b.T. P.& G. M O NDAY ___ ,_,_ . I GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: I am in Omaha tonight. And this happens to be the meeting place of a R epublican National Committee __ which went into session today. T he first important point under discussion, is the chairmanship now held by Huge Scott, who presided over the committee during the period of Governor Dewey's campaign. Some think he should step out. But Bugh Scott today stated: I have no intention of resigning from a position to which I was elected. Republican leadership is, of course, dealin& chiefl;.with problems raised by the defeat in love ■ber. They have before them what they call: •thousand• of grass roots suggestions.• And these they are scanning in the hope of finding grass roots with which to build ap the party for neat tiae. Here in Oaaha, heart of the corn belt, I'll bet t h ey are givin g plenty of attention to that farm vote, with due consideration for that grass root called - parity. JAPAN J ap anese eturns f ro t e ~ " " e lec ion ke t c 1ne n to y, ith incre a sing evidence of an ov e helming trium h for t.he Cons e rv a ti v s of Premier Yoshid a , called the Democratic li ' e ral party. Also, a surprise showing mad e by the Con11 n unists. The Reds have won thirty seats in the apane e diet and they h d only four in th previ us Parliament. But the Conservativ es of Premier Yoshida have won two h\Dldred and sixty-four sea s, ~xt come the Democrats ith - sixty-. nine seats. The conserv at ives, in other 01-ds, have a mra majority over all the rest of the · parties combined, and will be ab le to administ. r Ja an on their om. Hith rto, Yoshida .J mwt~ - ~ _ _ ...,,__,_,,_ ___ ,_ depend on co lition, alliance with other parties. " ~ But no w h. party is supreme. Which is an utstanding riumph for General Douglas MacArthur who supports Yoshida. -'l?Qdaor U1e SUfJFeilffl'" Gc.ma1lor et,eit,ad his gra4,ifiea:bi:eft i-n 'bAe :foll:owing nettle. •rea p ~ CHINA In China t h e II tionalist ca it 1 at hnking t he people to ay thought th Co unists were storming the city -- o.s the soun d of thWl erin g explosions r out. But it "I/as a blast at n Chinese Army a m uniti ns ct.ocy and s orage p1c■t place -- jus outside of Nanking . The place erupt d for four hours, vast amo\lllts of muni ions blowing up i th a thWl er of giant reverberations. Rumor is that hW1dreds ere killed. But the Nationa 1ist gc ernment reports that no lives v ere lost .• Sabot e suspected, dirty work by the Reds - whose troops are onl1 fifteen miles from Hanking. There they ha e halted to consolidate and reorganize -- in the face of no op osition. PALESTINE Nearly everything in the news tonight has an election angle. Even P alestine. The report fro ■ Tel Aviv; no Armistice agreement until after the election in Israel beginning tomorrow. T he word is that the tel AYiY government has sent instructions to that effect to the Jewish delegates at the Ar m istice conference of ~bodes telling them not to sign anything until after election today. 1be reason is, we hear, th t if concessions are made to Egypt it might be a political handicap to the party of Premier Ben Gurion, the moderate ~ociali1ta. if points were yielded the7 aigbt lose votes. So, don't until after election -- sounds like the old way of politics, the world over. ea n while, a delay in the evacuation of Egyptiaa troops from Faluja where four thousand have been under siege for weeks. Israel agreed to let them out. the evacuation was scheduled to begin today - but has been suddenly postpo n e d on Jewi s h or d ers. No reason is given, but thi s too may be connecte d with the Israel election. PALESTINE -2 -- Later news -- trance has recognized Israel. This action by the Paris government was taken toda7. Late word from London iR that Great Britain is expected to follow suit -- and grant recognition to Israel probabl7 within the next forty-eight hours. P Isr Ir. Jc:· , York t oni t, a Carn c.ie Hall, a piano recital as to h a ve b en held - - but , s cancelled at the last minu t e. And the 'anist is on h ~ s way olt of the country, by agreement •1ith the immi 1 ration authorities. He is Wal er Gesieking, a world-famous master of th keyboard. A Gennan,~ was given credenti a ls to come to this country i. for a concert tour, 1111 and his fist recital, m scheduled for tonight, was a sell-out. ..t- But Jewish organizations picked Carne 1 ie Hall, A because of Gesieking's connection with the Nazis. In ashington, C~ngressman Ilein raised a protest in the legislativ e halls. So tonight Carne g ie Hall had to packed house refund money to th~ ~audience, and Walte ... · Gesieking agreed with the immigration authorities -- that he would imm e di at ely g ob ck to Germa.ey. The world famous ianist declare that his connection with the azis ha d been w-,1■ comr , Ulsory and he rgued -- that art, music, ha s nothing to do with r ce, reli ion, or p olitics. Seems like we've heard t at b fore. f&xmtxabm# TRIP - I' in Omaha onight, after something of an adventure. For the pas several d rs I've been drivi f and ,d e a cross the ro s of thes s te plains -- fr Chica o o Osc - loosa, Iowa, thro town af r town, all the far as astings. Then b c to Omaha • ..., to Linea -, and as The weather being what itA there in the t, with · ~~ --co~-- the condi ti of the highways -- it 11as/\qu1te a tri -,-- • TG'l • The re so f o r it all goes back to a memor ble night. a little less than three months ago -- that ni t of surprise IIJlil suspense,.._electi~~enty of us wi 1 remember those long ho s of unexpected uncertainty -- followed by that amazing triumph of President Truman. I w n s in the thick of it, at CBS he r. 4quarters, New __ Mlf., JL~- ~ ~•94.J Yor~- W & - M N ~ hriag oe~1nobi l ized for eiect · on . wrong night broadc sting • ..._ lveryboey ho knows ho~lallll\the prognostications were -- with maey a commentator left out on a lo lio. Just the other , at the inaugur atio n, Pre si ent Truman had some fun t a ing a fling a st a of radio new I ho , at all ho s tl t ni g l , ~ t in ai stin;,:; I t Go e rnor ~ TRIP -2 - Dewey would win. 'l'hough Truman had a majority of the Totes, the Dewey trend would still come along and revere, the figures. There we were looking at those surprising figures; on the big board at CB~ election headquarter•-- cbanging retu •ns froa every state aarked down. And earl7 tb,t night there was one particular set of nuabera that kept hitting•• in the eye, the returns fro• Iowa. Preaident Truaan in the lead. The figur•• growin& laraer; that an&l• never changing -- the Ueaoorats ahead in Iowa. low, that wasn't according to th• aoript at all. According to the prediction• in the poll1, th~ Hepublloaa• should have been out in front nearly everywhere -- especially in Iowa, of all places. Iowa, traditionall7 the great Hepublican stronghold of the Yiddleweat. But everybody kept saying: just wait till th• farm vote pours in. Surely that would bring the u,wey trend, which everybody expected. But Iowa was the heart of the corn belt farm vote and nothing else. I notic d lik e wis e tha o th er agricultural states of the Middle West, while showing~Dewey majority, were not p giving the New York Gov A rnor the huge swing of middlewestem farm votes th a t he oul d need to "lll.. llebr ka .I" 1 as 1 ,.,. e, . w ae, wit.a a slight Republican margin, insjwl of a huge w~gg..,,;ul _ two D to o~e or ~ometh~ !l !We that. ~~ i~~-~~~~ ,, About e 1 even o'cloc . ·t s II\Y time to go on the air • .-.commentators were being rotnted, each taking a t~j lH · saeu at I aiie cphoae a couple 9' ieiaeP.! , cf.ewe~ now ii. wu D1Y t ~ ~ - There was on~ one thllll; I could think of to talk ..:>0,,1 about. The strange fact of Iowa. I said th t De ey, apparent]t, was losing out with the far~ v o t e : ~ agricultural states of the middlewest ,ere supposJ to be the Number One~-P. stronghold. &ut, th re • s Io a -- Truman ah e ad. Actually Govemor I Dewey w s ~ doi all ri tin the big industrial states, where he w a s sup os e to be weak with ~ labor.m•a.. He carrie ew York, Ne w Jersey, Pennsylvania. But, he ~ s f ·1· 1 h s su · os to be tl1e stron , t, in the com a 1 1n w 1 e re e Wi .J b lt. TRIP -4 - lbich to me was the most surprising thing of all in that stunning political surprise. So at ele•en o'clock on election night, all I could say was that the faraer1 were producing the completely unexpected in the great astoniah- aent. For days after I kept thinking - there•• newsaen were sitting in Ne• Yor~ ne•er gueseing what waa going on in the rural areas, though so aan7 of as caae fro• amall town or far■• I'd better get out in \he ■1441• west and ci~culate around in the farming section•. lhlo~ I'•• been doing for . four days now. Bandicappe4 ao■ewha\ by thousands of square miles of glare ice out here. the only place I'•• failed to reach 10 far ha• been Baakell Institute, in lansaa, where I bad planed to take part in the dedication of an important lndian War Memorial. Ice and a car spinning off a road kept•• from aaakell. This, of course, baa been th• year of tou&h t t t ' ' be news telling of weather in the wes ern s a es. TRIP -5 - record breaking cold and blizzards. on iriday when! got to Qscaloosa I was warned against trying to drive on weat, highways tied up in westarn Iowa, and in Nebraska, with the worst ice conditions in history. JuPt to illustrate the weather angle let's look at today's news. The weather is the big news in this part of Aaerica. In Oaaha, the prediction -- ten below tonight. In other parts of the state 5, 10, and 15 degrees lower still. Highways so glazed with ice that you can ekate froa Iowa to lebraaka, to Kansas and ~olorado. Yea, air,youna•t•r• on skates are sliding around on highways aeant for auto■• And cars are warned to stay off them. The Air fore• engaged in a huge operation •hay lift• -- to•••• ayria41 of cattle threatened with star•ation on the snow and ice covered western plains, and in th• aountain1. Bu&• ~-82 cargo planes taking off at ten ainute inter•als droppiDI tons of hay cakes, concentrated cattle food in pellets, scattering this over thousands of frozen square miles~- Operation "hay lift.• TJlll -6 - In Congress today three bills were introduced to proTide emergency goTernaent aid to saTe snow-bound ~estern liTestock. In the Senate, "O'Yahoney ot Wyo■ iDI calling for federal forces to clear the blocked roads. Senator O'Mahoney described the blizzards and the cold waTe in these words: "The aost difficult experience in the Rocky Mountain area within th• 3eaor7 of liTi . g ■an.• The latest: President Traaan has authorised a 1100,000 federal Relief funds for the stricken west. So, no wonder I was warned in Oecalooaa, iowa, not to start for my d a te with ay Haskell Indian friend•, and then on to Wahoo, or anywhere else in Mebra•ka. But I'm a akier and li~• all 1kier1 I pay little attention to weather warnings. Heal akl addicts are accustoaed to he a ding for the aountaln• ln t worst months of the year, under any conditions. ~o, •l• of us set out in a couple of cars. And for day• now I'•• b e en on the road in a fantasy of i§e, snow, and wind. Creeping along at twenty miles an hour, in a world unending ice, as f ar as the eye could see acrocs the JlllP -7 prairies. When you could see at all through stora. The bowling wind from the north so strong it blowing the car sidewise. Through snow whipped by the wind in blinding flurries. A fine time to be scouting ar o und through Iowa and ebraska -- seeking illuaination of that fara yot• a7ster7, those figures on the board at CBS election niglll.J Not a farmer in si&ht. Cattle and bogs? So■e. All co•ered with a glaze of ice! But, I have contriYed to pick up a point or two of illu11ination. For example, here in Omaha, the Bureau Mana1•r for the United Press, told•• about a lew York n•••P•P• who was on one of th• caapaign trains, through Nebraska. At one stop he wrote a peach of a story, with lot• of local color. Be told of standing on the rear platfor■ of the caapaign train and off in the distance a lone p rospector trudged along. Thi• was in cantral ebraska where there never was a mining prospector. The nearest one might ha•• been a gold s e e k er out where the ~olorado aountains begin, four or five hundred ailts away. lhlch is an exa■ple of bow little some ,ew Yor~ news ■en knew about the lest. The O.P. Bureau· aneger told me that he hia1elf ~ad filed a pre-election report indicatin& that President Truman would run exceedingly well in th• ~ora Belt. I asked him how he figured it. Be said ht had been on the Stassen train, when the former ~inneaota Go•ernor bad coapaigned for the hO ■ inaticn here in Mtbraska. Be said that Stassen bad aadt a great iapression en the far~ers. Be talked foreign policy, ad•ocated iar• benefits and e■pbasiatd parity. ~aylor4 Godwin sa7s be saw the bit that Stassen aade vith the faraers. Then be noticed -- that President Truaan, campaigning in the Yiddle. est, talked the sa•• line a• ~taaaen. So the newaaan figured that, if it ad• a bit for Staaaen, it would also make a bit for rruaan. All of which sum arizes the talks I ba•e been having out here, seeking an explanation of those election figure• that aatoniabed us ~ 0 aucb on the ~BS board in ;owember: Truan ahead in Iowa! THlP -9 --- e an w h i 1 , s 1 b o d c a t f o m h e re at !. • r ' . . B • in uma a t nite, the thermemeter is drop ing outside r. • t .:, WlOg, ebras a, because of this incmlible winter they ha•en' t 1ad a mail since the 18th of ovamber. d now from snowy Nebraska, to Ken Niles, in Holly ood -- here it never snows, does it, Ken?