The defeat was abys ■ al, the collapse igno■ inious - for the Tru ■ an racial rights bill in the Senate today. The vote ■ arked a ■ et - e preli ■ inary battle, ~ and indicates that the Civil Ri1ht1 Prograa, backed If"' ~ so strongly by the lhite ~ouse, has not a chance in the luaber One showdown - it there ia one. Th• ieaue today wae not a ue1tion of pa1sin1 the bill, but =--- onl7 of brit11in1 it up• and voting to abut ott 4ebate, 10 as to prevent a Southern tilibu1ter in that ■ ere preli ■ inary bu1ine11. l two-third• aaJority waa neede4, 1lzt7-foar ~ vote,. But, when the test caae, the adainiatratioa torcea got only fitty-two ••twelve abort. Th• fia1co ••• partly because ot the absence of s ~ nators, but it r'bowed only nineteen 1e■ ocrat1 Joining thirty.three Republicans in the ettort to put through the Civil On the opposite side were twenty-six Democrats, ■ ostly Southerners, and nine Republicans. These figures drew i ■■ ediate taunts fro ■ the C.O.P. - jeers at the s ■ all nu ■ ber of Deaocrat1 who 1upported that (~ .. 4 ■ easure the lhi te Bouse holds to,< ,cut nuaber on• i ■portance in the Truaan Fair Deal progra■• Over in Europe, Secretary of State Acheson said good-bye todaY. with a farewell expressed in . /1Y words - •we•re staying.• Leaving for ho ■ e, the Big-Ti ■• conferences of the Big Three a the Atlantic Pact lations, he ••r•ed notice asp siti•• and aole ■n •• the la1llab language • it. •The United States,• he declared, •baa continuing tntereat and 1take in luropean affai s, which will not end with the ter■ tnation uropean Reco•ery Progra■ in !ineteen ti tty-two. ,, - a aaid that, after the lar1ball Plan, tbe United States will continue to extend 1upport, econo ■ ic and ■ ilitary, to the luropean de ■ocraciea threatened by •1a con•inced that neither national independence nor Deaocratic evolution can exit within the network of Soviet iaperialis ■.• the Foreign estern power• will Austria. Rey will as in the Zone to ot repres own attair1, ati••• ot the le1tern Today brings the address on the state of affairs in Germany - the report that waa rejected by the Anti-Defa■ ation League of B'lai B'Ritb. So ■e days ""'""' ~ a go, that Jewish organization, aeeting in C leYelaD4, ••• to baYe beard BenJaain Buttenwi••••r, A11i1tant C ■erican 81gb Co ■■ i11ioner for Ger■ any, who bad been in•ited to apeat. But, wbeD they aaw the text of the 1tate ■ enta to be aade, the leaders of the Anti-Defa■ atto League withdrew the in•itation - di1appro•in1 of tbe tbin11 that BeDja■ in Buttenwete11er waa prepared to aay. Today, however, that•••• address was ■ ade - before the roreign Policy Aasociation in I•• Tort. So what was it? - Tb• Aas iatant High Co ■■ issioner states that ' la1ia ■ bas been liquidated in Ger■ any. •Except for ao ■e frag■ nts • d 1 ' ec a res Buttenweisaer ' •1azism has been destroyed, never to rise again.• Be ad ■ it there are aany who will dispute this, and who will say that Anti-lazi ■ easures under the Aaerican Occupation have been weak and insufficient. •This •iew,• contends the Assistant Bigh Co ■■ issioner, •is ill-founded and uatenable.• Be esti ■ ates that there are se•en ■ illion for■•r laii• in Geraany - ■ any of the■ in public office and in high business positions. •The ti ■• baa coae,• • he argue,, •to p•r•it the ■ to •how that they ha•• learned a lesson. It 11 neither possible nor deairable,• . be contends, •to t~y to keeps ven million toraer la1i party ■ e■ be~s outaide the co ■■ unilJ - to1etber • - 1th their dependents, probably twenty-ti•• ■ illion , people.• Be concedes that lationalis ■ is ri~ing in Ger■ any agai : , but adds that lationalis ■, in its proper sense represents what he calla - •Pride in one's country•. lore'oYer, aays he - We ■ uat treat Ger■ any with patience and understanding. Such is the report the Jewiah organi1atioD refused to hear - in a dr•■ atic rejection. le ■ ories of ~gone history were stirred by a state ■ ent in Toyko today - ■ ade by a for■er Jieutenant of the Japanese lavy, w~o ••• a leader in the Bombing of the Panay,. Re ■ e ■ ber that U.S. gu n boat sunk in the Yaagtee in Eineteen 1hirty !even - one of the apecta~ular ~ event, leading up to the war with Japan? The Toyko ..,/ 1overn ■ ent ■ ade profuee apolo1i•• - ao sorry. But i ■ erican indignation flared high - at the unprovoked The 1tory, printed today, 11 by .• 1quadron -- co■■ aader, who ••1• - they thought th• Paaay waa Jbin•••• - In•ader1 were advancing toward laating, and the Chin••• ........ were ■ oving troo s out of that city. Th• Japan••• ........ Air Force was assailing evacuation boat, - and ■ iatoot the Panay for one of these. So 1ay1 the squadron leader in the attack, and he call• it - a •Terrible blunder.• ~ •@•ls;>,tl:wJ L tu I 24 PAIAY 2 ----------- lell, it's a rather late date to have this explanation. But, in any case, it was a •Terrible - blunder• tor J-apan. , At Long Beach, California, there was a ■ eeting today - enthusiastic, and not so enthusiastic. The two Aaerican fliers, held prisoner for ninete e n aontbs by the Chine•• Co■aunists, returned hoae - and, at the flying field, la•J Chief Petty Officer lillia ■ Saith was gre•ted by his wife and two sons. The enthusia•• of the reunion ••• eYident -- when the released prisoner and hie wife ran together, and he hugged her so hard, that her hat flew off. The lack of enthusiaaa waa aanifested by the teo boys, naaed Pat and lite - thr~e 1•ar1 and nineteen aontha old. One was a little oYer a year old when hie father left, the other not yet born. They etood staring glualy, at - that ■ an. Chief Petty Officer Saith brou1ht -r.ddy bear for the■, and their ■other had taught the■ • song for the occa Sion. •tr I knew you were co ■ ing, I'd have baked a cake• But not a peep out of the ■• They stared at the stranger with a stony expression - that ■ an. To ■ ake up for this lack of enthuaiaa ■, there waa a cheering crowd, while a la•y band blared away. A rouain1 welco ■ e, all the ■ ore joyful tor Chief Petty Officer S ■ ith and larine Flier Ser1eant Bend•~ - because, during their long iapri1on ■ ent, they thought their own country bad abandoned and forgotten thea. they lly, they ost their way, nd fl•• o• \o / / t z r i t y. But they ••1 they did 1tate- the ntents to be diyulged late. The police at Columbus, Ohio, say they baye a lead in the case or the circus fire diaaater at Hartford, Conn., nearly six year• ago - when a hundred and sixty-nine li•es were loat. Tb• Big tent 1bo• of Rin1lin1 Brother, and-Barna■-&nd-lailey caa1bt fire •bile a packed crowd wae watchtn, the circa ■ - and tla■• •••pt in one of the worat of . horrora. The lead at Colu■baa, Ohio, co ■•• about tn tbe tollowin1 way•-Tbe police ba•• been que1tionin1 a 1roup of three arsoniete, 1uilt1 of 1ettin1 fir••• One - a tire ba1 ••nt to an inaane aayla ■• laotber - who barned a barn at the Ohio headquarter• of tbe 11111 Brothers Circua. Tb• third araoniat of tbe trio ad ■ its that be aet fire• in Ohio - and be waa a circa ■ -:.i working for the Ringling Brothers abo• at the ti ■• of the fire disaster in Hartford. Be denies bavin1 had anything to do with that, but a Colu■bas police official eays he thinks the euapect - •&ad ao ■ e part in 1 t. ~ The Hartford tire was attribated to a carele1 .. lJ to11ed ci1aret; and aix circua e■plo1e•~ iacladi11 two high official,, were eentenced to priaon, on cbar1•• of ne1li1ence. IXPLQ~IQI~ In Chicago, three wo ■ en are in the hospital tonight, after a fantastic scene in a restaurant. ~ A wo ■ an•s bowling league was holding a banq-uet, and ~ the ■ gaiety was at the cli ■ ax, when the extraordinary thing happened. They bad a pri•a\e dining rooa, decorated like a Chri1taaa t~•• - the orna■ents including a tloct ot toy balloon•. Tb•••• tilled with bao7ant gaa, ••••1 o•erbead, attached to 1trin1•• In the ■ idat of the 1aiet7, on• of the ladi•• bad the idea ot ba•lla1 down a ballooa, and the other• followed ••it. lo, la a ■ inute, they were batting th• colored 1pbere1 a;-\und the table. On• balloon touched a lighted cigarett~ • aad exploded. lhlch touched off a chain reaction, the ,.-... other balloon• blowing up, in q uict aucce11ion. A ••ries of blasts • • •iolent •nouah llELQ§lQI - 2 to blow out the windows of the privat~ ining roo ■ and shatter glass in the main part of the re taurant. Five of the wo ■ en bowlers had to be treate4 for burns and shock - especially._ ahoct. This week-end w e are, in a w a y, finishing up that trip to Ti et. You know how, after some event th e re are som e times a few details to polish off. Well, this is one -- and here's how it happened. When Lowell Jr. and I were in Lhasa, •• were surprised to find that we ■ ight be able to get a radio ■ easage through to A ■ erica. We ha•• alrea47 told about that interesting lone !n1lish■ an, R•11t• Fox. Be li•ea there in Lhasa, with a Tibetan wit• --tf....~L.-.~ and chlldren,I\ ■• I• t~ radio operator who •it• there on the loot of the lorld, liatenlng. And thea he reporh .~.t~!:;:.=f !:;z ~-- ~ O ~-1£.,.~ ~hlt is happening in the oatalde world - - tbe ~ world beyond the Himalayas which the Dalai La ■ a"-1' ~ 4 · ~ ~ , v - f IRsa ne•er aeen.1"Reg also has a weak trans■ itter "' over which be said he would try to trans ■ it a •••s•~• • to A ■eri ca tor u-;; . ~~t we at last were in l J!DDIIII - 2 -------- Lhasa. Whereupon Lowell Junior spoke up - said he had LTH,&k.<--!e.~ a message~t 1 ~letoiend. Bis message was to a certain young lady in Greenwich, Connecticut. lfR a ■easage from Lhasa, which he never I\ expected to et · throug¾--~~~1 hy Pryor that another trip to the Roof-of-the-world, I hope she'll be along.• lell, hia ■ e11age was picked up, by•• Charles lellen, a radio ha■ in Boston, who relaye4 i t 1 . . , and the yoang lady got ~t_:J i_ And now, here we are in Greenwich for a wedding at which I a■ to be be3t ■ an. It's a double celebration, for I • • l••• have discarded ■1 crutches so I can walk down the a i s l e ~ beet ■an to the partner ot J' Tibetan journey, at his weddin to the ~irl who rec iv d that ■ easa~• ent out ov r the Dalal Lama's radio. One reason I am mentioning this is, that ■ any of you have recovered • ...,Q been writing, asking whether I ha•• 4 ~ ~ ,._.. .... ~ ./i.,.,tiad great man~ At\ ■ e how,.. pra,-ei for me - after that accident - when I was bein1 carried across the Tib tan Aateau and over those h"9 mountains. I am sure all your prayers were a #a ...,..~ real help. It'. ■ hopelesa for ■-toF'-" Lall ,,~¥ ~ ~ ~ I I H n f ' 1 youow auci aWeciat. 4¥ scgl',l11 11 That•• why I a■ telling you that I ha•••• l ■■ t •sac a,11 • put aside th~ crutch••• I aay not walk up the aisle with quite a1 ■ach ti dignity as if I'd ne••r been thrown by a that horse on• high paa1 in the Bi ■ alaya1i but, ,,.. this 11 the final afteraath of our trip to the Land of Lost Horizon - a weddin1. The city of Paris, today, had the all-ti ■• traffic Ja■• On the boulevards, the aut~■ obiles, buses and truck• piled up in the worst ■ ix-up •••r 1een. So what was ~ r a f f l e gendar■ea {\ .r the troubl•1 ■••• ••* _.... ... .._ on the Job/. They were - that wa1 - the trouble. The gendar■ ea engineered the cha■ pion traffic Ja■• {&.,,,) Th• paria police 11, de ■ anding higher wa1ea - - A bat can't go on atrfte. lhicb i• forbidden bJ 1••• So it ~a• wor•• than a atrite. Tod~J the 1en4ar■•• were on the job aa uaaal, at atreet interaection1 - but ■ ade no atte ■ pt to regulate traffic. Instead th•J ga•e confusin directions. Th•1 halted auto ■ obtle•, buaes and tru ks to tie up ••hicl•• tor ■ ilea. Thoae g endar■•• played trick• with the traffic ligbt1, ■ aking the ■ go on and off in such fashion as to snarl The boulevards were ja■■ ed solid. It toot buaee ~~~~L~t;4&~ two hours to tra•el a ■ ile.--?Je,Acai:r■~gtne the M.""1 din, the pude ■ oniu■ ot honking horn~)• !••i•