ldi4P CBIIA Our American Con~ul General in Canton tonight is asking all Americans, in South China, get out while they f■z•••••x• foresees - a C ■aunist swee all the way to Indo-China. \ C,BlliA The Chinese Nationalas tonight sa1 the1 have def e ated the Reds in a heavy battle at Ching- Yang-Ian g ; thirty m~les west of Shanghai. --- 0 --- But, another report describes Shanghai s now surrounded by the Co ■munist s . Their armies only eight miles from Bangcbow, n ~ mber one rail center. ~-·0---- Reporters in Shanghai tel . l of their own troubles: lith the Rationalist s . Rigid censorship. All news stories blue pencilled and slashed. ---0---- of From Canton, the great seaport/south China co ■ es word that the lationalists •• are all set for another ourrenc1 reform - one more effort to check inflation. Meanwhile coolies are ligh~ing cigarette• with ten th c ueand dollar bills. So the Chinese g8vern ■ ent - what re ■ ains of CHINA - 2 it - is contemplating issuin g a silver Yuan. Silver being the one cu · rency that ha s consistently held its value in China sin c e the days of Sun Yat Sen - the silver dollar. A friend, recently back from Shanghai,tell1 me that the silver dollar i still the king of aoina in southern Chin a . Any kind of silver dollar. The Chinese call them eagles. The original eagles were inherited by the Republic trom the lanshus. lan7 of thes e were Eighteenth Century Yaxiaillian ail•er · dollars from Mexico. The I ■ Manchus bought piles of the ■ and over- s ta ■ ped thea with Chine s~ characters. Then ca ■e t he American silver dollar; also the Engliah •crown• - the bulky Victorian five-shilling-piece. Shanghai and Canton are now clamorin& for ■ ore of these pi e ce ~ f silver which for long years have been stored · way in cellars, and private houses sacksful of silver. 9 ULT To or o the e te r e d erv1ce Com m ittee nd tbe Joint Con re sion l Committee on forei g n first and r ort on China - from Claire Chennault. Te Lou1 1 n -born a rd-hitt1ng com ander of the F1yln Ti rs, nd l a t r t e U. s. Fourteenth Air Force, believes t h t tr o er can still defe t the Chine e Rede and save China -- for democracy. ' e · r f om P c . , . o 1 i v 1 , t e 11 s of m rt 1 · 1 a o 1 - o .-: in ·n 0 t b e . o f 1ot1n g . Six kill d, nd m n ·· • ou ed . An r d a: it;ck on Govern . t H ou ' by r em r1 h t 1n t · ctions, enraged b t h 001 11 t v1 ct r es ter day at the olls. BERLIN_ The Berlin Bl ockade is expected to end next week and the meeting of the Council of the Big Four Foreign Ministe r~ will probably take place during the last week of Ua1 in Paris. That is the word in ••w York tonight given out by what the newswire describes as a well-placed diploaatic source • . This stateaent followed a •••ting between o.s. Aabassador-at-large Philip Jessa~, Sir Andrew Cadogan of Britain and Jean ChauYel of France. Earlier toda1, a Soviet source infor■ ed reporter• that the lre ■lin delegat Jacob Malik and our aan, Philip Je11up, were agreed in principle. All that reaained said the SoYiet spokesaan was for an agreeaent to be reached on the agenda for the ■ eeting of the Big Four Foreiga Ministers. Also, Ualik is said to be waiting for Jeaaup to call hi■ for the final talk at which the official announceaent will be made that the Berlin Blockade is to be raised. Op to the present, the British a nd French represent a tives have taken no part in the discussions, but both London and Pari, we hear, are now optiaistic, both saying their men will soon be sitting i~ on the le• York conversations. SARLI Steve Early, White Hue Sec etary to F.D.R. today became Under-Secretary or Defense. In Rew Deal days Steve Early was one of the most popular or the men around F.D.R. Having been a reporter and a newsreel man, be knew what newaaen wanted and generally gaTe it to thea. Since leaTing the lhite Bouse, Ste•• has been a Tice-President of the giant Pullaan Coapan7. Str~nge for a new dealer you say? lell, now h•'• back in liahington, as assistant to Defense Seoretar7 Louie Johnson. Speaker Rayburn stated today th a t he wil offer five concessi r • ns tomorrow, chang e s in the Administration labor bill: Thee even to include acceptance of court injunctions, - to prevent strikes in national emergencie s . The strike injunction clau e is bitterl7 opposed b7 the CI O and the AF of L -- one of the chief reasons why labor leaders want the Taft- Bartley la• wiped off the statute books. In its original fora the ad ■ inistratioa repeal bill calls for a thirt7-day-cooling-off period - without any injunctions. But, Speaker Rayburn is ready to make the injunction conceaion in order to save the administration bill. RENT CONTROL ____.. ... _ __,_ __ increase. There will not be a ny definite general rent Definitely not, a ccording to Housing Expediter Tighe Woods. Be issued that long-awaited rent re1ulation in ashington tonight. Onder this landlords can only raise rents if they can prove that their operating costs warrant the increases. The Housing Expediter went on to say that he expects a flood of petitions from landlords, but ■ an7 of these will have to be turned down because ■ an7 landlords consider capital expenses as operating exp•••••• All tenants will be informed of their landlord'• petition for increase of rent. And that if a tenant coaplaina about the service he is getting or an7thing else, bearia1 of the landlord's petition for an increase will cease -- •bile the tenant's complaint is being investigated. I'm b ck at my New York news he adq uarters t night - back fro , the lon e t jaunt ar ound my own country that I have a de in e a rs. And OD that jaunt I learned a lot of thing ' that I'll be mulling over a ll su ■ mer. One conclu ion I came to· fter I had been on the road for le ! s than a month was, that ever,- newa ■ an hould -- every year or two make a down- to earth trip through the small places ot thia country of ours. lhen I st~rted out in Januar7 I had a break of luck - luck for a reporter arriYin1 in the lest right•• in the middle ot the Great Blizzard. For that was the biggest American news story of the year. But, outside ot that, the whole jo rne7 was a news experience of a si YAlue that it's bar4 to estimate. Mot of this trif • s through the open country, smaller towns like Leadville, lalla Walla, Sal , and Boie; M reed, Reno, Tue on and Du ango. The large cities 01 the lest? They're ok y. But they are metropolitan in character, as far as world news goes. And it's the smaller cities and towns · that opened my eyes - the local paper . · , the regional wires. Take Boie, for example -- where for all news they use what is called •the inter-mountain regional wire•. Out there in Idaho - I mentioned it at the ti ■ e -- how fresh and hu■an the line of news ap p eared to be. In Boise the 1reat bulk of dispatches first clear through Salt Late on the •trans-continental trunk wire•, and there in Salt Lake, a sifting, a election is made. 0Yer the regional wire in Idaho, for hours 700 read onl7 local state news, the doings of the legisl~ture tor example. To mate room for all that local newe on the regional wire they ha•e to throw out a lot of lon g fo r eign dis p atches! But, *~•J the pres ~ as s oci a ti n - tho s e news ore-sorters in Salt Lake - keep the dramatic, the colorful, the odd - all the hu ■ an stories, and all the big news. That goes right along on the re~ional wire, along with the local state news. So no wonder it's a bright wire - that regional wirel LiYely with the doings of people - a paaeabt of aan~ind, instead of a co ■ p endiua of the soleaniti•• of international politicians. -~-0--- Then on the wa7 ho ■• when we got to Chicaao, Q tor the first ti ■ e in ■onths an unfa m iliar sight: rain! a grey cloud7 sky. The first we bad seen - . for ages, it seemed. le ha~ been on the western trail tor n~a~ly four••• ■ ontb s and after the bli11ards we ran into at the s tart, there was nothing but that eternal sunshine of the lest. It was the Golden l e t at it's be ~ t. Out there where they would haYe ap recit e d rain - in some ections where they need it desperately. In Tucson, Bill Johnson, p · blisher of the •Ari1ona Citizen• had been telling us how in the Tucson area the leYel of wells llai has been droppin& -- because of the ~owing population. The people depend largely on wells, and the water down below ii aow sinking. Jou can••• what a problem that soon ••1 be. Fro ■ O ■ aha on there waa one uniYeraal tbeae of interest which today is the co..,on doainator of concern in two-thirds of these United Stateai - water! This is true eYen in the Pacific lorthwe t. The coastal belt is green with rain, but eYen in lashington and Oregon, the most of tho s e states are east of the Cascade Mountain R , and there it's the aame old p roble - water! So n o wonder the key to western thinking and politics i s -- irrigation, dams, reclamation. An7 idea along that line strikes a spark - lite projects they are now mulling o•er, such as the poasibilitJ of distilling sea water tor irri1atioa. All of which is mer · elJ an exa■ ple of t.he angles JOU come upon, when on a•••• newe trip JOU follow the western trail. There are man7 others, which to ■ orro~ ni1bt, and so on tor a •••k or two, I'll mention briefly. lot to for1et that lri1ona Painted Desert han1in1 tale that I promised three weeks ago. I haTenit forgotten! PULI T ~1 Col b 1 a 1versity anno unce this ye ".\ r' Pul1t er r1ze for the best biography A... , ~Q~ to Robert E. her1ood's "Roosevelt and Hopkins.• The a rd for the best play to Arthur Miller's •ne th of a Sales n.• the Pulitzer Prize novel of nineteen forty-n1ne1t:s "Guard of Honor" by - ... - . James Gould Cozzens. From Chicago ~e ■ ee the d ra matic story of how a twenty-six ye a r-old mother fought for her life on a transcontinental train. Mrs. Shirle7 Palmer, a Yictia of polio, on her way across the continent to Ithaca, lew Tork, for treatment. She was wearing a portable reapi~ator. At Laramie, iyoaing, last niaht the pu ■ ping ■ ecbania ■ of the respirator failed. Ber husband tried to work the e ■ ergenoy handle. That failed too. lrs. Pal■ er was in danger of death. Thea tlie husband spied a beer can opeaer on the floor. For .,.,~..,., ainutes he ■•••• w,t~ it, and finally contriYed to aake . Pl£- 'eh ~ , 5'.-;, an e ■ er1eno1 han . dle. It 1,s1aed. Aad-lf"i>r eight hour• be aat at his wife'• aide working the respirator with the beer can opener. While a our•• ti■ ed th• atrok•• of the iaproYiaed handle to keep the pu ■p in tune with the wife's bre a thing. At O■ aha a new reapirator wia pro•ided by the City Fire Depart■ ent, and tonight Ira. Pal ■ er is safe in Chicago with a new respirator provided by the local hospital. Alive and with good POLIO - 2 -- chance of recovery, thanks to her husband's ingenult7 and untiring effort. S%AllLIIGS The H o u s e of Bepre s entatiYes paaaed a bill today. A bill which Yir~ually a ■ ounts to a declaration of war. lar against •sturnua Yularta• - the••••• coamon Starling. Senator s , Congress ■ en, stenographers, aa4 courting couples, n o longer ~it in comfort under tbe trees of historic Penneyl•ania AYenue. The trees and all the buildings, ~••• '••• · taken over b7 starlings • . So, aow the a\arlin1a are to he killed. The proble ■ is how to do it. ror the atarlin1, ia a aoat elu•i•• aad intelligent bird. As war7 a ta••• as eYer nature eeat to pla•u~ the h•■ •n and ani ■al world. I hear the7 out-au ■ber the bu■ an populatio ■ of the United States, four starling £ to •••r1 one of ••• loing ■ illions of dol l ars' worth of crop cla■a1• eYery year. STARLJIG~ - 2 But in the District ot Colu ■bia starling, haYe been protecte4 by an old law, whioh probibita the tlllin1 of any bird. IUCIEBIIAI! Pinkham Kotch, Rew Hampshire, a drama of th snows. A reecue party - searching !or Bar•ar4 Proteaaor Pa~l Schiller. Out skiing yesterday, on the headwall - Mount lashington!da ta ■ ecl T11car■•• Ra•ine, be plung d into a hundred foot ere•••••• Apparently, Schiller fell, as all do who ati on th• Headwall - an4 down he went. Callin1 for help, •• he went o•er and oYer. Joe Dodie of the Appalacllaa lo•atala Clul aanouaced 4arin1 the day tha f, there ••• little llope. !lie • ow on the headwall has been aeltta1 fa■ · \, ore~••••• openla&, as theJ ahJ alwaye do a\ thi• ti ■• of the 7e1r. Lecal ■ tiara saw - the young Bar•ara Profea ■ or fall, and bear• his criea. They found one ot hi• ati pol••• Tien, fraaticallJ theJ •ied to tunnel throuab th• lea4walll. lat no 10. The latest: bod)' found. Oa• ■ore tra1eQ tar It. •~ahin1ton - u■zaf~•••~iit ho•• d stora1.