_fil...:J....: f ,::f. - J? + 9J . .1},~, OliJ-. l€,1'/11-t, lJ. . 1n ri ' ti r as OD 1 r e q ue ti o n 0 a y oul . ~ V is 1 b r a is ilence'I ~ ovi t ate i on a sit- 0 n t.ri lD th c uri y c; o nc il, r f u 10 to t ny art in the i cu s i o n 0 h ~erlin "r i ivin it t silent tre tm n t. T o h pro in s to UC f orm as fo ri i> t e tion, ould Mi insky ta ? 'l'he ans er toni ht is dubious, v rsion of that old reply - yes or n. lhe situation calculated to break aown the Vishinaky silence a ~ e d b the i.:ouncil's Presia aat, ~ ~~~ Argentina n who is leading an atteapt~ -/:i,_ s 11 nation to ork out a compr i between the estern Po ers an ~oviet Russia . That small tion attempt sc r d a failure a cou le of aa s ago - ishinsky re · ectin in pri~ate conversat · on. 1f But the sm 11 nat·ons are still tr ing, ana to a ) effort took th form f t · o q uestions a r e s d t o t :tour b . th u 1·ted States ~reat britian, Fr nee, 1g po r - e n . , an boviet ~us i . One u stion sked f ort f cts lil I - ~ ~------- a t h ovi Hun er ~lockade of Herlin, wit t tted ~ n t t sta s as . The s cod uery cone rn a le Nr eml"n conf ren c s ich ks go , n ere wrich At h ar by the Soviet ~ommander in .tier in, R d , a rs ba l ::i ok:olov sk y, w ho im osed im ossible conaiti rs . The ~ecurity ~ouncil fr sident aa~ed - woula the big Po rs give an ans.,,erf th t.wo q uestions'/ ·1·ne hmerican , ~ritisb un French delegations immed•ately responde - yes, they'd be glad to. Which left it up to Vis insk. Would he agree to an ans, r ana thereby break the si t-down strike ana the silent treatment1 oul<i be talk? Vishinsky delivered a harangue, w . ving his arms a nd poun in t h e table - bis usual style of oratory. Referring to the uestions propounded by the Council rr sident, he shouted: "It is useless to think that the Soviet ae e ation i . 1 bite a t i s b a i t ! ' . , . CRISIS - - - He rattled off a lot more -- at the top ot hi s voice. So Vishinsky did talk today, emitting a flood of words, which really said that b e wouldn't talk, wouldn't answer any uesti o ns. Continuing th e sitdown strike, be asserted his own silence -- with a tlood of oratory. former Secretary of 8tate Cordell Hul l says that G overnor Dewey's account of the origin of the bi-partisan foreign p licy i~ incorrect - i~ q De ey statement that it began on the Republican side in the ~orty-four election. Cordell Hul l explains that the bi-partisan foreign policy w a s a creation of both major parties, de ■ ocratic and Republican - and by inference he - criticizes President Tru ■an's Democratic claim for the credit. To which he adds: •If these co ■ petitive claims continue they will inject partiaanabip into the••••••* conduct of our foreign affairs.• Gongr ss is oin g to inv e sti at char g es that th e the d e mocratic cam p aign or anization in Michigan is demandin g - a kickback from Postmasters. Congressman Rees, chairman of the Poat Office Committee, states that he has what he calls - "definite intor ■ ation". The accusation is that the big-ti ■e politioiana are insisting tha~ the democratic poataasters shall contribute part of their salaries to campaign fund -- the kickback:1f'Well, the De ■ ocratic it's an old story. The job of postaaster, in this country is tied - in closely with politics. Part ot what is called - the spoils syste ■• In Minnesota, Go•ernor Dewey is ca ■ paigniq for Senator Ball, which aee■a to be ao ■ ething of an heroic experience. The news today tells ot ■ ore toaato throwing, Senator Ball hit by a ripe temato, part of which spattered on Mrs. Dewey's dress.That happened during a rear platform appearance. Qnd then at the St. Pau1 auditorium today, when the Sen ~ tor was d b chorus~£ boos. introduced, he was greet e y /\ 7t:.t. All of which is int rtwined ith personal angl s. In the Nineteen Forty Four presidential campaign, Republican Senator Ball deserted the Dewe7 ticket, and ca~e out for the fourth tera of President Franklin D. hoosevelt. Today Governor Dewey is responding by putting on a strenuous ca ■ paign in Minnesota - in behalf of Senator Ball, who is runniq for re -election. ~ · s opponent ta- Mayor Asupported by the Democrats oo ■bined with the Farmer Labor Party. Candidate Buaphries is the fiery speaker who, at the De ■ ooratic Rational Convention in Philadelphia, upset a political apple cart. He ■ade the ~ fla ■ ing speech that put acroas~platfor ■ plant on racial r i g b t ~ a t recked a co■pro■isa between the party leadership and the southern deaocrats, and brought on the Dixiecrat secession - the Thur ■ an-Wright ticket which is running against President Tru ■ an in the ~outb. 0 Along with the personalities and tomatoes in Minn1ota, we have a news dispatch from Virginia. The Hoanoke Tim _ , one of th staunchest of democratic ne spap'lrs for long year•~ has com e oat - for Dewey. 'l be .ttoanok e Tim 0 s states , : "'I he Detavc rati c p . a rty bas left us. ¥!!_ have not left the Deaocra t ic Party". Which sounds Dixiecrat; but the paper declares tor Dewey. _, 0 Indiana gives us a pe~aonal twister. President Trum . an, on a hard day or campaignin g , was in the bailiwick of €ongressman Charles Halleck. Continuing his assaults on Congress, the Preaident~Candidate blast d Congressman Charles Rall ct - speaking of as both a friend and a . n op , onent. •l.;harlie" said the President "is the floor leader of the Republican Party i . n Congress. Wbile I like hi ■ perso~~~.11.:,_ __ aa.4- --";.-.,,,,,~,'"" - - - - - ---- - - I -~~ldn't want to injure ht• personally -- I would like to put hi• out of busines - .• Well, that•~ politics - friends on all ••• occasions, except in an election. liOLLO P LITICS -----------~--- ..... ~ - Te la t · st -- President Trumam having trouble wit ecklers. At Tipton, Indiana, he was making a rear platform speech - hen he was interrupted by ■Jsterioua noises, raucous uproar that was drowning out the presidential voice. The squealing and shrieking e ■ anated from a loudspeaker attached to a building beside t~e tracks. A secret serviceman cut the connecting wire with a p cketknife, and the disturbance came to an end -- after which the President continued his rear platfor■ address. T i "" ~ t slut· no . lnt , rn tion 1 - ~ ~ ' 4 ~ . - P ~ u er Y try i to b m e ublic - so an ouncea ,A in th n . t e r e '3ov .. rnm nt i t · in arty o b ri c· n 1 n o t ancient ort of aloni.ka, ~ h e they'«- to be iv n th offici 1 verdi t in t A <!,-a, s I C $ of lieorge l->olk,, radio corres on nt. MP ~ -.el ullrUN ~ ~ t-i-8 g ~ ( lie as Killen last Sprin, an since then there have been al kinas of sensational rumors. One - e t a t ureek eactionariea committed the muraer. another- th t ommuni ts did it. ~he ~overnment at Ath ns is keeping silent about the olution to e made public this weekena, but)lbe unofficial word is that the crime as - Communist. t ~alonika, the Police for eek have been OLh r ~~ A uestioning a Greek ne spaverman _ ana his sai to have Communist connections. ' Geor e Po!ks boay as founa in 8alonik liay, ana th theory is that he was ki lle a boar a bo t in the harbor. ·.rh f'r K ne spaperman, · llegea b r 1. sa1·a to have been o a , aboar th o t at t 1 . tim . Ther a r }J ~ zling angles. vn .t'olk's b ony toe poli e fo und l is money, his watch, n ao e p apers. but i no eb ok n ad ct r esa book er • missin~, and o as is A rm r o t Office cara. 'J' hi s ca r<1, in i- act, had b e en aaile to the police a t Salon ika . ■ ny? There is no ans er to that. But tley say-.., the envelope in hich the cara was sent *&B adar ssed with ink similar to a k ind founa in the home ot the motber of the Greek newspaperman un~er ar r est. At Polk's apartment in Athens the C ti~ ~orresponden had ~ fil~, •i th news notesj - but, the most recent of tbe notes he had made in Greece were •issing, II the - apart ■ ent, a letter was found, ready to be ■ ailed, a letter ad ~ res ed to td •urro, th ttadio ~ews Comaentator, ho •as then in charge of news at ~- B. ~. !n this lett e r George ~olk informed td Murrow that he was going to ■ ake an attempt to see ~eneral Markos, the Chiet of the Hed Guerrillas in Norther Ure e ce. • ost of us," he wrote, "hav e done an awful lot of talkin g about the Markos Gang, and yet few of us have really factual in- formation. {1•ve worked since ~eoember on getting to arkos•s headquarters -- even blindfolded.• ~o ••••- which the C. B. ~. correspondent ad4ed: •~ would like Q to put Markos on the air from bis secret radio atatioa.• ~/-Ce went on tldi-aiasion; and waa ayaterioualy ■ ur ered -- the cri ■• surrounded by all aorta of pu&aling circu■ atance. At latest reports they were still trying to find the explanation of the gas attack that assail~ the San Francisco Bay area today. A brisk wind waa blowing from the ~acific, when in came a nauseating vapor, a sickening stench that smelled so ■ething lite naptha. All along a thirty- ■ ile stretch of coast the gas blew in, and spread across San FranciscD Bay. At ~acific Beach people becaae sick. In one #AA co■aunity the rumor was thatl\unknown ene■y waa ■atina a gaa attac~. lo■fa rushed into the stre~t• crying aad carrying their children. Fro ■ tar and wide -- account, of sictneas and panic. So ■e thought then ■ ight be gas leata. But it was not that. You might suspect the oil retineriea. But the gas attack caae fro■ the ocean. So ■e auapectecl a coastwiee tanker, or a barge with refuse tro■ a chemical plant. Another suraise is that the nauseating gas ■ igbt be from the bottom of the sea - so ■e disruption of the ocean floor r~easing bubbles of p~troleua under gu - 2 the pressure of natural gas. Whatever it may have been, the balmy breeze from the ~acific was no aweet pertu ■e today. From London, word of one of the newest of d . evelopments in modern air power. The Bri tiah R A E' reports another innovation in the realm ot Twentieth - • ✓~-tY? Century aviation. Along with Jet planes and auper1onio / \ speeds. But it'ts a thing that g oea back to tlae knights and ladies, the kings and castle• of tbe Middle Ages. The Bo7al Air force haa organized a a quad ron of - - falcons. B~•; that i') - the ■eclieYal bunting bird, the peregrine falcon. The reason is that air baaea in England are pla1ued by (locks or al aparrowa and starling,, awaraa of birds that g~,lllltil~\hrough the 1k7 - - ucl are a menace to the speeding fighters and bo ■bera. lhea a plane goes plowing through a flock of birda, it caa be dangerous. In E ngland, the figure••• for the J•r show that thirteen flying accidents are blamed on bird• planes crashing, planes da ■aged. Man's feathered friends in England have a way of concentrating aro•ncl flying fields, and have beco ■ e a menace to the RAF base s . ULCON - 2 Hence the reYival ot the aedieval sport of falconry. F if t en birds of prey have been mobilized aa a starter -- and other squadrons of falcon• will be put into operation, if the plan works •out. The idea is to station falcons at air tiel ... and send the ■ out on flights - to aaaail the swaraa of other birds. Tbe aere ap earanoe of the falcon doea the trick -- th91 frighten the other birda away fro■ the n•iahborbood. The aparro · w• and starling• don't ala4 auperaonic Jet planes, bat they but they keep•• tar away as tbey can froa the killer with fierce beact and talona that poises on high and~IIIIJl down on ita pre7. The Twentieth Century Boyal Air Force 10•• in for a new idea that would be well underatood by tbe 1! noble lord• and ladies of the da7• when kaigthood waa in flower. lifil--=-t_ ...... ~ _ 11 _ .,____J _ J.~ ,i. -I,. rn...r '< ~ - ~ /YVl«.~dl~ .-./\ cutt in o on tlJe i r lavish expend fture; • • " ..- orri dab ut their fulur, as 0<1ernization slowly comes to India. ~ome have olosed their ~alacea, aad are living in smal hous s, with on or two servants. dollar hand made plated fittings, automobiles from tn 6 !~nd, itb gold "••r' hich were once the deli nt o~e•er7 !ndian Prinr.a. •• ~mong the new poor is the ~izaa of tiyderabad, . . . _.,.. reputed to be the richest man in t.be world. Mia staff have instructions to scout the iaea that the iizaa is rolling in wealth. To pro•e it, an ofticer of the household of his ~xalted aigbness recently iaauea a statement to the press. •t •asn•t true, aaia be, tba\ the ~izaa uses a hugh uncut diaaond aa a paperweight. 0 h ' no, that paperweight ia only an eaera Q. There•s always a salute for that ra•• pri tt1ve, matnif icent thing called courage. li : o, three cheers, are in or er for an Aransas truck driver, who tonight is nursing a fe bruises - lucky that be i · still alive. E.W. ~etty of ~1ttle Rock aatea those long driving ponderoue cargoes fro ■ one end of tbe country to the other. His latest la~ge truck t a Pennsylvania pla~nufacturU }.. A loaded his true~ with twehty thousand ~ four hcfidred 50 - pound cases, Raleigh. lortb larolina. - 77'11.~x--- load waa - d . vna•i\• ,.... " " ~o B. W. Petty set out. rolling ~outh on a buay Pennsylvania highway. Then be s•elled it was•• terrifying a perf•me as possible~ wben y driving along with twenty . bouaand pounds of lie smelled firr,. The motor e:f the truck was ablaze- ._.... flames shooting out. the gas tint might go at any ....... , - ainute - and then the four-.huno.red 50 p un<:1 cases of - . I dyoam1. , te. W ~ettv wanted to get away as faBt as he could I. • ., but be was aware of all tlose automobiles streamin& along the highway in danger of being blown to kingdom come, when the blast came. So he acted f'ast -- to save them. /le drove hia truck with its blazing motor into a ditch -- ju■ ped out and ran back to stop the traffic. Me haited a car, aa~ warned the drive - stationing hi ■ as a traffic bloc~. At that ao ■ ent, the gas tank of the truci burst into flame -- the dyna■ ite was ready to go off at an1 aoaent. ~ut 1 there were cars coming in the other direction; and•• •· 1etty tool his life in hi• · band• to halt the ■• tie ran past the blazing dynamite true& and •as lucky e ougb to i•t beyond it - waving at on- coming cars to stop. Then the high exploaiVie let go with a blast ....... the police descrive as sounding - •like a bunar~boaba 1, going off all at once." ln far ■ houses out across the ~ fields, windows were ahatterll~ A.the shoe.It ns felt for t . radiu~ifteen ailes. ~ ~etty was knocked don, flattened, battered ana bruised by the concussion. tie had a narro1 escape, and so d id a number o f autoaobiles. /le was thinking about the ■ - in i~ exhibi~ion of ra, primitive,