GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: From Washington word that S ecretary of S t te Marshall wil head the Unite St a tes Dele g ation to the U.H. General Assembly of the United Nations next week. Marshall to throw the weight of his pre&ti. g e into t e arena during the tus le between the United States and Russia -- a major struggle on which the future of the world depends. With issues of tremendous i por nee to the future of the orld due to be debated at the U.N. in the next few weeks. - issues on which the United States and Russia are at variance. One of these the question of creating a permanent borer force along the Northern Fr ntier of reece, A U.S. proposal voted by thE Soviet. Then Britain and her Dominions want an eleven-powet meetin g of Forei n Yinisters during the ener 1 As embly. The subject -- discussion of a Japane e Pe a ce. Ma , ~H L - J ____ .....,__ - r senc t L .. ke S uccess would ful "' ill a tent .. ive &gr ement mc1. e in Mosco for a pr limin · ry Bi Four Meeting on Germany in e · York during the A . ssembly - th is meeting only to be held if all the Big Four Foreign Minist rs were ~ - . 1t SH LL - ---- - - This m e e tin to e ith or wi t out Russia. in the Balkan s , actions a a in t ~ The U. S . wi ll als o assail R 3Sian metho s i lin u a detailed r ~ cor d o f S oviet demo c ra cy, ~~fu. Bal ans, /-- /l ~ in e very other p rt of the world. In effect, the United St a t es p reviously thw ar t by Soviet veto, and by Soviet obstruction tactic in the various U.N. Committees, is going all-out to convert the U.N. General Assembly - ~ w make the U.N. a more effective organ for the preservation of world pe u ce. This of course, without amendment of the Charter. When we remember th · t previously, Uncle Sam's olicy has been to leave dir e ction of the• U.N. delegation to a permanent American Represent · tive at Lake Succes , we can understand the importance of ecr e tary of State Marshall's attending the openin of the General Session. A conc e rt ed Ame r ican effort to insure world peace. Mean hile,Soviet For i n Minist r Malo ov is not attendia : ~r osely, it is s i , b c use h is Gov e rnment so urc e in fa hin g to n y th a t the British will a k th t v e w a ive t h r e ent reement callin g for equal sha in o f occup a tion costs in the An g lo-Americ a n z ne o f Germany. From now o n, the United St a tes, if the British have their way, wil l p ay about seventy-two percent of the burden being borne by Britain. The British are starvin for dollars and they estimate that they h ve spent almost two hundred seventy-five million doll rs in goods and services to get their zone of Germany back on its feet. It' · this expense that we'll be asked to shoulder. QQQYfA!!Q~_Q Q _!_ Thi s m ee tin · o f th e S n te Ap p ro pri ti n was ord red by Committee Cha ir m a n e n. Bri s t t h e request of the war a nd Navy Dep rtment. Brid g e s few to Washi g t n o n S at ur d y to d i s ou ~ he c isis secre ly with top Army a nd St te Dep a rtment Officials. The Senator from Ne\ Ham psh ir e told t e pres th t the Committee members will meet behind closed doors to thrash out the situation wit l the to men f ~e various Departments. Secretary of State Marshall is expected to attend, despite bis plan to at end the G~neral Assembly of the United Nations. The mat er to be an urgent one. Britain broke -- unable to meet the cost of the occupation of Germany, c lling upon the United States to approve an outlay of several hundred million doll rs. The O.S.Army, says Senator Brides, is expected to ask for immedi a te action, b e cause Army Officiala are fearful th~t any reduction of Britain's commitments will dangerously increase the thre t of complete Rus s ian dominati n of the we u tern s el l a the E stern portions . OCCUPA T I CST - 2 ~-------------------- of ermbuy. If Brit i can rot kee up er s r e men in the British and Americ an ccup at icn a l Zo nes 1 We tern ermany, which cost her an d our s elves t o hundred nd fifty milli ons a ye r, it ap ears Uncle Sam must step in to provide a wal l of milit ry manpower a h inst the steady enroachment of Red influence. That's why th~ Senate a propri tins Committee is holding the secret session. U.S. dol ars and U.S. soldiers op osin 6 RuSli.an daainaticn. ~ S n a tor e nry C bot o d e , Re ubl ic a n o f ass a chu s ett s , a rrive d s ix w e ek s tour of 1 uro e. ~ b c in A m e ric a to d y a f ter a ~ s a id he w a s shocked and f!7"V-(.rL depresse d b:J ttn, II :S\l t' ~ ilJ) s i t ua t i o n • Sh o cked too by the thin g they~ s a yin g - a bout us in {\ . 1-F Europe - thos e p:.a"lJylw w n o don't like us. •Every good thing we Americans do is t isted around over there,• says the Senator from Massachusetts. •Its shocking to l arn of the misrepresent a tions and untruth& circulated about us, ~ and believed by the peoples.• Lodge sc1:d he believed thia anti-American propaganda stems from~ people with private / - ~ r aeons for ha ting Americans 'l'-but 1 tharw•-e apparentl~ a lot of it, which causes him to paint this gloomy picture. Ag a inst this receive heartenin"g news o f the of our G.I.ls and the appreciation of the e peoples of Europe for hat they ~ustria, an Americ a n Lieutenant are doing. supervise d a of jeep v cations for the ia&i local children. Mo her ~ a nd fathers natural l y wer e deeply ODGE - 2 -- - ------ apprecihtive, but im ine ad a laudatory r ort of in a local Communist•••• newspaper - it a real red rouquet for the Stars and enator the go o d f e e 1 i ng ate d by our G • I • s. " a g ~ h em -e --pat. N th-e ~ . ~ In Turkey~,~rime Minist r PwkwP and his ~ ~ e s i g n e d , i n f ce of mounting criticis■ of doaestic affairs. P e ~ Regime collapsed after the 1, 'rime M i nister a had ousted five of his cabinet. iz ■ i• Presidant Ismay Inonu has called upon Foreign Minister -w ~ ---~, Saka to form a new government. Saka, l1ke,,aam.. s a conservative, rigidly opposed to all concessions to Russia and co ■■ itted to rule by martial law. Turkey, in fact, ~ has b e e n ~ semi-dictatorship for virtually a quarter of a century, the government holding absolute power despite fierce criticism from De•ocratic Party Chiefa. One politician was recently suspended for fifteen days, when he charged in the ~arlia■ ent that the Turkish Government Regime aaounted to outright tyranny. Mean hile in France, an austerity program all pleasure driving banned. And a committee er ated by Premier~ Ramadier to s ve the Fr nc and announce additional austerity measures. This crack-down on pleasure-driving is expected to end a huge black market in Aaerican cars, which bas becoae a feature of modern France. With no gas, and pleasure driving rigidly prohibited, the owners of theae black market cars will have to stay off the roads. finance ainist•r ~ to London for the Inttrnational l ■ a Monetary Session, to obtain a second instlill ■ ent of two-hundred-and- fifty-million dollars. ~ talf of the loan granted to Fr - nee by the ,!?_ank of za■aa■ix !_econatruction. This IN>tHlf' to ~e used primarily for coal - and ceaent, for reconstruction purposes. A Stalin on a vacation! Accor d in g to a Mosco broadca s t, the Red Premier has been off on a Bl a ck Sea trip, aboard a Russian Cruiser, visiting the Caucausus resort of Socbi, only a-hundred-ana-se•enty miles from the Turkish Frontier. On the cruiser, Molotov. The one he boarded at Yalta after the Big Three Conference back in lineteen-forty-Five. The Russians are not exactly calling it a vacation. They are playing up the cruise to emphasize Stalin's interest in building a stronger Russian lavy. The story has the usual unimportant dttaila. Bow Uncle Joe ■ visited the bridge, t a lked with the petty officers, inspected · the crews' quarters and tasted their food. And when one of the Comrades - as the . Moscow radio de cribes the crew ■ ember - asked Stalin if he would pose for a picture, the Russian Preaier smilingly obliged, And as he posed he said, •1 suppose •e sh a ll have to g r a nt this request.• Employing the Royal ·•··· And when the Comr a de took the picture, the sailors petty of f icers and hi g h of f icers formed a circle round §TALII - 2 the Dictator, smiling and cheering. All of which is the Russian radio's word portrait of an incident during St lin's Black Sea vacation, as he did whatever he did about Russian N val ~ower. REFUGEES -------~ The British have finally succeeded in unloadin g the last of the refu ee ships at Bambur. The debarkation of the Runnymeade Park, the last transport unloaded, as ■ arked by scenes of violence. With s eventeen casualties among the Jews. And three British soldier. With one ship, the tapire Rival, the soldiers had little trouble. Fro d. this one the Refugees disemb a rked in an orderly fashion, waiting until they had r ~ ached land to resist the guards who were takin g them to the waiting trains. Shortly after th~ Eapire Rival was e ■ptied, a British search party found a time bo ■ b concealed int the bull of the vessel, They rushed it . ashore, just in time. For it exploded wit h terrific •iolence. Which ■ ay explain why the pas s engers left the ship without grumbling. During the unloading of the Runnymeade Park, the V third of the refugees hips, where the British expected nd did encounter a considerable mount of India today, Yahat ■ a Gandhi journeyed all ~ he way to Hew Delhi, from Calcutta. Escorted by an araed guard, he arrived. so he said, to aake a supre ■ e peraonal effort to halt the bloo bath now z~ raging in India's capital. Even•• he arrived a new wave of au and araon swept the ancient loghul City and lew Delhi too. Forcing Gandhi to change hie plans about where he••• going to apend the night. Be said he had wanted to reside in the lowly Bangbi- that•• the road aweepera• colony - a■ ong the untouchables. But thia waa oonaidered too dangerous. The authoritiea are keepina the most fa ■ ous little ■an under an ar■e4 auard, in a vast aillionaire'a ■anaion - right aoroaa the atreet fro ■ the British High Co ■■ i• io c er, one of the best protected••• parts or Bew Delhi. Pre ■ ier lehry and hia aides are now conferring with their aged leader, hearing Jus t what Gandhi haa done, recently to create better fee l ing between Hindua and losle ■ a in Calcutta - lk■ where IIDIA - 2 the rioting quieted down just as the trouble broke - out in Delhi. lhat Gandhi has told thea we don't know, but we can imagine hi ■ sitting ~here on the floor of that aillionaire's ••••• aansion, telling Rehru that only aoderation can triumph. Froa New Delhi - when the riots are oTer - Gaadhi plans to go into the no aan•s land ot the Pua~ab and there preach his gospel of aod eratio11 aad fellowahip. authoritiea The•••~••***•• are taking the 1reateat I\ A ' care of the aewenty-eigbt year old leader; and it la doubttal whether they will let hia riat hi1 11fe 1 on which ■111 depend t:a. peaoe ~ India, -8:::,.. ~ ~ ti +L.t-P~ u The Japanese h ave lohg had the traditi o n th a t the Eaperor is untouchable. In fact in the days of BK me a ning (before MacArthur,) the Emperor w a s divine, the descendand of a sun god, and unap p roac h able p e rson a ge on whoa no commoner ev r set eyes. The b ows were deep indeed when the Emperor was around, and the humble Ix Japanese averted their glances less they so much as look at tbe Sun God. Caae MacArthur and the Americans and all that changed. litb the Emperor now out in the open, making public appearances, acting like the little king, that he 11. ror the first tiae in their recorded history the Japanese can feas, their eyes on the Eaperor. Look but no~ touch! they aren't ready for that, yet! lell, tonight a big argu■ entmges in Japan, all over the impertinenceof a labor leader who w a nted to shake the hand of Hirohito. Last Saturday the Emperor and his f a mily we r e payin g a state visit to a copper mine. Before anyone could stop hia, and unnamed labor leader stepped right up to llf!l_.-=.-1 Hirohito. Chills went up the spines of onloo ke r . In the not-so-old days the labor leader woul d h a v e lost his life. But this time the Labor leader f a ced his Lord and laperor and said: •1 1 d like to shake your band.• Biro•ito was startled, then, quickly summoning the presence of ■ ind with which all Japanese emperors are born, he bowed and walked away. lad now this labor leader -- be is out of luck perhap1 out of a job. For his union ■ e ■bers cannot forget that the E ■ peror once was divine and they are reported to be angry at their leader. Bia request, even in the new and de ■ ocratic Japan, was tanta ■ ount they say, to setting himself forth as the representative of a l l ~ workers of the country. In fact tonight the union is calling for a vote of non-confidence in the leader who dared even to sug est shaking hands with the Emperor. IEI LEAD SHIP --------- -- The five deck, four thousand passenger excumi.on boat, Island Queen blew up at it dock in the center of Pittsburgh today. At least ~irty dead, countles I others injured. The greatest i n land water tragedy in thirty- five years. I guess that would mean since the Eastland disaster in the Chicago River which I vividly r-e ■ eaber. The blast, believed to have been started by a welder's torch, came shortly afternoon today, at Pittsburgh. There was that spark from the welder's torch and then an inferno. Fe• passengers •ere aboard at the ti ■e but the ship's crew of seventy was preparing for the afternoon excursion ride, and at least tlairty of the crew aeabere are believed to have been killed. The ship exploded with two remendous blasts and instantly a wall of orange flame swept her from stem to stern. So fierce were the flames, her steel sides burned a cheery red, as great clouds of bluish aoke billowed high in the sky. Yore than a hundred automobile parked on the aunicipal wharf were damaged by the heat of the fla ■ es. The explosion broke thousands of windows, banged the pedestrians in the street, and in nearby buildings, to the floor, and oTerturned aoving vehicles. Fire ■en fought ~e blaze for two hours, and finall brought the flaaes under control. MENUM,T -------- Hollywood came u p with something else new today, a devlc on a restaurant t ble that orders me a ls by push button. They call it the ~enumat. In a r staurant oper · ted by Arthur D vis, the customers sat at a table, pr s ed the button opposite the meal they w nted. All done - or half done - with push buttons. Owner Davis claims his invention al will stop customers demandin changes in the menu. There always being gourmets who want to substitute fried oysters for za rhubard on the number two s~ecial. No these guys just haven't got a chance. Now they ~ ress the button, up comes their food, and it's too late to do much about it. The waiter of the first Menumat table demonstrated in Hollywood, aid he now had little to do; and , th e w a it er u n ion , w e he a r , ' i s a 1 i t t le • or r i e d • Hollywood is a place where good looking girls, while waiting for their br l ak in the studios, •ork as wait~So if these Menumats b come universal, A. and the inventor plans just that, frustr & ted atarlets may hav more to frustr~ te the m . lrustrated. And now Nelson to tell us ow to become §TASSEi Today in Washington, Staaeen of linneeo~a, predicted a wide open race for the lineteen forty-eight Presidential noaination. Sta11en told newaaen that he hiaself would enter the i11ooa1ia GOP pri ■ ary next April. Be predicts ia that Priaary - a three-cornered race between himself Go•eraor Thoaa1 Dewey, and po1sibly MacArthur. Aleo he took iaaue with Senator Taft, who 1tated yeaterday that he - Taft - did not btlieYe the Taft-Hartley Labor Bill woald be aa i1aut in the liaeteen rort7-ei1ht caapai1a. •sa1io laborf,01107 11 alwaya aa i11ue•, ••id Sta11ea, a4diq that, ia Ilia opinion •the Taft-Bartley Bill · ooapri••• a aaJor pha1e of that labor policy•. The for■ er GoYeraor of l1Ane1ota, now a preeideatial •••t■t candidate, a44•4 that with 10 ■• a■end■enta, the Taft-Bartley Law would beooae •••• popular with labor ■ en generally oYer the ., period of the next few years. Depending, a aid · he,A who •iaa the three-cornered liacoaain race for the lepublioan noaination.