GOOD EVERING EVERYBODY: In Indo-China, the Reds h a ve a bandoned their siege of Luang-Prabang. Their forces, falling back fro ■ the capital city of Laos. '.L'his is the latest from the French high r.oaaand. Patrols fanning deep into the Jungle - found no sign of the enemy. The Reds even abandoning elaborate bunkers they had thrown up. The second tiae the Reds ha•e struck at Luang-Prabang, and then, pulled back. One reason aay be - over-extended supply lines. Unable to get food and a■■unition through the jungle fast enough. also their supply lines were vulnerable under constant air attack. T here are reports abovt the Coaauni ■t •Iron ivision" now in camp some miles north of Laung-Prabang and p re pa rin g to retreat further up the peninsula. rench aut h orities believe the socalled "Iron '-'ivision 11 was originally pulled from the siege of that town on the Laos-Viet Naa border and sent down 111 Luang-Prabang. low it's going north again. The French believe this aeans the Reds aay be trying for a victory in the north before the Geneva Conference gets under way. New Navy and ~ir Force defense b as es in the Philip p ines. U. P . Correspondent Gene ~ymonds wires a story about the Air force strengthening its facilities atat famous Clark Field, about fifty-five miles fro• Manil a . A ltho' a lot of it is •hush hush,• he is allowed to report that the runway at Clark Field is being extended to ten thousand feet, long enough for any of our jet bombers. lso th a t two new contingents of a brejets are on constant p atrol. lie also says the A ir force is operating an airlift fro11 Clark i · 1eld to Indo-China - in support of american tecbnici · ns who are wortin with the trench. ~nd B-29s fly back and forth to ~ingapore. southeast Asia - auch of it - under aerial observation by our eople. A nd then_ Yavy construction, - a new p rt on Luzon, able to take any ships a float. A new headquarters for our Far Eas t fleet. un1rr1•~ - 2 The U.P. correspondent adds that the purpcse is clear: - to make it possible for us to strike anywh••• in southeast Asia, if we ever have to. Obviously it lndo-China should ever fall - the P hilippines would be a part of our front line for protecting Japan, Foraoaa, and lorea. How many Chinese would you guess have been killed - by the Reds - since Mao Tse-tung took over in Nineteen rorty-Nine? According to Assi s tant · ecretary of ~tate Walter aobertson the b e st e stim a te is fifteen million! Robertson st ted this in · secret testimony before a House Sub-Co ■■ ittee, back in January, and only 1iven out today. Be said this esti ■ ate is based on information smuggled out of China. In describing the mass liquid- ation of anti-Coaaunist ■ in China, he said: - "they just lined them up and turned the aachine guns on thea.• The ssistant ~ ecretary of State, told how many thousands were allowed to die of starvation -- this p artly because Yao Tse-tung exported food to Russia, in exchange for in d ustrial e q uipment and ailitary sup p lies. The Assistant ~ ecretary of ~t te believes that these mass li uidations have cre a ted bitter resentment a aong the Chinese p e p le. But h e a mitt 0 d t h t the regiae ha s fastened it s gri on the country. Ho does the average Chinese feel about Uarxis ■? The followers of ~onfucius or Buddha? Are they giving up the older religions for the new Russian godless religion? Wa lter Robertson thinks - they're not. The Chinese peasant, be says: •is not concerned with i d eology; and there is no ideological revolution in China!• He p uts it this way: - •a group of dedicated, fanatical Marxists at the top - have the power," and they ruthlessly kill off fifteen million of their fellow countrymen. ' DULLES We will not recognize Red China · -Fby Secretary : - S tate Dulles. ~ ~ ~was stated what he has said • many times before -- that we will not otticially do business with the regim e of Mao Tse-tung • .tulle~ tplln today before the House Foreign Affairs C011111tte~ aatated that discussions with Red China should be restricted to Korea and Indo-China -- where Nao Tse-tung bas been acting as an aggressor. IGIIUl,I ~fi-o■ l . . lalaatoa~ that Gene""'911:' will ha oallod aa a wit•••• ia/-tho of tbe lariDe ColoDel wbo coDf••••4 to fal•• obar1•• of 1•r• warfare while ts EID a priaoner ia lorea. , ... - know, General Deaa •P••t aearlJ tbr•• 1eara lD ------~-I-it'--~. Couuaiat pri10D1~ ... -n. Court wbiob 11 bearia1 tbe oa1• of Coloaol rraak Sohwahl• waata t o ~ o • tho Coloael'• experieao•• ooapare with tbo•• ~ of Geaeral J)eaa. Th• Court i• not trJiDI Colonel Sobwable. I\ 11 1tud7in1 bia ca•• to••• if 41a1pl1aarJ action ia Ju1tified. Tb• Court bop•• that th• te•ti■onJ bJ General Dean will aake it eaaier to co■• to a deciaioa about Colonel Scbwable. ID tb• ■eanti••• a Lieutenant Colonel in the larinea deacribed bow be refuaed to 1l1n a atate■ent of &•r■ warfare. Colonel lillia■ Thraab refuain&, la lpite ot Co ■■ uniet torture. But Colonel Tbraah adda Wllll,I - page 2 that hi• experience••• different froa that of Colonel SobwaDle - beoauae unlike Scbwable be••• able to keep 1 p bi• aoral• by bia coa\acta with otber laerloaaa. •• · ae••r &&Ye in. Bu\ aow h• ••1•: •whether I••• 01011 to ~eiD& broiea - I doa•t kaow.• Senator McCarthy charges th~t Secretary of the-·~··- Ma,ea. a..., It all ~ , omes after th~ Secretary ordered General Zwicker not to appear before the NcCartl1y SUb-Coan1ttee again calf« Stevens ~ • the McCarthy treatment or General Zwicker -- • "unwarranted abuse. " The Secretary is scheduled to appear hiuelf on Thursday. In the meantillle, he tells General Zwicker not to testify again. Today, the Sub-Co111Dittee heard more testimony abo~t alleged Communises employed by the Army. A former F.B.I. under-cover agent, Mrs, Mary Markward, ~~ 'lhe reported one security risk in Nineteen Forty-Four. Mrs. Amle ~e Moss, charged with being a former member of the Communist Party - who was not dr·opped from the pa, roll of the Army. According to Mc~art~, Mrs. Moss works in a code room which ~ - 2 - bandlea - what the Senator termed, "the encoding and decoding ot confidential and top secret aeaaagea." '1'he Senator . . . . , ~ F.B.I. reports about Mrs. Moaa were .,,,j£ tJ,,.-.~ - - ~ refused to act on the intol'lll.tion. --. A ~-------- sent to the ArfAJ - , / .. ADD McCARTHY But an official statement from the Army declares that an 1nvest1iat1on of Mrs. Moss was started before any action by the McCarthy Sub-Committee. The statement reveals that Mrs. Moss was transferred on February Fifth from the Signal Corps Commun1cat1on1 Center to what it terms, "an unclaasified position in the supply section." '!'he statement adds, "She . as pever had access t c the codes, to the cryptographic rooma, or to the code roau. She llllli never bad access to uncoded top secret, secret, or confidentill 11818Qg88. n . la n rus i . on - to a rd the Ur 1 · ount r in .:, , a n d i eri • Thi :: 1 n d ru s h as descri ed at a meeting of to C o . mmunist s in the Kremlin, inclu in g M a lenkov a n olotov, , ho li 8 tened as speakers d escribe d t ho u s n d s f u ss i a n s movin g into a n area of some forty mil l ion cr e s, ome towards the Ural, an some in i be r i a • '!'he r u sh i s d es c rib e d as mu ch 1 i k e the settlement of our r est when s ettlers r ced into O klahoma. The p urpo e of this rush ? Yell - to build up new grain producing areas to su lement the Ukraine. l s o, to ~ussianize certain As i a tic pa rts. ~nd to kill the nation a lism that ha often op p osed overnment from M oscow. R ussi ns to sup p lant T ~r t a rs, vhinese, and others. n :1 ~ l i n mi er ar ppu~ . 1·ng ~ ... ·nto t · n ar10 - in rush to t ke out cl im ar oun L a k e nitou e. , n d it' s 11 becau e f t e r p ened to look trou gh his s on's ge olo g te t b oo. o Barker noticed some m ps in that eolo gy book - mp which indic a ted th a t copper a nd ainc l y in hu g e deposits near Lake Manitouwadge. Borra ing a plane he sel out to ex p lore the region, and discovered the first new coppermine of any importance that had been located in Ontario in fifty years. When the news spread prospectors came in a hurry. n d i s patch from Geraldton, Ontario, states th a t what as w a tel a nd is now staked out for hundred-and- fiftv miles or so. M ore than six thousand already .. recorded. ,i t h more miners arriving every day. lso b usin ess meJ nd lumberjacks. leavin g t h eir offices nd mills t join in the se rch for cop p er 3. D d zinc. C n ad i n mini n tock s - s o rin a a in. oRTARIO - 2 --------- Hotels in Geraldton jammed with p romoters. Hard are stor e s, running out of u lies. Une m · b sold the snowshoes off his feet. ell c opters bringing men and sup lies around the clock. L ke M a nitouw dge, looking like a~x a rail ay marshalin yard - with all the tents an the snowmobiles. Canada coming up with another bonanza. All bfcause hoy Barker happened to look through his son's geology testbook. pOLE SITTER - o a. J !llles r artin cam into New Yorlc from Miami. bit unusual - b c auae this time of ye ar you generally ftnd Northerners going South to Miami, instead of the other way. But the re a l story _s that James Martin came in on too of a ~ - ........ thirty-five foot pole . ------ ---. ---- He wants to set a record for pole-sitting. He's been up there for sixty-two days. Which gives him a good way to go - because the record is a-+iundrecl-e.nd-t'ifty-two days. Martin is a sales manager in a used car lot in Miami. He first climbed up the pole as a stunt to stimulate business. His boss thought it was a good idea - and is paying him around seventy-five dollars a day for just sitting there. The trip to New York was Martin's idea. He says it's helping his morale. H e adds that he'd ltke to see some T.V. shows - although he doesn't say how he expects to get into ~~~ a studio ~ th"t thirty-five foot pole. tll!flt tt hk: In Miami, his perch was an open a ir platform . But before he left for the chilly North - a miniature house REGIME <"' f \' T ~ ~D I T C RI P . TH E CO NTRY. POLE SITTER - 2 was lowere d a ro u nd him . st ruct ure about six f et squ a re and seven re t h1 h. Marttn 1s a six-footer himself , wh ch means that he ha to curl up a bit before he can get to sleep. But he has a he a ter, e ectric l ights, telephone, radio and ~.v. He states that the real trouble is l0neliness. As he only puts 1 t, "I fee 1 .a tJtlll@ Wit like a sardine -1~1111~ more he sa,s lonel • ' Anywa, • /••w:ux..-,11,Mg:Yel'JalU-.XXtl:ffflltlz , ) not muc.h - •id,-r • "I have no overhead - and/ &x•••••----••...,~~1\5:Jl,t d H un tin bi m in .fri • 1 · 11 - s o rela xing!" :, 0 says 'is Bernice Gr a y was one of t O e fifteen women who s et out f or frica on J nuary tifth. The Indiano po li s 1 , now back in New York, giving her impres s ions of the Dark Continent • .. ' he st a tes th a t the living conditions in the jungle ere not pr imitive, a s they had ex p ected. rents; canvas bath-tubs -- and s howers. Ueal s , cooked on outdoor grills by native boys. .)ays :bernice: hy we always had four course dinners - off nice cle n China." To be d early - u p early! l w ays resting when they w eren't shooting. "So relaxing!• Oh yes, she was the champion harpshooter of the safari. Bagging three g es e 11 e 8 , a z e b r a, a • ate r bu f f a 1 o , an i m p a 11 a, and a wilde beeste. ~ome of them now being stuffed and lounted b a ck in Nairobi. 15 omen_ on ly one white m a n! - their hunter, Bunny llen. But s he sa ys," no rom nce s develope d ." That is" T lea ~ t not for the record.• - - --~llllllll!J!l!ll~~-.i--1111111• n rc hd uke in e · York sues a = reat g r a n ddaugh ter of ueen Victori d . Franz J f f o s e o Hap sburg- b ou rb on, accusing P rinces s Il ea na of Komani a _ ays sh e s old some of hi s ~ ro ertv ~ 1·thout h1·s k 1 I"' J no w edge . A rchduke Franz Josef, the Pre ten de r to the S panish t1'ronP., o ned p ro p erty in A ustria. e says that in ! ineteen Forty-One, he gave rincess Ileana ower-of-attorney for one year, but that she used the authority to sell his family castle. S o the rchduke sues the great granddaughter of ueen Victoria - for a million dollars. It's up to a court of commoners, here in New lork to jecide whether be should get his million. fter the hearing today, the Archduke announced that he is ap p lying for A merican citizenship. Which aean he will ive up 11 claim to the throne of Spain. Tnen, as he uts it:- "I'll be lain Mr. Haps burg.• But Harry he wants that million from the · rincess before he become~ p lain 'Mister.• _ _,.., ,____