_6TO IC Well, j t w Blandy, ho accompli s he h t about "Op r t · o n Crossroads" to d ay? emph tically a su e , says Admiral in ch rge. Bl a n y repeats that it w a s ith kil and perfect timing; that the experiment went off with smoothness and speed; and the only casualty, one drone, this is a plane without a -lot that plummeted into the sea before even the boab was dropped. No loss of human life; and apparently no great loss of animal life. One of the scientiets who acco•panied the expedition reports that be saw*• wild birds flyin1 over Bikini two hours after the bomb dropped. And, _ when sailors boarded the u.s.s. Pennsylvania, they found , a herd of goats on the fat fo'ec•stle deck, •••• "' munching hay, and blissfully happy. ' ATOMIC - 2 ---- Admi a l El a y gives us a revised list of the shi s dam ged by the a tomi bo . It is not d finite yet, because there is till too much r adio activitv in the water around Bikini and around the . ships, for any clos e -up obs e rv a ti on to lt possible. Be says tua t for certain the bomb sank two transpcrts, capsized one destroyer which later sank, and da ■ aged another destroyer which may sink. The battleship Arkansas is badlJ damaged, also the Japanese battleship legato, as well as the Skate, the light carrier. IIDEPERDEIC' one Japanese light cruiser, our own ' heavy cruiser PENSACOLA, and one concrete landing ship. Twenty-five other ships were slightl1 da ■aged. There were numerous fires, but most of them have been put out by fire-fighter tugs or the flames just burned themselves out. So far there se m to be a general feeling that the bomb dropped at Bikini may have been considerab]J les eff ctjve than the on that ip ed out Nagasaki last year. Ror did i t do as much damage as the other one, at Hiroshi ■ a. laval officers are already saying that if the fleet had been maneuvering, the ships ■ igbt ha•• escaped the blast of the atomic bomb. So, is that terrific weapon as effectiYe at sea• on land7 We don't know yet. But Adairal Blandy hints that yesterday's bo ■b at Bikini was not as powerful as the one that destroyed lagasaki. Then too, there are so ■ e who say the experiment was 111satisfactor1 because it was impossible " to reproduce actual fighting conditions, with no crews aYailable to put out the fire that the bomb started. At the aaae ti ■ e, it's recalled that at Hiroshima all the fire- fighting equipment was bu•ned t■ up with the city, an4 the boab killed ■ oat of the fire ■ en before they could tart fighting any flames. - Supporte ,:,f the 0.P.A. in Washington and el e bee are today in the positi o n of atchin g ti. ne 1 & and wonde r in g ill pric no w rise spectacularl7, as they predicted. If they doa' t, well then, *ll•i the1'll look foolish, because of thos e arguments the1 used on President Truman. As a matter of fact, already in several places prices did jump. At Chicago, livestock sold today fro ■ one te three dollars higher than last Fri ay -- an4 hogs two to three dollars higher. Then, there's a similar stor7 comes from Indianapolis. On the other hand, those who do not believe in 0.P.A., who remember that price control nev@r has been effective, point out that these rises I've llllticned are onl1 nominal, merel1 what were black market prices, which in most cases have been the J••••tl prevailing actual prices. 0.P.A. ceiling prices the7 point out, were fine- or would have been -- but what good were they when you couldn't get what you wanted? O.P.A._ - __ it h OU O. . A. e u e, goos b t h ve been o taina 1 only thou h the 1 k ark t, wk will shortl1 find their ny into the o pe n market; and, as soon s p odu tion is release d f o g overn . ent control, pr i c e s ar e exp «: t e d to f ind t he i n a tu r al 1 eve 1 • The le ad ers of Con r e s have told Pre ident Tru m an that before the day was done, the Bou.3e at least would put thro gh a resolution extending price until the twentieth of this month. A similar moTe got under way in the Senate; but the majority i■ ax leader needed unani m ous consent. O'Daniel of Texas objected. That m eant the resolution had to be tabled for twent7- four boors. In lilwaukee, one merchant announced that he would cut the price of ever7thing in his store by five pe c ent, and invit ed his c o m petitors to follow suit. Even so, he '11 not be losing m oney, he s ays, aild b e adds that if all m erchants weuld r e duce prices instead of r aising tm m , we ' d nev er ,ne . d price control again. • - In Ohio, h D o c a , u ge s he ople of the B uc mey st te to go on a buyer's strike c ep f n i al s . -- o- - Although 0 . . A. officially ceased to exist at m idnight, all thi ty-four thousand people holding jobs i n the agency • e on the job this morning • . O.P.A. Ad m inistrator 0 aul Porter told newspapermen be inttnds te keep his organization intact until a new bill is passed. ~eanwhile, there is no absolute guarante that those thirty-four thousand jobholders will be paid. However, they probably will, for they still ha•• one function, sugar rati ning. Onder the Second lar Powe rs Act, sugar rati o ning centinues until larch thirty-first, Nineteen Forty-seven. O.P.A. is just one of the govern ent agencies concern ed with sugar, and sugarmen tell us that ' s vrhy the stuff i ■ so scarce, because nobody in any govern ent agency ha s the fiint fit knowl dge o co p eh n ion of b x p the problems involved. The ord is that rent nt up to ay in several part f he ount y, but not in N ew York tate, where a la wa p ss~d , antici ti ng the possibility of su·~b a px situation. Gove rn o r Dewe y, last Dece b.r, asked the le 1e s of the Ne Yo rk L gi latur e to prepare a bill to ring all esidential ents under State control in case Federal control came to an end. The law waa passed last December, and over this past weeken4 Governor Dewey appointed an administrator tAt enforce the law. - Following the le• Jork exaaple, the Governor• of le• Jersey and Iowa today issued executive order• free1ia1 all residence rents. It aee ■ s a foregone concluaion that the Bouae tonight will do what is expected of it and adopt a atop-aap resolution continuin1 O.P.A. power• u.til J•l1 Twentieth, pending con1ideration of a ■ore coaplete • new bill. The RepreaentatiY•• agreed )7 a Yoic• ••t• to liait de)ate to one hour, plu1 ti•• aiaute1 tor eac~ aeabera on each aaend■ ent. :t.c .. ~ Ia the Senate, aeanwhile, ~IPA O'Daaiel •tteta to Ilia g•n■• le i■ again■t nea HDt ~ontl'~ 4Y•lll ••• all technicalities to preYent aa1 debate •ntll --~~~ Friday. After that, he~ l•ltsl}t' tilibuater aatil tle ~ ~ ~ end of ti••· Senator Byrd of Virginia~otter ~ llll'a bill , - 1, extending federal rent conirol tor one year. But Papp7 •* ~~ will have none of ' 9 - ~ ~ 1 ,, - The 3i · Four F ~ i ~ ~i s er , r 1 0 t> t e . A o ov~ p u u a ar fi g o n t ~ ten e Frenc mJtde co ro i e ro osal in a an intern i . al - one. T i o inclu ~ e no on v t e e ort proper bu consi er 1 · n · ~ l ~ur oun ,1 in i . 1'1'e znne to be overne bv ~ commission of six po rR, Uncle Sam, John Bull, a , s ia, Fr~nce, • lay n Jugosl~via. e ·: te rity of he zone to be guaranteed by the Security ~ouncil of the united •ations. ureat uritian and tbe united ~tates promptly accepted. ben .olotov came up with a ~ sug estion which would have giTen t e b lance of control to Jugollavia. oecret,ry ~yrnes flatly rejected t},at; said he would a~r•e to nothing but the rrench compromise. ftfter a lot of arguing, .olotov and the rrenc~ ,oreign ainiste agreed upon the modifica ion of the rrenc plan. fle've not been told just exactly w at it is but presumably .olotov even wants vZ hoslov kis inclu ed on . the 1 rieste in ern tion 1 control bo r . oecre ry uurnes - "'u u r tJ n ~ 1, v s 1 he ou ld t i n · t on':! o r oni n l--is cision t morrow. 00 t e ui . rou e m o on t e verg o f an a re e ent on ri est e, or ten ye rs. - .-. s for(/rieste i<C<fliv for t e t ir hy it was the scene of riots . • obs of ~talians fi hting mobs of -S'!ovenes. ~1ev n were s t, or, r ounde by flying stones • . 1ronically enou h, nmeric n sol iers in full bat le drees were or ere into the city to vommunist headnu~rters which was bein g besie g e by an ngrv ~tlaian crowd. 1~e arriv , 1 of wncle oam·s troops auicklv dispersed t~e rioters. - o e ri ot s in In d ia, but not against the B i i h over nm e n t. ~ e e 1 y a e vi v a 1 o f a cu st om that lon g has p evailed in B.industaW. When the oslems have a r e ligious p ro ce sion, the Hindus help the celebration ith stones an clubs. An hen the Bindua have a procession, the lloslems turn the tables. That is what happened at Ah edabad. The Bindus had a re~tival in honor of llahav iri, one of the canonized leaders of the Jaina, a sect of exceedingly pious Hindu faaatics. One a rtic 11 of their faith is that it's ' wrong to take life in any form. So they w e ar cloth ov~r their mouths to keep from breat ing in ger .11 s and killing them. The saintly ahaviri died in tk ■J•~ the year One Hund r ed and Seventy-six B.C. in his honor. And the festival wa1 Whereupon the Yoslems took part, by throwing stones. And this was followed by a pitched battle. Fin ally, the pol icef ired on the c rowd, killing nineteen and woundin g a hundred and thi rt y. L.. T c onfl i c f . h in thou and t■ UWJlci J e H ly L· n o n i t i in the thro '? h O al 1 ~ h y e Irish he B i t i h Bla k and T n . p ards of three ar e in p ri on, a cuse of being members of th 8 a an a , a Jew i ~ b e c t a r y . The J e s are put t in"g up p sive resistance to the Briti ■ h s arch irties, bat thee have been skir ~ ishe all " oTer Palestine. B it ish troops are rolling through Jerusalem in armored cars, true ks and radio cars, looting for ~uspects, arms and a . ' . un1.,1on. Movie theatres are cloet and owners of caf'es have sent their musician ■ home. Traffic tonight is at a ini um between Jerusale■, ' Tel Aviv and Haifa. In spite of British vigilence, the voice g ■ t•• of Israel as heard distinctly, up and down the lad, that is,the voice of the secret radio tranamitter ope rated by Hag ana. --o-- P irae Minister Attlee had s Olllet•ing to say about all this in the House of o on today. Be says the Jes in Palestine a e using so m e of the worst methods of J - thei r o p p e s s or in E u ro e. B e ade it c lear that be and hi s govern ent d o not intend to stand for any attempt to settle the problem by force. Britain, Ila adds, still bas a mandate, a duty to maintain law aD4 order in the Holy Land. And w i thout abdicatin& thl1 duty the; can not tolerate what he calla •a direct challenge to British authority." Be also said that . the Jewish actl•ltl•• Palestine are according te plan, a plan p•epare4 executed by a higtilJ de•eloped military oraaniaattu with• ideapread ramification•. Bagana, ••1• Attlee, has • some seYent1 thousand members, with a mobile ■ triking force of ab•t five thoaaaod. Io addition, lie tells us there are t.wo · other, what he calla, •Jewi1la terrorist• organizations, whose members run into the thousands. One groap, says Attlee, spt cializea in as s as .~ in at ion . With sixteea British officers aa4 ft•• police killed since Dece ber. -- J!llllS .. The rail•v expresa atrike ia lew York i• oYer. After fiYe days without wort, the aen ca•e to aa agreement with the Co ■pan7, and tbe7 clai■ the a1••••••t ia a haadred per cent victory tor th••· &t aa7 rate, tb•J're going back to work to ■orrow. lat there 1• troable elaewbere. ■•111•••• ~~ ~ • e c o n d •otioa picture •trike ia 1••• tiaa • 1•••• •••• ••••Dt••• i•a4re4 picket• are poate4 arou4 tea ■t•41o■• Prodactio• waa co•pletel7 iDterr•pte4 at••• lot, a•4 ■ lowe4 •Pat Dia• other■• . The l•■t •trite waa a J•r1■41ctleaal ••••••1•, ••• ot ti•• •••rrel■ •lout wbici uioa ■boul4 repr••••I oer\ai• 1roap■• T~l• one - 1• aD •cio of the laat attalr • • • lt la• rraDci•co,,. traaaport worker•' •trite .e...._pluge4 th.t";it7 into the worat traffic aaarl it baa eYer knowD. lot onl7 atreet car aeD, bat those OD the cable ~ .. ~ cars and buaea walked out 1 azt tieA Saa Fraaci1co . ..,~,,..~.,~~' racing ae • ' \he ■ i••••he•• toui1~• 1• a••• to whoae •••r&J aoter car owner• and dri••r• owa =• ,, l1elJ The laerican Autoaobile l11ociation ie tle lar1e•\ aad aoet etfecti•• io47 we I••• to pr tee\ \le iat••••I ••• ••t•\1 of aoteriata. Ii• ao ■ t iaportaat • lallla tacia1 •• la it• Prea14eat, Ir. Willia■ l. le\\l • • le laa tor 1•• -- Ir.. lettli••• Un llfZ~IMl Yea, Ir. Tl••••• ••t tlra\ I•••• ■IHI \o •a, to 1••• partie•larl7 a\o•t \lo •r■,atq- ••• lolt 1••'•• alwa1• eztea4.a te tle aia■ aad acti•tti•• •I U. laerican lutoaobil• '••ociatton. You••• b••• a 1reat lelJ to••• in oar effort• to brin1 about better ataa4ar4~ of aatet7 on the hi1hwa7a, and to aho• our appreciatioa 1:•• been delegated to present to 10• bonorar7 aeaberahip in the Autoaobile Club of lew York. i.Q1%WII - Page 2 • ....e•••4 tijp•• eeoe, \ahlna the at ■& and purpoica et,~.,, .... I appreciate \le priYilege of beia1 •• loaorar7 ••••• la t.le l•t•■•ltil• Clalt of le• tort. ••• ■GI► nee •••" ,-i1 u what pros•••• 1•• aro accoapltahi•I ia prowoa\l!!.f \ratfie aco14eatat Well, l l••• t~l• to repert. ■••t. acoiaeate are ••oiaa•le. T~•J woald ae••r bappea if ■oteri•t• - aad pe4e■ triaa, t•• - •o•ld all J•t \ate l l ... ,. That'• 1o•r ae• alocan, I iaa't itt IIL QOTTLID.: Y••• lr.Thoaaa, aad ■ore thaa oae ailli••• alx laadred thou,and ■e ■bers of the A.A.A. bave piedge4 tbe■ael••• to li•• up to it. ig%%Llll - page 3. L...L.l You aay certainly count ae in on that. And now that I' ■ a aeaber, I ahall be taking adYaatage of the celebrated 1.1.1. ••r•ice, whio~ aakea aotoria1 •• ••cb ■ore co ■tor\able aad pleaaaat. IIJ •P••••r · , t~• lu Oil Ceapaa7, 1• one oft~• atr•••••\ ••pporta et r••r aafet7 pro1r••• aad I•• ••re the7 •111 •••r\1].J ••••r•• 7ioar alo1aa - •take l\ •••1-•