L.T. SUNOCO A P ~ FR I D AY 6 ---~-----~---~ -------~- ~ --~----- EC . o19 - - - - - L - - - - - ---L--.1.!:t-.!. The London Conf e rence on Indi a ac fa iled. That's defi i t nd final. A late bul etin London ton· ht tel l F' us that the conference as At no point succes -- int e Lo . don g et-toe r of the British and the Leaders fro India. Yini~ter Attlee Vicer y Viscount W . v e ll did their best in tryin g 1b bring about som e kind of agree . ent between the Hindu represented by ••-•■■Hxlttx.tt••• ' kZ Jawaharal Rehru and t e Moslems re re ~e nte d b Motammed Ali Jinnah. The result, nothing. The fuerl betwe r n Bindu and Yoslllll as ra ati by t e continu i ng loody cla sh es in Indi -- w s to b it t er. Ho in g a a.inst hope, Pri . e Minister Attlee conferr~ d with the Indian Le e r once A g a in tonight -- in f i na l me ti n • Onlv q i i r . cle coul ve accom e any 1n and the ne" ives no re ort of mir cl~ tonight. The news from China is dark. The Chinese Comaunists today turned down all idea of further nego~i tio~ Thia...,. in answer to American A■b■aaador General Marshall, who recently queried the Chinese Reda with a suggestion of further A ■erican aediation. The answer is - no. The Chinese Coa■ unists will have no part of the lational Asseabl7 that is adopting a conatitutioa tor China. Tuy won't aa~ee to a single national ara7 - the7 insist on keepin& their own Red Aray. And now the7 decline any further negotiation - and China ••••• in for a CiTil lar to the fini1h. ATOM!Q_ German prisoner of war has arrived in Stockholm - to receive a , · obel Prize. He is Professor Otto Bahn, faaed for his discoveries in atoaic science. The s t o * s been••••• told how Professor Bahn, one o the top physicists of Nazi Germany, aade experimental discoveries that played a large part in the develop ■en x■ or the atomic boa'!. over here. An Anti-lazi Aasi1tant of the Professor, a woaan scientiet, conveyed the knowledge to the Allied side. In Nineteen Forty-Four••~•• Bahn was awarlel the Nobel Prize for Cheaistry - but, because of the war, could not reoeiYe tt. Since the end of the European conflict, he has been continuiRg his researches - in the British Zone of Occupied Germany, his status being that of Prisoner of lar. Now he has gone to Stockholm, to be awarded his Nobel Prize of two years ago. He is accom p anied by a British Brigadier - guarding the prisoner of war. Today, Professor Hahn, so high in atoaic research, made statements in that a aatter about which all ATOUJC - 2 the world is wonderin g - Soviet Ato ■ ic Research. He tell• of the Soviets enlisting the aid of German science_ enlisting being a mild word. The Professor has consistently refused to go to Berlin. He tells ot ho• two of ~is assistants •with so ■e knowledge of uraniu■•, as the Professor says, :aar went to Berlin and •diaappea ~ eastward.• The Professor does not . want to disappear • eaatward. He sa71 that the nu■ber one Soyiet Atoaic Scientist ia Professor Peter Iapitza, about who ■••'•• heard. He adds that, since the end ot the war, Prot•••or Iapitza, has been assisted by two fore ■ ost German acientists - Professor Max lol■an and Prote11or i••••• Guatay Hertz, the latter of who ■ won the Robel Prize tor physics in Nineteen Tbirty-FiMe. So bow far baye the S6viets adyanced toward the ato ■ ic bomb? Professor Bahn said toda7 that it will be some years before Soviet science catches up with the Aaericans in tonic development. He put it in *b~x these words: •some years ago the Russians were only half as AIQMIC - 3 far adTanced as the A ■ ericans.• To which be adds it will be so ■ e yearo before they'll be able to••••• aatch o•r present ato ■ ic experiments over here. le wonder - how long is soae time, or soae years? HEROES - It seems a little l a te to hear about ■ ilitary dec o rations at the White House - it sounds like wartiae come back again. And it is late - the medals long overdue. 'V 1 Today President Truman presented the laraeat number of decorations ever granted to one ■ an on a aingle occasion, seven in all. In one ■ ass-award Technical Sergeant Llewelyn Chilson ot Berwyn, Pennsylvania, wa1 g iven the distin g uished service cross with two clua\er1, the Silver Star with one cluster, the Legion of lerit, . and the Bronze Star. ~ llwa . . ••zA earned in the luropeaa lar, which has been oYer a year and a half. So why \be delay? Why has the Ar ■y bfe n 10 long in granting due honor to Sergeant Chilson? T h e answer only adds to the Sergeant'• distinguished record. The accounts of his exploit• in · battle were so fabulous, a bard to believe, that the Army took eighteen months to investigate - and be sure they really happened. • l Here's one typical thing to illustrate. At the town of Meilenholen, in Germany, Sergeant Chilson drove a jeep right into a Ger ■ an artillery position. All he had in his jeep was a machine gun, and here's what the citation eaya: •ae personal y knocked out two flack guns, one eighty-eight milli ■eter gun, rendered · another eighty-eight useless by knocking out its crew, and killed approxiaately forty rltleaen.• , it was batdlf to be believ . . , and you ~~ aray for taking a,_,..,,..._ ~ to Yea, can't bla ■• the ■ake sure of a atring of exploit• lite that. So today, at long laat, Preaident Truaan preaented to Ser1eant Chilson the lar1eat nu■ber of -~a...,....~- decoration• •••r bestowed on one ■an at one ti ■•• ,._ In addition to which, be likewise decorated a sky fighter, Lieutenant Jetferaon DeBlanc of Martinsville, Penna, an Air Ace of the Marine Corps, who flew and fought in the Pacific. Still another deco~ation is being presented - and, as for lon delay, listen to this. It aust be a • • -· I ,. j l I EROES - 3 record for a fellow waiting it out before being grante4 a ailitary honor. On Monday Charle• W indolph of Lea4, South Dakota, will be awarded the Purple Heart. Monday is Charlie's birthday - his ninety-fifth. Be's the olde1\ .. liYing holder of the Congreaaional Uedal of la■z Honor - and now the Purple aeart ia added. Charlie earned it - at Custer'• laat stand. In Eighteen Seyenty-Six, Charlie••• woaade4 during the battle ot the Little Big Horn, that legende4 encounter in which Custer and hia band were wiped out,, a,___._ ~A,.) .. . - . ~ t~ w.it~- th• Indian Fore•• of Sittin1 Bull. 1,-.., 1P, a lona ti•• to wait for a Purple heart earned in Custer'• last Stan4. During the recent meat shortage we were al a l ittle confused I guess. And som e eo l e haven't recovered yet. In Chicago, today, a married couple attended the intern a tional livestock expos · tion. They knew what they wanted -- meat. The met shortage was fresh in their minds when the couple caae to a spot where an auctioneer was taking bids on the carcasses of six choice hogs. "Ah" said they. "That's for us." The bidding began. •Twenty five centa•! One faraer aaid. The husband looked at his wife. Aaaze~ they agreed they never before had run into any such ~. bargain as that. "I'll bid fifty cents" said the husband. You can guess the rest. Yes, the bidding went ' on and on, until saa■ finally the husband won all six hogs with a bid of five dollars. Whereupon the auctioneer gave him the bad news: "That wil be two , UC T 1u1 - ------ thous a nd-t o-hun r e - a nd forty-••• eight do dr&!" Aaid the rtuctione e r. At which the husband and ife near l y fainted. They sa■ A thought they'd been buying th e whole hog, instead of which the bidding was by the p ound. Informed of their plight, the auction- manager called it no sale, and ordered that part of the auction held over again. So the couple, much chastened and much chagrined, went away fro ■ there - without the prize hogs, but lucky at that.They c~ l d have been twenty- five hundre4 dollars J••••~ poorer. I~ loo s as if there will be a Supreme Court decision in the coal strike next week. Today, the Circuit Court of appeals gave permission to take the case ~ irectly to the highest tribunal. And that cleared t~e way for a p rompt and final verdict handed down by the Supreme Court. ? e nor• course 71d have been fo L. L~,-{• and t United M~ Workers to•~ eal the , / by J~1e Goldsborough - first, to , the Court, /4n d then to go how Yer, asked raiaaion to / the Circuit.,.Court, and the ,/ conaent•~· The idea ia C rcuit Court 1.l..S, get •~Supre11e aa i•ickly aa poaaibl. Both aides I / the aovernment and , the Lewie Dnidn. deciaion speed - botli The e I . Court . ill bold a regular weetly conference tomorrow, a conference in which the Juatice'arrange their schedule for the coming week - and the presumption is that tomorrow they'll arrange to consider the coa l mine c a se next week. Today, John L. Lewis and the Miners Union oated bonds to cover the fines inflicted on the ■ for contempt of court. The union put up three-and-a-half million dollars in government securities, Lewis ten thousand dollars in cash. These sums were deposited with Judge Goldsborough who, accepting the security - signed an order to delay the collection of the finea until The Supreae Court baa bad ita - final a.ay. The huge auaa of aone7 posted toda7 aa7 be only a part of the matter - if the Supreae Coart abo•l4 uphold tbe Yerdict of oonteapt aiainst L1wi1 aad the United line Worker,. Judge Goldsborough baa continue4 the injunction - which aeana that further fin•• could •1xt be levied against Lewis and the Dnio"'1,.,-if they continued their defiance of the injunction. L ewie could be fined another ten thousand dollars, and the union could be penalized with a further fine of two-hundred• and-fifty-thouaand dollars for each day the •**k• strike continues. n_, ~~~, ~That would threaten the union with complete.,.. A l ......___ The Government seeaa deterained to puab tile fight to that bitter end - if poaaible. There's no aign in iaahin1ton tbat Pr~aident Truman i1 teapted to conaider any co ■proaiae - aucb aa tbat propoaed b7 Preaident Green of the Aaerican rederation of Labor, wbo baa 1u11••t•d a kind of ••-*J••**•• arbitration. Toda7 a federal apokeaaan aaid •There will be no turning back~ le are told that in the course of the Lewi• trial before Judge Goldaborough, the union ■ade an x ■ offer of a compromise - but this waa turned down b7 the government. We recall how, during the trial that resulted in the imposition of the gigantic fines, Judge Go l dsborough held a stormy conference with the lawyers on both sides. There were hints at the time that A proposa l s for tas settlement of the sttike were put forwaad;- and td!_aj, today was confirmed by Republican Senator Capehart of Indiana, who says he has the ator7 on reliable information. Senator Capeh a rt states that John L. L ewis, in a written aeaorandua, propoaed that Judie Goldsborough delay the sentence for twenty•four houra - ao as to give L ewis ti ■ e to start neaotiatioa• to end the strike. These negotiatlons, in the word• of Senator Capehart today, ••o~ld have resulted in the co ■plete and aatiafactory aettle■ent of the whole contro•eray.• But, adds the Senator, •this reque1t ••• turned down by Government attorneys.• Today, there were new government ■easarea to take the nation through a long strike - a fight to the bitter end. The solid fuels administrator forbade firaa - - - ,aiapplyin g electricity, to use or dispose of any coal in excess of a a sixty day su ppl y. Any concern p roducing elect ric ity is ord e red to ho ld a l co ~l th a t it ma y have above a sixty da y sup p y - this to be distributed under government direction to pl ces where it may be needed urgently. We are told that during the twelve days of the strike thus far, the nation has uaed up one-fourth of its e ■ ergency atocka of soft coal. However, the rate of consu ■ ption has been slowed down by govern■ eot restrictions - and, with new federal curtail ■ents ,~at ..,. being iapoeed.-t~ere ia angough ••ft o.w to laat the country for fifty--.f'ive days. This ia accoapanied by more tidings of indua cutting down its operations, and of new thousands ot alone people thrown out of work. In the ateel induatry~ai■aa, a-hundred-and.-1.en thousand workers ar~ idle~ because of the alik strike. The support that organized labor is givin& t~ John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers was emphasized today by resident P hil'tp iurray of tbe C. I . • J - who called for general labor conference. The C. I. . resident invited the A.F. of L . and the Railroad Brotherhoods to g a ther for the ur p ose of making plans tolto p , what urr a y called - « "A monstrous plot". His letter was couched in what sounds li k e extr a vagant p hr seology - and he sua ■ons union abor to unite against what Murray calls an anti-union drive to cripple labor~ by ••ans of hostile lawa ia•••Aand other devices. SONG In London today, the Lord Ch a mberlain handed down a decision on a song. The Lord Chamberlain is, in effect, a cenaor of theatrical productions, and the ballad in q uestion occurrs in a musical show about to open. There was a lot of argu ■ent about the ditt1. No co ■plaint of iaaorality, or anything 1bocting. The song i1 a political satire - and England baa been ta■oa1 for that kind of co ■edy eyer aince Gilbert and Salli••• turned out Iolanthe - and long before ' that. Bo•••••• there'• a labor goYern■ ent in office right now - wbicb pr0Yide1 new proble ■ s of political satire. The song in question is called - 8 The Lett Honorables•, which ia ok&y. linston Churchill, of the high aristocracy - is, for example, a Right Honorable. So why not - the Left Honorables, as applied to a Socialiat Labor Government? Howeyer, the lyrics of the ditty proceeded to have a lot of fun w ith the consonant •a•. Th a t is, the Labor Ministers, the Left Honorables, •ere represented as drop p in g t h eir H 's. SONG - 2 ow that could be rather appalling in England, where a misplaced •H• can be the gravest of social error, -- and it's happening all the time. Imagine, the Priae Minister on the stage, singing - • •ere's to the 'ouse · of Co ■mons - And we •ate the •ouse ot Lords.• The Lord Chaaberlain ~ulet that anything like that would be an insult to bis Majesty'• Labor. Miniatera. In the Lord Cbaaberlain's words - •rt sugge1ted illiterao So he put a ban on the Honorable• an;ttloct song about the Lett ■•••■ii■■ ot B'• they dropped. He aecreecl i~ wouldn't be allowed - unlea1 the producer• cleaned it up a bit and reatored aoae of the H's. England being En11•a4, the producers had to obey. They cut soae pa1aage1, an4 here and there reatored an H. So, in the forthcoaing production, the Pri•• Minister and the Lord Chancellor will not aound so cockney. They won't sing - • 'ats off to 'is 'ighness the Duke, Today brought some new dec l arations on taxea declarations from Republicans. As Nineteen Forty Seve'!, approaches with its new Republican Congress, the question becoaes more acute - what about taxes? There have been Republican statements advocating a personal tax cut of twenty per cent - but today tbia •a• disputed by Republican Senator Butler of lebraska. Be said that the talk of a cut of twenty per cent is out of the question. - -.,;,r at leaat another year or l o n g e r • , ; : = - ~ ~ ,-.JI.it; In this the Nebraska Legislator take• direct issue with Congreaa ■ an Inutaon of Minnesota, who ia slated to become Chairman of the House lays snd Mean• Coaaittee of the ~◄-- new Conar•••· a... Congreaa ■anl\heada a group of Republicans who want a twenty per cent - slash of personal income t P xea.