A surprise from Paris. The foreign made pro re toda. Molotov w in an ami ble mood, and a reed to sev r 1 things right off the bat. One - who gets the Dodecanese Islands? These bits of classical land in the Aegean sea are taken from Italy and turned over to Greece. Molotov agreed to that without any argument today - even though the Soviets were su posed to have ambitions in the direction of the Dodecanese. Molotov also agreed to a proposal for transferring bits of Alpine territory from Italy to France. He didn't argue a~out that either. Moreover, he said yes to a plan to limit the size of the Bulgarian Navy. Didn't you know there as one? lell, that authoritative year book on sea power, •Janes' fighting ships•, doesn't even list a Bulgarian Navy. But it was limited today. Molotov was in a melting mood - which surpri ed the oth r foreign ministers no end. Of course, he had to throw a monkey wrench into a few other things- li 8 an att mpt to discuss freedo of navigation•* on the Danube. 1 11x1z■ i,1axaaxai ■ ••P-•••xasx ■ 111» But the fact that he agreed to anything at all excited an at osphere of cheer and h ppineas. Happiest of all w s French Foriegn Minister Bidault, France getting something with Molotov's consent. And, at last reports, Bidault • • treating olotov to Cb~ pagne. The Soviet Purge reaches right up to the top to that powerful ruling body in oscow, the Council Ministers. The Moscow radio today announced the • · re oval of B.L. Vannikov, Minister for Agricultural Machine Building. The Minister has been fired, and it'• worse than that for two of hie assistants -- they're being held for trial. During the war, VannikoY was i ■■■ Co ■ i11 r for ■unitions, and then toot the post dealing with tar■ aaohines -- of key importance for the rehabilitation of agriculture in war devastated Russia. And now he'• one ot the top ■en held responsible for the indaa\rial scandals about which we heard last night -- the tatin1 of production records, to1ether ith variou•11peculation1, which has brought about a new widespread purge in Soviet Russia. The House just a short tiae a10 took an indirect slap at Soviet Russia. It approved by standing vote of one hundred and fifty four to fifty three to •a withhold U RA funds from any forei1n country restricting the activities ot A• rioan rep rt r1 seeking information on how the funds are used. 10f course we all know Russia haa banned our reporter•• ... 1r. Q.P.A. T h e OPA bill is being delayed by ~alk. Senators in oppos · tion ar having their aay __ law■ateri who ar e bitterly against even t he greatly odified nd rest . . . ~ a forms of p rice-fixing. One after another today ',A hurled t e ir verbal blasts against the bill t,o eep ceiling prices on eats nd other •ital toodatutt1. There's no sign of an organized filibuster, althou1b on Senator vows he'll t lk the bill to death -- PappJ O'Dan i 1 of Texas. Today, wh · le other Senatora bad *•*•J their say, the solon from the Lone lsas& Star State prepar 4 l h i ■se l f, girded hi self for his own aupre e tfort. HG cllias he is going to harrangue the Q.P.A. bill to death itb what he calla -- a talkathon. To do that, he'll have to keep talking until Sunday -- the ti ■• when the present price-fixing law expires. Pappy o•Daniel baa good lungs. Down in T zaa he was a radio cuooner before he was e l e c t • ~ <' I on 4he p1.a~o,I.,. •Pass the biscuits, Pappy;• I suppose ~ radio crooning i s good training for a talka t bon, aDd all Q~• A.1. - 2 day long Pappy O'Dan i 1 de for idable otions, haTing book R and documents brought to hi ~tl•i piled on hi ■ desk -- •Talk ammunition", as he called ·t B 1 • ow ever, . tt, usually takes mor than one Senator to ate a filibuater they do it in relays. Thus far Pappy . doesn't ■ee ■ to av lined u p any partners for his talkathon, and it hardy eeas likely that be can keep going all br, himself until Sunda . That would appear to be too ■uch of a strain on the lungs, e en tor radio o ro oner. Ad ■ inistrat on Senators backing the extension of the O.P • • bill ay they are not worried about the danger of the Texa• Talkathon. Seaator Barkley declares be ill keep the Legi latora on the job all night, if necessary. to be sure the ■i exten ■ toa bill i assed before the O.P.A. expires on Sunda • e-ign __ e, ea -ttle&g't! -it -,ceu 1189 :-Ji'e resignation or Price ~ ~ ~ • 1 t t nd and Administrator Chester Bowles,l ,ne bil O e e cut down the OPA has been vigorously denounced by B 1 On 't be possible to administer any ow es, who says it such bob-tailed price control. Today President Truan revealed that Bowle■ bas offered to step out. Be called at the lbite Bouse yesterday and said he was willing to hand in hi ■ resignation -- but the President persuaded hi ■ to atay on for the ti ■ e being. Chester Bowles has wanted to leaYe the OPA post for some time. When President Tru ■ an toot oftioe, Bowles handed in bis resignation -- but the Pr 114 a\ asked him z to stick to the Price Ad ■ iniatration Joi. Bowl• nts to go hoe to Connecticut, they ••1 ... he is ■ ore likely than eyer to do it now. Bo••~•r, President Truaan . aaid today be hoped be oould peraua4e the Price Adainiatrat~r to 1ta1 on. Tbat would•••• to aean -- stay on after the President signs the new bill. Although President Tru ■an _.etuaed to anawer today wbea he was asked -- would he sign, or would he v e t o ' ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ 1 ' ' 1 t i " 1gon Pre id nt Trum n said today this nation bas done o d job ·n sending food to hungry oountrie1 abroad. The United Stats goal of six million tona r4 grain for the first six months of this year - will be ■et. Five and a half million tons hav alread7 b D ship ed, and the re t i s either on it1 ••1 or r ad7 to go. At the same t i e , the President warned th t the world food orisi• is not over, and that we auat k• p • Here's a bulletin froa China, which P opl out there hold to be of the utaost i ■portance. The nationali t government has ordered the establish■ nt of what it calls - •citizenf• self defen e corp••· Under this new organization, th entir ■aie population under the nationalist regi ■ e, wi~l receiY ■ ilit rJ training. The citizens will be required to deYot D hour and a half a day to learn the art ot • ldierin - • this to continue for ■ onths. 11 of which ■ igbt •• inaicate that nationalist China i-f,reparin1 for••• kind of ahowdo n - and it i n't difficult to 1•••• wiat kind. It is pointed out at lankin1 that the new a l t defense corp• ■aJ b r• arded •• •• •••••r ta • recent enactment by the Chinese co■■uni ■ ta. !be Re41 haYe ordered a general ■obilization and ■ ilitar7 trainiDI in the areas they controi. The fact that the two bitterlJ ho■ til factions are going in, all of a audden, tor ■ uoh large s~ale military preparation, would 8 ••to• an - JAPAN - {J,;t-The ar trial in Tokyo today, that aucb debated question was brought ·nto the open __ the responsibility of Hirohito. Bow far was the Z■p•ror t,o bla e for the cri ■ea of the Japaneae war-■atera? A witne s testified -- Ien Inutai, aon ot Tokyo Pre ier lnukai who was as1asainated bJ the lilitarieets in Bineteen Thirt7-T••· That was the tiae when the war- ■ akers were getting into po■ er wt\h tactic ■ of terror and ■order. Th,y atruok do•• the aore ■ oderfl t.e atate1 ■ en who oppo1 ed the ■, aad chief of their Yictias ••• Pre ■ ier Inutai • • Today b"s son atated that in thoae da71 the Pre11ie.r bad told hi that Bironito ha• tried t.e reat.-ain t,t,e fanatical craze ot the lilitari1t1 -- who •ere forcing ~•r on China. But the l■peror, with good intentions bad been too weak. len Inutai 1ai4 hia father had tried to persuade the laperor to tat• tbe initiative, and order tbe Japanese Ar■1 out ot Manchuria. But B rohito didn't dare~ The witness put it in these words today: •oppo1ition fro lxtreaiat• in JAPAI - 2 -- the Aray was so strong that the I ■p•rial AdviseT ■ tne tbr ne could not bear to stand up a1aiut the Militarists.• And that, according to the 10n of the •••* assassinated Preaiar, aee ■ s to au ■ up the responsibility of Hirohito for the war ■ dne11 ol Japan. .. ~ There's a good deal of talk in Tokyo that the E ■ peror aay be called upon io testify •1•in1\ ToJo and the other• r- aters -- thou1h the pro ■ ecutio indicates there is no intention of puttin1 Hirohito oa the witness stand. The news from p 1 t· t a es 1ne expressei new bop~ for the release of the three British officer• held hostage. This follows the imposition of sentences on the thirty-one Zionist extreaista in Jerusalem.The sentences might have been death, but the British court decreed imprisonment, life for one, fifteen years for the others. Thie refr ining fro■ iaposing death sentences leads to the hope that the Je•i•h extr.eaiat or.ganization may rele ae the hostages. · • - 2 And in fact, theN is a general belief in China that the long time conflict bet een the .!!..ationalists civil ar. and the .£._ommunists is about to go to a bloodJ showdown. This ties in with Banking reports about the intentions of reactionaries in the nationalist party, militarists who are bitterly anti-communist. They are said to be determined on a policy of - no compromise with the Reds. These reactionaries, it i• claimed, are lined up with German ~zis, aaid to be still i 1fluential in China. lith Nazis tor adYiaera. the reactionaries are resolved to settle ttie Co ■■uniat question with civil war to the bitter end. What's the position if Chiang Iai-Shet? e are told that the militarists are likely to have their way - even if Chiang [ai-Shek objects. They are powerful enough in the nationalist govern■ent to br1n1 him around to their way of thinking. Even if a "paper peace• ia made under th• aegis of American Ambassador General Marshall, th8 • ~ - h " per p · eaoe• won't ■ ilitarists will see to 1t that~ 8 pa The Republic of Chile faces a lot of political confusion following the death today of President Rios. Be had long been ·1 11, his lite despaired of -- though no mention o-f this was ever made by ehilaa• Press or radio. President Rios was a De■ocrat and a liberal, and did well for the cause ot the Allies in Today Chile faces the question -- who succeed hi ■ ? The country, according to ita has no Vice-President. For the ti ■ e~being, the executive poWer is in the hands of an acting Pi-e1i -- who, in tact, has been exercising the ~reaideatia~ authority for months, during the gr•~• illness of Bio1. He will carry on until an election is held to aeleot a new President. That, according to the Chilean Con1titution, ■lit be done within ai'xty days -· and it finds . the political parties down there all , split up and entangled in factional fit fights. There are, in general, a r-ight wing and left wing alignment, but it on't be any aiaple gBJL~ -2 · case of two candidates. Political sohia ■a and cleavages are so intricate, that ther:e are likeli to be seven candidate ■ for Presi•ent ot Chili • • • JUMP ----- And now suppose so ■ b d d e O 1, eoiding to end it all, takes a juap fro ■ a ~lligh bri·doe __ g e and ri1ht in the middle changes bis or her ■ ind. Iha~ doe ■ be or she do? That ■ ight see■ to be a difficult proble■ __ lut it was solved by Mrs. Grace lay lright ot I••••• City. Today, ahe nad eight or nine cooktail1, •• she explained, and decided t•at life wa1 not worti living. So she went to the brid1e o•er. the 1111 ar! River, and jumped. On the way down, she thou1bt •• -.. all a mistake. She changed her. ■ ind, wbioti i1 a wo■an' a right -- but what • ti■• t.• clo it/ ~ •· lright figured it all out right. She ••t •t11led herself around in such tashion that ah• hit the water la J, "'"4 ~-f.R a sitting posit.ion, which,. on8~-the beat posit.ions for landing with a ■ inimu■ ot injul'l• In that 1ittta1 position, she went under••••• quite a way, 0 ••• up and) awaa out. A woman aau1■zt changing her ■iad. The announcement of a new atomic deYelop■en\ fro ■ Soviet Russia is none too clear. s plitting the ato ■ is much too co ■ p lex for the lay ■an, and the••••*• cosmic ray is even more intricate. So what can•• 4 0 when Moscow talks about •The aplittiag ot ato■ ~c nuclei with cosmic rays?• Just er., •coarade•! • This news co ■ ea •i~h an award ■•4• to . Protesaor Alexander Pa•lavicb ZhdanoY. Be 1et1 tbe Stalin Prize and a hundred thousand ruble ■ hundred dollars in A ■erican ■ one7. 17 u1in1 001 ■ lc ' rays, Professor Zhdano~ is said to h••• split the of bro ■ ium and silver. lhiah no doubt i1 ot deep scientific import -- but what bas it to do with the atomic bomb? le Don't tnow. And it ■ ■ucb too intrioa\e for even a guess. Meanwhile, fro■ our own aide of the ato■ io line, scientists preparing for the teat at Bikini are t th Prosp. cts tor the big ■ bow. expressing doubts abou a h-_aybe the atoaic bl st will be hidden by a cloud. Of t o touch off the bo■b when course, the way to do it is - 2 there are no clouds around, but apparentlJ the a\oaic explosion is capable of creatin~ a cloud ot its own. l■IJ Today Dr. Royale Frye mentioned what the7 call_ 'The lilson Cloud Lhamber•. This is a hlz1 and ■ iety et!eot produced when there is adequate ionization and higti buaidity. That, too, is deep, dark and technical bat aight produce a dense cloud, lt there is ■oiature in the air. There wasn't a auttioient a■ ount of ■oiat in the Mexican desert ■ for at Hiroshi ■• or la1a1atl, but there is out in the lid-Pacit-ic, aa71 the Prote11or. And he fears -- •A lil1on I■ Cloud Chaaber.• lhe, bJ