GOOD E VENING EVERYBODY: It's pleasant to r e port th t a t the conference of Q th e forei g n Yinister s in London the tran q uil spirit of Tbanks g ivin Day prevailed -- a t le a : t to the extent of not h a vin g any rancorous or a tory such as Molotov's denunciation of American imperialsim yesterday. Soviet Russia and the United States a t reed today on principles of e stablishing a democratic government in Geraan7 and of holding an international peace conferenc ~ to draw up a German treaty a t an earlyd!lte. However, a clash did come on the subject of the fr o ntier s of G ermany and Poland. The Moscow delegation r e newed its previous contenti o n that the present bound a ries bet een the two countries i s permanent n nd f . l t b h d W1 ' th th1's Secretary of State 1 a -- can no e c ange. M ars · a ll di s a g ree d emphatically, and got out the text of t e Potsdam agreement. Be read the section on German fr o ntier s , in cluding the fo11,wing line: •Final deli m itation aust a•ait a peace settlement.• On this basis Secretary Marshall a ued that the final delimitation of the German Polish border is sti 1 to be decided -- by a peace conference. FRAIC~ The new Premier of France finds hi ■1elt today in a doubly difficult position -- attacked in the !!.ational !_Ssembly, not only by the Coamunists, but bJ the ri ht wing followers of General DeGaulle. Toda7 the DeGaulliets I•••• launched a bitter parlia ■entary attack on Preaier Schu■ an because of what th91call hil •conciliatory attitude• toward etritere in the epi4e ■ io of Communist-led walkouts. loris the conciliatory attitude of Premier Schuman prod~cing much result -- eighteen anion• led b7 Communists) II&- . . 1 . , . . . . _ , ~ ~ l . t . a - 11.a•a• rejected bis offer of wage increases all along the line. A million and a half workers are on 1trite, and thousands ■ ore are quitting toda7. In France ru ■ ors are circulating that the Communists in both rrance and Ital7 are working toward revolutions in those two countries. In Italy reports are the same. Italian newspapefa toda7 printed etoriea that the French government hes brought back thirty [R!!Qi_ - 2 t ho u sa n d troo ps f ro m the occu p ation of erm a ny and ae st a ti o ne d t h e m ne a r P ri s , arseil l es and other lar g e citi es , w h er~ a re d coup d'etat would mo s t likely be s ta e d . I n Italy the Communist disorders, spreading from other areas, reached Rome tod a y -- red ■ obs pursuing tactics ti.at have now become faailiar, launching attacta a ainst anti•Communist newspapers. Soviet Russia has sent a protest to France complaining about the deportation of Bineteen luasian1. These have been ordered expelled, on charges ot fomenting Communist strikes in France. Moscow doea t like it -- and protests. In Washington there'• alarm becau1e of congressional attacks against the emergency aid for Trance, I aly and Austria. Administration leaders are reported to be what the Washington dispatch calla -- •genuinely disturbed•. This follows the Tote in the Lower Bouse o cut th~ amount of money for !urope, and add sixty million dollarL for China. Aleo the support thst this got in the Senate, eYen though the idea was voted down. , Today Democratic Senator Batch of ■•• lexico predicted that the Senate would otay the full aaount of five-hundred-and-ninety-seTen aillion 4ollar1, but said he thought it poaeible that by the ti•• the e ergency aid bill is finally paa1e4, th• total aigbt be trimmed. HAGGIS - --- As all of us know who ha•e Scottieh fri@nds, the great feast of the year for the Soot• i• - s ~ ~i£.i..~- st. Andrews day,"and over this country ••n and woaen from the region of the Ty ■ e and the Tweed and their deacendents foregather to thrill to the •kirl of the bagpipe• and eaf that priae Scottish delicacy -- hag1i1. ,. So this year the St. Andre•• society of Illinoi• 4ecta.a right from Scotland. Seeaa odd for Aaericane tot port foodstuffs fro ■ Britain, with all the ehorta1e• OY4r there, but there see ■ • to be no shortage of haggil in Scotland. The supply for the St. Andre•• Society of Illinois was sent by nobody leas than a Scottieh Peer, Lor Lovet, of the ancient clan of the Fraeers. The haggis was shipned aboard a trans-Atlantic airliner, which arrived in New York today. And what do you think happened? An inspector for the Dey,art■ent of Agriculture ordered the haggis •••411 deatroyed~ Be 1ai4 some t hing about food and mouth disease, and . added that haggis was not fit for ani ■ al coneu■ ption, let alone human consuaption. The name of thi• inapecter, to be written lerge in the boot of caledonian · indl1nation i i - J. A. Jtaao s - - very d iff' eren t f'ro11 lacGre1or d .,._ lacPherson. It would see ■ that Inapdor J. &. laaoa toot a look at the haggis and ascertained what ha11t• is ■ ade of. Well, it con1i1ts of offal and oataeal cooked in he eto■ach of a sheep. · That, as an1 Joel and Bandy can tell you ■ ates it an exquisite delicacy -- and not something unfit for hu■an, ••en ani■al coneuaption. You can imagine the uproar, the rally of the clans. The fi~st to rise in insurrection were some Soo t s at New York LaGuardia Field -- when they heard the haggis was to be i~nominioualy destroyed. They promp t ly com unicated with the St. And~e•a Societ7 of Illinois whereupon the roars of protest went to Washington. The latest -- the Depart■ent of Agriculture has backed down.The Haggis fro ■ Lord Lovaf will not be destroyed it will be 1ent along to the Scots of Illinois, to be the piece de resi1tanqe at . s : ~ . ta" Chicago Ban Q uet of the St . • Andrew• Society -- the caledonian equivalent of Tbanksgivi~g Day Turte7. - THANtSGIVING ------ The President of the United State• today heard a Thank~giving sermon that originated with a colored taxicab driver. President Truman attende4 Tbank~ving services at the First Baptist Church,·•hlch . is a fe blocks fro the White Bouse, and there, durinl the sermon, the pastor, the Reverend Hughes Pruden related the following: On his way to church, he toot a taxi driven by a colored man who turned out to be the u1ual talkative taxi driver, though with a difference~- hi• conversation was about the Devil. Be re ■ arted that the devil was up early this morning, ••en though it was Thanksgiving Day. Because old Satan, said the colored taxi driver, always gets up at the crack of .,s dawn and starte:il his e•il work early. ,. The Minister of the gospel said he agreed with this. Whereupon the taxi driYer added that ~ he Drince of Darkness should not be anowed t w I don't believe God e•er intende4 o get away with i t . the world to be run by the _!evil' said be. •1 think IR!!'§g!!!HQ - 2 be intended it to be run by Christians.• To which the Reverend Doctor Pruden responded: "That's just what I keep trying to tell the people.• •Arey u a preacher?• asked the driver, looking around. 'Yes• replied the Minister, •and this ■ orning I!■ g oin g to pr e ach to the President of the United States.• •we11• remarked the colored ■ an, •you just tell hi■ what I said.• So the preacher did. The sermon for the Pre1ident today being on that theme -- that the future of the world is i n the bands of those who put their trust in God. I can think of nothing to add except that I hope all of you bad much to be thankful for todaJ. §!fi!_l§ e Am er icans may wel l ive thanks for the amount o f industria harmony di closed by some figures issued tod y -- labor department figures pertaining to strikes. a t month showed the fewest number of strikes in this country f or any month durin the whole 7ear. n•- -and-seve ty-five walk ts w e re rs leaving th ir jobs. fifteen The of &1 Coast ship ard workers, C.I.O. -- trouble has Bowe er, the Chic go newapaper which a few ading fro ■ City to ~her commu ities in area. the Chicago aorn·ng papers, and out with were days the strike the printer. pages because of At La Jolla, California lion hunt on again. A lion hunt ri h t i n the city stre e ts, n Thanks iving Day. Two m o un t in li ns down fro their mountain haunts loo for fresh m e at, and roaring when they don't get it, aer a te in at p eople's doors, and makin g the night eerie with their ~ rustrated cries. Ear l y this wee k the LaJolla police went out in prowl cars, with rifles, but dia not g et a gli ■ pae of the m a rauders. Last night, however, Patrol ■ an lilfrei Tyler wounded one of the big cats with a shotgun blast. But the animal got away. Bow it has to be a hunt to thl end; for it there's anything ■ore dangerous than a ban1r mountain lion, it's a wounded one, and aoaeone is likely to et hurt. Yeanwhile, there's a heated argument going on at LaJolla. People who have seen the two say they are black. Now everyone who knows about ■oun ain lions there, s a ys there is no such thing as a black one, but others ares ying that Colorado has black mountain . h h'ked from Colorado and that these visitors might a ve 1 lQllI.Al!! .. ~!Ql§. __ .: : i unless they a re black panther from the San Diego zoo. Curator ~en Scott says none of bis panthers a e missing, so these two b e asts must be black m o untain lions. All of which is increasing the exciteaent. Lion hunters t i all over the lest are offerin their help and their dos, while the locals are out in posses looking for the two animals. Here's hoping they don't shoot anything but lions, which is why cautious residents of LaJolll keeping their cats in tonight -- and the cats it a bit. BAD CHECK --------- Here's a n exploit, of actin, worthy of a BollJ•o d O scar. T h e g en t le m an in Question, fifty-seven years old, went to a n Atlanta, eorgia, funeral direct r, and sal4 he want ed to m a ke ar r ngements for the funeral of little Ronnie. L ittle Ronnie, be said was hie grandson. •He broke i nto spasms of grief,• related the funeral attendants, •as he told how little Ronnie died in hi• sleep and how ~onnie's father bad been killed in the wa The sad story of little Ronnie melted the heart, even of the undertaker. The grief stricken g randfather selected a saall casket and completed the mournful arrangeaents, pa7in1 in advance. Be wrote a hundred-and-fifty dollar check, then note d that be needed some cash to b•J a few other smal l thin g s for the funeral of ---;> IAD CBECI - 2 tittle Ronnie. Would tbe undertaker cash a check tor i1rteen Dollars? Why, of course . -- and the fitte n A bucks were handed over to the grie•ing grandfather. The heart of the undertaker waa touctiit 10 deeply that the funeral director, of hie own accoril, put a notice in Atlanta newapap•~•, announoin1 the funeral of Little Ronnie. The trouble wae that Little Ronnie failed to appear to be buried, ana the cheot1 proceeded to~-•~• bounce. The cliaax of di1illu1lon ■ ent ••• reached when it wa1 found that *~••there••• • little Ronnie ell right, a a ■ all gran41on of the grandfather -- but little !onnie le in lalttaofe la perfect health. Playing ga■•• an4 ha•i•I • bil ThankegiYing Day dinner. All of which eay the police, repre1eat1 an all time high in co ■plicate4 ■aneu•er• for pa••ln1 a fifteen dollar bad check, New York, Metropolitan Opera Bouse -- isc a• ng responsibility is sued a st temen today d" 1 i i for he bPh vior of high society at the i open ng of the o era. The Metropoli an says it can't be hel4 accoun able for he way some people in the social register conduct hemselves at that nu■ber one 1ocial eYent, the opening performance of the season at the let. The st ement refers to what it calla -- 'ind"viduals who go to extreme ends in ha•in1 · themselves photographed•. This official declaration i i a oliaatlo highspot fol owing a whole lot of talk about n••• photographs made at the Metropolitan openin1 thil year -- pictures that were uncon•entional to 1e1 the leaet. , photographers ) · The new1~kt•R••P••••••~1ot all aorta of aarpri■iDI poses. Similar instances were noted in pre•iou1 rear••• as at the lineteen-Thirty-Bine openin, of the Met, when Richard [night of the social register stood on ht• head for the photographers. This year things were •••n •ores eotaoular , with members of the da1zling opera audience oin to what a statement today justly calla -- •extreme ends.• The prize p hoto g raph was of an elderly widow hi g h in he society register, who wa1 la•lahly g owned, with a gleaming tiara on her head and a•••• of orchids on her shoulder. In he operatic 1alon where refreshmen s were served, she swung one leg up on the table end said to the news 11tt: ■ p ' hotographere r •nat has Marlene Dietrich got that I haYen't gott• Thai she posed !or a picture, tiara, orchide, and an expan•• of nylon. Which certainly was -- I■ •1oin1 to extre■• ends.• It appears that the arraJ of openla1 night society photogrephs not only caueed plent7 of talk bu drew a lot of protests -- people writln1 to the mana g ement of the Metropolitan and euggesttn1 high tha\(soci et y of that sort be barred from the opera. All of which evoked the statement today -- George A. Sloan, chairman of the board of the Metropolitan, declaring that it w■ isn't the business of 111-Qf~IA.J!QY~l--=--.l house to write a code of manners for its social The opera c a nnot compel the customer s either in gallery or the Golden Horseshoe to behave themselves wi dignity and decorum, and cannot be held responsible the few do p es who, wanting to g et their ~icturea in the paper, go to extreme ends.