~ 1 . -- ~ ~ "V?. ~- 'J. J 4' . , ~Jr.*, '?"'7. 11th all t , ~ ' 1 . f f w , ~ ~ e a k i n g out . of A- /\ Aaerican ato ■ ic boab 1ecreta, the question beco■•• ■ore interesting - bow ■ uch effort would it take a foreiaa couatr7 to deYelop the ~o■b? Today we have an •••••r la ter■• of aone7 fro ■ one of our top atoaic ph7alcl1\a, Dr. Joaeph a. Ruab, Secretary-Treaaurer of the re4eratlon of i■ericaa Scientiata.-«'ae ••1• \bat coaatr7 ri1ht now could produce th• boab with aa expealiture of about one-fourth fllf the a■out of ••••1 alA ••putout aa 11111 flr•t coat. la•• all taow, tbl• aatlod apent two bil~lon dollar• to 4••1•• tie ato■ ic boab. Dr. R••h ••1• a foreiga coutr, ooal4 ••• do the aa■e thing with fl•• hundred ■ illion. lby the great cut ia ato■ ic expenae? - Tb• acientiafa anawer 1• a atartling thing - that we nee4 neYer have put u p the great Oak Rid g e plant. That coat nine hundred aillion dollers, n d that, aa it tura• out, waa a needles• expenditure. So says Dr. Rush - and be adda that a foreign nation would not h a ve to build anything like Oak Rid g e, and thereby would•••• nine hundred aillion on the original cost of two billion dollare. lut what'• the aatter wltb Oak RlJge? Dr.••• print• out that we aad• two kln4• of atoalc boa, - oae wit~ uraaiua, and the other with pl•toalu, a ra4le-ao,t eleaeat cloaelJ allied to vaalu. Th• •raalu bo9' aad• at Oak Ri4g• - and was th• aoat exp•n•i••• Tb• pl~tonl•• bo■b waa cheaper - ■ad• at Hanford,laahlaat,n, the project there coatiDI onlJ thr•• ~a4red and aixtr aillion. The plant at Loa4'laaoa, lew Mexico, whlc~ worked with both urani•• and plutonlu■, coat onlJ atstr aillion. Th••• cheaper project• would, th••••l•••• ha•• turned the atoaic trick. Dr. Rueb declares that most of the talk about • technical secrets and coaplex industrial know-ho• concern• Oak Ridge - with its uraniua separation plants. lll of which would be igaored bJ a forai1• nation rushing to aake atoaN boab1. •ThaJ kll aat• tL,,.. ~. ~ of plutoniua, instead,• ••J•.I'-■ 111h i)rl,~point• out that, of our original twa dollar■ ia atoaic expanse, 1ix hudrad and••••• •••••tJ-eight aillion went into the conatructlo• of tho•• •town••• the building of houe• for the atoal• workers. l foreign nation won't indulge in•••• coatlJ coaforts for it• workers. The aain dp•n•• • foreiga boab boAildin~ 1f:: • · •• t n6F /t laboratorJ research and plutoniu• plant.f, Well, it'• comaon industrial experience that turning out the first article is al••J• the big exp•• a ..!er•••• of coat a■ aore and more are aada • which wr~ co■■on experience would certainly aee• to apply to that world question of other nation■ producing ato■io 'bo■b•• IEW 1,E6~_01 (8a~eti-.i1 tD early -a.tor,.). (out at Lake Success, Long Island, today Onited Nations Security Council is meeting, Ruaaia ~~ and the United State• both agreed~their ferYen\ •i•h to diaara. Then they diaagree4 Yiolently on how to go about it -- especially what to do about tbe atoalc bo■b.) To4ay, Warren Auatin, th• Aaerican Dele1a\~ 1a11e1ted a coaproalae plaa. proposing that 1nteraa\io■a1 atoaio energy control• be coneldered at th• Coaaoll'• next •••ting. Also eugge1tin1 that a Coaaiaaloa H eatabllabed to 4iacar4 all other weapon• except tbe a\oalc boab and other weapon• of aa11 4eatractioa. Gro■yko, the laeaian, proaptly aaid •10,• prote1tin1 that the Aaerioan plan would delaJ all dlaaraaaent action for three ■ontba. Opahot waa that the Council inatructed delegate• of the fi•• nation• aponaoring disarmament to confer pri•ately and work out a coamon plan that can be pat before the Council on Tbawaday. But this action came too/J.ate to prevent a heated debate between Austin and Groayko -- a peraonal exchange that left Austin white with anger and th• usually atotcal Groayto fidgeting with euppr••••d ra&•• Groayko 1uggested that Austin needed an estra twenty-four hours in which to ■ake up bi• own aind on dlaaraa■ent plana. Auatin ahouted that he wa• rea4J to fl1ht out the taau• ri&ht now, proYided · otber del•a•t•• would, aa be pat lt, •cat out th• abow.• Then Qro117ko auageated that beada would i• • clearer lf th• Coaaoil rec••••d adopted th• Buaataa propoaal. IEI LEAD VAIDENBERG - -· - , _ The bipartisan support of the State Departaent'• foreign policy will continue -- but at forthcoming conferences in Moscow, Secretary of State ■araball will be without the company of Republican Senator Vandenber1 and Deaocratic Senator Connally. That•• the latest word fro• laabington. Both Senator•, Vandenberg and Connally, ha•• annoanced that they will not att••• the loaco• confereao•• de1plt• Preaident Truaan'• requeat that they do 10. Bowewer, • each aan, hi• party'• leader ln th• flel4 of forel&D affair•, aake• it pl~in that be will go to , lo■cow later pro•l4e4 farther proof~ee4e4 that._ Deaocrat1c, stand• to1etb•• on Aaer1oan forei&D policy. Today both aen aade their position known after a luncheon conference with Secretary of Stat• laraball. Th• word fro• laabinaton 1• that it was Vandenberg that fir1t 4ecline4 th• i n • i t a t i o n ; ~ l l 1 . - followed suit. Mo• they say they will stay in REI LEAD VANDEIBERG - 2. - - - . . . , _ _ • • a • - - Washington where tbe1 can subject the Yoacow proceedina• to a day-to-day acrutiny and debate. Adainlatration leaders had been hoping that Yandenb•r~e•peciallr, would take a leading part in the fortboo ■ ing deliberation• lf only to con•inc• Britain, Fraace, and Raa1la that the United State• Seaate •111 aapport laraball in all bi• pro ■ i••• and deoiaion1. But Yandenber1 ■ad• bia atand clear la•• unequi•ocal atate ■ ent •blob explained that bl• a•tl•• aa President of the Senate and Cbal~••n of the rorel1a Belationa Coaalttee ■ ate it lapoaalble tor hi ■ to be la loaoow when the conference opena. Vandenber1 added, ho•••••• that bl• refaaal i ■ pll•• no breaob of the Republican pled1• to keep politic• out ot international affairs • .. In Washington, President Truman today recei••4 a new labaesador - an event that noraally coaea ua4er the beading of the flat and foraal. I••• intereat - Today, howeYer, it wee 4iffereat. 1111 ■•• . 1-N• The labaaaa4or weat through tb• aotioa• of preeenting bi• credential•, and . . aad• th• •••al •peech. Bega•• thank• for laerican help to Polad during the war, and for food relief and econo■io aid thereafter. Be pledged bi■eelf to reaain true to what be ca l led, •a long tradition of uninterrupte4 friea4e~lp and cordiality.• ttitu4• •tlna • ~ l e - Th• eleaeat of th• uaortllllex ••• ia\ro4•••1 , , Preeideat Tr••••• who falle4 to baa4 back ti•••• with aiailar platit•4•• - ••hollow•••• eap\J barrel. Th• prealdeatial reciprocatioa ••• letewara, if not aonright critical. larrJ Truaa aeatioae4 t.11• . Poli•h election■, which our governaent ha• 4eaouoe4 a having beeD carried \J violence aa4 terrori••• .... , • . , GWD - 3 pointed out to the new Ambassador that the Poliah goYernment, together with the big po•era, had pledged itself at Yalta and Poteda■ to hold free de■ocr.atie electio~•• To which he added: •It i• a cau■ e of 4••P concera to ■e and th~ A■ericaa people that tbe preYlaional 1o•eraaeat h•• fat~ad \o keep \bat pl . . l•• l!!ldlllU Today in Jeru• lea, many wo ■ en atood along a 1treet and watched other women drive off in bu1e1 wit• their children - and there waa weeping and the of flowers. Jewi1h and Arab wo■en watched the e•acuatioa of the fa■ilies of Britiah 1oldiera aai ci•iliana - fa■ iliea being taken out of Pale1tiae becauae of th• ■eaacin& •tat• of affair• lat~• lolJ Laad. The Jewiah and Arab wo■ea •••'• and t•••• flowera.1Flt the aa■e ti••• paapbleta were di•t•l••~• : ' ••••• SH paapblet• ur1tn1 th• J••• to ata wbat waa called anti-terroriat pa7cbological warfare. It ii beli•••d • • tbe taa leaflet• were put out anoaJ■ou1lJ bJ •• official Jewiab organisation, ao4••• leadership oppoaed to the ca■paign of terror. ( At th• ea■e ti••• London report• that th• British go•ern■ ent ii on the ••r1• of announcing a • t!ldlllll - 2 definite decision in the Pal e stine criaia, a atate■ea\ to be aade in the Bouse of Coaaon• in the next two 4•1•~ Both Prt•• llai■ter Attlee and rorelga •••••\• lraeat Be~i• deDJ that tbeJ ~••• 4eci4e4 oa · a plea of partitioaiDI to be enforce4 in Paleeti••• l•t t,e ruaor• iaai•t that aoae aucb acbe■e la la the aakl•I • p•••••l1 a coa)laatloa of p■»titloa aa4 t•••••tl••• leoal rule for Zioni•t• aa4 lraba. • ••••fl•~••••~• glee■la@ wbite ef wiat••• Uc••~•••I . - Ia lurope, tbe · wor■t cold•••• of balf a cea\.., ••• }.r~a!i_ag ~2 today. lblYerlDI Europe . . . ~••i•I a t h • • • ~ • • • trouble• - fleo4a. la laglaat 1 rl••r• full of 4rlft lo• were going oYer tbelr ,aau 1 .. ,..~.-... ~rN•~•• .. • bria1lag th• 014 atorJ of flood. To••• ••4•r water, atre•t• iau4ate4. And ia ItalJ - Yenic• llt bevi•I a flood. ftlel would ■ e•• to \ea peculiar tblag - Veale• with in•ndated ■treet■• le are rather reaiade4 of1b• . 1ondollera of Gilbert and SulliTaa, in which the DU• of Plazatorro re■arks, in effect, that Venice wa• a handsoae citJ, but the streets aeeaed reaarkablJ wet. Well, they're wetter than ever no• - the canal• of 116%111: 3 Veale• rising and flooding the baseaenta and lower floor• of '•ildin g a)l';heJ'•• been ba•lag,....t-ao•• la ItalJ, aD4 DO•• ~ t h • • ia oD. Tb• riYen are ••oll•• - - aat Yeaic• l• ~ l■S a floot:""tou•a h••• to tat•• boat aleM M \he Yeaetiaa aaia atree\ - oalJ you al••J• 414 ~••• \e tat• a aoa4o1&91' oath• araa4 caaal. • Tragedy coapounded ln ling1bur1, California, today!-- f°irat colllaion, then fire{ A atreaalined Southern Pacific Expr••• craahed into a truck and - trailer carrying fuel ollJ'.at a cro11road1. Then an inferno! 'Ilasin& oil 1prea41n& oYer el•••n car• of th• fifteen-coach train. Two o•• \o\allr 4oatroro4, ala• ot~•r•-1£• ...... -.."' 4a■a1••· ~ Full report• oa tb• 4ea4 and iaJare4 area'\ in yet. Southern Pacific rallroa4 official• ••Y tbre• •••• kllle4 aaa flft1 laJare4. 11a11bur1 polloe, ho•••••• place th• oa1aaltl•• at atx 4ea4, at leaaf on• haalre4 lajarea. 11•••• roared f.ro• th• truck at th• aoaea\ of lapaot, leaping two baa4re4 feet lnto the air aal burning for at leaat two hour• before fir• equipaent,ru1be4 froa tin11burg and aurroundin& townS,brought the fire under control. With the collisi o n, the ~ e •~~ an i c scre~ming pa en g ers sts mp e~in al o n g the aisles tow,r d tre front and re n r oft e train. A co " ch loA of Army ed.isted men t tl\e !'ettr of the train ar~ re p orte d to h ve p erforae~ 8 job in leading passen g e ~ s out of the burning care. The G.I.'s raced t~rough sheetc of fla■e to enter t cars. T~ey kicked out windows and in 10•• inetaacee threw burnin victims froathe train to rescue o•••• waiting outside. 8011• owners along the right-of-way pltc~•I 1 nearby hospitals. Amon g the passengers on the train was A■o• Alonzo st~gg, the •grand old man• of footb~ll. Stagg was not injure d , but, a number o f ae■bere of the San Francisco S~a m rock Hockey Te•• aleo aboard the Expres, were injure d . • Here's a story with a ••rprl•• en4ing ~- a 1tar\ltDI endina. la Colorado Jack Braden••• a orlp•i• tor ten 7eara -- and a ori■ inal •• well. Be••• ■ ea\ \o ,rlaoa for a ••in41•, and there the doctor• operat.e4 hi• twiatea lei•, atraigbtened th• ■ oat -- aad tbe co••lot.~ •••••••~). threw •••1 hi• or•tahea •• lhereupoa laot lra4ea ••••••o•d \bat be••• 1traigtiteatn1 o■\ twlate4 aoral ■, too. Be••• ao\ on!7 1oia1 ••• 4e\er■ lae4 to 4••oie 11• l i h to helplDI otber .,,., .. That•••• bearteai•I \biag, the Colorado Patrol Board g••• Jack Braden hi• fr•••••• aad a groap of p•biic- ■ plrlted oltlz••~ proYl4•4 bi■ with a acholarablp to go to·the Den•er Bible Coll•I•• Jack Braden went to classes, and did all right with bl• Bible 1tudy. Be was in a hurry to begin bta n•• career and atart preaching. A church engaged him, and adYe?ti■ el the aeraon• be was to 11••• Aa an up - and-c in Ev n elist he needed c r, and of ered to urchase an automobile from a Den•er pastor. The car was turned ove~ to tii, and be aaid he would get the mon•y and return ~nd pay. That •a~ the last seen of Jack Braden. Re failed to appear tor his ~ul it engagements, ana tonight the police are looking to• hi■• It woa14 •••• that Jack Bra4en•1 good intention• the old inetinot to 1windle •••• lack h• bad a obaace to pinch a car fro■ a parson. twisted legs were 1traightened bat hi• twi1te4 were not. In London tod y, a sour not was sounded in ancient and venerated art of -- song plug g ing. British publishers of sheet music were told they'd have to stop givin bribe to radio ■ ingers. The prosecutor in the ■ atter, bol■es, stated today that the ordinary ratee ran1• from betwenn fiv an4 forty pounds per plug. same time it is being chaPged in f~rlia■ent that radio ~xecutives have received fur expensive gifts for conniYiing with for pay. • Thia n•• drive against broadcast bribery the British publishers of sheet music badly wo Before people purchase copie~, they've got to song over and over, and that means plug ing, an in wbich radio shines and excels -- ~adio being greatest plug _ er of them all. ln London they hav . to hand out cash to get radio plugs for their latest Tin Pan Alley blasts of • i n . And so, if the riv ~ a ~ inst b ibery goes o illtl.U...§wt9i tb . ey• 11 •Sw ine Low, Sweet Chariot,• or •close Doerr Ri'ohard. • ln 1 d now open the door, Relaon. • lt the lecuri\J Council of tbe Unite4 lation■, the Aaericana todtJ aove4 to reau■e action on atoaic aecurity - ana 1•neral di■ araa■ent. Qur 4•1•1•t•, larr•• luatin, entered a re1olutioa tor iue4lat• diecueeton• on world dlear■a■ent - with prlorltJ tor atoaic control. That l a ~ o along " u- 4iacu••ion or- aboli■hing •" ~ o••• ~ •• wttl all want to attention to atoalc weapon•• Dile1at• lutla that th• resolutloa repreeente4 the oplai••• of Preei4eat Truaa, 8ocretarJ of.8tate larehall, 8ecrotarJ of l•r Pattor•oa1'f 1e are williDI to the road of die•r•••••t aad atoaic control - ••• fu\, eai4 he, •an4 ae far,•• our fellow •••b•r• of th• V.I. Senator Van4enber1 will not go to the Conference. Be tia■ rejected Pre■ i4ent tru■an•• lnYitation • • to acco■pallJ 8ecretar7 of State General laraball on bi• trip to the Soviet capital th• fraaiag of a peace treatJ with Ger■aa7~oaa, .... 111 • . ,aa4enberg, raakin1 Bepablicaa in ..... ~ . a witb G8aeral larahall, aad tb•J dlicuae4 tbe aatt••• Tb• Senator t.oH the ••• Seoret.arJ of State . tlaat. ii• ti•• la the aext f•• week• would be aoaopollse4 bf bl 4utle• a• preaiding officer of the Senate aa4 Cba of th• Couitt•• o• rorel1• Belationa:«tbe leaate - 1• aoheiuled aoon to ratifJ ttie peace treati•• with ltalJ and the Balkan aatellltea of the lasi■ - and that will i■poae a lot of work on Senator. Vandenberg. So be feels he will have to relin••i•h the partnership in foreign negotiation• that he abare4 with the retired Secretary of State Byrnes and DIPJIII~ - 2 Senator Connally of Tesae, the ranking De■ocrat in foreign a f f a i r • ~ o..f2°.- .._ ....--- •' landenberg eaphasis•• the fact that hi• inability to acco■paDJ General lar•hall do•• not in aQ war iaplJ a weakening of th• bi-parti••• principle - joint De■ocratic ••• Bepublicaa •upport of ltate. An4 be add• that, he will be in oon•taat touch with Qeneral Marehall during th• Moeco• confer••• loreoTer, the Senator i• willing to join the lo•c•• aeeting later on - when and if bi• preeence oyer tboro ehould be needed to da■onetrat• Republican ••pport to~ General larahall. !lltBIB The new• about th• weather ha• peculiaritie• botti fro• Dear and fro• afar. OD tbia aide of tbe oceaD, tbe cold wave ii 1weepiDg eaatward, with -II '3.iatering wind• aad bUnarcls. The ■Dew 1• to be ••■tera Dakota• aDcl lebraska, wbicb were dut bowl ar••• back in the 'Thirti••• the cold wave caa• ••••Pt~ .. with lot• of chillJ win4 - but no •aow. the top soil of that ~D• ti•• dut bowl eectloa w•• dry and powdery, aDd the winter 1•1• •••Pt it thick cloudsfTh••• duet clouO, riding hi1h, ••r• blown east, and caae driliting down to fora fre•I atoru, duat-bliszarde. Th••• have been wbirliDI in lis:onsin aDd northern lllinoie, the dust blis1ar4• mixing with snow. Tbe white flake• of winter - not ■ o whi:te. Great snowdrift■, colored a dirt:, bro••• (f la Chicago todaJ, visibility was low, the cit1 dark aD4 The great portal pay. diapute ~roduced a pu1sll I queetion at Detroit today. lby can a aixt7-four 7.ear 01, general aanager walk tbree ti••• or eix ti••• a• taat aa a wor,ker of twentr or thtr\77 T'i• curiou• riddle co••• up la the coneideration of the original portal pay c••• ~ of the■ all - th• one that etarted a whole wa•• of· ~ portal clal••• The coapaaJ coaceraed 1• a aaaafacturer of pottery at Kt.Cleaeaa, Michigan, the eaployee• I •~ aued for ~ u t ia at the factory before their par begaa eacb d•J• ~ lichigaa Jadge P{car-d upheld their claia; •o did the Supreae Court - which atarted the portal epideaic. Judge Picard rigtit no• 1• giving further consideration to the case, and today testimony concerned the tiae it took to walk fro• tbe portal to the various work bench•• in the factoryi One witness was the general ■aaager of tb• potterJ companJ, aa executive of sixty-four. I• • atate4 that h• bad walked the di■tanc•• repeatedly•• a teat. Be bad clocked bi• apeed to variou• work beach••• and rood that hi• pac• was fro• twe-hu4red...,.a4-•ilh'1• · five feet a ain•t• to tbree-laendrea .... na-eigbt feet a ain•t•• That eouaaea reaeonable eaough, ••til it w•• coapare4 with te•tiaoDJ gi••• ~Y pottery worker•, th••••l••• - yoag fellow• of twenty aad tbirtJ, wit.II etrong aprt•IJ lega, ,bat lively gait of yoati. !h•J testified that, walking to th• work beach••• th•J •••• fro• forty-eight-and-a-half to eighty-eigbt-feetr • ainute. That aad• th• dragging feet of aixty-four t~•• ti••••• fast as the young leg• of th• sprinting, baseball playing tiae of life. Which certainly i• a paradox, ana what can the answer be? Tboee young fellows, walking to worl bench• -- • - - not t • or l t • ob-·• o i • t r • i ■ ana er.