PAJAATID Word trcm Jeruaal• atatea that Arabs have cut the _ _ water supp}¥ of fourteen Jewish aettl-nts 1n the ••1.f: ~ five places tbeJ baYe broken the pipeline on which tat Jwtlb aettlwnts· a. · 11 4111st depend tor water ~ their onq iource. In the utaost haste, the Jewiah underpound ans,, llpmb, baa eent detaow,nts to repair tbe p1pel1ne, to ••• , -I-. tilla Z1antat;a of tbe 11e--,: 'ftlilt 1 a an arid dnert 1n -tbem f ~ , ~ t , ot ---9~,:. tr;, - • JI{ . . . , . I traveled tbrcNp •-••"Jean ago - before tha . -4 Jelfillb Nttlera arr1Yed. Vbat I . . / , . • • Nl"Nll lMd 1Dbab1ted oni, bJ scattered Aiab tribes, owl-r1d1DI lill1tatn, the O'.INl:S ot the deHl't 1n their black tenta.'\t ha• all alq been the contention ot tbe Z1on1•t• that tbeJ cOllld . . . t-t"- ' Palestine de{;::/~ like the proverbial roae • . . 1&e1 ,._ selected. the ➔ u a place to illustrate this 1n a draNatic way. Fourteen Jewia~ settlements were plant•~ - and 1 the desert can be made to bl0011 like a rose, if there 11 water. . ' ..fl:-, &at tbat•a a ailht1 scarce cOPMIOd\ty in the Kegei. The Zionists A PALISTID - 2- proceeded to l'8lll8'l;J the detic1encJ bJ lay1n& a water pipeline, -----'iit:~ . , . - , ~ ~ [ S i l ~ , t 9 # ' ~ ~ ~ - - a loag one. w1nd1ni tor ■ilea ao~•• the~•••• - a p1pel1na i_/ _ _J,J . A ~ a 11tel1ne, bJ-1ngSna the preci01&1 water that'• meded tor ;-IAkillll Uld tor tbl 11'ripUCID ot ti. f i e ~ t • a llllat~ J.. Arab raider•••• cu.t. 1 Arl'OUllded, not - aettled agnow.tual AN.ba, bllt bJ llQ■ld . ~ Rlbea,•-- lite 1a oae ot llldleaa ....Ser> dri'fiD& tbeir t-looa am Ml'U to wblltner paatun•-, be bid, tibelr ""' tN41t1on belnl tighti.Qg and raid1Dg. 'lheJW not a atat1--, ~ - - , at an, om place - tbeJll-e a fluid, ll vaDlablDI, allliOa, 1DY1aible . . . . , , ot wboll the poet waa th1nk1n& wbeD • wroa l tbe tud.11ar line - a'l'beJ told tbe1r tenta lite tbe ANN, and a1lently ateal •fll•" · ill or which underacores the ditticultJ ot the poa1 tion ot tbe tourteen J•1eh aettleanta 1 ~ and adds point to a turtber detail 1n the news today, the Jwiah settlement• taking ... rgenc1 •asure1 to guard aga1Ut PALlftDIB - 3 ., ... ~ BldOIWl raida, nClllld tribe-n striking 1'l'OII out ot the A va1tne1a ot t~eaert. The Jewiah aettl ... nta are taking · precautiona ap.inat being attacked and beaiepd. 'ftle mn dlapatoh trail Jeruaal• 1tate1: " PNl'hl ot their poaltlan, tm Jewa ot the . . ,Jr WOl'ldlll tbrouatl I l l ~ , wre Npcll'Mdi to be pattlng up •aeourltJ bouaea•, nrtual tortrea■ea, •1th a •lztr..., IIIPP~ ot tood, •ter, UIIII and e anttlca, aplillt Arab•• ■ - bealepn.• It ratmr JW2nda wot ... .. -rloan ptoneera ot tm JPrantier na,a - ,r tmtr bloot....._, I t ltullinl ■1 ... bJ the IDdlW. ( One ot the strangest ot all tboee war-t1ae . cr1ae1 began 1n Scandinavia today - lorwa, br1.nging the pro-laz1 charge agatnat lorn,•s greate1t writer. He's Knut Ha■eun, t e1gbt1- e isht year old lobel Prize w1nner_;)B1c1t 1n 11.Deteen 'l'WmQ-!wo, upon publtcatton ot hta DOYel "fra,th or the Soll", . lnu.t lulaun won the lobel Prize tor · literature. ( 'f'be accuaat1on qainlt hill now 11 •t dur1ng the nr, the IU1 occupation of .llo~, he served R1tler l)l'OJ)MIDda) attacking the exiled lonre,d.an goverment, aaaa111nl Gnat Britain and aupportlna the laa1 · overlord, 1n Sol'IIQ. At tbe trial that opened today, the pro1ecut1on 11 presenting no witneaaea and only one kind ot eY1denoe, lnut Hameun•a oam war-tlae pro-laz1 writtnga. 'l'be aged Nobel Prize winner waa broqht todq trca an old 11en•a home to the Town Hall 1n the village or Qrir.aatad. He was accompanied by hia two aona, both of whom were Mllbera - . ~~ ot the Norwegian P r~-lazi Party headed by Quialt.ngA ...... executed by a firing squad. Knut Hamsun, tailing 1n e7ea1&ht JWISIJI - 2 ~Mll'IO-""'~ • anc1 halt deaf, took hil place 1n t f"'•'1 box and lhOll'-4 - "Where are the -•ho will do ➔hooting,• ~Ol'W&J' ta1 no idea ot 1boot!ng ldll. . _ ~ U • ' 11n • t ann uldng tor a priaon eantmoe, aerely a t1ill) out ot cona1derat1an ot tbe aae, 1nt11'1d.tJ and r - of Dllt B:■••• IOl'IIQ' ■ greatest writer. BIG FOUR In Paris tonight, they are thing to tum B1-zonla into Tr1-zon1a. bae are 111-aound1ng worda and 1 hope tbeJ don't becoae a part or the international vocabular,. This follows the abynaal collapse ot the oonterence • • • • • 1eaterday. '1'odQ there waa charge and oounter-cbarp - our aide aa,tng the Soviets wrecked the conterence, lloacow lhOllt~ tbat A119r1ca Mbotapd the conterenae • . Anrwa,, 1:m tour power atteapt to . tOl'II a unltted Oen.an, baa ooapletelt tailed. So what to clo now! The idea 11 to unity the part• ot a.nun, occupied • bJ the Western powers, that 11, western CJ8rilan1. Oet weatem I Oermany into economic production - under the Marshall Plan: The .Allerlcan and Br1t11h ZGnel ot occupation are alreadJ unified, so the next step 1a ~o get the Frerich zone into the 11ne-up1The American and British twofold combination is called - B1-zonia. The addition or the French sepent would make 1t tr .. ee - or Tr1-zon1a. .1 1:ao,e ,he tutare wt!tted BIG FOUR - 2 ven that naae permanentl.J - '.,.- ,,.,,,. ,,. How would ou like to have e radj.o program begin / ,,/ . caaent - " t i n•• rrc,tAi-rl-1onia tompt 11 / ·~-· a, I suppose, 11Uld be 1 are burdened wlth a lot ot nr t, bu.t tbeJ /t deHl'ff a pun1~t. ua that, Anin1', Alllrloan Secreter, ot Slate 111.raball 11 ill , Part.I t-ont&ht, d11CU18lni the •tter irtth 1Nnob Poretasi .............. •• '° on to 0118 alllpler words. lPORIIGII AID Allerican toNiln policy struck a new snag toda, - 1n our _ own Aaerican Congress. Yesterday the Senate and tbe Houae paaaed the five hundred and ninety-aeven a1111on dollar bill to aid Prance, Itai, and Austria - and that ■tgtat ba•• aeaed to be that. But it• · • 1t111 up to the Appropriation COllll1tteea _ ot Conlre•• to provide the tum■, and that wu.,.... tbe .,., - atrllclt todaJ. '1'he Appropriation■ C: 1ttN ot t.be Lw•r aouae voted to alaah •11ht1-e11ht 111.llion · dollan tNlil the tl•~tnat1-anen· ■tllion - nen after tm senate and the BOuae pa1Hd the Drpr figure bJ auch Imp •Jor1t1••• lt all -na aore delat - another oaqre111oaal r,.abt, a battle over the alaah •4• by~ Collllitttee. MOSCOW ------ ( r e bi~ news in osc w t oni ht is the end of rationin)in t h e Uscovite ca it 1 , nd t h e Russian radio has plenty to say about t i s o nderful event -- the first day of ration-free trade nine-hundred-and- fifty ne shops open and all the food stores plentifu ly stocke . Accordin to the radio, there was a price dro of from fifty to seventy-five perce nt in the price of milk, potatoes, and ~ ve etables, but )l'II•'"' t e catch. been revaluated~Mrs. Ivanovitch A ~ th.told ruble has .~ /\ bas to pay ten of her old ru . ble s for one ne• ruble. ~d) the prices of the food on skle are marked up in the new Russian currency which• is not yet available to the public . - ~ ~ . = ; - ~ the stores are ~~~~ giving chan g e in the old rublesl\which makes the buyers' arithmetic a little complicated . . Nevertheless, accor d in to the jubilant reports on t e oscow radio, business in oscow ha s been bris, everyb od buyin domet in & . \Accordin to one correspon d e t, t ere ova f r ati nin 6 tas see ed MOSCOW - 2. ---------- up business so much that today it only took ten minutes to buy a loaf of bread, while yesterday it took any ,1 ere from one t o t o hours.) • STRIKE ------- Today, in~ ica c, Re re se.t tive Fred A. Hartley, Junior, Vice Chairman of he enate-Bouse Committee on labor problems investigated the newspaper strike• Bartley reporting he has had informal talks with publis era nd union re resent tives in C r, icago, checkin some articular p as e of t . e strike t. t merits the attention of the joint Committee. The Republican Representative from ew Jersey did not discuss the progress of his talks in connection with the strike A . ~ baa affected six Chicago daily ne~spapers. Any statement, he Bays, must wait until he bas conferred with Senator Joseph Ball, Chairman of·the Senate Bouse Committee on Labor Problems. Tomorrow, Hartley is goin on to Detroit to investigate the situation there where three newspapers are threatened by com -~~ 0s1ng rooms: tte A denied t at he was dig in g .up any material on James C. P etrillo. Said Representative H~~~~~-•­ practically all t e data we need 1h~!?- 1 , ur next c ntact wit Petrillo is wen ha apyears bef re t e Commi tee in January." lWIILTOI Word troll London 11 that W1naton Churchill baa llltl• ► • uep1an =i. left to h1a bJ General Sir Ian . Ball1lton, one of Br1ta1n•1 ■eaorable warrion, wbo died wo ■ ontba ago at tb• qe of n1net1-tour. 111 will, Jla4e publie 1n London toda7, bequNtba wntoea of 111m.J a nr. 10r •Dl!llt tbere•• tbe dagger ot an Afghan bo}7 u11r wboll Ian llud.ltoa killed 1n a duel 1n Bilbteen Snmt,-11M -- back 1n tm clap of tbe At&ba,n ware. . ~ !lie Buddha left to Vtnaton Cburcbill""' trOII Burlla, 5. a._ A . " l ~ and c01111•orate1 another f•ou• caapalp."Baa1lton•a will deacr1bea it aa - "tbe black Buddha seated 1n a croaa-leg position, taken by Gurk:ba orderlies and IQ'Selt, troll a deaerted teaple near Jllandalay during the Bunaeae Var." '!'hat waa B1.gbteen B1ghty-S1x. IWIILTOI - 2 ~ ' 4 - ~ ~ LI¥' picturesque; bu) there•a deeper h1ator1oal draaa than that. Ian Haa1lton 1 a brilliant a111tary career - to an 111-atared end 1n World War <ne - men he c<l saded the Wlluolq Dardanelles Cllll)&ign. Be••• blWd tor the tia100 at Gallipoli, and• went into ret1raent and ob1cur1t,. ~ The •ood7 tw11t 11 that tbe Dardanelle• Culpaign orig1Mted with Wiuton Churohill, wbo 1a World War OM na Br1tata•1 Pint Lord ot tbe AdiiliraltJ. Cbllrob111 bad pl•.., tile Cll.llipoli Capaip, and llailton carried out the Chllrob111 plaa, which ended 1D 411a1ter. W1uton Clurch111 too, waa bl••• and loat out politioalq - but be 1tap4 that retvil to •1nence Whlob •de n111 a top h1ator1oal figure 1n tam 8"1114 World War. So there•• tile background ot·tbe story - IM lludlkn recalling h1a own and Vinaton Clmrobill'• mtual bad luck in World Var Olle,and bequeathing Mill to Churchill the blaok Buddha, with the following c0111ent: "lhe placid features ot thia ellbl• ot Divinity will help to keep h1a 111111.ng." LOVE IIOTIS Fr om Australi a - •lancboly news. It•e always a 1acl, sad story when aentillent tadea and rOIIUlc~ dies - and thoae who love torget. That a1gh1ng retleotion 11 evoked bJ a bit ot t1nanc1al news - a stream or Aller1can dollar billa being calbed 1n tor Allatraliar. money. ¥1111, COll:ar b 1 ~ ~I■-, In Auatral1a, during the war, Jaer1can a.I•• were 1nap1red to a nn 1dN 1n the reala ot aoonlipt and i-oaea. '!hey wrote love notes on dollar billa, and sent the•• to Austral i an 111'1•. So the Auatral1an _ dwel could ga1e twlJ at tbe aent1Mntal ••HP and at Jaar1oan currenoJ, all at the - t t . e . ~ l : J ~ ~ ~ ~ f i ~ J "lb~ ag>..._1o¥11 . . . . \4 :r1ikW"4 HUBLMill'L ~ l e o t a d and . oheriabed these endeariJag aeaentoea, a1 girls have alway■ kept lOYe letters - and it waa alao lite aaving 110ne7. However, tiM gpea by, and m•oriea tade. It has been a couple ot years ainoe the G.I•a lett Australia, and the g1rla out there are torgetttng. It•s an old story ot hwa LOVE IO'l'IS - 2 • - d1apoaea or old tt.ae letter•~ one tt.ae dffot1on - - A - hOlf ahe burna thlll, watching the tlaaea cona1.111e the papa 1n the fireplace. Bu.t girll don't bum dollar bill• 1n tireplao••· So 1n Auatral1a theJ.,. caah1.ng 1n tbe love notea, turnilll tball 1Dto luatral1an Pounds and Sh1111nga. 'l'OdaJ'• 41apatoh troa Siclne7 1tate1 that the luatral1an banka are gettilll a cs• twits, arowinl 1trea ot . Aaer1oan dollar b1111 iaacribed with adorinl ••AP•• Jar ~ - eaob one a JOUDI 1adJ geta . . Sb111111P - 'l\lpenoe - at 1;119 /\ Nplar exoballle rate. ait aoa ot tbe mrter ot tbe i.eaut1•• are not content With that. b J 1ell tbe1r M110rl•• ot raunoe on tbe black aartet, and get twice•• mob. So love 11 t1Nt1nl, but a dollar 11 a dollar, or at leaat !ix Sh1111nl• - Tllpenoe. RIDE F ARIS -------------- Frenchmen in P ris toni ht are wondering just what it is that American G.I.s have wricb proves so ~...t~'•-.Q.Os, ... irresistible to the F r e n c h ~ This old ouestion crops up again wit h Miss aria of Nineteen Forty-Seven, announcin that 1he is leaving Fra ce to marry a former American .I. -- Ray Mack of Colum~u~ Ohio. The news from Paris is tat.forty million Frenchmen don't like to be wron g on the matter of providing7'suitable husband for a beautiful gal. Miss Paris-of-Nineteen-Forty-Seven going to marry an American. •ob, la, la•• ~ h e French lotharioa :- ~A, ...e.. ~ . G r \ ~ ~ Ill Q I .~.;._it -~~ C:,.C.~ the cost of liberation.) by the Americans. 11 They ~ ...s-~~·· !;;.e - £ . t ~ o u ~ t ~ k e our ,.ti•ha• -J Well, red-haired Kay Trevil, w om Frenchmen call the Pride of Paris is quite well known in America for b · 1 She has ft-ade s1·n 1·n · sound tracks for er voice a ne. ... American stars and nows e's comin over to ap ear in person and w get married t o t at lucky ex- .I., who is now a Credit Mana er of a cot in store in Columbus, Ohio. PRIDE OF PARIS - 2. ------------------ Mademoiselle Trevil met Ray Mack when she was dancing for G.I.s in a Heidelburg ni ht club, and e was Master of Ceremo ies. Sot e story oes, Mack convinced her t a t s e had a great future as a sin er L , and she started on her career· that made her a popular ~ 1'2---- cabaret star, as well as t e •voice with a French accent• on American films. But Frenchmen are bemoaning their loss as the Pride of Paris packs her trunks to sail to America, accompanied by her French Poodle, Scarlet, and her Mama -- her first engageme~t in the United States . to be her ■arriage in Ohio. ~ r i d e of Pari~ to~• t~• bride of Columbus;AOhio. O~, la! la! ~ . SPECULATION There's a reversal of position 1n the argument about food speculation - ~ecretary of Agriculture Anderson doing the reversing. Yesterday he refused to give Congress a 11st or speculators who have been trading 1n toodstufts, but today be said - okay. To this, however, there's a string or tw~ attached. The Secretar:, · states that he now feels it okay to publish the cont1dential 11st ot big operators in the c0111nodity markets - it a Joint resolution ot the Senate and the House asks for it. Also - h ~ ~ t the 11st should name all speculators - "including those connected with the - executive or legislative branches of the govel'l'llent," says Anderson. Which 1nlpl1es, not only administration orr1c1a11, but also members or Congress - who may have speculated 1n tood. charging a<iministra ' t1on officials with doing what some congressmen have, them elves, been doing - speculating in commodities. WASHINGTON From Washington there's word of the resignation ot o£:t- the · two~•i °'A three official of the ar Assets Administration who were criticized by a congressional sub-committee last week, - ""fbe third of the officials under attack is going to leave bia post 1n the next few days •plxt• to return to active dut11n the Air Porces - he's a general. The congreaaional accusation 1a that top aen 1n the War Assets Administration, which sells surplus gove~ent property, procured new automobiles - • • tt.rough a Plorida dealer who was a purchaser ot surplus property. He knew bow to enable . them to bU¥ cars trom the auto compani a, at a time . . when prompt deli~ery was next to impossible to arrange. tlltS Se Ww bcplica•l•R i.• tut tAe @8\'ePMeftt eff1e:S.a1:e a1 ••nain6 II• .e..141 dee3a were 1aflueAced bJ tbe feet tbet aSAef .,,11e enaeila1d ~ ba, nea aae•eeilee-; DOG - Froa Colorado Springs WiltR,; there's good news tor General Mark Clark -- news of a case of A .W .O.L., the lliacreant captured and held by military police after ac absence of . two weeks froa his official duties. The name of the absentee is Swift. Rank - a canine private on the Oeneral•a peraonal atatt. A . Cocker Spaniel by the naae <- SW1tt. TWo weeks ago, the plane on which SWift and his aaater were traYel1ng to San Francisco stopped ott at Colorado Springs, and SWift took it into his head to •ke a aide trip to Cripple Creek or Victor, or up P1ke 1 s Peak, aa,be. Or perhaps Juat b uual quick look at Manitou and the Garden ot the Goda. Everyone round the air base at Colorado Springs took a .. . hand 1n the search, wt it wasn•t . till yesterday that a party ot military poliee Dak caught up w!th SW1ft -- lwift caught 1n the . ' act of doing a011ething the~~ . pedigree _ pooch should never do. I . He was found lining up in · a pigs• chow-line with a lot of pork~rs on a n~arby farm. Gone was his &wanky green sweater DOG - 2 still called Julian Street? But covered with burrs and mud, Swift was a mess. Tontght, he 1 s 1n the guard room waiting shipment to ~ Francisco to join General Mark Clark, who,• doubtless, will know wbat d1sc1pl1nary steps should be taken. I I wouldn't know, would you Nelson? now o is u n , 0 r ca ha . y . 1m ' ins no r not o oo • h oe D n e e s this tn ne of h eoi o e o f t - divine comed - - , in he . ine : "No ~ ri i e t e m o , of a ys of j oy hen is · ry is at h nd," S o no we find th t s me thought expre ssed by a former Ger an prisonPr of w r. His name i Auschut, end for o years h ~ s interned at Camp Gr nt, Il lin oi~ later sent back to Germany. ~ Q. letter from the former captive as received, a lett r a d d res ed: "Com ma nding Officer," CRmp Grant." In it Auscbutz refers back to the days when he was a prisoner of war and writes as follows: "I, and most of the others who were there with me, often think back to that time - for today, in some respects, we h ve it a lot worse. I would ackno~ledge on m y own, that we received good care, fine a uarters, were re ated well a Camp Grant." After which the former p risoner-of-w a r conc l u de : "I like to think b a ck to those times." It's herd to imagine a finer com liment ?aid to 0 I ---- - - C C o-r ni a in r , a iner co i P. n t. n i ful n ce ce o-f f r ~r ri n ' " I lik to in C to hose t , . s . " LTP.1947.12.16i.pdf LTP.1947.12.16ii.pdf