ATO I PRO PO AL fJ . .:fv--.M_ P-..e-8.. I., ' 't .>-0 ~ . n o th r om1 p ro 0 . 1 as m de in t1 e n o d h T in of . yl" nd C llin for rl ls r me co e r C om . et t . t . r a t of t e hydro n b o~b . T e S nator 1ntroduc d a r olution a thori in Pr id nt Tr m n o c 11 an intern tion 1 con ! r ec A for t he scr • 1n g o f a tomic on. In F · o , weap on of v ry kind - •All the w y down to t he rifle,• says Senator Tydings. h1 h follows that other solemn suggestion made by Senator Brien c M ahon, Chairman of be , omic Energy Committee, who proposed a fifty billion dollar worldwide relief plan in return for an tomic agreement . All indicating how gravely the hydrogen bomb 1s regarded 1n Congress. A PY Con r es s to l • Atomtc n r y Comm ! lo~ d rtn ~ , b n r cetvtn ~ 1nfor 1 o n :from t h 1 f of the F . • I . , J. r H o o v r, a n d :f r om G en r 1 L s l 1 e rov e , w rtim h d of t h e A t o mic om b pr oJ e t. Su b j e~ t - t h e hi h r a nking Briti s h a tomic sci e nti s t, D r. Kl a us Fu c k s , a rreste on the c a r e of tr a nsmittin a tomic eorets to S oviet Ru :s~ i ~ a ~ · :...- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ....... _, Tb committee was told, we hear, th a t Fuoh1 has been a C mmunist sympathizer ever since his youth. mily b a ckground 1s Red, and sever~l ot his close rel tives are Communist Party members, or fellow travel rs. So why was he put into such high p lace in Brit sh atomic aff a irs? The only answ e r 11 that Fuchs w a t a ken in at a tim e when Britain was preoar1n g for w a r with N azi Ger ma n y , and the atomic scient1 twa s bitterly anti-N a zi - no question about that. hen he came to t h is country to work on our o , n a tomi c bomb proj e ct, no questions w e re a ked ATO lC SPY ..... 2 He ce p t on th ord of the S iti h Government. Ther 1 t a lk of "u bee A g r em nt ,• om thing till ecr e t, an arran m nt m de betw en the 1 te Pre ident oosev lt nd Britis Prime Mini ter Winston Churchill. Th1 a reem en t 1s sa 1 d to gi ve the reason why the cred nti ls o! Dr. Fu~ without investig a tion. w r e cce ted - Another an le dev e loped at the hearing - with Chairman Senator Brien McMahon of Connecticut, stating th t the scient1s , now arrested as a spy, had access to H-bomb secrets. The Senator says that there can be what he calls - •no doubt as to the general extent of Fuch's inform a tion and knowledge, both as to atomic weapons and the so-called hydrogen bomb.' Meanwhile, we have what purports to be inside information trom Kenneth De Courcy, the London editor who predicted i•u the first atomic explosion in Soviet Russia. He says he has evidence that the Soviets have made three hydrogen bombs, and have AtJkIC SPY •.... 3 exp loded on of them lr dy. De Courcy, who claims to h ve p1pel1n in ide Russi , declares th a t n o ther n te t of n H-bomb will be made on arch Third - . noth r hydrogen blast. r. f ~ ::.. . . .. " .r . ... ~ . - ~ -- J- r: ~ !. 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In R nswer, the Br hmin eized the hiloso p her, threr. him to he~~ und, st c c r 1 , nd id: "It is like thi - I ~ m o v t ·1 0 • II . . II t: ' vU II i O U ~ n o ri th i. , in r i the u u, n o· ~ befo r hi m , s : yi I I O I under t ~ n - y o u r the re t urf ent tote ch ,... e. " The le -tt.t onAGuru t , u , ht ,, s - t h ; t there i no re 1 i ff erence bet en the kin n the ele p h nt, or bet ·e en u nd down, no r e 1 di ff erenc bet een you a nd me. 1:1111 lnere are no differences -- in ulti ~ te re lity; !ea, - 11 is one. Net Mn..-= ., COAL Late dis ~ tches from the ooal fields picture the miners 1n defiant mood tonight - after President Truman invoked the Taft-Hartley Law today. The White House move followed the rejection by John L. Lewis of a Presidential proposal for a truce - &n4 this rejection wast ken by the miners as a signal for an all-out strike. expanded to one-hundred So the wildcat walkout waa 4'4tJ/l~O per-cent~ •~thousand miners staying away from their jobs this morning and tying up the ooal pits. President Truman, acting at long last 4eol&ree •bere was s na\tonsl emvrgeao,, ■■Zo1n,e a fact-finding board - to report to him on Monday. Then, if the miners refuse to return to work on the bas is of the fact- f 1nding report, the government will ask a 1ederal court for an injunction to compel the union to end the strike and restore a full-five day week in mines - instead of the three-day week decreed by John L. Lewis. In the background of all this looms the co4L . .... 2 fact that, when in Nineteen Forty-Ei ht, John L. Lewis defied a Taft-Bartley injunction, he a.nd the union h d to pay fi~es totalin one-m1111on,-seTen- hundred-and-twenty,thousand doll&rs. REPUBLICA N PARTY The Republican Party h ado p ted an election y e ar platform - a tatement of policy draft e d by GOP members of Con res ~ , a nd endoreed b . the Republican National Committe e . Presenting JI a s ries of issues, t e platform accuses the Truman a d ministrat i on of wreckin the Bi-Partisan foreign policy and of promoting social i sm· in this country. There was some oppos1t1m, headed by Senator Henry Ca.bot Lodge of Massachusetts -- who thinks the c1v11 rights plank 1s not strcag enough. But the latest tonight shows this Republican platfoa rallying support. L~ _ _ _ _ _ .. APP BiPUBLIQAH PARTY ~ \welve t h ou s and stalwarts of th ~~~ GOP jammed a bi g W asb1n ~ ton a ren~t:11 •••• -ti hoop it up with s h outs and orator y , d enouncing t J-enemy of the ele ph ant -- the democratic donkey. AIHI SECRJTARY The Unit~d States Army loses a secret L ry, wh11 the University of North C rol1na gains a president. Today, Army Secretary Gordon G / wae ~ ~ elected prexy of th~educt1onJ\1nstitut1on of hll native state. He accepts, and will step out a1 &ray secretary some time before September First. MISSOURI Evidence wa h a rd a t N o r!olk, Vir gi nia tod Y, in th e grounding of the B ttl esh i Mi our1 - sho 1ng that the battleship wa navi ting along an ac c oustic r ang e - a secret listening device unde~ ater. Executive officer Commander George Peckham 1nd1c tes that there may have been som e thing wrong st with the charts. He says he noti~ed that the buoys did not s e em exactly as they should be, and he called for the Missouri to ohan1e course. ■ut there seems to have been confusion, and soon Big Ko went aground on the mud bank. POTATOES In Con res v - a pr poeal to mak . some use of th forty · 1l l ion barrels of surplus potatoes, w ich are sch e duled to be dumped. Senator McCarthy of 1 cons1 oes not ap rove, sa . y1ng •there 1s something wrong with destroyin food when people are o1ng hun ry.• So, today he introduced a bill to revive the old food stamp plan, which we had back in depres ion days. His proposal is that the government should issue food stamps to needy families, stamps which could be used for the purchase of potatoes. RIUTHER from Detroit - news of evidence given in the trial of Karl Bolton, accu ed of sho o ting Walter Reuther~ two years ago, and badly injuring the President of the Automobile Work e rs Union. A convict, brought from prison, t stifled late today that Bolton offered ~1m fifteen thousand dollars to kill Reuther - referring to the union leader as a Communist.•• That was just thre9 days before ihe shotgun blast for which Bolton is on trial. _rr_y_ QH __ n 0 i 1 n le ' t n i hbor, re bitter - the n l hb o r of ckey C ohen. hey're fr i they' 1 be blo n to in do com e , un de r1 or l enemies co tinue their ef ort to 1i p e out the boss r a cketee of Los ng les g blin, e i c · lled. Last nig an ex losion ble u one e nd of the nky ho m e of ickey Cohen, in a fashion a ble ection of Hollywood and the blast knocked a neighbor out of bed , a n d sm shed windows nd cracked 1 eter in a house a thous a nd feet ay . ickey Cohen's life wa s ved by the fact th' t he a lee ing in a nother bedroo, not the usu 1 one - hich was wrecked nd Ah c ttered . His has an elabor teal rm sy te m , to ive w rning ag o si ble gunmen - a p rec auti on th i t i not sur rising, aft er the a y the lleged g blin .. in , as c, t r.. r et for machine un •• fire 1 t sum er ~ h n he oun ed nd a h n c h n c t d in b i d e him i led . T he a l rm y t ._ o ' Y 1 t n i h , a n g ve · a rn i n g , 1 h i c h w k ene d w ic ey o h n, n d h e took lo o k to see who wa ro lin. He c oul n't in a nybody, but he di d s m 11 ~h t he c 11 s - "A f u e b u rnin ." A f u e of dyn rn i t e, nd in a cou 1 of m inute, b a n ent the bl t, ri ~ in out a a ll s o c o l e tely t h t the elabor te , ickey C ohen w a rdr o bf! o f f ifteen ex p ensive suits as ex osed to view. The ex • lo s ion d ug a six foot hole in the ground, a nd as h e a rd foD a••ea miles. 1f'rn a u p . o s edly c ivili z ed c o m m unity - un d er orld war. " KQCULLOUGH - COM M UNISTS In Connecticut today, a two-hundred• t ho usand doll a r a tt a chment w a s wit h drawn from~ pro p erty of M rs. H ester cCullou g h of Greenwich. his i s t h e case 1n w h ich d a ncer Paul Draper and harmonica player Larry Adler sued tor libel - because the McCulloughs charged them with Communist sympathies, which caused them to lose an engagemeni for a performance together. The property : a a attached under an old Connecticut Law, and stirred a lot of controversy. The action today was taken by l a wyers representing Draper and Adler - withdrawln the attachment of property. TOKYO ROSI A! deral court h a order e d the release of Tok o Rose on bail - decision made by S preme Court Justice Dougl a s, presiding over the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court. Mrs. Iva Toguri d'Aquino was found guilty of giving Japanese propoganda •• broadcasts during the war, and sentenced to ten years in prison. She is appealing to the Supreme Court, and now is or ered released on a bond for fifty thousand dol l ars. D Th re' r o 1 n r o m Lon n - n d it' o ut h ber a h ry. in or t e i h is t a in a h a nd in th a t line of bu ine lready de famous by reci nt ' l'ru n. •j e 'v e 11 he a rd about th t Trum n h berda hery sho p in n s i ty lon year a o ; - ~ no his maje . ty h hel ed .. desi n a s ort shirt..- bich Briti h h ' b rdashers e ect to be a best seller in the ret i l tr de. This announced in London t d ~ y by m a nuf cturer Jack Izod, •ho me e the ori in 1 article according to s ecific tion . ovide d by the s verign. The exact J t rn ic: being kilt k pt a ecret, so that out iders on 't swi e the the sty e creation of tm ■ a king. But the s . ort shirt i s id to be a" ull- overn, half knitted o 1 ~ n h lf 0 ilk, a nd ill ell -~~ dK4_...,.~ for about fifteen doll - ~ e , . , ~ 1 , ~ _ . , , ~ A. °l-14~- - hich i t,he c lue to the Ylhol thin . " !AL , R T •••.. ---------- T ht> n u cturer d C e t hrt t i . r o y 1 fa h i o n ill b ... C llR 11 Th bi t ex ort th r in n r . " He d th t eric n . buyers re lre d y p uttin in bi n one dealer is flyin fro m the U. S . , . to London to f ind out haM soon ss reduction ill be in. ell it's one way toe s e the dollar short a ge - nd do ager ueen ry h s been d oing ometbing of the me thing. The ueen other hes just com _ leted a needlework rug, which will be sold in A . erica to the highest bidder. The proceeds to go - to th e briti h !re a - ury. A ll of which reminds one of the ' 1 ilbert and ulliv a n •Gondoliers," in which they h a ve what the chorus c 11s -- " A on rc2:I. th v t i te ered ith re u ublic a n e u lity." - In The Gond o 1 i er he re ~ re t~o kin , ~ho · 1 in in · u t, ho · t ey ri . e ly in th morning ~ n 1 i ht th ' · 1r , n h n: " t r th t r · ly o n d dr s ~ our ) riv te v a let Vrite om elet rs iter ry or our riv-te ecret ry The verses are m o re com p lic e ted th nth t, but the uot tions will illustr r te ho Gilbert and Sulliv n fores a i today's news from London . ~~~- -.=-,.,, --n-t ~ ~ y , . . . ~ ~ ~ '5°f ~ \ ~ r 1 ! F L » ~ ~ ~ ~ - r l - < \ ~ ~ · ~ ~