GOOD EV i NING EVtRYBODY: A Ne Assistant t o t e Secr~t ry General of United National He is Byron Price, San Franciaco newspaperman who did such a arvelous job as c~ief censor during thew r. Secr~t ry General Trygve Lie announced Price's ap ointment today. Since tbe war, he bas been vice-president of the Bayes-Johnston of~ice in picture. Be will re iRn to take the United Nations job, in which he will have charge of administration and budget. PLAME _ ... ____ _ For seventeen J••z paw en er bo r a French Airliner t1l re w a happ la ndin to V, a hap r y landing at Casablanc•, •orth Afric. The cle r thinkin r of a Fr nc Ai lines pilot, lus ood luck, aveit,ed wha mi ht have b en another air tregedy. But before t e l ne reached ~asablanca, its pas engers and ere· had four ansious hours. They werP on their way to tbe United States, and everything went s . . . oothly until, some thre ~ bun red miles west of Lisbon, ,1sterious engine trouble developed. One right motor burned out completely, the propeller also. Then the other right motor began to fail. S.O.S. calls wer sent out, and an Americ n steamship, ROB RT FULTON, stood by inc e the French pilot was forced to ditch his p1ane in mid-oce And the plane circled •round and around, 1 : ke a re t wounded bird. The pilot had jet , iaoned his car o and unloaded most of his surplus asoline. Still it w ~ a ouestion -- could hem ke it b , ck to land, or would be have to come down in mid-ocean? ~L&!L--i Finally the pilot decided to head for Casablanc. He landed theres fely this afternoon. Seventeen pas engers oard -- ea e and ha ,. py &fter four hours of n uish. The passen ers on a French ai~line ha four anxious hours to d y. The anxiety of the a sen ers was com unic te d to people on land when urgent radio distress si nals were received at Coast Guar d and other stati c ns. It became kno n •* that one right motor burned out completely, and the p~opeller too. Then the other ri ht motor began to fail. Land stations comm nicated wit ships in mid-ocean. An American steamer, Robert Fu ton, and a Norwegian, stood by in case the French pilot had to ditch his plane. Be circled round and round ov.er those two ship 1 ■tx ■•i1zx•x■ ~t for quit a while, trying out the remainin engines. Ditchin g plane in mid-ocean is a dif~icult and dangerous job, extremely dangerourL Finally the pilot decided to go ahea and try an make Casablanca. At four o'clcdc this afternoon, l••ta Eastern American Time, word c me th t re had one it, made a com letely normal l ndi ter flyin four un r a lile c~o r tre Atl ntic n only two en ine. So sev nteen persona t ni ~ ht are sak thankfu they're alive, who for four hours were in momentary. peril of perishing. SECES IN -------~---- Rumors of sece r i on still run hi h in that very independents t of Idaho. Last month, you' 11 r em er, la m ker , from northern Idaho intrailced a e ~s ure into the Stat&'s Le gisla ture se ekin to decl re Nort~ Idh o a separate Com . on ealth, no lon g er a p rt of Id a o, but a separate and forty-nint state. That's eces ion any way you look t i t . And now more news about secessionists in Idaho, more seemingly diS111tis~ied citizens of that lovely atate. There's agitation to get another chunk of Idaho out of the State, and an petition is going the rounds ■■tx■fxtk■xls•*■Jx•x to eep~rate all of Twin Falls County from Idaho. Theiesident o~ Twin Falls apparently 1 . . ll ev d better. •LP-t N v d nne us, t ey sny. • e like Neva Te Twin Fall citizen ad in their eti :on: •Neva i o iae-o n state. I • ~ · ros p rous, ,ith ni t club and bli . ' 0 e are filled with mi ry n ·retche ne. Where is t e spirit of the DeclarAtion of In~e endenceY ere re t.e men who efe ted t~e Democ~atr in Nin~ een Forty- six? Let's o ov~r to ~ ev dR.• Sos y t~e men from Twin Falls County, Id ro, tonight. l2lf!!!.l!2 (The Russians in Austria sP.i e a re t., deal of property in violJ\ . ion of the Potsdam A g reement, property which they alleged to be Germ~n wx but which actually wa . noj Uncle Sam will not reco niz these seizures. (That's what General Yark Clark told the conference of deputie of Fora. g n Ministers in London today.j He did not sug est what Uncle Sa■ was going to do about those unacceptable seizures by the Soviet military. Clark cited an instance of Russi~n action in Austria. They liste as German ssets the development rights in lar e oilfiel in Austria. And may oft ose holdings, large one, were actually owned by British and A■erican oil companies before Bitler grabbed the ■ • Ph·1· l l , urray of the C.I.0. ad hi d yin court today be _ ore t . e L bor Com m ittee of the Senate, and he made thP. ost of it. He roare and sn pped at the Sen tors, a ccused Senator Joe Bal l of Yinnesot of t alkin tom ool . ~y an non ~n~e and l ~ ~ f t lik e Green of the A.F.of L., he ofjects to any curb wb tsoever on the o p erations of la or unions. , Every bill no pending, he sa~d~ was desinged to shackle required Labor unions. •LabDr must be punished,• he said, Tben asked: •for what?• And then he cried: What crime have these organizations committed except to perfoar their patriotic duties as Americ ns.• 0ne little point he did concede, that there wa no mor . 1 justification for jurisdictional disputes. But he added that no laws - are needed to do away with them. · So ho coul they be ended? Murray sug e ted:' . • · Get Willie Green down here and ask h im if he is prepared to sit down with Phil Murry of the c.1.0.• An d he continue d : •Let's work out an ag re . ment to s et t le that ri gh t here.• .... -- --- ·- ~ At one point in his testimony, Mur y threw a r eto ic 1 uestion . t Senator Ball, and asked: •was there any mor 1 justific tion for the large profits made b employers? To which Ball replied th the did not xnow. Then Muray ro red out: •That's the trouble, you don't know.• That was the point Phil Yur~ay emp asized most vehemently and dramatically, the profits aade by industry in the last nine yenrs. ! t bas been the C.I.O. line ever since tbe end of the war, the C.I.O unions hammer on in their side of the labor press. C.I~O. dailies ana weeklies are telling their reade s th t industry aims to destroy organized.labo Some of the 1.r. of L. papers are following suit. For instance, the A.F. of L. Union Register declared recently that Congresc was packed with stooges for I••*• bi business. Members of the Senate's Atomic Committee have bad enough of the long drawn out wrangle over David E. Lilenthal. It ha ~ be n goi g on for a month now, and has exhausted the }itience of lawmakn as well as the public. Sen tor Rickenlopper of Iowa, the Chairman, said they would meet tomorro• behind closed doors and make up their ■ inds whether it ia wor.thwH.le bearing any further testimony. They hope to b~ing the matter to tbe floor of the Senate next week. The Rep•blic n Senators are on a peculiar spot, as re the conservative Southerners. They take no stock whatsoever in Mclellar's char es that Lilienthal is a Communist. In fact, they hate to be on the same side a Mciellar in any is ue. 11* At the 1sme time, they do not w nt to confirm the appointments of any more New Dealers to such key positions as Chairm n of tbe Atomic Energy Commission The long delay has had one bad repercussion by closing down something like three un d re uranium mines in tbe est. The Commie ion stopped buying a ny of the metal unti this business of con f irming the a p , ointments of its members is disposed of. So, of course, a lot of miners have been laid off. Senator Brien Uclahon of Connecticut gave lclellar a v e rbal going-over tod~y. Be took h is Tennessee colle aP- ue to task for the amazing state- ment he made the other- d y, his prayer that the attempts at international control or atomic eneTgJ would f a il. Without internati - nal control, said McMahon, ther can be no peace. Bethundered scorn of Mciellar~s attitude, told him that w at be seemed to want is an atomic armament race, which would end in the destruction of A ■ erican institution Mclellar tried to bring up some more evidence about Com m unism, but hew romptl c eked off. This bein g Ash Wednesday, Pope Pius the Twelfth took the occasion to make special appeal to American childr e n in Catholic schools. •save your pennies . and dimes,• he said, •and they will buy tbe bead or medicine th a t il l help to save the life of some less fortunate child.• Re urged the• to keep this up t . rou ; hout Lent, which begins today. The Supreme Pontiff made this appeal in person by short wav e , from the Vatican radio station. Be spoke in English, which was clearly understood, hi ■ addres- lasting for nine ■ inutes. He told the children over here that they have light and beat, and all the books they need to learn tlar lessons well. •when school ia over,• he added, •you put on your w a rm overcoats, wrap us well, and go out to play, ev e n in the snow, because your shoes ana stockings are strong and p rotect you against the cold an ~ the wet.• But, said the head oft e Roman Cat olic Church, children in Eur oe nd the Orient a re in a very dif~erent plight. They . re fallin ~ victims to sickness, t ey ~ re hun g ry, some of them are st~rving, and many of them re goin to die ao very young. 1 They shiver in ■ x the cold,• declared the Pontiff. •Their bodie ~ are tin and worn, ms, have only rag~ to cover their frail bodies, wit no stockings, no shoes.• The Pope ended with an apostolic benediction to the childr~n of Americ, their parents, and their teacher ■• But, said t he h ead of the Roman Catholic Church, childr n in Eu~poe a nd the Orient are in a very different plight. They , re fallin ~ victi m s to sickne ss . they re b u n ry, some of the• are st ~ rving, and many of them a re goin to die 10 very young. •The7 ~biver in ■ x the cold,• declared the Pontiff. ''PheiJ! bodie are thin and worn, ms, h ve only rag~ In cover their frail bodiee, with no stockings, no shoes.• The Pope ended witb an apostolic benediction to the c ' hildren of Americ , tbei:r pa-rents, and their teacher1. In a courtro m t v~nice to N · f , , '3. a71 o .. icer gave testim c ny a inst his former chief, Field Marshal Albert Kes eJrin g . You il remember that KessP.lring bad command in Italy, and it '1 ~e who surrendered the German force to Yield Marsh 1 Alex~nder. The ast t nishing thing about tod~y•s witnesF is that he wa a former batta i c n com ander of the S • . notoriously the most b stial lement in the German Wehrmac~t. He is a t~rity-five year old, rather nice lo kin b lo nde, Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Karppler. in previous trials, his te. timony h elp•d to convict two other German ~eral officers, Colonel Gener 1 von ~acken n ann Lieutenant General Maeltzer, w~o were subordin~tg to es elrin ~ . Karp ler tod~v t ol the British court in Venice how Kesnelrin - ~ad picke out threP hundre and thirty- iv Italians a nd massacre . t ~ em as a reprisal for t~e ki in of forty Nazi soldier in Rome. Hitler's F ield Marsral had a chance to tell pert of is side of the s o~y a lso t o ay. Re did not taae t e ta n d , ut ~t tq ent th e had written ou ot in Nure er and Lon on "ere red into t~e court. Te , zi tro o ps in It yo . er ed strictly within The 9e Conventi n, according to Iesselrin. He clai t A ther~ ere t o roups of psrtisans in It y. The Fir t, e s~i d , er scum, and their leader too. The ~econd, ere just anti- Fascists. However, he ~d ed, it made no diff rence to German soldier ose bu1let kille t . em. Kes 1 elring ur . ed the oint that he had the duty of protecting his own men, parc · icu 1 ~~1y serious problem w~ n de~ling wit p rti ■ ans in guerrila w ri re. The order~ e iscued, s~id he, did not oonstitut P a license fro him to ~is su ordinates to ix com it senseless brut~lity. Be admit e that excesses occurred, but as son a he hear about them he int rfera • Be declared ttat Benito !uscolini wanted ab t t le of ann~i , ~tion in an aroun Rome. Kes ~ elring, h claimed, rejected that, and it ~ e who w s r s o ibl for dee ari r Rome an Open City. The U.S.A. is the land of mil an oney, but sometim~ we Americans ne . d to come up against conditions abroa in order to reci~te our own country. Tat A ~ the ourden of an interview given by Bugh Baillie, President oft e United Pr ss at . Portland, Oreg o n. Be a just be~n traveling the country and he w~s struck by the contrast he h~d sen in turope and Asi l a t year. Said B~il ie: •Try the Britis~ diet for a fe weeks, see how you feel.• He wonders how many of us could get alon g for months on end •1th ut milk, fruit juices, 0 , s, red me~t and other things we now take ae a matter of course. Be wonders bow we could stand livin in dtelli g~ without heat or hot ter, with electric lights bl eked out at fre uent intervlll, •And at that,• says Billie, •the people in Britain are a lot better off than ost of the people of Europe and practical y al o them in Asia.• The trouble the Republic n re vin g o er that cut i n t e bud er h s eco . e one of those now- you-see-it now-y u-don't me ~ • Yesterd 1y t e l••xt Senators vote to make a mode t ~lash of four an a half bi1 ions in Pre i ent Truman's thirty-seven and a half billi naff ir. Todav the Republic n Representatives in conference were un nimous in favor of making it six billions. Owens of Il l inois c led the Senators cow r ly, ands id he hoped t~e Rouse would not go along. Bes id the Senators who want . d the s mller re uction had g iv l n y, as he c lled it, to the blan r ishments of their ~riends mong the Army generals. But Senator Aiken of Vermont w~rned his party that it must deliver the go ~ if it hone to have any luck and elect a pre ~ ident nex t year. BP. s aid s o e 1 e ad in g R e u b 1 i c n s ·,t ere t 1 k i n ir-res on ibly, reposin g :tll to . ~re rP d uction . hich were not w rranted. I t s es to be a foregone conclusi o n that the Senate il l . ot st nd for that six bil i n slas that t . e Hou e Pnts, b C8USe the are convinc ~ it woul i n our n tion 1 efen e. a11ng1:r ____ i Senator Byr of Virgi ia. srdd , could sav t O and a half ijillions bv cuttin t . e number of Uncle Sam's civilian employee from two mil i n two hu dre and eighty thousand to one million six hundred · thousand, and another billion by cutting down t e moneys ap ropriate to the huge corporations oper ted by tbe overnment. Senator Taft of Ohio stands by his guns, a reduction of no more than four and a half bil ~ ions. Represent tive Taber of New Yori, ehairman of a proJriations, insists on six billions. Incidentally, he ridiculed the claims of the 0.P.A. offici ls t~ t t ey, had not enough money left to ration sug rand enforce rent ceilings. Taber said that even if Con res took a ay that 1ine million doll~rs t t ws the Hou~ vot d awa yesterdP.y, O.P.A. 'ClUl s il ave eighteen mil . ion~, w ich would be lenty or them to o their job bet . e r than beofre if they o u davelo -i ittle hon ... . t.y. He ccused the O. P • • t n o tc? i ctu . ~ y io one t, s i t ey RYU~t! ____ l bad more hi h ai g ener ls t~an privat 0 , and tbat their cl a i s · er fiddle-faddle. President Trum~n to y ~ ed t e Con res to repe 1 w r i e emer - ency s, no fe er tan twenty- four of the, hie h d b ~ en iassed at the renuest of President RoosPvelt. He S3id there was no longer any neces ity for the. Furthermore, he hopes to do away with all the emergencies that ori1inated in Nineteen Thirty-Nine and Nineteen Forty-One, as nuickly as possible. Re as tried, he sRys, to free the country of tar controls. But he did ask that twelve of them be continued, :nclu ing the power~ arm our merchant ships in c . se of emergency. He also ou like to av A autharitJ to c o ntinue building special hi~ ays and air stripe for • defense purpose, inc se of need. , .~ I There w sin i 0 n tion in the Bouse today over the re uest of the Chinese overn~ent for ermiaaion to sell Unrra p oo , s on the bl ck ma ket./The proposal was even okayed by Unrra officials, who cl imed that it would help hina in its pr e sent inflation distress./ They didn't call it the black market, but the ! I ! ! u.rket./spckesraen ,,f our own Department of Commerce there wasn't the slightest anorted at that idea, said J!'•x~X$1C~flif~"fff difference./ ) ; I M ~ ~ - x b b d t ~ ~ )1¥Yt#liyt~7M:ks■H Rppresentative Vursell of Illinois came out with bitter criticism of Unrra./He sai such a use of relief goods wou d be a fl & t and impudent defiance of the intentions of Congresu.fhat w s more, he sai that the Congress never intended that used for reconstruction in Unrra funds should be ,.,-t-J/trt~ ny country, ~ r r e lief n •nd rehabilitation. / n - the la m · s ho v ed the 2 Uarra appropri tions never intended the money should be used · to bolster the Chinese dollar./ He said that the good-will Uncle Sam bas created by th~ huge au■• spent for relief in other countries, could be measured with a. eye-dropper, particularly in countries under the Soviet shadow.; • The. ss· r s n · ustri se · zed re t deal of property in vio ation of the Pots am Aoreement~ property 1bich they le ed o be German but which actually Uncle Sam will not reco n · ze t ese seizures.;That'a General~ rk Clar told he conference of deputies of Foreign Ministers in ondon today./ae did not auggeat what Uncle Sam was oin . to do ~out th•seunaccepta\ e aeizures by th~ Soviet military./ Ca k cited an instance of Russian aotion in Austriafhe listed as Ge~man assats the developaent ri hts in l?r e oilfields in Austria. nd many or/-hoae hold.ins, lar~• ones, were actually owned by Briti hand Am<i lean oil com _ i:nies be · ore Bitler rabbed them/ /~~~ f ~~