GOOD lfflIIG EVERYBODY: President Truman by train, left lasbington ' &t nine tonight on a tbree-da7 st a te v.isit to Canada; Ottawa • . With hi• Mrs. Tru■ an, and Margaret. Juat a •good neighbor• Yiait; repa7ing v.iaita laokeasle ling has aade to laabington. An4 with no 4lploaatio affair• to be di1cu1sed. Record-breaking floods alon g t h e Missi s sip i tonight; with sixty thousand acres in Iowa, Missouri, and Illinois inundated twenty dead, some fifte e n thousand already hoaeles c . Jroperty and crop damage running into the aillione. La Mi11ouri, risin g waters already have topped preTiou1 high levels. lngineers s a y aore levees are likely to go out at any ■o ■ ent. The Oaited States leather Bureau aaye that the • li1eie1ippi •tlt crest will be up to twenty-four feet at Banntbal, li11ouri, tonight, and that will be above the lineteen , ro~ty-rour record of twenty-two-and-a-half feet. 1110 - in lorthern Loui1iana, tomorrow. T~e Missouri River also ie on a raapage, oTer grea 1ectionaof Central Missouri. Five-and-a-half feet above flood stage at BoonTille tonight; with trouble ahead all the way fro■ ~runewick to Jefferson City within the next twenty-four hours. ' If a key levee betwe e n Glas g ow and Boonville gives way under the tremendous pres s ure, tbia Missouri flood may be the worst in th t River's history. Hannibal, is havin g a bad time toni g ht. Hom e of [LQ212L--=-~ 11 llart Twai•. The Mark Twain and Windsor hotels are barric ded with sandbags up to their first floor windows. Guest• arri~ed at both hotels by boat tonight. Q ,ARIOOR The ne w Assistant Secretary of St a te to take the place of Spruille Braden, is Norman Armour an old band at the game of di p lomacy, who b e an hia career in our embassy a t Vienna, way back in Nineteen Twelve. For the next twentr years he served in Paris, Petrograd, Brussels, The Hague, M ontevideo, Ro ■ e and Tokyo. Also, he served as Minister to Haiti and to Canada, and as our Ambassador in Chile, Argentina, and Spain. Underground gossip in Washington reports that the appointment of Borman Armour is part of ~neral ~arshall's program to improve the operations of the State Department. And report baa it that hia responsibilities will be far greater than those of Spruille Braden. Tmt, he will have charge of Uncle Sam's foreign affairs not only in Latin America, but also in Europe, the Far East and Africa, in fact throughout all the troubled sections in the world. And that sounds like an appointment of two sec r etaries of State -- or al m ost that. lJDIA_ The Moslems of India already are talking in terms of a monarchy. When Mohammed Ali Jinnah, their leader, arrived at New Delhi today, a huge crowd of his follower• cheered him. In fact, hailed him as •g9eroi of Pak is tan! • - -- Pakistan being the name the Moha■ aedan part of India will have. Jinah thrust a aide the c r o• n for t he t i me be in g, told t m Mo a 1 e ■ a _. ht didn't want to be any emperor -- ax just wants to be a soldier of Pakistan. Jinnah caae to le• Delhi to open a conjrence of the Moslem League, to consider Viceroy loudbatten'• plan for the division of India when the British pull out, the plan which most of the leader• in India~- have approved. But, there are many minor groups aaong sx Uoslems and Hindus, many who object to the partition plan.(soae of the Hindus are making the charge now that their own Congress lat Party has betrayed India -- And they are threatening civil war *• to bring Pakistan under Hindu rule -- to keep India unified . . IIDIA- 1 - (As for Gandhi, the aged Hindu leader ax whose entire life has been a protest against British rule, he is in despair. Y · are ago, Ghandi declared his intention of living for a hundred-and-twenty-five years, to help India solve her problems. Today he said he had given up any such idea, given up the ide of living a hundred-and-twenty-five years. If India is to be submerged in the deluge of viol«nce now threatening, then Gandhi wants to die.)Be said today: •1 have to hang ■y head in shame.• The day ended at Hew Delhi with the Council ot the Moslem League accepting the Viceroy's plan for an independent but divided India. The events of the day created gloomy prospects for India's future, prospects of civil war, . with the forebodings of Mahatma Gandhi seeming all too well founded. It ly il h e t h e two hundr d million oll s mo e o r t o sn '- h , o hund d mi l lion ol 8 hefor - h en d of th y ar. P r mi o i old th Italian onstituent ssemb y th this much h 1 is absolutely es ent i 1 i h oun t ry is o voi immedi te economic and inan ial ruin. Th r is lit le need to ask who is to rovide those two hundred millions. Nobody is in a osition to ive it, but Uncle!:>~. It was a noisy eetiri of the Assembl y at loae. The Leftists ga ve he remier pl nty of heckling, but the Cente~ and Ri ht dro w nea them ou w ith cheers of e (' ura ement for de G sper i. Bo ever, the vote of con f idence, for which he ha a ke ' is n o t y t forthcomin . De Pasperi exoln . iried th his o v rnment w 8 a c a binet of mer ency, try in 0 V r the crash which ould stri i s t at lab o er an h iddle class . Yen hile , the !t a li n Lo muni 1.t~LX---~- tbe usual Red ca m paign for rule or ruin; with vid.ent riot in Crimona and other large centers. BORGABY J - - In Hungary, a member of tbe proud and once all-powerful Hou s e of Hapsburg found guilty in a court of law! Guilty of collaborating with the Nazis during the war. A Peoples' Court brought in that verdict against the aged Archduke Joseph, one of the few living people entitled to wear the historic Golden Fleece. The Archduke was not present at the proceedings, because he's a refugee from Hungary. They think he is hiding somewhere in the American Occupation Zone, in Austria. The Hungarian government wants to extradite hi ■• The Archduke was a member of the Opper Bouse ot the Bunga~ian Parliament when it was ruled by the Regent, Adairal Horthy. It was charged that he urged Horthy to continue the war against the Allies in · ootober, Nineteen Forty-Four, -- that is at an hour when any man of sense could see that the Nazi cause was lost. BONGARY - 2. - - . ·-- The Hapsburg Family has not for a long time been noted for its brains The Archduke Joseph, however, was interested in science -- and was once President of the Hungarian Academy of Sciencee. Evidently, hio scientific training had not given him enough of the sixth sense needed to see that the Nazi cause was no good. Although the Hungarians will probably never catch him, he has a lot of pr perty, which they~ve &lready confiscated. - 0 - As for the Coamunist coup in Budapest, neither Oncle Sam's diplomats nor th e members of the American Military Mission to Hungary, believe the situation is as bad as at first reported. Principally, it ia confused. But our people on the spot report that the Hungarians at large have really appreciated the substantial help they've had from the people of the 0. S. A. What's more, that the Hungarians will not really forget that in the treaty negotiations, the JOIGARY - l:. soviets demanded and got Two Hundred Mi l lion Dvllars in reparations from Hungary -- all of which Uncle Sam opposed. And that the Russians helped Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia get another Hundred Million out of Hungary, which we opposed. So the people of Hungary baTe no warm feelings for the Soviets or for any of their works. Besides which Moscow has claiaed another Two Hundred Million Dollars ~ro ■ Hungary, so-called German assets and debts that the former Hungarian government owed to Berlin. &OSTllA- Tiny Austria, pres ed on 11 sides by Communist - doainated states, is fightin g tonight -- toward off ' soviet attempts to move in on the Vienna Government. Early reports tod y bad the Communists moving in; taking over as they did in Hungary a few days ago: Chancellor Figl had an acri ■oneous se s sion with Co■aunist leader, Ernest Fischer, in wbicb the later arrogantly outlined Co■munist de ■ ands. To which Figl replied:-- •10.• lnd no aore Coaaqniets in ay Cabinet, nor will I resign?• One o f the to p bu s ine ssm en of Am e rica h~ pp ens to be acro s s the de s k from me toni g ht -- Jam e s Buc k ley, Chairman of the Executive Committee of P hilco Corporatio In si m ple word s th a t means -- top man of Philco. But, he tells me he's not here tonight in his usual capacity, as a businessman. H e came in to see me on aatters that concern veterans and hospitals, for he spends a gr e at deal of his time a s one of the heads of the I ational Veterans Hospi t al program. Will you tell us just a little about it, Yr. Buckley? First of all, Mr. Thomas, this is some- thing backed by all of the Protestant Churches of America -- the best possible entertainment, to Veterans Hospitals from coast to co ~ st, bed s ide enter- tainment for the men. --o- - LT:- - I t soun ds lik e a r e a t id ea . \ ho h t he original ins p ir a tion? I' d l ike t o sa lu t e h i m . --o-- B CIL E Y - LT - 2 __ __.. ______ _ M R. B. : - - - Virginia y, a youn g an d ow n in Ch a r l ton, West P at ithrow, Jr. --o-- 11.:_ I know him -- know him well, and know his famous Dad even better. Pat ithrow, Senior, is one of the ost interesting characters in America. I have visited that remarkable missi o n of his at Charleston, e s t V i r g in i a. --o-- .A R. B. : - I'm glad youlBppen to now the man who - started it all. At any rate, entertainment units, mainly r a dio people, tour the hospitals of the country. And, as they go around, they also give programs in churches, and the revenues from those concerts go to the National Fund for the purchase of radios for our boys ~ho are in the Veterans hospitals. Our head- q uarters, for those who want to help, is Sixteen Fifty Broa dw ay, here in Ne· York. - - 0 - - . ork? 1T: D o all the majo r ne t or ks . • el p y ou wit h t h i s fine - - o-- . AR. B . : - --- Ye s , n d · e hve r d io c om ittee t ha t includes such people as1>ur frie n d, L a n y Ro s s , Jane ft'oman, Don . cfei l , Ji m my McClain, t he o ri g i n al octor I . • , a nd other s . Inci d ent a ly, you yo u rself are o~ e of the charter mem ers of this Nati n al R adio Committee. That is jus by I am her • I dropped in tonight to make a present a ti o n t his certificate in recognition of the h elp you h a ve g iven in h is work for the veterans. --o-- 11..:.- I have done f a r, far too llttle to be entitled t o · this, r. B , uckley. But I am deli g hted to have this opportunity to salute you and all the others w ho have been w orking wi t h you on your Veterans Hospital programs, · ith a n extr a a lu t e to all veter a ns every ~ here. BOIIBERI ------- 0ncle amts Ei hth Air Force will soon be strengthened by some bombing plane, that will make the Superfortresses of the l · st war look like -- "practice models.• ... 1~u is ing So they say. With a 1-!••ii speed of three hundred miles an hour, each to carry up to thirty-six tons of bombs. With a bomb-bay the size of four freight cars. A six-engine plane. And, they say they may even carry their own fighter escorts -- carry smaller planes -- like those birds in Africa that ride on the rhinoceros! Brigadier General Roger Ramey, in com■ and of the Eighth, ~ints out that this will do away wi~h the necessity of advanced bases for fighter escort squadrons. This new euper-bomber is the B-36 -- B for Boeing. General Ramey also says they are intended for Wh , t is more• they have such a range th a t they will not have to attack on a direct line. As the General put it, they'll force the BOIIBERS - 2 -- enemy to set up an almost impossible warning net around his entire country. R . A --- -- 0 ry n ar e nn ylv n1 , a n br o u ht befor a n 1 rm n . h of ic e s who ar th 1 • n t of the ennsylvania Milk Con~ro Com mi s in. Th y accused the dairymen of ~ e lin e r w oo rich! he al erm n u gin th c se found hat th e Pennsylvania la s ecifi c lly f r i anyb o y to :; ell cream wi ha more than thirty-four ercent b tter-fat content! One of the dairymen "pleaied guilty and took a fine of twenty-five dollars -- for selling cream that was two percent too rich. The other man disputed the st a tement of the cream coppers, ax so the alderman sent the sample to a laboratory to be tested. Frederick C. Othman reportin this for United Press, vo s that all this is so. A l tho it's hard~ believe. Othm,n ~sked agricultural experts: How can yGu induce cow to obey the Pennsfivanie law? I t \ ~ , ~ U 1 I O L LO '.' U ~ - Y ---- - - - - - - - - - 0 f · n "> t. h C i s i i - r • · 1 n in L n n . T h e , ID r i . 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