INDONESIA ---------- t, 1-s~~ 'P.,iJ. ~ I a.,. ~l'f,/,7 . ( In Indonesia, the war is over, for the time being at least. The Dutch High Command flashed a •cease fire• order by radio to all its units) even outpats in Java and Sumatra, shortly before Midnight laat night:,{At the saae tiae, President Soetarno ot the iaalaa■ Indonesian Republic broadcast a aessage to hi• people to stand fast in their places and stop However, the 1■,t- Dutch Ar■y has wrecked the Republioaa co ■muaication• to such an extent that it will be difficult to convey the •cease fire• order to ao■e Bepublioaa unite, especially aountain patrol. The Indonesian Pre ■ ier announced that hi• people stipulated that the i1aues be arbitrated before an international 0o■ai11ion, that all captured Indonesian• be returned troa the Dutch prison ca■pa, all captured officers returned, also that the~utcb forces be withdrawn behind the lines established by the agree■ent of last October)The Indonesian Prime Minister interpreted the decision of the Security Council of the Unitei Hationa to mean that it consider e d the Indonesian• had been right all along. inston ~ l e n g t ~ the first u chills o K hi mina ~ at time sine the ofitish aoll ~ r c isia becaae parlimount in the new. He accu ed the Labor ~overnment of havin fritter a -~~~ from Uncle Sam on indulg nces, ~ , .a.......~+-...... .L. ~ ~ r-"' V\-J aw · y the n. spenl- it . ,.. shows and tobacco, instead of for solid " money borro1ed for }Jicture .. mat • rials necessGry for post war restor~tion. Inf round Churchillian verbiage, he declaimed: •when you borrow ~ money from another country for~sacred purpose of rehabilitation, it is wrong to squander it upon ino.ulgences.' He could not have believed, aaid he on the morrow of the Geraan c na Japanese &Qrrender, that 10 I short & ~erioci of triumph could bring the •••ti ■ people of Britain so low. He was ashamea of their having to 11•• on ' foreign nelp, meanwhile subject to privi:itions worse than those of the •~r. lie said he naa heard that next ' daasaay, the Prime Minist t r will un f ola another "c talo ue of pains CHU CHILL - ~ ---------- ~nd en · lties,, ~1ich ev ryone ■ ust endure. This, nurcbil aeclarea shoula have been a ne b fore., ~na be •~s sure that Attlee• measures i not be adequate and will b mtirely another installment on the aownward path. Churchill's part~ the ConservGtives, will accept __ :-,GI sup~ort ana endur'lAany and all sensible proposals, ho••• severe, that are truly made in thi national intereat. I They will oppose any whose purpose will be p-ndering to class jealousy and party spite. Churchill joined the other critics of the Attlee Gowern ■ ent in proclaiming that the A ■• ·ican loaa baa been ineffective owing to the follies and indeciaioa of the Socialist Governaent~ Its object wast~ enable the British to get their industry and agriculture feet and bring in the necessary food. This object bas not been fulfillea. Th gr t i~r ~im mi ni Lr m~ae tni petC , not i tn~ Com ns, but o n t · n u la · ,n in front o Blenh im Paluce, the hi tol'ic stci te which the nation pr ~ented to Churchill' a nc tor, the First ~uke of Marlborough. The occa i o n ~ a national holiday in tn~land, the Au~ust Bank Holiday. 1tjwas no holiday for Priae Minist r Clement Attlee and his Cabinet, who had to pass the day preparing nis announceaent to the Coaaona on ednesa.ay. Sixty thousana. people 'went to Blenheia to hear Churchill deliver a blisterin 6 indictaent of the government. lie accused the attlee Cabinet of wild financial extravagance, of having fumbl~d its aana~e■ent of the coal mines, exhausted whatever ••I energies they bad in carryin g out their party fads. He charged the• with wastin time in . Partisan Legislation,•*••••• discourating business enterprise, with schemes of no p roauctive Kl value. f h e United States will oppose the adaission of Romania and Hungary to the United Ration,. So announces Washington today. The governaent of Romania had wantonly suppressed huaan rights and freedoms, while there are grave doubts whether the present governaent of Hungary can abide by the ter•• of the United Rations . charter. So 1aid our delegate to the U I aeaberahip coaaittee. (The US A will, howeYer, ■tri•• h11r4 \o J a•i Italy and Auatria adaitted, also lire, Por\u1al, Traa■jordania aad •••• th• Iaaa·taua' ■ little t••••} Ireland, Portuaal and Aair Abdullah'• Tran1Jordaa would have been ad■ itted last year, but for the veto of luaaia. IIDIAPPIBG M e lodrama in Budapest. Cloak and dag g er stuff. Members of the Am e rican legation snatched an American citizen from the Hungarian Secret Police today -- right in the heart 0 £ the Hungarian capital, just as the police were bringing their victia to their dread headquarters at nu ■ ber Sixty, AndrGssy Street. The man -- whose life was probably•• saved by this extra-curricular action on the part ot. legation ot . t:i!ciala -- is Stephan Thuranaat1, a aaturali&ed A■erican who tor ■erly ••• a tar■ er aear Colu■bua. Ohio. Be and hi• wite and their two dau1bt•r• are aafe now at the A■ erioan e g ation, aai the !aerioan Minister i1 eeeking an a ■ergency export per ■ it tor the ta■ ily, fro■ the Alli e d contr.ol counoll. lhat waa Thuranazky'a cri ■ e? lby were the copa in oo ■■uniat ludapeat taking hi ■ •••1? Be . was arrested for allegedly •l•i■at slandering the Coaaunist-do ■ inated governaen • t of Hungary. IIDIAPPIIG - 2 For two days, Thuranszky was questioned by the Hungarian police. Questioned in that peculiar way the Coaaunists have. Be says a rubber hose and an occasional sand bag was applied to loosen hie longue • . Fortunately, today, an laerican legation official was allowed inside the jail in which Tharana1kt, ••• being held. And a1 he entered the pri1on, T~uraa1at; waa led out, handcuffed and•••• 1e■i-0001oioua. Bia ~ wife wa1 wattina tor hi■ in a oar oateide. •11 God• 1he ••••••' acreaaed. •steve they're taking you a••1•• Ca■• then the excitin1 aoaent1 of reaoae, and account• iiff••• differ iateriall1 a1 to what happened. AccordiDI to the United Pre••• Ira. Tburanasky 1aid she acreaaed •hen eh•••• three aea dra1gin1 her haaband away. She rushed at one guard while her husband kicked the second guard and clubbed the third over the head with hi• handcuffs. The Hungarian g~vern■ ent tell• a different story, saying that a single detective was conducting Thuranszky from the prison when two men -- Aaerican legation officials -- rushed hia from behind and Mrs. Thuranszky charged hia from the front. Thuranszky ia the first Aaerican citi1ea to be arrested in C<' ■■unia t Hungary under the new law, •tor the protection of deaocracy• they call the law. It'• a crlainal offense in Bungar1 no• for •• peraeo1 in the presence of two o r • • aore witneaaea, to criticize the Hungarian republic. But Thuranazky, aa an Aaerio an ci tizea ia not liable to arrest by a1ents of the defeated Hungarian governaent or any other governaent for that aatter. lor are bis lips apt to be aealed by threats of arrest, Thuranazky, \be naturalized A•rioaa, having obviously developed ia an independent point ot view. A 1 e g at ion spoke a aan . is quoted a a I ay i DI that "bis opinion of communism i• in general and WIAPBllG - 4 Bungarians in particular is to vivid to print.w that strike of a hundred and eight ~ thousand produc,tion workers against the Ford Compan1 -- . scheduled for noon tomorrow - it may not be called after all. The latest word from Richard Leonard, Chief negotiator for the auto workers union, is that there's aore than a fair chance it will be postponed. Be doesn't say "called off• just poatponed. However, the company announces that it}:ow ta in virtual agreeaent with the union on a contract clause granting that union s•e t■■••* ia■unity fro ■ th• penalt1 proviaiomot the Taft-Bartley labor act. There's only one Qther point in dispute: the coapany'• penaion plan. And Ford and union ofiticiala have agreed to thrash that one out at another conference tomorrow ■ orning -- and do it in advance of the noon strike•• deadline. Right now it's all in the hands of Dick Leonard, tbe union bigwig, who 111•• says: •As far as the strike is concerned, that's JJXS ■ up to me. I have not as yet called off the strike, nor do I intend to do so, but it may be postponed." The lead comic in the Howard Hughes in•estigation show at Washington today again was rotund, jovial Johnny Meyer. For the first tiae in the perforaance, aatoniahaent showed today on the face of that rubicund ultra-hospitable publicity aan. ~ \ibeD Senator Homer Ferguson lit upon a couple of oooaaiona when aoaebody had split the bill with the Boward Hughe• publicity aan. •unbelie•able!• explaiae4 JohDDJ• big c i t y ~ could che/ IQGBES - 2 aolona r awe the of identified he•• in the line o iD a work 1~•• Senator Ferguson ahowed hi• a hotel bill which included long distance telephone ohara•• twenty dollar• for Colonel Elliot BooaeYelt; fort-r•t dollar...-and-twenty-two cents tor Colonel DaYid Brook•; twenty-twdfloll&ra and aeventy-aeYen-centa tor liaa Lorrain Wallace of Bicuond, Virginia. Said Senator Ferguaon: •what did those telephone calla baYe to do the production of Boward Hughei' planes?• I Said Johnny leyer: •1 don't know, it auat haYe been •Be iice To Soldiers leet.• iD t.be • ~ Bep-tiee 11:e,r~f ftave n• ie.ea-, I hare~ - - - - - HUGHES - 3 ------- re ■ embie11 tb-e ' " J " Q P P ~ 1G ~ v~~,.,~ ~ s~ia quite frankly that when Elliott ~ Roosevelt visited Beverly Hills, Caii ornia, lat& in November, be Meyer paid bis hotel and liquor bill,-all ~ in the line of uusiness. Like ise, a ■ axli when Elliott and Mi:=:,:erso~;t:{a weekend witk a party of friend■ -- at Pala Springs, California,Aall in the line of And the Hughes Aircraft Coapany paid of one of the planes employed for the wedding of Ellio\i RooaeYelt and Fa7e Emerson on th& rim ■ xfak of the Grand Canyon in December, Nineteen•Forty-Four,·paid a-hundred-and-fifty-nine -4ollar s-and-forty-one in the line of businesa. On loveaber Fifteenth, Nineteen Forty Four, Meyer was a guest of r.D.R. ~ ...-4•■ M9' at Hyde Park. ~ The Senator •••k•• wanted to know why he charged aeYeD round trip tictets fro■ lew York to Hyde Park includin1 tips to the butler, maid and chauffeur, charg~thea up ,- to aircraft proauc~ion . .. IIQlll ___ =._i Meyer added that he thought it a great priYlidl• • to be inYited to Hyde Park, a great honor. •That,• aaid the Senator, •1e why you charged it up to aircraft production?• The publicity ■ an replied that he worked twenty- four hours a day. And there ia no denying that public relJtloa1 ••• do ha•• long and irregular hours! One it•• really astounded bia. , It ••• a dinner llll tor tea people. thirty dollars. •That'• ••r1 abe&f 1a14 leyer. •4inner at the 11 lorrocco for tea at only 1•1rt1 4ollar1t• Tbea be added, abating bl• bead: •••••thing••& there.• · Then tbe Senato~ ezplained: •1~at•1 wrong 1• tb 1ou are reading only · tbe tipl Th• tip waa thirty dollarl lfter Johnny ■eyer, another headliner on the bill tod a y was Elliott Roosevelt. The ex-bri g aider g eneral talked back to his q uestioners ag g ressively, and eaid principal object in testifjng was to let the public know that be has done nothing that in an7 way endangered tbe 11••• of aen who ••r•ed under bi ■• Indirectly, be aai4 he knew he was ■uot to a ■ all fry. to be in•ol••d 10 proainentl7 in the in•••tigation on bis own account aa4 tbat he was a aon of the ■ an wtio was Cheif lxecuti••• tb~ ■aa •lti ■ately re1pon1fble for oar.ry,in1 out the war ei o In other workd, be hinted that the Co■■ ittee waa \hrouab bi■ to 1aear the na■e of hi• father, tb late f.D.I. Bia testiaony was not as interesting as le1•r•1 becauae it was largelJ technical. Rooaevelt adaitted that be knew quite well that superior officers at lri&bt _ fie l d, Dayton, Ohio ~d not care for the Boward because it was aade of plywood. Roosevelt replied for hi ■ eelf be did not care whether it was aade of paper, 10 long, as it would do the job. And be denied having l~-1Y9Bl§ ___ =._i done anythin g iaproper or infurious to the conduct of the war. Be told bow on one occasion Robert Lovett, now under-Secretary of State, then Assistant Secretary of far. bad ottered hia a q uite a job: command of all Air Fire• photogr ~ pbic reconnaissance with headquarters in the Peata1on. Elliott Rooaevelt said be declined, in th••• wor4a: •I a■ tbe son of the President of the Dnitea St& aa4 it will c~eate grave criticiaa if you brin& •• ,Mt to 11~ out the war in the Pentagon.• lad he added: •ill 11•• the •••bare of Ceaareas who do not like rraaklia . D. Boo••~el~ a wonderful opportunity to ••••r hia.• lad be quite readily ad■ itted that Johnny ••1•• bad entertained bia,adxkia that a nu ■ber of people had entertained bia and bis wife and his friends. le areeted leyer with a friendly grin and a •Bello Johnny.• At one point, Roosevelt's testimony didn't exactly agree with that of Johnny Me y er. The ex-Brigadier General said he didn't know the Press Agent was turning in '• vouc~ers to the Hughes Aircraft Company for every ■ eal, every drink, every tip. In fact, Elliott said he hi ■aelf paid his fair share of the bills. Senator Ferguson turned to Meyer an• 1aid: •Dt4 he eYern entertain you, Meyer?• • The pudgy little publicity aaa replied in a ar1•••4 Yoice: •or courae not!• Th• altercation betweeb Roo1eY.tlt and tb• au41ence hugely, ao aucb so that Cbair■ an called the bearning off to be continued I Altl Flying the racific on its way to San Francisco tonight is a transoceanic airliner. It•a panta, I ■ ean it~• fuselage, full of ants - three thouaand-four-hu~dred-and-tifty-aix ferocioue anti tro■ Auatralia. A ■erican scienti1t1 want the■ for 10■ • reaaon or other. luatraliaa bull anta. Bull . . nta that caa bite.--~• ls1tralan1 with their Britiah way ot uader,tateaebt, aall the ■ •a1gre11t•e•. So a11re11i•e that it you toaoh oae with a · atict he •o••t rua lite the aata •• are aaed to, he'll leap ap the atiot, bite the haa4 that hol41 it, and 1tin1 it with bia poiaon taa1. laouah of the■ could ~ill till a ■ aa it the7 1oi bi ■ down. But, theae are bein1 carefully watched, ailiaturtt in a•*•• •••x•• laboratory, aboard that Australian airliner, watched by a pretty youg naturaliat, 1111 llaaa■a Eleanor Clark, fro ■ the Land Down Under. lbat will happen it one of her charges A•I~ - 2 escapee upon landing? lhat will happen if a ■ ale and feaale 1et up a colony of their own in the San rranci1co Ba7 area? That probably wouldn't iaprove relation• between our two nations, b e cause we 100D aight have billion• of these Auatralian anta. [ANILI Mr. and Mrs. Fred Schoville ot Soldier• Grove liaconain, today had their eighteenth child. Mr1. Schoville, we hear, ia only. thirty-aeven 7ear,1 old, look• younger. A1 for Fred, her hu1band, no repirt on bow he looks. Providing three aea l 1 a da7 tor the little woaan and eighteen children. Bu7i n 1 aho•• tor ei1bt••• and puttina eighteen throu1h Yale ud Yaaaarl Tb• Sohovill•• were ■arried when ahe ••• tourt•••• aa4 the brid•1rooa ei1ht•••· Their tirat child waa bora tb• da7 after tbeir tirat ••• ••44in1 auiveraar,. Sino• - then tbe7 had ••••ntten other1, and no twiaa or triplet, either. All but one are 11Tin1 todaJ, alzt••• ot th•• liYia1 at ho•• tor Papa to aupport. & Ira. Sohovilla baa had oa• bab7 a 7ear for the laat t••l•• 7eara. · lell, the7 ought to be a lot of ooafort t o Fred and hi• stalwart little woaan in 7ear1 to oo■•! upon Eighteen children to lean ■fin your &a111a1 declinin1 : ?~~ years -- how would that be, 3 E61,!STIII The atate of ainJ in Palestine today ia auoh that it a door ala ■ s, eYerybody nearby Ju ■ p1 in fright, and it a paaaing truck back tir••• by1tander1 flinl flil * th••••l••• to the ground. Outwardly the Holy Land••••• at peace. But nobody know• when he aay walk right into a boobJ . trap an4 be blown all the way tro■ Jeruaalea Come -- or at leaat be blown o••r Jordan. lot a d&J pa•••• without it happening. So aany •• baar that they are rarely •••n reported, aa n•••• The••*••• lxtreaiata, inolu41•1 aoderat• aad la• abt~ing Baganah, ba•• •owe4 to haa1 aor.e Britiah aoldiera ••soon•• they caa ki4aap A• tor th• Briti1b, they are only held in cheat bJ the atricteet ailitary diacipliae. But th• bangin& of tbt two Ser1eant1 ••••• to be diaapproved b7 e•ery Jew in Palestine who doea no\ belona to one of the Terrorist orgaaizatlon1. At the 1aae ti ■ e, no Jewa will give either help or inforaation to the British. Every Jew we are told, 11 in mortal terror of what ia called •the Jewiah Black Band•. ~-,...., _ __,. _ .......,. A heat w ave in the Middle lest, and on its way laat. The price of le ■ onade going up in every state fro ■ th• Booky louatains to the Appalachians, going up aloa1 with In the wheat belt, te ■ peratures up to a haa4red aa4 a haa4r• -aad-fi••· The hottest apot in the Oalte4 Stat•• to4aJ, Phillip, South Dakota a-hun4red-aa4-aix. Choia10 •••ltere4 at ninety eight; and bl&h haai4lt7.