r • - I q . . THE NEWS TONIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO TELLS OF THE QUARTERS THE SOVIET DELEGATION WILL OCCUPY DURING THE MANESE PEACE TREATY CONFERENCE. NO, THOSE MARXIAN caa,NISTS WILL NOT LIVE IN ANY PROLETARIAN SIMPLICITY. THEY HA\ ' ~ RENTED A FABULOUS MANSION IN EXCLUSIVE BURLINGAME . 1MIITIONAL HAUNT OF MILLIONAIRES IN SAN Fr-ANCISCO'S BAY A11£A. THE £STAT£ WAS FOUNDED BY THE CROCKER FAMILY, . FME> IN IANICING - RAILROADS. THE THIRTY ODD ROOM MANSION AND ORNAT£ GROUNDS ME lt£PUT£]) TO HAVE COST ONE MILLION SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND at.MS. "E SOVIET PEO, t:. £ ARE MUM ABOUT THE IIATI'Elt, IEMLY INF!)RMING lfFICIALS Of' THE STATE J>EPARTIIENT THAT TH£Y HAVE RENTD TH£ CltOCtctR ESTATE. IUT, AT THE SAME TIME, THEY ' ~1',.NOT CANCELLD IIEltlVATIONS FOR 'IWENTY•EIGHT ROOMS AT THE ~RANClllt HOTIL. " -■ THEY HAD I OIC£J> TO .GIN WITH, AND APPARENTLY WILL IC!EP 111a Al A SORT Of •TOIN HOUSE• -• ALL A PART Of t-ROLETAIIIAN LUIURT TO IE tNJOYD BY GRGIIYKO AND HIS PALI. ..... 1 DIPLOMATS In London, the belief persists th a t the mystery of the two missing diplomats is about to be ~ solved. Today the British Foreign Office issued a formal denial - that Donald McLean and Guy Burgees have been located. Hothing to 1t, 1ay1 the rorelgn Office. But 1t1 all mighty strange, because the atorJ W&I published today by the ~ondon Dally Herald, offlol&l new1paper of the Brit11h Labor Party. The Dally Herald 1a1d that Britleh military intelligence had been able to z•a■■x*~•• trace the movements of McLean and Burgess ever since they landed 1n France and van11hed, May Twenty-Jifth. In London there's a good deal of surmise regarding today'• roreign Office denials of the 'diplomatic• variety. One story la that they have been traced to Red Czechoslovakia - behind the Iron Curtain. But this is uncertain, and all we have 1a the roreign Office of the Labor Government denying the story printed flatly in the newspaper of the Labor Part,. - FOLL DIPLOMATS HERE'S E LATEST FR LONDON •• ANOTHE STORY IN THE DA I LY HERALD• THE LABOR PARTY PAPER I NS I STS O THE CORRECTNESS OF WHAT IT HAD TO SAY. THE ARTICLE IS BRIEF AND QUITE THE DEN I AL. ISSUED BY THE f OR£ I Gt1 OFF 1.;E. BU1 IT GOES ON Tl SAY THAT THE DA IL Y HERALD HAS SENT TO THE FORE I GN OF'F t CE A Y BY •v ITINERARY OF THE TRIP MADE BY TH£ MISSING DIPLOMATS •• UDING I Tl ON THEIR PRESENT . READOUTS. WHAT TH£8£ ](TAILS ME, HCMEYER, IS NOT DISCLOSED. THE ARTIClt eF. TONIGHT STRENGTHENS THE IELIEF IN LONDON THAT nE FOIIEIGN o,,1cE DENIAL WAS OF THE "l)IPLCIIATIC" VARIETY fHILIPPINE§. There was a treaty-s1j&1ng ceremony 1n lashington today, and the chief personalities were two Presidents. Trw.,a.n - for the U.S.A., Quirino for the Phlllpp1ne Republic. The new treaty 1s for •utual defense, each party agreeing to go to the help ot the other if elther 11 attacked. ii l the Cone Ph1 4 1n The defen \ d with lQBSA The Chinese Reda ~~ chargef of /t neutrality violation tod~y-_""< · · that • i . · ~ an amer can bomber flew over laesong on Wednesday, a.nd dropped & parachute fl a r ~ . The Reds declare the people of l&esong regarded this as - •a threat to bomb the city and put an end to the peace negotiations.• However, they don't aay there was any bombing, just & plane flylng over and dropping a fla.re. Whlch tf true, wouldn't seem to amount to much. 9ut the enemy choooes to regard lt &1 a violation, and a44 it go their other compla1nt1. a t ; . , , ~ ~ ~ ~ ! ! • ' 1 1 ~ ~ - . . Meanwhile, they h~ve not sent a reply to General Ridgway's latest me11age.11xnli'ut the belief still persists ti ln Tok;o and Korea that the truce talkl will be resumed. Opt1m1stto, but th e re's pessimism too. Doubt ts expressed that the •••1 negotiations, if resumed, will get anywhere · . There's a feeling that the Red■ will break off again whenever it happens to suit their purpose - the conclusion of a truce unlikely. on the other hand, Tokyo says there &re evidences of disagreement between the Chinese and Korean wu·~ leds. The Chinese &re represented &s w&nt1ng a.n arm1st1oe, even on terms that might not suit the •or,h Ioreans. The Chinese being concerned &bout the ta,e of their army 1n Korea....,...1f th~ wa. should go into full ~ olence again. t. RE SE ~ONCESSI • . THE £ SERIES APPLIANCE • YEAR. THI TtE HOUS£. • THE TeBAC IS£ COT c1GMEms TING TO A OF OIE •• · ION DGLURS. IS OFFSET - TOBACCO. EIGHT££ C TS POUND. THE TO CENTS. IELL, TOBACCO ilATI T - T SE W£J£ s (1f NCSIDENT TRUMAN TONIGHT TOOi( DRASTIC ACTION - TO ENI THE COPPER STR I KE• HE t NVOKED THE NAT I ONAL EIIEIG£ SECTION OF' THE TAFT-HARTlEY LAW, SEEKING AN AIITt- TRIKE INJUNCTION WHICH WOULD CALL OFF THE WALK-OUT EIGHTY DAVS. AT THE SAME TIME HE APPOINTED A THREE-MAN Flt:f~INDING BOARD TO INVESTIGATE TR£ DISPUTE. THIS UNDER THE TAFT-HARTLEY I.AW HAD IEEII EXPlCTEJ> •• E1t STRIKE BEING A IIENACE TO NATIONAL DEFENCE. - 7 Af01 1 Q In Washington, a. Navy contra.ct was a.warded ) tod&Y - one of the most intere s ting. The Westinghouse llectric Corporation was assigned to build the actual driving mechanisms for an atomic powered aubmarin / That warship of the future is being constructed a, Groton, Connecticut, and the atomic work has gone 10 far a.a to call for the manufacture of the ■ peci&l boilers and turbine generators - to converi intense heat of a.n atomic furance into motive power for driving a submarine. ;JJIX Today ti■ Governor Dewey of Bew Tork states oonclua1on he has arrived at after a forty-f1Te \bou1and mile tour 1n the Pacific. The Go•ernor reiurned last nlght, and today a4dreise4 the Vetera.n• of foreign Ware ln Bew Tork. Be aald: •1, 11 tlae we draw a 11ne in the Paclflo and aaJ ,o all a11re11ora, 'thla 1• & free world. Step aero•• that line and you wlll get•~ & bloo4J noee,a1 you 414 1n Eorea.•• BAAYII There'• an odd bit of ttstory behind the award granted to former President Herbert Hoover today. The whole thing goes back to the Iowa State Centennial Celebration in Nineteen Forty-six, which was co1111emorated with an i ■■ ue of Centennial alf dollars. ~ These made a hit with the num11matists, and have become a collector'• item. The ■ tate made a hundred and ninety-eight thou1an4 dollars out of the deal, and 6 thie w&e put into a fund to finance scholarship■ and present awards to •t•*• diat'1ngui1hed aona of Iowa. ~ The one who la now · the first to receive it - j well the choice wae inevitable. The only i•in& -4, lx-Preeident wae born at Weit Branch, Iowa,and the citation states: •To Herbert · Boover, Pre114ent of the 1 United St&tee, native •on of Iow&, oitlsen of the worl~ et&teaa&n, hwaanlt&ri&n, engineer, &dalnietr&tor, who ft hae won the greatest honors w · ith humility, the atate Jl' of low& grants the Ion aw&rd." £. ~ ~~-~~~~iei! ~ ~ ~~~~1~:.-✓ ~ - 1 . M . ~ ~ - 11p141 Hext Wednesday will be the day of the funeral of Sergeant John R. Rice, the Winnebago Indian killed in action in Korea - whose body was•• denied admi ■■ lon to a cemetery at Sioux City, Iowa. ( The display of race pre~udice has aroused nationwide anger, and President Truman countered wlth the offer of a hero•• The widow accepted, an ~ 1oday . "/ funeral at Arlington. , •• Army etated that . (,\1 the ceremony *o9)4 be held on Today Mre. ITelyn Klee declared ahe haa no hard . feelings toward lloux City - where oe■eterJ authorities tried to make amend ■ by apologizing profusely and offering a free , plot for burial. But Krs. Blee accepted the Vhlte Bou■e propo1a1. ( tod&J ehe was deluged with ■e11age1 of eyapatby. In the Panama Canal Zone, they've solved the uzzle of the mystery ship, that sini s ter craft, supposed t o be sneaking in to blow u the locks of the canal. It's a sad story, mates, another of those tragedies of the sea) The cargo ship Santa Monica, flying the Peruvian flag, was to have been chartered they hoped, by the Panama Ceaent Company, and take aboard a cargo for El Salvador. But the cement people found the ship was involved in a lawsuit. lhich left the ve11el in a sad state. food supplies ran out. No money to bu7 provisions - er to pay docking charges. So the ve1sel went drifting a round in Panaaanian waters. Last week, the skipper, ( a German, Captain Banke:) went ashore to persuade somebody to a end food for · his crew. But, with no cash, he pleaded in vain. Captain Hanke was afraid to go back to the ship eapty- handed, didn't dare face his crew; -- and he threatened t.o bang himself. Meanwhile, the Santa Monica, wandering around to no apparent ~ urpose, started rumors - mystery ship, sinister, scheme to blow up the locks of the Panama Canal. But today the puzzle •as solved -- and let's hope they p ut some grub aboard the woebegone craft for the hungry crew, and keep Captain Hanke froa banging bimaelf. 1114P HAPHISS In France they've solved the mystery of the 'bread madness.• Scientists have been ma•ing a study of the strange outbreak of temporary 1naan1ty, with hallucinations of fire, demons and snakes. Thirty persona stricken with a frenzy, reaini1cent of ator1e1 of 'bread madness• in the Middle Agee. ' Today the answer was &1ven - ergot polson1ng. lrgot is a fungus - which eometimea thrive• ln cereal 1ra1n1, like wheat. The chief of the medical laboratory at llaat Kar1ellle1 ha• found trace• of the poison in the bodies of victl ■• - and in •ample• of the klnd of bread they ate. It la pointed out that the lrgot fungua 11 ■01t likely to be found 1n grain durlng a wet 1ea1on, and rra.nce baa been hav1n1 one of the raln1e1t year• 1n recent hl1tor7. V:IZX Venice, romantic city of the atreets of canals, is h a ving - the party of the ce tury. The pageant s y lendor of the dtges of old 1 8 being exceeded - - and all the gondoliers are excited. so 1 8 the Venetian black market - which, aa a k■ matter of tact, plays the most lnterestlng part of all ln the tabulou1 eTent. It• all because a Bpanlah mul1l- a1111ona1re ha1 taken over a palace on the Grand Canal, and 1• holding a houae-warmtng, which he call• - the par,y of the century. The gueat 11st numbers two thousand, and tbe names dazsle the eye. The ti■lllinn•u Archduke Otto ot Bapa urg, the Duke and Ducheas of Wlndeor, for m er Brlttah Prime K1n1ater Wlnaton Churchill and hla faa1ly, the Aga and Begua Khan and Prince Aly, and an lncredlble ( 411n1tar1e1 1 - a11ortment of otberA ■tpStmx•s~ A■erlcan ■ 1111onalre1 &nd movle stara~..4-C~ , But there w111 be other guesta also, and that 1 1 mzx - 2 where the black market comes in. Invitations have been forged. Price - Five or six hundred dollars per cop~. So 1t promises . to be - the gate-ora1h1n1 party of the centur~. The Spanish mult1-m1111onaire 1a try1ng to check the racket. Special 1tamp1 • • • have been 1e1ue4, which the gueets have to paste on the1r 1nv1tat1on• - or out you go. But the black market countered bJ turning out forged stampa. Tbey~e planning to 1taap leglt1mate 1nv1tat1on1 wlth 1peclal tlouresoent 1nk, but the bets 1n Venloe are tb&t the black market wlll beat that also. So Venice 11 waiting tor the pa1eant proceas1on of gondoliers along · the Grand Canal. to the palace and the party. 'f . hat prooe111on of 4asll1ng celebritiea - not to . aentlon the gate-craaher ■ if?# «1&jitAz "1. of the century. - 41 7 114VTX CONTEST All is not well in the beauttful world - that is, the world ot beauty contests. The Dean of the Ju~ges at the Mies America hullabaloo has quit. lever more, 1n Atlantic City, will Vincent Trotta cast an appraising eye on the ahapely proports:.tona, the curves, and smiles. Today he gave the reason why - because now its also a talent contest. The lovelies are a110 required to have brain■ -- which ls &eking too muoh. lt. •rem1n1re beauty 1• aaya he aoulfullJ,•ia a great talent A - ~ ln itself.' And-"'&dda: •It may be marred by rules tb&t require contestants to sing, dance, or bate a cate.• So the Dean of Niaa Amerio& Judges 11 tranaferring to another extravagan■a of beauty -- an4 a greater one. At least, the name le greater. Today he said he will serve as head of pulchritude in Long Beach, will select - Mill Universe. judge at a pageant Californta.~here they I\ Which really takes in a lot of territory - including the girls of Mara, if there are any. p&DL~UUL:..i But who knows - tbe 1irl1 of lar1 aigb\ ba•• three •1•• and two no•••· lour California hoae to•D includes theatoo, lelaon, aad 1111 &aerica will h••• to play second filled to 11•• Ual•er1e! JUQ1~..fli.I . . The news wire today brings a re . ort from a news man flyi n g over scenes of hurricane devastation in Uexico. The big blow was eight days ago, but the flood crisis continues and the Mexican government is flying in food and aedical au lies. •Flood waters stretc h from horizon to horizon west of Tampico,• cables U.P. Corres . ondent Bob Prescott. •only rooftops and trees can be seen above the muddy brown expanse. One man perched disconsolately on the roof of a stable. Bis cattle shoulder-deep in water.• Villages are like islands in an ocean, and down came the parachute drops. •Some of the women• the U P correspondali.t wri tea, •knelt and lifted their arms in prayer. Men waved their shirts frantically. Children sprinted, and scuffled for possession of canned meat, powdered milk, beans, rice.• Last weekend my wife and I flew over that island the scene of hurricane devastation. But, homeward bound from South America, we were in a big Pan American airliner, wingin too h1 · h t t o ge a cle a r g L impse of the avoc below. We flew right ov e r Jamaica, w h ich was so hard h it, and I could on ly wonder __ had the hurricane blown away my old friend, Harold P eat? Be's a lecture bureau manager who bas a home in Jamaica, and was thlre when the big •inn came. It see~s, he wa ■ n't blown away, instead, he ias j st a rrived in the United States for a lecture tour, on his own. Be's just ... · dropped in to assure me he wasn't blown a•ay. So Harold, will you tell us something about that hurricane in Ja11aica? ll!IQ1JLfJAI: lell,Lowell, how can I describe a hurricane? That one was the har•est blow Jamaica has ever had. But, then, they've only had four hurricane• in the past sixty years. Some communities and the big city of Iing ■ ton were flattened out. The .eople •ere knocked flat on their faces. But here's the th ·11 t f ·t They got u p off their faces. r1 ing . ar o 1 . ~The blast of the storm struck at midnight. But, by - U,RQLD PEAT - 3 six o'clock the next morning, there were thousands and thousands of people, little people, big people, cleaning up, removing debris, repairing communication,. J&maicans have spirit, a.nd no official appeal has been sent abroad for help. Within thr e daye a hundred and fifty thousand dollars were subscribed locally. Not a big amount for the United States, but the Jamaicans are poor. They al1O believe 1n helping themselves. There is one saving grace. The Jamaicans 101t all their crops, 01tru1, bananas, sugar, coffee, cocoanute. But they still have their greatest economic a11et. I mean, of course, their resorts and hotel• - which were not at all damaged by the hurricane. Discovery ,_, Bay, Columbus Inn, didn't loa~ even a pane of glass. ~ That permits a good tourist 1eason, and Jamaica is likely to ave more v1e1tors than ever during the next few months. Everybody knows that hurricanes never blow in winter. That's the time of perfect weather in Jamaica.