IAIL At the Air roroe base, Panama City, Florida, a bombardment this afternoo knocked out virtually all of the warplanes -- as completely as the most successful kind of enemy assault. It was a hail storm -- a torrent smashing down, with ha11 stones as b1g as tennis balls. They ripped through the metal wings and shattered plexi-glass domes -- not to mention a battering of hangars and other buildings. Staff Sergeant G. T. King tetrieved one of the hail stones, and put it in his refrigerator, as evidence of magnitude -- seven and one-half inches in circumference and two and one half inches thicl • ., __ APPRQPRIATIQII A committee of the Bouse of Representatives has out a billion and a half from the giant White Bouse appropriations bill of more than thirty-billions-and-a.- half. The magnitude is not only in the amount of money - but also 1n the taot that it's an omnibus a,,sa appropriations bill, the whole cost of government put into one docW1ent. !he bill ts fou1'-hundre4-en4-th1rty pages long, the first omnibus &pproprlatione bill in a- hundre4-and-t1fty-yeara. H ♦BSH4LL PLJJ( In both the Senate and the Bouse of Repre nt a tives decisive steps were t a ken this afternoon to put up Marshall Plan funds - money for the third year of the European Aid Program. Tbe Foreign Affairs Committee of each house gave its okay - with simultaneou• action. But there were dif f erences 1n the two bills, though each names the same uount - three billion, one hundred million dollars, as requested by Pres14enl Truman. The Senate group voted that much 1n cash. Bui in the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Bouse, the decision was to put up one billion dollars worth in the form of American farm surpluses. The general view is that this action by the two committees today clears the way for the third year of Marshall Plan funds to go through - though there may be some oppost1on on the floo~ of the Senate and the Bouse. QOHGB,ISSHA,J I cannot tell you the prediction that Congressman Church of Ill1no1s was making today. Before a coDUDittee, the sixty-six year old veteran waa test1f against President ~ruman's plan to abolish the office of general counsel of the National Labor Relation• Board. Congressman Church, a long time opponent of Democratic ada1n1atrat1ons, demanded that th1a White Bouse move be cancelled. 'If Congress,• he started to 0 ... prop~sy, 'does not set 1t aside within the requ1re4 sixty days, I v nture the prediction that it will result in considerable ••••• • At that point, he stopped and 1lU11ped out o~h1s chair. Congressman Killer of Nebraska, who 11 & · doctor, hurried to his side, made a quick examination, and said - 'Heart attack.' A fatal heart attack, and so the prediction that was begun today will never be completed. iJIIJG BALLS Congres1 1s being urged, in ,he atronge1t way, to do something to restore - the hiring hall1. !he various rival maritime unions have ~oined to demand & law to reestablish that method of engaging seafarers, which was outlawed by the Supreae Cour, under tbe Tat,-Bar,ley Law. Today federal mediator Cyrus Chin1 warned Congress that there would probably be a nationwide shipping 1trike - unless the mari,ime union• are &llowe4 to operate the hiring hall system. The lederal med1a,or called the ayste■ - •1aeen,ial and 1nd11penaible•. An4 added - ,hat the e ■ ployera of mar1t1•• labor approTe of what he called •well run• hiring hall•. I J QQIHJJIISTI A Senate Sub-Committee met behind closed doors today, to hear the culminating charge bJ Benaior McCarthy of W1scons1n, who has named what he calla, Russia's '!op espionage agent•. -(a And"1aya - ihat thil top ranking R~d spy is now connected with the State Department. The Senator has already given the naae of this individual - to the sub-committee - which na■e ha1 not been made public. We are merely told that the alleged •top ~ ' ) c l ' I W . . espionage agent' wa1 the boss of Alger Bi11A 1enienoe4 to prison tor perjury 1n connection w1,h 1p1 work. ( At ,he 1ecret 1ession, which wa• called hast 1ly today, '9nator McCarthy wae called upon to present his formal charge• - the proof in the matter. A De ■ ocratic m , t t the co-1ttee aaJa it was a case of •Put up or . Later on, after the 1ub-0O-1ttee proceeding• were over, the chairman, Senator Tydings of Maryland, stated that McCarthy did not ~roduce what Tydings called - •Primary evidence.• Be merely repeated his COIO(UWISTB ••••• 2 allegations under oath, and ••clared that proof voul4 be found in the loyalty files. Senator Tydings declare• s he intend.._ to do everything possible to procure acce•• ~ to those files. 01114 The atteapt to remove two thousand foreigners, including six hundred Americana froa Bed Shanghai ended in final failure today. The Reda refused to permit the evacuation - for which the American rescue ship, General Gordon, was waiting for days. Beports are that they ob3eoted because the Americans and other foreigners w e re to be transferred by - LST boats. These are American military landing craft, now adapted for c1v1la1n use - and would have ,o be used, because the steamship itself could not navigate through channels 1n which alne• have been strewn. But the Reda decided to consider the LS! boats - warah1pa. And - refused to let the■ take o f f the refugeer. Bo today the steamship General Gordon sailed away to Y okohama, and our government 1• still trying to find some way to get those people out. APP QiXIA A late dispatch etatee that the 1team1hlp line operattng the General Gordon still baa hope• that an arrangement can be made with the Co11mun1e,e, and tbat the rescuet vessel may be able to return and pick up the refugees. IILQIPM The latest in the Belgian dispute 11 an a ppeal by foraer Premier Spaak, addressed to King Leopold - urging that exiled monarch to abdlcate in favor of the crown prince. The argument, pr~sente4 1n a respectful but urgent tone, is that, it Leopold insists on resWD1ng his throne, it will plunge Belg1ua into dissension and strife. The Soc1al1ata are calling •anti-Leopold strikes.• The cabinet is div1de4 on the aubjeo,, and we are told of attempts at a oomprom1ae. One ooapro■ i•• ■ ight be to have Leopold return to hls throne, but w1th a pledge th a t he will 1-ediatelJ resign in favor of his son, the crown prince. The purpose of this would be to exonerate the king, who during the Second World ~ War surrendered~h1a army and allowed himself to be 11&4• a prisoner by the Baz1a. At,er which he would step out in the interest• of national unity. ITALY Late news from It ly -- where the Communists have called a nationwide general strike for tomorrow. This is in rotest gainst police action in a clash at a place one-hun red-and-fifty . miles south of Rone, where one ri~er was killed, a score inju1ed. To whichthe Reds resp nd with an order for a one day general 6trike. BBJtAII - lLQGGIHq ~• Br1,1sb governmen, has no 1n,ention ,o &- restore - flogging. They won't resort to ,he old oat- .... nine-tails as punishment. Br1,a1n is having a bad orl ■e wave, and this has raised newspaper and public de■and - tor corporal punishment, which was abolished in Brltlah prisons two years ago. But today, ln the House of Lorda, the outor7 was re3eoted - bJ ,he Lord High Chancellor. Be aa14 - o•- 'here would be no resort to floggln1 - no ■ore oat~lliaC nlne-taila. .. 4RYQ%ISIJQ A diplomatic storm in Sweden, all because of an advertisement printed in Stockholm nevsp&pers. The effect of the ad was such that the British Ambaasador, Sir Harold Farquhar, went at once t~ the Swedish Foreign Office and made a personal, indignant prote1t. The British Embassy called the newspaper display - •vulgar•. Aleo - •Horrible.• To which Sir Harold 1arquhar &d4e4 a 1tern demand ln the following word• - •tha~ under no oircuastance, will the adTertiaement be printed again.• (the d1ploaat1c atora was · auch that the Swed1ah roreign Office 1amedi&tel7 co■plied, and ■ade repreaentatlons to the newspaper publisher• Aaaoclation - which today put a ban on the offending ad.) So what was itT Well, a concern manufacturing cheap lewelry put out an iaitatlon pearl collar, priced at thirty-five kroner - seven dollars. And called it - 1 The Princess Elizabeth pearl collar.• And printed a picture of the heiress to the crown of Great Britain, Princess Elizabeth, wearing a pearl choker - sa.me design. And holding in her arms - her baby aon, Bonnle Prince Charlie. The blurb wilh lhe picture said •Gel your Princess lllzabeth pearl collar today. Wear it for eight days, and relurn if no1 ' satisfied.• If satisfied - the cuatomer was to pay ott at the rate of ninety-two cent, a mon, •• The Britlah Embassy aald the iapresalon giTen wa• that lhe cheap ,ewelry fir ■ h&d pald the heiress to the British crown for per ■ ission to use her name and picture in advertising the aeTen dollar ~unk represented as the royal necklace. The offense to British dignity was all the greater because of the history of Prine••• lliz&beth'• pearl collar. rro■ the time she waa born, her father, ling George, pr e sented her with one pearl each year - a gem of exquisite perfection, for her birthday. When she was eighteen, these with a nuaber of others were made into a gleaming collar. Value - many thousands of dollars. Ro, not seven bucks to be paid off at ninety-two cents a month. APYPJIBIJQ- •.... 3 So you can imagine the sputtering of Slr Harold rarquhar, ••-•••s\le~B11 Majesty, George the '., -~••4th"-- s 1xtti~ to the court ot Stockholm. •1 eay, what 1ro1a I impertinence.• Alll♦ 8oaeth1ng of a record is being set 1n Italy - that familiar Italian realm, the opera. A fifteen year old girl 1a making her debut aa a star ■ oprano - ~~ a1ng1ng '9 role a:t 0111• t•~• O IW 1111t ln Rigoletto. Ber name does not sound aurprialng tor operatic matter• in the Tlcln1ty of Rome - Jeanetta La Bianca. But she comes fro■ Buffal9, where her parent• now 11Te, and she atarted ■ 1nglng in a Buffalo public school. !here ■ he al ■ o was the captain of the girl•' ba1eball and baeketball teaa1 - whlle starting to - warble hlgh notes. Ber Toiae, eTen a• a e ■all glrl, wa• such that ahe wa• aent to Italy to study - and •••1• a priaa donna at fifteen. They 1a7 that, her career la a 1uoceas, --•~It• the youngeet opera star 11nce the A legende4 Adelina Pattl - who W&I a trluaph 1n opera at lixteen, a little older than the girl fro■ Buffalo. - IJ♦ tll In Washington, the National r1gure Skating Champ1onah1ps are to begin on Thursday - with world champion Dick Button of Harvard defending his u. a. title. And so, while waiting for the big event, 4&7 after tomorrow, Dick Button eende me a story with a ■oody international angle. Be 1ay1 that two years ago, right after he won the olympic t11ure 1katlng chaaplonsh1p 1n Switzerland, be flew to Prague, Csecho ■ lovak1a, where be gave an exb1b1tlon - an4 there he had a strange surprl••• Vhlle he•&• going through apeedy turns and twteta on the lee, there wae plenty of ~pplauee. But then, suddenly, fro• the 4ark audience an orange wa• flun1 - landin1 on the stage. Angered by · thla insult, Dick swooped down, snatched up the orange, and threw it baok into the audience. Thie drew a new bur ■ t of applause - aad more orang••· Be thought they were trying to bombard him off the stage - until he picked one up, wrapped in paper, on the paper was written - •Good luck, Dick Button, good luck U.S.A.• Still ayst1f1ed, Diet bad to hurry to oatoh a plane - and there he was told that the Co■■un11t1 were 1e1z1ng power. The oranges, so scarce a.n article of food 1n the country, were the last free expre111on of good-will io America - as the darkness of the Be4 d10,ator1hlp descended. LABA Lil ~ ~ t e s t i m o n y in Hollywood tod&J, in the trial of Kra. Lorraine M1ehel, foster ■other of the child film star, Loralee. The nine-year 014 actre ■ e herself wae o the witness stand, and told I how she stole food because her foster aother etarTe4 her to keep her small enougb to play in p1oturee. But then, in cro ■ 1-exu1nat1on, Loralee eaid she stole a■ the food because her drama coach put her up to it - a thing which her drama coach 1nd1gn&nt1J denies. JILL PJIB♦IZ In Bollywood, they've arrested the bur11ar who robbed the philosopher. The prisoner 1• twent7-two year old ~eorge Boden, in whose roo■ ,he police found the loot, three-hun4rect-an4-fourteen-,houeand dollar•• worth of securitlea and ~ewelrJ - a.n4 Boden tella ttie following story. Be 1aya be watched ,he philoaopher aa4 hl• wife leave ha•• in the evening, and then he broke into ,he house - where, in a atrong-box, he dlacoTere4 ,he treaaure. Be aaya he never expected to ftnd that ■uch - a• who wo•••• 1D the ho■• of a phlloaopherl Whereupon he waa frt1htened. •when I found what I ha4, I waa scared ,o dea,h,• ,he polloe quote ht ■ aa •a1la1. •1 thought somebody ■ lgh, klll me,• he expl&lna, •1t they caught ae wi,h lt.• Be wa• disturbed bJ the though' that - lf other crook• learned abou, ,he ,rea•ur• he had, they might kill hia toge, lt. Vhloh la a ,w1ater tor a philosopher to meditate upon. Will Durant, himself, was bothered ■oatlJ by the 19 ,s of time - the amount of his time the polloe took ln their 1nvestigat1on. Be la working on the sixth JILL PPIAIZ ••.•. a Tolu■e of a 1 Bislor7 of Oiv111zat1on,• and a phllo1opher knows that - t1 ■e losl cannot be regained. Bui how does a ph1101ophe1 co■e lo haTe 10 much money! The aages of old were nol faaou1 for worldly poeeeaeions. Of course, ¥111 Duran, had & ■01t proft,able succ••• years ago - w11h his - 1 8tor7 of Pb1101oph7.• Be b&1 wrllten other suocesaful book1, too. Bui 11111, 11T1ng ln · a Boll7wood ■analon •l'h hundred• of tbou1and1 of dollar• ln the till - ••11, -r.£tR...,,evi -:r~ ... ,42.,,. that 1e&41 •• ,o re■ln4AW111 Durant that~101ene1 11Te4 'TJ,.. - TJ- - iu~~, ~ -q_ . -#·:.,, M•~ '!