I I ) The first figures from Nebraska are in - ax ■■ z ■ i a mere scatte ing vote. The figures show tassen and 8tassen and Dewey running neck and neck, far out in the lead -- ~taaaen a shade aheaQ. The others trailing, Taft, Vandenberg, MacArthur, larren, Martin. its too early for anything to be deciaive, but at this early hour tbe election count: ~tasaen and llewey lead the field by far, running a closd race. SUB ~ "'ITU'l'E Lt.A C O L YHIA - ~-------- - ______ ._, ___ _ ~ovi t rtussia denies the charge of having fomented the r v olut ion in Colo bia. The Yosc ow r a uio tonight calls he accusation capitalistic fabrication. la In Colombia a brother of the murdered liberal leader decl ares that the assassinatio::) was •an international crime.• ~e says the murder that started the insurrection ~as part of a Coaaunist acheae against the Pan-American Conference. The revolution caae to a formal end late this afterno n -- a cease fire order issued. The rebellion had collapsed anyway, and this was the official end - - cease fire. One final episode was the surrender of a large force of police. Xou would think that officer•dl, • f the 3u ca•••. ~ t he l a w wou l d b fo r emos t 1 n p r r v i n g l aw and. oraer. ~ut, it • s t h e otner w a y aroun d i n tna t rebel l ion in ~ogota whicn broke up t n e Pan-~merican ~onference. Toaay• s dispatch tells 01 six hunared policeaen •ho j o i n e d the rebe ll ion, ana turned out to be the ost stubborn enemies the government bad to deal with. ~ix hundred ~olombian cops held out for four days in the San ~iego section ot northern Hogota, which they turned into a fortress. They surrendered today - - i n the face ol army tanks. All of which would seem to add a new wonder to the mystery ot · how so large an insurrection could break out without the authorities of a nation hav1n1 soae idea •~ of the s tate of at · rairs - - especially with the scheduling of something so stately as the Congress of The Americas. Even the ,1 police were •• seditious and joined th~ revolution. The charge of the Lignt Brigade had its CL BIA - 2 ------ - 'brave s i undred" an n ow the battle 01 Hogota has had it r voling six buu r d,policemen. Anotb r turn of mystery c om es in the matter of the Colombia •ta, ■■ as diplomatic brea~ with ~oviet ~uasia. that was announced three times yesteroay -- but, as*• of ~his atternoon, toaay, nothing official baQ been done about it. lesteraay•s announcements were maae by a government radio station -- whereupon, toaay, the word was issued that the radio station in question has••• been taken over by a newly appointed liber&l. The guessing in ~ogota is that an argument is on in the cabinet between the Conservatives and the Liberals, who have just been taken in. ~houl4 F LLO, 0 OMBlA ----------- In Wa•hinet n , C on gress has just ord ere d an investigation into a United tates aspe ct of the mystery, something ( by didn ' t American Intelligence learn in advance about Med ~edi ti on in ~olombia? 1th Secretary of ~tate Marshall and a large American delegation going to the Pan-American (. Conf ere nee~ wasn • t it k" the business ot · American t■■ intelligence to find out about the state of safe 1 down there? ) There's•• a Washington rumor that Secretary Marshall has ant a blistering telearaa criticizin& the Central Intelligence A gency, whicb is a sort of clearing housE for inside word about things almost anywhere. ~ecretary •arshall is said to want to know why he wasn•t giv~n any advance information about ~be danger of a revol t in Coloabia. In any case, ~ongress bas ordered an investigation as to wby our Central intelligence was so blind concerning matters of safety - at the Pan-American ~onference? _O~li __ lQ~-~ - F LLOw COLUMHIA . -- - --- ----- - Ano her cease fire ord er is reported from Latin Americ -- Costa Hica. tbere an Armistice bas brought an nd to the revolution -- for the moment at least. both factions a reed to stop fighting, while international diplomats and church prelates make an attempt to bring about a as settlement. In this American Ambassador last ■• latbaniel P. Davia is playing a prominent role -- proceedin1 with a party of diplomats and•~••~ churchmen on a aission to the headquarters of the Coamander-in- Chief of the inaurrectos. legotiations are no• in the process. Previous news today w a s that the Costa Rican insurgents seemed about to capture the capitol city of San J,se -- and thereby win out in th• Civil tar which began •hen the Costa Rican Congress tossed out a presidential election in •hich the conservative candidate was successful. Tbis move, cancelling the election, was supported by the CObTA HICA - tOLLO COLO lilA - 2 ___,_, __ _____ ..,.. _____________ _ tbe Communists down th€re - giving a readish tinge to the whole business. 'J'bere is a ~ Viet Hussia's 1~ est move i • Italy - . a rejection of the proposal that Trieste be handett back. he Moscow radio announces a flat turn-down on the suggestion by the western powers that Trieste be restored to !taly. The surprise about this is that the refusal should be issued at this particular tiae, official circles in laahin1ton pointing out immediately that the loscow action on Trieste will be a bard blow for the Italian Coamunista in the forthco ■ ing election/It had been supposed that the ~oviets would bold back a rejection until the elections were over. That would seem to have been the saarter policy. Moscow understands perfectly well what the business of Trieste means in the ltalian political crisia. ~o in lashington there is a suspicion that SUB TIT TEL AV ITALI - 2 toni ht's declaration may not be at all tnat it seems to be. in other words, that Moscow will come out with some other manoeuvre before the Italian voters go to the polls -- aomething to help, instead of harm, the Communists in Italy. ITALY Melodramatic word from Italy:- ~oviet conspiracies charged, as the election approaches. One dispatch concerns a secret document -- a kind of ne•s that one hardly kno•a ho• to take~ because ~urope , in high tension ia said to be flooded •ith all sorts of alleged secret aocuaents. ~owever, thia one is reported by a koae ne•spaper, •hicb declare• it bas the best of authority for the statement it ■ a ea. A boviet plan to ta~• over in Ituy, and put that ancient country behind tne iron curtain. - acbeae is reported in aucb detai~ and ia attributed to.._. Moaco• Deputy 1 · oreign Minister toria, who ii claiaed to have aaster- ■ inded the Aed aeizure of C1echoalovakia. Italy to be used in a •ar against the United ~tatea. That•• the gist of today•a expose in tiome. Another alle1ed conspiracy is marked by the arrest of a mystery ■ an. Be is described as ~oviet . fl'A Y - 2 Colone 1 Isaac J:"egmRn; tho ugn the intimation is th t a■x~■ atz he bestowed the rank of Colonel upon himself. Together with the arrest, tne 1talian police saJ they have seized a motor ship with four million ~ dollars worth ot · ar■s and ammunition aboarel~ Thia ~olonel Eeg■ an clai ■ s that he is workin& with the Jewiah Extremists in Palestine, lrgun ivai Leu ■ 1. Hut the police declare that theJ have intercepte4 letters of his that were sent through Go ■■ uniet channels. 1 · e1■ an ••• arrested on the ialana. oi Lipari, and the etate ■ ent ia aade that he••• connected with the coa■ uniat conapirac7 to aei1e th&t i1land. ITAl,X - J Over here it aay be a little difficult to understand how the White House couln have anytb1na to do with the myriads of Italian-A ericans writin1 to relatives in the 2_ld ■ t .£_ountry. 'l ' bat saae Coamunist newspaper asks why the flood of letters fails to mention the fi•e ■i• mil!ion American unemployed, who are, in the words of Bed Journaliaa •1tru11ling every day against the violence of the pplice?• lea, why don't thoae Italian-Aaeiican• aention that? lhy don•t tney 11ve a graphic description of the -- fiYe aillion A ■ erican uneaployed ■ tru11lin1 e•ery day against the violence of the police? laybe their iaagination ia not that fantastic. AUST.Kl!_ At Berlin the inquiry into the tragic air crash of eight days ago broke down today -- the joint British-~oviet investigation to look into charges that the ~ritish paaaenger transport waa being buzzed by a ~oviet fighter plane when a colliaion oocurr · ed. Today witneaaea were to be heard, people who hau aeen the crash. the ~oviet a, representative, a Hed Air force•• Qeneral 1 refused to listen to any Ger■ an witness. He alao re£used to per■ it the testi ■ony o:t" any laerican wi tneas. Apparently he wanted only luaaian witn••• investiaation broke down. ao, tbe Americans are being evacuated from Jerusalem. Today the U.S. Consulate in the Holy tity discloaeG that American citizens are being removed by plane. all those who want to get out ahead of what the ne•• dispatch calla -- • full ecale war between Je•• anu Arabs. Only a skeleton staff to reaain at our consulate in Jeruaalea; aost of the personnel to be taken to the northern seaport of Haifa. ~riti•• ciYiliana baYe been warned that if they reaain in Paleatine it will be at their own risk after lay •tatz Eirat. The talk of full ecale·war ••• eapbaaise4 by event• in Palestine today -- a series of battle,. One of theee.,d)ccurred when a Jewi1D atteapt waa aaue to get supplies to an inatitution of long renown. On Mount Scopus stanGa the Badaaaah aoapital, fin,nced by funda from America and"for aoae years no• a center of aedicine in the Holy Land. A convoy fro ■ the Jewiab quarter of Jeruaalea tried to get iu tbrou1n to the hospital, with supplies. i t was ambusbed in the ~heik Jarrah section - the Arab quarter; cd a violent battle broke out. Jewi&hn!info~cements were hurried to the scene, and fought their •1 into buildings along the highway. But the Arabs caae swaraing in increasing nu■bers, and three or the truck••• •ere destroyed, the other ten forced back into the Jewish quarter of Jeruaale■• tiritiab troop• arriYed t■ to atop the figbting, and got into a battle witb both Arabs anu Jews. ~orty-two kil~ed -- thirty-four Jews, aeYen Arabs and a ~ · ritiib soldier. bong the Yictiaa waa dr. iai ■ Jaaa&J, . director of the Madaaaah Moapital, and an internationally taaoua eye-specialist, who for twen~J- aix years had deYoted hi ■ aelf to ■ edicine in ~aleatine. ti• reported) Another battleAt•x••••*••,Aat a poin~ where the Jewiab ■ ilitia, ~agannao, ·aaaaileu a convoy or the Arab Legion. Two truckloads of a■■ unition •• were blown up, according to Hagannah, All this follow• the official proclamation of a Jewish atati state; the Jewish agency announcing PALJ~TIU - 3 a regiae that •ill aasuae authority the day the British give up their mandate to Palestine, on May Fifteenth. A full scale governaent is named •itb a provisional council of thirty-seven ae ■ bers and a cabinet of thirteen ministers. A Prime linister -- foreign affaira, defense, commerce , iamigration, and ao on. SUBSTITUIE 1~AD_ LABOR 'l'he El!t.imate at the en<1 o:t · the day is that about forty percent of the coal mine strikers have returned to work -- although at some mines the work rs are awaiting the outcoae of the contempt proceedings against John L. Lewis. ToGay, the union appealed to the ■ ia ■■ miners by telephone, telegra ■ and radio, urging the ■ to go b4ck to their jobs ana the government;, optiaiatic. Because today federal authorities reaoved all restrictions on railroad operation• involvin& . the uae of coal. SINGER ------ In Hollywood they have fo u n d a aar night siJ club singer working in an apartment as a maia. S he is a blond Chilean warbler, Maria ~atica, who disappeared from her fashionable Bollywooa apartaent -- also from a seven-hundred and firty dollar a week job. lo• what would persuade a night club bauty to run away from a seven-hundred and fifty dollar a week job, and go to worJi;r-as a domestic? today her husband located her and she told why abe did it. •1 was lootint for •peace of aind• abe said. •1 a>uld not have sung one aore evening. I baa to go away•. ~o she found •peace or aina• on the job of sweeping floors and wasning tbe diehes. Ber husband finding her today, wanted to take her back to the swanky apart ■ ent, but she said •no• -- she'd stay at least until toaorrow L at the home of the peop l e who had employed her. SINGER - 2 because they had been good to her, and she didn•t want to leave them so suddenly without a maid. The husband of the erstwhile night •l• club singer says he •ill respect his wife•s desire ror housework. lie had ambitions to see her go on to greater success•• a singer, but that is all orf now. Because it ia obvious that she prefers a hoae to a career•• thia night club star who fle4 fro• the money the glitter and the applause to do housework as a maid. liere at the University of Cincinnati. in strolling around the magnificent campus, 1 saw the usual sings of spring - - and some signs that are rather ••••••lz unusual. Instea~ of signs telling pedestrians to keep off the young g r ass, tney•ve for unu•••l had a contest, a ■ on& the students, •••x••••i slogans. ~ ~ The one that got first prize I saw outside a aaaent ago, on the lawn. It reada: seeds at work! And another with a pun in it reada: lot lawn for tbia world -- ouch! And another that I rather liked: ~i•e tbe 1a1 youn1 blade• a chance~ ~itting next to me ia a gay young blade who is waiting for his chance -- at the microphone - ■ eaning you Belson. PRlMAft! In the ~tate of Nebraska there's a newspaper editor who is having his triumph today -- as the primary election is held. No matter how the vote goes for the candidates who seek tbe ~epublican no ■ ination, the election is a victory for thirty-two year old Haymond McConnell, editor or The Lincoln Journal. Because it was he who started the move that has brought all the top flight Republican candiaatee before the iebra1ka voters. Months •10, Editor McConnell was thinkin1 about the primarie1 and the uaual way they are held -- the candidate for noaination entering a state pri ■ ary ll 1ta7in1 u!, dependin1 on ho• he and hi• backers felt about it. A1 in liaconain, for exaaple, •here only Dewey, Staaaen and MacArthur, were entered -- no Taft, no van4enber1, no •arren. Editor McConnell thought the ••• lebraska voters should have a chance to aake their •■l■■st ■x• ael,ction fro ■ a full list, all the candidates in the running. So he started a caapaign, to p~t them PlU,161! - 2 all into the Mebraeka Priaary, whether tbey like 4 it or not. ~ foraed a coaaittee of thirty-fl•• all the way f ■■ fro ■ the Lieutenant Governor to representative• of labor uniona. A coaaittee that circulated petitions for the Yarioua candi4atea -- both the •illin1 and the reluctant. ~enc• the character of the lebraaka priaar7 toda7, the Yotera &i•en the fulleat opportunity s■ of ,election fro ■ the wideat poaaible liat. Ho, · no aatter ho• the ballot• are di•~ributed, tsat it'• a •lctor7 for lclitor McConnell. Tooay he aaid he belie••• that the idea or a free-for-all priaar7 abould be adopted in all atat•• iD t~e future. !le thins• it will be aure to ellaiaat!/ *■x■ltuata"'a lot of the political Jocteyin1 and oblique strate&J• so be bopea that today•• Dattle- royal in lebrasta will set a precedent -- reluctant candidates hauled into priaari•• wbetber they liie ~ - tt- -- 7 ~ e.~ ~ J-N~ -4 « ~~ it or not. /'-.. 11, ,--awee .:Hr~- -- a. Yenerable statesman struggling and protesting as he 1~ burled into tbe free-for-all battle royal! l,ABOR lany coal miners went back to work today, but ao ■ e still stayed out -- declaring tb~y wouldn't return until tbe conteapt or court charges aaainat John L. ~ewia are eliainated. tiowe•er, tne outlook for the rapid ••••Qli■xa reau ■ption or ~oa! oonau■ption ia not bad -- the union appealin& to the ainera by telephone, tele1raa and ra4io, ur1ia1 the ■ to 10 back to their joba. The aowern■ent ••••• . to be opti ■ latio, beoau•• today tbe Federal autboriti•• . ... re ■o•ed all restriction• on railroad opePationa tbat in•olYe tbe a•• of coal. . - .. ,,01 - 2 At the ea ■e \i ■e the court, conaiatina of three Federal Judaes, ruled that if a union doea band in the non-~oa■uniat aff14aYita, e ■plo7er1 are le1all7 bound to baraain on the 1ubject of pension plan, -- aucb aa old aae penalon1 for ■ iner1 procured b7 John · L. Lewia. Th••• two deci1ion1 •~• of lar1• ooa1equenoe -- e1peoiall7 for tbe CI O wbicn ha• reJected the deaand for noa-coaauaiat affidaYit1. the u 1 0 11 4riYiD& for peaaion plan•; but, aocordia& to the court 4eolalon todaJ, it i• no 10 - unle11 t~•1 file the non-oo■auniat afficla•it1. IOLl,A! I IAleX ijere•a the latest; ~oviet Husaia turne4 down the proposal of the leatern powers that Trieete be reatored to Italy. Ibis waa announced on the Iosco• radio toni&ht. The ~oviet etate ■ent aa1• \bat Iosco• iaaiata on the ter ■• of the peace treatJ witb ltal7, which aade Trieate an international city. Thia Ket rejection proaiaea to be a bad blow to \be ltaliu Coueniata -- the Italian people DeiDI •• ea1er to aet back the areat harbor on tbearla\io. R ESIDENT '/ ALT ER S -- · -- - --- I am at a 0niversity of ~incinnati banquet tonight an annual aff a i r in the Great Hall, attended by alumni, and citizens of the great metropolis of the Ohio Valley -- Mayor A bert Cash ad many of the leading p e 11 onalities in the life of Cincinnati. Dr. Raymond Walters, President of the Dni•eraity of Cincinnati is beside me. Dr. Walters, congratulations to you and your associates on buildin& up the laraest municipal University in America. Just bow aany students have you? Dr. 1.: Seventeen Thousand. Ju.I.: The news is so full of reYolution, rioting, war and threats of war, these days, Doctor, that I'a goin& to ask you the sixty-four dollar question, without any preliminaries. Yihat can our colleges and univeraitiea do to help bring the world back to an even keel? What can you of the great 0niversity of Cincinnati do? -oo- Dr. W.: For one thing, Yr. Thomas, we can be sure that Soviet Russia fears our scientific achievements, and our technologic 1 skill, f a r more than she fears any ss rmies. One great contribution toward peace is our university and college engineering work. We must continue sending our atream of graduates in order to maintain our superiority in the realm of science and technical skill. -oo- ~~: And then •••.••••••••••• ? -oo- Dr. • • • Meanwhile, just hold off that threatenin& war for some years and there is a strong likelihood that economic and social fotcea will solve tbta problem of communism with its doctrine of sheer force. -oo- L.T&: We have peaee of a sort, at the moment, President alter,. Have you any other thoughts on how we can further promote that peace? -oo- Dr. W.: Yes, I think so. Surely nothing is more likely to promote order.-in the world than making a success of our merican system -- I mean our system of enterprise and our American conception of the d ignity an worth of the individual. If e can continue to make a spectacular succe s s of industrial production, along with a fair distribution of the fruits of our toil among all t e people, then the rest of the world will want to imit te us. To help bring this about is the obligation of every Lmerican educational institution such as our great Oniveraity of Cincinnati. -oo-