e.:1. _ s ~ a,._v?.-t fl , ~ - } '½· '"' '""'7- Attlee to step out as Prime Minister. That's the word from London tonight. A change in the British cabinet is foreshadowed by a report in today~s London Daily Mail.The Mail's political correspondent says that Attlee has told his closest colleagues in the government that for reasons of he . al th he intends to resign the Pre ■ iership in the near future. The correspondent says that discuesions · tor the new cabinet are already taking place with Foreign Minister trnest Bevin is slated to become Prime Minister. According to the report Attlee bas promised to oarry on until the all important Washington dollar *•lk•• talk• have passeij the critical stage. The head of the Labor government's health is known to have suffered from a long tera in Parliamentary service whicb started with his session in the war cabinet under Winston Churchill. The recent unrest inside the labor party and the Prime Minister's inability to placate the rebels in the past three weeks are said to have united 2 to bring about Attlee's decision to tak e his doctor's advice. So s ays the p ■ iisifa political correspondent of the Daily Mail. Which news of course is not official. ) U R -- United (onc e a g ain the echo rin g s from th e Rations - w oviet veto. Two more vetoes today. This makes fifteen in the brief hiatory of th.ct- international organizatio. The aajority decisions killed by the tw vetoes today were Australian resolution . a concerning Coaaunist aggression of Soviet satellites against Greece. Australia in two proposals suggested that a United lations patrol be set up to keep a watch on the borders of ~r e ece and the Red puppets, Ju1oalnia, Bul1aria and Albania.) The ■ajorit.y of t.lae delegates on the council voted in favor of the resolutions, but the Soviet veto killed thea. Ghe count of Soviet. vetoes has risen rapidly of late. Yesterday the Soviets vetoed the adaission of Ireland into the United lat.ions.) Today *••• ■ x■■ z■ there was further wrangling in the matter of Indonesia - Soviet Groayto ia delivering a bitter attack on the Unit e d States for having of f ered to mediate i~ the war b e tw~en the Dutch ll I_ - 2 and the lndrnesian Republic. The tone of this s debate hardly suggest the likelihood of a haraonious decision• - sounds ■ ore lite another deadlock. iali ■ ttrd"ld ~ tea newsp:JJp-1 J:- tells of heavy fighting in Java, a new surge of violeace in the ••••li■t conflict between ' the Dutch and the ' Indonesian Republic - - ~ t h e Indonesians - ■akin1 (intervention. ••••••• ~en!w~d appeals to the UN fo1;-<i■t ■ za lilBilA! A good deal of attention is being g iven to statements by S ecretary o f CGmmerce Aver e ll Harriman on the subject of S oviet Russia. There are several angles to make one stop and ponder. For one thing, Harriman•s declarations, ■ ad• before an audience in eattle, were just about the itron1e1t anti-Soviet pronouncements ever issued b a governaent official o f cabinet rank. The Secretary of Coaaerce, in effect, reminded the Stalin dictatorship we have the atomic bomb, and that Aaerican atomic power right now is the world\ most powerful force for checkin1 ailitar7 aggression - should ••J■■,Jxasi an7body atte ■ pt aggression. Soviet Russia, for example. Well we recall th•t Averell Harri ■ an was Aaerican war-time ~mbassador to Moscow, and . in those daya he was one of the most fervent aavocatea of A ■ erican-Soviet harmon7. S o obviously there has been a considerable change of the Barri ■ an mind - and this ma7 be tak e n as a striking indication of som thing that we•ve all beheld at cloa~ ran g e. During the past cou p le of years, many of ua BiiBIM!I - 2 have aarveled - ow swiftly the Soviets dissipat e d and threw away the immense a mount of A me 1· ican goodwill they • enjoyed when the war ended. Russi a 's tremendous fi g ht against Nazi Germany won unive.sal applause. The Soviets were our Allies in bitter war - and you always tend to think well ef your Allies. Moreover, all the tremendous machine~, of war-ti■ • propaganda was in action to aake · Aaerica think well of Soviet Russia. Every engin, of publicity •~s ••ployed to overcoae the old-ti ■ e Aaerican prejudioe against Co■munisa, and build up good-will. A huge aaount of good-will was built up ~ and aighty few of us ever dreaaed that it could be deatroyed so fast. After the war the A ■ erican Presa aad and radio still kept on talking up harmony and cooperatioa with the iasiatx Soviets;- but 1 the actions of Moscow aade it no go. Which leads one to wonder - why did the laxi ■* Soviets throw away ~11 that American good-will? You'd think they could have used it. fven supposing the Red - liJUtIMAl - 3 tyrants fi g ur ed th tour ~ estern constitutional freedom w ould eventually turn us a g ainst them - still, they might JR-lli.J- haYe figured it good policy to play onAA■ erican friendship left as a hangover fro ■ the war-ti ■ e pro-soviet propaganda. ca.rc4.v,a~ ,.,,I · But no - the Stalin d c'tator~ p...-opted a deliberate ,. policy of dissipating A■ erican good-will - throwing awa7 ~ ,hat could haY, beeb a valuable aaaet. Which ••k•• one ,onaer - wh7? But then, tbat•s the sa ■e old questioa •• ha•• to ask ~ bout 10 ■ any things - why? . . . I IARSBALL At Petropolis, Brazil, J ■••JJ today, the United States and Argentina ended their long at, ■ diplo ■ atic feud. It all resulted from a conference between Secretary of State Marshall aad the Argentine Foreign Minister. The Conference was Marshall's auggestion; a suggestion willingly accepted by the Argentine Foreign Minister.n=;he two diplo■at• had a frank direct discuasion of relations betwe~n the US A and Argentina. Although there is •o official what took place during6J, ~ pronounceaent o~l"blli s •,_.conver&ation, ~-llarehall 11 believed to have pointed out the extreme urgency of all the twenty.one A■ erican Republics showing a united front. This in vie• of the world situation an4 the widening split between Ruasia and the Western 1f world. After the interview, the A~gentine Forei1n ~ .S:ac., ~.ri.b lliniater war■ ly praiaed the way l'-8~~•••••ri• i1 carrying out his •o~ld J>oliciea. a«-1~~ lr-t'tAloota lite a diplo ■ atic triuaph tor I i i , ~ Marshall:-- an old a■ triendahip 01s11LL - 2 I renewed. And that's good news in these troubled tl•••· To ■orrow General Marahall is scheduled to ~ aate a speech to the aaae■bled delegates at a conference 0 t the twenty-one 1■erican Republic■, a apee:L .,JJ,a-!, ~ ~ t o be of world iaportance. Grim scenes in Cadiz, Sp a in, today. Thousands of exhausted rescue worker dig g ing in tbe ruibs caused by the explosion of that governaent torpedo factory. Tonight the rescue parties working frantically with the help of fk>od lights. All day they toiled in tb I blistering sun. Tonight in the sultry heat, the work of rescue goes on. Late this afternoon the last of the fire~ was . extinguished. But it will be days before the •ntin area of tuabled aasonry one~ a populous part - of the oitJ ancient city, can be uncovered. The lat s t oes as hi g h as five hundred killed, and five to six thousand injure~ in a series of frightful blasts that devastated the ancient harbor. Teaaf,--&8!'9 a naval b~se, and the disaster WBS caused by a series of explosions of torpedoes and mines. Just what touched off the blasts is not known, but apparently the torpedoes •*••lx•*••g started exploding first. Late word is that a-hundred-and-forty of *•n these blew up, and about a thousand na~al aiaea. The aetonations continued for seventeen hours -- that l ng; period of thundering violence and terror~adiz has known many a long century of aishap and trouble - founded by the Phoeneciana, captured by the Carthaginian•, then the Roaans. After the discovery of Aaerica, Cadiz becaae the chief seaport of Spain•a ship routes to the Aaericas - the harbor to which~ Galleons navigated, lade ,< with Inca goldfln the Sixteenth Century, Cadiz was looted and burned by the British, and thereafter sank to less C DIZ - ~ --- & im p orta~e. ut in all o f its checkered history, the ancient harbor never knew any violence to co•pare ith today - · hen a hundred and forty torpedoes and a thousand. naYal aines blew up. Today brin s res onse from labor unions on the subject of non-Communist affidavits. Unaer the Taft• Bartley Law, any union that seeks the help of the lational Labor Relations Board must first file affidavits testifyin& that none of its officials is a Communist. The intention, of••• course, is to get Soviet syapathizing Reds out of the leadership of our Aaerican Lab~~ Organizations. ~f tht leaders of·a union refuse oath that they are e for perjury. So it? Today>r\av.e answers A e C.l.O., the A.F. of L. and the of aachinists, the nation's biggest·indepen The G.l.0 serves.notice that probably its officers will not file the non-Communist affidavits. This rejection was given with the explanation that iia . . the policy. of the ~.l.O. to ignore the ~ational Labor - 3 official announcement, stating today that its officers •ill immediately sign the non-Communist affidavits. Th~• ~oing on record as not being Red~ - ~ the union ■aJ ~ avail itself of the services of the ~abor i ■ az■ z Board. I Relations Board, as constituted under the Taft-Hartley Law, so ther e fore the C.I.O. will also ignore the provision calling for •■■Ix non-Communist affidaYite. [since the C.I.o. has no intention of taK■l invoki~g the good off ice a of the Labor Board.-, •hy bother about the affidaYite? they are not required by law. They are needed only ia case a labor organization appeal• tot•• I.Tl.I.I.) Tllat _troa the Cio.ao, •hat about the A.F. of L? A /eder.ation spokes■ an stated today that •in all probability•, the officers of the Federation will file affidaYita stating that they are not Co■munists. The aubJect will be ■ade when a !.r. of L. President Green and other officials return to laahington fro■ the annual convention ~f the Wisconsin State Fede P ation of Labor. But, the A. f. of L. Officials •..!!.l aign the affidavits, "in all prob & bility,• sa i d the •~l spokeaaaa. As for the 1'nternational As s ociation of Machinists,••* that bi g gest indepen d ent union give s its n ashin g ton - it must be the heat. The notorious w e ather of the national capital in au ■aer aust be af fe ctin g people. They had a fiat fight, at a Congressional Coaaittee hearing today, and in the capital building the police arrested a Tennessee far ■er to be tbe Preside~t of the United States. " The Co ■■ ittee hearing concerned all that - - trouble they•ve been ha•ing in Hollywood, the union di1putea in movieland. An arguaent developed while Co■■ ittee Counsel Mccann was questioning A. r. of L.- Vice Pr e 1ident Doherty, an objection to one of the questi A . - ■ade by A.F. of L. Counsel Padway~ fhe dialogue • en t 1 i k e th i s : •rou can't interrrupt ■ e,• shouted McCain. •You can't scare ae,• roared Padway. they yelled at each other aoae aore, and Padw~y bellowed " l don't go for this Gestapo stuff.• 'You c•n•t use the word Gestapo,• yelled Mccann • • W hereu ~ Jn McCann grabbed Padway and hit hi ■ - and ibey went into a lively scuffle. Physically the two op p onents are described as •ing about equal, Mccann younger and Padway huskier - and they mi g ht have put up quite a battle. However, they we r e soon separated, and the hearing went on - after nearini all the shouting. 0 - The Tennessee farmer who clai ■ a to be President put in an appearance at the office of a Tenne11ee Congressaan. There he atat~d that he had been -,u- elected President, but/'the F.B.I. had asked hia to Barry Tru■ an to stay in the Whi\e Bouse for two So he graciously as1ented to that. This would-b.,! haa only one ara, but it was found that he had a holst•~ with a )8 aiz cal;bre re•olver. Une ar.■ - a but well araed:'At last reports._ docto:S:.::"rrying to figure how he got the idea ■ that he had been elected President. Divers are at work N " ' ~ Seattle - _ -- in Puget Sound ~,.,, searching for a valuab1 cargo in the wreckage of a ship on the floor of the ocean. And what ia thi1 valuable cargo? Is it gold., bullion, or Jewels? Those are the cargoes tor wbioh diYer1 usually ~~ tr brave the terror• of the deep. But thi1 Puget Sound tonight i1 ~ cargo the1"'9 1earchin1 tor in • ~ ditferent; but it'• " ,ap iaportant -- one-hundred-and tifty-tour oa101 ot oanned 1alaon worth three aillion tive hundred thouaand dollars. Salaon, a1 ,-S know, ie a scarce A itea on ~ store 1helve1, and ~ • ~M~•• 7P that'• wtiat aatea thi1 salvage worth while.Three aillion five hundred thousand dollars worth of aalaon at the bottoa ot the 1ee! lell, when this aal•on do•• get to the atoree, houaewivea will be buying fiah that has been caught iatl twice -- once aliv~ and onoe -~~ ~ •--••+t4 •n oan ..... "- JAIi Rain when you want it and how you like it. This boon to farmers is annoanced in Iansas City, Missouri today, by a iirm of crop-dusting aciatore. Busz Hershfield Jr. ~esident of the Co ■ pany announces proudly that hi~ outfit is ready to do business with those corn belt farmer• who are glooaily watching their crop shrivel up in the current drought. Just how Buzz is ·going to make hil rain, he won't say. ae claias, however, that hie ■ ethod is more successful than by dropping dry ice t r • p..anea. •we've tried four tiaea, and have been aaf successful tour tiaea• he saye. •Now •••re ready to make rain -- for a price. How auch will the rain cost? Be aa71 he can't guarantee the aaount ot rain hie aethod will bring, 10 the price will vary - - you pay tor what you get. It seems that the quantity ot thi1 Hershfield made rain ia soaewhat unpredibtable, w• - 2 and uncontrollable. In t~e four test caaea, one of the rain• waa · a heavy downpour -- doh• tell• ua. The others were just aoderate. Moat any faraer •t■t will be delighted to paJ tor rain if ti• cu get it when he deaperately needs it. UIGlllt_tBDMll The President's daughter is in Hollywood tonight. On Saturday, in the Hollywood bowl she will make her debut ae a concert singer. It's all such a serious business th at until Saturday, she is following an austerity program. No cocktail parties, no rounds of antertain ■ ent, just practice for the g reat d a J. •Being the President's duagbter puts ae in 1pot• 1he said. •on the other hand, it bas its adwantages; but I'• going to devote all ■J time to practice; •x rehearsing, rehaaraing, rehear.sing. lewa ■en asked •argaret Truman what her piano- · pla7ing father thought about her singing. To which •ti• replied: - •1t least, he doesn't object!• Any objection fro■ JOU lelson? We now come.to a topic venerable with antiqu . the acarcb of ancient Egypt. In the di ■ ~ncient day• of th• Pharaohs, the Egyptians had a supersiti•u• •eneration for that•• species of beetle - the scarab. The bug •a• considered s-cred, and it was coamon for Egyptian• . carry on their persona a scarab eablea, a flat bit of atone with a scarab engraved on it. These are etill toua4 in the age-old sands, at the Pyra ■ ids, near the Sphinx, in the valley of the Toaba of ltinga, find today a Yiaitor - ecarab to igypt often takes away aA••••-,\ as a treaaured ••••nto of the land of the lile. It••••• a ah••• to . diailluaioa 10 beautital a thought\ but, a newa■ an is duly bound to pa1a along wha\ coa11 on the wire - . . ..., today•• have a story fro ■ .I Bolly~ood. What hd Hollywood to do with the Pyra■ ida, the • A. Sphinx, the v ~ lley ot the to■bs of Iinga? Tbe an1wer i i painful to relate. A Hollywooi dispatc~ sent alon~ by Aline Mosby of the United Press, tells of an ent~rprise started i~ARAll~ - 2 A, by movie actor - ~eteran film-player Richard ~ane. lie ~ - used to be in be bottlecap business, as a sideline to acting - manufacturing caps for milk bottles. During the war, he ran into difficulties, because of the shortages - the governaent cutting off the supply of paper for aakiDC ailk bottle caps. So be had to - think up so ■ething el•• to aanutacture at his plant - to keep the ■achio•• 101a,. tie scoutea arouAd, and preseo\ly took note • of the tact that -:t" Hollywood and vicinity there A. lively business in manufactur , ing ■ erchancliae for, Indiana in the neighborhood of the Grand Canyon. Bedakina did a lively trade with tourists, s~llin1 aboriginal arrowheads, tribal ■ occasaiona, ornaaenta and jewelry - authentic •1avaho•. -~ •4t~••• are aanufactured around Hollywood, " by machines, mass production, - then sold in wholesale lots to the wily Redskins, who fool the touriata. Actor Richard Lane noted this with interest, and was even ■ ore surprised to learn about mumay cloths and papyrus in s cri p tions - shipped to Egy p t to be sold as venerable antiques to bmerican tourists. Als~a m & rket scarabs/ 4/,£s bottle-cap stamping aachiaer7, w&e beautifully adapted to a ■ ass production of scarabs. couldn't get paper for milk bottle--:"' 1 topa, but th• aaulet1 required aerely aoae kina of stone1 and a 1p1cie1 of coapoaition concrete was fixed up for that. • iii that hichard.Lane had to do chance the ata■plng daTlc?a~~~11xad ■ bottle-cap•: - •Drink ■ ilk/ '4(eep h al thy!• But har4 to~itcb to a new ataap that engraved the tgyptian outline• if of the scarab. Sa the ■ ass produc~ion began, and today ti• ■eNbandiaing firas ower in Egypt place regular orders, each order for fourteen thousand at a tiae:tf'Tbe acarab ouaineaa is boo■ in 6 - a sad thing for those of us who ha•• visited Egypt ann brou g ht back an ancient aaultt of the F9o,,-\YO""e•N\ •acre~ btietle of the Pharaohs. Wv,e•~ buy the s~me thing in Hollywood~➔ a g r at deal cbeap~r. " In this next story, except for one thing, l aigbt aake reference back to •Peck's Bad Boy.• However, * l'd have to say, "Peck's Bad Girl• - or rather two of the ■• At Louisville, Ientucky, two blonde, blue-•1 little siaters, Bora and Charlotte Eppeheiaer, atrolled o,er to the house of a neighbor, Mr. and Mrs. John Dobaoa I who were away fro• boae for a week. Toda7 the two little girl . •, ae••n &nd eight years old, explained tbat, the7 ••r• - •just p~aying.• But here'a ao• they played:- They put a ladder against the wall of the Dob1on hoae, and that broke the dining roo■ window. Th•1 cliabed in, and went to the kitchen, where the7 •••pt the shelf clean of two sets of dishes, saash•~ thiq1 oa the t■ floor. On top of the wreckase of the dish••• the7 piled ~he contents of the refrigerator, · taking care aaash the bottlea of ■ ilk, and then saeared the auatarJ all over the floor. Whereupon, Hora n- Charlotte moved on to the bedrooms, emptied all the bur drawers, and aiJJi ripped GI LJ - ~ ----- n s e s an b ,. i< 0 b s . In , h livin~ r o m s t y b u ~ n a b o · of matches on the lo n d. d e a i charred hole in th ru 0 • ~e ven year old Ch rl ott e discov r · n ei h t •in .ch huntio ni fe , : ent into the b c y r and kill e a cnicxen. On the orch, the t10 si ters found a caJ of • re n paint. ,hereupon t h~y rounded u¥ the D ' obs n dog and c a t and painted them re n. Ther w s some pi paint left, and this they u ed to decorate a pair of Mr. uobsoij 1 s ---~c3~.,,,-...c. ~-to~~~ trousers -A obbin Dobson •s pan ts. Finally, they let the ~obson mule out of the lot ~n into the garden, which• the mule trampled into reckage. ~o today they ai they were "just playing ." eck's Bad uirls." -- \ \. LTP.1947.08.19i.pdf LTP.1947.08.19ii.pdf