JB ♦I (The Iranian government baa ottered the job of running the seized British oilfields to - gues s whoml; •••I( The Britleh Director of the Anglo-Iranian 011 ( Company)Today the post was ottered to I. c. Drake, who runs the giant 011 oo e rat1ons for the British concern. So what will he do about it! We don't know. The Director of Anglo-Iranian refuses all comment. this follow• new• of offices of the company stormed by moba, rlotere who ripped down eigna and ran up Iranian flags on the bu1ld1Jlgs) The 414 nothing to stop them - but then, polloe on guar after the rlotera got through, thepollce went 1n and had tea wt th the British employees. Showing no hard feelings against them, I euppoae. c:, (word from Iran 1s that two impor t ant oil •• properties have already been taken over - in ·ccordance with nat1onal1zat1on)One, the pettolellll field at laft1shah. The other, a big refinery at Kermanshah. il♦I - 2 One difficulty becomes evident - i~ a statement that, if British technicians pull out of the huge refinery at Abadan, the city of Abadan might lose its water and electrical ■ uppliea, whlch come from the plant. Moreover, British officlale eee ( the danger of exploe ione - if u . nek11 led techniolan• trJ to run the refinerJ, which is the l&rg~•t ln the world. Jl♦I The latest -- a dispatch stating that wlv~a and ch1ldren of British employees of the Anglo- Iranian 011 Company have een ordered to concentrate immediately -- 1n the company com o ound at Ab&d&n. Oblect - poasible mass evacu&t1an • • AAlfiiEIQI The conference of the Dep~ty foreign Ministers in Paris comes ,o an end - broken off tonl t by the western powers. There 1s, they explain, no further use of continuing the negot1at1ona that baT.e gone on tor nearly four months.- today being the seventy-fourth ae111on of the conference. Thia however, does not affect direct negotiat1ona with Moscow for a high level conference of the Foretgn Ktnteters)These, eay the wee~ern deputies, can be continued through normal diplomatic channe11. lQMMQW KOREA Tonight - Supreme Commander General Matthew Ridgway, made an appeal to countrtea no, now fighting the Reds in Korea. In a message to the United Nations, he asked them to send reinfcmemente. 19114 The retreat of the Reds continues in Korea the Com m unists giving up their last stronghold south r the Thirty-Eighth P a rallel)During t h eir recent disappearing act, they continued to hang onto laesong, Thirty-five miles northwest of Seoul. Ka song is a railroad and highway center on the trunk line of the Vest Coast. So no wonder the enemy was reluctant lo give it up - Ka.esong the la.st Red outpost tn South lorea. •• Today, American tanks and infantry pu ■ hed into the town and found it abandoned. They were in and out several times, and encountered nothing more than an occasional rifle shot from snipers in the hills. All acro11 the peninsula the methodical advance went on today, without any real fighting - except 1n the East Korean mountains, above In3e. There, tha Reda battled stubbornly, and even launched a counterattack, which was beaten off. There 1a n new• o~ the wa. in +h~ lttr - Air action is down to a minimu■ -- due to weather. 1he news tells what Master Sergeant Stanley Adaas, of lansaa City did:- Bia platoon eYacuated a bill, and the Serge decided to recapture it - altho held by a hundred and fifty Chinese Beds. Be thought be waa leading his platoon - but 1uddenly he found that only thirteen GI'• were with hi ■• They were under h•••Y. fire - and it looted lite a good ti ■e tor Sergeant Adami to beat a quiet retreat. BoweTer, be went the other way! With hi1 little 1roup ot thirteen, he charged up the hill. Fit~ rard• fro ■ the enemy position, be wa1 hit, and wounded in the leg. But he picked hi ■ self up, and went on. An explodinghind-grenadt knocked hi ■ down, but a1ain he picked himself up. and puabed on. That happene4 tour ti ■••, tour hand grenades blasting nearby, and flattening 1111 warrior fro ■ lan1aa City. It ended with Sergeant Adams leading hie handful ot C 1'1 into the Chinese oaition, where he fought it ... .. out with bayonet and the butt ot hia rifle. That••• too much for the Reds, and they cleared out. So the Serge captved the Bill -- and win• the Congreaaional ledal of Honor . IJYESTIGATIOH A page of h istory, hitherto un k nown, was d1 closed in W shin ton today. At the bearing of the Sen a te Com m ittee Investigating the diamieeal of General Douglas M a cArthur, the witness wae again - Patrick J. Hurley, former U.S. Ambassador to China. The subject taken up was a thorough Congrees1onal Yalta,) Hurley recommended invest1~atlon of that loosevelt-Churchill-8tal1n meeting in Hine•een rorty- flve, which made such great oonceaslona to SoTiet - luas1a - in return for a pledge of Soviet intervention in the war · gainst Japan. The hearing today brought mention of Alger Hi1e, who ls in prison, after havinl been oonv1ote4 0 of perjury when he denied he had acted aa a Soviet apy. Alger Hi•• was on the staff of the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt at Yalta. He was an assistant to the then Secretary of State,Edward Stett1n1ua. Today the su gge stion was that he m ight b e called to give testimony - brought to Washinton from his prison. But former A m bassador Hurley noted that Hiss could IHYESTIGATIOH - 2 hardly be made to •te s tify a ga in s t him elf.• Then came the di s closure that, just before 1s Dea.th, F.D.R. realized that mistakes had been ma.de at Yalta, and wanted to do something to rectify them. (HLrley eald that, soon after the fateful conference, he went to the White House to protest fehemently against the conces s ions to the Soviets - giving them virtual•• control of M&nchur1a. Which, BurleJ cla1•• was the•••• ca.use of the downfall of Ba.tionaliat China, and the 1weep of the Chinese Reda to power. But, when he saw the President - •a11 the fight I had in me went out,• said he today. The President's hand was, in his words - •a very loose bag of bones.• And he added; 'The akin seemed to be pasted down to his cheek bones.• Which illustrates Hurley•• contentiln - that r .D.R. was · not to blame for Yalta, • because he was •a very sick man. He said F.D.R. defended th• Yalta pact, arguing that the agreement did not surrender China's JIJESTIGATION- 3 rights to Soviet Russia. But a month later, the following occurred. •1 went back to see President Roosevelt,• Hurley relates, •and by this time he told me there were some features of that Yalta agreement to ~ustify our fear. After which the President added: •1 would 11ke you to go to Mos~ow and 1ee Stalin'. Which is the first intimation that the late Pre11denl ever attempted to modify the conce ■ sion■ granted to Soviet Bussia at the Yalta Conference. So Hurley started out for Moscow. Be ■ ald today he thought he might have ■ ucoee4ed in hll mt1 ■ 1on, if it hadn't been for the death of the President. Vh1ob occurred whtle he was enroute to the Sovlet capital - Apr11 1 Htneteen rorty-f1v.e. Then he received word from the new President, Harry Truman, ordering him to continue on his mlasion - to obtain mod1f1cat1on1 ot the Yalta greements. But that was followed by a cable from the State Department, 1 telling hlm that the U.S. government was •1rrevocably committed• to the eclsion at Yalta. So he blames the State Denarament for the JIYIMi 1 9♦I 1 91 - 4r f&1lure of his mts 1on. Which be calla - •the ja.ddest defeat• he ever suffered. ,,:r.1111 A New U.S. Ambaaaador to Dublin baa been ap p o1nt• · 4 -- and American sea power 101e11 ite top c1v111an chi e f the Secretary of the Na•J• The word 1n waah1n ton is that President Truaan has nue4 laT,J. Secretary. Francia Matthew, ,o repreaeni 'lli1 ooualr7 There eeema to be no . doubt about an Irl•h okaJ. K&tthe•• may not sound like NurphJ or O'Brien. ( - could be lngllab. But our rea1gn1ng Secretary of --- the Havy waa born tn N e braska ■z of Irlah 111111grant parant1, and h1s make-up is about aa Hibernian a ■ the ~ S o Dubltn ls expected to say - yes. QPMHPJJSTS The Communists have been trying to put 1aye Justice Hobert Jackson, appearing before a congre ■ s1onal committee. The Reda want the court to allow the convicted eleTen Communist leader• to be with ct1fferent names - but worded ,he s a m e . ~ •Tli1a• eaid the Just lee _ , • 1a the stupl4eat kind of tactics. U ~ ~~~H'ft~Pli¥4......-,;i..r1 , ~ 1hey might at least change the words 1n the telegrams, to make them lo k authentic;• [QLLQJ QQMMUBJSTS The latest tonight concerns the twen,y-one Reda who were indicted yesterday - ,he alternate polltburo, taking the place of. the eleven leader• oonv.1ote4. TheJ tried to get release on bail today, and a•• aec111on was given tn the case of ,hlrteea. Ball - - refused. wABtlQLB Commi\te s of both the Senate and the House turned down the plea of Price Admlnletrator Delalle - who urged them not to cancel the two remalnln& rollb a ck• tn the price of beef. Both commttle e 1 to4&7 put their okay on a control blll, much aodlf1e4 &n4 watered down. BASEBALL In the world of baseball, the St. Louie Browne were sold today to Bill Veect, former owner of the Cleveland Indiana. This has been rumored for clay ■ -- word that the wee-begone last-place Brown■ would be taken over by the baseball promoter....,who won aoclata tor c1rcua1ng the national game at CleTelan~, with spect · cular stunts and parades. Be also won a pennant. However, the sale announced today 1 ■ conditional. W1111am and Charle• DeWitt, the Present owners, sell the 1r controlling interest 1n the ball team to 8111 Veeck - prov1dlng he i i able to buy out - all the other stockholders. 111 Ve 00 l♦ ISBALL - 2 Which will end a strange state of aftatra. The club owners voted against their comm1as1oner, denying ht■ a new contract aa the Czar of baseball. But Chandler refuaed to step out, until his contract had expired - and there was no end of palaver. Now - se,tle4. Happy Chandler a,nnounotng - he wtll qutt on Jul~ ~1fteenlb. MD QHEQS A cri-mi!nal charge of huge dimension waa made 1n w York today - two hundred and twenty-five counts of f:orgery. ror which the m1soreant eoul4 be sentenced to two thousand, two hundred and ftf\y, ye&ra 1n prison. With good be.havlor, he mlght be par\)il!ed. after serv.lng seven hundred and. fi1fty year ■• In addition to which he could be liable to fine, tol&lltng two mtlli~n, two hundre~ and fifty thou1and cloll&Jta. Thta champion of bad cbecka as has the fanoJ name of Courtney Townsend Taylor - now serving eighteen I■• months in a Boston j&11, on a forgery charge. But that' a only o , ne of the two . hundred an4 twenty-five, a small fractton of the total, wh1cti could put him in the cooler until the year four thousand, two hundred and one A.D. ppgg A battle is on between the Fire Department and the public park authorities at M ~ , Illinois -- and all because of Napoleon. He'• a duck, a pet of fire station Humber Four. But Napoleon had no mate, aas ~ -- • ~ ... "olJJ..~ and was a lonely, discontente~ N a i i • ~ ~ i i l ,- n1 1n the park lagoon. T ' .-M_ he park authorities were 1ympathetlc, Mil 1D /'\ the lagoon they placed a whole 0evy of Lady Duck ■• In duck language, Napoleon muat · have cried -- Jo1aphlne! There were about ,wenty Joaeph1nes, and Napoleon went chargtng into them with such violence, he a~ared the lady ducks into wild flight. Which disturbed the equanimity of park - superintendent Ralph Birks. He said Napoleon was -- - vicious. The firemen replied - their duck was just cave-mann1ah. Napoleon was captured, and put into a pen at the tire house. But he escaped, and back he went, charging the bevy of Josephine s -- •t drivin g them in a panic. This time the park officials, 1n high »PAI - 2 1nd1gnat1on, gathered up th• lady ducks, and took them away. Today, a atern note waa delivered to the ~'he~ ftre station -- get rtd of .:lap•~•., !he firemen are ~ ~ ,, - defiant. j!he;- say -- no~ no Waterloo,'-,~~ ~