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In Washington tonight the official Christ•••
tree
was lWited -- but who did it? The
tree
on the
lhite
House lawn was fixed up, ready for illumination,
and a crowd of two thousand was gathered to hear a
message
from President
Tru ■ an
-- broadcast from bi•
boae
town
Independence, Mi
s
souri.
According to traditions, the President li&ht•
up the tree - and tonight that was to be accoapliah
by pushing a button at Independece.
But eometlitg
peculiar happened.
Th• Preaideatial Yoice
ca■•
01er
the loudapeaker, pronouncing the
Chriat■ aa
••••••••
and then
caae a
place in the scri
p
t where the
President, out in Independce, was to push the button.
But before he got to that point, the lights went on
in adYance.
Just as be was about to go into the
paragraph saying that he was go
i
ng to press the
button, the bulbs on the tree flickered,
di ■■ed out
and then brightened in full glory -- while the
Presidential voice at Independence had not yet
arrived at that point.
What had happened? The chiaf electriciaa
at the
lhite
Bouae •••queried.Be
explained
that
an electrician had
been
assigned to awitoh on the
lighting, in case the presidential croa1-countr7
button pushing did not wort. Be said he thought that
this special electrician, through
soae
kind of
■x
aix-up,
had beaten the President to the punch -- or
rather, beaten
hi ■
to the illuaination.
D
In Bethlehem, they~ having an old-taahioned
Cbriat■ as
this year.
At the birthplace
of
the
Saviour,
things have gone
back
·
tr
the
••1•
and
cuatoms of
ti ■ ee
gone by.
The Palestine
war haa
cut
off electricity for the lights in the church of
the lativity and other Holy Placea. So1 tbey've
gone back to laapa and candlea.
lell, the little town of
Betblehe ■
bad•
loag
biatory before electric lights were ever inveated,
and tonight the hand of the clock ha• turned
back -
aa
they celebrate the traditional ritual
of
Cbri1t•••
Ive.
There'• a light of
la■ pa,
•• of old, aad
~
••p•ciall7 the
glea■
of ayrtad• of
~dl•~•
[B,&ICI
In Paris, the French Rational Aasembly
spent Christmas eve night -- or at least part of it_
in passing a budget. This came as a climax to a
political fight, the
Pre ■ ier
stating that he would
resign if the budget bill was not approved.
The measure calls for the appropriation
ot
yaet
_
quantities of fr
a
ncs,
a ■ ounting
to six billion
six hundred millions
ot·
dollars - to finam e the
economy of France under the Marshall Plan. The
1o•ern■ent
•• at Paria
iai baa insieted on hi1her
taxea, to enable )'ranee to do its ahare in
collaborating with the European rec0Yer7
progra ■•
There has been bitter opposition, the rrench haYing
an acute dislike for paying taxes. But tonight, just
as Santa Claus was getting ready for his visit,
the lational Assembly passed the budget.
i, ,.
The
uecurity
vouncil
of
the
united Nations has
n •
to
deal ~ith
t o accusations
of
truce viol
a
tion -
Indonesia
lind ~alestine.
•hich
,
ould
seea
to be
a
good
aeQl
of
the
same
thing - the
UM
called u
p
on to do
something
about
the ~utch in Java
and
about the lsreall•
in the
iegeb.
The
action on Indonesia today
was
- a cease-fire
order.
lt
seems
as
if
the U B
were always
issuing
those coam~nds - to stop shooting.
The reaolutioa
adopted today was
a
co■ µro■ iae
-
in that it did
aot
deaand that
the forces
of the ietherlanda withdraw to
'
poaitiona
they
held before
they launched
their
auddea
offensive
against the Indonesian
hepublic.
The7 are
■erely
re uired a halt
where
they are - stop the
attack.
The ~utch
~re
showing little sign of yielding.
Their attitude, fas expressed today,
would
seva
to
in~icate that they
will
not atop until they've taken
full
ossession
of
republican territories.
They are
still
pushing
on
both
in Java
and
the neighborini
island of ~um
a
tra - the 1n
d
onesians
p
utting up little
effective resi
s
tance.
Ho
ev
e
rt there
continue
to be
si
g
ns of
guerril
la
w r -
D
utch troops ordered to
stay
close to their b rracks in the
invaded
areas.
This, an
obvious
p
recaution against guerrilla attacks.
-
In the case of Palestine, the Security Council
toda7
voted to
hold an emergency •eeting on
Monday,
to
consider
the
new
Jewish offensive in the aouthern
desert.
The Arabs
are
charging - •Flagrant
violation•
of tbe
truce.
Iii
u.e...ioethftltl
eneM.
1hey are
de■ andin&
anarily
th
.
t the U I take
action against
Iarael.
So
oa
Monday all this will
be
taken up,
with the
likelihood
of another -
•cease
fire•
order.
In the
Negeb,
itself, there is word of
beaYJ
Jewish attacks against Egyptian forces, troops of
haaaering away on the ground - although
a later
diapatca
from
Tel aviv
sa1s that
ailitary action has died down.
'
One dominating f~ct would seem to be - the
raina.
,.
The
normally dry and desolate Negeb is
~
~
- IA4A4•~ .
. : 5 ~
~
ilZ,
Lc/)E1"1,
• • • n
p
e
~~
t
a e
■ ~
, •
u.prrrf ;,,~;::
---t .ti
A
:.a.
ii 8 ,
<a ,
co
TL
_
fil.QA
A late dis
p
atc
h
tells of Inter-American
action in the dispute
b
etween Costa Rica
and
N
icaragua.
The organization of American States
calls upon both republics to guarantee that they •ill
not take hostile action, one against the other.
•
The
Western Heaiapbere group baa alao
decided
to set up a military coaaiasion to police the
border between Costa Rica and licaragua.-~aa-
:Co•1ii1sion oo
wbiea
fi•e nations
are to
be
1
11 •
vpa---•
~
..!f
ne pu•po••• ~e
■ ake
sure that
aei the1
eoa
ta Illa•
,_
aeP
~~a•e ■ al•
viel••e their
••••••'eee,
This is
th
e
first
drajatic
action
~,J
•hi•
is
bei11114ea~nder
the aathoritJ of
'
the lnter-Aaerican Defense Pact....- concluded at the
Conference at
Rio, the treaty in which the
A■erican
.
Re
p
ublics agreed to intervene, should there be
.
a.-easion against
any
of its
■ e ■bera
under that
authorization, the League of We1tern
ie ■ iapbere
States
to
aent a Coamission down to Central
A■erica,
eae
■ate
I\
an investigation on
the
spot.
This Commission baa now
returned, and reports that ther
e
is no question but
that Coeta hica was right in charging that
licaragua aided a revolftionary in•aaion of Coata
Rican territory.
The Coaaiaaion etatea: •The
re•olutionary
■ o•e
which de•eloped in Costa Bica
waa organlzed principally in licaragua.•
But at the aaae tiae, Costa Rica itaelf, did
not eaerge tree and clear of blaae - the Coaaittee
fiading that the Costa Bicaa Gowernaent waa giYiDI
help to what ia called - the Caribbean Le1ioa.
Thia
-
ia
an outfit deaigne~p reYolutionar:, troullle,
and the Caribbean ~egion baa been cauaing
alar■
for
aontha in Central Aaerica.
'
All
of which ia tbe baotgrouad for toai1bt1
,z ....
.
deaand - that both Coata~and licaragua gi•• guarantee•
that they will not take boatil• action a1ainat eaob
otber.
~ounds like the Inter-•aerican League pla7ia1
...
the paet of.-. Western Beaiepbere United latioaa.
,...
JQIIQ -
~
diaapprove of MacArthur's Cbriataas
a■neety - while
the rest are described aa ...... bewildered.
,
TOIYO
T
o
kyo
r
e
p
orts that th
e
J
~
panese ar
e
giving a
aixed reception to General MacArthur's Christmas amnesty--
the drop
p
ing of charges against seventeen top ranking war
cri•inal
a
.
These were
t
o
have been put on trial, but
no• tbeyLre included in a general aanesty decreed
by
t
h
e Supre
m
e Coamander.
Many Japanese are said to be questioning the logic of
International Justice - eeven hanged, including Tojo,
while other defendants
,ere sentenced to prison.
But
no
the seventeen, still to be t~ied, are set free.
Among those exqcuted was
For■ er Pre ■ ier
Hirota, a high
leader of the Black Dragon Society -- which terrorised tbe
Far
t
ast.
~et,
a■ong
thoat who now gain aaneatr,
i•
aa
A
extreaist na•ed Iuzu, who at 6ne
ti ■ e
was head
of
the
Black
~
ragon Society.
The Japanese are said to feel
th
at,
if
the
victor ■
in
war did not wan~ to go
a
h
Aad
with the Internatio
n
al
trials, they mi
g
ht have permitted the Japanese
tbe ■ selve1
to set up courts for the trial of war
cri ■ inals
- like
the
D
e-Nazification courts in Germany.
POPE
-
There's
a
report from Roae that Pope
Pius
ftrl
~
trie
to
rev nt the exec tion of
Tojo
and the
other Ja bnese
brlor
s.
A
news
agency in
Rome states
that the
ontiff
received a
etition
fr~m
a
group of
Japanese
Catholics,
asking him to do
hat he could in
behalf of the
conde ■ njd.
ope
ius, says the ne s agency, 'At once got
iD
touch
with the Onited
cittites buthoritiea.•
If
so, it
was to no avail - as
we
all know.
T o d a y / . ~ X ' t ! . ~
issued
a ~hristmaa
•••••&••
in which he called for
future
punishment
for wlir
criainals.
necommending - life iaprisonaent.
The Attorney General
aakea a
1tateaent olearini
Lawrence Duggan, the Foraer State
Depart ■ ent
Official who juaped or fell to his death.
Attorney
General ~lark refers to the fact that Duggan•••
qu
e
stioned by the F. B. I., and
aaya
the
r. a.
I
dd~
-
report
ACN!:A)\ hia ~.:-•
A loyal eaployee of the Unite4
·
State• Governaent."
The attorney General did not
aa
.
, .whether or not Duggan had been
infor ■ ed
that he
b • ~
ha~leared..
All of which is accoapaniwd by new agitation
againat the Coamittee on
Da-Aaeri~•D Aoti•itiea. for
exa ■ ple,
an attack today by
Ira.
ileaaor Boo••••lt.
A"nd there are deaanda that the Coaaittee be
abolished, or, at least, its procedure cb~nged.
Today, spy bunters,
of
the
Co ■■ ittee
adaitted
they they
aay ba•e aade an
error.
They
aay ha•e aade
a aistak
e
-- when, after Duggan
ju■ped
or fell to hi•
death, they diaclosed the f~ct that he had been
aentioned in the espionage inquiry.
Congreas■1n
Mundt and Nixon, gi•e the following explanation:-
They say that,
i■mediately
after Duggan'a death, they
were questioned
by
news reporters.
They were
aaked - did the
CQ ■ aittee
have any
teati ■ ony
peftaining to Uuggan?
This, they said, left them in
a
dile ■ aa.
They had three alternatives - they could ha••
told the newaaen there was no auch
teati ■ ony,
whioh
would have been false.
Taey
co1H:•
h•••
~•le•••••••
~
They
could have refused
t.o
aay aaythiag,
which would
have given ground for
aur■ iae ■
and
guesaea.
Or they could
ai ■ ply
releaae
the
te•ti ■ ony.
This laat ••• what they dide- giving th
1
reporters
a
transcript of the
state■ent ■ ade
by
the
,~ti.
Co■auniat
editor, laaac Don
LeYine/\~
teatilied
that the
one-ti ■ e
red agent, Whittaker Cbaabera,
had aention
e
d
D
uggan aa one of thoae in toe State
~
Depart ■ ent
who had given
him
secret
docu ■ ents.
Jtta
,i
Cha ■bPr
s
bas since denied.
In the Committee today, there was dieoussion
about possible changes of pro
c
edure, but
it waa
decided not to
d
o anything until the new Congress
conYenes -
which will ,ut the Coamittee on On-
Aaerican
otivities under deaocratio
control
if it
ia continued.
Later news -- a statement by Mrs. Duggan,
WilO
declares that her husband was not ad•ised tbat he
had been exonerated by the F.B.I. She says, howe•er,
that he was not worried in any way. [nowing
tbat
be
-
'
had not been involved in the Communist Espionaa•
rina,
-
be was n~t disBJxbed by the
~·.s.
I. investigation.
Ira.
Duggan 1a7s he is convinced that her husband's fall
from a sixteen story window•• was accidental.
Here's about a small town fire
depart■ ent
_ the
kind of story that's familiar in Aaerican lore and legend.
But this one really happened,
as
A
evidenced
by
the
~
financial fact that it's included in the nineteen
-
!prty-~ight list or insurance
clai ■ s
that
were paid
up.
In
a town in Oregon, an
apart ■ ent
hotel
caught
fire, and the local aaoke-eaters started out to
extinguiab
the blaze - only they didn't start right
away.
They
couldn't get the fire wagon going,
ao ■ething
wrong
witb
the
■ otor.
Then, failing to
-
fix the
aotor,
they
pu1hed
the fire truck to the scene of the blaze.
When they got there, the
tire ■ en
found their
bo1e
••• frozen.
It was rigid and ~hoked
with
ice.
Local
citizens helped out, by atoaping on the hose,
and
breatiq
the ice until the water could get through.
The~ it was discov
_
red that the tireaen had
forgotten to bring the nozzle
tor
the hose - and fire
fighting was held up while
so ■ebody
ran back and got the
nozzle.
By this time two hour~ had elapsed, and you can
----
-
-
fJII
IIIPBAICL2
gue11 the rest
ot
the atory - the
apart ■ ent
hotel burned
to the ground.
IELIIXfl
Late this afternoon, the bell on the
new1
teletype began to ring - the familiar signal a
bulletin.
~o this afternopn
l
ca ■ e
to attention, the
■ore 10
as the bell kepton and on -- it 1ounded
like a headline
ot
headlines.
Then, I noticed
the
rhyth■,
a familiar pattern - Jingle Bella;
The teletype••• playing that old Chriataaa ditty.
I looked at the newa page, and there a lot of
l'• were being rapped out
line• of 1'1,
tbat
were
shapping up in the fora
ot
a bell.
ft..•M
{J
ting
of
Chriat ■ aa
Card on the teletype, followed by
Yuletide Greeting•
fro ■
tbe United Prer.1.
And all the while the tinkling 1ound waa
dru■■ ia1
out - Jingle Bells ; The voi6e of the news saying-·
Merry
Chriet ■ aa.
RESCUE
- -
The Mavy has ordered an icebreaker to go along
with the
Aircraft Carrier Saipa
~
in its
atte ■pt
to re10u~l ven stranded flyers on the Greenland
Ice
Cap
the
carrier
■a7
need a bit of toe-breaking,
puahing its way into Greenland Fjords.
FiYe
helicopters are being taken along, to go ho••ring
- c c ~ ~
.... , ••
.,e-
down 4nto the Ulacier MY~aeven hundred teet
high,
~ t o
"
~pick up the
■ arooned air■ en.
~o•e•er,
tbe
report
tro ■
Greealand
i1
tbat
i i
the weather~now
co ■paratively
favorable
for re1oue •o••
by glider, and it aay be that the caa1llray1 •111 be
taken
out before the aircraft
they~ther
:
for
Chriat■aa
-
,\
deaolate
apot on this earth.
carrier arri•••• But
in juat about the
■oat
11 kit of auppliea
"'1tf/
A
have
been dropped to
the ■ ,AYuletide
dinner and every-
thing - to
■ ake
Christ••• as Merry as poaaible on the
Greenland ~ce
Cap.
rJ.J.~-to-J/J~~ ~ -
~~
w°G,(WVl.
~~
~ ~ - -
tA.
~
, ) ( . ' ~ .
tree
was lWited -- but who did it? The
tree
on the
lhite
House lawn was fixed up, ready for illumination,
and a crowd of two thousand was gathered to hear a
message
from President
Tru ■ an
-- broadcast from bi•
boae
town
Independence, Mi
s
souri.
According to traditions, the President li&ht•
up the tree - and tonight that was to be accoapliah
by pushing a button at Independece.
But eometlitg
peculiar happened.
Th• Preaideatial Yoice
ca■•
01er
the loudapeaker, pronouncing the
Chriat■ aa
••••••••
and then
caae a
place in the scri
p
t where the
President, out in Independce, was to push the button.
But before he got to that point, the lights went on
in adYance.
Just as be was about to go into the
paragraph saying that he was go
i
ng to press the
button, the bulbs on the tree flickered,
di ■■ed out
and then brightened in full glory -- while the
Presidential voice at Independence had not yet
arrived at that point.
What had happened? The chiaf electriciaa
at the
lhite
Bouae •••queried.Be
explained
that
an electrician had
been
assigned to awitoh on the
lighting, in case the presidential croa1-countr7
button pushing did not wort. Be said he thought that
this special electrician, through
soae
kind of
■x
aix-up,
had beaten the President to the punch -- or
rather, beaten
hi ■
to the illuaination.
D
In Bethlehem, they~ having an old-taahioned
Cbriat■ as
this year.
At the birthplace
of
the
Saviour,
things have gone
back
·
tr
the
••1•
and
cuatoms of
ti ■ ee
gone by.
The Palestine
war haa
cut
off electricity for the lights in the church of
the lativity and other Holy Placea. So1 tbey've
gone back to laapa and candlea.
lell, the little town of
Betblehe ■
bad•
loag
biatory before electric lights were ever inveated,
and tonight the hand of the clock ha• turned
back -
aa
they celebrate the traditional ritual
of
Cbri1t•••
Ive.
There'• a light of
la■ pa,
•• of old, aad
~
••p•ciall7 the
glea■
of ayrtad• of
~dl•~•
[B,&ICI
In Paris, the French Rational Aasembly
spent Christmas eve night -- or at least part of it_
in passing a budget. This came as a climax to a
political fight, the
Pre ■ ier
stating that he would
resign if the budget bill was not approved.
The measure calls for the appropriation
ot
yaet
_
quantities of fr
a
ncs,
a ■ ounting
to six billion
six hundred millions
ot·
dollars - to finam e the
economy of France under the Marshall Plan. The
1o•ern■ent
•• at Paria
iai baa insieted on hi1her
taxea, to enable )'ranee to do its ahare in
collaborating with the European rec0Yer7
progra ■•
There has been bitter opposition, the rrench haYing
an acute dislike for paying taxes. But tonight, just
as Santa Claus was getting ready for his visit,
the lational Assembly passed the budget.
i, ,.
The
uecurity
vouncil
of
the
united Nations has
n •
to
deal ~ith
t o accusations
of
truce viol
a
tion -
Indonesia
lind ~alestine.
•hich
,
ould
seea
to be
a
good
aeQl
of
the
same
thing - the
UM
called u
p
on to do
something
about
the ~utch in Java
and
about the lsreall•
in the
iegeb.
The
action on Indonesia today
was
- a cease-fire
order.
lt
seems
as
if
the U B
were always
issuing
those coam~nds - to stop shooting.
The reaolutioa
adopted today was
a
co■ µro■ iae
-
in that it did
aot
deaand that
the forces
of the ietherlanda withdraw to
'
poaitiona
they
held before
they launched
their
auddea
offensive
against the Indonesian
hepublic.
The7 are
■erely
re uired a halt
where
they are - stop the
attack.
The ~utch
~re
showing little sign of yielding.
Their attitude, fas expressed today,
would
seva
to
in~icate that they
will
not atop until they've taken
full
ossession
of
republican territories.
They are
still
pushing
on
both
in Java
and
the neighborini
island of ~um
a
tra - the 1n
d
onesians
p
utting up little
effective resi
s
tance.
Ho
ev
e
rt there
continue
to be
si
g
ns of
guerril
la
w r -
D
utch troops ordered to
stay
close to their b rracks in the
invaded
areas.
This, an
obvious
p
recaution against guerrilla attacks.
-
In the case of Palestine, the Security Council
toda7
voted to
hold an emergency •eeting on
Monday,
to
consider
the
new
Jewish offensive in the aouthern
desert.
The Arabs
are
charging - •Flagrant
violation•
of tbe
truce.
Iii
u.e...ioethftltl
eneM.
1hey are
de■ andin&
anarily
th
.
t the U I take
action against
Iarael.
So
oa
Monday all this will
be
taken up,
with the
likelihood
of another -
•cease
fire•
order.
In the
Negeb,
itself, there is word of
beaYJ
Jewish attacks against Egyptian forces, troops of
haaaering away on the ground - although
a later
diapatca
from
Tel aviv
sa1s that
ailitary action has died down.
'
One dominating f~ct would seem to be - the
raina.
,.
The
normally dry and desolate Negeb is
~
~
- IA4A4•~ .
. : 5 ~
~
ilZ,
Lc/)E1"1,
• • • n
p
e
~~
t
a e
■ ~
, •
u.prrrf ;,,~;::
---t .ti
A
:.a.
ii 8 ,
<a ,
co
TL
_
fil.QA
A late dis
p
atc
h
tells of Inter-American
action in the dispute
b
etween Costa Rica
and
N
icaragua.
The organization of American States
calls upon both republics to guarantee that they •ill
not take hostile action, one against the other.
•
The
Western Heaiapbere group baa alao
decided
to set up a military coaaiasion to police the
border between Costa Rica and licaragua.-~aa-
:Co•1ii1sion oo
wbiea
fi•e nations
are to
be
1
11 •
vpa---•
~
..!f
ne pu•po••• ~e
■ ake
sure that
aei the1
eoa
ta Illa•
,_
aeP
~~a•e ■ al•
viel••e their
••••••'eee,
This is
th
e
first
drajatic
action
~,J
•hi•
is
bei11114ea~nder
the aathoritJ of
'
the lnter-Aaerican Defense Pact....- concluded at the
Conference at
Rio, the treaty in which the
A■erican
.
Re
p
ublics agreed to intervene, should there be
.
a.-easion against
any
of its
■ e ■bera
under that
authorization, the League of We1tern
ie ■ iapbere
States
to
aent a Coamission down to Central
A■erica,
eae
■ate
I\
an investigation on
the
spot.
This Commission baa now
returned, and reports that ther
e
is no question but
that Coeta hica was right in charging that
licaragua aided a revolftionary in•aaion of Coata
Rican territory.
The Coaaiaaion etatea: •The
re•olutionary
■ o•e
which de•eloped in Costa Bica
waa organlzed principally in licaragua.•
But at the aaae tiae, Costa Rica itaelf, did
not eaerge tree and clear of blaae - the Coaaittee
fiading that the Costa Bicaa Gowernaent waa giYiDI
help to what ia called - the Caribbean Le1ioa.
Thia
-
ia
an outfit deaigne~p reYolutionar:, troullle,
and the Caribbean ~egion baa been cauaing
alar■
for
aontha in Central Aaerica.
'
All
of which ia tbe baotgrouad for toai1bt1
,z ....
.
deaand - that both Coata~and licaragua gi•• guarantee•
that they will not take boatil• action a1ainat eaob
otber.
~ounds like the Inter-•aerican League pla7ia1
...
the paet of.-. Western Beaiepbere United latioaa.
,...
JQIIQ -
~
diaapprove of MacArthur's Cbriataas
a■neety - while
the rest are described aa ...... bewildered.
,
TOIYO
T
o
kyo
r
e
p
orts that th
e
J
~
panese ar
e
giving a
aixed reception to General MacArthur's Christmas amnesty--
the drop
p
ing of charges against seventeen top ranking war
cri•inal
a
.
These were
t
o
have been put on trial, but
no• tbeyLre included in a general aanesty decreed
by
t
h
e Supre
m
e Coamander.
Many Japanese are said to be questioning the logic of
International Justice - eeven hanged, including Tojo,
while other defendants
,ere sentenced to prison.
But
no
the seventeen, still to be t~ied, are set free.
Among those exqcuted was
For■ er Pre ■ ier
Hirota, a high
leader of the Black Dragon Society -- which terrorised tbe
Far
t
ast.
~et,
a■ong
thoat who now gain aaneatr,
i•
aa
A
extreaist na•ed Iuzu, who at 6ne
ti ■ e
was head
of
the
Black
~
ragon Society.
The Japanese are said to feel
th
at,
if
the
victor ■
in
war did not wan~ to go
a
h
Aad
with the Internatio
n
al
trials, they mi
g
ht have permitted the Japanese
tbe ■ selve1
to set up courts for the trial of war
cri ■ inals
- like
the
D
e-Nazification courts in Germany.
POPE
-
There's
a
report from Roae that Pope
Pius
ftrl
~
trie
to
rev nt the exec tion of
Tojo
and the
other Ja bnese
brlor
s.
A
news
agency in
Rome states
that the
ontiff
received a
etition
fr~m
a
group of
Japanese
Catholics,
asking him to do
hat he could in
behalf of the
conde ■ njd.
ope
ius, says the ne s agency, 'At once got
iD
touch
with the Onited
cittites buthoritiea.•
If
so, it
was to no avail - as
we
all know.
T o d a y / . ~ X ' t ! . ~
issued
a ~hristmaa
•••••&••
in which he called for
future
punishment
for wlir
criainals.
necommending - life iaprisonaent.
The Attorney General
aakea a
1tateaent olearini
Lawrence Duggan, the Foraer State
Depart ■ ent
Official who juaped or fell to his death.
Attorney
General ~lark refers to the fact that Duggan•••
qu
e
stioned by the F. B. I., and
aaya
the
r. a.
I
dd~
-
report
ACN!:A)\ hia ~.:-•
A loyal eaployee of the Unite4
·
State• Governaent."
The attorney General did not
aa
.
, .whether or not Duggan had been
infor ■ ed
that he
b • ~
ha~leared..
All of which is accoapaniwd by new agitation
againat the Coamittee on
Da-Aaeri~•D Aoti•itiea. for
exa ■ ple,
an attack today by
Ira.
ileaaor Boo••••lt.
A"nd there are deaanda that the Coaaittee be
abolished, or, at least, its procedure cb~nged.
Today, spy bunters,
of
the
Co ■■ ittee
adaitted
they they
aay ba•e aade an
error.
They
aay ha•e aade
a aistak
e
-- when, after Duggan
ju■ped
or fell to hi•
death, they diaclosed the f~ct that he had been
aentioned in the espionage inquiry.
Congreas■1n
Mundt and Nixon, gi•e the following explanation:-
They say that,
i■mediately
after Duggan'a death, they
were questioned
by
news reporters.
They were
aaked - did the
CQ ■ aittee
have any
teati ■ ony
peftaining to Uuggan?
This, they said, left them in
a
dile ■ aa.
They had three alternatives - they could ha••
told the newaaen there was no auch
teati ■ ony,
whioh
would have been false.
Taey
co1H:•
h•••
~•le•••••••
~
They
could have refused
t.o
aay aaythiag,
which would
have given ground for
aur■ iae ■
and
guesaea.
Or they could
ai ■ ply
releaae
the
te•ti ■ ony.
This laat ••• what they dide- giving th
1
reporters
a
transcript of the
state■ent ■ ade
by
the
,~ti.
Co■auniat
editor, laaac Don
LeYine/\~
teatilied
that the
one-ti ■ e
red agent, Whittaker Cbaabera,
had aention
e
d
D
uggan aa one of thoae in toe State
~
Depart ■ ent
who had given
him
secret
docu ■ ents.
Jtta
,i
Cha ■bPr
s
bas since denied.
In the Committee today, there was dieoussion
about possible changes of pro
c
edure, but
it waa
decided not to
d
o anything until the new Congress
conYenes -
which will ,ut the Coamittee on On-
Aaerican
otivities under deaocratio
control
if it
ia continued.
Later news -- a statement by Mrs. Duggan,
WilO
declares that her husband was not ad•ised tbat he
had been exonerated by the F.B.I. She says, howe•er,
that he was not worried in any way. [nowing
tbat
be
-
'
had not been involved in the Communist Espionaa•
rina,
-
be was n~t disBJxbed by the
~·.s.
I. investigation.
Ira.
Duggan 1a7s he is convinced that her husband's fall
from a sixteen story window•• was accidental.
Here's about a small town fire
depart■ ent
_ the
kind of story that's familiar in Aaerican lore and legend.
But this one really happened,
as
A
evidenced
by
the
~
financial fact that it's included in the nineteen
-
!prty-~ight list or insurance
clai ■ s
that
were paid
up.
In
a town in Oregon, an
apart ■ ent
hotel
caught
fire, and the local aaoke-eaters started out to
extinguiab
the blaze - only they didn't start right
away.
They
couldn't get the fire wagon going,
ao ■ething
wrong
witb
the
■ otor.
Then, failing to
-
fix the
aotor,
they
pu1hed
the fire truck to the scene of the blaze.
When they got there, the
tire ■ en
found their
bo1e
••• frozen.
It was rigid and ~hoked
with
ice.
Local
citizens helped out, by atoaping on the hose,
and
breatiq
the ice until the water could get through.
The~ it was discov
_
red that the tireaen had
forgotten to bring the nozzle
tor
the hose - and fire
fighting was held up while
so ■ebody
ran back and got the
nozzle.
By this time two hour~ had elapsed, and you can
----
-
-
fJII
IIIPBAICL2
gue11 the rest
ot
the atory - the
apart ■ ent
hotel burned
to the ground.
IELIIXfl
Late this afternoon, the bell on the
new1
teletype began to ring - the familiar signal a
bulletin.
~o this afternopn
l
ca ■ e
to attention, the
■ore 10
as the bell kepton and on -- it 1ounded
like a headline
ot
headlines.
Then, I noticed
the
rhyth■,
a familiar pattern - Jingle Bella;
The teletype••• playing that old Chriataaa ditty.
I looked at the newa page, and there a lot of
l'• were being rapped out
line• of 1'1,
tbat
were
shapping up in the fora
ot
a bell.
ft..•M
{J
ting
of
Chriat ■ aa
Card on the teletype, followed by
Yuletide Greeting•
fro ■
tbe United Prer.1.
And all the while the tinkling 1ound waa
dru■■ ia1
out - Jingle Bells ; The voi6e of the news saying-·
Merry
Chriet ■ aa.
RESCUE
- -
The Mavy has ordered an icebreaker to go along
with the
Aircraft Carrier Saipa
~
in its
atte ■pt
to re10u~l ven stranded flyers on the Greenland
Ice
Cap
the
carrier
■a7
need a bit of toe-breaking,
puahing its way into Greenland Fjords.
FiYe
helicopters are being taken along, to go ho••ring
- c c ~ ~
.... , ••
.,e-
down 4nto the Ulacier MY~aeven hundred teet
high,
~ t o
"
~pick up the
■ arooned air■ en.
~o•e•er,
tbe
report
tro ■
Greealand
i1
tbat
i i
the weather~now
co ■paratively
favorable
for re1oue •o••
by glider, and it aay be that the caa1llray1 •111 be
taken
out before the aircraft
they~ther
:
for
Chriat■aa
-
,\
deaolate
apot on this earth.
carrier arri•••• But
in juat about the
■oat
11 kit of auppliea
"'1tf/
A
have
been dropped to
the ■ ,AYuletide
dinner and every-
thing - to
■ ake
Christ••• as Merry as poaaible on the
Greenland ~ce
Cap.
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