Molotov sprin gs another surprise. Be now says h~ will aii••• attend the United Nations General Assembly after all. First he said he wasn't coming. Is he coming because Uncle Sam's Secretary of State Marshall is going to be there? Could be. We also hear that Molotov has a surprise for the U.I. General Assembly. Maybe a way to take spotlight away from others, as he did last year when Russia proposed world-wide disarmament. 1C ON " T R U C TION ------ --- ---- I n L o n on to day J oh n J. cC lo y , P r es ident o th e Int rn tion 1 Bank fo Reco nstruction, h ad so me ord for the n t io n·s o f Eur o pe ; - 1f;he e nat ions must find t hei r o wn solution to three•• major checks robl ems - f uel, foo , a nd man p ower. No blank ' rom th e bank/ Europe's fuel problem, s a ys I ,>q McC l oy, cannot b e ov r-em p ha sized . - :Tta: 0 r · ve • .But, if A - coal ro d uction c a n be incre ased to p re-wdr levels, a 1 rge part of Europe•s industrial problems will be on their way to olution. a t id: • i id 1 e manpower in E urope. He spoke of large pools of manpower em loyed in non-productiv pursuits, or not e m p loy d t Pll - hun r ds of thous · nds of dis~l c ed persons kept in id:aiaa i ale a es s in camps in Germany and Austria • ..I Men kept in i dle ness draining r at her than contributin g to the ~ orld's roductive out p ut. And why shouldn't they w ork? Idleness is surely one o f the mot pain ul diseases m a n c a n in f lict on his fello ws . R LCON T R UCTI O N - ---- -- - - --- ~ ~ f u r r e ~ h as i z ed Lh a t t e ro uct iv f ciliti · o f G r ma ny, pa rticu ld r l · t e vast · u l i e of coal 1n t he .r Ruhr , mu t be us e rom ptly . nd he s ug est d a . y to et th a t c oct l out o f the -~ roun d J A volunt r i mmi r tion of s ur lus I Cl i&.n a nd German l ~ bor. These men t o o to work immediately to p roduce co al to stoke the f i r e s ~ y . ;, Another sug estion by th e President of the Int e rnational Ban • urop ea n na t ~ c k l e their ( r e con s truction produ tion programs on a r gional basis. This pro g r m, in llcCloy' s op i . ion, p roperly executed , could lead t o a United Stat es of Europe. If it had happened earlier, he says , it might have obviated m any Euro an difficulties before the war , (inother ~ay of ' emphasizing the bankers belief that every economic unit in Europe - Commun i ty, N tionc., or integr te d contin nt - use can rofit immediately by making the fu l l e s t " • of its o w n r source. In other words, d o it yours lf, inst ea d of waitin g to see what the other fellow is u p to. - The Iranian Government riding a *18•• tiget from which it dare not ii•• dismount - the . Soviet Tiger; with Uncle Sam on the sidelines, ready - and eager - to give a hand. The Iranian Parliament is due to meet ------"'- in Teheran, to ratify or reject the oil concession which the Iranian Priae Minister granted to the Soviet Union early last year. This concession to Iran's northern oil fields was grantea to the Ruasians at a ti ■e when part of Iran was awaraing with Soviet troops - in Azerbaijan. ~ R e a e a b e r the row in the lai:t:.,s__:latt41 General Assembly over the presence of Russian Troops in the land ot the Shahs!- ia Pwrul&L ~ and 1 ~uddenly the Russians got theil- oonce11ionr- ~ Q u r observers were convinced that Iranian Prise Minister Ah ■ ed Ghava ■ acted under duress. lill the Iranian Parlia■ ent be strong enough now to hold off -- not reaffirm that - Russian concession? Last a■ night, by way ot encouragement our ambassador to Teheran, George Allen, lRAI - 2 told the Iranians that if Iran does reject this lease of tho s e rich northern oil fields, America~ will champion Iran's cause and support her right to ■ate a free choice. But, insists Ambassador Allen, ~an auat make a free choice - without pressure fro ■ an7one. That neither will we be a part1 t~ an1 deal to protect Britain's oil concession in South Persia; our opinion being that if Iran wants to cancel that conceaeion - also - said to be the richest single oil field in the entire world -- she has a right to do so through the proper legal channels. 2--The British have· advised the Iranian, to keep the door open for another discussion with the Russians -- if the Iranian Parliaaent rejects the Russian oil lease. In other words Britain appears to lRAII - 3 favor concessions to Russia - - evidently as the price of retaining their own great oil fields in southern Fran. In war of ne . rves The s the greater supply. Soviet radio has opene · d a suspense to th· s -'ci rama ot oil. of the world's onreser•es, Late word from Teheran is that the So~iet Aatiaasador is issuing threats• a aec~et ultiaatu■ to the Iranian government if ita Parliaaent refuses to ratitJ the lease. Tbia Soviet ultiaa\ua follow, the Aaerican proaise to cb.a ■pioa IraA'a cauee, our pro■ ile t.o support the right of the people of Persia to aate a fre • e ch , o ice ae to who■ she gi vea her • · *• oil. -- LEWIS -- Organized labor took its first organized whack at the new Taft-Hartley labor law tcday. In Chicago, the Executive Council of the American federation of Labor has voted not to ooaply with a provision of the act requiring all union otticials to swear under oath the7 are not comaunists. lilliaa Green, head of the AF Of L was aeeting with his executive council about the Taft-Bartley clause, the one reading: •10 union leader shall be a Coaaunist, whea John~. Lewis tossed a boabahell into the meeting. Lewie said, in plain words: •10 official of the United llai ■ Mine workers will ■ ign any anti-Coaaunist affidavits.• .. The •ine leader's anhounoement *k•• threw the o•mittee meeting into an uproar. At first, it had been expected that local leaders of the AF of L would take anti-Communistic pledges. The Council had goae into sessim early this morning, and AF of L President Green had told reporters that the anti-Coa■ unist business would be ldl.ll - 2 cleaned up by noon. Then came the word from Lewis and the Council broke into heated ■■tai ■x debate. Reporters, waiting in the corridors, could hear the angry argu ■ ents. Tonight caae the decision: The American Federation of Labor will not ooaply witb the Tatt- Bartley Labor Law, not with the provision of the law that ■ ates it unlawful for a coaaunist to hola an executi•e poet in a labor uaion. So ruled the executi•e council ot the A f ot L tonight. lhich puts the Ar of Lin the position ot retuaing to abide by a law paaaed b7 Congreae ot the United States. The University of Minnesota announces a n five-million-volt atom.smashing machine - a contraption. A million volts more pow rful than any •~ atom sm sher hitherto devised. With that stupendous volt~ e they)!:; not merely to split the atom, but also to shatter the nucleus. ~:}ls highly scientific; but 1 we can get some glimpse of what those esoteric physicists are up to. Time was, only a few years ago, when everybody gaped at the idea of splitting the atom. That . utterly --- tiny particle w · s thought to be the smallest, infinitely ,( small. But it was found that the atom aonsisted of still tinier particles, electrons combine with a nucleus. - So they split the ato, and that led to the bomb and this atomic era. ' l.la.a.eo.oa-a• ■-ee~a-.-e-A-ti011r1N■~GMB:t-tp-i~a~ag..e,e ~, --dct,ee,aaee ....... a.a..a--1at--:1PMet1t1~t~it1a~ee-~th1t+i ~ ~ aacaine'---ttre eyclet.ron ift¥eniea lJy '1r • .Jlrueet. "•••enee;. e,f t»he -Uni?Jereiir7' c5f 0alifo1 ni-tr. i o a e a,.g n-t,a a age , · on a t ic i p ~ a t tre -1 e e-t !IQ,_ - t.. (o a . ma . sh of the be shatt the nuo le s by hittin em . with atoms, isnt volts of si ty of the rive ~ n ific speed - and, e■sey. nucleu • With the five-milli9n volts ot electricity they expect to shoot the nuclei, like super-bull&ts, at a rate of m . ore than one-• ,nth the speed of iijtx light Light rays travel at one -hundred-and-eighty-six thouec1.nd miles a second., sad- ~•x l'Jie Minnesota scientist■ plan to hurl their ultra-tiny particles at twenty~ thousand-mil S- a secondjsma. s hin& the nucleus and making this atomic age still more atomic. YELLO ' JACK --- · ------- - --- Wa shington a nnounced today that the secret service h s reluctant y decide d that •Jelltn J a e i ~ ~ - Wall a c e W. iorbes.,rhero o f the S panish-American War, is dead. For eighteen years Uncle Sam has been searching -absent - for Private Wallace, who wentAaia•••~ •ithout-leave fro ■ his post at San Francisco's Presidio. Older men at the time, knowing the type of man that Forbes was, were sure tHnt. he had met with foul play. The story of those Yel l ow-Jack-heroes of ~~+ the Spanish-American war is a romantic epic 11},Aaerican ~ - military medicine. ~\Jack in Nineteen land2ed &ffll One, Major Walter Reed, of the U.S. Army Medical Corps,'wanted to test his theory that yellow fever was carried by _ _ , _ ~ mosquitos. lie asked for volunteers at Camp Lazer,AHavana, - ~ Cuba. Twenty men responded,Ato become guinea pigs. They w er e infected with yellow fever. Three d Flh>• died, the others fought a day-to-day battle with death, and survived. ~ Major Reed proved his theory;Acounter !EMLQ!_~AQ~---~-g measures ere taken, and the dr aded yellow fever w a s licked. In Nineteen-Twenty-Nine a grateful Congre s voted to honor the Yellow Jack guinea pigs with a gold medal and a life pension of a hundred-and-twenty-fiv e dollars a month. That's why the U.S. Secret Service set out to trail Private Wallace Forbes. They wanted to tell hi• about th t gold medal waiting for him and the pension too -- but they never caught up with him. And so, at last they are giving up, releotantly declaring that Wallace Forbes must be dead. So the gold aedal goes to a sister, Mrs. Myrtle Poole of Hollywood. As for the pension, it now amounts to1birty thousand dollars. And that goes back into the Treasury's general fund. From San Juan, Puerto Rico, news of a tropical hurric ne of mi g hty fury, roarin g towar s the nor~hwest at unusual speed. · inds of a hundred and forty three miles an hour. A hale of a hurricane! Born at sea two days a 6 o, toni ht its ri g ht across the sea lanes between South America and the 0nited States. So Pr sident Truman•s shi p may encounter it - the Missouri. Of course . kept they are t, ■ * informed of the storm's progress - fro ■ hour to hour. hen news of the burricane was announced, a ne a■ an contacted the General Electric scientists · in Schenectady to ask if they were going to send up their B-17 - their hurricane destro,er. This plane is equipped to br ak u p hurric nes - by using dried ice. The idea being to drop the ice into the cl~uds and cause a hea•y fall ot rain or snow, and end the big stor ■• But, the Schenectady scientists say they ar n•t quit ready. Thelr B-17 won't be able to o up to tackle this one - but they may be ready for the next one. BOMBER ----- Washinton discloses today that Uncle am has ne~ ar bird, a bomber bigger, faster and better than anything yet in the air, a six-engined jet propelled craft estimated to fly so fast that it'll be difficult for ground observers to identify it. , knGWD wings is - will fly. All 1 e know is that she is one of ill• halt a dozen jet propelled bo ■ bers~our air forces ill have in the air by jet propelled November. One of these boabers~a • huge f l y i n g ~ ~ g h t jet engi~es~ to ~ ush her through the sky at enormous speed. Planes of tomorro• • , in action today• -e--- aearteni"ng ae ■-e111w:.atiOJ1 & Te11a,-spe&atz,rna- hie et-a'-" 'Nie men at. ~he head. ef e11p A1r Po1ce ere keeping ahead.. fIBACI Here's a story of piracy, the kind that can only be accomplished by an Irish■ an with perhap1 a drop of Buccaneer's blood in his veins, and ae•• Clift a few snifters under his belt. Patrick loris1.ee Duff is the ■an'• name, and sure, weren't hia ancestors the ■ enace of the English coast long centuries ago? lell, in San Franoieoo Patrick lcria,Ue Du f f'• pirate ~txa blood rose in direct ratio to his intake of alcohol. Ancl last night his intake would have floated a battle wagon. ~~~~, finally Patric~ headed tor the water " 1•■r4MPI Ii•• ..a 1eeeeaiN\ ot= L ~ Into the yacht harbor of St. Francie Yacht Club strode pirate Duff. ,Mill Wetore hi ■ lay at anchor hundreds of sea-going vessels. ' these, ~uff ■■ chose the •Iahana• . I , atria, thirty-six foot sloop with its engines still fJBACX - 2 war• fro ■ an afternoon's run. Bow Patrick loristle Duff managed the narrow harbor entrance ia a ay1tery even he can't aoJ.Te. For aboard the tanaha he toan4 more prate tonic. Two bottles ot bonded tiourbon. levertbeleaa, Pirate Dutt, on hie appropriated yacht. put out to sea.But a tog 1et in fro■ the aea, and the fog fro ■ the Bourbon? lell, when Pirate Duff awakened, he••• a1round; not at any south 1ea isle.But on a aud flat, not far fro• an isle by the na■e ot Aloatr••• Pirate Dutt i1n•t in Aloatra1 · toai&ht, but he is behind the bar• - with a terocioua han10Yar. The charge: Stealin1 ten thousand dollar■ worth of 7aoht; a aad end tor a pirate na■ed Patrick lcliatle Dutt. ~JJIIA China to have an austerity program, a new slant on austerity: a government ban on taxi dancers. Also, no alcoholic drinks in the Shanghai cabarets. from now on, night srots will serve only hot or cold water -- or tea, Thia ■ eaaure, ordered by Generali1ai ■o I■ Chiang Iai-Shek, ia one ■ ore atte■pt to hold dowa wild inflation. • The three thousand Shanahai taxi aanoer1 are up in ar■• at loaing their Jotia, and haYe petitioned Mada■ • Chiang; pleading tor her to aat h•r illuatriou• husband to rat1e the ban. rro■ what I know of the General, they h••••'t a hope. He'll be ada■ant. Meanwhile, in . th• north of China, a ayaterioua figure has appeared on the ■ ene, dropping out of the atiea frea a plane, and iuediately holdta1 lengthy prayer aeaaiona, prayi~g ~or the peace of China and the end ot the Civil War. Thie strange peraon is known as the Livin1 Buddha. Iung-Ie-Bu-Tu-Iet-Oo, they all oall hia. ,ga111 - 2 With a name like that he shoald be something out of the ordinary, and he is. Be dwells on a re ■ ote aountain, in distant Sikiang Provinoe, near Tibet - where he spends his life i ■■ in prayer and ta1tin1. lhen (ung-Ie-Bu - Tu-tet-Oo heard that China was beset by Civil lar; he heard it -- ao ■ ewhat late in the day, be i ■■ ediat•l1 lett hie hu■ble cell in the fastness ot the Mountatna ot Central Aita, Journeyed to an air field, and hied hi ■ aelt to Peipin1; to the reacue of the ancient natloa. [uni Ee Bu Tu let Oo or lung•• we'll call ht• for short, ia believed by t•• Chinese to haye been born under the ■oa\ pe~uliar circ•■ataaoea. The house enveloped in brightly oolored clouds a ■ the infant drew his fir1t breath; t•o large aun1 1htain1 in the sky/ fro ■ then on he has had an extraordin_,, life; preaching and prophesying at the age of tive, am interpreting the Buddhist scriptures. Bis ta ■ e spreading the length and ~1 breadth ot Central Asia •• even Inner and auter Mongolia, always a ■an of ■71ter £Bll! __ _:_l_ And now h e is praying for peace, an end to the Civil far that bas defied Chiang and bis Generals for lo these many years. lnd that's the story of Iung-le-Bu-Tu-let-Oo. What have you to add -- lelson? From Belfast, Northern Ireland, today,•• learn that late yesterday a mighty explosion ripped open the gleaming white hull of Britain's four million dollar luxury _ liner, the Reina Del Pacifico (Queen of the Pacific). Many of her crew were i i killed and a-ore injured. lo news yet 0£ the cause of the blast, which tore out the entire engine room and turned the hull of the ship into a blazing inferno. the the not The luxury liner had just ■ ad• her trial scene of the explosion, and Wdr.ned crew aeabera ol -~~ ~- v.e1sel, . ~;•lled the ■ oat beautiful ship in tbe world, A' ~\ to discuss the disaster. A 1uggeation perhapa, that sabotage is•~• suspected. In Chio o, John L. Lewis tossed a bombshell-~ or at least a hefty lump of coal -- into the executiVie council of the American Federation of Labor. President William Green of the A.F. of L. and bis Executive Council were consideri~g the clause in the Taft-Bartley Labor Bill, that call on union officials to sign the affidavit that they are not Commtinists. It was then that hewis made bis announcement. Officials of the United Mine Workers Union will not sign those anti- Coamuniat · affidavit~ said he. We are not told what bapp happened inside the Executive Council o~ the AwF. of L.; but, shortlyi after the Lewispronounce ■ ent, President Willia• Green of the A.F. of L. postponed bis news conference scheduled for twelve non. At that news conference he was expected to announce tbe A.F. of L's decision regarding the signing of tbe non-Communist affidavits. lord from Chicago this afternoon is that the A.F. of L's Executive Council is in heated debate over the signing of the affidavits. Lewis a g a · nst his min e union offici a ls si g ning, because, be s a ys - with pride, •The U.M.W. has long been k~o•n for its anti-Communist attitude.• Ther e fore• signing such affid a vits would be totally unneces s ar1. And if John bolds out, be may force the Executive · Coundl of the American Federation of Labor to postpone action on this issue until the San Francisco Convention -- an a•tutue aoy,e by the man wiib the eyebrows, to enlist ti■e as an aid . in the Union•' battle against the Taft-Bartley Labor Law.