be San Francisco expects Monday to•~• one of biggest days in San Francisco history. Already the o lice are preparin g for the g iant crowds that will line the streets, thronging, cheering in an enormous ovation. on Monday San Francisco will give a formal public reception to General MacArthur. Today Mayor Elmer Robinson reve a led that the city asked the General to accept a San Francisco celebration o , f his home-coming, and -iacArthur replied -- yes, he would be glad to. He informed the Mayor that, flying f rom Tokyo via Hawaii, he expects to land at the San F~ancisco airport late Mo . ay afternoon. So the plan is for the General to drive in a procession from the airport to the Sta. Francie h otel - throu h fifteen miles of cheering ••z• crowds. The other headline-Jenerals of the eoond World w r have had their ticke.,tape-reoeptions. N o w ~ ° ' : 1 1 : 6 • •acArthur will ~s get his - the victor of the w ar in the P a cific, w h o haupens also•• _,,,,,,.,, MACARTHUJ - 2 to e a dismissed Su p re e Commander. Then, in Washinton, the Ge er 1 will make two Con ressional appearances, probably. One seems sur e . ~ ~ P r esid e nt Tr um n ~ i : • stated t ha t he is happy about the 1 ea ot having MacArthur address a joint session. He calls it a fitting honor for one of our greate t military men. Ther e seems to be some doubt as to just how far the ousted Supreme Commander will go in giving his side oft e dispute N~ as against the President a n t e For ign Policy of the A ministration. The Re u b lic a ne in Washington are sayin e wil - MACARTHUR - 3 (cards/ la y h isA&&XS/\on t h e table, a nd ta lk ri ht out. But in T oky o - D8mocrat Senator agnuson of W~shington, who bas been seeing ac Arthur, said to da y the General w s n no ••k• mood •to enga e in a fight•. Ho1ever, ther e w s anoth e r MacArthur reply -- to aY, o that presidential dismissal. MacArthur's military s e cretary, General Courtney Whitney, speaking 1n behalf of his chie f , denounced what he called •apneasement~ Be said there 1s an appeasement drive ia,~■&X 11:■■■a~i which he called 'Led by the Communist press•. They have been trying to picture MacArthur as wanting to e xpand t he war, and this reply is m a de: 'he has never - a dvoca te d or e ven considere d , an extension of the war -- except to the limited degree neces ary•. ~ t _:!. n e c e s ary for t he success of the ca mpa ign in Korea. - hi c h is, in way , a r ep ly to Pre ident Truman, who, in h is radio ex p lanation . aid: 1 The cause of w orld p a ce i s more i mpo rtant t han any indivi d ual.• All t hi s l a ys do wn t he line, w h ic h 1s com 1n fixed in t he controversy. The R ubllc ns MACAR+HUR - 4 backing a cArthur, au•xx shout~peaaement. The ~ \ Semocrats backin the President, are sayin that the Republican party 1s be coming a war party. As for MacArthur personaily, he appears to b e slated for something les exciting- a c1v111&n !tl■x job. So states the R~min ton Rand Coruoration - whose Presid en t, James H. Rand, said today that the recant Supreme Com mGn der of the Far E a st, would become & i h official of the corporation with ninety days. Reports say that~ cArthur wil~et a salary of a hundr d thousand dollars a year - n t e first civilian job he has ev e r had. - CHINA (The Un ited Sta t es r e j e cts the British su e t i on that R e d China be allowed to take uart in the writin of a peace treaty with Japan. In W shin ton today, Michael Kt8ermitt, spokesmanfor th e State Department, said that · our Governmen~ in his words, 'do e s not contemplate di s cus ions with the Peip i n g regime re g arding a Japan es e peace se ttlement•. The British also proposed that Formosa be handed over to the Chinese Reds - and this, too, g ets a turndown. McDermott explained that we are not changing our Formosa policy. He o o1nt6d out that while the British r e cognize the C om m unist re gim e on the mainlan, we still reco g nize the Na tionalist overnment of Chiang Kai Shek, which is (He added that this %~■ p r op osals should not be re British s a split be tween washin ton a nd Lonaon. It's 11 a art of an ~ expres s io n of opi ni on s that •~11 ■za differ in talks between friendly nations. KOREA ( The story that Soviet Russia has g i ven th C in p se Communists a lar g e air force, is be in g born out in peotacular tastlion. In K or e a, gr eater and greater battles of jet planes. Tod a y brings a new climax -- with jet ax■~•• armadas of one hundred on eac side, !las ing in swiftest manoeuvers in the b a ttl e of the sky-) ....., lJne hundr e d American j e ts escorted th1riy. two B-twenty-n1ne bombers -- and ran into about one hundred Russian built MIG 15s. (Thirty-three enemy\ p la n s were either destroyed, probably destroyed, or d ama · ed - the largest num b er of victories that our ~ ir for es a ve scored thus far . But we, too, incurred los s es - the first t at have be n reporte d . Two B-29 b ombers wer e shot dow n by t h Red ~ • e , ? : . Further, it w as disclosed t od . orev , t h a t ~ other s upe rfortre sses were lost - ""➔--~ .,-l_ 0 s ly,~lctims of enemy j e t ~ Whoicth ' K OR E A - 2 On the ro u nd - news of heavy red · - reinforcements. The Chinese are aid to have rushed ei gh tean m or e divisions, one-hundre:.:lxty-t h ousand A to one-hundred-ei g ht y -t h ousand men, . into Korea. Reinforcements - to bolster the Red front, which is yield~ . ng and sagging~oday American troops ca tur e d Yonchon, north of Se o ul. "'orth of the Thirty- - 11ghth P a r a ~ l el, on the road to Pyongyang, the Red capital, American t a nks routed Communists rear guards, a nd rolled into Yonc on. Further east, however, the United Nations forces ran into h ea vy resistance, masses of Rens entrenched strongly ln the mountains, the gains m ea s ured on ly 1n yards -- a s the C mmunists had to be routed out with flame throw~is, rock e ts, bayonets, and t h e heavie. t a rt i ll P. r y b o a rdment in t w o m onths. The m a ssed cannon of the Allies a r ~ said to b e inflict in .JL hug• casu al ties on c once nt r ated masses of )\ e nemy troo ps. SOUTBERlf PABIFIC This w e k while broadcasting fro m a railway stati o he re in the m ount a ins of C a lifornia, I couldn't avoid absorbing a certain a mou n t of i nformation about ra i lways in eneral. For inst an ce, I have learned how the r e cent s1~tchmens strike affected the supnly I of freight cars all over this nation -- causing shortages, and a balance that h a sn't yet been adjusted. Many shippers, in many states, are puzzled why they can't get all the cars they need. Some of them blame the railroads. And from t• what' the railroad men tell me, the roads &re not to blame. Things a re booming on the Southern P a cilio, tle t ■ mainline tracks of which are right outsi d e my window at this ~ oment. Th i s is the Don er Pass- S a cra men to Division, which h a s · long been fa m ous for t he tr eme n ous ■xa■ loads th a t ar e carried through thee mounta ins -- now by the new es t m od e rn ux• dieeels, with pow e r that d warf s t he for mer 6 1 nt , in tho c ab s of w ic h I rode when I ·a s here during the I I ,,,.. SOUTHERN PACIFIC - a gr e at st o rm two years ago. Sitting beside me is one of the be st known railway men in the West, M rle Jenning s . Mr. Jennings, on these tracks t h at we Me lookin at, and w 1ch you control, ~re you carrying much of the material that is being shined out to the war in Xoreal We certainly are. A large part of 1i. Train load after train load of Army and Navy munition, of war, go through here all the time. A great deal of what we do these days concerns that dag-blaeted war over there on the other side of the Pacific. DRAFT The H use o! Representatives tonight passed t 1 e r f t Bill, w h ich cuts the draft · e from nineteen to e i h teen-and• a- alf, and extends the oeriod of military se vice fro m one to twenty six onths. ~ 11 a s ts u b a mil tary want e into The word from lashingto~ is that Stuart Symington will be the bead of the Reconstruction finance ~orporation. This follows Senate action today giving final approval to President Truman's plan for puttin1 the RFC under a one-man administration, and abolish- ing the five man board ti.ch hither to has been in charge. COMMUNISTS At the hearing on Hollywood Communism, the proceedings brought a laugh today when testimony was heard fnn Mrs. Meta Reis Rosenberg, a former film story editor. ' She said she had been a Communist for seven years, and quit because she found it undemocratic. "It was time in my life," she said, "that I started thinking for myself. In the Party, this 1s not really possible." Whereupon she gave the Camnittee a whole list of names of filmland Reds. '!be laugh came when Mrs. Rosenberg, a pretty brunette, gave the Connittee a telegram, signed by MOVie Producer Nunnally Johnson. It read: "I trust this will convince you that politics is no business for a fetching girl. Politics is for flat-chested girls." Which was - st . ating it flatly. IRAN . ~ -Pl« Tod ay ~ Iran~ police K ■ Challen ed the Communists to a s o · · down - the eds calling a mass meeting in Parliament Square in T eharan, and p lice ~orbiddin ,._"'t-::e- "'""- w 1ch follo s an outbreak of sava g e disordeI at the famous oil fields - nine ~ereone killed, including two British ana one I t a11 ~ n-•at1:ew. The British we re an ry already, becau e of t h e seizure of Anglo-Iranian oil by the Persian government - fabulous oil properties developed by Britain. So now the murderous outbr eak , with the killing of British sailors. In Londo n today For 1 n Secretary Herbert orrison s a id t a t Br1 ain would, 1n his words -- • d o somet in about 1t•. ~ uz. But wh t T Ae & e ~ t t i i & t ~ 0 8 a,, a r umor t · t Br iti sh N· v 1 fore s h ve alr a ct y l a n ed - ut t a t i s de nied by Foreign c r e t a r y n { ~ • IRAN - 2 ~~ .., t,he twis t er lies in a tr a ty m a de b ack in 1nete n Twenty-one between ovi t Ru 1a ar.d 1;:tl9 - ~~ Iran -- a pact concluded dur1n the early ays o f t e B o lshevik gov e rnment. On clause i th a t, if Ir n 1s ven threaten e d by a t ird party - Soviet Russia has t l e ri ht to send troops into tLat co ntry. s o , ~ if British marines and sailors were landed to restore order in the 011 f1 lds - Moscow m1 ht interpret that as a legal re son for ~ov1ng into Iran. A thin ~ the British, absolutely · o not w a nt. STO E (Th Stone of s,.on e 1 ck in Wpstminst e b > e t oni t . Tt a s bro 1 ht fro m Scotland by the p lice, n l a ced i.n t e Abbe rom w 1ch 1 t w · s st o len on Christmas t at roy a l coronat 1 on stone.) s tl e .... n t o e 1-1 t a l on t e •orst 11 .. : 1 s siss i p 1 :a,ew. ~ v n t y y . a • ~ ~ hos t s of pe o l e Hwt~ i n t he lowl a n s &18~@:--~--tt:rr,IN,I,..-¥- __,,,, a r e ck i n ~ ""lo,,-giA!I• , ettin reaa y to flee. T he i ss1ss1p 1 w a s ri 1ng tod a y &leng • ad w ate s a t Lake It a ska, i n ort w es e rn is s esot a , al l the wa d o n s t rea m t o t h e b orer o I o wa . T he F e r o f a t e r s is e tting to o m uch wat e r - fro m its tri b ut a ri es . feds, !!'- t~~tt.. ibe Lili fl Ci a1 i ska e-ae ftmlllial'ed &II& t1f1iy C1u1tl••· t oak to ht,;ket Th e ame story N ort h , g o e s for t h e R ed River of the tow a rd Hudso~ Ba y ~ e crest of t h e d e lu e.,.. a t F a r g o, North D a kota to d ay.- - PILOT A u l ne took otf fro m t e to of t • R in1er t is fternoon . s a sear c h p arty w as climbin the fourteen t ho sand foot m o u nt in t o rescue the pilot. Lieutenant Jo n fled kin , of t h e Air Force, landed 1n a small p land, w h ile on a picture-taking jaunt. He came down o t e summit , and t h en couldn 't take off a a1n -- 1n the rar1fied air. So t he re he wa for twenty,four ours in the oitt r cold , while rescue as or ,;; nized. But, finally, he got h i s plane started, aJ &J\ was able to fly off -- landin on a frozen ~~~ at a much lowerfaevelJ and.Aall1ng for a frech lake supply of gasoline . ENP INQ. d o it' s s olo to my •xs h o spi table r i l w a fr1 n s h e r e a t T r uck ee i n t e i e rr a s, w ho for th e t f iv e d ay s h v e l e t u s u e t h e tr 1n m ~ s e r' s o ff i c e s asp c i a l C B S r a o io s tudio. A · · s o ur So u t he rn P cifi c t rai ~ ulls out, to you who l appen to b e l i s tening to n i g ht - - solong u ntil Mo a.y.