Site Ed. Note: The front page reports that the U.N. Atomic Energy Commission voted 10 to 1 to adopt its second report to the Security Council anent international control of nuclear energy. Russia was the lone dissenting vote and Poland abstained. The vote on the first report had been 10 to 0, with both Russia and Poland abstaining.

Prior to the vote, Russia and the United States traded charges of trying to impede control, with the U.S. representative asserting that the Russians insisted on control only on terms set forth by the themselves, placing "no effective restraint on aggressor nations".

Missiles were at the ready. Erectors were rising.

Andrei Gromyko suggested that the report was not yet ripe for discussion by the Security Council, was in need of study.

British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin had, the previous night, called upon the United States to revive lend-lease as an emergency stimulus to Britain's economy. He made the statement as part of an impromptu address before American Legionnaires at a dinner in London, sponsored by the British Legion.

In Luebeck, Germany, at the Poppendorf detention camp for displaced persons, British officials stated that the Jewish refugees, brought to the camp in the "Exodus, 1947" after being frustrated in their attempted immigration to Palestine, were being "obstinate". One Jewish leader at a second camp stated that they would seek to have the British recognize them as "Palestinians" bent on going to Palestine.

Representative George Bender of Ohio described the unloading of the Jews during the previous three days, in which violence had transpired, as "an outrage against the Jewish people...in the worst traditions of Hitler." Representative Adolph Sabath of Illinois asked the President to deny further aid to England until such time as it accepted the U.N. Committee on Palestine recommendation that 100,000 Jews be permitted to enter Palestine. Mr. Bender also supported the Committee recommendations, and suggested that U.S. policy was wedded to British imperialism for lack of condemnation of Britain not evacuating Palestine.

Secretary of State Marshall, in his press conference the previous day, had stated that a French offer of sanctuary for the Jews was still available.

In Tsingtao, China, an American flier, Richard Winters, was released by the Chinese Communists after being in "protective custody" since being forced down by bad weather at Goose Point near Tsingtao on August 27. He appeared well, if weary from lack of sleep. Two other fliers also forced down at the time had been rescued.

In Washington, General Eisenhower, who preferred to be called "Ike" rather than "General", responded for the sixth time to questions regarding his potential draft as the 1948 Republican presidential nominee by stating that he would not be party to any draft which was an "artificial stimulant". He deplored the creation of clubs to support his candidacy and hoped no one would spend money on such things.

Roy Roberts, Editor of the Kansas City Star, and chief proponent of General Eisenhower's draft, had indited an editorial stating that the General would not be party to any connivance to get him to run and genuinely did not wish the nomination or to be President, but added that if there were an honest draft from the people, he would accept.

When asked about the editorial, General Eisenhower responded that he would not be part of any connivance to get him to run.

He also said that no man had "to cross a bridge and answer a hypothetical question."

Right. On your way then.

President Truman, sailing on the U.S.S. Missouri from the Rio Inter-American Conference, received a traditional hazing as the ship passed the equator, albeit only consisting of King Neptune requiring him to deliver a speech to become a "shellback" instead of a "vile landlubber and polliwog."

Presidential aides, to be accorded the honors, however, were made to paddle, duck, and endure other more severe indignities. John Steelman had his feet tickled, was sawed with a paper knife, forced to swallow a vile-tasting drink, and then beaten with canvas paddles soaked in salt water while he was led up a platform wired for electrical shocks. He was then given noxious medicines and had his body greased, forced to sit in the final chair, from which he was dumped into a pool, ducked in the water repeatedly until he yelled "shellback", thrown on a greasy chute onto the deck, and run through a block-long gauntlet of paddlers.

He was still in sick bay.

Other presidential assistants received like treatment.

First Lady Bess Truman was exempted, for obvious reasons, but First Daughter Margaret had to sing a song with the ship's sextet.

Photographs will be circulated to the press later.

It was plain to see that the Navy was in control of things at the White House on the high seas.

A merchant seaman, who had cut his hand eight days earlier, from which infection had resulted, causing a fever of 104.2 degrees, was transferred from his freighter, the Del Sol, to the Small, an escort destroyer, which sent a distress signal received by the Missouri, which then dispatched its ship's doctor to the Small to treat the seaman, handled successfully. The seaman was then transferred on a stretcher from the Small to the Missouri via trolley, observed by the President at 4:30 a.m., who shook the doctor's hand after he disembarked from the cable car.

In Winston-Salem, the water crisis continued with the prediction that by November 21, the entire water supply of the city would be gone, save for abnormally high rainfall. The City was requesting an emergency portable pipeline from the Third Army in Atlanta, to establish an emergency supply conduit from South Fork Creek.

There was a chance that the fire insurance underwriters for the city's residents and businesses were going to start cancelling insurance policies, as they began investigating the hazards occasioned by the shortage.

The City was meeting with leading business men to discuss limitation of industrial use of water by shutting down unnecessary industrial and commercial usage for a period each week, to prevent complete business paralysis.

Salem Lake was now 121 inches below the top of its dam.

The waterworks of the City had pumped 9.5 million gallons the previous day, only slightly below usual consumption without conservation measures.

Still no word, however, on why the shortage had occurred in Winton-Salem, leaving us to conclude that the spacebeam rayguns in use by the Plutonians, in chase of the Mars landers in Roswell, were trying to crack the dam below the water level, and that frogmen had not yet been deployed to determine the source of seepage, remedy probably being to employ the Hollisterians to tug a big chunk of glacial ice from Antarctica into Salem Lake and let it slowly thaw.

In any event, meanwhile, we recommend not drinking the South Fork Creek water.

Six inches of snow capped Pike's Peak near Colorado Springs.

In Salisbury, N.C., a trial proceeded in the form of "Rashomon", the issue, as most often is the case, being consent or lack thereof.

You be the judge. We are catching the bus for holiday.

In Charlotte, John Henry Northey, a prominent business man who had founded in 1921 Southern Bearings & Parts Company, passed away after an extended illness. He was active in several civic organizations, including being Impresario of the Royal Order of Jesters. He was also director of the National Standard Parts Association.

He may have authored the famous anon. quatrain:

If I should die on top of Old Smoky,
Leaving behind but greasy bearings and parts,
Don't be surprised if I say "okey-dokey",
For Old Smoky, the best of me daring, her, ha' o' me art; half not.

Tom Fesperman of The News tells of the Charlotte Park & Recreation Commission resigning because of the City Council having usurped its authority by having the previous March seized the Armory-Auditorium, a park property, without any notice to the Commission, and then permitting the National Guard to take over the basement, being utilized by the Teenage Club.

The Revolution has begun.

On the editorial page, "Opportunity in Marshall Plan" comments on some American business men seeing the Marshall Plan as an opportunity for American free enterprise to restore Europe in its own image. It quotes from the September 6 Business Week describing the Marshall Plan as envisioning a War Production Board-type organization, with 4,000 to 5,000 American employees administering a lend-lease type exchange of goods rather than more loans. Similarly, the United States News had suggested that the Plan would consist of a dollar pool for Europe rather than more loans—unless they needed eleven dollar bills—, with some U.S. retention of control over the use of the dollars, to be in goods rather than cash.

"Labor's Fight Off to Poor Start" finds the first test of Taft-Hartley electorally to have failed, in a special Congressional election in Pennsylvania to fill a vacant seat, the Republican coalition of 1946 appearing still to be vital. Taft-Hartley had been a central issue in the election campaign and was clearly joined on either side. The worst news for the Democrats was not so much that their candidate had lost but that so many Democrats had not voted.

A piece from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, titled "Too Many Federal Jobs", tells of the goal of Congressman John Taber, for the 80th Congress to pare a million jobs from the Government, having missed its mark by between 750,000 and 800,000 jobs. The Government was still 1.5 million employees larger than in 1939. Forty-four percent of the employees were added during the war period and considered therefore temporary.

The Congressional Quarterly tells of President Truman having switched from Missouri to New York in seeking personnel. He was also appointing Republicans to about one-fourth of the positions. Fewer of the Democrats were New Dealers in 1947, more from business and the South. It was a reflection of the conservative trend in the country and the notion expressed by RNC chairman Carroll Reece the previous December, that more Republicans should be appointed to regulatory agencies in reflection of the November vote, giving decisive majorities in both houses of Congress to the Republicans.

Drew Pearson tells of Ed Pauley, California oil man and former DNC treasurer whose nomination to be Undersecretary of the Navy led to the resignation in February, 1946 of Harold Ickes as Secretary of Interior, having been given a job quietly as assistant to Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall, greasing the skids for Mr. Pauley to become Undersecretary, as the current Undersecretary, William Draper, was performing as Assistant Secretary and was a former employee of Dillon, Read on Wall Street, the firm once headed by Secretary of Defense James Forrestal, who had originally sought Mr. Pauley's nomination in 1946. The Senate was likely to be lenient toward Mr. Pauley under such a process of advancement.

Marquis Childs, in Warsaw, suggests that Winston Churchill, when he coined the expression "iron curtain", gave to the world a phrase to parrot, to save it from thinking. Poland was more complicated than the phrase would admit; the iron curtain was "as full of holes as a sieve." That the U.S. was not making better use of these holes was its own fault. It should be spreading American ideals and the rewards of American life through Poland. The American Embassy had only two American and nine Polish employees. They performed competently but they were not enough to counteract the fierce propaganda coming daily from Russia.

Incidentally, though a minor quibble, Mr. Childs must be corrected on the notion that Mr. Churchill coined "iron curtain", as it had been used in the press in reference to Eastern Europe prior to his popularizing it in March, 1946 in his speech at Westminster College. Perhaps it was in some currency, but Dorothy Thompson appears to have been the first national columnist in America to have used it in that context in print.

Stewart Alsop tells of the decision to call a special session of Congress having effectively been made with the European emergency being discussed openly by Secretary of State Marshall. Only the final decision by the President and Secretary remained. The crisis in the British dollar shortage had to be addressed immediately, as the British could no longer afford to pay half the occupation bill for the Anglo-American zone of Germany. The Administration had to act before the British Cabinet made the critical decision to withdraw its occupation forces, leaving the U.S. with an extraordinary burden.

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