[RANCE In the French n _ 11tical crisis, former Premier Paul R ynaud h s agreed to form a new overnment - 1! he can• In the early hours of this morn in , the Cabinet: I of Pr mier Edgar Faure su tained a defeat in the Nation a l Assembly, and fell - after a mere f1 8 weeks in o ffic . Fr nee without a government for the fifteenth tim e sincethe end of the second World War. The seventy-three year old Reynaud w · s the Premier, w n t h e Nazi blitzkrieg struck, and brought abou· the fall of France. He says he will try to form what e calls a •national• government. Wh~ch m1ght imply a coal1t1on with the party of General DeGaulle. The DeGaulle faction is hostile to ~any international arrangements that previous French overnments made - 1n matters like General Eisenhower'• Army of West European defense, with an inclusion of German troops- so this new political crisis is regarded with aoorehension by statesmen of the West, who have just concluded that Lisbon agreement. The moreso, Of Premier Edgar Faure fell b cause of as the Cabinet U4lJCE - 2 a proposal to r a ise taxes by fifteen percent - for :rr e n~b armament. All of which focuses the eyes of the diplomatic world - on Par is tonight. [.OLLOW FRABQI In a radio address lonlght, Secretary of State Ac he on referred to the rrencb polltlcal or111a, of which he takes a 1eriou1 vlew. Bui he polnl1 ou, that the government of Premier 14uoard rauref fell, not because whether or not ,he aoney for ar ■uaenl should be ra11ed, but - lu■ t bow lt 1houl4 be ral ■ e4. , . b ~ 1 a nor ~il ia ms _ oc~ a r~ ~o ~ o roy il lo JQREA A d is p atc h fro m t h e Kor e an truce talks, sta\e1 that t he Reds were given today, what the dispatch calls - •a co,per riveted rejection of Ruaaia as a neutral keeper of the peace.• •copper riveted' - 10 let's loo k at the words actually spoken by negotiator C o lon e l Don Darrow. •1 now tell you formally, unequivocally and wit h the fullest author1sat1ooj he told the Reda, 'that the United Nations comma.nd decision to reject the -... Soviet union as a member of the neutral nation su p ervisory committee - 1s final &Ad irrevocable. Other debat• on this subject 11 ooapletely futile!• said he. Which certainly sound ' s copper-civeted, and brings the truce talk• to a greater oriel• than ever. 19REA - WOMAN PRISOlE R The negotiations at Pan Mun Jom disclose that among civilians intern e d by the u N forces, one ls_ a Russian mystery woman. She 1B the only foreigner kept 1n cu s tody, the only o1v111an who 1anot a Korean. So descr1b d b y the UH truce delegatlon. The mystery w man was picked up a yea.rand I a ha lf ago by South Korean soldiers in the war area · - and turned over to the Americana. A young woma.n - wllh a baby, an infant daughter. ~ •good looking brunette•, na.aed Dimova. Bow interned with her child at a hoapltal in Pusan. Today American · Admiral Libby told the newsmen that he had no other lnformatlon atout her - no detalll about who she 11 and what she was 1■ta doing ln Ior e a. Just a Russian mystery woman. &ED CRO S S This 1s Red Cross Day - beginning a drive for funds all throu h the month of March. Soiet' ■ ha i l the gre a t organization of mercy by telling about Richard Tomlin of Cheyenne, Wyoming - decorated recently wit h the Medal of Freedom, awarded by President Truman. Tomlin, a Red Cro11 11eld Director 1n Korea, was sitting on a truck outside a tent t u full of Army staff officers, when some Korean ■ started building a fire nearby. And Tomlin noticed a bandoleer with four Chinese hand-grenades - 1n the fire, ready to blow up the tent full of staff officer,. In a flash of action, he juaped fro■ the truck, and reached into the fire with hie hook. Be snatched out the bandoleer - and ewinging the hook, tossed the grenades a safe distance away, where they explo d ed. To all of which you may ask - what hook? The an s wer is that Tomlin of the Red · croea, a lawyer 1 a hunting accident b fore the war. by profession, w a s n UP caoss - 2 He lost his left hand - in place of which he ha ■ a h o k. Maimed like that, he volunteered for lore& - and that hook came in mighty handy for reaching into the flames, and saving the lives of the staff offlcer1. auBMARINE At the subm a rine base, New London, Connecticut - a r cor d was es tablished today. An undersea craft ma de its five thousandth dive - said to be the first time in history any sub•~•~ has ever descended below t h e surface that many times. Th e r e cord wa1 made by a great old veteran ~ of the undersea - lhe 11y1ng r11h. Vhlch wae launched ~ --- -- 1n the Second World War, went on cruise and eani fifteen Japanese vessels in the Pacific. Ten y,ear• 014, be Flying r1sh has spent a total of about nine month■ under water, nearly ten percent of the time. A good example of how a submarine lives - how much under the sky, and how much under the sea. lQLIT IQS Alabama Suprem~ Court handed down a decre e today, which may p lay an important part in Presidential politics this ye&r. The tribunal ruled the "democ r atic loyalty pledge• is not legal __ 1 8 invalid. Thie loyalty pled~e would bind Democratic electors to support the nominee of their part0 If, for example, President Truman were nominated, ~labam& electors, chosen as Democrats, would have ballots for him in the al■■n■ electoral college. TheJ would not be allowed to switch to some other candidate -- like a Dixiecrat. All that - according to the Alabama loyalty pledge. Wh1oh the State Supreme Cour, now finds illegal. The s1gntficance 18 obvious - in the event of another llix1ecrat revolt, 1f President Truman 1• nominate d . One southern device might be - for a state to vote Democratic, and for 1ts electors to refuse to sup p ort the party nominee. Switching to somebody else. That would now be lXgal in Alabama &Qoording to the court decision to ay. IQ!,L01_~Q11Il£§ In Wisconsin, the 'Fighters for MacArthur• fi ally h a d t e ir tay - and ut General MacArthur in the st te rimary. Only ten minutes before the dead ine for fi in , th Y entered the name General MacArthur. The former Su reme Commander had, of course, insisted on withdr wing - nd he succeeded all right, but the Fighters for U~cArthur• were so determined that they dug u som boy else - a negro acking house worker whose name is •General Uaclrthur.• How he got it l don't r now. He's in as a favorite son, 1edged to deliv r his delegates, i ~ any, to that oth r General McArthur_ at the Republican Nati nal Convention. QAYARRETTA At M e sa. Arizona, where the Chicago Cubs are t r ainin g , Manager Phil~ 0avarretta f1nda himself named 1n a political scandal. An uproar in Chicago, all sorta of peo p le found on the public payroll. This follows the murder ot Charle• Grose, ReP.ublican Act1ng - Co m m1\te•ma.n - wa <L v&s defyin __ _ . _ _ _ _ _ ..,;1: gangst e r in f luence in politics. A clean-up ctrl~e 11 on, and now - t h e •phantom payToll.• That is, people drawing salaries - for no a p pareni reaeon. One man listed aa a •p1on1c gro~e inspector.• .... , )Ji-awing - two•hundred•and•aixty dollars a month. A wo ~a n a lled - a •torest preserve laborerf• Actually, ---- she worked aa a Secretary for the Republican Central Comm1t~ee 1n Chicago.So what about Phil Cavarratta - the st a r tirst baseman, k■ . now manager ot the C ~ He's on the payroll aa a -swtm m 1ng pool --- manager. Well, we all know that Phil sure could hlt the ball, but wh a t bad he to ao with managing 1wim m 1ng P0ols1 Today, he said he . worked tor the Cook County £AY4RRETTA - 2 Foret Preserve for · two months, during the off-aeaaon, four or five years ago, ge,ting two-bundred•and-ftfty dollars a month. •xy job• he declares •was giving lectures to Boys' Clubs, Y.M.C.A. and the lite, phy11cal 1nstruct1on for boys. I did my job, got paid tor lt, and reported it on my tncome tax.• As for managing a ew1mm1ng pool, Cavarretta s y s he c n 't explain why he waa llate~ that way. JQBIKSOH Last night in Los Angeles, Edward G. Robinson ,as layin at the Biltmore Theatre - the tough guy of the movies taking part in a play. During the performance a essage came to him by t6lephone. Saying - that hie son, Edward Jr. was in jail. Bad news tor any father to receive -- and something of a climax tor the tough guy of the•~•~ movies. T ere had been that quarrel between father and son - because of the m&rriagem• the younger Robinson had made. Father ordering aon out of the house. Edward Jr. announcing that he d1da't want to live off -- •crumbs from my father's table.• Later, he reported tor examination for inductlon into the Army, and sa1d - Uncle Sa■ would g1re him a home, even if his father would not. But now - he was locked up on a char e of passing a bad check. So he promptly a~9ealed to his father_ to get him out. Which was the message received by the tou h guy of the movies, &ot1ng in & play. I th fi nal curtain Edward G. Robinson mmediat ly af er e ' &PBIJSQN - ru bed of his make-up ~s fast as he could, got hold of his attorn e y, and arran ed tor a bondsman to bail out t e son. Quarrel or no quarrel, 1t was the call of - blo a nd kin. Today, having been relea•ed, young Rob1n1on said he had given the ohect, one-hundred,and,th1rt7 nine d o llars, for a couple of automobile t1re1, then felt he had been over-charged - and stopped pay■ent. He called the charge against him -- a •bum beet.• I wonder what the tough guy of the movies would call 1t1 DAJER In one hundred and five countries, right aro nd the globe, this 1r1day, 1ebruary twent1-n1nih, has been s e t aside as a day of prayer. The focal center for t h is day has been the United latlon1 Buildin g 1n New York. I.OU Here are some words of wisdom_ about !armer,. S oken at the Vatican by Pope Plus the Twelfth_ who today addressed four thousand members of tal1an agricultur a l federation. The Pontiff propo1).nded a philosophy of life on the farm, pointing to merit• an4 shortcomings. •the farmer• said he, •11 more given to reflection than the city ma.n. Be 11 not easily moTe4 by sudden enthusiasm or indoctrinated by ■ wave word■ • On the other hand,• continued the Pontlft,•the faraer 1a somewhat slow in a■ making up hi ■ mlnd. He want• to see everything with h11 own eyes - and being attentive to all that immediately aurround1 hlm, 1• less likely to br aden his field of vision and to look be. ond his own circle.• view, / / car/or common and / tl)a.t, if th long i Pontifical wisdom concerni. the faraer. Muc o f it the same that. as been said and re-said about f a rmers for thousands of years - ex _ ecially that the farmer is more given to reflection - thinking things out - th a n the city aan. MiAP LEAP YF,All Her 1s an unusual way to celebrate Leap Year. Two CBS stations, aff111ates rather, EIJI in Jamestown, North Dakota and IOJB 1n Minot, lorlh Dakota were turned over to the ladies today, look stock and bar rel. The ladle ■ of those lorth Dakota towns putting on &11 broadcast ■, doing all lhe anno u ncing -- everything. John Boler, Pre1ldenl of the North Dakota broadoastlng Co■p&AJ tell••• that they are having the biggest day 1n tbelr h11lor1 -- that 1a -- more 11atener1, beoau ae the 11111 are doing all the broadc&at1n1. l,EAP YEAR. T h e Lea p Year celebration of rebruary twenty- n nt h w as 11vely~~t Aurora, Il l no1a - where the girls arre ~achelora ) te d,\ a••••t■xAon Bight, and to11ed them inlo ja.11! The rebellious maidens forced the bachelors to donate p ints of blood to the Red Cro1s, buy ticket• lo a dance t n1 h t, and ask the girls - for date,. At Ottawa, Il l inois, the Junior Woaen•a Club made s1m1\ar arrests on the ch a rge of crime against •~o m anhood.• The crime being - the failure to urrr •womankind!• -Gfi 4c ....., •~ ~ - But 1n Milwaukee, lma.nuel Zbleatl oelebrate4 lea p y e ar in rever s e. He entered 1uit again1t • girl named H el e n. Who, he says, lilted h1a twelve tl ■e1 1n one year. Last year she bec~me engaged to hl■ seven tim e s, and chan ge d her m1nd · as often. Thil year she s p urned him once in January, and three times in rebruarJ So, co m e t h e tw enty-ninth of February~ sues h:J' for - - I m ulti p le b r each of promise. ~hQ~ t h ink w e ought to crown H ~ t ~ que~n 1 'I, ~ L~ p Y~ r ~ ~ f..e y,-. ,1'41.f_