of th out the h from Fo rmo at oni ht, says - the eva uation Isl an s s 1c in ups e e . This is ay-time he emoval o , hi nese a tionalists from the 1 ~~ s on 1nue at a more raid rate. o opposition from the ommu nis s as our Seve th fleet overs the evacuation with en 'umbrella of planes. But - it is a tense operation. Rumors - or American planes being fired on. But that's denied. Red anti-air c raft fire has been observed - but that seems to be a sort of demonstration affair alon the coast. Not aimed at American planes. A the same time, the U.S. aircraft carriers were alerte when unusual activity was observed at the Ningpo air base on the mainland. ' Hustlean bustle at the flying fields - but nothi ng has~• developed out of that, as yet. The hinese Red radio was braggin, today, that C ommunist air planed took off to intercept Amdri c an Jilli.au planes. SUB TACHEN - 2 Which thereupon fled . But that ' e,fnore propaganda . . . evacuation of the Tachen Islands goea on without incident. The Nationalists on Formosa saying - that - - "not one person or one thing will be left behind for the ColllllWliats. 11 The chief trouble 11 - the weather. The aircraft carrier•,.. • .,......-....., ---- TACHEN - 2 are operating on a stormy sea, under murky skies. Which makes it mi g hty tough - for the pilots of the carrier planes.:=- QN ~-~--. on a round-the-clock schedule. Which means night flying - working off heaving, pitching decks. Under - blackout conditions of wartime. Just about the hardeat flying - an aviator ever has to do. The evacuation, we hear, will take about a week - and, meanwhile, the Chiang Kai Shek regime is representing it as a re-distribution ot Nationalist forces, for an · ../ eventual. invasion or the Red m inland~ich r.enewa -· the ~ familiar paradox - the Chiang K 1 Shek people planning an invasion ot the •inland, while UIQ we've got to detend them on Formosa. TACHENS - DULLES Secretary of State John Foster Dulles told a congressional conunittee - today - he ~cnrn• doubts the Chinese Reds "really intend to wage war." He thought - as long as the United States maintains its attitude of strength wJ) . and firmness, the Connunists WOIIM find discretion the better J... part of valor. The Secretary said this to the Senate Foreign Relationa C01111l1.ttee, as he urged a speedy approval for the 11Utual I defense treaty between the United States and the Chiang Kai Shek regime on Formosa. Meanwhile, the policy or strength and t1raness was backed by 1nd1cations at the Navy Department. Where the word was - that U.S. Carrier planes, if attacked, will pursue the attacking planes ' as long as they think they can get them". Which would mean - pursue them over the Chineee mainland, if necesary. Also, if our planes are fired on by anti-aircraft guns in the vicinity of the Tachens, the guns would be wllenced. - TACHENS - EDEN British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden made an appeal, today - to g ive iplomacy a chance to bring about a ' cease fire" along the China coast. Eden urged what he called - "cease-fire conditions." Which, in the British view, means - the withdrawal of the Chinese Nationalists from all the coastal islands. Well~ the Tachens are being evacuated. After which - there will still remain other coastal islands further ~~~ south. Like - the Quemoy and Mat~u groups~lllle ,tw"Br1t1ah think w.t. these uaH should also be evacuated - and have u so informed the United States., we-1M,u...,_~~•--~ \ Chiang~~ forces should pull back to Formosa - after which, 'cease-fire" regot1at1ons would ha\'e a chance. KOREA - PLANES A dispatch ro~ Tokyo, this afternoon, gives the stories old by the two jet pilots, w ho shot d own a coup l e of MIGS on Saturday. Twelve American Sabre Jets were escorting a za■ reconnaissance bomber, off the West Coast of Korea. When - a squadron of Russian built Jets came flashing to the attack. There was no provocation - u or any warning. One of the Sabre Jet pilots was Captain George Will1au of Austin, Texas . Who says: '!They were already tiring. when I saw them. They seemed to be shooting - from too b far out." The MIGS were using aerial cannon - but the range was too long. They were trying to get through - to blast thf big reconnaissance p plane. Seven of the American fighters closed in - to protect the bomber. The other five - going after the MIGS. "I took the leader" relates Captain Williams. "When I came in he broke to the left, and I followed him. I gave KOREA PLANES - 2 him the first burst - an d he w as on fire." Leiutenant C harles Salmon, of Port Jervis, New York, got the other Communist plane. 'When I saw the MIGS coming in," he says, 1 · 1 rolled over and h e aded down. on the tail of two MIGS£ were firing at ,A I found myself the observation plane. So I let go." Shooting at one , Lieutenant Salmon fired :/J.ve or six bursts . The MIG - p 1 unging · in flames . With two or their number shot down, the other hostile jets xm went streaking away. To whom did they belong? Where did they come from? There's no answer. The U.S. pilots declare - they saw no markings on the MIGS. Nor could they be sure - where they were heading when they fled. The assumption would be - they were Red Chinese, or lorth Korean. Since - the encounter took place over the Yellow Sea, which is between China and Korea. ATOMI C • I There ' s a move in Congress to disperse industry and population centers, in this country - as the best defense against a hydrogen bomb attack. Today, Congressman Richard Bolling, of Missouri, reintroduced a resolution to set up a Joint Congressional Conn1ttee. Which would study - ways or spreading out targets for possible bombing. 11 Space 11 , declared the Congressman, ' is the beat defense against hydrogen bomb attack." Avoid - having pos6ible targets crowded in small areas. ( The Congressman admits - that a dispersal or industries and population centers would be mighty expensive. But, it 111g might help - to avert atomic war. If an enemy realized that his country could not be knocked out by quick attack - that enemy might well be deterred by the fear of ma sive retaliation. / FRANCE In Paris, former Premier Pinay - is trying to form a government, following the downfall of Mendes-France. His success depends, apparently on t1lxa the attitude or the popular Republican party. Today, Pinay asked tor their support - but the popular Republicans were noncomittal. They said they would 'not take a atand"right now. Kil Which ia considered unprom111hg tor the right wing leader who was Premier tor rune montha, 1n lineteen Fifty-two. PRINCESS Princess Margaret had a quiet afternoon . ~- for a change. P.rincess Mar_Raret Touring the British West Indies, aa•oeen naving a busy whirl - parades, receptions, celebrations. - This morning, at the island of Grenada, it was much the same round of ceremony - for the industrious Princess. The principal event - the opening of a new broadcasting system for the lttld:an Winward Islands. Princess Margaret presiding. The new radio network links the four main islands Grenada, St. Vincent, St. Lucia and St. Dominica. Then, Her Royal Highness took the afternoon off - and went swinllling. Splashing in the Caribbean - at a secluded beach. NIXON Vice President Nixon was in Havana today - the first stop in a seventy-five hundred mile tour, which - will take him to ten Latin-American Republics. ----~ ~__.. -- .....,.. • ~---,-- The Vice P resident is gettin g a cordial welc011e 1n Cuba - with Havana newspapers taking the occasion to drua up a bit or propaganda. Today, they headlined the suggestion - that Cuba u could use a bit of U.S. economic aid - also - to argue in favor or Cuban sugar exports to the Untted State,. LABOR Top ranking union leaders are gathering at Miami Beach tonight, for talks - that may bring about a merger of the AF of Land the CI O. The . negotiators are headed by AF of L President George Meany and CI o President _ w?lf_ Walter Reuther - 1 hopes are- expressed that labor unity may be achieved. Today, the AF or L President said, ~I'• not pea11Jil1tic, 11 KIDNAP A strange and murderous kidnap - in Pittsburgh. year A twenty F o l d young woman, Lorraine Rodgers - seized 1n the small hotel where she lived. Two men went to her room, and seized her. She screamed and this attracted the attention of Whitey Henry, who ran to help her. One · or the abductors shot him down, leaving him fatally wounded. Then, the girl was dragged, kicking and screaming, down1f:: flights ot stairs k and taken away in an automobile. Another man, seeing all of this, shouted: "They're 1 II dragging my gir away. He said he was the boy friend or the abducted young woman. ADD KIDNAP One of the kidnappers is described as a disappointed suitor - with whom Lorraine Rodgers had broken. ---- ADD KIDNAP The latest. the man, in question. surrendered to the police. this evening -- the abducted girl found - unharlled. OXFORD There's a r pus at Oxford, where the academic serenity was shattered - by a remark fro■ a profe11or. Classic Oxford - with stately manners or times gone by. Yesterday, the Oxford Universtty Club held a political meeting - and the speaker was to have been the Secretary ot the British Labor Party, Morgan Phillips. But he tell 111/ and cauldn 1 t come. So his place was taken by the Oxford University Professor of social and political theory - O. D. H. Cole. '!be Proteasor gave h1a address, atter which the Secretary or the Oxtord University Cl•b thanked h1JI, and said - the Profeasor would be happy to know that Labor Party Secretary Morgan Phillips was recovering trom h1s illness. But Professor G.D. H. Cole shook his head and replied: 11 1 cannot agree with the chairman. Because I do not rejoice in Mr. Phillips• recovery. In fact," the Professor added, "I wish he were dead." OXFORD - 2 Which created a sensation - at Oxford. Today, the Protea1or would ~ot recant. He would only qualify by saying - he meant "politically dead." Quote a shocker at staid old Oxford. ROBBERY In London, the police are looking for - the ' thin man." An individual - skinny as a bean pole. A walking skeleton, in fact. Which follows one of the boldest bank robberies that London has known 1n years. Martin's bank is 1n a fashionable section - the St. / . James District. Only two hundred yards away.,-is Marlborough ~ House, residence or the lat~ Queen Mary. Thia morning, when bank employees arrived, they found the vault had been blown open - and robbed. Crooks - getting away with forty-two thousand dollars in cash. A Scotland Yard investigation discloses that, yesterday, a gang of safe blowers broke into a building-:, next door to Martin's Bank. They made their way to the basement, and there blew a hole through the wall into the bank - and one or them got slla through the hole. That gives the only clue. The hole, so small - it might seem impossible for a human being to squirm through it, the robber must have been - about the u dimensions of an eel. ROBBERY - 2 In the bank basement, he blew open the vault - and then shoveled bundles of money through the hole, to his accomplices on the other side. After which - he squirmed through again, and the bank robbers made their get~way. 1 . 1l. ~-~~ 8o that's why, in London, lh•~" looking tor "the thin man."