f1 - 7?,. .it. ~ I #Iv-. l. '-, / f/"f. A strange, melodramatic situation developed 1u44enly 1n Panama tonight - when the deposed President appeared before the Rational A11embly. Thia last weekend there was a coun d'etat in Panama - the Army oueting President Chan11, who 111ne4 a rea1gnat1on. The military chiefs then inetalle4 another Prealdent. fod&J, 1n the latlonal A1aembly there wae a Tlolent angry debate over the ~eTolutlonary action by the Army - and thle evenln&, 1n walked the 4epoae4 hes1dent, Chanla. loae 1uppoee4 that he wae oo■ lag io repea, ht• re1lgnat1on and offer lt foraally to the legl1lature. But no, lt va• the other way aroun4. Be aa4e an &ddrees, and began by eayin1: ' I have coae to the A11eably because I still conelder ■JJ ■yaelt to be the conatltutlon&l Pree14ent.• Be went on to tell of the military plot to overthrow him and eald hit ree1gnat1on had been forced by the coercion ot the Army - •moat brutal coercion.• And he summarized it &11 by annou~oing: •In the presence of the Assembly Ill I withdraw a y resignation.• -- ~ :......: Whereupon, amid a riot of cheering, the legislature voted h im back into office -- and th e n, 1n a body, escorted Chanis down th e main street of Panama City. Taking him to the presidential palace - •where• declared one deputy, •we may••• all be massacred.' While all this was going on the army, which is •the national police• was occupying strategic points in the city. Mobile squads fanned out from t h e military barracks -- the s• army taking measures to enforce the ouster of Chants and keep its own President 1n office. There were rumors of a popular uprising 1n support of Chants - and the latest tells of troops firing into crowds that thronged to accompany the national aeeeably. ae the deputies escorted Chanis to the •ta palace. gQL9P14 In the Republic of Colombia, the L1beral Party bas called a general strike - the latest 1n the political turmoil bedeviling that South American country. The Liberal Party summons the people to 301n in the walkout as a protest against what 1t calls - •Dictatorship.• And - •election farce.• All this refers to the fact that the oon ■ ervatlW president of Colombia, in the face of chronic disorder, auapended civil rights and put the nation under virtual ma.rt1al law. Then - called an election which 11 to be held next Sunday. The voting, say the Liberals, will be fraudulent. In calling a general strike, they urge their followers to abstain from violence. But it looks& ■ if Colombia, this weekend, will have a tumultuous election, to say the least. pIDGES Liv e ly ructions at t he S a n rranc1 s co trial of Ba r ry Brid g es. It would seem t h at noise and di tur b ancee are inevitable when Communism 1s at issue in a courtroom. Al l along, e ver since proceedings began, the defense attorney for Brides has been wran ling with the Judge - in a way to remind o n e of the uproar that was raised by the defense lawyers in the trial of the eleven com m unist leaders in New York. Today brought the climax, with Attorney Vincent Halliman acous1ng the Judge of prejudioe. •tou pereonally hate ■It me• cried the Irish lawyer to federal Judge George B. Barris. His Honor stood 1t as long as he could and t .. en took action - most draettc. Be found Ball1man guilty, of contempt of court, sentenced him to six months in the county jail, and (the trial to o e delayed until Bridges could ordered /\•t■ xs■ x a tx : · ■■asuxtaxt•• get himself another lawyer. Which c ertainly was putting the quietus on an obstreperous attorney. But t in 9 , as turned out w e re not as a d as aJPQII - 2 that. Bal l 1man•s law partner interceded wit h h is honor, and final l y judge Harris relented - a little, d e claring that the sentence of six months in th e county jail u-)kYJ 1tands,A)leA.delayed s:=- until the end of the trial - allow- 1ng Bridges to keep his lawyer, and ordering the , , prooeed1n 6 s to con t 1n . ue, on promise of good behavior. JAP A late story g!ves us a report that the Uni t d States has deTelcped ~ small ato bomb, such as could e u ~e 1 at le to sup o rt the infantry - s •baby• ato bombl?_.:.·------------------ - - - T 1s comes from London and 1a attributed io sources at the 111t a ry headquar ra of the weatern power all 1ance rrance. The correspondeni eaye thai the baby boab we1 ha no more than tw undred and fifty pound ■• And he adda: •1nough of these boaba haTe been made to ensure t h at the front l*l• line of •••tern luopean defense could be adequately protected at the 1t&rt of another w a r•. DR¥♦! President Truman today came out in favor ot •world revolution.• But not the kind the Reds think about. He pointed to the American farmers and the way they produce bumper crops in this country year atter year, by the use of new methods, new techniques. The !aerioan farm~r has achieved an agricultural · revolution - end that's the kind the President would 11te to see spread around the world. Be wae addressing a conference of the foo4 and agrloulture organization of the U.B., and gave the warning that there can be no auoh thing as enduring world peace, i t much ot the wo?ld ta afflicted with~ mass hunger. The cure, said he, 1a for backward nation• to adopt modern ways of getting more and more out ot the la.n4. Be offered American help - give o+,her countries the benefit of the skill and the know-how developed by the farmers over here. ~nd thus bring about - an agricultural world revolution. IJIILLIPPIBJS In the Philippines, trouble flared up suddenly today, and toni~ht two large scale battles were being fought between the Philippine oonstabulary and la~ge forces of Hukbalahaps. That 11, the Huks, peasant rebel• led by Coamun1ats, 1 One big f1ght is at a place c~lle4 .., ---- Obando, twenty-five miles north of Manila. The other - at Batangae, sixty miles south of Kan1la. Batangae 11 a political stronghold of the uneucces ■ ful candidate 1n the recent Philippine election, Jose~ Laurel - who was puppet president under the Japanese oocupat1on. ( ~1:ecrt1.--os-wa.a - -&- -etH11- eentert:; ltH*•l'l7 •••M~ u.e)today'e flare-up eeem1 to be an afteraath of the political campaign. (ea.a• • .., • ., ... 1.,e awl••• M■cn-t~a..Ml4..-,zw• ,.. • .,,.a..) They seem to have plenty of armament, the Buka fighting with machine guno and trench mortars in the battles today. !AIP The State Department says it has received word that American Consul General Angus Ward 1s being tried ln Coamunist Kanchuri~ - put on trial before a Red court. B1therto, the charge against the Consul a.nd four members of his staff haa been the beating of a Chinese employee who demanded back pay, but today's new• froa the Bed aide aentiona - two Chinese employees. All of which 1• I f d11a1ssed by our Government as - a •truaped-up charge.• It la believed that - the trial before the Be4 court in Mukden 1a ■er ly t,r the purpoee of pu,t1n1 1n4ign1tlea upon Coneul General Angus Ward, after which he will be ordered out of Communist China - •in disgrace.• In other words, the whole thing looks like a trick &o cause Americans to •1oae face.• That'• one of the oldest twisters of the rar last- · the importance of •face,• the Well, Communists may be Marxian and modern, but out in China they still seem to go along in the same 014 0,:1enta1 way. 102♦11 - FOLLOW CHINA e In Hungary, the Reda announce the American they seized has - 'confessed.' Ho w the Communists love those confessions! Last night we heard how Ro~ert Voegler wa1 arrested as he was on his way out of Hungary.• ■•• ,a:llf •11rn1 _ t"c • M II I 1• !::-----· -- .. _ .... ~- -• tbe Inta•••1.!uh&I 11 !lil1phOlfl · &11iat rA11rnpb Ganptz~• Bow he'• accused of what the ••d• call - •sabotage and e spionage.• And b a a - 1 confe11ed.• Along with Voegler, they've arreeted the Brilt•b .,, manager of the Budapest office of I.T.!. - 14gar Sander,. " Aleo a Hungarian official of that firm. They've all - 'oonte ■ eed.• So ■ ay the Communiste. Today ln Palestine the final curtain closed on a bitter tra edy of the guerrilla war between Jews and British a couple of yea.re ago. In a courtroom at Tel Aviv, sentence was pa.s1ed on Isser Be-lr1, who formerly was intelligence chief of Ba · ganah, the Z ' Lon1st underground Army. Be wae tried for ordering the ~ xecutio of an officer of Baganah - shot as a apy. But the dooae4 aa.n was entirely innocent. The story 11 one that goes • deep into the 1111 of secret organlzationa dedicated to oonap1raoy an4 clandestine warfare. There le always a fear of splea &D4 traitors 1n the ranks of the hidden Army - Md the 1ntell1genoe service of Baganah dlacovered that Meler Tublaneky had delivered to the Brltlsh a 11st of Jewish users of electricity ln Jerusalem. That 11st, they declared, would pin-polnt Jewish targets fo~ British artillery. Tublansky had served 1n Haganah for twenty-two yea.rs. ~ut he was arrested, tried by court-martial, and shot - all on the same day. a&1sz111 ..... 2 Then later the truth came out. He bad given the British the 11st - J n orders from the authorities at Tel Aviv. The prime minister of Israel, Ben-Gurion, called the execution - •A tragic mistake.• And the T1nd1cation was completed in the courtroom at Tel Aviv today. The Haganah intelligence officer was sentenced for the 'Tragic mistake• - sentenced to one day in prison. !L611 The air tragedy 1n Sweden ends on a note of utter pathos - the wail of an eleven year old boy, the only survivor of twenty-nine Jewish refugee children. In the fog-bound and rain-soaked forest, two Swediah 1waberJack ■ of a rescue party heard the boy crying. They fought their way through a thicket, and found the wreckage of the plane. The boy wa . safe in a section of the tail - a rrenoh-1peaking lad fro• Borth Africa. ror two daya he had gone through a ghastly ordeal - 1n the bleak chilled northern forest. But, - f -...e- ~ ~ G ~ ~ ~ - - , jjIDI T ews ha told o! beauty contests of so m ny kind th a t it m1 ht seem ha rd to thi~k of a new variety. But he re's one - thou hit's old in Swed n. In the towns and vill, es of the Scandinavian north, hey select a Lucia bride~who p re ides over the season of Christmas. So no , in an tionwide contest over here, they..._.,.._c. picking an American girl of Swedish ancestry to be flown to Stockholm - as the American Lucia bride. Four attendants will accompany her - Luc1a bridesmaids, I suppose. And, wearing a white robe and & crown of lighted candles, she'll play her nart in the ancient festivities. The 'bride• part of 1t appears to be nominal, theoretical - she doesn't have to marry anybody. It all goes back to the legends in the north, - which tell how 1n ancient days, the Holy Lucia, Saint ~ - Lucy, sailed along the coast of Sweden distributing food ~ to hungry people during a famine. This good Saint Lucia rt wae quite a traveler, being also partoness of the k f1ehermen of Sicily. An e~n of wh1cb appears 1n lhe D,IDI. · · .2 popul r Neopolitan song - Banta Lucia (Lu-cher-a) so it's a ll quite 1nternatx>nal, and the more so now - with America contributing a Lucia b r i d e ~ ~ ~ 6-=r-~ ~J/&J~. TOWN In Br dley, Illtno1s, the town f t ere are 1n a predicament - they're in a ti broug t upon them- selves. Recently, they p ut out a 11st of pro ert1es to be sold for taxes - and a number of these were bou ht. You know, purchasers picking up various lots on tax liens. Then the sad mistake was discovered - the unfortunate error. Somehow, the lot on which the town hall stands was included in those th at ere sold - and now the buyer has appeared, demanding his property. At last reports, village President Clarence Look was saying - he was afraid that the civic f a thers might lose their own town hall -~- - .... e all realize th a t controversi es between Great Brit a in and t h e United St a te s a re d ep l o r a bl e - and what could be wor s e than a war of womenT So now we have a British-Amerio n battle of glamour g irls. There's British criticism of th a t style of Hollywood a rt clot h es. The which features the girl, instead of tl~ uproar was begun by Lady Astor, who ,>.. the herself started out as an American, and was quite a glamour girl -✓~~~ ~1:/J.3~~ .. - ~ ~ - V ' in her time.k Making acid remarks about American movie•~ which are all dressed up with a lack ct dresses, her iii ladyship called thoee Hollywood beauties - •wretchel.~t• ~ •• • Hard words:- those wretched starlets. In Hollywood today the conflict of untriendl ad3ectives wa■ taken up by Dorothy Lamour, "All of & h ' . sudden,• says she, 'it's the style for a lot of ill-assorted characters to make verbal assault• on screen glamour girls.• So, in the battle of words, Lady Astor says - •wretched.' While Dorothy Lamour talks about 1 111-aseorted ch a racters.• Now, ladies! IQLLY W OOD ••••• 2 t. , I.::!! ,. isl a nds of t ~ e I nd ies. / rticle , / a i n s , or ~ thy, r, I don a L seve'ral / / / J ' s a ron to ' seu m s, who s a i they w a nted them to a dd L /'. / -,p , cult ~ a l lev~l of v h eir community :: Not much of 4 ~ Over 1n England, the var of words is taken up by London show girls, who are irked no end by a report from a New York night club impresario. He said he crossed the Atlantic to engage ~ome British beauties, but couldn't find any. The show girls over there are all - mockkneed he clai ■1. So here's the scornful retort A from a London lovely named Bunty Graham. •why,• says BuntY, •we had beautiful women in this country while the India.ns were pitching their tepees · 1n the colonies - I mean iroadway,• Bunty exclaims disdainfully. ••4 emoth•• 1,QLLYWOQD ••••• 3 Well, 1! the British and Americans would say only nice thi ngs about each ot h er, an d tf the ladies would say only nice thanks about each other, wouldn't it be a wonderful orld. APIIIQTIQI I've a letter here, asking ~or .1. a correction a,f a story we had on this rogr th h am e ot er evening -- and I hasten to comply and apologize. The news told of a high school incident, a teacher paddling a sixteen-year old pupil - the girl who got spanked. The dateline we had for the story was Sharon, Pennsylvania - and the letter actually occurred at the Hi~ry Township H1gh School -- not in Sharon • ..,..•~ To this the school superintendent at Sharon adds a further complaint: •tour amused description of the affair was also regrettable,• he writes, 'and I &ll sure, if you understood the untiring efforts school people all over the country exert to establish good teacher-pupil relationships, y~u would refrain from reporting an occurrence of this kind as if it were an entertaining anecdote.• How that's a point well taken, but what can you do when comedy inRists on inserting itself into the most ~Q&iiCT I ON• • • • 2 solemn events? For example, that imp which tickles the tunnybone 1s on the job right now. The affair of the girl who got spanked h ap pened at the Hickory Hi&h School, ~ltf.JIIA,&A1 and how oan you miss the appropriateness of * Bow can I'-- ,._ you keep from remembering that old song of school days: •Reading and writing and 'r1thmetic, Taught to the tune of a hickory stick.•