The vi ts ma e anoth r chan g e ~ okolovsky le ves hi Berlin post. The Red radi o tonight announced tha~la~a~al lak•l•••kJ in coamand at Berlin, has been reaoved, and becomiXfliputy Minister of the ~oviet Ara~d Forces. ~• tu,••'• 4nother move in what •••••• seems to be a l~rge scale, long-continued sha~eup. Ana immediately deep meanings are sought. Marshall Sokolovsky at Ber in has been the toughest of Red soldiers in opposition to the Western allies. lience, his ·reaoval brings the quick sur■ ise from abroad -- that it's a sign of a softer Soviet attitude, part of a peace offens~ve. liut, at the same time, the tough ~okolovsky becomes First Deputy Minister of the rleo arm e d t ' orces. Which mi g ht indicate a toughening of attitude at the very center, Moscow. 80, we have the usual enlightenment -- it's either a cas of "yes" or "no". SOLDIERS - - Today there is official announcement of the fate of two A merican soldiers who went AWOL in Germany, a n d wandered into Red Czechoslovakia. The7 have been sentenced to long terms in prison as tmerican spies. This is revealed by he official news agency of Com m unist Czechoslovakia, which states that Privates George jones of Owensboro, Kentucky and Clarence Hill of Jackson, 1 ississippi, have been tried in secret b7 the Red tribunal, on charges of espionage - Jones doomed to ten years, at hard labor; Bill to twelve years. This ends a mystery which began last December - when the two soldiers disapoeared from their units in Germany. No word was heard from them, until January, wen one, Clarence Hill, got a letter through to the American Embassy in Prague. The m es s ag e read as follows: " . yself and my friend are being held for crossi ng the boundary without authority pa p ers. 'd e h a ve been questioned, but 1othin g has been done about returning us to the o. s . zone in Ger m any." SOLDIERS -2 American diplomatic officials made repeated attempts to procur~ the release of the two. But ••r• not even iven permission to visit them. So now the news - the two American soldiers condemned to long terms of Red imprisonment. The O. S. Embassy at Prague has entqred a formal protest against the convictions, and calla the charge of espionage -- preposterous. r ian ar Ji m nt ", t t o J i • t,1 1 At l· tic~ c rity act. n t si o n l, l ie,ht t or,, # ia n ci s h wl in opp osition, an ta e n ry emonstrati o n the vo w s o. e• hun r - n -t irty to thirteen in f vor of linin u witta it the st. T he r a uthor itie s t o,.. e re tudyin a re a r~able s tor y r e late b a olo . e l e . t to rison two y e a r s a o. In ineteen Fort y -seve, Co l onel u d ar J. urr ay of Palo A lto, C lifor ia, w a s convicted by a court arti a l of smuggli g ninety-thousand dollars worth of uncut diamonds fro~ Ja an to the United States. Be was se tenced to five years in prison, of which term he has served nearly two tears. So now he asks for a writ of Habaes Corpus to procure his release, and gives a new ex p lanation of the diamonds he brought to this country -- a story that he did not tell at the court martial. hy not? Be says he refrai ed from disclosing the facts, because, he thought his attorney at the trial was incapable of taking fu l advantage of the evidence. So what's the story now brought forward -- after nearly t o ye ars of i~prisonment? Colonel ' ""d J. · urrJiy of Palo Alto relates tbl:lt, while serving as an Army Colonel in Japa . he was traveling by jeep from Yokahoma to Tokyo -- and on the . I /l -------- men ·i htin . H op ect his Jeep and L u t. "A I ap p roach d" her 1 Les "two of the men ot u ana ran. he oth f r arose rom th . ro nd ana than eci me 'o r saving his life. Th re w 5;" · h go es o nJ " a big car pa 1· k e d at the s i e of the road , ana,portly elderly gentleman o p ened the door and I al o thanked me. *" a sked him hat W H S do ine on, a nd he rep 1 i e d : ' Ju s t a s 1 i g h t mi st a k . e - - very t hi ng is all right'.• To which Murray adds that the man in the automobile took his name and address, and drove on. ~ uch, according to the s iory, was the encounter between the u • • Colonel and the p>rtly el erly gentle ■ an, at night,on the highway from Yokahoma to ta ■ 1o~yo. Which was follow d several days later by another incident at ni ht. Murray says that e was his okyo hot 1 room, hen there th d r be ans~ red and a Japanese w ~ s a knoc on e o • hom he dia not rtcognize, enter d. This unknown Japanes , after askin the name of t ne American Colonel, - 3 n l - p l c e ~ n v 1 µ e h k on e ,, 0 t h L e r oom . be e n ir e ct a del iv fi to r t e e t o y ou " s aid th e stran - r. " h v don e so, O J night". An d he e f t. n the envelo e we re five h n r e d unc u t diamonas, and Murray says ne believed the y w re a rew ard from the portly elderly gentleman i n w hose behalf he harl intervened on tha road s v ra ni hts befor. lle says h e had no idea what the diamonds were worth, and w· sno t aware that he w as re q uired to decl a r e them at cust o ms - upon his r e t u rn to the Unite States . "' hey ere pretty things• he s ye, •and I thought I 1 d bring them home to my wi fe .• Such is the story now b fore the Army authoriti es . A Federal Judge in San Francisco settin Ma y the econd as the date for a hearing on those my ter i us doings that a r e aid to a ve hap ene i n Japan. e n "cretar ., of e ens e i e n ing wit tough ine. his ven i n '"' in a in ton L oui s Jo on h ld fi t news conf e r enc e -- since h s ap ointment t o succeed Jame Forre tal as the f en e S 0 cretary. Tal ing to the rep o rters, he , r ned t a top bras o of the Arm d ervices to stop wrangling and fighting among themselv es or get out. lie said that he had made it clear to the ~ecretaries of the Army, the Navy and the Air Force that there wil - be no place around the Pentagon Building, that h e adquarters of headquarters, for to p officers who are not wholeheartedly in sympathy with the unification of the services. C y J. ari.., 5 avi 1 t 0 th ssia r i and ' - ay P are e is n o ~iJ ' i n of r c epti o n to e l i ht hi c c t .. . ti Ca 1 sou 1 . hi an ta s ti c fi ur • ' 1n t O ing ro s of a p ri - t ly B rahmin of In ia has een in Lon on and oc kb o lm recent l y, ann o uncing t, l he a i uro p e on a world-sa?ing miracle. Be's tner to bring about p eace and h ar mo ny bet•een last an West. 'lhe E nglish and wedes were plenty curious, •- but at it takes Paris to - ge t real ' y excited over som t h ing Jteird and esoteric. oreove1·, today in ~ •aris, the Messiah of Los Angeles produced~•t pricel e ss remark. herever he go e · , he is follow c by cro, , cis, the Pdrisians attracte~ like flies by his flowing r obe of bright blue and yel]ow - like a gaudy combination of a IA-,'{ . ahatma, a uur,R-t ~wam1 and A a 1 an trik Yogi, all rolled · nto one. 'I he p oiice in ¥& ris are di • turbed, because th e way thi n s ar e , Kl ___ _:~ - w · t om ~ uni t, nd DeGau i · t th , - - n a rm ar un , v r l i t ey se tnree or fo ur L 0 _ e gat ri g l Il the s t re l. ut m b s ar . a llowin g the essia n from ol y-.oo d , an a t d a treat d the t ri ianc 0 t boulev r ds t. that re m ark, enou h to ma e t, em start gesticul at ing all at onc e :t'rn ite of the e sation e is Creatin g , Krishna Venta the Me s iah rom Hol l ywood was melanc h oly, and sad of heart. In a lugubrious voice he sighed and said: "I •il l undoub~edly have an end in this life similar to that whic h be fe ll me more than Nin teen Hundred years a o." _, ell, what was that event which befell ~ineteen liundrP.d years ago in Jerusalem, Calvary? To this t e echo responds: That's who he thin• he . ' 18. PED --- o a r a ne sp e ed r co ro w re m a e tod on for t h e cross co ntinental f i ht aa« in a n le rec ip roc at ing e ngine · ty eA • Speed pi lot Joe De ona fl ew f rom Burban, Ca lif ornia to N ~ York's LaGuardia field in five-hours-and- ive seconds. he did it in a souped u · r- Fifty-one - elon g ing to the actor Jimmy Stewart. He landed with only thirty gallons of gasoline _eft, enough for seven more minutes in the air. Flying coast to coast in a mere few seconds more · than five hours Joe ueBona shattered the previous record, for single reciproacting engine plane made by pilot ~aul antz -- mor than a year ago • . The second record set today w s made by th a t same ~au •antz, who flew from San F ra nciscp to Los Angel s in forty-nine-minutes-and-thirty-two ••f•• seconds, a record for propeller driven planes. hll of which, of course does not concern the dazzling speed of jet. The rent c ontro l ill was passed b y s to ay in r· picl fi t · e fa hion - f i rst b y tne en t. " , t.he o i m e a i a t e l y b t h e use of e p r s e o t t i v e • I n the e n a e a R e p ub 1 i can mo ve to sena re nt co n tr ol bac k to th e co mm ittee w as de feat e d, ano t h en t h e vot e ~- sev e nty- ■ •K* ei g ht to eleven. 1' M o u s e ap roval w s by a maj o rity of Two-sixty-two to one-fo~ty-four.;The bil is a co m promise, which extends rent control unti l June Thirtieth, iHneteen Fifty ,' -- and has a •1ocal option• clause which would allow local . g overnment to raise the restrictions with the consent of State Governors. 11 e n y ar e tra ve 1 in ' as • ,e a r o n tni we rn ri p , you beco e int.e re t, p i n ho els . 0 St u a t so man f them. P e o iJ e WO n er - how v, el - i l l i.ra C10 s a hotel have to be t o br eak ev e , no start show in g a p rof5t? 1 1 , n re at Arrowneaa bprings, California I've been finding thin s out through information from one of t h e gr atest hotel enterprises in America, that of <,;on r ad tiilton, head of the nation'P largest g roup of otels. ! t includes s , cb famous caravanserai• as the &tevens and Yalmer Ho~ae in Chic ago; the Plaza and ~oos velt in e~ York; the ayflo er in Washington~not. # (Puerto . as;1R•11:aiA ~ 1co. to mention hostelries as far away For o h re• s th figure. ••• most hotels I\ eighty-two pe rcent. ' lhat is, eignty-two e rcent of the ro ms must be occu ied, to break ven, and above tuat figure a p rofit. But t ' re are exce tio • ~ne i t e ~ tevens in C ic o, h e wor l ar · st ot. 1 . t o t T ~n - i t m il ion ~ to b 1 1 , b ut ~ at r C nr o ilton bo g ht it fo r V n ' a alf million , ana it tel w ou o co t rorty-t o mil io l repla c at ihe p re ent scale of p ric es . The t e v en s se rves a million people a month, ei tner renting them ro o ms or selling them art i cl e • So, with t at giant volume of business, the world's largest .otel bas a low break-even point. lith sixt p ercent of the rooms occupied, it begins to show a profit. Chicago's 1 ' he figure is still lower · · or Jllt■••w•~ Pal ■ er House -- that because of the renting ot stores in the hotel builaing. The store rentals come to a Mil ion a year -- the highest in the hotel business. of h ich tak e u to a twister~hotel finance. Courad Hilton recently o urch as ed the comiJlx Arro~ head ~ prin s Hotel - which has a lon "•••., history. baeric ns a tb ir atte li on dra t &8 . 1 ·ant a rro~ ma r ed on t e ' ir . . : t by a t.o i e m n ain - a ae b t e In d ians. Tne rr w HO LS - J - - - A rou of movie p e o le f ro L Ho l ywood inv • .? teci '1 hre · an d a half mil ~ ion l i c a ~ -rlt' movie mag n t s jo ined b y film star s in p utt i n g up the money. The price Conrad Hil ton paid several weeks ago w a s Two Million - after the place had passed through a bewildering s e ries of ownershi s.- the Assistant •anager tel11 me that he has been here for three years, during which time he has worked for four different owners. the other day Al Jolson w a s here, and took a plunge into the pool. Wh e n he emerged dripping wet, he said: •I've bad a Fifteen Thousand Dollar dive." That was the investment lost by the singer of the mammy songs - 2h !ammy. I IC C u > ____ ..,_ ___ _ U niv r 8 i t.y O f o th ern C 1 if r n i a an1 ou nc e - t e worlci' s t hinne t, · lici n m c ine . f y u t ak t i ck n e s· of an inch ' t h i s c o Lraption wil l e t five hunar d t o us an slices out of it. Sounds ~ i e som ethin to slice the ha m you sometim 6 et in san wi c he . But that is n o t th e purpose at all. That s li ci g m P c hi n e w s d vised to produce sheet s of organ c tissue thin enough forte electron-microscope - tne icrosco e so po w rful that some d ay it may enable the uman eye to s the atom. Unt il now, they've had to study tissue~ t enty-five thousand slices to the inch.( £Ut that was altogether too~liiilA So, Doctors Daniel iease and nobert Haker, both professors in the chool of medicine, went ah e ad and invent ed the ne · g adget. " hey say tht, already, the electron- microscope with that thinnest of slicing, ha been ' ~ able t o detect th e ge nes in the chromo-somes of the fruit fl y - thos nes being t he units ofh e redity. IC O <.;OPE - 2 ------- --- S o d on't t h in 1 th a t g ene i s " a u y ho tends b r or runs r ad i o co n tro ls . Gene i s , h a t ma es heredity work! hi-yah Gee. The reason for this descent into n onse n se is th a t Gen e is the radio technician here on this p rogram. matters. But let's g et back to serious scientific hat thinnest of slicin g machines, half a million sl ices to the inch, may solve one of the most important problems of the world - how to slice it so thin t h at it is not still b a loney. And Ken -- with something that's neither thin- nor baloney. I A - - - -- 'I' • Lro ernme nt f Iran ma a a r ote c: t, to scow l.o u a y, a complaint that ri s s ou t f a bor r cl h. Red sol d i rs ma e what the rsi.ans cal l an "un provo d at l. a ck". A party of Russians ar sai lo ha v march d agai nst an Iranian military post on tl Fronti r - one B rsian soldie r killed, two m a e risoner. he · eh re.n governmt;!nt, ha been demanding the r lease of the two, but the Soviets refu e to release them - unles the Iranian Army takes the blame for the border incident. This ' ! eheran r e fu s es to do - and today sent a formal rotest to Moscow charging an "unprovoked attack•.