PIIQEDE HISS Seer t r y of St te Ache on y not turn hi b ck on Al er His • In a ne s conference today, be made r V ly oken st tement, ex 1 1n1ng t a t he once called Hiss hi friend, n th this c rist n rinc1nles do not rm1t him to go back on t 1s - even tn the face of conviction for rjur a nd an accu ation of Red es In Congress, Senator Mundt of South Dakota called for a Con 0 ress1onal investigation to d,termine ·Lat part Alger Hiss had in the formation of American fo~eign policy. What •impact and influence•, said the senator. •we must bear in mind,•"he argued, •that many employees of the State Department were brought into positions of responsibility and importance through their connection with Biss and his misguided trlenda.• HISS 1 er His was c a lm d stoic a l t o da~ - t oed to five ye rs 1n ris ... on. 1n oce ce, the fore hi h of the St te De artmen t l the jud e: 1 I'm confident th t, in the future, the full facts as to how Chambers was able to carry out for ery by ty e ri ter , 11 be disclosed." hich as in at the trial, story of Red· es ionage told by hittaker Chambers wa backed by the visible evidence to the Biss, being sentenced, put the emphasis on the testimony of the typewriter - declaring that hittaker Chambers had used it for forger • How? o hint o an answer has ever been g1ven, H1ss merely statin his belief that an exolanat1on will one day come to light. He stays out on bail - while a ealing to the Supreme Court. 9HINA T St te De a rtm nt r ne s its C th . t Soviet Ru s1 1 t king c-ver . rovince ich repe , ts wh t Secret ry of St te Acheson said couple of eks go - th t Russia was bsorbing anchur1 , outer M 0 n olia, inner Mongoli , and Sinkiang. Today the State Department declares that in Manchuria - •Russian penetration is widespread, and economic and strategic domination is well advanced.• lire QJIINA • • · · 2 On £_Uter Mon oli a the statement is: "Despite the fiction of the inde pen dent Mongol1 n eoples republic, - - Soviet penetr tion is complete.) &ueeiaa iYee~a ar~ , retense of 1ndenendence 1s - ridiculous. In er Mongolia;- ruled by a pupDet outfit, which take it orders from Moscow. aa, lla:e eft1:7.-d:Hh11tl' Sink1an@!'e - a picture of Russia trying to soldiers, and Me- t11,+11g--..... obtain control over air - transport, trade, and miner 1 resources. HOSQQW INDO N ESIA Soviet Russia recognize t e Renublic of Indonesia - a di patch fro oscow stating toni ht that Forei n 1n1ster Vish1nsky has wired recognition to th e Indone ian Premier. JQLIN Toni ht, an American m111t ry convoy 1s roll1n on to Berlin - to test the new tr ff1c restriction imuosed bv the Sov1 ts. f eyl.re calling it - the baby bloc ade. od y long lines of trucks were n1led u at Helmstedt, the oint were the Rus . 1 ns iuspect vehicles enterin their area - in action th t now 1s used as obstruction, long dra n out, m re delay. ~o it remains to be seen t 111 b pen hen the American military convoy of trucks arrives at that check-point -- obstruction point. The Chrysler strike went off today according to schedule - after neither side would give an inch in the 1st minute b a rgaining. This morning a hun d red and twelve thousand a uto workers walked out, and p roduction stopoed in twenty-f ve plants 4F'wh1ch were producing se9enty-one hun d red cars a day. One immediate reaction was a lay-off of twenty-three thousand workers at Briggs, where they make bodies for Chrysler cars~- ind the prediction is that a hundred and sixty thousand will be off the job, if the walkout continues for two weeks. rtt\J, ord from Washington 1s th t President Truman will t ke a ction in the co a l strike 'before the weekend', unless John L. Lewis gets the ninety thousand miners back to work. ~ftts Ml laglte6 , , lacaeaalag repurle tft•t aeail' the 4aRtJe1' isetnt , ) It isn't clear what move the President will ma.lee - he may try a direct appeal to the miners, or he may get a Taft-Hartly injunction ordering Lewis to reestablish a five-day week. > his • M anw h ile, the strike continued to spread - as pickets 1n revolt a ainst John L. Lewis made the rounds of the coal fields, and ten thousand more miners joined the walkout today. In Was h in ~ ton Jom L. Lewis held a meet1n1 with his union lieutenants - trying to find some way to persuade the etrikere to obey the Lewie order, and go back to their jobs. ~-I,Q, The C.I.O. h a s e XJ) elled its California state council - c ha rter revoked today by c.1.0. President P hil Murr a y • An in,estig a ting 0011mittee reported the C&lifornia state council of the C.I.O. 1s red in color, a.nd follows the Communist line. The lational ~abor Organization is busy expelling various left wing affiliates, and out goes the California council. 1 llTRO TO MRS !E_I~E Jerusalem - th e H ly City is still in the hea d lines~al oat every day -- the Israeli announcing that it has been m de the ca o ital of the,~ new state; the Arab commander of King Abdullah'• famous Arab legion, breaking with his Sovereigl\,r- over the status of Jerusalem; and the insistence of the U I th at Jerusalem bJ internati o nalized • .¼-_p.,,~~ All of which reminds me of a Jerusalem dream that ~ has at last come true. For nearly thirty years I had. prodde4 A Jerusalem's Huab r One citi1en, urging her to write - the story of her life, the ex eriences of an American ~~-ti.al- protestant~ nas lived in Jerusalem for more than sixty years. So, it is a 1• d, satisfaction to me to -;G ;t~.t- see 11A' book ap p ear this week. The title of it ia ,, " OUR JERUSALE • . An American Family In The Holy C1t1, Spafford Vester. IRS VESTER - 2 -- - Mrs. Vester is one of the m ost attr ctiYe nd intere ting women I h a ve ever known. Bere'a a curi o us thin g abo ut her: She neYer went to school a day in her life. Yet, she has written a fascinating book, and ,..,M~M before an audience she is a brilliant speaker,... with unusual oise and co ■mand of English. Of course, her education has been unique; - - ov~r sixty years in Jerusalem, through two world wars, and before that, under the Turk•• ind s h e ~ A ~~ Ti-I' .... ~ e , intimately~ ■ any of the X:cst world ~ ..C..C'"- ... ~~ - - ~ ~ "tell-~..,,,~! figures of our time. f Here's an idea that has just I • occurred to e. With this incredible background, Mrs. Vester ought to haYe her own regular hour on the radi o . There a re millions t;,I ~.,Hin this country who would enjoy hearin g her stories o f ~ sixty years in Jerusalem.~She is in the studio this evening and I'm just g oing to ask her one ueation: MRS V ES Tfil! - l We c a ll Jerusalem the City o f Pea ce, v rs. ester, but I sup p ose there is no other city in the world that h a s had les s p eace. Isn't that so? --•-- IIRS VE S TER: True indeed. How tr ag ically true! As I rec a ll)it was first stor m ed by Iing David's Ar■J. His General, Abner 1 ca p tured it from the Jebusites. Since then it has been destroyed more than forty times. Think of it, forty} Four times, com letely, more utterly destroyed than the Japanese cities that were wi ed out by the atom bomb. Titu1, time the Roman, had a difficultjstorming Jerusalem. The siege lasted for four years. Re was so angry by then that he had eYery stone removed. He plowed fields where Jerusale m had been, and even sowed the fields with salt so nothing would grow. The& under the Roman E m p e r o r # = ' Jerusalem was so utterly wiped out that it even URS VETER_ - 4 -/:ti-.~~~,~ fl..~ 4:r....b'...-. .. , lost its n e~ a nd f or sever a l c e nturi s w a s c a lled A 1 . C ·t 1 · 1( Y 1a l u 1na. During m y lifetime in Jerusalem there h A s been nythin g but eace. A sheet from one of y beds . rovid e d th e ite fla for the 7P surrender to Allenby during the First World W P. r. But, during y lifetime in Jerusalem it has grown. In - area tod . ay it is ten times a s iazli large as it w s when I was a little girl. Nofman7 years ago e alway• J considered the o : ulati o n inside the 01d Waz• all "-k ~ a bout five t ho usand. Today there are some thirty thousand Arabic peo p le• inside the .!-811, and the7 say over one hundred tho . usand Jews outside the ~ 11. - o That was{•~~ - tribute the New York ,.._ ~ Herald Tribune paid you on Sunday, · rs. Vester, (book ~ ~ J 1 · i n that i i i review~ s a id: "Our erusa em 1s /\- A - - a boo k no thinking American Christian sh o uld fail . . " to read. It is ins 1r1ng. I ould d to th t th t it shail.d be read by A41.~ 11 faiths, J--Aall countries. iiJM There hae been a lot oft lk about artificial rain, a nd v a rious ex p eriments h a ve been made. But the reports in general have not been too optimistic. Today, we have an account of still another ex p eriment, which was conducted by Dr. Irving Langmuir, the Nobel Prize winner. Dr. Langmuir, long noted for research at General Electric, is a pioneer 1n the study of art1f1c1al rain - and he, himself, tells the story. In a description given to ttie ~mer1oan Meteorological Society today, he relates what happened down in Hew Mexico - an &rt1f1c1al dolfllpaur, a deluge produced, a dry creek turned into a raging river. We've long been hearing about the use of dry. ice to make rain, and Dr. Langmuir has a new technique - which uses the smoke of the chemic 1 silver iodide. Thie - - chemical smoke, generated on the ground, was sent drifting up into the clouds - cumulous clouds, the kind that billow high 1n the sky. The gen e rator was put into action at h a lf past five in the morning, and kept going for thirteen hour - using two-thirds of a p ound of silver 1of:1de, twenty dollars' worth. 1411 • · · · 2 By ten o'clock there were flashes of lightning, a nd the do npour began. During the afternoon, an 1noh and a half of rain fell. It poured over a l a rge area, and & dry creek, a western aroya, was turned into a river, rushin down into the Rio Grande. A total ot three hundred ~nd twenty billion gallons of water fell - The Nobel prize-winning scientist state• that a thorough check wa.s made to be sure that the downpour did not come from natural causes• - not a case in which 11 would have rained anyway. H · e says it was definitely established th t the smoke of silver iodide did the trlcki ~ adds that new rain producing methods may change the ,\ entire f ce of the country. \ At Raymondville, Texas, there's a nineteen year old girl with a melodious S a nish n~me - Guadalupe Salazar. Tonight Guadalupe is in a hospital, being treated for internal injuries. How did she incur these in~uriest Well, . her brother fell under an automobile. Guadalupe 1s a farm girl, small and alight, a hundred and fifteen pounds - but she went into action in & big way when her small brother · was pinned under that . automobile, which slipped off the ~acks propping it up. l The by would have died · - but Gu a dalupe toot hoid of the back end of the heavy oar, and raised it right off the ground, until her brother could crawl out. It took a. mighty effort by the girl - so mighty that they had to take her to the hospit a l with internal injuries. The latest - Guadalupae is out of the hospital tonight none the wors e - after havin g been 1n in t ense a1n. Gaage men say she lifted ae much as six hundred pounds. QOJSTITU IQNAL AMENDMENT -- WOHliH The Sen a te today voted to enact a Conatitutiom.J. 1 Amendment to uarantee equal rights to women. But the amendment would also guarantee the special pr1v1lege1 that women now en,oy - all the legal protection for their particular benefit. So there you have it, · girls - it will make you equal in all things except those 1n which you a.re super 1 or • • The vote in the Senate was sixty-three to nineteen, e1ght more than the two-thirds necessary for a Constitutional Amendment. The ~a.me thing will have to lo, ha.»pen in the House of Bepresentativea - and, if it doe1, ... the proposal will go to the atates, three-fourths of ' . which will have to okay within seven years. Well, it should make rapid progress, since what man would not want to heap all benefits upon the ladies? And what ladies would·not want to heap all benefits upon themselvesT Co~plete equality, plus