four-en in e pla ne, with forty-four ss e n g rs ann a er of four crashed at LaGuardia fiel d toni J ht - in a s torm. Nin e i eluding the pilot, w ~ thrown clear or dragged from the wreckage. The lane ••••bo un d for CleYeland, waa h e ld up by a thunderstorm. Then shortly after eight the pilot nosed the big ship down the runway and took of f . About fifty feet off the ground, when the landin1 ge r was being drawn up, the plane suddenly wavered, and plung d aal almost on top ot an aeronautical acadeay near the end of the runway. Students rushed out in tiae to pull seven passengers fro■ the wreckage. The pilot and co-pilot were thrown clear. The students bad only three secoads before the plane exploded. Pilot Arthur Baldwin, in critical condition, could only say: •The plane nos ed down and then burst into flames•. ~ ~ - "3 ~ "-9 e A. ' COMINT ~R N --- - ------ Today brings an answer to a queation often as ked - hat's h~ppened to the Coaintern? A little more than four years ago, the wartiae year of 1943, that Communist..1'nt&rnational was dissol•ed. Stalin w a s desperately in need o! help and, aa a 1e1ture toward the Western Allies, the Soviet Governaent abolished the organization for inciting world revolution. The dissolution of the Coaintern wae aigned by its own executive coaaittee in Moscow, a Co ■aitt•• of fourteen. What baa happened to the■? lhere are they now? What are the7 doin11 In the ca•• of eight of the fourteen, the anawer i• •• follo••• - •• g iven by Harrison Salisbury, Foreign lewa Editor of the United Presa:- The Secretary General was the Bulgarian, Dimitrov. Today be is the freaier of Bulgaria, head of the Coamunist-do ■ inated Governaent of that •• 1•k Balkan country. Committee ■ e■ber Gottwald is Pr e aier - of Czecbo£lovakia. Ano her, Rakossi, is vice-Pre■ ier of ijungary and Secretary General of the Hungarian Communist .t'arty. Wilhelm'Pieck, who• son the Coaintern Committee, is bead of the German Coa■ uniat Party, and presumably would be tae Hed Bo•• of Ger■ an7 -- it it •e ~ en•t for the Occupation Forces ot the leatera Allies. The same sort of thin& 1oes for Co■ iatern Member toplenig, who is now chief of the Auatriaa Communist t'arty. In Italy one of the top ranking politician, is Togliatti, leader of the l*l Italian Coaauaiat Party, who until recentl7 was a Goveraaeat Minister. Be used to be known by the Paeudonya of Ercoli, an4 under that naae was on the Executi•• Coa■ itt•• of the Comintern. So was Thorez, now th• auaber one !z■ French Communist and Vice Premier of irance until the recent cabinet shake-up. And~Marty - no• third rank in~ le de i · in the i · r 1 ncb Coaaunist Party• H e r 's encoura g m nt for many of us who are a 1 in f a v o r o f the army d - a n esp e ci a lly the Air Forc es - keep in g u p -to-date.-odern and more mo d ern. S om e of u s a ve h a d the appr e h e n s ion that the Army and espe ci a lly the Air Forces - mi g ht slide back into obsolete e q uipm e nt, failin g to keep pace with the swift advancement of science. So this will sound good!- ' h i e f o f Staff Gen e ral E isenho er has ord e red Ar■y R e se a r c to concentrate on producing new and radical improved equipment rather than wasting time on minor im p rov e ment of existing weapons. General Ike baa sent a circular to all the Army Commands c o nnected with research and development, a circular s y i ng , in effectt- get busy with the latest revolutionar y c h anges in technology, and forg t any t inkering aroun d wi t h th e type s of armam en t we already h ave - s tuff that may be obsol P l e by now. Let's not forget the veteran• in our ~01pitale throughout the land toa■orrow -- or any other day. ~BEENLA.lill The question of Greenland comes up - the status of Ame ican power in that vast and strategic isle of the North. e've been in Greenland under a wartime agreement with Denmark, whereby the United ixt States undertook the defense ot Greenland to keep it from falling into azi German coutrolf- and now Denmark has bring it to made moves to modify that agreement, or an end1Tbis was disclosed by Secretary of State Marshall at a ne• conference today - he declaring that our government is ready at any ti ■e to negotiate a new agreement. But the Secretary ot State indicated clParly that this country intends to r~tain at least a foothold on th¥vast island ot ice, to make ure Mfttt. it is not used as a springboard tor aggression against the estern i■■,i He ■ isphere. LEAD_ - A str n§fa thing occurr e d in August of last y e ar, over in con uered Germany. Along a road rumbled a truck, passing from the Rua ian Zone into the American. In t h e truck were bales of Communist propaganda, being trans n ort from the oviet to the American side. • That particular truck got through all right - nothing happened. But a s~oond truck was stopped - also loaded · i th Communist propaganda. German~ Seouri ty Police were suspicious.1hey dug down into the Co ■munist propaganda, r ams of llarxist argument and anti -capit - J\liat tirades. - Qnd what did they find? Under the Red literatur was a hoard of gleaming jewels, a treasure ot gold and gems. !he German Security Police immediately notified American Intelligence Officerr, and a search was made for the previous truckload of Red literature. This as found, and there too was hidden a glowing ealth of je e lry. flllt Treasure worth over a million dollar~ million. trucks.,.. as high as six bEAD_ - 2 That tory of n rly a y ar ago was disclo d only today. Over in Germany, United Press Corres p on d ent enno Duerksen got ■ •ton to the tale of treasure, and lealflled the facts, but the American Military autho1ities would not permit the news to be made public - not until now. The sauggling of treasure from the Soviet to the American Zone came under the 'heading of international complications. The U.S. !r■7 has the hoard of gold and jewels in its possession - but its a tricky sort of thing, all involved at high leavels of diplomacy~ Its another caae of Geraan Royal family heirlooms - akin to the theft ot the crolfJl jewels of Hesse, bich made so much stir months ago. This tiae the family involved is that ot Saxe-lei ■ar, which reined as petty German Royalty in 91N times past. As in the affair of the Crown Jewels of Hesse, it was a c se of ,erman Prinolings trying to save their by hl.ding it,11ut the Saxe-Weimar anc~str 1 treasure ele ments of smuggling.and the - oviets. tory includes eM ' LEAD - - 3 hen Germany collapsed, the Grand Duchess Theodora f S a x e - We imar was at her family estates in ilesia, territory the Red Army was invading. To escape t he Ru sia ns, she fled west - and toof along •x her trea ur e of heirlooms. She went to family estates in Thurio ia, an there buried the tr - asure. American Troops came int but, they never suspected. Later the Ru ian look over and now the buried treasure was in the Ru · sian Zone. The Sovi~ts have a way of confiscati• things, and would have made an eager gr ~ b at the ancestral wealth of the 2a ■ royal clan of Ix iut they didn't find the hidden wealth. Saxe-lei ■ a • Last August, the ~rand ~uchesa Theo~ora eard of a young German smuggler who operated between the oviet and American Zones, and who had been quite succe ss ful. He had been a soldier in the ~ermanp Army, and now lived n Pa r the boundary of the two zones - on the American s ide. In American-controlled territory h bout the Russian barbarians, the e ta lke d loudly accur ed d • On the Soviet s ide he was a bot WL - 4 Comounis t, eag r to spread Red propaganda, and smuggle Communist lit ratur e into the American z one. smug g l ed o he r things as well. He The D u c hess got in touch ith him, and they made a de 1. They ung ••• smuggler , if he was able to get t e axe-W imar jewels across into the American Zone, would be paid two per cent of their value in cash and another five p er cent in jewels - quite a price. The Gr nd Duchess told hia of the hiding place ot the jewels, and thus it was that the two truck t ■ia loads of Red literature passed across the bord•r - only to be detected, the hoard of treasure found and seized.as wn in orth Carolina, some d newsmen to ay vi ere teerin g cl ar of the town of · h s 1c uare. They wer t o l d that if they didn't keep aw a y they might get illed. Rich Square. North C rolina, is the town her as t wee they had an attempted lynching. The negro, a ccuse d of attacking a white woman, was able to break way ~ rom the mob and esbape. He later surrendered tot aut h orities. Since then, the F.B.I. has intervened, and has procured a confession fr Jone member of the lyncb mob - identifying six others. You'd think iag that law-abiding citizens would ap rov of all of this~ l ut Rich Square, North arolina, aisplays a south e rn resentment against int e r erence by outsiders. Today's News dispatch uote eople as saying - •The F.B.I. didn't have any h d tl.cking their nos e s in it.• busi s c min~ down ere an Te member of the mob who made t h c~ nfession is the Yana er o f Ricla S uare's only theatr e - and he has ·a th e anger of th o &itt••• ski pped to, a , to avo1 citizens. ~l\ewsmen, some of them from the North, ~ a s s i g n e d to cover the story at Rich Squaret but today they wer v told they'd better stay away. An . ., offici a i gave them a blunt warnin ;, - ...,._~you ■ ight be killed." • At Lake Coniston over in England, Sir Malcolm Campbell, sixty-one year old British speed king is alls t to break more records __ this ti ■ e with the first jet-propel ed racing boat in hi•tory. he says he doesn't know what'll happen to him - and the boat - when he really opens her up. Anyhow he intends to break bis own speed boat record of a hundred and forty- ■ ilea an hour. Sir lalc<ia also olds the world's auto record, three-hundred- and-one miles an hour, at I ■ Iaytona Beach back in Bineteen thirty fiye. Bia new Blue Bird is described as •skipper shaped 8 • Meaning two side pontoons. Powered by a DeHaviland jet engine - ••4 an engine 10 powerful that some aviation engineer•••• predict that the boat axil will take off and then flip over. time. He warmed her up today, for the first ·th an unearthly shriek. And She gets away w1 ir Malcolm ore special sound deadeners in his helm e t. SIA UO!! S T <i:! R - T h e~'1i ad a sc a re in To k yo_ on th e r de r of th a t Orson Welles lan-froa-lar1 hu l l ab aloo in thi s country a few years back. The trouble w s the sa■ e thin&_ too auch r e alism in a broadcast, with radio listeners th i nking that a fiction -4 fancy was the real thin&• The alarm in Japan was about a battle between Americ n soldiers and a sea monster in the streets of Tokyo. That thriller was dreue4 up b7 a couple of Aaerican soldier radio writers, wbo introduced a weird and scarry nightaare - a progra■ describing a twent7 foots a mon ~ ter invading Tokyo~ and threateDiDI to devour all that ca■ e its way - wbile intrepid G.I.'• closed in with the horrific leviathaa in a battle to the death. The result was a pandemoniu■ of telephone calla - to the Tokyo radio station and to the Aray. People · raiser was• true, and were thought the weird ha1r-z•• d t of their wits. At jittery, fri gh tened, so■ e scare ou t twas ■ ade that the the ena o f the pro ra■ the sta eaen SEA MOM S T£R - 2 -------- whole thing was a joke, but most people ■ i•••d that clarifying statement - and there W d & near panic. You may be tempted to pass it all off b7 aa7iq, •well, the Japs had a scare.• But ia that wasn't the case. The broadcast about the battle ot the••• aonster •-s in English, and all the telephone calla came fro ■ Aaerican or British resident, of Tokyo. One excited G.I. phoned in - as an e7e-witne11. Be declared that he himself had seen the ~•a ■ onater. Be described it as a horrifying creature, and ' aaid it waa, in hi• words - •Grinning in an oily aad sli ■J aaaaer.• A commander of the British Occupatioa Troop• phoned and offered he+p - saying tbat hi• To■■ i•• . ••r• de11 .... nding rifles and grenades x■ so tha ' t they could da1h out and hel p the A■ericans in their battle with the aea serpent. But the cli■ax is this: A aeaber of the staff of the ra d io station declared that one of those who called in asking about the sea ■ onster was General _,.,, bl t kid MacArthur - ~ ~acArthur. And i f 1~~ a e 0 ~~~~ .. -.~~. - ~ - - - - - - .. U!_IQ!~!IR--~~-l As for the Jape, ■oat of tbe■ couldn't baTe · understood the blood and thunder prograa it they bad beard it -- though soae Japanese, of course, know a bit of English and cld understand. If ao, they didn't show any · sign -- they didn't . show any aign -- they didn't bother. Maybe the Jape figured that a battle between G.I.'s and the sea ■ onater in Tokyo••• strictly an laerican affai~ -- ao let the Aaerican■ worry. Let ICarthur worry -- as apparently he did. i And now lelaon, I'll let you ~orry --- or aaybe you'll tell u1 bow to aToid worry; Ne~ York is having t f a wa er ront .scandal, and today a Grand Jury returned th ree indictments. These involv e d an ousted city official, a waterfront gentleman known as the •ting of the Stevadores•, and a one-tim booklet operator of prohibition days. For a couple of weeks the Big Town has been ringing ith charges that James Brody, while Deputy Commis ion r o the Department of Kari'f and Aviation, had granted leases on city piers to Jaaes Auditore, a •••81 one-time longshoreman who became a millionaire- king of the stevedores. In the deal was associated Al Gross, who once served a prison ter■ and was prominent in affairs of prohibition liquor. (rhe leases on t e piers brought to the city a total of a little more than nine thousand dollars, while•• Auditore and Gross let them out on sub-leases an ~ col l cted thirty thousand, five hundred dollars. Profit,- mor -- than twenty thousand dollar, about three hundr d p r c en t ) Corruption was charged, nd Deputy Cammi io er r dy ~ as forced tor sign - the scandal JEW YORI - - now coming to a crisis with the indict ■ nt~ for bribery and conspiracy, of the three men involved. LEAD_ - 5 - jewels to the plac Zone of Occupation. -,J,. here they were hidden - in~Soviet e are told that some of the heirloom treasure is still hidden not ha•ing all been taken out - includin paintings, old masters. And there are said to be a series of other angles, which are not being aade public - in this lat st Cron Jewel Case, which ia something of an int e rnational affair. QQJIIM'l' E R)__ - 3 So we see what's hap p ened to eight of the tourteen who si t ned the docuaent abolishin g the Co■ intera ' -- when ~ oviet Russia w a s badly in need of weatera help. O f the i x oi er , t.•o are heada ot SoYiet Republic• under Stalin, one is a aeab~r of the 10100• politburo. One is in exile troa ~paiD -- and two ha•e dropped out of sight. The Finnish•• ae ■ber of the CoainterD Coamittee • Q s - Iuu1inen. And toda7 his dauahter alMI son-in-la• are leaders oft~• Coaauaiat Part7 ia Fial•••• In addition to thia we ••J. note that proaiaent p roducts of the Coaintern, thouah the7 were net oa . the Executive Coaaitt••• include -- Tito, the Bed Dictato~ of la1■l Yugoslavia; Bierut, the Coaauaiat Preaideat of ~oland; Za chariades, head ot the - Greet Coaauaiat ~art7; Siantos, number two Greek Coamuniat who died laat weet - and the top Chinese Coaaunist Chieftain• headed b7 lao Tae-TMn g . The aa■e sort of thin& goes for Co■auni1t leade r shi p throughout the world - the Red big shots tracin ~ b a ck to the Co ■ intern. ~ITERl_ - 4 Well, anyway, •e know the top-ranking figure• of the Communist International ar not carr7in& on secretly in Moscow. They are not running an uaderco••r organiz~tion. They are heads of Red ~uppet Governaenta and prominent chiefs of Coaaunist power •••r1wbere.