re' on es Ciall fo r n w m1 n - an El n . owe r ap p o i tment t oday . Jim H r t y - t o be the · hi e us Pr s s S ec ret ary . w i ch is n o surprise. he ser v e t e eneral int a t c pacity all through the campai n, an d aft r the e l e ction, a fa m iliar task for Jim ! a · r Y - wto was Governor ewey's Press wecretary at Albany, !our an forty- e l h t """ 1m to the General. a nd in ot t h e ineteen Forty- ~ -M-o "11,V, !x campaigns. leeGove{nor lent A He was born to the newspaper profession. His ! at er , J 1 m Ha. g g er t y , Sr • 1 s no 11 t i ca 1 e d 1 tor of t he New ork Times. Youn Jim began as a Times reuorter - before Joining the Dewey staff. He knows just about every Editor and Reporter of any consequence in the country - and b comes another Dewey man in the set-up of the Eisen howe r administration. Anot er appointment to cta w ·. s that of . Major General ~ilton Person 8 , retired - named as s pe cial Assistant t o t 8 Pr es id nt. Announcement says that his work wil l be in the "field of l gislative matters•. Gen e r al rson . as a 11 i r Y t t 1 , b t h ' s u 1 t e at ome in pol ti al a f airs. e's a b rother of Go ernor Gordon P e rsons of Al ·ma - and, in is active career, sered in Wash inton, do1n~ liai s on work be twe e n the Ar m y and Con r s • Ater retirement - a consultant to the defense department. During · the war, he was on t h e Eisenhower uers o al staff in Paris. All of which akes h im qu a l 1 tea e 1n affairs military and congres 1onal. Tom rrow, the President-elect will have a conference with leaders of the C I O . (The Union • men 111 stop off in ew York,)on their way to Atlantic City - for a convention that will elect a successor t o t e c Io Pres1d nt, Philip Murray. Their call on the eneral will be for a talk about labor problems t a t will confront the new administration. ews from the F ar East u 1·ves h' t b a 1n of Chinese plans for T ibet - and it may well alarm the Tibetans. T he Reds are saying that the Roof-of-the world is far too thinly populated - and the number of people must be doubled and redoubled. This emanates from China's bumb~r one Communist, ao Tse-Tung, who made the statement to a Tibetan mission now in P eking. The Red radio today quotes Mao Tse-Tung as noting that the lofty Himalayan Plateau has now from two to three million people. Which, says he, should be in- creased to five or six million. Eventually - ten million. The question is - could Tibet support a population multiplied four or five times? It's an ia■ ense land - but bleak and barren. I can still see those great plains, like unending desolatiob. The Tibetan plateau averages between 12,000 and 16,000 feet, weil over thA timber line. ~ndless miles - with never a tree. Now, the two or three aillion Tibetans, no one knows how many there are - exist by grace of the yak - that all-important animal, without which the population could not survive. Mao Tse-Tung may not know what he's talking about, when he suggests - ten million people for Tibet. Weaning possibly - a migration of Chinese Reds into the Himalayan country. It aight not work. GRAHAM HOMES It the p opulation of Tibet ever doubles or triples, and if all the Tibetan peoples or most of them, who live around borders of that country, mo · ie into Inner Tibet, I wonder if a blond chap named eter Sergeant, who is half American, will one day become one of the rulers of that mysterious land? Maybe the Kalon Lama? Or say a Tsepon, or a Shape•, or a Drepon, or a Dzaza? Of course, that would mean getting over many tts - that are much more difficult to surmount than the Himalayas. Here ts the story or Peter Sergeant, or part ot it, up to the present moment: Hts first name 1sn I t Peter. And his last name isn't Sergeant. And he 1 s only about six years old. He was a waif found on the streets of the picturesque · Himalayan town of Kalimpong. An Englishwomen, who has lived most of her life in the foothills of the Htmalayas, spotted him in the bazaar in Kalimpong, on a dusty street in the bazaar where the great caravans end their journal when they come down across those giant mountains from far off Tibet. GRAHAM HOMES - 2 Right now is the caravan season. Probably a long mule train is entering Kaltmpong right at this moment, as I speak. 1 can almost hear the bells that are around the neck . s of those animals that bring wool over the Himalayas. This elderly English woman saw a little blond child, a mere baby, not two years old, on the street there in the bazaar. She told someone from the start of Dr. Graham's Homes to investigate, and if possible take him 1n. Dr. Graham's Homes were founded back in Nineteen Hundred, by a missionary who went to India, saw the sad problem or the Eurasian children -- the half-casts -- add decided to do s011ething. Since then the Graham's Homes have become famous. Queen Mary and the Countess Mountbatten are their chief patronesses. More than five hundred and fifty Eurasian children live there, and are given an education up to the time when they are ready for college. Well, the day that little blond boy was found on the streets in Kaltmpong anot'tff child at the Graham's Homes, GRAHAM HOMES - 3 named Peter, was adopted and taken away. so this nameless blond waif w a s given his name, Peter. For a last name they called him Sergeant because the story was that his mother was a Tibetan woman and his father an Amer•ican Sergeant. He has been there now for about four years, and because of his happy, sunny personality he is much loved by all the older children and the teachers. That•s all we know of the story of Peter Sergeant up to the present. A six foot four Englishman who has been spending Thanksgiving I)ly with us, on his way from Canada back to India and the Himalayas -- Major Ronald Hilla, one or the heads of the Dr. Graham!s Homes, tells me there are several million Eurasians in India, the exact number not known. Also, that their lot now 1s unhappier than ever. In the days of British rule, the Eurasians ran the railways of Hindustan. But they have been ousted for the most part. And the same also in other lines of work. GRAHAM H - Th o r of the - uras ian is one of the tragic stories of our time . ; ,. Jor Hills tel ls me that two American missi onaries, a you ng man and his wife, arrived 1n India some years ago, sa~ the p roblem, took over a tract or land 1n the foothills near A lmora, and there have developed a remarkable coanunal project, jut for half-casts. He says it la working out splendidly. But,of course they can only scratch the 11111lense problem. If you should be interested in doing something tor Eu~alans, of course one good way would be to contribute to Dr. Graham's Homes , at Kaltmpong, West Bengal, India -- in the foothills of the Himalayas. Thanksgiving Day ts an excellent time for ua to think about others, who are less fortunate, including th8 Eurasians -- and that little blond boy Peter Sergeant, half Tibetan and half American. • tlGER WOMAR H . re's a late bulletin from Arizona - , . Jt, ,, Winnie Ruth Judd the ti g et woman, has escaped a g ain. " Today she broke out of the State mental hospital by cuttin throug h a window screen. Ever since the tiget woman wa s committed after the murder of two women friends back in Nineteen Thirty-two, she has made o e escape after another. Today - number six. [REIGHT TRAIN AtZb ~~~ e ulon, North Car o l1na,.AW1111e Williams was run ove r Ya fr ~ ig t train - a l oc o mot ive and twen t y -five ca rs. So Willie showec up in court this o rnin ~ - with a b i b ump on hi s hea . But he didn't get that from be1n 6 run over by the fr e ight train. It se ms that Willie was celebrating the eve of Thanks ivin . He stag~ered along, an d f elt sleepy. So he lay down in the m iddle of the railroad track ■• A freight train was coming, and ran right over him. But it didn't touch Willie, snoozing there down •etween the tracks. Policeman M. G. Crowder saw it all, and rushed to the rescue of Willie. Who came to life when he s a w the co - thou h he didn't mi'nd the freight train. He put up a fi ht and policeman Crowder had to , ( k l ~ ~ a club over hie hea d. ~ that•,,how W illie got bend h urt ~hen t he frei ht train ran over him. §T E VENSON ~o v ernor Stevenson says he has still not decided about su g eetions that ne should appear on television and radio. At Springfield, Il l 1no1a, to d ay, he declared that he has received seventy.thousand letters and t e legr~ms urgin ~ that he make addreaaes on political questions. Some people contributed money - toward a fund for TV and radio tac111t1es. But tts defeated candidate says, •1 cannot make precise plans for the future at this time.• Be notes that there are still campaign debts, which have not been oaid. And ■ aye - he wants to aee that these are wiped out before any new tunda are raised in his behalf. LONDON In Lon on, to ay, Aneurin Bevan was elected ~ to a pl a ce - the Labor Party •shadow cabinet•. But ~ this 1s no tr1umnh for the Left ing Lader - he ~as just barely able to make it. He was rejected first, but then squeezed through. Which leaves him the only member of his Left wing who has a place on the com m ittee~ which directs t . e strategy of the Labor Party 1n the House of Com m ons. It was a quiet Thanksgiving Day on the war!ront in Korea, hardly any activity_ except with knives and forks. But some _!..llied officers regard t ~ e . te in pqr _ c;1,,~)' . . Peaoe and tranquility - with 11uapioion. They have a huncb that the R~ds are using the time to make preparations tor an uproar when President-elect Ei s en .o ver comes to Korea - 1■x greeting hie arrival with an upsurge of battle, and a show of strength. However, that may be, it was a serene Thanksgiving Day - except for a minor Communist attack, at dawn. Which was beaten off in a hurry. In Seoul ' , the word ts that the South Korean officials are urging - that the President-elect make at le et one public appearance. If he doesn't, there will be a lot of disappointed Koreans. The battered c1tJ has a festive lo o k - with banners all over the olace •welcome Ike•. School ch~ldren are being put through rehearsals for a public cere m on y , greeting the President- e lect. JQREA - 2 Secret Service ag~nts from Wash1n ton, re n onsible for th safety of the General, don't want hi~ to go parading around in public - not in a distracted war-torn city like Seoul. But the South Korean off1c1a11 re urging - just one public appearance. ( They ay they've t ~ n all prec& ions - / , one of whic~ has been to put a lot of eoole in ~&11, tempora4. They a.<:hey' ve loc ed up, for / the Ume , everyone .!might be e~cted of ~pathy r the Com : u~sts.) At th e UN the Am . r1ca.n delegation confirms - that it will vote for that Indian oompr omi ee. We had the report last ni6ht - now definite. Today, Thanksgiving afternoon, the political committee had a meeting, and all signs were -- that the r solution would be put through b'efore tonight's adjournment - in spite of the rejection in advance by Soviet Russia and Red China. The western delegations want to ~et as large a vote in favor - as po1s1ble. the idea being to show that a program !or peace in Korea, ntroduced by India••• and adopted by ~n o~etwhelnrng-v.ote - was being kil l ed by Soviet Russia. Thia is regarded aa good propaganda - especially in Asia. DI Here's later newa, the p J 11t1cal ~ o■m1ttee has poetp ned a vote following a diatribe by Vieh1n s ky, one of the most bitter insulting speeches he has ever made. g11cH0SL0 AKIA ' h e m onstrosity cam e to a courtroom close 1n Czechoslovakia today. In the Red purge trial eleven of t h e ! o urte n defendants - were sentenced to hang. T h ree -- given life terms in prison. Among those doomed to the gallows are, of course, the d . adline big shots. Slansky - former Secretary of the Czech Communist party. And Clementia former Foreign M1n1ste) Also• ch1ef of the Red Secret police. Carel Svab, one-time None of the condemned made any ap eal, and it's assumed - the hangings will be carmd out immediately. This Csechoslovak purge is rated as the aecon4 greatest i n Communist history. Hungary and Bulgaria had similar courtroom farces - doomin g bi -tiae Reds. But the Slansky-Clementis mockery in Csechoalovakia was exceeded only by Stalin's own great pure trials, back 1n the -i;;-irt iea. It is, likewise, the worst anti-semitic Hitl nd the Nazis - Jewish display since the d ys of er a defendants••• condemned on the charge of a Zionist conspiracy. I0LLOW CZSCHO~LOVAKIA The Unit . d Press' toni h t ' reveals a strange story - of the tragedy Clementia. This has been tept a clo ely uarded secr•t, as long as th~re was any chance of the ~o rmer F oreign Minister remaining alive. Now, in the f amil iar oh rase,it can be told. In Nineteen Forty-line, when Clementia represented Red Czechoalovak1a at the UN in New York, he learned that back in hie Communistic country, he had been accused of "deviationiam•. Which, in the Communlet book, is a crime of crimes. He was thrown in an agony of indecision. \ Close friends urged him to stay in thls country - and save his life. They went 10 far as to contact the Czechoslovakian anti-Communist undergrouAd in the United States, and ¥ere referred to the Editor of a Ne w York newspaper. Arrangements were made, whereby the Foreign Minister was to be given refuge over here. He would go int o hi in ~ , the New York E h tory - how t he Foreign Minister ditor would break t e from behind the Iron Curtain W ,· B - c ho sing freedom. fQLLOW CZECHOSLOVAKIA - 2 But Clementi s hesitated. He was a Communist by con icti o n, by fa n a ticism, an d could not bring himsel to desert t h e Red cause. n e was in doubt for days. Then d e cided - no, he would return. The efforts to save him had b een made under pledges of secrecy - given by anti-Communist Czechs and by tt.e New Yor~n wapaper edl~r. The+oted bow, a few months after his return to Czechoslovakia, he wae removed from his post as Foreign Minister. T h en - vanished. Still, they kept the••• pledge. Then came the present purge trial, Clementia obviously doomed. The silence was maintained, until the final n ews today. The death sentence, which, no ~ 4 : d bt h 1 b e e n ~ sdnow the story ou , as area y A 1- ~ - ~ A . t . e dramatic events in that effort to save Clem e ntis, the Foreign Minister who played so prominent a r c le a t the u N two and a half years ago.