On the lest Coast and East Coast the aa ■e new• alaost simultaneously. A aettle■ent ot the atrite of longshoreaen. In San Francisco, as the day cloaed, the companies and unions aonoanced an a1ree■ent to end the long walkout. The atateaent i• in the •• aoat opti ■ ietio tone. Both e■ployera, repreaentecl bJ Colonel Jobn lilpatr.ict and the unions represented tiy Barry Bridges, joined in saying: •Thi• contraot alld this new 1pirit ot good tait.ll and cooperation can •••nan•• era for weat coaet •hipping•. The full tera• ot the aeitle ■eat are not yet at hand but tor one thing, th, contract pro•idea tor the retention of hiring ball1. On tbe Atlantic Coaa) earlier in the day, the word waa that a tentati•• a1r•••••t bad been reached to ea4 the strike tbat wa1 tielng up the laat Coaatx,■ak porta. The aettleaent ia tentati••• and baa to be okayed by the longahore ■en taking• wot•• -Sut it i i poaaible that the aen will be back on the dock Monday -- loading shipa. . - 9BIIA Tbe newa fro■ China aure does giwe ua a headline tonight. A lanking diai-,tch tells of a new order issued by Gen•liasiao Chiag [ai Shek -- an order to the preaa officera of the Chin•e Ar■7, the one, who give out the newa about the battles. The l■■za Generaliasi ■o tells those ■ ilitary pr.eaa agents to be ■ ore accurate about the war bulletin• they iaaue, stick a little cloaer to tbe truth. lhiob would aeea to be an excellent ' thing -- because tbe recent announce ■ enta ot huge Cbineae go•er••t vict~riea have aroused ■ ore akepticia ■ than enthu1iaa ■ • Take tor exa ■ple the triu ■pb woo b7 tbe latiooaliat iz■J Ar■ iea at Suchow. Laat week•• were told that the Co ■■ uoiata aaaailing that i ■portaat railway center were deciaivel7 defeated, routed, -- F/'Ltfwr -t6.t ;,_· .~ ~ thought the battle for Sucbo• ■oat be over. But on succeeding days there were ■ore ■aJor engage m ents at that saae place -- Sucbow. Today tor•• exa■ple we are told of another big battle along a thirty aile front, south ot th~big The war bulletin• declare the lationaliats h••• captured the railroad town ot SubaienJ but,it isn't clear whether or not they bawe auooeede4 in openin1 the vital railroad line bet•••• Sucbow and ■ anting. Maybe the whole aituationwiJi. beooae clearer after today'• order -- Chian1 Ial Shet telling hia lra7 pr••• aaenta to be aore accurate and not •i• 10 aan7 •iotori•• on paper. 11au1~ The United lationa tonight aated tor aa end to tb• fighting in Iaah■ ir -- calling upon both India and la■ktasaa Paki1tan to atop ' 8 battl~~hat Princel7 atate in the Ri ■ ala7aa. In reaponee to thia the Patiatan roni1n lini1ter, who i i a U I delegate charged that Indian toroea were on the off•n•i•• and aa4e recent ad•ancea of ■ ore than fitt7 ■ ilea. Thia the Indian delegate i ■aediately denied ••Jing the ■ ilitary operation• ol bia people in laahair ha•• been defenai••• To a l l tbia the Seourlty Cou~cil of the O I added · an appeal to both ai4ea, aatlng th•• to belp t. arraagt.. a plebicite for laahair. Thia would•••• · !>-.&.iu to be a dubioua idea fro■ the ~••••, ' point of •1•• -- beoauae the Biaalayan couatry baa ■ I t tJu~ 114 . _ a population predoainantl7 loal••• There••••• little doubt bow a popular wot• would go in the tabuloua Vale ■fxlaa of la1hair. fALISTII! At.the Oaited lations in Paria today So•iet laaai••• Russia aade the toraal proposal that all foreign m i litary f■az■ torcea withdraw troa Pale•tine -- aeaniDg, in particular, Ar■ iea ot the Arab atate•, wbicb ■oYed in •hen the British got out aad the atate ot Iarael •a• proclat■ed. 11th the Moeoow delegate• deaandiaa that the Arab• •itbdra~)the Britiah delegation ottered a plaa ot their own -- a aubatitute fer the earli e r Brltl•~ •• deaaad that the U I ai•• an all out eadoraeaeat ot the Bernadotte plan. The new Brltiah acbeae recoa■ ends that the DI ahollld au11••t a aerl•• of bo1111dariea, a• a baaia tor aegotiati•n• bet•••• Iarael p and the Arabs. l•••l•P~•i ■I t••••The Britiab are trying to coae to an agree ■ eDt with the A■ ericana - wboae present position ia ho••••r, that the U ahould propose Do boundaries at all, but 1hould lea•• ••erytbing to Jewish-Arab negotiationa. Thia, in spite ot !Rab declarations, repeated toda7, that the Moaleas will \Jlot negotiate with Iarael, will Dot recognize the Jewiah state. lllLAII> Tbe lrieb ■ a7 want to cut oft all tie• with the British, but the British won't let-~•- The Dublin Parliaaent 11 acting to •••er the laat bond • coDnecting the !aerald I1le with the Britiab Coaaonwealth, and ■ ate Ireland an independent the iepublic in every reapect. But toda7 i~Londoa Parliaaent British Pri ■e Miaiater Atlee told the IP'• that, no ■atter what the Dublin govera■ea\ doe,, Britain will aot regard Iriab ■ en •• forei1aera. Teobtaioall7 of cour•• the Republic of lire will beooae a foreign couatrJt but , Brltain refu••• to loot at it that ••1• lttl•• told th• Coa■ oaa that the London go•ern■ent . will continue to h o l d ~ • to traditional close relationa.rrhoae relatioa~, 1aid he •arise troa ties of tinahip and lon1 eatabliabed econoaic, social, and trade connectioaa baaed on coaaon interest.• Which mates ua wonder -- what do the Iri1b 1ay about that? Attlee today stated that Dublin baa expressed aiailar sentiaents -- Ireland aa an independent republic desiring those 4apecial JBILllD - 2 non-political ties with Britain. The meaning ot the whole thing would•••• to be that, in cutting looae finally and co ■ pletely, the Iriah will not forfeit the ben fita ot the econo ■ ic and co ■■ ercial connection with Britain •• eo ■ e thought ■ ight be the caae. So ■ e figured that Ir~land would be the loaer in a coa■ ercial and financial way. But Dot at all -- not with Britain refusing to re1ard a totallJ ,republic/ independent IrishA••••*Q~•• a . foreign country. lhicb would ■ ate it•••• aa it the Iriah were in the poaition of eatin& their cake and bawin1 it too. • ~ ~ . tf...J. .,I,~ o'tk~, Venezuela was quiet toda7 after one/,t the quietest of revolutions. The Aray baa thrown out Pre1ident Gallego• - in a bloodless coup d'etat, the govern ■ eat overthrown without violence. The Veneauelaa high braaa just walking in and taking over. Tell ay a ■ ilitary Junta anno11Dced a new proviaioaal cabinet o f - . eleven ■ iniatera to run Venezuela.-- Iatbe oapital r,ity of Caracaa, thing• went on in noraal taahion today and report• are tbat thin11 are ~ll,6t i t . ~ nor■al in the great oil field• -- which• the ■oat iaportant aapect. el Ir. IISIJIBOWEi In London a blut - and the subject i i General Eiaenboaer. But this verbal cannonade ia not against hia -- it ia for him;whicb i• ao ■ ethiDI of a novelty - •••••••*••• con1iderin1 the Londo• re•iewa of the Eiaenhower book -- •cruaade in !urope•. Britiah critics haYe beeD writing acathiagly, that the Sapreae Coaaander in the war in le1tera Europe i1 unfair to field lar1hal lont1oaer7 1 tbe Britiah Coa■ ander. They don't like what General Ike haa to aay about lont7 of El Ala■ ein -- the liaenbower co ■aenta on the lontgoaer7 brand of atrate17. ... And tonight out coaea •••• one ot the toft■ oat Bri tiah ■ ilitar7 ■ en , Lord Ia■ aJ : who wa1 war-ti•• Chief of Staff to the Britiab liniater ot Deten••· Be points out that at tbe end of tbe war in !arope there weft nearl7 four ti ■• aa aan7 A ■erican Division• on t,be Continent•• Briti1~. A• for diaputea only of strategy be declares that.jhistory can give• verdict about who was correct in the disagreeaenta • IJIEIHO II· 2 between Eiaenho er and Montgoaery. Be auaaari1ee by giving credit for the victory saying: • ■o aaa on either side did more to work this airaole than Eiaenhower.• Here'• the biggest story e•er about a creditor 1ei1ing some property to force pay ■ ent of a debt. The properLy in this case is a battleship, one of the biggest in the world. where It happened today o•er in Italy, ••• the Italian •a.y owes a conatruction co ■pany a bill of••• 1e•enl ■ illion lire. The Navy failed to pay, and the co ■paay went to law -- •inniAg the auit in the Italian 1upnae court. lell, yoa know what the creditor does when he gets a Judgaent -- he loot• tor ••ethiDI to ai 1ei1e. In this case, Italy's biggest battle1hip a thirty-five thousand ton giant. The creditors, taking legal poasession declare they wil l aell the ~asslaa battlewagon at auction if the Italia ■ la•J doesn't pay up in ten daya. lhat will they do with it? They -=Ill sell the sea giant for scrap. But then ~ ~ J destined tor the-••~ anyway the battleship is - - in accordance with ~ treaty.But i t ~ • • ot the Italian peace the ter ■ a claasis in a creditor the bistoxy of debts and seizes a battleship/ lawauits -- when There waa a thriller ot ■at aviation at lo• Angele• today - · · fla■ ing melodra■ a. wa1 Yea, tla■ ingAia tbe word. A big airliner, twenty three people aboari, and it burst into fiery explosion. The death liat? Zero. lobody ■ore than •lightly hurt -- a few brui1e1 and apraina. It••• a ■ iracle of escape, and in addition -- there•• a question: • The airline people,*•• Trana- lorld, ■ ay the big Con1tellation caught tire a ■ it landed. But tonight ofticiala of the Civic Aeronautioa a Board are investigating*)• report that the blase broke out while the plane••• in the air, and that it••• burning when it landed. ThEl'e'• a atory that a radio ■eaaage waa picked ap fro■ the pilot to the control tower, saying that one wing bad caught tin in the air and that he was irying to land. However, the ca•• aay be the fact is that the plane, alter coaing down in a heavy tog, was ablaze on the runway. The flaaes weN engulfing the airliner and in it were eighteen passeng, : rs,soae of th• children., AJBJ«IIU. - 2 together with a crew of fiYe. All praiae goes to the Chief pilot Captain IYen Lewia, and his or•• - - wpo direoted thj out of ~ eaer~eooy exit at ~h• r. / ••• J{ aaea all / o bQ 1 4t into the oabia. dut of an e■e.J'leooy door the firav~ / I of tea feet to the , runwa o er1 / 1 buap, ut ut,ide be foQod a lad4e, ~ • d t t li•~~a down. The ehildr•,.A haad do,.. itaar of DaJ o, Ohio••• -- along rith her four child I , . tor t" ac•sr• •t ••• to.o b1111 , I , / . / • I c ildren to not.-10••· ' &11 the pa1aen1era were out before the or•• aade their escape -- Juat a• the bla1t of flaae ;d burst into the cabio, w aiad the whole plane . . . aa exploding ■as• of tire~ Staten Ialand ■•• York, the rreedoa Train, a Tbantagiviog oereaony -- and a aurpriae. The atar ot tbe occaaioa, a young wo■an froa Belgiua. A Bel1ian airline boateaa, Aaaada Staaaart. But •h• had another naae during t.he second lorld lar. ,; To ■any thouaaad •h• •a• faaou1 •• the a7ater7 wo ■an -- Diane. A patrio~ic l ■iq Belgian 1irl, 100d looking aad well apoten, abe aerved iD tbe uaderarouod that oppoaed tb• ~asi ooaqaeror. She •a• a aeoret eaiaaary in t~e eacape liae for lrltlab aad !aerioan flyer• who had to parachute to aafet7 ia eaeay coatrolled terrlto17. ~he helped acore• of Allied flyer•• 1et out, ,ia the under1rouad. But at length ab•••• deteote4 by the Geraaoa. Th•J oau1bt the ■yaterioua Diane. She waa round guilty of eapio••••• and aentenoed to death. But before the aeotence could be executed, the allied aweep of Britiab and A■erican - araiea drove the Ger■ao• out -- and Diane••• ~i1aaas■a liberated. Thereafter abe reau■ed her original ideotitJ, 1110111 - 2 Aaanda Staaaart, and toot a Job aa aa airline boat••• on B•l&ian paaaenger planea. Invited over to thia country by the aponaora ot the rreedo ■ traia, 1be ••• the atar ot the celebratiou . ot ThaDt11ivin1 day. Aaanda •a• playia1 her part with 1ultable ■JI■ ~ atyle and dignity,"1rhen in walked two Joung•••• oae troa leaphia tenne11ee, the other froa Lithonia, Geor1ia. lhen &■aada aaw the ■ abe atared ia aaa1 a■ aae ■eat. She ran to the■, threw her ar■• around thea, and ki11ed the■• leaory went bact to war daya, and once agaiD ah• waa -- the ayatery woaaa, Diane. Tbe atory ••• told how, in l l llaeteen rorty- tbree, Tho■aa Applewhite ud T.B. lilliaaa, boabadler - and aachinegunner took to their parachute• whea their &aerican boaber ••• 1llot down. Th•J landed in Belglaa tar■ ' country and ~•r• lucky eaougb to coD~\ct ~ ~b~ 1 ~ ~ 1 f l i , R ~ ~ anti-iazi under1round. 1 A Tbey • • placed i n J \ ~ Diane. uteJ ~ ~ I;;.; i t ~ CY.,~ 1110111 - 3 --- ·~•....,o•~· •••:•c~ ■•-Pel ptdN ■ ul one other ■any exploita. She guided the two tlyera alongtbe eacape route, eeoorted the ■ on a trip aboa• a orowded traia, •lipped the■ paat a1eat1 of tbe Geatapo, got the ■ aero•• the frontier iato rranoe, and deliYered th•• to under1nuad beaiq••rt•r• tlMtn. rroa wllich poiat tbey • • • •••• ••aaled aor•• te la1laad. 111g The ne•• toni g ht gi•• ua another one of tboae alaoat incredible coincidencea. The story fa• ooaea tro m Boanoke, Virginia and tell• bow Ir■• Edwin Godaan lost a aaphire and diaaond ring in Florida -- two years ago. She ■ iaaed the ring ao auch that, ~ a tew aontha after getting ho••• aated a Jeweler to keep an eye open for a siailar diaaon4 and aappblre ring, and let her kDow if be located oae. Be did todaJ - a rina abowina bei;(•o like tbe one•••~•' abe hadloat, abe could hardly belie•e it wa ■ not the ea■•• lell, i\ ••• the aa■e;a• ••• pro•ed by the aerial nu■bera. The jeweler got it fro ■ a Yir1inla wboleaaler wbo in turn had prooared it fro■• le• Tort wbole ■ ale; which ia aa far back•• they can trace the ■ atter. ObYioualy, the ring bad been found in Florida and beeD uatll 1014 and gone throuab the channel• of coaaerce --~•dJJ in a round about way the diaaond - and-aappbire - bit - ot- jewelry caae baok to its · original owner. i1R lt Fayettewil l e, lortb Carolina a nineteen year old blonde today -- to her becaae the owner of a ■aaic aaa1eaeat. utter••••••••\ Tbt1 11 one ■ tore of thoae alao1t incredible 1tori• ot the wonderful reealt ot a 100d deed. larth•~ •••••••i.._ Culbreth, ~uaio ■ tore clerk, went on a ••cation to lyrtl• Beach, the au•■ er Juat peat. Ia a reaort hotel, an old lady 1ittla1 in tbe lobby, a1ted ber tor a cl••• ot water. larttia 11 a tladly youn1 wo■ an. She wa1 only too 1la4 to obli1e. She hurried off to procure a al••• ot water tor the old lady -- and th•• ■ at down aad chatted. lartba baa a pleaaant way, and liked to be nice to people. After ••tx••••**•• Yaoation abe thought ao ■o~• ot it and went back to work in the au1io atore at rayettewille. There, juat recently, a ■a u walked into the 1tore, told Martha that be waa the ••n of the old lad7 wboae ••••* acquaintance ah• bad•••• duriag ••cation ti■ e -- for who ■ she bad got the 11••• of water. Martha••• pleaaed to bear that, but••• gJn: - 2 diffident when the gentle■ an wrote out a h ~ o ea., wbiob he 1••• to Martha•• a birthday reae■bPance fro• hie Mother. A check tor 1e•ent7-ti•• hundred dollara. Today Martha 1aid -- 1be thought he wa, ■ating fun o t her ao ahe ••• a bit aharp, if Dot down-right aarcaatic when she an1wered thP nezt thins be aaid. Be aaked her -- •waa th~'.Nt anything el•• 1be wanted?• To wh:ob ahe repli~ pro ■ptl1: •t••• tbe a ■ ,t.,re.• lhereupon the ■ an called o••r the proprietor of the au1ic atore, and aaked bi ■ ho• aac~ be waat .. for the wbole,.tabliahaent. The owner 1et • Jata price and the deal waa aade. Today the final paper• were fixed up and handed to Martha -- aaking the nineteen year old bloDd owner of the au1ic 1tore. Sounds like a faiat fairytale -- but that•• the atory that co ■ ea in a diapetob fro■ Fayetteville, lorth Caroliaa.