NIGBT SBOI Wednesday, July 28, 19,8 At last report tls■ea were still erupting iD Ger■ any•s great chemical plant explosion. The I.G. Farben in factory at Ludwigshafen, Jlhe French occupation 1one, ca•ol fir• this afternoon and was shattered bJ a seri•• ot tre ■endoua blasts. The ca ■ ualty list is now ••ti ■ ated at two hund~ed killed and twentJ-fi•• hundred injured. Th• cauae of the disaster i~ not known, but the French authorities say they do not 1u1pect sabotaae. One fact 1• ••tablisbed beyond doubt. the exact tiae of the first earth-ahaking detonation. It stopped clock• far and wide in the city of hudwigshafen, thus gi•ing the exact tiae · -- tbree forty-four this afternoon. ll»VERS~W LThere is to be n investigation of the charge• that the Unite ations is being u ■ed to shield Red subversives and spies in this country./ Today Secretary of State Marshall announced that he has appointea a three-man committee to look into stories of Communist agents coming in fro• abroad through the u.1./ l The idea would be to find out if peopie who · get into the U. 1-. a re all Jha t they see■ to be -- genuine employees doing normal jobs, not . secret agents using the O.N. under the coYer ot nor■ al Jobs. ' hat have the United lationa to 1ay about ihi1? The question was promptly answered this afternoon in a 1tatement from the Aaaiatrnt Secretary General. B• happen to b• a Soviet Russian, General Sobolev - and he deolar•• that the world organization •111 not open it1 record• to the inve1tigat1n1 committee appointed tiy S•aretar7. ot State Marshall. "It ia ohvioua,• declares General Sobolev, "that t~• United State• can in•e1ti1at1 only it• own files - and not tboae belonging \o th• U.1.• All of whic~ &ive1 proaise of new coaplication1 in the already complicated real■ of international affair■• The identity. of the blbnd ap1 baa been r.eYealed. t,be y,oung • - oman •hoae confession ot Bed espionage ia aai4 , to h••• brought, . about the grand jur7 inYeatigation tbat ha1 reea ~ ted in the indict•ent of tbe 1e,der1hip of the Couunist Party. She ie b~in1 aumaonecl to t,e1Wy · before the Committee on UnAaerican Actl!v · i ti•• in I athin&to1i. Sh• is Mias Eliz'abetb T. Bentley, at preaent eaployed •• 1 1ecretary•stenographer by• I•• York bu•in••• Ii~•• So Elizabeth B•ntley i1 the blonde in the Bea e1pionage sensation. During wart. 11. •• • acoor4ia& to tie atory, ahe did ltai1on work for a So•iet •PY rtn1 ia laahington - passing on to \he ■ ailitary secrets proeu~ea froa PS many as fifty Communist• in go~•rnaent 1erY101. One -- a personal adviser to - tJ)e late Pre1id•nt Roo1e•el\. Today, with her identitJ disclosed, she bad th• following to say about the summons calling her to testify before the Congressional Comaitte• i . n Vlashington; "I'm not enthusiastic about tbe publicity l •ec : . b t · t · as l went . •o the F.B.I. and later • • .a.:'le, u • J us · " before the Grand Jury,, I will now cooperate with un211g1 - 2 th• Co ■aittee or any other American agency to whiab I feel I can be of service.• 1n le• York, two 1hade1 out ot the ~•t, two lbOati tl'OII taa. 11'1lteenth Century ./.at l••t, we can tb1nk of tba aa ~ ~~- - ~ _.. aboard the A I · Up. One - a ~ t , . . . . . ,... ~L ws f ~ • , bH+t 1n a autt of l"llB■et bl'Olffi~ Wl"1nl a •!a not • l l kept - Mjeatic 1n nor, larp and wellbtr 1n comeraation. / . '!'he ether - a 1,01mpt' aan, aore alemler, aore - trilllJ dreaaed, a gentl81111D ot tbil ll&bteentb Ceni:Ur, - bat obTtoualy smewbat H■ M OYUP9d bJ bta v..,.W o""""'1•-/ In brief, the aba4ea;t.: '!"act Dr. 11■11 1 JalmND and Jws Boswell, Baqu~ · / SarelJ, tbeJ aaat • ~ - - • Cl.AA ~trr aboard the Queen NarJ in connection wltl\~• •••l carao b ~ t to New York. / You can 1magtne ])r. Joha,aon and Boswell an the deck, gazing at the Hew york skyline. V1:th :eoawell aay1ng: "Sir, .....___ we have arrived in thoae colonies of which you did not altogether. approve." Johnlon repliee: ''lily ............,,.,_ - ~ . -- . . indeed, Sir, gazing at the proapeet ot this large citJ, I tt.. ~ CAM -t#L,/ perceive that ,._W.,,:tra.ve •de 801118 uae or their UbertJ, tbOµgh I could only reprehend the 1f8J theJ gained u. n/ - Yea, hiatory . record.1 that the great lex,copapblr, Dr. Saauel Johnlon, had little ■JIIP&tbJ with tbe Aaerleana 1n the days ot Seventeen Sevent,-su .f :J.~~, _...rtca ... ocae · · . tnto po11ea11on ot the 1a1t ~•t atore ot 1o ... 11-1omaon aan111crtpta7'-1 arrived todq, 1n five il.U'P steel oues, aboard the Queen 118.ry. Wlrl"lll ...,., ■ ti~elc A dostn . C l h ' ~ yeare ago, 1••• the ,a.it treaaure of Bonel:1-Jobnaan papen ,,.. c111e to tlns country - brought bJ Colonel Ralpb Iaball, llho bad 0 procured th• at an ancient castle .,in J.relAM./ftlll.t WU • literary aenaation, which now 11 being dupUoated - Colonel Isham bringm.& over the final Boawe l! l-Johnaon treasure - e, trC11 an old bar0n1al bouae 1n Scot).and. / In the five ateel cases, now 1n New York, ~ 11iteen hundred . and ten ttema or m&111 9 cript, two hundred and " - , UIIIQI ·-3 ,igbty-seTen letters written by Boswell, one thousand an~ thirty letters written to Boswell, a hundred and nin,teea letters written by Dr. Johnson, a se••n hundred P•I• journal giving a minutely, detailed account of Bo ■~ell'• fa■oua first meeting with Jobn1on - not co~atln1 heap ■ of other moaento••· All thi• ••• catalogued in En1lan4, and no• i i be exa■ ined in le• York - when the five ateel ca••• are opened. Who inowa what&••• of iohnaoaian wit and w1tlo■ ••1 be discoveried. Perhaps they,'ll find aoae ■ or~ aiedga-ha ■■er knockdown retort ■, taYorel bJ Jolmaon, like the one when he and B01well were talkiq about a ■•t••l acquaintance who did not - alwa11 tell ~h• trutb. Boswell reaarked: •Well, Sir, ••1 we not half of what ha says?• Johnson replied: •Aye, but •• know which half to believe?• I always liked Dr. Johnson's adv.ise to young t ~ 81 ·d, "what you have written, and au hors: •Rm over,• be 0 •hen that you consider particularly you come to a passage l ·t out." -- cross ~ rran MicMpa the town ot Grant - a ■tor, ot tne grtef or parenta./ait tn the end the ,.. urna wt to be 111.ghtly mtxed.~ere waa anautah of auapenae - · wt it•• bard to tell ~at how those parenta fNl tonlght. / . Two boys, Charles OV.erlay and Qeorp !11'101', no u-e ten and twelve year• old re■pectt••lJ, wnt oat t1lld.DI tn a boat ~ Rance ut.e/'1.twJ ta1le4 to return baa, ...S tblil • t r boat 1181 tound - eaptJ. / !lie OUI and. the11' ttahiDI pol.N . . . foun4 tloat'ffl&./ All the a ~ weN tbat tbe tlfo boJa bid fallen overboard and cb'olm84. / '!he anxtet, of tbl11' panntl can · be understood by those of ua whO ar49 r,arent./!be lab wa.a - draged tor the bodtea, the parent• out at the lab ~ . - ip . . watching the •lancboly search - overwhilaed with grief/ '1'he search waa rutile - and the bodiel were not found. / - A ~ . 1 At lengt~. after long hour&, the,..parenta went to their h01Rea - and r und the boys aaleeP in bed/Yw can imagine the joy 1n each of the two household■, the re l ief or father and mothe ; , upsurginl t,appine88/'then, you can also - 2 Silll1Jl8 tbe upsurge ot other 8110t1ona that toll-4 _ when· tm ,tor, of the two boys was told. / - Charlie and Oeorat• bacl juat nnted to •• mat woaY 11appen tr they appeared to lave drWriilJd/'tM1 toeH4 Gftl'lloUd tbttr OU'I and t11h1;n& pole■, ml nu Uboft. ,t/llJl&rl:f.e' aplalmrd "Ve J111t wanted to ••• hair anr people 1101114 tun • ' IDd . 111'11 tor 111. n /111 thi 11b11• they were b16la 1n 1W - - • , aa the bank, wtch1n8 the dftll1nl o-,.ratum./It wu ~ lot ot tuD 1,wit1l! tbeJ got tiNd - -4 nnt bclii to w:/ A, - oJi ;1~ ~ ~ · t,,',( 4 _ ~ f l . - ~ ,,, r,vri A~ ,. ,,..,t ,-. · . flu.. 'M ut · /: ' llf!AA .1Z1u/,y H 11(//L TOnight•s latest word about the ~nact 1n c r- onsre••• 1:1 tl"<lll Pawling, New York/ At his hcne there, aovernor l>IINJ 11 a11ualn8 hta • ~ of tbe re•~tb111ty tor llbat the ~ legislators in Waah~on do ab~t the PJ'Ol1'U pre■ent.ed 1tr ~ - , ~ , i ~ e r t o , the Republican cudlclate bU Dpt hand■ gtt, leavm& decisions to the R :. pullican llff~1n ~~• /ite will a till confine hia activitiea to adYlo~ behind the scene■, mt will take a pu-t ot the pc,lltloal r - bal'dell.-/ 'l'Oda1 an aide to DneJ atated: "!be CIOftl'D01' bU no intention of att•Ptinl to tell coaareHicm&l 1NdRI nat to do, but he ta readJ to aHuae hie tu.11 are ot tbl ~ty 1 s c~Hion&l aetidti••·" / We continUe to bear that the J)eWeJ advice ta apln8t a quick adjourment, the candidate bel18vin& that the leg1ala tors 1n washi.-lSton 1h_o __ u_1d_'1 __ v_e ____ c ..... ~~•t __ u~1-c __ o_n1_111111!' 4 · •ration - to the 1pecial 1e111on to the proposals tn t h e ~ message In th e S n te, howe v er ' e re are sins of a filib u s t er o n e racial issue. r esid ent Truman recommended th a t inflation should be t ak en up first, l eavin his policy of racial ri g ts to wait until later. Ho wever, the R e ub li can~ caucus has agreed to bring up a poll t ax b illl tomorrow . . In the regular session of Congress, the Lower H o use passed a bill to outlaw poll taxes in the outh - and that only needs a ction by the S enate. The mere mention of the poll tax bill started Southern S enat o rs talking today - and, if the measure is brought up, they will stage a filibuster, and keep on talkin g as long a s the Senate stays in session. The old filibuster idea - talking it to death. LEAD ----- t vt, Th 1 t to ni ht is n e · o a fl re-up in lestlne -- a ba ttle tha t start e d in the :.:.:_:----..-- resence - - o . truce ob s erv r from the U nited N a tions./ A dispatc f ro m Tel-av iv st t es that Eg , p tian forces attacked a Je ish s 11 ly convoy in t h e south rn part of the Holy ----- Land./ •· it h the convoy ere O. • truce observers, who co ld only loo on as the Eg a violent fight)etails of reported. ptian attack resulted in h i ch have not yet been GERMAN EXPLOSION The g iant x losion re orted in Germany seems to have been one of the most disastrous on record. The great 1.0. Farben Chemical lant at Ludwigshafen, in the .French - occupation zone, erupted with a series of tremendous blasts today - one explosion after another, pulverizing a huge .__ ---- chemical u area crowded with ~ighteen large buildings./ r,:11:J.- I The latest is x,omnunique with a casualty list -- of fifty k1:lled and one hundred injured. 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