lQREIGJL Ml~ISI~!!e Y' j - j J, . c( • · ' ~ , u_ eC. ~ , ~ •I, tr(, In Paris, the Foreign Miniete~s ran int~ m:R .. ,.~ another deadlock today, on that~,,•~•4 subject - . /'- . Trieste. They brought the topic up, and each stated hi• view. American secretary of State Byrnes, supported by Britain and France, thought that the great port of Trieste should remain Italian. Soviet foreign Minister Molotov said - no, Trieste should go to Jugoalavia. These respective views were exactly the aa ■ • aa tbe7 were at the tiae ot the previous conference in London, which scored a flat failure. Today the deadlock on Trieste was repeated all over again. There's one expression of hope froa . Paris - and this, in itself, i i a clue to the quality of hope they have over there. Secretary Byrnes ia giving a big banquet tor Molotov, and the supposition \ is that the festive spirit at the blow-out maya,ften the spirit of opposition. In other words, international diploaacy would se~• to have got to the point where it is grasping at a banquet, for a last straw. JAPAI The United States proposes a four power control of Japan for twenty-five years. Thia is alona the line of the si ■ ilar idea presented by Secretary of State Byrnes for Germany - a tour po•e~ treaty tor a twenty-five year control ot Hitler's one-ti ■e Beioh. Soviet Russia turned down that suggestion of alliance, and it re ■ aina to be seen what Iosco• will ••t■ do about the duplicate proposal - for Japan. It accepted, it . would diap _ lace the present all-Aaerioan rule , ea4ed b7 General MacArthur. fALESTIIE The news fro ■ Palestine takes a turn today that ■ay be exceedingly i ■portant. le are told that a su■■ ary demand has been made for the i ■■ ediate release of the five British Offi.cers held as hostage,. Th••• are the five seized by a band of the Jewiah Underground at Tel Aviv. Another officer, abducted in Jeruaale ■, escaped. Be contrived to Jaap fro ■ a window of a building where he w~a being kept captive, and got away. Mow who ia it that de■anda the release of the other five, ordering thi1 in a ■ oat pere ■ptory way7 lo, it'• not the British. · It's the official underground Jewi1h Ar ■J Ba1ana. It now develop• that the kidnappin1a ••r• carried out by an extre■ i1t outfit that, ■ o ■ e while •10, 1plit otf fro m the official Ba1ana -- • ■barking on a course of terror and violence contrary. to the ■ ore moderate policy ot the · lar.ger group. Thia conflict of policy bas co ■ e to a bead · now with the 1ei1ure of hos tag ea by the lxtre ■ il ta1 and Ba1ana is determined to do ao ■ething about it -- so ■etbing drastic, accordins PALIS Tl IE - 2 to the ulti ■ atua reported today. Bagana is said to have given the Extre■ i ■ t Band a ti ■ e limit for releasing the otfioer hostages -- a deadline. If they are not turned loose, Ra1ana will, in the words of today's dispatch -- •Resort to the necessary aeaeures.• That is, the underground Jewi1h Aray will take action to rescue the hoatag e a. Preauaably, Bagana, with its aecret organization ia in a position to do eoaething ■ ore e~tective than the ■ ilitary forces ot the B~itish. Today's word is that the Britiah are opti ■ iatio. They believe the kidnappers will rel•••• their captive, rathe . r than get into a fight with Bagana -- which ■ ight ■ean a civil war in the Jewiab Underground. There'• further word that the extreaiet band, in kidnapping the five officers, planned also to abduct the British Co ■■ander in Pal•tin9J~*••laaala Lieutenant GeQeral Sir Evalyn Barter. They plotted to seize hi ■, but so ■ eh w that tailed. PALESTIIE - 3 One focus in the tidings troa Pale1tine tonight is a desolate area, as forbiddin1 a stretch of land as you'll find on this earth -- the shore of the Dead Sea. There the ground ia bitt e r with alkaline deposits that give the I Dead Sea . it• oainoua naae. It'• an area of potash beds, and there's a pota1h industry, conducted by Zionists. There the British today were conductin1 a search for abductors and hoata1ea, and tor extreaiata who blew up the ,at bridge• la1t l•aday. Patrol partie1 aoouted across the I vaat deaolltlon of the potash fields, aearohiag • the dwellin1• ot the ~ -111-0 -'4 .. ·v::, potash workers. Tb•J aet1ed quantitl•• of. aras and ,A. a■auaitioa -- a . d ■ade a r r e s t s , - - ~ ~ ~ 4- ~ ~ :s;-_,.._ - ~ ~ ~ ~~~~~~~ IIDIA - lord from India is that the State of Iashair has agreed to turn loose Pand r Jawaharlal Rehru. ~ They'll~ut an airplane at the Pandit's disposal J -- ~ so ~ he can fl1 back to Delhi. All of which pro ■ ises to ease the sudden crisis that followed the arrest of lehru. The whole affair was one of the ■ ost inept things that could have happened -- this flare-up, as negotiations on the tiritish of India were approaching a plan for the independence : : : : r - ~ decisive atage.~ehru, tor 1ears, has been a top figure of Indian lationali•• ~ ~·'~c:l.,.,..J ~.,J...'. ~ .... ~ ... along with Mohat ■ a,AChlD4~t::: i"'ia scheduled soon to beco ■ e President of the lationalist Congress. Be was.,.... decidedly_.....nobody to be locked up right no•~ The reaction was quick and violent de ■ onstrations, with strikes and riots all acrose India. The mobs of Hindus see ■ed to bla ■ e the British tor the arrest of lehru -- when, in tact, laah■ir i• a ~ ~ e n t c o u n t r y ; f f n d e ~ i t i s h °"' ~ A A .. - ~ - - t • •••eMipt>,-1 T ....... - - - 7 -, ~~ 0 \ IJfDIA - 2 . Iashair~, famed in age-long legend, for ita ~ ~~~ 12: .. 0 . . ~ ~ wonder and beauty, is under the autocratic rule of it,-."VD A own native potentate -- Bari Singh who aade headline• of notoriety so ■ e years ago. He was the victim of a a...-... .... ~ . A:'wa.,, .. notorious badger ga■ e in London, and ...._~*i■k black ■ ailed A ,, to the tune of seven huntlred and fifty thousand dollars. K\.,,. A-~ lell, uuw be 1 ,,the Sovereign of the beautiful /~~~~~~~ Ki■ vale of Iash■ ir, \~e •••~bti'wes ....... t wbiea M?e /l arrested the Nationalist Leade~. lehru ia a native ot (aah■ ir, but not in ao ■ uch favor there. Bari Singh'• govern ■ent banned hi ■ fa from its border• and locked hi ■ up when he tried t o enter. ~ ~ l/\.£c.AIW~ · There's a ao ~ • t i iron7 , ~ the eri1 ie ef - •i•l•••e ==ir India baa flared, right in the aiddle of the ~ independent negotiationa,~because of ao ■ethinc done by the Regiae of the potentate Bari Singh. However, with the pro ■ ise to release lehru, things ■ay quiet down. (~eta e pected, upon flying fro■ Iashair, to take the Hindu Rationalists in the discussions beiweea Indian lohaaaedans, and the British -- for the oraation of a government to run thin1• JIDil - 3 while tze oblem of a constitution for India is being worked out. JAP. WAR TRIAL At the Tokyo trial ot Tojo, the doings were sad and painful today t.aey = had ttlt' -ro c 1. oae ■ otJi oa -. -pia~11pee41aew'¥911 1n,ow how bad a baft ■ov 1@ can ~,, ••• • \~i• eae wae the 1011t eter. The prosecution presented a Japanese propaganda fila, intended to be damning eYidence ot the way the Tokyo ear lords prepared t . he public ■ ind tor war. A screen was put up in court, and on it the ■■st•• ■ oYiea flickered -- how they flickered: The tila ••• scratched, taded and Juapy -- hardlJ •isible. And lt was twel•e z■ll reels long; ,he p••P•I•••• h•• i••• a1ll w bo8 ia 1 witta, and . au• it waa agonizia1 -- for twelYe reela. The International Court, atarin1 at the apasas on the 1creen, 1r0Jned -- and Sir lilliaa lebb, President of the Tribunal, p~oclaiaed; •This show is a dis ■ al failure, and not worth cetinuing.• It Sir Willia■ ba d been acquainted with the language of Hollywood, he would have aaid it was •A Flopperoo.!.- ""' - - 0 _ . .t ~ dL . - ~ ,/ Whereupon the trial of Tojo and the other war l ■akers proceeded -- ainua aoviea. The ■oral bein1, JJP !!~~!~!AL - 2 I suppose, that a feature fila ahouldn't be too bad eYen a t a war trial. IUBEIIBERG A t the big war ~rial in Ger~~rembe~g " ' there was a new line of dark melodrama in the testimony today -- poison gas melodrama. The evidence was given ~ Albert ~ ,V. who was munitions ■ inister to Bitler. ~ e d f h Nazi r · uehrer wanted to uae poison gas tb\4.4..t~ ~ in tbe war, was desperately eagerA I\.Ger ■an che ■ ists had devised new kinds, two new types of lethal ••por which bad devastating effects -- aacl against which there wa1 no protection. These Hitler was frantically deter■ ined to use, and three factories were producing the new gases at full speed. But the iuerber couldn't persuade hie ar■y chiefs to u e gas against the Allied Ar ■ ies, eYen though the new lethal vapors were so deadly,-r=and no defense against them was possible. Today the one-ti ■e Razi Minister of Munitions explained that the Ger■ an military leaders thought the idea insane -- because of the air superiority of the Allies. •It would ha•e been a catastrophe for German cities in no ti ■e,• said he. In other words, Hitler's two new gases aight have been effective on the battlefie l d, but Germany itself would have been destroyed by a counter-gas attack fro ■ the air. The Nazi Fuehrer was so insane about his gases, that the munitions minister determined to kill hi ■ -- with gas. So he says -- telling how he planned to make an end to Bitler by puaping lethal Yap~rs into the ventilators of the Berlin Chancellery where Bitler had his headquarters.Wut be found upon inYeatigation, that this couldn't be done. Which saved Der Fu e hrer fro ■ being kill three gassed with his own pet gaaea. '!L. • IAJ ... '_.,_.s -~~ , ~ P'•"- Tbe witnesa addabat he also wanted to /'- Bitler adsers, ~ were always urging a / ' gas warfare. They were propaganda Miniater Goebbela, The Nazi Labor Leader, Robert Ley, and Bitler'• Deputy, Martin Bormann. But he ne•er got a chance to give the ■ the gas eith e r. Today's testimony got around to a subject less melodramatic, but more important -- the atomic bomb. The Former Minister of Munitions said that Germany was, in bis words, •A year or two away from IQBENBEJ!Q - 3 splitting the atoa. • lby? Because of the flight ot Geraan Atoaic Experts. iaid he,~a nuaber of key figures in German physics left the country betore the war:' escaping the Nazi typranny -- and that caused a delay in Geraan ato ■ ic reae , ch. I f they · n•t gone, Bitler aight ha•e had the atoaic boab. The ~eaaon they went was -- Hitler. lhich aight seea to ba•e a bearing on the nightaare notion of a aodern tyrant de•eloping the latest in modern science. Maybe he n•••r can ha•e the top• of modern science because he is a tyrant. Maybe the height of science requires treedoa. [IGBt The uproar about the prizefight want into new tangles today -- a conflict of state ■enta in the Department of Juatice. The first announc ■ent wa1 from Assistant Attorney General lendell Berge, who said he was going to inTe1tigate proteasional boxing -- and Mike Jacobs, who pro ■ oted the Louis-Conn atfair. The Assistant Attorney General baaed his idea on the Anti-Trust Law, 1aying that there wouid be an inquiry to tind out whether or not Jacoba, pugiliatio chief of le• York'• Madison Square Garden, is ruanin1 a prizetight ■ onopoly. That and b - 1eball too -- the Assistant Attorney General stating that the big leagues 1hould . be investigated on an anti-trust suspicion of a tia1eball monopoly. The contradiction Qt all of this tollowed pro ■ ptly -- a spokee ■ an tor the boas of the Depart ■ent of Justice, Attorney General Clark, stating there will be no investigation, either of prizefighting or baseball __ no grounds for an inquiry wbich ■ ight see ■ to indicate somethin of a con f lict in the department ~ o f a c o n f l i c t , ~ • ~ than was observable in " the Louis-Conn •ll-sea fight. There's no lack of fi g ht, howeyer, in Congressman O'Toole,- - \1(.aybe he's the lrisb■an who should have been in the ring instead of that less belligerent hibernian, Billy Conn. Yesterday, Congr••••• O'Toole squared oft in the Legia l atiYe Balla, and ~~ :•ung hay ■akera et the Laub-Conn battle, ~•• Ila, laok} ~hayaakers -- except tor that brief mo ■ent in the " 0',~ eighth round. Today a did.it all over again, and ha4 " it put in Congressional Record. He called the Mi~e Jacobs offer i ng -- •The greatest fraud perpetrated on the A■erican people since the Mississippi Bubble.• Of course, that fa ■ ous bubble, while tagged with the na ■e of Mississippi, was perpetrated at the expense of the French people, not the Aaerican -- but, then, maybe the Congress ■ an was just getting bis _!.nglish twisted a bit. Anyway, be violently assail e d Mite Jacobs, far ■ ore violently than Billy Conn assailed Joe Louis. ADD, FIGHT Joe Louis today was queried on one of the astonishing features last Wednesday night when he touched gloves with Conn at the beginning of the eighth round. It's p rizefight custom for boxers to touch gloves at the end of the last round -- and that one was scheduled for fifteen rounds. But Louis touched glo•es with Conn at the beginning of the eighth• -- and then knocked him out. It was the last round all right. Which reainded a lot of people of the tact that Joe had predicted he'd knock BiTly out in the ei1btb. The question coaea up a1ain because of the ■otion pictures, which show distinctly that astonishing geature -- the touching ot gloves. Louis said he didn't re ■e ■ber doing it, but added: •1r it's in the ■ ovie1, it ■ u at be · a o • • And Louis said that he ■ ight change his aind about not fighting again this year. Be had previously declared that he wouldn't go into the ring again until next year, but Mike Jacobs re ■arked that he ■ ight stage another heavyweight championship affair ADD [IGBT - 2 in Septeaber. Today Joe said yes, ■ a7be. And he explained that his future fights were, in hi1 words, •up to Mike Jacobs.• 101 JOPI Bob Hope ia beco ■ ing a baseball aagnate.-- ,M -foday~onfiraing the report that he is one ot a group that's buying the Clseland Indiana. Bob Hope is tro ■ CleYeland, aDd is an ardent hoae town tan. But that isn't the only reason for his beoo ■ ing a baseball ■ agnate. Today he explained: • l'a thrilled to be in oD L~ying a club in ■y ho ■ e ~own. •Beaide1,• Be added, •It will giYe ■ e so■ething to talk about on the radio.• Yes, Bob, when a speaker is iD front of a aiorophone, it is often useful to ha•• 1o ■ ethin1 to ••1•