~QQ~-~!EN!~Q-~YtRY~Q_Y~ Residents o Te xa Ci y , ave ad anoth er ~care -- another thre at of exp osi on , wi Co a G uard cut . er the hero of i 1 . The Coa~+ Gua b o al , br v in g the thre t o f another bla . , ran alongside a w~rehouse containing a thous nd tons of amm o nium nitrate -- the same that caused the first g re t explosion. This afteTnoon, from that evacuated waterf~ont section of Texas City, c me the tell tale warnin g -- orange-brown smoke pouring from tbe w rehouse. lord was broadcast to evacuate and isol te t~e area threatened. But the Coast Guard boat moved in anyway -- and sent columns· of water overt e ammonium nitrate, and put out tbe fire. ORGEB. To ay p ro d uced the f irst opp o s ition voiced by a high military ofticer against the Army- a vy- unification plan. eneral A. A . Vandegrift, Commander of the Marine Corps, before a Congressional Committee, spoke in criticism. His objections are based on the contention that the Marines might be reduced to what be called - •Military impotence•. The General intimated that the unification plan does not provide one necessar ~ing, a clear cut ~ -- - .. pattern of the function of the Marine Corps in the new set-up. He outlined the duties the Marines regularly JZl1az■ xxx perform -- all ~he way from guarding Naval stations to the development of amphibious warfare. And be declar~d that, in any kind of unification plan, Congress should legislate specifically on the subject of the L o athernecks and state the position and function of the Marine Corps. I He n ry all a ce, in Pari toni ht again car e that" tron ~ rc es are att e m ting to divide the o rld and a en th United ta tes ." This in a ue ti o -an d -an s ,e r int rview, translated into French. Poli t ical ob e rv rs in P a ris noted a coolnes on the part of rrench cons e rvatives who made it clear that they want nothing to do with Henry during li s four-day stay. 'hen he landed today, his reception committee was compos e d almost entirely of Communist leaders w· o are reported to hold the hope that Wallace will lead a counter-attack against the political resurgence of General de Gaulle. In a recent speech in London, Wallace having l inked DeGaulle with the ri s e of what fil termed •reactionary elements in American foreign p o licy•. o t u anim u acti n in ' 0 ng re s s t o d a y a g a i n two to rank i n g Ame ican ommuni t . In t e ou of r entati ve s they • r e cited fo r con~ mpt of vongress - u ene De nnis, General Secretary of the merican Communist Party. And Leon Josephson, all ged to b e a key figure of an int rnational rin dealing in phoney passports. Both refused to answer uestions asked ijy a Congressional Committee - and today were cdted for contempt. Th e vote was unanimous against Communist General-Seer tary Eugene Dennis. The only legislator to vote~no~being being Marcantonio of New York. In __... the citation against Josephson, accused of Red passport frauds, there were two dissenting votes all over again, and Democratic Congressman Ada ■ Powell of New York. bi l t bac t e Trum n o ic or topping Com u n i m . ajority w as near l y to t enty-three. s by th n t today. T e r e t one. Th vot e -- si - ty-seven On the question of ai in Greece and Turkey against ed ag r s ion, t h i r t y - ~ ~ voted yes,~ so did thirty-~ D mocrats -- hile sixteen Republicans and seven Democrats voted a ainst the Truman policy. The opposition would seem to consist or old-time conservative isolationists OD one hand, and extreme new~ - ~eal--advoc ' tes- of-friendship-with-the-Soviets on the other. - fl peculiar combination. Democrats opposing the program for checking Communism in the Near East were led today by Senators •l••• Claude Pepper of Florida and I Glenn Taylor of Idaho, who s oke final ords ~f vehement ctiticism. There was mention of war with the oviets. Idaho's Senator Taylor eclared bitterly: "I ch rge that those • o are in control av given up '1op that we can get along ith rlussia p acefully, and have embarked on a fORElruf_£.Q1l~I - 2 course leadin to sho, down w r iith Russi a ." After which the Sen te vot e d ne a r l y thre e to one to pass the bill. Te measur e now goes to the lower house, were it will be considered next week. The promise is that there will be fast work by the Congressmen, with every attempt to put a final okay on the Truman policy by the end of the week. goBFERE li~- o rom. lhe o o Conf r nee is confused. he forei n m i1 i t r of the Bi Four held two secret meetings today on the qu stion of a peace tre ty with Austria, and then announced that tomorro they would take up points of disput i n t e ~ eace treaty with Germany. Ne sm n in the oviet capital have obvious difficulty in trying to interpret this - the foreign ministers leaving the Austrian que tion and going back to the German problem. One supposition is that they are hopelessly deadlocked about Austria. Another is that they are so near an agreement on that issue, that they~ going to I\ give a bit of attention once again to the disputes about ermany - disput s that appear to be hopelessly deadlocir(ed. In other words, we don't know what the sudden switch from Austria may mean - optimistic or pessimistic. Th re is only one thing certain - the Foreign inisters are hurrying up in preparation for a speedy end of the oscow conference. The blow ruck od y b t e J : is un er ound in Pales ine w , errifyin g evi de nce of e relen le~s determinati o n o f Ir g un Zv i eumi an t e St rn G n to aven g t eir member, whom e Bri ish authori ies ban ed. It is t e mores artlin, as t e news follows last nights bulletin about the two condemned Zionist prisoners w o cheated the ban man by blowin themselve up in their cells with explosive tha t. had been smuggltd , Today, a trainload•of British soldier and civilians was runnin ne r the Je w ish to w n of le hoboth , in the Orange Grove wk ■ z•xi ■ •t•kxlxg country- near Ricbon le Zion. A plot ha d been la id to blow up ~e train, a 1 n of action c~rried out wit eadly skill and precision. A powerful ch~r e of igh explosive ad been set in the tracks, and from this ~n electric cable led to a ne rby Uran e Grove w here Jewish Extremists la, in ambush. But fir t, apparentl y to make sure the train was stopped as it app roache, a nd of men d s e d out from hiding, and opened fire wit small rms - h 1 . ing the train. Then wit pas~en g er - coaches d ir ct l y ov e r th ex lo iv , t h e c h r d etonat e d. ~h re e c aches W P r e lawn t p ieces, w a s the blast rippin g up t h rou h t he bott m of th e c a r . Five others wer e he · vil y amaged . At l ea s t ten persons were killed , six British soldiers, two adult civilians, and a three-year-old chi l d ) From the Orange GTove, dogs picked up a to trail to t h e ::/J n of Reho{otl _,1 n,t• 1 ■ · a community of Yemenites. Qn~wo rd he.I been that the ii■■i Zionists from the Yemen, fanatical.1FA11 investigation ■• ~ in South-=- Arabia, are among the most. 1, ~ the people in the town Ar7' field for The British p o l i c e ~ the blowing up of the train w s done by a mixed band of members of the Irgun Zvai Leumi and The Stern Gang, both of which -.... joined in publishing the menacing threat..._ that ~ to they .wt.I tak e t n British lives f or everyone of their /,~-A,. mem bers ex e cuted by the British. T h I · , .... · da r in r • e o µ risoners in It l y t oci Y - ---- . Yu o a v . ris o n er · nti-Com 111 un i t , · etni s. T h ey w bein ~ t a ken b y tr a in, ~nd e don't kno , ht th eir aes tinati on w~ s - mayb Yu os lavia. Maybe the Chetniks wer t o b de l iv red t o their m o rtal enemies, the Com mu ni t . / in ,{. i th le ade , rescue eked b7 Soviet doned tA( e Chetiy -a / Com uni ts, he a firi n / , Britain and our o ;fi n sa nd Mi k ilovitt / t he ercy o j ~ ito, th oviet ~- do , and Tito had Mikha 1' ~ f uad. / I I Sq ' e of the Cbetniks e , / The awaf to ~ s i s Italy - a nd rig:zt ~w 1'ito. ·a dem a ndi t;z . em a ck, f the Com · nist exa t1ons f · d by d armed I o n of th,e ue t ~ 0n o · the ay is / . to and ✓number of The rprisin far t of t o d ys rescue is the fact that the Chetniks in a railroad tr ~ in w ere set free by another trainload o other Yu gos lav - ai&Jx isplaced er so ns, civi l ians who refuse to go home and live under Communism. These, being ta ken from South Italy by railroad, got word omehow that the Chetnik train was scheduled to pass them, a nd they pla nned a bold rescue. The lagai on their Yugoslav D.P.'s overpdvered the guards nd s eiz-::::tro?.~hen the ~hetnik appeared, they stopped it, nd · took the prisoners into own train, train -- their own r a ilroad coaches. Whereupon they continued thei trip. This hap p ened near Na les, - tlna, when in reached re s t had e caped, Rome, n ly one a • ~ turne )-- Yu oslavs alon the rout e . Chetnik rem~ined. The loose by their fellow ord fr m Washin ton is that the federal government has i en up its att mpt to ar i tra te the telep one strike, and 1S revertin to the hope of aalilS coll ctive bargaining. Th t s, the hop of a settlement between the com anies and t e union all by themselves. ight no, officials of the Department of Labor are in touch with company and uni n officials, sounding them out on the idea of their getting into direct negotiations again, ••ll ■ I collective bargaining. The latest on the telephone strike - a statement by a gov rnment s o e man that only an offer of a age increase by the company to the strikers can bring to an early end the sixteen day strike. And now 1 ord from ~an F ncisco t at t e telephone strike may pr~ d in o an ffec i. as ell. Tl L network ra di o chnicians union in San Francisco hav agreed to con sider t e auestion o f support of the national telephone strike. And, the San Francisco inter-union radio council bas voted the contac t simil r councils in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. This action opens the possibility of network radio programs being shut off, because networks operate large\' on lines leased from the telep one company. The San Francisco radio council union i com p osed of five . unions whose members are employed by all tbe national radio networks. S ecretary of the Interior trug state today that the ~overnment is ~01 n 5 to nana tne w ines bac to t e owners ai so h ed ule -- even if tnis causes tne dan~er of a ~tri~e. The legal date for the handing bc10K is June -rnirt1eth1 S'M,, and (rug states: "We're not ~oin~ to as~ for extention A of authority to operate the al1.nes•.1f:Tne ,sovemaea.t is ~re sin for contract neiotiations oet d een the o ners and Jo n L. Lewis. The union and ,'u11ber of (invitation private mine o erators have accepted tneAiaubt neiotiatione for a contract to start 1n Waahington on April Twenty-llinth. ov e rniaent the I I ec t · e b I to tne o:f the l.1. ti ve bar~a n .1" Ret>orts froaa the automo bil.e --- - -------~ front, General Motors, have a note of o~timisa - with news that the auto workers union nas receded from its ori~inal wa~e deaan~. Union President alter Reuther 11as been ~ressin& claims for a })&1 increase of *•••*- twenty-three•&Dd•awna · f-cents an nour. But n:t De is said to be wil~in& to settle A for aometning near the i i f ii'teen cent an nour increase o ierea by Generai otors. That rateof increase ~~~ t\ . t.A-11.0\ re co~n i ze more or less as t e !,> t te~ 1: or lJ&Y boosts. PRIC E S ------~- H r ' s i n, ~ r .. id nt N bury'port, ssachus tts, are on a buying pre a n ret il r in the city ave - 5 o ~u.J ri es ten p ercent.At=et:1 anti-infl tion drive since the war. voluntarily sl sb ~ ~ t - 4 . ,A the irst plan e th e ir Ne buryport is e in all ut in response to President Truman's appeal for price reductions, and ord is that about ninety-a ven percent of the city's retailers are cooperating. 8igns in store ~ o..n.f • windows re d ;- "Okay Mr. President, ~1" cooperatingJ.. • leading the nation in lo er price!)~ fi<'hting inflation". ~Newburyp ort ■erchants report that business has inc e a s ~ x to ten percent since the price reduction went into ~rect. Tuesday,ordinarily 1-the city's slowest shopping day,Vsome tores had to hire e xtra clerks today to take care of the increased trade. An air 1ne ad a tra.~edJ too.ay --a disaster t na t w 1 e ct out e i ht e y of 1 ic i a 1 s of th e co ~any, tne De ta air i n . They were on a surve1 fl i 6 ht, technica exerts ~iKe Vice President in char 6 e of O;) er a t ions, tr a ffic manager, cnie f of flit; ht superintendents, air ort construction su!)8rvisor. Fl in~ in a converted army transport, s a C.47, they were about to land at Colu bua, Georgia A -- in perfect ether. The dis ster was because of another forar arm/ p!ane converted to civilian use, a one-time traioer flown b1 a civilian pilot. The reason for wna t hapl'ened is obscure, but w na t did hapi) en is onii too clear. A witness on "tne fly inti f ie.ld at Colu bus, Geor~ia states: "ouddenJ.y, a amc1ll abik' came down from above, and atruc1' the tail section oi ' tne Delta p l a n e 1 ~ n e r explod . ed into 1:1cattered bits ot' ;I.. flamin 6 rec~a~e - al~ lives !ost. Te s~a~l train~r th t rc1n into tne bi6 trana!Jort al~o crc1shed, ii.Jing . it, ~llot. lnus, 1n a frea~ disaster durin~ a t,echnic Ill aurveJ f 1i 6 At , tne airline lost what another official ca ls - "some of tne most valuable iey ~aonnel of our oo•van1". UB!~BA-l : _~ In R ic hla nd, a in o n, i ' s no mor P f irecrackers for the kiddies, no more roc ke t , no c nnon cracker s or pinwheels for the comin Fourth of July. Richland policy have banned fireworks as of tod y. They figur e it's better to be s a fe than sorry. Richland, you see, is ri g h ne7.t door to one of the nation's lar g est atom bomb p lan t . And next to me is my atomic colleague Helson Case. SPRIIG - The weather has been bright and sunny today, which isn't the only sign of springtime in New York - the circus is playing at Madison S uare Garden, and the San Carlo Opera is opening its annual season here at Rockefeller Center. The circus this year aai has more changes in it than I can ever recall, including soae dizzy acts on the high trapeze, while Grand Opera, features the usual h~gh notes - which ieo can be dizay. The difference being that one of Impresario Gallo'a sopranos can slip on a high note without breaking her neck. While Well, at the circus last night I was left as breathless as an aging tenor ,M watching one new actr-- the man ridin g the bicycle upside down at the towering top of the t nt, while in his teeth he held on which his wife ••x did acrobatics -- and a trapeze ~ no net.-1 /I J ~myself, find it difficult enough to stand on my head and ride a bicycle right side up - to say •■8ait•1 nothing of ridin~ an u psi de down bicycle, head down in aidair holding my wife by my teelh. My wife was with ae last night an d she wouldn't even look at this new act from Pris that had the crowd at Madison Square Gard~n in a mass cold sweat. Hugh, how would you wi like to ride a bike, upside down, eighty feet in the air, holding your beautiful bride in your teeth! ttiA~-~ITX Texa City to i s ne eril wi h c lm t od y- another thre t of a devas atin explos iot. Smoke as seen billowin g out of hew ecka r of aw rehouse near the waterfront, · and it was known th tin that warehouse had been stored nuantities of ammonium nitrate. The aaae sort of explosive fertilisin 1 aaterial tbat blew up in that French ves el, causin g the disaster in the firs place. Word was broadcast to evacuate and isolate the area thre tened by a JX repetition of the blast that had brought the original havoc to Texas City. The instructions were carried out cooly and cal ■y Texas City having learned, during its days of ordeal and disaster, how ~o face explosions and fire. Bundredal of workers digging in the wreckage simply ■ oved off methodically and continued their work amid wreckage in a safer area. It ~n•t cle r how lon the Chetnik fu itives can remain at lar ge in Italy, but they may undoubtedly will be aided by Italian Anti-Communist - in whic case ' it may take a lon g time before they re founded up, probably never. • j