Did you hear General tisenhower make that apt re ■ ark this evening? About there being as ■ uch water in lanaas this evening as there was in the ~ngliab Channel on D-Day? Yea, it was sure wet in Abilene, 1anaaa - raining on be parade and then drenchiag General Ike's aadre11 at the etadiua. But be ■ tact it out - hareheaded and wearing a raiD coat. Eoar tboa■ .. 4 fi•• hundred people braved the dowDpoar - to hear the speech. The addr••• ••• ia a high Tein of eloqueace, callta1 for patriotic unity. Th• General pJanged into doaeatie political i11ae1, decrying - inflation, exceaal•• taza- tioa and bureaucracy. Bacter1 of Senator Taft callta1 for - aore detail,. They say it was all - general1t1••• Senator lefauTer who is in the lead on the Deaocratic side, i ■aediately de■andAd equal radio aad televiaion tiae - to answer the General. EQlJll~§ 0• So th Dakota p rimar y is being deecribe4 in ter ■ a of a horse-race - a photo finiab. returns would seem to ahow Senator Taft the by a nose. All through the count, . they ran neck ., and neck - Taft and n:) Tb: la teat f igurea _!bow Taft, aixty-four thousand~ hundred and ......... " ~ llaenhower, aixty-three thouwand, •t ■ hundred and - ~ Taft ahead - by"#J tbundre4 an4 q, /~ A W 1 fl Only ,_..,_.,_o preacincta re ■ ain to be ,< heard fro ■, and it see ■• unlikely that iiaenhower can ■ ate up the deficit - eYen though it'• only a few hindre4. There'• talk of recan•aaaing the Yote, with 10■• poaalbility of a re•eraal - aa can be the caae, when a vote i• that cloae. The pri ■ ary ca■ palgn ••• one of the blttere1\ on record - and, when it i• all oYer, we find public opinion diYided alaoat evenly. Which waa reflected, in a way today, by South Dakota Senator Carl Mundt. A Republican, who kept •hande ott• the primary battle. lhen be notid,be figures, the Senator eaid: •south Dakota'• anawer to the nation'• nu ■ber one queation ta clear - Bob and Ike they look alike.• FOLLOW SOUTH DAKOTA (0n the Democratic side, Senator Kefauver of Tenneaae ran away with eight convention votes - South Dakota having tha -.ny) Or rather - that few. In C a lifornia, Kefauver tabs a btuer block - sixty-eight. IU He no ~ has a national total of nearly three hundred - nearly half or the total needed tor the Democratic n0111nat1on in Chicago. CALIPORNIA The final count from th e C a liforni a primary is 1n - without exciting much interest. From the very first retums, it was a runaway for oovemor Warren and senator Jtetaner. Each waa oppoaed by a slate or delegates favoring a candidate, who wa really no can~tdate at all, just astop-gap. SO 1t•a more than two to one for Warren - giving him the Republican delegation. Same lopsided majority for Kefauver - taking • the C811forn1a delegation on the Democratic side. SBIA'rl - RD'l' The Senate votes to end ren; controls - tbeae to expire March First or next year. The vote, torty-et.ght to thirty-four - to abolish the ceiling on renta, along with wage and price controls. All to come to an end - 1prlq ot next year. • VICE•P~IDENT ews from Washington - the Vice- reaiden vote today. News, indeed - th Vice-Preaident casting a vote only in case of a tie in he Senate. Which happened for the first time 1n the present session. The question - whether to retain tho present Wage Stab111zatlon Board, or to abolieh it. The Senate voted forty-one to forty-one. Whereupon, Vice-President Barkley broke the tie, by voting to retain the Board - though its power will be curbed. • STEEL In the steel strike, representatives or the C0111panie1 and the Union are to meet at the White House tomorrow. Talks. arranged by President Truman. They'll try for a settle118nt ot the walkout, which is having nationwide repercussions. Today, a aeries of railroads announced layotrs, employees thrown out ot jobs, because of a growing shortage of steel. Senator Maybank In Congress, meanwhile, ~:nas introduced legislation ot a broad scope - to deal with strikes that create a national His plan would eaergency. ~ a t uf) a ' bDe.rd, which would tmpoae a ~--•-••••i•■wta, "no strike, no lock-out" ban, while teccaaendati0n8 in a labor dispute are prepared. should , . ~reject the rec01111endations, the President would be authorised to seize the industry. Which would be in conformance with the SuprAme Court decision - finding the steel seizure unconstitutional, because not authorized by Cong~ess. Today, SeMtor Taft of hio stated that this new proposal 1s more severe, tougher, than the Taft-H rtley Law - against which the nions com l a in so much. aa1e11•, ••rtl Caroltaa, 11&4 a prt ■•• rebellloa ,h1 ■ at,eraeoa. ••'ti••••• ••l•llr -- •lib oeaoe ■■ lou. Oae bu4rea flflJ ••••tole pa,_. llr•• 1ur4■ ........ OlY1ll&a ·••l•r••·· ... ••1• , ••• •&I ho1ta1••· fheJ . . . . . , . , , . , , •• G&plala of Ile 1r1 ■ oa part■ be ••■ ,-aua - •••••laa •ta ef ,,a1a11,,. t•• nr••• aar••• - Ul4 ••• r•••ll ••• •••r- lb• prt■ oaer ■ re1ea■ t n 1 ,lelr •••••1••• KOH&A 0,her was Action at those KoJe Island rieon camps todo/ and p1tiful discovery was made. All ending happily, however, for seventeen int nded victims of tbe Red fanatioe. Their lives were saved. in uas masks, amed with flame-throwers and dominated by Communists. tear gas, pushed into Id compounds~ Their purposa, to tear down t . Red flags and propaganda banners. Which they did. Communist Tum1ng flame-throwers on e11blems,1ixldl•xlda1 burning these out. Also - shooting fiery streams into special tents, Witla ~ furnishings and equ1pment,the Red bosses had used as " headquarters fo~ Coanun1st command 1n the prison c011pound1. The soldiers round a tent, and 1n it were sevente6D prisoners, th ir hands bound at the wrist. They were awaiting death, having been sentenced by the Red "kangaroo courts"~ which ha1itbeen inflicting terror on anti-Communist prisoners. At least one hundred arid fifteen re lmown to h ve been m rdered, aJlll on order from the kangaroo cour~ . o. The seventeen discovered today, bud led in t e rror - e n· aft~r .. thetr KORBA - 2 bonds were cut, 'lhey were still ar r 1d of the Commun_sts. They were rescu d, a nd five Red "conmissars" were taken out of the compounds - charg ed with defiance of prison camp discipline. (Dll91ng all this, the Red oapt1res gave no Blan of , resistance - looking on meekly) AlthOIJ&h, wita d,eiaive ~ion - . .- PRANCE Tody was the day ~or the big Red agitation in France - strikes, disturbance. But the chief episode that it produced has a peculiar look. A Communist gang seized the Renault automobile plant in Paris - one of the greatest industrial centers in France. Then, abandoned 1t - .... ~ .. without any sign of trouble. {::- c01111111nist Party had ordered a natiOlllfide prote1t against the arrest of Jacque · s Duclos, chief or Connuniaa in Prance - who is being held for trial, charged with direct Red riot■ list week) Dangerous violence waa threat81114 at tirat, but 'lt soon became evident that the Red roroea w011ld not be able to atir up aa 1111ch trouble• as they wanted. (ToiD.y, the deaonatration tizz led out, workers be lon&inl to the Red unions showing little sign of wanting to stage en outbreak.) Such was the general picture, but it l~oked tar otherwise at the great Renault plant. There events assume~ aspect- revolutionary R- when a strong arm gang of the Reds FRAICE - 2 invaded the Renault plant, and seized cpntrol. They drove out officials, manhandled non-Communist workers, and bluffed the rest or the plant employees into submission. Outside the auto factory, meanwhile, mob of several thousand Red ayapathizera were mobilized - to back up the se1zure.'1orcea ot po~ioe (nearby, were,A, -~••••-•~ and you'd have though~ a battle would have 0 developed. ' C " t I t • But the police did nothing • Md8 no IIOV8 aaainlt the C011Wini1t invaders. The whole thing having a look - peculiarly Prenoh. The Reda were in control most ot the day, and then moved out - evaouating the plant of their own acoord. • • • Everything peaceful, the COIIIIUnists merely vanishing. Hard to figure it out - but 1t would seem that the Red high cc:all.llll wanted to make a show ot torce. Taking over one of the great industrial plants - as a gesture. Then, that being that, they called it a day. ,i,u,- ~pically French• or something. In the legal proceedings against Duclos, the PIWICB - 3 imprisoned Comnun1.st leader won a minor point today. When he was arrested, directing rtots, the police found two dead pt.geona 1n the trunk at the bark or his automobile. The gues1 waa that they were homing pigeons - which had been intended to oarr, comuntat meaaagea. But today a conaittee or experts on pipona teat1tied - that they were Just ordinary btrda, not the h0111ng kind. Still, 1t remains a mystery - what ,bl Reel leader • • doing with two dead pigeon■ 1n h1a car. • • BBRLII At Berlin, in the tense condition of artairs, shots rang out today. Two fus"' . llades - one in the American, another in the French, sector. A a.I. was wounded, when Russian soldiers fired Across the boundary line between Bait and West. The soldier - an M.P. in a jeep. Hit by a bjllet - but auttering only a slight wound in the arm. In the French sector, nobody was hit at all - when Scwiet soldiers tired on a party or Weatem sector police. Nothing serious, by way ot •terlal d••1~, but shooting is always dau.geroua in a 11tate of tension,•• tn Berlin right now. Allied authorities are making a vigorous protest - complaining about the trlger-happy Reda. (The kingdom of Jordan went under rule of 1 regency today. The decision waa to naae a three- ■ aD council, exerciaing royal power in place of ling Talal who · ia at a clinic in Paris, afflicted with a ■ ental v.) would have aalad1/ Another alternativ•A-~b••n to replace bi■ on the throne, and make hia youthful aon the kina. But the regency plan pr•Yailed - eYen though it••• 4ifficult, theoretically. Accordin1 to the Conati ution of the lln14o ■ of Jordan, a regency council could be naae4 - but oDlJ by the 1101. And - Talll••• in no ■ental atate to take any aucb action. The aolution ••• - hia Mini1ter1 actin1 for hia. So today the Cabinet iaaued a reaeno, decree. loyal authority •ill be exercised by• oouaoil of three. On• - Suliaan Bey Toukan, heretofore the liniater of Defenae. The ne•• diapatch doea not n••• the other two. BIRTHDAY Th · g new in L n n , t o y , w· - th ue e n 1 s Birthda L st. onferr ng onors - pee ag , kn ghthood . Th e first birthday 1s t o f the nei sover b ll, l zabe th the Se cond, and f if ty-thl.''ee names a re on 1 t . Sir Basil Brooke, Prime Minister of North I re land, goes into the House of L ords as a iscount. The same - for Sir Alfred Duff ~ooper, lon a top ranking political figure. An assistant to General Ei senhower, Brigadier James Frederick Gault, is knighted - Sir James. So 1s, a tug boat Captain~ as might sound odd. But he ts Captain Dan Parker, who took a salvage tug to the aid of nstay Put'' Carlsen - the American skipper who stuck to his capsizing ship in that headline episode of the sea, several months ago. The feminine equivalent of knighthood 1s bestowed .... on the widow of E rnest Bevin, Foreign Secretary for the Labor Party. Mrs. Florence Anne Bevin - made a Dame of the British Empire. Now Dame Bevin. - 2 Th re•. o n n me on th list of onors ht I myself sk er - knighte d . rnold Lunn - long fin most 1nterest1 . UnDWlxiiHJQRXJOOmxoc~uJXD,imn romin n KJd.ptx:xxbxb x axuiixk:IUDr~ in the re lm of the snows. Knight ed for what the news dispatch c alls - "his services to sk ii ng and to British-Swiss relations. '' Reminding us there's mighty little skiing in England, wit ~ its iack of tall mountains. The British go to Switzerland, where they flock every year - an~h1s Her Majesty recognizes as a tie between the two countries. Similar honor is bestowed - on the trainer of the ueen 1 s horses. The Master of the Royal Stables is Captain Cecil Charles Boyd Rockfort - now Str Cecil. The Knight on Horseback follows the Knight on Skies - and long live the ueen. - - - -.-- · ---- . ..... --- ~ - . .... .......... lESE GIRLS Toro n t o, n nt erna t o n n t e f i r is on, a n one ex hib t is f r om - J a pan. h J pan se irls on duty - standi around , loo ki ng cut intr a tional Japanese costume. That is, until tod a y, whe n t ey appeared - in Am eric a n clothes, l a test fashion. A n e xplan a tion is iven by nineteen year old Lorraine T aka ta. Who says: " Those getas were killing me." ounds like th a t familiar moan of American women: "These shoes are killing me." Same ide a - ge t a being Japanese for sandal, the footwear of ~apan. So, at the Toronto trade fair, the Japanese girls are standing around on four inch French heels. The ne,:t thing, ~ r t h e ~ be saying, "These shoes are kill i ng me." LTP.1952.06.04i.pdf LTP.1952.06.04ii.pdf