,tQHIQ -~~ . .2.le,.rt,-0 I The atomic energy committee o! Congress h s scheduled what is called •an urgent meeting• for tomorrow morning and it is believed the subject will be -- the hydrogen bomb. The com ittee will confabulate with Chairman David Lilienthal and other memb e rs of the U.S. Atomic Inergy Commission. Which ties in with the word that President Truman is weighing the decision - whether or not to build a super devastating H-Bomb. Bell bomb, as they call it. The United Press tonight has a st&ttiment tz■~• from a Russian scientist that the Soviet 11 as far advanced in atomic matters as the western powers -- know how to build a hydrogen bomb, and will not hes1t . ate to do so. This comes from an interesting personality -- a brother of Stalin's pet biologist -- ~1senko. But this other ,senko broke with communism, was captured by the Germans in the war, and is now int e United States. spBSTITUTI QP4L There is a conflict of opinio n o n the likelihood of the wildcat coal strike ending on Monday.W as hingto rep o rts that this is likely to hap en - following a decision to renew comp&ny- uaxi union negotiations. Today Joh~ L. Lew,~ agreed to go into bargaining talks again - but at Pittsburgh mine union o!f1o1als declared tonight that they are not sure the ninety thousand rebel strikers will resp o nd to the negotiations by returning to their jobs on Monday. 1011014 In ashington, simply sweltering in thi1 mid-winter heat-wave -- s;p:r American ch1efa of defence give the opinion that the Isl nd of ~ormoaa does have •strategic ~~~" ..... "-· significance• for the Uni\ed State9A.. In this they take issue with the State Department -- Secretary of State Acheson h a ving declared that the ls 1 and, held by the Chinese Nationalists, is of no consequence for American strategy in the Pacific. Today Secretary of Defence Louis Johnson and General Omar Bradley, Chairman of the Joint Obtete of Staff, testified before the roreign Relation• Committee of the Senate - called because of protest, against the administration policy of refusing to ald the defense of rormosa. fhey said the Island.,.. important to us -- but not important enougb to send ""merican troops. General Bradley testified that General Douglas MacArthur 1n Tokyo believes th a t lormosa, in the possession of the Beds, would be a menace to American defences 1n the Pa.c1tlc. (.alil.,._a--~eT ~ , artm acyar1n1s / ns1de t / h e p 1Uc 1 tern al po cy. former Vice-President Henry Wallace den1e1, vigorously, that he ever had anything to do with wartime atomic shipments to Soviet Russia. (Ke was he ~ d o i2onoa1 c ..!.!3-rfa.re h1ch 1sa11ed 11 But suoti licences c&ae to h1 ecl&red today:) The former Vice-President, testifying before the OoJllJllittee on Un-American Activities made the ohar1• that reports about his atomic activities came fro ■ what he called--•• lying leak 1n the Cabinet•. Be did not 1ay what Cabinet member or members might be accused of originating the reports about him. (Be denied, likewise, that a1 a member of the Cabinet of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, he advised th a t American atomic secrets be turned over to Soviet lluss1 a. ) ~ s ~ d t t In London today the Liberal Part . refused to join the Conaerv t1ves against the Labor Government. ihe Liberals, at one t1 1 h B me mg ty in ritieh politics, are now a mere fraction. In the last general election five years ago they polled less than two-and•one-,hlrd million votes. But that number 1ould be importan, in a close oonte ■ t, and Winston Churchill issued a formal 1nv1tat1on for a 3oin1ng of forces -- calling on Conserv a tive• and Liberals to unite against the Soola l ism of the Labor Party. But the Liberal• to4&y refused, and aald they were ■ till against both Torie ■ and Soclalista. llPPJISI,t. scenes n a. arta, Tonight there a.re warlike i J k capital of the Indonesian Republic - the city formerly oa.lled Bata.via,-!La.tin for Bolla.nd;-tha.t imperial power of the Indies, until now. Soldiers M"e throwing up defences, stretching barbed wire 1 ..a constructing sandbag ba.rra.gea - to protect governmett buildings. his -- after a ... t,, •6...-& battle 1n ihe middle of Ba.ta.via, staged by the rebel army of the renegade Dutch officer, Turk Westerling. Which climaxes the recent news about that captain of the Dutch Army, who is half a Turk, and h&lf a Moslem. Revolting against the Indonesian Bepub11o, forming an alliance with Mohammedan fa.natica fro• Dar ul Islam. The other night we heard how Turk Westerling ha.d captured the City of Bandoeng in Weet Java, a.nd yesterday he seized an important railraa4 town. 1fsut it wa.s hardly to be expected -- wha.t he did today. \ Turk Westerltngs insurgents launched an attack right into Jakarta., intending to seize the government buildings. The battle went on for hours, JIPPll§I4 •... 2 etreetf1ght1ng wlth machine guns - before the troops of the Indonesian aepublic were able to beat off the attack. ~ United Preas thla afternoon baa an inteTTlew with Turk Westerling, procured bJ a r e porter who~ met • the renegade Dutch officer at a aeoret hiding place_.., Western Java. Turk Westerling said, oonf1dent1J, th&t he expects to wln control of all J ava. ltl• Hews of a catastrophic explosion, devasting beyond all description. But don't worry -- it's news from Mars. A Japanese astronomer re orts#hat appeared to be a stupendous blast -- ap arently some kind of volo n1c erupt1on th t hurled a vast cloud., some seven ---~ hundred miles in diameter, th ~ t rose forty miles above A the surface of the red planet. Be says it would mean frightful havoc among the people on Kare -- it there were any. Thi£ Japanese astronomer 1s attached to an obse~vatory at Osaka, w~ ~ re they have a blg telescope -- and 1m . ed1ate enquiries were made over here. D14 any American astronomer observe such an explos1onr The answer, ~iven by astronomer rred Haas at Albuquerque, lew Ke~ioo, 1s that no such phenomenon could have been observed from the United States -- Mars not visible. But a check 1s being ~ade among astronomers in western Germany, where the reported explosion could have been seen. QiQKAGI At 0 dnce, I111no1 s tod a y, th e s tory w s r eve a led of wh t h P ) ened when a twi ter hit th town 1st ni ht nd wrecked a f a ctory. Th 1 e p nt blown into a m s of reckage - and right alongside ,ere the r ilroad tracks. Hunks A-/ of concrete teel be a ms were ~ hurled acros the r a ils - as was the roof of a feed ~ storeA blown for two hundred fee • In the plant was the factory manager, Rich a rd Ketz, thirty five years old, as the building came down around his ears. But that was not wh a t worried him. He saw th e b rr1cade aero s the railroad tr a cks, and knew a p a ssenger train was due to come through in a few minutes. ~e 3wnped into his car, drove south as fast as he could, in the direction from which the train was coming. ~he highway is alongside the railroad line, and nretty soon he saw the train. So how did he flag it dowru He threw thd spotlight of his automobile on the locomotiv flashin the brilliant beam at the engineer -- and s a dan er i u nal. The managed to get th a t across a ~ lilQJAGE .... 2 tr a in ~ top ped , and factory manager Metz told of the torn a do-hurl e d b rrioade across the tr c k s. hicb averted a 11kely disaster, as the train hitting the ~-'·''- obstruction would hav ~ gone off the rails. ~ JIOUNT Y BI BLJi At Pitcairn Island, in the remote South Pacific they g ot back today the - Bounty Bible. After one hundred and ten years that copy of the holy writ has returned -- the 1ble of the !!_Utineers. The Connecticut Historical Society, via the British has restored it to the descendants of the mutineers of the - Bounty. That strangely historic volume of the scriptures was printed in the Seventeen Hundreds, and was the captain's Bible. Captain Bligh - the hardboiled I skipper. The Bounty set sail from lngland for the South Seae in 1787, and the story has been told time and again how, in southern latitudes, the crew mutinied seized the ship, and set officers adrift in open boats -- the mutineers of the Bounty finally ~,~ winding up on Pitcairn Island, settling down with a A. native wives, a nd lost to the sight of the world for long years. -✓- ~ ~ 1i ~ " - - < At& I ' When they went ashor~ they took the shlps papers, including the Bible -- and this they had in their posses s ion when they were re-di s covered. In Ninet e en Thirty Nine the Americ a n whalin g ship, the Cyru s o f N a ntucket c a lled a t Pitcairn Isl a nd -- and C ap t a in Levi ayden m a de friends with John Ad a ms , g r a ndson of one of the ori g in a l mutin e ers. li e made the Yankee 8k1pper a present -- the old Bible, relic of the Mutiny of the Bounty. Which Ca p a in H a yden trok home ' with him, and in time his descendants pre s ented it to the Connecticut Historical Society. Last year, the Society decided to return the priceless memento to the pl a ce where it belonged~ according to all the canons of romance. The Bounty Bible was sent to England to be re p aiTed -- its original binding had been torn to tatter s . No wonder, after all those adventures. Several of the first pages had disappeared, the beginning of Genesis; and nothing could be done about th a t. Bu, otherwise the Bounty Bible wae put into its original shape, as nearly as possible. So today in a special JQVJTJ BIBLE •... 3 oaee of Fij1 Isl nd hardwood, the Bible 1s back at Pitcairn Island, full of those memories of Captain Bligh nd the Bounty. The C nadian police are co mpla in1n th a t they don't underst a nd the crooks any more. fh a t is, they don't s a vvy the new slang in the C a nadian und e rworld the way t he smart burgi a rs are t a lking now a d a ys. t's a n honest cop to think, hearing s omething 11k this: • hen a hard -rock oes on a boost, he needs a dark benny and mouse feet.• ell, •hard-rock• means - a tough uy. •• boost• -- a burglary. •Dark benny• -- signifies a coat, and •mouse-feet• are rubber soled shoes. What the welldressed thief wears out thieving. (then, there's a •greeble• -- a doll not so cla s sy. •All wrapped up• means -- o a rry1ng a torch. You will observe that I a.m translating this underworld slang 1nto classic academic English, as when I say that ' 1 blue beatles• 1s an expression for cope, otherwise known as flatfeet •J But my classic soul is most enra ~ tured when I note the way they ask for a li gh t. ' hey say -- 'ignite SLA,IJG • • • • · 2 me, unk". ounds v1v & o 1 ous, not to s y zippy. •tgnite T od Yin okyo, a t One P.M. sh a r p , a t enty- do ll r- - eek overnment clerk a ea red at the Royal P 1 ce, nd w ushered into the presence of the Vice-Chi ef Ch mberla1n of the Im erial household. To this office worker, whose name is Takasukaea, the Vice Imn e r1al Chamberlain announced: 'Their majesties, the Emueror nd Empress, would like to have t~e1r daughter, the Princess Kazuko, married to the Honorable Takasukasa.• What are his feelings on the subject! To which the clerk replied: 'I accept.• ihus comes about the engagement, announced today, of the twenty-year-old daughter of the Mikado to wh a t certainly would seem to be the humblest kind of bride-groom. However, the government employee ls lhe twenty~s1x year old son of the Chief Priest of a Shinto Temple, the most venerable in all Japan, the Meiji Shrtne. Moreover, that Shinto riest is a cousin of the dowa er em res s of Japan. So the pen pushing clerk 11 I roy a lty•-- a t twenty bucks a week. I JAPANBi B: PR INCE .... S •••• 2 Aft r t e ~nnouncement of th en ement, the prosoect · ve brid room nd hi f ther were 1nterv1e bY ne men. ~ p r sented no picture of a youn couple out dini"n nd d nc1n to ether, nd f a llin 1n love. They awe ch other only h lf dozen times, ••z■ and briefly at t · t. The negotiations form rriage, in fact, were be un before they ever met -- nor 111 they see much of e ch other, before their marriage next year. The intended bride room was asked -- was he in love with the princess! To this he replied with Japanese propriety: •That feeling will come.• So the jazz age has not yet affected the ways of royal marriage ln Japan, where they have the wedding first, and then -- th t feeling will come. ~)\~~-~~~ ~~~-t.L1 ~ !