SOB O N -- ---- ord from the U t h t th , , e United t tes bas okays t hat India com p rom i se for a truce in K orea. This f ollows an am endaent o ~ th e resolution. Onder the plan, the ~- ~ would have authority for the disposal of p risoners o f war who refused to · go home to the Reds. So it's all agree~ -- on our side? The only trouble being that Vishinsky, today, rejected the whole thing -- for a second time. On Monday, he turned it down, speaking for Moscow. Today he said •no• in behalf of (;bin a. Announcing that the Chinese Hed government will not accept the peace plan proposed by India. But the ON is going through with it all, just the same. But the reasoning is - that it might be good p ropaganda to pass the resolution presented by India, and backed by the other Asiatic nations, p uttiig them on the side of the West. In r e U .S. Ar y mit t J, 1t ~ in f re po rts i a tin a h ue raft se a dal. Thi has be n prev usly - with h r e of bribery and kick-backs in t n e 1ant pro ram of Euro ean defense. " ' " " dV./] Both Army peo le a nd civilian mployees a re involved. /'-. er m an n r n h authorities are ca:perating - in an al -out i nv st1 a t1on of the military graft scandal. - ill - n It/est r any - an espionage mystery. An agent for r t e rn Intelli ence has v a nished in Be lgium, and it may turn out to be - a joke on u . T he Western secret a ge nt 1s a former Co mm unist sp y, who came over to o ur s 1 de - or d id he T Te stor 1 s , on t ~ surf a ce t lea st - that E ric Otto Klare, of the East Ger m afi ~i pol ice, a ass1~ned t o a ed espi o na emission in Be l 1um, wh ~ re he was to procure lans of airfie l ds in Fr a nce, established by the North Atlantic treaty Organizati o n. But, on his - way, he lost his nerve - went to the w e st e rn intelli ge nce - off 1cials, and offered to e i list in their espionage service. they accepted, and told him - to go on to Belgium, and contact Red spies he was to m eet there. These to b arre t e d. In B 1 1u , he~ s picked up by local p o lice to whom . e ex o lained he ,,as a spy for the iest. So they l bl to rep o rt to w J stern et i 1 m O n1s way - presuma 1ntell1 gencc . But h e never did. SPY - 2 - That s the last seen of him. There's a suspicion he ma ha e gone back to a st Germany . Just a spy, who pre ended to go oY r to the •' est - to make it easier for him to carry out his mission of Red espionage. n E a t r · n , t h e Res ave . ene d a iolent propa an a ca a1 n a a inst t e titular h e ad o f the . e r a n Prot e s t a nt c urc s - B isho p O tto D ibelius. The ell f s h t t 1 1s may heral all-out communist w u r a a in s t be Ger m an E van ge lical Lutherans. Th occasi on for this as a state m ent ma.de b y B i sho Di b elius, on a recent visit to iondon - where he s ta t d t ha t t } e Res wer e ~• operating uranium mines with slave labor. R turnin to erlin, the Lut h eran Bishop was to have proceeded to oscow for a conference with the orthodox patriarch Alexius, head of the old Russian C!,urch, now under Communist control. But he was informed t a t t e ~o scow patriarch was 111 - the trip c alled off. W ich is now ollowed by bitter attacks on wh a t he said 1n Lo n · o r - about sla.ve la b or in uramiu m m ines. The propa anda blasts intimate that Bishop Dibelius and other leaders of the Lutheran Church y - are o t e s 1 d of the N e s t , a n d t h e w rn1n 1 s t na t the C om un1 s t au t h oriti es may take o ve r t h e Protestant c h ur che s o f E ast Germany. Splittin g t h e German Luthera n Church - •m by est a bli s hin a Red controlled branch. KQSCOW he vO Viets hu rl a b l s t against an A m erican 1 mpo rtat 1on - a d you can ha rdly blame them. The zoot suit, se e n 1 n th e se parts half-a,dozen to ten years ago. The rage 1n P ar is, the !_eft ~nk, - in Nineteen Forty-Nine. Now - Moscow. Today the journal of Soviet Youth, printed a blast illustrated by a picture of a slouching individual in a coat with wide shoulders and narrow waist, and drooping to the knees - the old zoot suit. A university student, whose manner in class is described as follows: 'He sits holding one leg over the other, chewing American gum. He smiles crookedly. ~is answers are made in a lazy ~ I Xo1ce.• Sure sounds like the zoot suiter. The J o urnal of Communist Youth cites the case of Rem Sobinov, at the Moscow University School of Law. Saying - he made his girl friend pawn her watch and overcoat to buy him a motorcycle. And - took her to parties where everybody talked about jazz music. They latt sang popul~r songs, 1n what the publication calls - 'Morbid, decadent voices.• W h ich means, I suppose, the weep kin d of t o r c h o ng. Y o u c n't blame Moscow for letting out anti-capitalist ells, when the zoot suit hits town. iISENHO WE Today's Ei e n l o w er a p p o intments are n o t of t h c abinet lev e l, but just b low - William P. Ro g ers - chosen to e eputy ttorney General. He was the at,,&__ Chief Counsel for t e Senate Com 1 aittee Investig a tin vernment corruption and the peddling of influence. Now to be - number two man in the Department of Justice. Arthur Vandenberg Jr - ~ White House Secretary.Son of the late Senator Vanden b erg of Michigan, he'll take over the job of handling White House details for President Eisenhower. There's a guessing game about the remaining tw0 cabinet p sts, com erce and Labor. One report - mentions Walter Williams, a Seattle banker a3 the new Secret ry of Commerce. During the campaign, he was ~ co-chairman of a •citizens for Eisenhower• group. For the Labor Department, the sp e culati on is Me rlin Pitzele, chairman of the New York State med i a ti on Board, under Go ernor Dewey. Merlin Pitzele 1s also bus1n ss E d itor for t he m a a ?. ine, Bu s in es s j}SENHOW ~ Week, t h e a o f i ch is Elliott B ell - who was Governor Dewey's financial expert in Albany. t:!> T e indications are that the Pre . ident-elect will remain in th1 country overt e weekend -not setting out for Kor a until next week at least. With time out for Thanksgiving Day's observance, General Eisenho er has a ull schedule of appointments until Monday. On the Congressional front, we hear that the Senate Republicans have agreed on Senator Taft as their leader. Senator Knowland of California - to be chairman of the GOP policy committee. Q'DWYER Am b ssador 'Dwyer r . s1 ns - a n d his \ resi nati o n w sac epted b y Pr e sident Truman today. W 111 m O 'Dw er, A mba ssador to Mexico, a b n under fir e f o r his conduct while Ma or of New York) The S ena t e Crime Inve s tigation, a counle of years ago, cr1tici~ e d h im in scat in terms. The Republicans have been claiming t ha t he wa iven the diplomatic post in exico City - to get him out o! a tangle in New ork. Pre ident Truman says ne ac c epts the resignation with - •reluctance•. In a letter to O'Uwyer he declares th t this country ls losing, what he calls •one o f he most effective repre entatlvea' it has e v e r na d in Mexico . §TRIKE N w ork ac a b rie lon . or men a tr 1 ke today, w ic h tiAd u p the arbor for seven hou r s . This af er oon..r"t e w 1 o ut w as c lled off by Union President Josep h Ryan, w h o said: 1 The men w e nt out in protest a ainst t e s r ea r tactics oft e Stat e Crime Commission a ainst t he ir lea de rs . • At t e docks, the word was that t he strike was or d er e by the Union Boss at t h e bi piers, Micky Bowers, call ed an e x-convict. The State Crime Com 1ss1on is inv e sti at1n rack e ts along the waterfront - and subpoenaed Bowers as a witnes s . He objects, and h nee t h e strike. uch is t h e story we have, a nd it sounds odd - the New York water1ront paralyzed during a large part ot the da y, as a means of blockin a racket investi ation. BLIZZARD The i g storm roared t h rou h t h e m iddlewest t oday - bl1nd1n sn ~ w on a how lin wind. Colorado r e p o ~ v e inches of the frosty w 1te; a :f-~~11.. ~~ +. A In ct ian~, ~ a l e ~ eight y mi les an h o ur. !ransportat1on tied up, communications paralyzed, se eral lives lost. Laat nignt, we heard how the blizzard cam~ up surprisingly - a roes the exas Panhandle. It law from eouthwest to northeast, all day. Ton1 g t, ripping thins up alon the Great Lakes. Big snow, big wind. SVEN H E DIN St o ckholm repor t t he death of - the dean of explorat on. ~ ghty-sev e n year old ven Hedin, whose caree began back in the 'Eighties - • 1th travels in centr•al Asia, that are classics. He was burdened with honors. In 1902, the King of Sweden elevated him to the nobility - the last Swede to be so honored. To the end of his long life he was - the geographer, the map-maker, the writer. I knew him rather well, having met him in Stockholm some twenty-five years ago. In fact I went on a sort of pilgrimage to the home of the great explorer who was a legend. Hot long before I had been in Afghanistan - and I knew how Sven Hedin had made great caravan expeditions, exploring towering Pamirs, the burning Taklamakan, seeking the sources of the great rivers, the Indus, the Brahmaputra, and searching for lost civilizations. Even then, r was interested in Tibet, and Sven Hedin at that time was the foremost of travelers who had been there. W:- had explored western Tibet, getting as far into Inner Tibet SVEN HEDIN - 2 as Shiga ze, a nd th e great monastery of Tashilwppo, seat of the 1 p nchen Lamo. B ut t here w a s one thing he had mis~ed _ Ihasa, the Forbidden City of the . lai L~ma. This had been a great disappointment in the life of Sven Hedin - he had never been 2ble to get to Lhasa, th t classic goal or travelers. We talked about all this, and I suppose I told him that I had the ambition - some day to reach Lhasa. But that seemed futile then - Tibet a closed land. Lhasa a goal that even the great Sven Hedin could not attain. Years later, the unexpected came about. In the complications created by the Communist peril, I was at last permitted to vistt Ihasa. Lowell Jr. and I making the trip. When we got back, I naturally thought of Sven Hedin. By a break of luck, we had been given the chance that had been denied to him. I wrote him, reminding him of my visit to his home those years ago, and telling him of our trip to Lhasa. That began a correspondence by letter, which continued on to the end. He wanted to know about Lhasa, the goal he had never SVEN HEDIN - 3 been able to r e ach - a nd as int nsely interested in Lowell,Jc•E book describing our trip. Then he sent us a setaf his own collected works. He was a prolific writer of books that made history. I had many of them in my library already, and now came - a dozen volumes. Huge tomes - each profuse~y illustrated with maps, charts, drawings. Sven Hedin was an accomplished artist, and made sketches of every interesting thirig during his great expeditions - much as an explorer today would snap camera pictures. He was like a figure out or the past - the heroic days of exploration. USTAURAN1' e re's a c om e-down that a d to be expected, wh enever ou find s o mething lofty and idealistic, there's liable to be a c a tch - the 1 . iring vision taking a fall. W 1c h n ow happe ns in the case of that story we had last ni gh t - about the restaurant 1n V1ctor1a, British Columbia, which was leaving it up to the customers - to pay w h at t e thought was right. Hot only were they honest - they were over-charging themselves, paying more t h an the regular pr1cea. ' " That was last nights account. So what nowt Well a woman walked in, sat down, and had soup, shrimp cocktail, crabmeat salad, vegetable salad, half a dozen fried oysters, an 1ce cream sunday, a piece of pie, two cups of coffee. Then - went to the cashier and plunked down fifty cents. According to the regular rates, she had eaten four dollars and a half's wo.:_:~ - The cashier looked a bit groggy, but the lady ; , explained: • I never pay more than fifty cents for a meal. •