GOOD EV E NING V E RYBODY: ( Six more stron g Communist Units a re reported to be concentratin g alon g the Northern Frontier of Greece, poised for a nother invasion. That's the latest word f m Athens. This follows the earlier report that Greek Regular Ar ■ y Units have encircled two thousand Communi t Guerrillas who attacked last Sunday, with a battle of annihilation nowf on.) Athena, tonight is tense, with such powerful forces lined up against Greece on that poverty-stricken country's northern and western border. Soviet- dominated troops, ■ oving in from Yugoslavia and Albania. Tonight in Athens, a gener a l staff meeting was held. Among the Greek conferees were the Premier, the Defense Minister, and the Chiefs of the General St a ff • . And also in attendance were Ge~eral tives a y, Chief of the Americ a n Army Mis ion iD Greece; Admiral Snackenbe~g, Chief of th e American Naval Mission; also the heads of ll!-1!!~_gRtt~l---=-i- Britain's Army and iavy Forces in Greece. American and British military leaders meeting for the first time with Foreign Generals in an a ttempt to fight off a Communist invasion of the ancient land of Greece. In the meantime, the fight to the North goes on with two Greek army Brigades closing in on the invaders who launched assaults on Ionitza and Ionnina. Meanwhile, at Lake Success Rew York, the United Nations Security Council, its bead in the sand, toni g ht turned down the American appeal for emergency debate on the Greek situation. Russia protests that such a debate is unnecessary. •Nothing is happening to give alarm in the Balkans!• Say the Russians. And the French warn tma t h at the U.K. •must not act too hastily on reports of mounting strife in Greece.• Soviet Delegate, Gromyko, full of righteous rath this evaing, assailed the United States as •Trying to prove that an ex,raordinary situation had been created in Greece.• And the French Dele g ate Alexandre Parodi pleaded -=:; '--=- - ~ - ID LEA~ GREEQL - J • f • • • • • • ' • with the Security Council to •Remain cl a m.• Me a ntime Red Guerillas reported pourin g over the lorthern Frontiers of Greece, with the Russians s a ying •1othing is happenin g .• And the French ur g ing everybody to remain calm!• M!M!l!il_l'LA!i \ . M , . , l " ' . : l l J V ~ ~ - _,,. .. . , ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ -P~, ( It see m s h111 - C1 to beli ve that th Paris Conference on the Marshall !'lan ha completea the tax task for which it assembled. The Dele ates of aix4e-en -txa~ieaa Di iee~-rn-~'U"l".D=Pe met only four days ago, but they"ve already done their jobs.) Hitherto, tho ~ e big int rnational conferenc have dragged on for weeks and months, without coming to any decisionj- one lon interminable wrangle. In fact, this assembly of the west ■ fxiazia in Paris bas••• accomplished more in four days than any of the others aia in four •••s•• months - when they succeeded in accoaplishing anything. What's the reason for the startling difference? iou guessed it - the tioviets weren't there. Bo olotov, no monkey wrenches. The twenty-two nations, conferring on the Marshall Plan, worked swiftly and well -(naming an .c.xecutive Coami ttee to run thing a and a series of sub-committees for special studies of inaustrial angles in ~urope.) MARSHALL PLAN - 2 - ---------- 1 oday these committees began their labors. They have a two point progr m: On~ - lay plans for the increase and coordination of production in ~uropean Countries, ith intensified effort an d concerted international action for economic reconstruction. that is - J'uropean self-help. Secondly, estimate what still will be needed, the absolut ~ necessities, when Europe, by concerted action, does all that it can. Draw up a schedule of what will thea have to be bad, and present this to the United States - • American help to suppleaent £uropean self-help. £his two fold program, iaxa if accepted by Uncle ~a■, will ~ecoae the Marshall Plan. GtnUANi ------- The new American policy in Ge~many completely changes notions that prevdiled when the war ~4~ ~ ended. At that time, ~ wha 1, do ~ w ith the conquered 1, ~ , ere influenced by the Uorgenthau Pl~n - hich proposed that Germany should be turned into a nation of small farms, without inaustry. ·1.·ae p ~ y gi•ea t.e our ailitar-,. ed now, - the 7{;,, Commander of the Occupa tioh Forces, General Lucius Clay, today received • new instructions, a new olicy- according to which German industry is to be built up as much as ossible to produce goods for the reconstruction of ~urope. Production Cs to be increased all alon the line - though with constant control to aee aaat that German industry does not take a turn adapted to war. The new pl policy recognizes the facts cf life- · westtrn A Germany under British and Ame r ican contr GiRMAN Y - 2 ~---- is to play its part in the Marshal Plan, and produce goods in the cleavage between the est rn World and the e)Oviets. On the political side, General Clay is ordered to encourage all political parties that• favor the WAYS of ~emocratic liberalism, and bear down on outfits advocating totalitarianism. This means, of course, action against Communism. General Clay is directed to withdraw right~ and privileges from any group that advoc~tes what the directive calls "undemocratic practices or id · eas. • toss Rl!.DS -- - 'fhe House of nepresentat ives ~ " " " ,A passed a drastic bill to get disloyal people out of the employ of the government - Communists, Reds. The Deaocrats aade violent objection, but the RepubliC d DS whooped it up, and passed the bil . with a shout. It no• goes to the ~enate - the bill to cleanse the government payrQll of ~oamunists. PRICES --------- The statement was made in Washington today that the wa~e boost in the coal in a uatry will eventually lead to lower prices for coal. of the country's lerge t coal proaucers - George M. Humphrey, Chairman of the Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal C o m p a n y , ~ ~ to . a joint Congress economic co■mittee. ~ was talking about the President•• public appeal yesterday, ~ the coal industr7, not to increase prices because of the increase in wages. of the the be Be contended with emphasis that the wage terms of the contract were fair - the pay hike of a dollar &nd twenty cents a day entirely in line with the General l'RlCJ!iS - 2 ---- wage increases in in u · try:f'In the coal contr H ct ther ~ •s an interesting clause - the union pl edge that the miners will ~roduce more coal in r turn for the higher pay. Toda7 the big time coal industrialist declared: "If the cooper&tion promised by the Min ~ rs• Union is reaslized - increasing production and increasing efficiency will surely man more coal at le ~ s cost.• ~ A year or~f/WiJ ~ o, there w~s much talk r-1, ~ bout a tremendous idea - ful employment. Social-minded thinters foresaw a speedy depre sion, and demanded all sorts of government measur~s to promote what they talked about in Utopian tones;.,e.t:xq;,-s - sixty million jobs. Many people thought them visionari~s, and they did have visions of all sorts of things the government would have to do ta achieve the dreamfull employment, sixty million jobs. •ell, nothing much was done about it - so what h~we we today? In iashington, the 1 ■su■ government commission of labor statistics declares th~t, w.itte ~ • NriAI ri' -e•••a, N ~ • • h•u e -fa~ ... ,.i.,_ .. .,, - w•H laase-.e,a, A,igbt now"lf:,ba n.u■bar of jobleaa ia ~ ~ 1:b away down, . - . th next three months;,(• -seau:v.l-e~ bring new e~loy■ent. ia ,i;~ fields. 't'be expertaA~N • • • - - ~ . . "" that the recent coal agreement between the mine owners and the union, will give employment a big boost. 4"'f So they-.... sure that by ~ 1 1, the figure A.. for jobs in this country will be well over the sixty million mark, •■ i&J which is regarded as full employment • . . -_o wonder the government spokesman in lashin~ton st a ted today: •The employment picture is rosy.• Full e ■ ployment, plus. During the past few days, people have been askin g what kind of wedding will ~rincess £lizabeth have? Ordinarily, a marriage of an heiress to the throne of oritain would be a gala affair, one of those Royal axl■ celebrations that are part of the traditional ~ritish pageantry. But ~ritain is havin6 a hard tiae, an economic ordeal, with a harsh progr m of austerity. It would hardly seea to be wise for Royalty to indulge in the slendors and expense of a tr ditional hoyal • wedding, and so was commonly said that Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant fhilip Mountbatten would have - an austerity wedding. What do the British people think about it? •ell, the ~ondon Daily ~xpre~s held a poll of its readers. Should the ~rincess have a mere quiet, •••■ aizaaits ■ unobtrusive ceremony - an austerity wedding? The vote announced today, shows the following: in fa•r of austerity - thirteen-and~foul-.t.enths per cent . Ag~inst austerity - eighty-six-and-three-tenths,ae.,,t ~ ikIZAB~~H- - 2 ~ o it looks as if the British people want the hoyal wedding to provide some public entert~in ■ ent. laia■ Which makes it Jz ■ aa■ lJ probable that the marriage will be the first post-war example of what the Daily Express ~alls - •The traditional gaiety of a gala public event.• The London paper says the people are tired of drabness. from London we have reabsuring word - no, it isn't tru • There's nothing in the story that two hunar dame icnn 6a ilor 6 ot into a pitche b~ttle in Piccadil y circu •ith British Troops of~ Regiment of sa Gu ras. This was hebrilined by the London papers today - and is aenied by an official spokesman. ~ight now, a squadron of ~merican warships is in the harbor at London on a goodwill ~ o n - and •hat kind o go o d w i 11 would you ca 11 i t A. " there • s an Anglo-American pitched battle in Picadilly!~• . . British newspaper account y are that two hundred American sailors were given shore leave, and got into a wild fa fracas with a &ob of Briti$h soldi rs - troops of a regiment o tuar c, which means the .Ali tedl,-1:t., ~ Cir.l!,dl••· ~ ~ . The aenial, issued by an American Naval Spokesm~n, says that what hap p ened was really something else, Americ~n a ilors were at Picadilly Circus all riiht, ~ nd tberL was a fr & cas. This however, was a matter of London Bobbies tryin to arrest a noisy drunk, and BRAWL - 2 - bavin~ to push their way throu h a crowd. Aml:!1 · ican &hilors were in that crowd, but it was no free-for-all. The s · ilors might have uttered some remarks, but that's all there was to the Sattle of Picadilly Circus. ~11 of •hich is welcome reassurance - because we wouldn't wunt our ~avy boys to get intc(a war itb the ,ing's ~ : r ? . : ~ while on a good-will aiasion. I-- !l!lQ!l!!!-~lLL __ Late news from Fr nee tells ~ e ~ a\\e ■pt by Virginia Hil l , who was the girl friendof Bugsey Siegel - the racketeer killed recently in Los Angeles. Virginia Bill, who had g one to France before Bugay was wiped out, is said to have taken a whole tube of sleeping tablets at Monte Carlo. But she •~a found in tiae, and at the hospital the doctors saved her. ~o ■ e days ago we heard a stateaent by the Los •naeles police that, after the killing of Bu1ay Sieael in Virginia Bill's own apartment, gun■fn ha,d gone to France to kill her. The story today is that she fled fro ■ Paria to Monte Carlo to elude ■ urderers of the Aaeric~n underworl ana then had despaired of ev · r being able to escap the ■ - and had tried to kill herself. COUNTERFEIT ------------- Word from the est tel ls of a truck driver, in the U i , ah desert, findin g a treasure of between a million and two million dollars. They haven't yet finished counting it all, bales of money, ten dollGr bills. 4 ■ agine the s urpr1se of the truck driver aa AtA"t) he weDt JP"'edi~~ along near St. George, U ah, and~J*•• ~~~ •· at i • d ill e -a._. i1- !, aaa 1 e :-o O"'ri,..A on the d e ,r rt. rn'INl-11--.....,..,... "" ~ - / ~ ~ 4 - ~ - - n/Jlj t.1■ , ~ulMi --t••• _.e .. ul-c ef a,a.,, eu~ ten d o l l a r ~ . ••lhh I don•t sup~ose he could have been too auch disappointed, by what hap ened thereupon. He ■ ust ha•• suspected there was som thing phoney about it, which was promptly confiraed. The police pronouncing the treasure to be bales o counterfeit. ~ut bow did it get out there on the desert? The authorities believe that a counterfeit gang grew alarmed, and wanted to get rid of its tonnage of spurious currency - hot money. They surmised that the reason for the alarm was the hue and the CJ cry that was going up against the underworld in ~alifornia - since the g angland ~UJ[lll - 2 a sassination of that big shot of the mobs, Bugay Seigel. Today, ~hie£ of Detectives, Ollie Slarck, declared; •It is quite possibl e that the heat generated Aa from Bugsy•s rub-out aay have a ~ ared the counterfeiters.• The latest. Federal officer• announce that they h••• found the plate, fro• which the bundle• of aoney on th• deaert were aade. CRASH ------ A tr&gic story comes in the news about the weekend ir crash in Zlorida - twenty-one lives lost, fifteen survivors. lt is disclosed now that one o i the victims was Mrs. Joyce Mciinnon•- and today her grandmothe ) told the story. Joyce Mciinnon, t~enty-six years old, w~• three times a pilot's widow, and then shared the fate of her fourth huaband, both killed in the Florida crash. She first aarried a flying instructor with the laYy at fensacola - who lost his life in a crash with a stuaent shortly before we got into the war. Th~ duriq the war, the widow married an Army pilot, and he was lost in a routine fli~ht - so•• she was widowed again. lier third husb~nd, anothe Army pilot, fell victiae to special wartiae training duty. Last January, the widow of three pilots _ _ married a fourth aviator, an airline flyer, Roderick faul McKinnon. But this time she was not widowed again. She accompanied her husband on his l a t airline trip'- - and died with him. In Tokyo today, an edict Wbs issued by ~eneral MacArthur, a decree concerning the way employees have been oressing at MacArthur headquarters. It appears that the men have been going around wearing undershirts, which are all right when they're really under. But when an undershirt is over, it ceases to be under - that would see ■ to be one point of logic in today's order issua by the Ci en era r. The rest of it concerns girls who wear aun suits or slacks - that's forbidden. They'll have to awiah around in skirts hereafter while on dut7 at ~eadquarters. Civilian employees are required to wear conv~ntional clothes. . iell, you can't s~y th~t General Douglas MacArthur doesn't practice what he preaches. He is one of the aost sartorial iapeccable warriors in histor7 - his unifora always right, with the special ornateness of that gold braided cap. It is safe to make the statement that never had anyone seen · a published hotograph of "eneral MacArthur in his undershirt, pali~ a.round with a cutie in a playsuit. ~ ~ .ln'J.t:M' ~ ~ - - ~ . r , 4 . We hear that science has invaded a most unexpected realm - basebal. a story in the news . tells bow the national game is going in for new scientific 6 adgets. there's a new electrically heated shirt for pitchers, to keep the old flipper •br ■ - between innings. BoB Feller antt Bal Mewhouser couldn't get alona without it now •r-Ctltoiding that chil ana crick in the . , . ·": ar■ that causes a pitcher to start tossing the boat-run ball. 11 t -L-1 °-~ 4c & .... is.c...w, ~ ' fhe t r o ~ Dodgers~ave introauced • new scientific innovation for keeping the diaaoni dr7 a rains - a streamlined modernistic nylon cover. s:c.~ ir~ncisco~Aof the Pacific League has a ••••• back-stop of unbreakable glass - to eliminate the screens of schicken wire that are a pain in the eyeb~ll when you watch~ game from behind home plate. The Chicago Cubs are said to be experimenti~ with a glass barrier for the ble&cbers - saz ■ •1• somethin& tJelQ_IJleLllII Police in Leesburg, Virginia are no• investigating report• that a large plane bas crashed in London Co., firgilli&.