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Show NEWS REVIEW Greek Warfare Flares; Flood Curbs Advocated j The United Nations security cnin cil. which hns yet to meet a toui;h problem hend-on and overcome it. rejected an American appeal for an emergency debate on the Balkan situation, despite reports of increasing increas-ing strife in Greece. When Herschcl V. Johnson, deputy dep-uty L" S. rtelecate. warned that the crisis developing in ! "f -. Greece "may burst , . into explosion any " " day," Andrei Gro- i ' myko. Soviet dele- j r i Kate, protested I '.ii.it an emerc.er.cy I J debate on the issue , y ; x a unnecessary j v . " and France ad. led j j V ' ; . ' ; 1 that the United! "" Nations "must not , J01IN) act too hast.'.y." j However. U'.e council did schedule sched-ule t-Ao sjclnl meetings in response re-sponse to on American re-juest to spoi-d up the d.scussion of troob'.e in s ii'.hcas'rn riur.pe K'.:ss:a objected ob-jected to this. too. charmj that the U. S. was attemitmi: to "prove that on extraordinary situation had been created in Greece." Main U. S. pr sal fir working out the d.fl.cul'.y In Greece calls for Yanks Are Comlnc The conservative Athena newspaper Flinikon Aima ha reported on "exrrllrnl" authority author-ity that United SUlr troop aid f.rrr.e hall (urlhrr Invasions In-vasions nurh a Hie one lovrra. rnent force now are lichtlni. The newspaper quoted in American spokesman as aay-Inr, aay-Inr, "Thr I nltrd Mates are decided de-cided to contribute to the safeguard safe-guard of tireek freedom and Independence, In-dependence, even with Amrrl-ran Amrrl-ran armed forces." establishment of a powerful 11-na-ti..n bord'-r patrol with authority to scout both sides of the borders separating sep-arating Greece from the Comrnu-nisttlomina'ed Comrnu-nisttlomina'ed countries of Yugi-slavi.i, Yugi-slavi.i, liuigiria and Albania. War liiain 1 A additional troopi were unit up to reinforce b''.h the Invading Jrftisl guerrillas and tlie ("trrek 'vern-ment 'vern-ment forces, the swiftly developing battle In the nigged heights of northern Greece lg-in to t-tke on a cast reminiscent of the Spanish civil war. The war ministry disclosed that ilx strong guerrilla units had been concentrated along the Alhanlnn and Yugoslav frontiers of Greece and that nil were poised to Join the original Invasion force of 2.000 which government troopi had o f ;i r been nble to repel. Napoleon Zervas. defense minis- I ter. told a press conference at loan- nina that several of 20 prisoners , taken by the defenders were unable to speak Greek and wore the Red Star insignia of the Soviet Union. 1 In the meantime, a war department depart-ment announcement said that one ( invading furce f 2.0'X) had been ' gripped in a pincers nine mdei froin Albania and that a battle of annihilation was m progress. A sec- J ur.d colun.n was halted in its drive j tcAard loar.nma and surrounded by the government tro -ps. , FLOOD CONTROL: ! 10- car Program Terming Co r- lvm cr.e of "desperate "des-perate urgency. President Truman, Tru-man, m a ; or 1 a I n;i. s a gc to con- ( grcss. pr. -posed that a swift start te made on a 10-ycnr. 0 million dollar program to control f.o- ds in the entire Missmi; pi basin and change the character of the rtvr from a d'str-jcti ve g ant to a pro- ductive force. ' 1 He sro:;;;:y in ; !:ed that the prcs- enl c r.gress shi".i!J undertake the ' Imrr.rnse. lor.g-range ta b'-f-ire Its ad,; j;;r::ment. r.in.Lr of senators 1 Imn.rdia'ely threw th.eir supp. rt , behind the Pres.drnt's prcp-sal. 1 In gn-.rral. the obstruction pro-gram pro-gram as outlined by Mr Tnjrr.an ' would provide a C' - rdimtrd system of storage rcTVu:rs in all Lhr major ma-jor tributary basins of the M.ss:s- 1 sippi. coupled with levers. (UhmJ- w.iIIs nr.d diversion channel? to pro- i tect cities, towns and farms In I Lhose bti'.ms. Also, he pron. ,.ed that snil con- i iTvntinn measures be put Into effect ef-fect farther up-river on the tribu- , lanes of rarh major ba-.i:i in order I lo retard the f n-- ntul nm-ofT of 1 waters from heavy rains and re- d ice topsoll tins. j KACKKT: Training Hit Hr. AUnn P.ates. a Chicago scien- ; list, testified before a house armed j services subcommittee that universal univer-sal military training has become a 1 vicious ni Ileal racket' and will ! be "a horrible cancer on the United States." He cited the fate of European nations na-tions In the Inst war. declaring that despite ps-.urances from their top army leaders that universal training train-ing would safeguard them from In vmlon they all fell before the Nazi blit.'krirg. As an alternative to universal military mil-itary training. Hates said the United States should concentrate on a strong striking force, a large air force, strong reserves and a well organized national guard, all backed by adequate scientific and IndustrU al resenrch. |