PQLJII fk♦ U . 15 1 / J j We have au■ rema.rkable story tonight about tihe that Polish Air Force pilot, who flew a Ruaalan bu11, " MIG -- to Denmark. The statement ls -- that the exploit was engineered by a group ot Amer1can1, through the medium of the Polish underground. This comes fro■ a former governor of Preston Lane, now an aircraft executiv.e. who etatel that prominent in the group wae former U.S. Co~onel U 10 Amoes, who did cloak and dagger work. The••••• meaber ■ approach was made by ••111••• of the Polt ■ b under- 1roua4, who aa1d tbey thought they could arrange for &x•,. a Pol1ah Air roroe p1lot 1 secretly ant1-Coamun1•!,, to make an escape. He'd fly out with one of the late ■ t 3et fighter planes that the Soviet ■ haVie handed over to the Red government of Poland. This was all the more 1ntere ting, ~ecauae no un-dam ~ ged MIG had ever lallen into western handa -- though they had fished one out of Kore~4 waters, badly battered - unflyable. Moreover, JQLJIH fW,11 - a lh• lndlc&t1ons were that the MIGs in rore• were not the latest model. But the Russian built jet, lD Poland were. So getting one out would be 4oub1J valuable for western air experts to study. R■a■a■ rormer Governor Pre ~ ton Lane relate• that ten thouaand dollars w a e raised by the group ot patriotlc Aaerlcan1 to tlnanoe the Polish under- around operation. All, with a highly sucoeasful result. The headline,, last week having told us how tleelnf the_ Jron Cur taln th• Polish Alr Foroe O tlo•~had landed OD the Dan11h Ialand of Bornhola, bringing hla 3et plane down undaaagecl. 0 Another wea,ern plane wae ehoi a, by 8ov1e, fighter• -- bu, no daaa.1e.,.. done. A Bri,iah airliner, bound from Kunloh to Berlin -- lhe plane landln1 aafely at Berlin'• Tempelhof a1rpor,. Thla happened yesterday~ repor,ed by Br1,11h offlclala lod&J. They eay the paaeenger plane had •appareat1; wudered out of •tb~ oorrldor ,hrough whloh weetern planes are permi \t ~ d ,o t ly to and from the · Geraaa oap1tol. Thi• incident not so aerioua in ltaelf, adda up to a total of three British planes aaaalled 1eaterday. One, tne patrol bomber ahot down. &&other, a British transport plane in which lz Red flgnters made threatening paeses. &nd now, the pa1aenger liner, fired at•~ but not hit. Then, - of courae, there'• the American let fighter that was abo\ down, though u without 101• of life. l!IAIAfLQY41IA Bev• from Czecnoalov&kia atatee th&t the led pre11dent, Gottwald, ls gravely 111. Be wa1 ln ,erlou• condltl o n with pneumonla and pleurtey, whan 1a,ernal he-orhage• oocurred today. A a rles of bulletlna ln41cate that hla oond1t1on 11 beoom1n1 worae and the Red Prea14en, ' of Oseohoelovatla a&J be followlng hla Kaater - Stalln. DJM-AQI Over 1n Korea, our ace war flier should be able to answer the question -- but h A can't. An 1aportant quest1on -- are Sov1et pilot• fly1ag those en••Y 3e,a th&t come down from the Manchurian 1anc,uar7 Well, Colonel Royal Baker got v1tbin a hundred feel of a Commun1et pilot, and he should belble ,o ,ell -- ••• 1, a auaalaaT There's plenty of differeaoe of belweea the Kon1011an face~• a Cblneee or Borth n lor•••• and the luropean fe&turea of a auaalan • ... Today, Colonel Baker shot down a MIG a.a4 · ,be / pllol 1ot out by parachute. The Aaer1o&n jet flaahe4 rtgbt by bl■, a ■ere hundred feet away. But, ■ aJ ■ the Colonel, he ■ till had n11 hel■et on, and osy1en aa1t. I oouldn' t d1 ■ t1ngutah hie feature ■ . • lo the ~uestlon reaaln• unanawere4. The United Nations this afternoon f&iled to . elect & new Seoreta=y General to auoceed retiring tr11•e Lie. There were three candidates 1n the voting -- and the Soviets vetoed one. The Us. •*•k•• backed General Carloa Bomulo of tAe Philippines, but an adverse vote again1t bl■ wa1 caat by Franc -- in addition to aueela. Olber oountrl•• &b1ta1ned ao they failed to get a 11&3or1ty needed to elect. The Soviet veto w&s oaat aga1n1t Leiter Pearson, Canadian Mlnlater of lxternal Aff&1ra. The u.a. Toted for h1■ and he would have been elected except for the Red vote oa1t agaln ■ t hl■• The Soviets bad a candidate, a Pollah Co■■uniat. But he got only one vote, the Mo1cow Tote. So now the u N wil l have to try it again - p1ok 1n an effort to ••n a Secretary General - - - ---· IIPIY.IP8 The State of Bode laland ls being urged lo 1 o 10 court -- if Congress naasee the bill to turn tlcleland oil over to the states. Today, Democraito leaalor Grean called f~r auch action, aktng public a lelter he has written to Governor Dennie Roberta of lbo4• Island. He aaye the ' Governor eupporte the propo1al to ate & court tighi against any stat, cnrur1hlp of tideland 011. Well, the bill would favor coaelal elate, a• agalnet inland 1tatee •• withou1 any tideland. ••'• of cour••• Rhode lela.nd 11 on tb~ coaet. The - au•er ■ lght ••e• to be -- the tideland• of Rhode I1lan4 are not rich 1n oil. In tact, the whole tblag la largely a Gulf of Kexlco affair. With Texu an4 Loul1iana playing the leading part,•• •••el••• ell. ?. ~ Callfornlf . la interested too. If the government A , had the ownership ot the off-shore deposit ■, other ~ 1tate1 ■itlgi!I stand to gain by 1t. Senator Green in OU t, ~ . lho4e Ialan~on t h e ew England coast would be deprived • 1 baa vast 011, gas and other 1neral resources. Statehood for awaii has run into an unexpected obatacle. The bill to ~ ake the islands the Forty-Ninth State of the Onion has hit a snag that few people had e••r thought about. The bill was passed by the House and is now before a Senate coamittee. •here the question has been raised what would be the boundaries of Hawaii, that far-flung archipelago? That's tied up with the tidelands oil issue. For 11aaple, the two main islands Oahu and tauai are more thaa 1i1t7 ailes apart. So, what would be the status of that 1tr1tch of P a cific Ocean? Would it be considered terri- torial waters, or might it be considered--open aaa? It the space of oceaL between the islands were claaaed as •tnland water• the new state of Hawaii might claia title to the submerged lands -- as in the case of tidelands over here. o Hawaiian statehood - is no 1 tan1- l1d - in that hot, noisy tidelands argument. How perplexing it can be is illustrated by the fact tbat one of the Haw a iian i~l a nd s , Palmyra, is way of: by - 2 itself, some hundreds of mile s outh of Honolulu. r uo, bo• do you draw a boundary for that p rop cad new state, which aay soon be the forty-ninth · lonely Palayra ? ou l d you l eave out Bere'J authoritative sup ort for rumors that big league baseb a ll clubs w il be shifted. The St. Louis Browns -- for · mple -- to move to Baltimore. The publication • J porting Jews• a sort of Bible of base- ball, atRtes that, on ~onday, the club owners of the league will be asked to okay the transfer. Already bet een the management of the Browns and baseball people in Baltimore! told. liloreo · 1 er, the Boston Braves, will move, we are W here' iilwaukee!! W hich leaves the question -- what about the minor league clubs already in Baltimore and il,aukeet The Orioles, have long been a tradition in the aryland aetropoli. •sporting News" declares that the fate of the Balt\~ore Orioles has not yet Deen decided. lhey aay go to Hartford, Connecticut, or maybe some Can•dian city.• The il w aukee Club of the American Association will move to Toledo, Ohio -- we hear. IA§ll♦LL - a Well, tbe shifts will produce 1nterest1ni changes. the American League -- no longer to include St. Lou1s: Baltimore instead. The National League out of Boston, moving to Milwaukee. But it ls all in accord with what baaeb&ll ■en have been 1aylng for a long time. Arguing that neither St. Louie nor Boston provides enough baeeball business to support two major lea1ue teame. They ' al10 1ay the 1ame about Philadelphia, with rumor• -- that the Athletio1 . made famous by Connie Mack, declare ■ay move to 1o■ e other city. They~ the only are c1t1ea able io aupport iwo clu~• ta Chicago and••• Tort. ••• York having three -- including Brooklyn. There•• alway• talk of shifting & big league · team, or teams out here to the Pacific Coast. Or, of recogn£zma the coast league as a malor league. But that remain& for the fut~re, · •• if at all. §..UIT ~ - t:n New York a law suit t ha t featu res ,, , curious t hem e of ro m ance. · esti m o ny to d ay pr,senting t i st of lot a ..+t-e-me t h at might be used by a nov list. Sin e r Jane Froman is demanding two and a half million dollars f rom Pa n American World Airways as damages for the injuries she suffered -- in that plane crash in Portugal 1 Wl the harbor of Lisbon, ten years ago. But her form e r husband 1s also s · uinj, Actor Donald. Ross, who demands a hundred t ousand dollars -- for the loss of his wife's affection. The plane crash caused t h at also, says h~. ' Today, he testified that before the mish•p, his wife was devoted to him •:nadly, violently•, said he. But, afterward -- it was altogether different. iell, the story has been told in print and in the movies -- how Singer Jane Froman, d sperately injured was rescued from the water by Flier John I Burn, tne pilot of the plane. Later, after her divorce, she married him. §YI% - 2 So that's the w a y actor onald Rose lost his wife, a ccordin ~ to his aa testimony today -- as he sues for damag s. CARMEL Out here in California, there's a threat of secession. The town of Carmel ■&• may cecede from the State o f C~lifornia. Whic h would be a great loss. Because, Carmel is the principal com m unity on the Monterey Peninsula -- far-famed as a beauty spot. The peninsula, which lies to the south of San ranciec~ is so beautiful, in fact, that it's a traditional haunt for artists. Which g ives Carmel an artistic sort of Bohemian life, aesthetic, dreamy. Contemptuou1 #_,.. of the ordinary ways of prosy work-a-day people. So Carmel is -- shocked. In the Legislature at Sacramento, a bill has been introduced -- s■ to make cities and towns mark their streets clearly with proper signs. And -- number their houses, di tinctly, so that a street address can be found. If a community doesn't do that it will forfeit its share of State gas tax money. So what's wrong with street signs and house numbers! Well, Carmel doesn't have any. Much too literal and practical for the artistic soul of Carmel. CARMEL - 2 Not in the spirit of abstract painting, in which you can't tell wh a t is what. So, today, Carmel had a civic meeting, at which a protest was drawn up -- expressing horror at the idea of street signs and h ouse numbers. If the State Legislature passes the bill Carmel may secede from California. But you may ask -- why doesn't thf artiatic, ~ Bohemian community go right on as it 1s and forfeit 1ts aha.re of the gas tax funds? How, don't be - too artistic. - In that case, Carmel would be deprived of thirteen thousand dollars a year and to forfeit that much money would be t..£_o Bohemian. The question 1s raised if Carmel should · secede from California what would it become! A Forty-Ninth State, an independent Republic, a town without a country, or whatT That's about as puzzling as an abstract painting of which Carmel produces an abundance. 1F CO UNI a( ---------- he fo r , e i e of a en at o r od·y r ef u e io nswer t h e six ty - ou d o l r e t- i o n. · r . D orothy Douglas wa s divorc e r o & en a to r P au~ ou g la of Illinois b a ck in iineteen hirty. o d y s he was ue - tioned by the Cam m i tee on Un- me r ic · n ctivitie s . d she ever been a Com unist · She refused to answer on C onstitutional grounds --sel f incrimination. Earlie r in the day, two profe sors made the same refusal. PLANES T h e U nit e Sta t e s s en ds another protest to Red Cze c1 oslovakia demanding redress for the sho ot ing oown of t he Am rica n t p lane. Washington rejects the Red contention that the two American planes attacked were f lying over Cz . choslovakifn s ■ •tts territory. And -- demarrds an a po logy and •immediate compensation.• T he · compensation would presumably come to about Two Hundred Thousand Dollar, -- the price o f an F-&4 Thunder Jet. The Czech Reds are aa accused of a •provocative• act followed by a •falsification of fact.• Me a nwhile, Great Britain has protested the sho o ting down o! the British patrol bomber yesterday, with the loss of five lives. London, in a message to Moscow calls it an •outrage•, and demands the punishment of the Russian jet pl~ots who did the shooting. London also wants damages. We don't know what exact re ? lY the American and British p rotests will get but we can m ake a pretty good g u e s s -- t he complaints wil be rejected -- with PLA NES - 2 blasts of Com m unis t propaganda . London re . orts that hl h lev e l talks will . be held by Gr e t Britain, the United States and France -- on the subject of these Red aggressions. What to do about t he way Red pilots h ave been making 7 unprovoked attacks. But meanwhile, the British Air Force has ordered its plane• to stay at least ten miles away from the border separating the British and Soviet zones in Germ a ny stay ten miles away from the Iron Curtain. BOB L ~N ------ Ch r l es ' e he a r of a. u 0 e i on - t h t t h e n a me of ohl e n m · s · do r t o o v iet uss i a sh ou ld be d r o p e • Sen t o r tyle B ri g e s o f e i u a m ps hi r e sa y t hi a v i ce h a s b een iv e n t o h a t h e c a lls - - "to p p e o ple " in t he i s en ~ o N er d in i s tra t ion. Bohlen f a cin -- " fo r i . b l e o p o s i o n " in th e e n ate. T he obj ction t o Bohle n co m es fro m A e p ublicans w ho think th a t th e A m b a ~ sado r i a l no m inee h as been too closely connected w i t h t h e forei g n p olicies of the Democrati~ administration s o f H oosevelt a n d T ruman. i hey reg a rd him a s a "defender of the Acheson forei g n policy". Today• s dispatch from W ashington i ays -- there w as no indic at ion that President Eisenhower may be con- siderin g a w ithdr awa l of t he no m ination; even in face of - - the for m idabl e o p osition i n the S ena t e.