GOOD EVF.NING EVERYBODY:- -------------------~----- Late news fro the United Nations di closes a new uproar of ar ument, fter t e bi po~ers ad seemed to ~ ve r~ ~ c erl a compromi • E rlier in the day, the word was that ther had been com ~ romise -- a settlement of the loud battle ~bout the numbers ' of soldiers that nations have, and, . the ouantities of atomic bombs that Uncle Sam possesses. The whole thing to be allowed to drop, while the United Nations got together on a general progr m of disarma ■ ent. Everybody agreed that Uncle Sam would s t op asking Stalin about the size of his a r m y, and the Soviets woud call off their atomic innuiries dressed to us, stop all that wile the U.B. is c lle upon to take immediate acti : n on a disarmament pro ram -- inclu i n , of course, atomic control. Tat in e f ect would pu of ~ the hole thi ng until n xt ye r's get to g et er of the U.N. As~embly, and didn't ~ e P.m t o be anyt in more t n !!Q_!Q_QQL!RQ ____ z mere delay. Nobody n p r icul rly s· tiAfie, an t~is afternoon the Soviets tos e monkev ~enc -- s a ing thaty they could not consent to the earlier compromi e. The Briti s h N vy h s r escued th~ewish immigrants 4 shipwre c Y. e d o n~~:!f-or the , Dodecanese - a n d ~ ake n t he m to Cyprus. It is disclo ■ ed tha t ei g ht Zionists lost their lives in the ship w reck, and seven e,hM"S1"--~•eN injured~ have been taken to a hospital on the i land of Rho d es. The rem a inder, eeven~hundfed-and-forty-two, go to Cyprus - where ao aany ille g al i ■ai g rants are being interned • . Thie coaes officially under the heading of life-saving and rescue. But there's fe a r that the extreaiata of Palestine will consider it - deportation. The t r u c e ~ now being obs . rved by Irgun Zvai Leu■ i and the Stern Gang hae a proviso that trouble will begin agiin, if deportations are resumed. The hope is that they will regard the takin g of the castaways fro■~ipwreck to Cyprus as a m e rcy operation, bu t ord from Jerus a lem notes th at the rea c tions of the x t r m i s+ a e un red ic ta b l e . Me a nwhile, forces of the J e wish underground have raided an A~ab villa e, and seized hosta g es. The raid ia attributed to the big Jewish underground aray, Bagana, and it ia said to have been in retaliation for Arab thefts of Zionist weapons. It appears that Kosle•• have been looting the secret armament of the 7/? Jewish underground. The raiders today, aixt7 in all, ~ Arab helo . up ~ltr,,\11•~ v i l l a g e - ' ~ ~ and carried off a ~ - eon and a cousin of the villa g e.A_... These the7 are said to be holding aa hostages, until atolen weapons have been returned. nd, the ~ l d Zio , policy i,,a Pal e stip,e. / / ,. States, 7nuel Heu ; ers ha y,e " / / thes e_,)"re ATOMIC CO TROL 2 ------------------ Whet er th t' true or not, t e Russian s w ere the ones to object. This af ternoon, Vis insky toln the other d ele ate his Government coul d not accept the proposal. So temporarily at lea , t e P owers ~r~ stalled on dis rmRment. And time runs out, the Disarmament Committee is h l ding its l a t meetin g tomorrow mornin, and most of the delegates are . planning to depart from Ne York on Saturday on t e Queen Elizabet. Yost annoyed at the failure of the tx plan was British Delegate, Sir Bartley Shawcross, who now ~nnounces that he's ready to fight every inc of the way for a census of all troops of all natior.a, at home or abroad. •r wa in a compromisin mood la~t night, but now I'm ready for? fight,• sos ys the British Delegate. ATO IC CO TR O -------------- (Su . i ~ fo O ly At o ic Control s ory.) T e U . it e d N r: L , i n rocee ing a Lake uccess were goin alon smootrly o d y -- swimmin ly in fact. There w s Bi P ower r m on y on d i s rmaaent, ~ n d matters were movin towRr vote. Then at the•• elevent . hour, an uproar, no more harmony -- ~11 discord. An d now -- chances of an early agreement on disarmament seem further away tan ever tonight. Who caused t e unroar? le claim it was t~e Russ Early tod 1 y, an a re P me~t in Jr ■ x p~inciple was reached, a com romise plan for outlawin g the a o ■ ic bomb, cut in g down armies, r ed ucin arm ments -- all subject to an in ection svstem un ampere d by t• veto. But this aft~rnoon that was a ll of. Nobody wants to d mit throwin g ax the monkey wrench into the works. Te Un i ted St a tes and Great Britain are pointin ac c usin g fin g ers at Russia. Other sources say t ~ e Unite d St ate wou l ha v e ob j c e d to t ~e pl an if Ruisia ha not done so. ng Euro e back to normal, In the matter of a•• permanent site for the United R e tiona, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., atepa forward. The heir to the great oil fortune, who has now turned so largely toNri philanthropy, offers to give eight 7 and a half ■ illion dollars toward the establish ■ ent of permament headquarters of the United Nation, in Bew York City. Thia ia in connection with a proposal to ,. ,, develop a-city-within-a-city on le• York's East Side - a development that bas already been mentioned to the U.H. aa a possibility. John D. Rockefeller will b c k it up to the tune of ei g ht an a half aillion dolla r • - if the City will make some concess·ons and i1 he also aska that, if the plan is adopted . the U.N. be&dquartera be free of taxation. The · a r ov r the election in P rsia a me to a sudden end to da y, "iththe p eo p le d , ~ ~ t ~ ' f b e A 'A polls. Th ~ rebel le ders in the Province of Azerbaijan ann ounced a quick a g re ~ m ent to let troops of the Iranian go vernment su p ervise the ballotting in Azerbaijan. The reeson for the conc e saion was obvious - government troops drivin swiftly, the rebel forces unable to put up any kind of Pesistance. So they announced a complete capitulation. It was disclosed today that the Iranian 1■ govern m~ nt, in sending its troops into Azerbaijan, did 10 in s p ite of two separate protests by Soviet Russia• tae 8ol'iets wazntug the Ir-e.uka1 ne~ +so Nawt, mil CORR E SPONDENT _____ _,__~----- At ens buzzed with rumor tod 1 y t . at two American correspondents, travellin g by jeep throu h the mountainous . re a of North Oentr ~l Grence, had been captured and perh ps kil l e b . , Greek Commilniets. Corres ndents Bob Ix Vermillion of United Press an· John Phillips of Life and Time had left the Greek capital almost two weeks ago to report on guerrillas fighting near the Bul ga rian frontier. The~, no further word. Tody tieir jeep was found abandoned in an area described gJ by the At ens Govern- ment as •infested with Communists.• Government troops were rushed to he scene. But the guerrillas were pre~ent also and in sharp fighting, drove off the Government forces. Howev r -- the sury has a appy endin g . Tonight, Phillis and Vermilli n strolle into the Northern Greek town Trikalla, safe and sound. Where had they been? l w •h ·th t h uerr1'] aR .. , and by t eir wx own desire. r ff , Wl , e Just ettin t h e ot er side of t h e story. In Ge rma ny tod a y, General M cN a rney announced officially - the fin al en d of non-fraternization. Our comm a nder over there statei that American soldiers will now be permitted to take German w iV;s~e allowed to A marry frauleina before g oing home from lerman1. To •hich was added a statement by the Army Director of Public Relations, that the fraulein• who marry G.I'• will probably be treated like •war brides• of any other kind. They'll have the aame p rivileges granted to women of Allied nation• who ma ry l ■ erican soldiers. That e nds the much debated buaineaa of ~on-fraternization, which never did work. There was al a ys an abund a nce of fraternization - ot which g ettin& m a rried wa s th e e ast reprehensible. I su p n ose th e re'll be no end to le g ends about Hit ler , stories that the Nazi Fuehrer ia still alive. The latest is gi ven by a Swedish newspaper, which today printed a n account with detail of the most precise kind. The story, for the most part, concerns Martin Bormann, Hitler's Deputy Fu e hrer - who was auppoaed to have perished, as did Hitler, in the flaming fall of Berlin. There's ?lenty of evidence to indicate that Bormann wa• killed, but not enough to make that final and definite. So, the Rure ■berg tribunal kept Bormann on the list of laai war criminals on trial, and sentenced hi ■ to death -•in absentia. And now the story is that Martin B o rmann was alive in Sweden last April, nearly a ye rafter the EuroP,ean war - and Bitler•• Deputy Fuehrer ie sai d t~ have one from Sweden to So u th Americ a . The account i n the S to ckholm newspaper~ .. BITLER · 2 ----- ... ~~e:.t-i, .. '7( a Swede who met Bormann last Apr i l a t a secret gath e ring p lace of fugi t ive Nazis. Thia is s a id to have been in the old city of Ualmoe, which ia deacribed as the center of underground activit7 for getting Nazi war criminals across the Atlantic - to South America. We are told that Bormann ha d a different kind of face - havin g under g one a facial operation to chan g e hia looka. ~e is quoted as saying that plans were bein g made for a revival of Nazi power, Bormann putting it in · these words - •we will be back within five years, in a way that the world will never forget." At this meeting i n ~ Bormann i■~•.,,.•••••~~ ~ have been a s k ed a about Hitler's fate, and his answer ia q uoted a s follows: •I• Hitler dead?• he ex c laimed. •Why, I met hia in Ba 1 a ri a a short time ag o.• Th at a ns we r pl ac ed Hitler alive · n Bav ria, BITLER 3 ____ ... many mon t hs a f te r the end of the a r. - Ii xltttb :it w a a i t , - ~ p ointed out/\the ch · red rem a ins of Hitler's body h a d b e en found. Th e one time Deputy Fuehrer is quoted as replying: ~Yes, but they also found my dead body.• This l ast rem - rk is th e obvious weak spot in the story - there never having been any official report ~ that Borman'• body ba d been found. Weak spot or atrong apot - the r e'• no let-up o f rumors that Bitler i• atill alive. ~ a n attempted revolution in Venezuela today - a a.J..-tL.e~ failure, apparently. ~ broke out at the "' ailitary irbase ot Maraoay, and two rebel p1anes got away - flyin g to a destination unknown. One plane flew over the capital city of Caracas today and fired its machine guns, but 1M. was, . . * chased off by anti-aircraft fire - no damage done. The President of Venezuela announce# that all constitutional guarantees are suspended, and declares that the revolution is under control, and will be a t an end in a few hour•. Be blames the trouble on politicians of the previous regime - whic~ was overthrown a little more than a year aao. At the w a r crime trial in Tokyo, some of the most damnin g of evidence was entere d today a g ain•t the Jap warlords - e vidence that the atrocities in the Pacific war w e re a part of a military policy - a nd not the savage doin of battle maddened soldiers. l1C.Ou t,i,,e;.tgi..1:rHl1111e:l, nii8-ce- w~ pi~•• ~ c i a t e Prosecutor Pedro Lopez, of the Philippine lepublic, h pr sented diaries, notebook• and letters to show that the Jap soldiers were revolted and horrified by their own atrocities a g ainst innocent civilians. In a diary placed before the court today, a Japanese infantryman noted that he bad ~illed a hundred Philippin civilians. To this he added the comment, •Althou g h it i s for my country's sak e , it is sheer brut a ljt . • Another Ja p soldier• told of the torture of 1 Phili p pi ne g ue r ril a fighters. •rt w a s i t i ful•, he - TOKIQ..IlUAl._- 2 wrote. •I could not w a tch. Indeed,• h e noted, •the Japanese rm y d oes extrem e th ins.• St1ll anoth e r h d this to s a y about the Filipinos: •rt w as hard for me to kill them, because they seemed to be g ood p eople - but I stabbed several.• lhe evidence today gave a picture of the ordin a ry Jap . soldier committin g atrocities, not because of hi• own will, but in obedience to ■• d his officers. PLANE ----- till n rd t n i ht of th e a rine Tr anspo rt pla ne whic ~ith t ~ ent y -nine ~a rineE ad a .I crew of ·"h r e e , i s i ~~ ~ , . ~ a s h in ton, they will be found live in the nilly, b usb-c o vered are/ now fog and stor L ound. Jlcal'Neather hampered sea~cb efforts t o day, - ice and snow and rain;~ low banging clouds and a fog obscuring t ~ e area. Last report from the p lane received last nib~t said~Nia~, "Flying at nine thousand feet, with lee forming on wings." I • 1 Here's a classic on a theme we often find in the world of cos and robbers - thew y croo s, stealing a lot of mon y, will go in for lavish spending_ which gives the po ice a clue. At Philadelphia tonight are a colored couple, Jeffrey and Roselle Montgomery. They are being held without bail for robbing a Philadelphia contractor's aff office uf forty thousand dollar8 in cash and War Bo6da. The detective work in the case was not difficult, the police picking up a string of clues that hit the ■ aquare in the eye. They trailed the colored couple all the way from Philadelphia to Horth Carolina, the trail being• primrose p ath of dazzling and magnificent spending. They blew in four hundred dollars for an evenin of revelry at a Harlem night club. TheJ spent five hundred doll rs for perfume, and bou ht eight bun red dol l ~ B' orth of wrist a tche • They too a ROBBERS - 2 ------------ • 'P,aeJ ~ e • a taxi from Rew York to Horth Carolina, which cost them five hundr e d dollars. They bought an automobile fort enty-five hundred, and a truck for anoth e r t ,e nty-five hundr e d. Th e spending all along When , line was in proportion . ••~the police cau g ht up with them at F a yetteville, Borth Carolina, they bad ten dolla r s left. Well, easy come, ea s y go - and then go ~o jail. H · 's a he rt-b r in sto r , an d I s k you to sh d u r e sin abun da n e. At Vancouver, British Columbi · tod y, a wom n ca ll e l the olice a n d ut in a com p l aint ab o u t h e c hi l dren in hr n e ighborhood. Sh e a sked t h e ~ to make t h o / l kids ~ e p quiet. •They a re so noisy,~ s i d sh e , "that my dog su f fered a nervous br a kdo n.• Yes, those kids made such r c k et th a t the nerves of the pooch were frayed and frazzled. Bec a use of that, said the lady, her dog had to go to a hospital. •ae spent ten days in a hospital ~ , _ , . , £ ~ : ... recuper a ting,• she rel ted, eat ·aacl~ •He has been "· home three d a ys now, but I fear that. if the noise continues, he will et a ~••l relapse.• It looks a s if they mi ht h a ve to shoot the dog -- or the children. H e's a star that Edmund i ~ son may rite in his next book - o may be h e 't. It's a s to r with a kick - r.n it ha p ened to him. dmund ilson is th e author of the much debated •Memoir of Be . ate County•, whic bas been banned far and wide on grounds of obscenity. Out in Nevada, he has just been divorced from his thir wife, and at the ame time somebody else was getting a Nevada divorce - Mrs. Elena Thornton. Shortly after the two d i ~ o n s of marriage, Edmund Wilson and Mrs. Thornton wer married - thing• happening quickly. Thie new rom a nce of tbe author of the stories of Hecate County s of news interest, and a lot of reporters floe ed around - but, for some rea on, Edmund ilson was determined to have no publicity. He seemed to have a phobia for r porters, and took me as ures to elude them - but in vain. lQT.!! o fi_ - 2 Be a n d his bri d e ha ste ned to the Re n o r a ilro d statio n , to c tch a tr in for S a n Fr a nc is co - and, at the station, the r p ort e rs w ere waiting for the newly wedded cou p le. Whereu p on ther e ensue d a scuffle a n a ch a seJThe ne w smen tried to sop Wilson to interview him, n d he took a s w in g at a reporter, who ducked,.(kJ ~ tri e d to sn tch ~ c a mera from a I\ !l;he next thing - the irate author was hurrying through pa s sen g er cars, with reporters in hot pursuit. He went dashin g through five cars: Then, when be reached his own compartment, a tellta~e sign was seen. On the seat of the author's pants was s footprint, a clearly marked im pres sion of the s : i ~ h o e . A -w-al..e\ So th t 's the tale ef Lb~ kick. - ~ . A ..J'L Pr si <l. n t Tru ma n 1 d t hi:13 n i o n tod y in p a ying " h o nor to Walter Johnson. Th a mi g hties t of s p eed ball one o f le p e n d , bl zin ball p a st innume r able hitters ----- - ------ And milli o ns of Am r ~ icans, whose memcries a go back to the Walter John . son era..., will join President Truman in sayin that Walter Johnson h ; always been one of his heroes. by recalling an odd and absurd thing that h pened to me a couple of months a o. At a party for some air force officers in Washington, I sat at dinn e r net to the wife of on . of them - a comely young woman who s i ~ she lived in Washinton. I suppose I was tryin~ to make an impression by remarking that I kne~ some of the great people of the town. Anyway, I told her I knew alter Johnson. I s i th t alter WALTER J O HNS O N - 2 _ _ .., was- - _ _..,. _ ......,~ h ad , jn fact , 1 ye d on f o oli sh so f tbal te a m o ours - the Nine Old Me n. 'hen I ot through bra g ing to the youn g la y a bou h o w I knew . alter Johnson, she s id: wo, I'm Walter Johnson's dau hter!• That set me down a bit, a f te wh ich I asked her a bout her father - who w s then ill. She sai d he was not we ll tall, but the family had hopes he would get -:&;t- better.AWalter Johnson was~ _.._ in his last long illness - which led to the news of his death today.