'fRUIIAJI l.T-19.Q ~ . ~ ~ '!2.. - >--:Z' - President Truman will not do anything about Oeneral _-t,(J-;;,,J,,J- ~ ~ MacArthur -;'named to keynote the Republican Conventton, although he is still on active duty in the Arfly. The Prelldent supports fully - the decision of the Army high 001111.nd, who aay they are "not considering any action. 11 At a White HoUe / news conference today, the reporters raised the q11e■tton of - Keynoter Nadrtlur. They aaked the President, wa■ lt not against A1'IIJ regulations r.or an ott1c•+i aot1Ye datytt talal. part in a political caapatcn? The anawer was - Yea! Didn't the Preaident think that bynott111 at a national convention waa - political? He aa1d - Yea! What••• he gotJw to do ' about it? Nothing} H.S.T. aaid he hadn't even talked to ta A1'IIY about it. What the Pentagon does, is okay with bllll - 1n the case ot MacArthur and the keynote. , , " t i ( he) But, d•anded the reporters, 1sn 1 tl\SIII/\ COlllllll'lder-tn- TRUMAI - 2 Chief•f tll IE t 0 ' Yea, 11 replied the President. But he won 1 t do an, COllll&nd1ng 1n the case ot MacArthur. He objected to being drawn into the dlaauaalon 1n any way - 1ntillat1ng that all he de11rea 1• to keep oat ot 1111 { quarrela ot the Republlcana. That la h11 - keynote. POLITICS The news tells or a scheme for an interesting political maneuver - and, as of now, it ian•t clear how mch there may be in it. The story c011ea from Oovemor McKeldin ot Maryland, who says he was appro,ched with a plan to tol'II a neutral bloc or delegates at the Republioan C01Wentlon. P11rpoae - to awing a balance or power. Oovemor NcKeld1n, hillaelt, control■ twentr-tour Naryland vote• - pledpd to hia aa a tavortte aon. Be -,a * 1cbelle lDYolvea - Pennaylnnta and N1ehipn. In tboae two 1tatea, there are a n•ber ot llftPledged deleptea - NYeaQ-ft 1n all. Add these to Ncleldin'• own twentr-tour llarylaad HMa, and JOU have - ninety-nine. Whioh ■1Bht, very well, n1ftl till nald.nation. The llaryland OoYemor declare■ tbe "balanoe ot ponr• croup waa propoaed by a Pennaylvania political ttaure. Vbo called it - a "haraon, bloc." Well, the O. O. P. certalnlJ c0'1ld uae a bit ot har11ony - with Tart and E~senhower a1.ng1ng such a diacordant, ~~ . ~~ aaur d11et. ~~ J ~ Q • .. ~ ~ ~ l ( J , 1 - - • POLITICS - 2 "4--~ scheme would be to pick the 1trategic 11oaent, votes to Taft, or Eisenhower, or a "dark horse." and throw the This, from the Gpvemor ot Maryland, sent repcrter1 to the oovemor or Pennsylvania, who controls Pennaylftnia • delegates. Oovemor Pine 1ay1 he never heard ot the plan. S~•e reply troa O.O.P. Rational Connltt•e•n Su ertield 1n llichigan. Oovemor Mcie ldln waa queried about Ilia, and NJI Ill auppoaea the "Pennsylvania political ttgure" ad• tbl ..... ~,, with an idea ot conaulttng OoTemor Pine later on. Well, 1t 1 a all a •ten or 1t1rr11111 and ~ltnla, ~ - - a, the battle grows aore ~•••• A bewe•n Taft and 11■-.a••· Both ot whoa were in le• York, today, talking with deleptea1 ~w.ai-4~°'l---t:L,~&.W--~ ~ ~ -'~Q.ar· COIITROLS The Senate tia1 extended Wage, Price and Rent control■ until March Ptrat or next year. The White Houae aaked t • a two year extension. BUt the Senate rejected that - yottq the controls tor another eight and a halt ■ontha. BAS . F.S . Plinda tor "secret" air bases were voted 1n Conpaea1 today - the Rouse okaying an appropriation or ■ore tllan two billion, seven hundred and :tttty million dollar.. IIODiJ tor SOiie two hundred and titty baeea 1n ti1a countr, and abroad. SOiie are - out tn publto. But a lot aore thin a billion goes to "secret" eentera ot Allerlcan atr power. lloat ot tbeae - over••••· The appropriation ataha outrllbt *' the purpoae 11 - to tie tn a poaltton to "aaQll'ate• an ••>s wtth at•to bal»a, 1:t at0111c war 1hou.lcl lfwlt -.t oat. BIO POUR The state Department wams Prance and Britain - against jwaping at the Noacow propoaal tor a Pour Power Conference. Today Secretary ot S~te Dean AcheaOll 1tated tllil to the Prench and Britiah Allbaaaador1 in wa1h1111ton • .. ~1111111 - that the Sov1eta have diaplayed no •1.ln at allot being willing-. to go into negotiattona that would •an an-,tht.na. The chief point being - me d•ooratio eleet1_. in Baatem aeraan,, tbl SOY1et zone,•• a condition tor Clefnsa unitJ. TM State Departaent 1a pictured•• beiq diaconcerted - by Prance. In Parta, the oovel'llllnt inatraetet Porelcil 111nt1'4lr SchllMn to prea1 tor an early -t1111 of tlll Bil Pour. Why Prance ahould bec0111 auddenl,J 10 eapr aboat 1t - a,1tttte1 Waah1Qlton. The British are aa1d to . tayor a oonterence, but unly on a ■inor diplomatic level ot tbl Big Pour - to aee i t Moscow •ana buatne■■,., ~ - propaganda. I ~ W11~•· .,~. ,. .. _ I ""7 7 l&tlst , a1._,,e---,.1,t119 • e011Ce»1••• !t k1I: II•••• ,1a QI IIIDIA At New Delhi, capital or India, a atateaent ot torelgn policy, that •1 well be or world illportance. PM.Ill Nln11ter lehru - declaring hia country neutral. If a third world war ahould o011e, India would 1ta1 out. All along, in the Cold Var, ' lehru 1 1 goy•n IIDt 1111 retuaed cooperation with the Weit - t171nl to tab a ■lcldle 1tand between the tree world and ' Co ant•. Whlob poller, • • orltlclzed, NOCIMI IION to11111l than ner - with lebru 1 1 deolaratlon to the Parliulent ot India today. He not only deolarea neutrality, ahould war eae, but oalla on other counttl•• ot Aala, to do llkftlae. How a tree nation oan atay neutral wltb &UN■■ l•• world Cc ant• - that, ot oourae, l■trqueatlon. Bllt India baa a •taphy11cal . . , of tht.nklng - ud I IUppGH Pandit ...... can 10 into a trance, and aee an occult v111on: - India and o\blr Ml• nations or Asta, safeguarding the■aelvea aptnat Scwiet " \ - - ,,y_e•i:e ,. expansion by aaflna~ 'ftl~Aneutral. KOREA - TRUCE There's a tlare-up on the warfront in Korea. Which ra1aea an instant aurm1ae that it ■1.ght mean - the beg1nn1q ot the ■1111on men ottenaive the Reda have been tbreaten1111. Violent fighting developed in three centen. Int. Weat, above Seoul. pong the old "Iron Triangle", central .) tront. Artd - further to the Baat. Rad 1ntant17 aurpd •tm I attack - only to be beaten be.ct with ••er, weapon at oar cca rnd - tanka, artillery, tlule-tbronra, air pGNr. u.1. 0 c011Dter-attaoka thN■t forward, dr1Ylftl •NP• into Ct •nt.11 line■• KOREA - PRISONERS In Washington, word that there'll be awirt aot1on - inviting a team or "neutral" military obaerYera, • look ner the priaon camps 1n KoNa. tnveattpte Red propaganda eharpa • ,, that captives have been ■1atreated. The 1ugge1t1on na ad• bJ Senator Ru11ell or Georgia, Chair-.n or the Al'Md S.n1oea Coa■1ttee ot the Senate. He naad India, Paldatan, and Indone11a aa countrie1 to •ke a "ne11tNl" 1napect1•. PN11dent Trmlan okaJed the plan, and added Sweden allll swttzerland to the 11st. SecNtar, ot Detenae Roben Lan,t ha1 the ta11c ot trying to •ke arranpMllta. report, on · pr11onere 110Yed tl'Olll the big c_.,.,._,, to - l l e r enelo1111'81. He aa11 tbe,tre under "Wlconteated control.• Which rilla the order troll Supreae u.1. C«-nder General Nark Clark, and echoes h1a worda. Clarie telling ttw priaon COlll8nder to gain "11DConteated control" ot the Red capt1•••• • At laat reports, American troops wn-e ready to clean out another "tough" prison c011pound - lfuaber Sixty-Six. A la\e bulletiD froa lorea •t•t•• that the laerioaa Eaba••1 deaaada an ezplanatioa - fro ■ \be Sou\h loreu ~~••ident, s1n1■aa Rh••• l•o•••• he 1•••4 an order banal•• b•oa4oa1t1 of the Yoioe of l■erloa. I• olal• \be •woioe• 1••• •• ••f••••••1• - plo\ve of bl• qaarrel wl\b the loath Iona Parll•••• lo - ■1•1■u · ~~~1■ poopl~ 11■\oa \0 I ,,Ji:.,,,_A l■erl•u bJtOa4oa1t1. 8oua4•~\otalitarlaa - ••• " • lalte4 It•\•• ••••••1 •••••4• an ezplanatioa. CARDIIAL Ba•artan In the~? l • "city or Munich tQday, Imp crwd1 .J.,, were out, with a great religion procession, for the Peaat ot " Corpus Christi - a favorite Holy Day tn South Gel'lllln,, )'Mn, the pwb gNat bell or the Prauenkirc}:len Cathedral bepn to toll. The aourntul tolling or the bell rang out tor tlRNII on ■1nute1, and the crowdsftCorpua Chr1.at1 tnew whit it••••'• It had been expected -the death ot Cardinal PuJ••r, HO 1tood a hl1tortoal ttpre ln Oei:aiv, dlU"ln& ~ ot ~ €a..Adzai~ ~ , Hitler. 1 ~ • • • • • • • l In•, aallA• I'll•• I •► . , . . , • • • • .,,_., 8111, • • • 1 r• • •••• Cnetl•I rat, he tried to •nan ace~ odation, • but soon becw an outapoken antagonist ot the lazi regtae. Alll'II•• 1J11Jp ... uai*i•l•t ■a tr I J ::ly~wwlll lave ,,en Ma awn 11111 •, _ A __ .. _ ... , _ . - . , P-11t~he 1azi1 never •entn-d to --,t A. - • • C ••~tn • ._.v a£-&~ " " ' - ~ •111 81t1•1.a1 -•••-•• cf I w■la. LaPAYETTE ♦ I Georgetown, South C rolina, 1.a coaeaorating an •••nt or one hundred and aeventy-fi•e year, ago - when a youth ot nineteen landed on a nearby shore. A MN boJ, but hi• arnnl in the In World had an ialenae ettect on Allerican deatliw - LaPa,yet te • H1Btory2l• hCM the young !'renoh lluquil - - A- ~.,.., enthua1aat1c abou~llberty 1- the • • World - and Ht •1\ wt.Ill a party ot coape.niona. Bound tor Charleston.- but tbeJ RN afraid Cbarleet«tan been oaptuNd bJ the -Bf1.U~,,.SO 1111a ■hip aalled along to an obacure aection ot the South CU-011.na coaat, and cast anchor ott lorth Inlet. - There the nineteen rear old lluq~1• de r.,a,_tu went ashore in a boat, aco011panied by a Gel'IIIIII aoldler ot tortunej~other taaoua 1111118 in Aartcan hiator, - Biron de xa1b. •• r ia1111~tf,{1111de their way to the plantatiCII of NaJor Benjaain Huger - who entertained them, and bitlped tblll on their way to the Aaer1can Army. LaJPAYETTB - 2 " ~~ ~ fhey joined Waah1ngton; and history tell• half , LaF a yette played a great part 1n the winning of Allerlcan 1ndependenoe. So now hie landing on the south Caroll• ooaat, one hundred and aeventy-t1Ye yeara : ago, 11 belftl oeleltftled - with an 1aa11e ot r.1'a,ette atupa, and a papant at 1,.,....., 5 ~ e ~ . 0 • le ha•• a belate4 report of a riot of ■arlae - corp• pri1on e ra at Ca ■ p P-•4letoa, Calitonla. - Leatblnect• in the 1••r4 boa•• •••ton a ra■p•1• -;J-wa. . . laat Taea4•J·•· but onl7 reDbr\e4 . oUlalalJ, ,) ,( Tb• Sa . Die10 Tribune Drlate4 aa aocoaat, •bl•~•- la contirae4, bJ lariae Corp• ottiolal■• ''• oa••• oi tile troable ••• -- a caao,llati t n of prlwll•I ... free-tor-all that it r.eqalre4 ■ lllta17 polio••· •I• I ROBBERS New York, today, had one ot the ■oat a•z1ng robber1• on record. Three bandits took OYer a hotel, and ran it tor three houra. carrying on - hotel busineaa as uaual. Bzcept - #"they held up the gue■ta! The maeraon 11 one ot the ••ller botela - attaatil on Seventy-Pitth street, Juat ott Broadway. Thia aomlal, 1111 robbera nllted in, and, at aun-potnt, forced the alert to lie down 1n an adJo1n1ng l'OOII. Then tbey lllugpd the elnator runner, and dragged b11i DIii into the l'OOII. After which - till t.._ bandlta ran the hotel. One, operating tbl elnatar. - - Another - ott1e1.atinl at the n1tchboard, aMNrilll oalla. '!bare were three tundred au••t• 1n the hotel - ad one, then another, rang tor the elnator. Which reapanded, taklng gue■tl dOIIII to the lobby. llhe➔he:, . . . . held llP, robbed, and •de to lie on the floor ot that adjoining l'OCII. A total ot - twenty-tour, in addition to the two eaployN■• And 1- torced to take ott their trou1er1/ Tbat 11, the •n ..... - There were two wC11en among the prlacnera tn the room. ROBBBRS - 2 Thia went on tor three hours, unttl ti. robtiera colletted about t1ve thousand dollare - am thin tled. A11a2;1ng - the bandits who ran a Rew York hotel. ~ T At Loa Angele ■, a toraer convict 1a under ar.re■t - al! beoauae or a taa111ar happening in a d011e1t1c battle. 'rhe neighbors reported - gunttre. Pl'Gli an apart•••• the solllld or - pistol. shots. Bang, bang_{ ¢•badJ flAU'daed!u asat, The oops went to tbe apilrtlllnt, Ir.at tOliild no ■till ot lllll'der. J11at a bliaNnd and wtte, wno bad INten ••1-1 a q_.,.ll. with a al• tng or doora. You mow - wlt1e ¥.• Mr - , , w - - - -- - i;l _--J ~ec I •llm into tne DedrOCII, a1■ Ltbe door. HIib- • l b Oil' - FJ A • , • aim the cioor. So •tolent, in ~111■ caN, tbi •:111>1•■ '!lie oopa toulid ,he nuaband •• an ex-comtot vtolattng ~0:11. So tonight btt 1 a under arreat - all beoUN ot a ela•ing ot doors. '7./ ROBBBR! Proa Weit Pal■ Blach, Plortda, a ■ tor, ot - a la4J robber. Who - • t her waterloo. That old expre111on t1 aoat ,,) appropriate. She'• a twenty-tlYe year old brunette trOiil Tewa ... good loottng. who drwe . to a tillllll •tatton, pt Olll, - - - / .. I /ftr a p11tol. at tba attendant, and 1&1d: · "llan4• 11pJ" A So, 1natead ot "halide up•• it wa1 -,.oa• up... Be 1b0t • • IMIIJU'Jn& / 1treu ot •ter 1n tbe 1manette•1 taoe. am pr11ee1 ad burbled - and toand beraeJ.t on the way to 3a11. ..... So that•• bow the lady robber - • t hlr waterloo. A,