[LYIIG DISC lT.-!M:r lU!,.,c,. ¥ II - ).-, • A f (Flying saucers~- ! ':re a ga~n : - this iime ~ ~ w1 th a new, spectacul a r f-eature ." ,¥potted by a jet plane.-The speed of jet v e rsus the veloc1ty of a soar in g disc -) The story w a s told today by Lieutenant ~ ilbert Ro g ers of Columbia, Pennsylvania, who wa1 flying with Captain Edward Ballard of Dover, Delaware • .:.I-- They were over New Jersey~ twenty thousand feet, speed , four-hundred-and-fifty miles an hour - when they saw a bri ht object atx>ut the size of a small fighter plane. (•1 pointed it out to captain Ballard" ■ ay■ Lieutenant Ro era, •and he suggest e d that we try to follow it. No us e , the thing was g oing too fast.• Speedier than jet.) The mysterious object must have be e n g oing nine hundrecl- miles an h our. The Lieutenant says t •1 don't know if it was a flying saucer, but it sure was somet h ing I ad n ever s een b e fore.Both the Air Force and N a vy h a ve c a lled the so a ring discs - weather balloons. But the t w o jet p ilots insist it could not have b een anythin g like th a t. [LYlNG DISC - a The Air Force r e fuses to make any comment. But flyers at the Air Field say: 'When you hear a reliable _ pilot tell a story like that, 1t makes ~•~ you wonder.• Bo it does. UQAI Off the Florida keys today, the search wa• on for an oil tanker reported abltze. Early this morning a distress message waa picked up by radio stations all across the country and soon coast guard - and Navy cutters and planes were headed for Key West. However, the scare ls over now, the SOS message turning out to be another hoax -- with the ten thou■ an4 ton ship sighted by a cutter; safe and sound and 1n no trouble. Yesterday~• we had a similar story of an s.o.s. telling of an Air rorce bomber in flames off the coast of Greenland. That turned \t to be a \ traced } phoney,~z••k■" back to an airman . radio operator at a base 1n Oklahoma. However, today's message cannot be traced. Coast Guard stations, w~1ch nicked it up, state that they have no idea where it came from. In IL 1lor1da Coast Guard Commander revealed that the ~ search must have cost the tax-payers •at least ten thousa · nd dollars.• He states that the message • could have been sent from Utah, New York or down 1n the BAAi - a llorida Keya,• and adds the hope that •some interested taxpayer will stumble on the guilty party and r e port h1m. 1 RAILROAD ESCAPI Here's one ans~er to the question - how to break throu ~ h the Iron Curtain. Do it with a paaaenger train at a1xty iles an hour. Today a Czech locomotive engineer told how he was in cahoots with twenty-four passengers - when the train left Prague, the Red•••*•* Capital. The line runs along the frontier, just 1ns1de the Iron Curtain. At one place, there's a spur going into Germany -- a branch that has ndt been used for a long time. When they came to the spur, the engineer stopped the train, got out, and tM■■xa threw & aw1toh. Then he climbed back into bis cab and started again - the train swinging off onto the spur. He tied down the throttle, top speed - and at sixty miles an hour the train went racing for the frontier barrier. There the guards jumped to safety, as the train crashed through the barrier - right through the Iron Curtain. At the first station in the American zone, the train stopp , d, and everybody piled out - with / ~ BAILROAp E S QAPI - a - ~ ~ a g ; ) ~ c , \ 4 cheers from the twenty-four passengers II\ the plot. / " A Beaded by the engineer they asked for political s~4t£« a1ylum .- ,,other pa.11engers l . e e t e : 1 ~ wanted: to go b.ack. Tonight the Red Go v ernment of Czacho- alavak1& has put in a demand tor a return of the train. ' They say they Wltll aend another engineer. to fetch -~ ~--~ it - not that Caaey ionea hell bent tor freedom. 1' - ,..__ TRUCE The news from tu'4. Tokyo tonight.I'- 1W:~ of two developments in the battle of words over the stalled peace talks. Neither of which would seem to1nd1cate much chance for an armistice in the near future. (Thia morning, Tokyo ga.ve out word that an allied nlane was responsible for yester ay's violation - --- - of the Kaesong neutral zone. It is revealed that the flier, a member of the third bomber roup, was - off course, and fired his machine guns at some lights on the ground. The airman is said to be guilt~ of •p1lot error resulting from faulty nav1gat1onJand General Ridgway announces that •appropriate d1sc1pl1nary action will be taken.• At last 1t appears the Reda make a charge that sticksJ all their previous ~t.e •• --.. •1ncidents• having turned out to b ~ ~ - H ~ Meanwhile, Pekin radio_.. broadcast the - latest Red note which turns down General Rid way's proposal that the truce talks be shifted from Kaeson to a neutral 1 te. The reply 1■ from Genera! Kim Il Sung and Pen Teh-Huai 1s described as 1 harsh; versed IBYQI - 2 in bitter rambling terms. The note calls General Rid way's proposal •com letely unsatisfactory and unaooepta01e•, and repeats the earlier demaad that the UN takes full responsibility for all v1olatlona, before any further talks be held. IPBIA On the eastern front in Korea today, the Leathernecks~~'"!'-••• through the Red lines. f.. /\ ~ "~ ..... ¥4,, - ~ The attack w s preceded by~Mttad~~ omb&rdment ~ .,.o'N11e6 by plane~ and guns, 1ttrt• soften.a up the I'- if_J..,;:b_ enemy • • • • ~ north of Inje. ~ word;- the Leathernecks hafdr1ven forward through thtounta1n■ I to the deepest point reached in this year, f1ght1ng. Kea.nwh1le, 1n the Iron Triangle, the tss••• twenty-t1tth lightning d1v1s1on took another ot the - - - - aounta1na,s:. overlooking that gateway valley, n.a.-.. • PRO PA.GAN IA In New York City today, Henry rord the Secon4 told newsmen about our latest propaganda weapon in the East-West cold war. Henry Ford, just back from Europe - including the western zone of Berlin - described how womens se~ing circles. are doing wonders. Saye Henry, the credit for the idea goes to Mrs. McCloy. wlfe of High Commia11oner John McCloJ. 1 Group1 of Vest German women gather to sew and knt,, meeting 1n border towns along the boundary llne.• Then, says Henry rord, they •invite women from the Ruaalan zone to loln them. While the inter-zonal sewing goes on the western Haus!raus tell thelr Red dominated friend• what goes on outside the Iron Curtain.• Which 1s annoying the Soviets 10 much they have been sending raiding parties acroaa the border to break up these z■ female sewing kaffee klatches. OPIYH Here's a story to illustrate the fantastic character of that most vicious of rackets ~ the dope traffic. Consider this as a matter of business, price ■ , profits. At the harbor of Loa Angeles, Custom ■ officers noticed two Chinese-American sailors as they ~ left their ship. s. s. Flying Arrow. They had some ~ - - peculiar bulges in their clothing. So the custom• men grabbed them, and searched them. The bulges were bricka, covered with silk. Gold brickaT Ho. Nothing that tame and UIJI& valueless. They were seven bricks of opium. The two sailors, caught with the goo4a, admitted they had bought the drug in Singapore -- at fifty Dollars a brick. Total -- three hundred and fifty dollars. The customs officers declare that, when processed for sale to drug addicts, the opium would sell for six-hundred-and-s e venty-two thousand dollars. Profit - one-hundred-and-ninety-thousand percent. Sounds like a pipe dream - ~ut it's a vicious reality of the dope traffic. ARSON There's a drama of detective work in a story of crimir.al arson today -- a firebug blaze that wr e cked a building and t o ok two lives. Fi v e weeks ago, detecS1ves spotted an ex-convict with a long police record, Jacob Weiss, and trailed him, suspecting he was up to ax& a aafecracking job. They were wrong. It was arson. The ex-convict was out to set fire to a factory making sportswear. The instigator was the factory owner, named Al leahner, who has confessed that he wanted to collect twenty thousand dollars SI , in fire insurance. Because, •business was bad.• Last ni ht, with two others, they went to ~ l\.Y, ~ ' Ei g hteenth Street, into which they 1 , the factory on hauled cans of g asoline. Detectives were watching. ,._, The ex-convict Weiss and anothef firebug named /\. Shapiro went up to the fifth floor. Two detectives th ~ ~ : - W..2.'-'~, t<.l~ ~ s-fl- ~ ... ~. followed "'X •-r--v •on the fifth floor• says Detective Howard Phelan, •we could hear the m en inside sloshing stuff around, and could smell g a . soline . . He went inside, ♦B§PV - 2 and p lace d them under arrest.• The officers and their r1soners w e re on their way out, when Shapiro said he wanted to go back to b et a jacket ot his. Detective James Daggett accompanied him. Then the explosion occurred, gasoline fumes igniting. Detective Daggett and Shapiro were killed, Phelan and hie prisoner We1as were badly burned. The blas, ahoot the neighborhood, and caused a million dollars worth of damage. Tonight the manufacturer of aporta goods who wanted a fire because •business waa bad• faces a charge of murder -- after this o utrage of criminal arson. SJIKMEB The news is saying that Florene ~ Chadwick swam the Channel - the hard way. First woman ever to make it from England to France - the hard way. Well it w a s a fantasy of all that's difficult 1 untavorable,~ al m ost 1mpoas1ble. The thirty-two y e ar former Secretary from San Diego California took off against the advice of her trainers. Tides and currents were bad, and the twenty- two mile stretch of water wa1 covered with a dense fog. Her sixty-eight year old father didn't want her to try it. But r1orence Chadwick had been waitin~ for ten weeks, was tir e d of hanging around and into the w ater she went. That was last night, and she swam through the darkness and fog. After an hour of swim m ing, Florence became ~ ' seasick, with attacks of violent nausea. She could net ' understand what was wrong. Today she said: •t could¢ aM trace the cause of my sea sickndss; it puzzl e d me. Because normally I don't ever suffer fro m it. But, ) / it hit me a g ain and a ain. At the end of the first SJIHHIB - 2 seven hours I had been sick so many times, I felt my stren th el1 pn ing away.• All of which was bad enough, but she had another anxiety. In one of the b oats that aocompanled her was her father, and he was disturbed by her plight. •top was frightened• she relates. •He asked me to come out · of the ater. I was as much worr led about him aa about myself. Bia heart is not good. The doctors warned him about making the ttip with me, but he ln ■ iated on going. I saw him taking a heart pill, one after another -- he aaya he took nearly thirty altogether.• So that was the dramatic situation in the Channel swim - the young woman seized with repeated attacks of sea-sickness. Anxious all the time, about her father - taking pills to fight a heart attack. Then a trainer discover e d the reason for her sea-sickness. One of the motor boats w a s leaking gasoline fumes, and these were driftin to her in the fog -- causing the n a us~a. The m otor boat was order e d away, that ended the sea-s1cknesa. SWIMNEB - 3 -1(..R It w s d ay by now, an worst of the tides A and currents had still to be conquered. Off the French Coast, she n e arly succumbed.l.e_. fF-'llen ~ &za....-'9111ua--..3.J~~ ..... ,.,..--~~lla.Jj~~'~1xteen hours and twenty-two m1nut e a after plunging into the water, llorence Chadwick sta g gered ashore - and collapsed. Even then the mishaps · ere not over. The Deputy Mayor of the local Frenc) town arrived 1n state tor a ceremony of greeting. I su p pose Florence was too tired to pay much attention. Anyway the greeting wa1 in resounding French, and the Mayor had it all wrong. He thought she w a s the Danish swimmer, Elna Anderson,llf. ( J ~~~-, ~ , ~ · ~ wh1 ,w.~ a channel awl■ • · so the Deputy Mayor saluted the glory of Denmark, not California, and passed out the news that the wrong lady had performed the exploi,. Which didn't matter much to Florence Chadwick w h o, presently, was on a boat•• going back to Dover.- ~ "tJtW--k.,\.C w1:o,e.Jel a~,wa..t &f~e• the m ost eventful Channel swim on record. ,...