, John O•B ien WRS workin in n e c v· ion t en y feet deep, when the sides of the big hole caved in - end O'Brien was about to e buried under tons of sand nd s one. Just as this doom wes collansin uoon him, a fellow ork■ an, with remarkable uickne s or wi~, seized a long hose, and threw it down to O'Brien - just as the sand and stone buried him deep. I hereupon policemen and firemen did a fast job of digging - follo~ln~ ~own the line of hose. It took them~hour-e to reach O'Brien, lA5'r , .. ~~ ~ his heftd Miwwi• of the rubble O'Brien exclaimed "ac, - ,, . ' blithly: -l\•1112:i., tfp;o• ■atea.: He had been breathln1 through the hose all the time. ·And he certainly owed nlenty of thanks to that particular mate who threw it RI ITZ ------- In San Di q o, Califo nia tonight, Admiral Rimi z to - k u his ne du t ies as a baby sitter! No a hi hly o id job, bu an · t t 1mpor an one. The former Co ander n Chief of the IO!ld'1 grPatest battle fleet, tonight is sitting up with hie seventePn ••~• month old grandson, Ji ■ ~y Lay, •• while Jimmy's mother is in Sen Diego hospital, awaiting a visit from the stork. After he hRd been at his ~ost only a few . hours the gree+ . Admiml decided that baby sitting is no sinecure. "These kids scra ■ ble around a lot these daysw said the Admiral of the Philipnine Sea. 'Almost too much for an old sea dog lite me - but he continued - I've been well-briefed and belie•e I can maft the grade." fnd now let's he&r from a more experienced bab v ■ttti ■ ~ sit er - who also hap ens to be an _e,_.... .. ~ sea dog -- meaning you trt.a,aau••"lelson Case. "' old