The cer monies o! m o urning !or King George the Sixth began, today, on a remote island in the Far Pacific. Which is a reminder that, though losing a lot of late, the British Empire and Commonwealth still extends around the globe. We can still say - that the sun never s e ts on the lands that acknowledge Elizabeth Tbe Second to be their Queen. So the ceremonies of mourning were global - and began, today, just to the West of the International Dateline, the Tonga Ielanda. There, we hav . a reminder that the Brltleb Empire now h&s - two ruling Queens. The new one, the young eovereign, in lngland · and Qaeen Salote, rullng for years under British eovere1gnty. Her Polynesian Majesty, Salote, stands six-foot-three, a giant queen, who pays her homage to the amall, slim £11sabeth - and, today, she led her South Sea Islander ■ in aa & Polynesian farewell to George the Sixth. And so it went, in one way or another, aoroes the lines of longitude. In Indla, twenty-one gun• boomed a funeral salute at the ancient red stone rort of FUHERAL - a Delhi~ one-time r e sid nee of t he Moiigul Emperors. ~ ' - the citi es of H industan, ·h e te ple bells tinkled witt , ,,._ _...~., - ~ - musical notes, and ascetic sadus wailed 1n lamentation. " - ~ Reminding us, that independent India,~etl ~ h o e • ~ ti< ~ 7t-< / ~t~~ 8,- ~ The same with neighboring Pakistan - where, from the minarets of ten thousand moeques, the Mullah• called on Moslem• to unite in prayers of mourning. Acro1s the Indian oce&n, in Africa, the 4ruaa beat, the lands of the dark tribes throbbed with an incessant rhythm• of the drume. Thousands of miles to the South, on Antarct1o ice, three men stood at a flag staff, the Union Jack at half mast. Memb~rs of an Australian Antarctic expedition, stationed on the polar i c e , ~ bowed their heads in two minutes of silent prayer} !'hereby joinin& the people ■ on the i1land of Britain - ..._,-, at two o'clock tbia &fternoon, all activity sto~ped for two minutes of silence and prayer. That was at the mo~ent when the coffin of Geor e the Sixth came to the door of St. Geor g e's Chap 1 FUJERAL - 3 at Windsor, t ad1t1onal home of the r ya l family. Previously, there had been a solemn proce•s1on throu London, with mon a rchs and dignitaries fro all over the world 1n attendance. On a balcony at Marlborough house, a lone figure - Dowager Queen Mary. Having been for-idden by her doctors to take a formal part in the ceremony on a bitterly cold day, the eighty-four year old Dowager Queen stood and gazed at the funeral procession of her son. On a balcony at St. Jamee Palace - a three year old boy. Prince Charles, held by hl• nurse, 1•••4 with ch1ld1sh eyes - the infant helr to \be crown, soon to be named the Prince of Wales. In Windsor, at St. George's Chapel, the ritual was in the stately tradition of the Church of England. The Chapel, crowded with notables, 1plendtd1 yet funeta1 with m edieval pageantry. The Arc h bishop of A Canterbury presided, and the Bishop of Winchester read the 1e1aon, from the Book of Revelation: •And God ruJERAL - 4 sh a ll wipe away all tears from t t.e lr eyes. And t h ere sball be no more d . ath, neither sorrow, nor crying. Heither shall tber be any more pain - for the for ■er things are passed away. He that overoometb shall inherit all things - and I wt ■ will be hta God, and be shall be my aor..• Such was the 011 ■&% of & funeral, the ~ra7era of which extended around the world. IRAN In Ir a n - an attem t to as s ass nate the number one adv1eer to Premier Mossadegh. Shot by a sixteen year old youth, a member of an organization of Moslem extremists. The would-be assassin steppe4 forward from a crowd and screamed: •There 1a no God but Allah• the ancient Moslem formula. Whereupon he dr•• a p11tol and opened fire. ~--'< The v1ct1 ■, a foraer Deputy Premier, ba1 been A. a oloae adviser to Mo11adegh 1n the Iranian oil di1pute. But he 11 alao regarded as responsible for the impri1on- ••nt of the top leader of the Moala ■ fanatioa. !hi1, apparently, motivated the atteapted a1aaaa1nat1on. AD KOR£A•TRUCE. LATt WORD FROM ,AIMUIIJOII. Tfft CGIIMUN18TS HAY£ JUST "'°'OID THAT RUSSIA, r-111.-.. AND CZECHOSLOVAKIA TAICE ,AltT tN THI IEUTIW. INIP£CTIOII TtAM8 AF'Ttlt AN ARIIISTICE II 11 ... 1a • . KOREA-TRUCE Tonight the Communists 1n Korea unveil their compromise for a peace conference following an armistice. The truce members are having a full-dress meeting at which the new Red proposal is being presented. ~he Reds give advance 1ndicat1onB that they will present a oomprom1se worth listening to. IOREA-ARMORED VEST_ At one point on the war!ront, the G l's are enthus1ast1c about - Al Capone. Sounds wicked, as if they were admirers of the late Scarface Al - tord of the Chicago prohibition gangs. But it's the case of an armored vest - which gets its nickname from the fact that the old-time mobsters wore bullet-proof protection against gangster guns. It was tried out in battle for the first tiae, when an American patrol, wearing those Al Capone vests, was pushing deep 1n enemy territory. They ran into a storm of rifle, machine gun and mortar fire, and some were hit. There were arm and leg wounds, but not one waa injured between the waist and the neck. A Korean interpreter, whom they had along, was hit in the back between the shoulder blades by a bullet from a burp gun. He ta suffered only a alight bruise - the armor stopping the bullet that well. •He'd have been a dead duck if he hadn't been wearing it•, says Sargeant An rew Z1edz1c, of Reading, Penn1ylvan1a. { 111•xa1x--c~~•x••--•~~ lQR!A=ABHQSll_!J§I_~-~- sbingled with scales of aluminum and steel. lt weighs about eight pounds and an infantryman doesn't like to lug extra weight. But, says Private Peter Rupp of Scranton, Pennsylvania: •le walked pretty nearly eight miles, ani nobody threw bis vest away.• After that bullet stop p ing, they are understandably enthusiastic about Al Capone. \ PQUGHTON The o ldest member of Congress 1s retiring. Doughton of South Carolin a , whom they call •uncle Bob.• He's eighty-eight, and a cou n le of we ks ago he announced - he'd run for anot h er term. He has been in Congres s for fort - one years, ( re-elected every two years ever since Nineteen Eleven. It seemed an unbreakable habit. But now he has chan ~ ed is mind - Doctor's orders. He says he's 1n the best of health - but the td4~ doctoX. ~ 1t's about t i m e ~ to start taking it easy, at eighty-eight. Anno nc1ng hie retirement, Uncle Bob, who 1a Chairman of the Tax Writing Committee of the House - g&ve out a statement that he doe~noi believe Congress / will ca vote another tax increase this year, as President Truman has requested. He said that 1f a tax bill is brough before Congress - the legislators might be 1n a mood ~o do the opposite - reduce, instead ,, \ / \ of increase. Gi e the taxes a cut, instead of a hike. Federal Income Tax employees in Massachusette punished for violating the Hatch •c1ean Politics• Act. Today, a whole string of them were given suspensions from ninety days to six na months - without pay. They violated •clean politics• by selling tickets to the Jefferson Day Dinner in Boston, back in Nineteen Forty-Seven, the Hatch Act forbidding government employees to receive political oontrlbut~one. The point would seem to be - how can & taxpayer refuse to buy, when the tickets are sold by the Tax Collector. In the Winter Olym ~ ics, the star p erformer today was a Norwegian skier, Stein Eriksen. He won the giant slalom, speeding down the zigzag of the course in two-minute s -and-twenty-five s e conds. Be wae followed by Christian Pravda of Austria, in second. Steiss, of Auatria, *•••*iz" third. The American skiers not exactly outclassed one of them, Brooks Dodge of Gorham, Pinkham Notch, Bew Haapshire, came in fast enough to tie for sixth pla c e. Which helped somew bring u - or hold up the score for the American winter athletes. letiring chaapion of the world Zeno Colo ot Italy, came in fourth. Out of the field of eighty-four from many nations the next ranking t ■ American, Jack Reddish of Salt Lake, twentyfpurth. Then Jack Bagel of Snohomish, Washington, twenty-nirth. Dave Lawrence, thirty-fifth. The G rmans won the t~o- man b o b-sled event, es they were ex p ected t do. They won t · o heats yesterday, and completed the job today - so they e re the cham ions. The Am rica . n team, S an Benh ' am of Lake Placid, Rew York, and Pat Martin of Massena, Rew Tork, again took second place -- which also increased the score of the U.S.A. Both the German and the American ~ob-1led team complained bitterly about the conditi c n ~ the cou e - slick ice and nothing •• else. They aaid the absence of snow made it bad. But Rorw y, surprisingly, s we have been be a ring for weeks, has been having an elms snowless winter. The Americans won the openi~g hockey ga m e, ~ ~ t h ~ •~v:c:::::~~ S o a s o f toni ght o ur Winter O lym pians , hold an overall n a rrow l ead in t h e scoring. RQBIISON In Hollywood, Edward G. Robinson, the tough guy of the movies, 1s reported to ha.ve expelled~ son from home. Nineteen ye&r old Edward J~. lrked his parents by getting married and l a st nigh, there was an argWlent between father and eon. Robinson Jr. qu · otes the tough guy ot the movies as 1ay1ng: •we're going to play a little gaae. I'm not a your father any ■ore and you're no, •J 10n. If you come to tbla house again, you'll be treated 11ke a etranger. We'll call the BeverleJ B1111 police and deal with you like an lntrGder.• All of wh1cb eound1 like exciting ao•le dialogue. But the 10n elaply says - hie father ordered him out or the f&ally home. ESCAPE Jackson County, M1aa1es1p p 1, has a million d o l lar •escape-proof• prison. 1,•e Q tall building, w1 th municipal off ices. • • 4M eell -kMI• ta Gn the ~-~ to p floor .s: a & sound - proof eel 1 block - .<w-M~ oae -.t Hie 4t01lern tnuowaH,.efta.s the sound-proofing. So that'• the setting.fer• ~elt eeeape t•••¥• Two prisoners, tough oharaotera, had a pistol smuggled 1nw Hwa aoaehow,z:::; held up a prison gu&rct,J C-11-,. took hl■ keys, .,.. locked him up in their cell) •1terENaee """"" ~ to keep quiet. Which they did -- all exoept one. la.Me ..... ane woman pr is oner 6..- II :::0 c II t»lnllt a twenty-one year old brunette - looked up for takin1 part in a brawl 1 ~ d i d n ' t keep quiet M •M - she yelled for them to take her along. She made such an uproar that they did. The two convicts and the woman - limply w alked out. C..7 left the cell block, went to the J elevator, and rode down. On the street, the three ESCAPI - 2 hailed a taxicab, and off they went -- a clean get- awa y !rm the escape~proof prison. Meanwhile, in the cell block - all Haydee broke loose. la ~-etoMr A&d ,he ,Mgt•••n , .... ~ .,. . . pie imprisoned guard started yelling. ,a-o ~W ,~ But the cell block is.sound-proof - that modern innovation. So, on the . floors down below, not a peep ..a heard. It was twenty minutes before anybody detected J\ a whisper of the uproa1} 1etn~1• t• the ◄ e-W bieuta,. ._ and by that time the fugitives were far away. INDIANS Alberquerque, New Mexico, announces a big deal - concluded with the Acoma Indians. A Colorado banker, F. A. Sitton, has signed an agreement with the tribal Council of the Acomae. Purpose - uranium, the stuff of the atomic bomb. Banker Sitton has acquired the right to prospect for uranium on two hundred and ninety- three thousand acres of land, belonging to the tribe - lew Mexico mountain land. Some while ago the Anaconda Copper Co■ panJ made a slmllar agreement with the Laguna Indian, - who are ne11hbora of the Acom&s. Anaconda baa not made any direct statement ~ of .._ disooTery ~~a.66• on I'- Laguna Land. But the great copper company hae announce4 plans to build a huge plant, ln that vic1nity, for processing uran1ua. In the Acoma Country, the focus of interest 1a - the •1ky city•. That's the Acoma Pueblo, which -- stands on top of a steep summit, four hundred feet high, 3 near one of the great me~as of Bew Mexico. Up there, tbe Acomas have had their capital for centuries. 11p14Hs • 2 Prospects are that uranium will be found, or has been found already - near th e •sky city.• - - It's an old fantasy - the fabulous wealth of oi l on Indian lands in O~lahoma. Ironically, the Redskins had been driven to the barren bad l&nds - which, lat•r, turned out to have treasures of ■l 011. So now, perhaps, a similar fantasy, in the form ot ~. that atomic treasure, uranium_., ,,..c. Among the tr i~ee ot ~ 5 L ~ the Lagunas a.nd Acoma.a J ~ :.;::::( .::::::r ·