§QL.QIL - ,AR£!L~~& 12,il I.I. Chaplin subetitutu1 for LOHLL TBOIIAS The Big Four Foreign lliniater1 Conference, 1pon1ored and attended b7 Secretar1 of State B1rnea, ■et in Paris for the firat ti ■• toda7. They ■et in 4eep 1ecrec1 and under heaYJ guard,the1e forei&n affair• leaders of Britain, Ra11ia, rranoe and A ■erioa, and got don to ba1ine1s. It had been 1uppo1ed that the7 would follow the ca1toaar1 calendar of 1uoh oonference1, arrange procedural ■attera and then adjourn until another 4a7. But no, thi1 turned out to be a real short sleeve work se¥sion, and it la1ted three · full hours. Shortly after adjourn■ent, dispatches • troa Paris announced that unanimous agree ■ent had a reached to gran~ France's request to be allowed to sit in on discussi o ns of all peace treaties. That's the treaties with the five satellite nations which 2 • • danced to Hitler's war drums. That was a big concession ' by Buss ia which• until today, bad wanted to keep France out of all the . treaty di1ca1aiona and keep ua out of the one regarding Finland. But today Ruaaia 1aid: •All Right. we are agreeable to letting France alt right through, but only vote on Italy, and America oan attend all peace ae1aiona, too, but not Yote on Finland.• And that•• the way it atand ■ now, witb 4eflnit! progress achieved on the ••••ion'• openin& Another aajor issue to be fought out , at the conference ia the future nationality of the Adriatic Port of Trieate. tuaoalavta wants to ha•• Trieste, a •ery iaportant thing to ha••• too, for a country with such a rugged co a st, auch ra11•d harbor•. YugoalaYia ••nta it, and Russia says that's the way it ought to be, she ought to ha•• it. But the Americana and the British, they seea to feel that Trieste ought to be retained b y Italy, perhaps under soae international • guardianshi p . lothing baa yet been heard froa Austria to which Trieste belonged until it was car•ed away J. and handed to Italy by the Allies after the First lorld far. Op to that ti ■• Trieste had been Auatria's 1reateat port. • While the Big roar Foreign Miniater• pa•• the way in Paria for peaoe treatiea with our lesser toraer tneaiea, the United lationa Security Council continued its deliberation• her• in lew York oonoernin& aategaarda tor the future peace ot all people. It waa the longest ••••ion they'•• bad ao tar, aal they Jaat adjourned ten ainotea ago, antil to ■ orrow. The ■ ubject toda7 waa rrance, Spain, Spain'• inYitation to the United lationa to 1end an investigating co ■aittee there to see for it1elt whether or not Spain, as now governed, is a threat to world peace. The ••••ion was aatked by clarification of power, stand• on that qu••~ion.After Auatralia's representative Colonel Hodgson aodified a proposal to accept the Spanish invitation, Edward , stettinius threw this country's support to the plan. In supporting the Auetralian proposal, also backed by Britain, but opposed by Poland, Russia and others, Stettiniua said that our State Departaent had firat- band information fro ■ our own sources in that country about Spain which disagrees with charge, aade by Poland'• Dr. Lange. Be said that the Lange charge• did not proYe, no aatter what we think of Franco, that Spain ' ia a threat to peace, and what we want ia proof. lu11ia'1 Groayko waa quick to get hie answer into that. Bt 1aid that the Council's cour•• 1aact1 of the non- interyention policy of prewar da7e when Geraan, Japanese, and Italian aggreaeion were in the aating • . 'It'a the saae old etory,• Gro ■yto aaid, 'ineufficlent ••idence.• Today'• proceedings in the coawerted linter College gyanasiaa were presided over by th• new Council President, Baasan Afifi Pasha of Egypt. Like aost foreigners of public iaportance, Mr. Afifi ia Dr. Afifi, but in bis case this is no empty honorary 4t1ignation, the per■ anent Egyptian delegate to the . Security Council and its current one-aonth President is a Doctor of Medicine and baa high rating as a physician in his hoae town of Cairo. Equally unuaual in a statesman, be is one ot his country'• leadin& industrial iata, _ the bead or big buain••• intereata which ht now aanagea, ot course, by reaote co~trol. Because the Irantan qaeetion ia no longer before the Council, at leaat until the May Sixth deadline for departure of Russian troops, Iran'• repreaentati•e, Ba11ein Ala, was for the first tiae •sent froa the section reser•ed for dlatinguiehed •l1itor1, where he ha1 been a center of interest. But, the spectators ■ till had 1oaething to look at beside the council table and the ~ficial delegatea. One of today's distingui1hed •iaitors was Hollywood's Carol Landis, in a s ■ arl French hat. --o-- In Cleveland, two railroad brotlB rhoods 6. repre ■ enting three hundred thousand men, they announced: •we have voted unaniaously to strike May Eighteenth unless satisfactory settleaent is reached in the meantime. These unions, the Brotherhooda of Railroad Train••~ - •nd of LocoaotiTe En&ineera, aaid that their chairaen bad rejected recoaaendationa of President Tru ■ an•a fact-findlna board which were not con1i1tent with their deaanda. Tboae deaande relate to wage• and working rules. So, after that Kay iighteentb deadline, if no agreeaent baa been reached by that tiae, the only way to keep th~ railroad• runnin& will be Gov•rnae~t aeizare. And here's another kind of railroad news -- tragic news. Two weatbound Burlington Streaaliaera collided at a croaain& in laperville, Illinois, tbia afternoon. Latest reports say that•~ leaS t thirty- ' ••••n 1 killed another seventy-five or aore • peop e were , taten to a hospital at least thirty-seven people were 7. tilled another seventy-five or aore taken to a hospital at Aurora. Tb t i • ra n1 were The ld•ance, bound for Lincoln, lebraaka and . th• lxpo ■ ition Flyer headed for San Francisco. laperville ia a town of •about Fi•• thou1and population and the craah ca■• at a grad• cro11in1 in the bu1in••• c•nter of town. The two P••••~1•r train1, ••ch with about Two R•ndred aa4 PiftJ people aboard, left Chicago together. The ld•ance ,topped or ,tarted to atop though no atop waa 1cheduled. At an e1tiaated 1izt1 ■ ilea an hour, the bi& Di•~•l en1in• •f the lxpoaitloa drove right into the ob1er•ation car of th• ld•ance. Th• oar ■ were teleacoped, lifted ri1ht off the track■, and flung down on th•ir sides. The people of laper•ille turned out in . force to help and aid ca■e quickly fro• outside, but aan1 it was toolate. Th• last word said that although no exact figure• are yet poasible, the list of dead ■ ay riae to fifty or even aore. Right no• long lines of ■tretcher bearers are carrying the injured from the 8. aaasbed trains, taking thea to a warehouse turned into a front-line hospital, first aid there, then off hospitals. Details will be coaing in all night. ' In Washington, with the flags of the Capitol at half staff, Harlan Fiake Stone, the twelfth Chief Ju1tice of the United States, was buried thia afternoon. Preaident Truaan broke an ocean Tacation to attend th• funeral aerTicea in lational lpiacopal Cathedral. The great edifice wa s packed with aen in high place and · the unknown who caae by thouaand1 t~ pay equally 1incere reapecta. then the new Baap1bire Liberal'• body was, an hour later, lowered into the graTe in a corner of Rock Creek Ceaetery, only a handful of life-long friends atood in the rain with the widow and two aona to watch, to say a last ailent farewell as the ainister intoned the final words of the burial rites, •Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord for they reat froa their labors.• There's aounting tension in London toni g ht over an exhumed German bomL ticking warningly at tbe botto■ of a thirt1 foot shaft in the drained duet pond close Buckingha■ Palace. But, the general - exciteaent ia not shared by England's Dowa1er Queen lar1 who haa lived through all the blitzes and i1 not to be flurrie d by one bo ■b of an1 size. The 1event1-eight rear old ■ other of the ling refused toda1 to ■ ove fro ■ Marlborough Bouie, her boae, even though it faces right on the bo■b site, 1he ■erel7 aoved to the otherade of the houae and she ordered the windo•looting out on the boab to be opened to ■ ini ■ ize glaaa daaage and to eave the chance of daaage ~o the boa••· The boab waa dropped five rears ago, a dud, but it began ticking boab disposal aen unearthed it. If it hasn't gone off bJ itself, tomorrow, it will be cautiously exploded where it lies. There's a new kind of point system in our ATmy 10. of Occupation in Geraany. This isn't to decide how you can get out, but how you oan be ■ ade to behave while you're still in. General Joseph lclarney, who succeeded General liaenhower in Germany, has launched a 1tiff Five Point Prograa to check what he described as a recent serious decline in di1cipline, nurtured by , Co ■auniat •l• ■•nts. These are the lclarney points: (1) lore training. That of course ii baaed on the thou1htin the old proverb. •Satan oft find• ta1k1 tor idle hands to do : · ( 2) An 11: 00 P .I. curfew. ( 3) lore rigid control of fireara1. (4) Swift puniab ■ent for . off•n••• again1t civilian,. And (S) ■ore intensive control of di•••••· That 1oand1 like a good prograa, certainly one that can do our boys no bar■ an! it just ■ ay have the unexpected result of showing that they haven't been alway• to bla■e after all. I've watched parades in Paris where at least half the French soldiers were wearing G.I. uniforms. I've seen tbe D.P.'s of a dozen countries, the displaced people, d 11. living in camps and traapin g the avenues and au t ob a hns of Europe in dough-boy olive drab. And I've been served in overseas Aray aes es by soldiers whoa I took for Americana until they turned around and I aaw the little white letters •P.I.,• prisoner of war, painted oa the seat of thei~ pants. Criae c~••itted by aen in laerican uniform is no positive proof of criae coaaitte by Aaericana. General lclarney•s curfew is a good test to find out who the majority of the unruly really are. By Tirtue a jury'• action here in lew York, the escutcheon of a national pastiae shines as bright as eYer tonight, Manager Leo Durocher of the Brooklyn Dodgers who is known as Lipp7becau1e of his frequ•nt boisterous argu■ents with uapires and alaoat anyone elae around. Durocher was on trial charged with felonious assaults on John Christian, a baseball fan who admittedly is pretty •lippy• biaself and who bad 12. bellowed baseball gaae abuse to which the Manager took offense. The Dodgers are commonly referred to as the 'bu■•• by their reportera, and supporters but that•• all between friends and they've learned to lov- it, but Christian bellowed fora the etands that Durocher was a crook, . and crook is in a far lower category of calumny than bu■• In the ensuing interview between Durocher and Christian, the latter said that bis jaw was broken by a blow. Durocher siad that Christian juat fell down and broke bis jaw bi ■ self. The jury said that Durocher is right, if Durocher had been convicted, he would have been banned fro• baseball for life, as a felon. As it is, he is free now to retu~n to the club . which has won all three games playedduring the trial -- one of those gaaes, a no hit, no run affair. And the judge says the verdict is a far and just one on the basis of the a,idence. I a■ glad the Manager has been vindicated and that no discredit has been placed on the great Aaerican gaae of baseball. And now, thia ia 1.1. Chaplin speaking for Lowell Thoaas and aa1ing ao long until toaorrow. I