J ~ o ry f r oo n 11 o f a U e r y in f o r u n n · u m a r in s o ff the 0 l I' i 8 rang r s ., r s mably · oviet r a e r Th i ~ll♦fi rom U P Corre pendent ve i · , o w s the only news wan aboard the e troyer. ~ r turn.,.. to port he file,( his account bi ch \Ua.. e ee>fl c 1 ea red by the ce ns orsh ip of the lavy -- ther by pulting an official okay on the story of Ei pack of Soviet submarines off the California coast. Last 1hursday, a mysterious undersea craft was reported by members of the Coast Guard. Whereupon, t h e ~ Colahan was dispatched to the scene ■t to inv stigate. The Calahan never did sight either a submarine or a periscope, but did its detection job ~ w i th e 1 e c tr o n i c a pp a r a tu s - - r ad a r ..J a nd so n a r ..- s o u nd aetection. In that way, ikxsaa the destroyer was able to pick up and follow invisible boats down under the •ater. They spotted the first one last Thursday night, the UP correspondent •rites: l was peering o v r the rada~operator's shoulders at the AZ:....- • • ..SUBMARINES - ----~- big r n c r . en wh n " m o ur r · rst r ad r ama1afx cont c t on a ubmarin e o ing to a rd th coa · t , at a ~ out 1• ten -t wenty-thr ee PU. In a few minutes the news man conLinu d, zajim radar picked up contact numbe two, going nort h about Even miles distant. He says they followed the submarine for almost an hour. The subs were on the surface invisible~ the darkness of night - and, after a while, each one, realizing that it was being followed, submerged to avoid radar i •• d e t e ct i on .-rf The n e x t day , t bey pi c ked up a subaarine under water, spotting this one by sonar that sound detection. Altogether they ~otted tour. At least such is the judgement of the skipper ot the Colaban, Captain J. a. Bolbrook, a vete~an ot submarine warfare.~The contact we made~ says Captain Holbrook MM me to believe that a fleet of sub ■ arines ) " " is operating in the northern California arer. ~-G_ ~~ .. tL- ,Aus~~liy travel in packs, and I'd say there are four in this group. . . . . . . \o . : I .. .,. ,. I • - .. . E- . - . ::..::- !.·:..-:.!'""_s - !- s t • - ... _ :. :ga·E- • • • . - . - " ,. n.:: : .• :1. . .. . . '! JO -~ E, . I i r - • ... .. . .. . . .... .; ~ . .. e E-• E .. s a Ef i - •e !C E. ,. t · a - • r : ~f • n • - ' ,..e, e, • ro &. )f . .: ! t ar f' r • .... aa- L \1 e ! r • r b r f r ... ay •h • 6~ s.e te ced . pris • faa ai n ~sea ed ••a• .. ris ~ Be I'& \,le • raa ner .. re 1, a a r a •••r a e·a na Island 'I be ren•e - ere 8 r 'I 8 . t,a r, h " 8 f nd d · r Di in . T e a SU ci e n t • :1 l S C r " D 8 's e r Bu e ' a t 0 i e- ~ ay e ' t ., • as - D n . • " _ SUBMARINES_ - 4 The & ■ i••iE coincidence was such that the diappearance of the••• convicted wartime traitor was ai tied in with the subaarine story -- with so ■• vague surmise that the two might be connected n in soae way. However, it is all a blank, at tbi1 hour. FLYING SAUCE RS -- - -- - ------------ -' or · a ou t, f yin g auc r •ilh new nials. T 1 a t t t, a 1 o f ma 1· v 1 c o me s f ro m R a i o C o mm e n tat o r He nry J. Taylor nd rom the magazin e called U.S. News Ana World lie po rt. Henry Taylor says the dis~• are of two kinds -- one a revolutionary type ot aircraft. The other, real round flying saucers, .... - - but with a mystery angle a A weapon.?The magazine calls a aarveloua aai acret them •revolutionary• new planes, probably developed by the Navy as part of its ~uided aissile research. To this the Navy iamediately respcmds that it has no type of aircrat~ under constructionJ -- at all reseabling a tlyinc saucer. The Air Force has repeatedly denied any knowledge of saucer-weapons. And so it goes n e • s tor i e s , n e • den i a 1 s . n · u jean lo 1 y Cab o t Loge of Massa ch us t s d cle r s th t, na or Jam McCarty of ~ i sc o nsin has noL pr ov e d h i ch r s of co unis ■ in the t at De artm nt. Tbe Mas achusetia legislator is am mbe~ of t e in estigating committee, and he declares the cCa thy vidence does not amount to prolf. ~ - bo~Lodge comes forward with a proposal to turn over the whole question to a non-partisan committee, which would take the whole thing out of the realm of politics ,~oduc t an · inquiry that •ould I' keep the State Department from being made a political football. r Today, President Truman ordere4 • the F.B.I. and other government agencies to ignore • the subpoena issued by the Senate ~ommittee -- de ■ andin th loyalty files. The ~resident replies by pointin1 out t a t in previous cases during the past, the lbite ~ouse has refused to give ~ongress confidential information -- on the grounds that it was against public policy. So he is fol l owing that precedent. As f or u po nas, t 1 r ~ i a r opos al to hand one o ~ nator McCar hy, d m audin th at he band over th e affidavits.....- o w hic h he bases his contention that Owen Lattimore, Far Ea st rn expert, is a communist. In reply to this, the i consin Senator declares that he will defy any subpoena -- in the case of two of the affidavits. He says if they were released, it would expose t.he ones who signed themrto reprisal•,•- fut he adds that, likely enough, he will make public still another affidavit, upon getting permission ot the informant.1 lhis informant, a former communist, is said to be willing to swear under oath that Owen Lattimore was a member of the ~ommunist Party for .. many years. McCarthy was asked -- was this witne11 ~ouis Budenz, oneti•e editor of the Communist Daily torker, who turned against the Reds, and is now a " 7 i ~ professor at fordham University~-- Jll'.,A.the Senator :;~~~.~·e-e■-n1.--- tli>+..~. vw~n Lattimore, meanwhile, replies to Mc~arthry's charges on the score o f , recomm ndations COIi UNI TS - J --------- which Latt.im r u mi t,p t, e ta e L partment ib reply takes t e f rm of making pu lie those recommendation• . which were tba~ to ccntinue to support ChUng Iai Sbek ~ and the~~ationalists, would do •more hara than good• , to the United ~tates. He also told the State ~ - 1 £ ~ ~ Department tha~Japan and ~outb iorea were •Liabilitiea• \ er .1.1ef nse , u i J o 1nF-on , d nies a r 01t rat, L e f e1 l rs under th At antic Paci •il l wit hold Conf r nc informati o n from British •ar ecretary , J Jo i..-t rac ey. N thing to it -- says J o 1 nson.-« In lhe background, iE the fact that Strachey has been attacked by London newspapers, on a charge that he is a Communist, and still is. To this, he replies that at one tie, he did h ave Communist ideas, but has long since turned against the methods and p o 1 i c i es o f t,J o v i e t Ru s · i a . ~ A s h r i t i s h S e c re ta ry or lar, he would be in line to be informed of all the ~ decisions made by the Defense kinistera •~h., 'e e M"t'lt-~ ~ e i.e ~.e H..D~"DS~n&n ~--M leRUtJ:N,.. but the Defense ~inisters decided ~~ decided he would not be trust-worthy. Such is the story now denied - ~ ~ o u r Secretary of Defense, w ho states that the question of Jon ~trachey was not even menti o ned~ At the Atl a ntic Tr aty Conference in Brussels, Great Britain w as r r e enle d by t.he abor STRACH[Y - --- -- - Gov r D f i 1 r , £ an hin • • o , ays John on , oo a f r emo t p ar in the discu siona. • n ond o , t e re o r t a ou rachey is denied ~ ~ th ._,,. equal vigor, ~•• aa official r>epreeeat,at,iye of 4.u ~ ,eo?Je-:rnment eteting -the~ t.ae lar V1n will t,e Br ••••i•. AO TRIA ---- - '! e n V t e fac s a u a Red und 1 o rld lead r 1 1 n a, ho came to a melo ramatic end last night. Benno Blu, a Ru ■ ania cit.izen, born in Eu gar·a, i --e. .... ~~~ described~-,~--~•tbe . ,, Coi f of the ~ovi t-operated ki nap r1ng. ~orking directly under a Rs ian colonel in the political section of the Sovi thigh co ■ mand in Austria, ie was head of a 20-man gana.,.. said to bave abducted 30 auti-Communist Austrians and displaced persona wanted by the Rus ians -- seizing them secretly, and handing them over to the Reds.1' The blood aooe7 they got was -- Aaerican cigarettes. Autboritie1 declare Lhat since the war, the ~ovieta paid the kidnappers with some 350,000 cartons -- Aaerican cigarettes which the hussians got some here. -- !ore than a million dollars •orth, since cigarettes se for J.00 a carton in ~ienna. American ilitary ~ntelligence got on the track of the mob, and rail d its leader, Benno D to the apa tm nt of a Rus iao - b o rn ~oman, ~ - - .> o 1 ni 0 t he t rap was u g, by m 1 · ca and r nc Y i i ary Poli c . They o t.hea artm nt., and en t d. lh n the kidnap lad r saw l em, h swit. be d o ff the lights, pulled out a pi t.ol, an start ed s l ooting. Wh e reupon, there was a thund e ring gun fight i n the black apartment. The ~oviet agent was able to f i re sev ral ahots -- before the M.P. 'e cut him down with a blast from sub- machine guns. In his poss~ssion, they found papers sho•in1 that he was preparing to go to Israel, presumably on .. some other job for the Russions, say the American s-.t. e a ~ sttrir ■ i.,...,.otL. .t~• &••*•"' ..... . ...... ~ ere au is unknown -- left to the imagination-- ,_ what the hed kidnap leader was intending to do in Israel. DAIIS -- In as in ton, a battl of dams. Not cuss ords -- but t barriers that ar thrown across rivera. 1wo dams are planned for E ho Par~ Co orado, and Split ountain, Utah, both on the upper Colorado River. Hearings are bein held by wecretary of the Interior, Oscar Chapman, •i th arguments presented pro and con. The opposition is voiced by the ational Parks Service. •bicb points out that the dams would affect Dinosaur -r£4 ~ National itonu ■ ent,' ~~clai ■a that, tbe water - ~ backed up into lakes woul~niladate what~ cali.. •valuable scenic, historic and scientific objects•. he pro·ects are suppo ed by ~enator Elbert would not get a water from the woula go to Uta~, where it is badli n eded, but Colora4o, - 1 he explained, would benefit. because t·he large la✓ backed up by the 4ams, ould provide t r a n s ~ i o n for tourists, who could go by boat to re•arkable sce . nic reas, w ich are now highly inaccessible. DAIIS - 2 --- So t,he battle Split Mountain. is on - - ~ cbo Park and SCOT A -----.....------ d clared who esa In c tlan a smal x panic. Glesgo• an infected area. l od ay, they ~ -U vaccinations, with 80,000 doses of vaccine flown in fro naon. At the public health office, 28 doctors, wor in in relays, gave the preventiY treat ent to 10,000 persons, vaccinating the at the r t e of 600 per hour. Hospitals are crowded with aa llpox cases, but there bas been only one deaib. lhe casualty -- a doctor, a woaan physician who had never been yaccinated, because she didn't believe in eec••• oeuaaiuaell:,- N> deadly• astern a allpox~1wi r, • ln tb anci nt city of i aa, today, experts er exa inin that famous an·n To er -- and 1t was an anxious in pectin. This follo ed a aerie1 of earthquake three shocks that bit the city in rapid succession. Severa houses collapsed, and there was• panic a ■ ong the people. Once they got over the first fright, tb17 bad a econd 1urge of worry, as they looked at their town's chief claim to taae, the Leaning Tower. That celebrated monument bas bean standing there tor 10 ■• 500 years, tilted at an angle, looking•• it it ■ i1bt be in process ot toppling over. It's been that way • ever since the foundation shifted long 0enturie1 110-- of architecture aaking the 179 ft. ■ asterpieceJunique in tbia world. You ould suppose that, if an earthquake should co e, the Leaning Tower of Pisa would be tbe first victim -- leaning over soae more, if not tallin1 down. ut not at all. Today's examination shows that the cockeyed, ornate structure was not affected one bit by the shocks that caused buildings to collapse. T Leaning To er leans just th saae of a egree aore. The irony would be not a fraction if an earth uakt abould cause the Leaning To er of Pisa to stand up straight. That wold be astonishing. I A . 0 y 00 u i ci to h V r n t t V .. ia i co b y te ns. Do the i wan heir co b s to b issless? The Holly 00 r 1 R ~ r n s f vor no nti nt smootch for e 2-gun eroes. But this is C a len e by cou le of movie cowboy a -- Ji ■ mie •Shamroc • Ellison, and Lucky Hayden. They becam convinced that the youn ster ■ • ul n object to a bit of oscu .. tion. The more recent kisslesa traditi n was introduced by Gene Autry and Bo along Cassidy. So they are having a try - out takin th question o th kids. Th ade a start I CO BOY MOVI S - 2 -------------------- - at, Glendale, Cslifornia, an here's the retult: or 4J juvenile movie fans, 35 said it was quite Q.t. tor the cowboy hero to give a sentimental salutation to the heroine. Only 8 objected, saying it waa -- 1illy. One boy, a seven-year-old, wrote the opinion that, the ki sin was v. [. --- •Because,• said be, •tbe cowboy gets a rest from all that bard ridiDI and 1hooting.• •bicb certainly is one philo1opby ot '-' _ ; . n i : t . _ ~ ~ I l l ro ■ ance. - "1 ~~ tM•• "- - - ~,~~ .ll!L 1QYLN! In March -- un m loym nt dropped w re than half a mil ion, hitting a new lo for 1950. fhe number of joble s is now ittii ■ xa■ r about four million, one bundre and t enty-three thousand. At the ame t i e employment increased by nearly ix hundred thousand, or than fifty-ee en-aillioD--. fiy hundred-thousand peo le on the job l a t ■ontb.