GOOD ~VENING EVERYB O DY ---------------------- Word a just come from ngton t a t t~is country has given Jugoslavi forty ei ht hours to hand over any crew members watill alive• from the two Army tr nsport planes recently shot down by Jugoslav fighters. aren't immediately released, our Government will place the entire matter in the hands of the United Nations Security Council. Earlier this evening, Acting ~£cretary of State Dean Acheson called into his office the Juglslavian c~ar e d'affairee and handed r.im the note that has now made ?Ublic. A document as blistering as can be ~aased ~ between two sup osed friends and Allies. The note charges that some crew members of the second plane ouote -- •met their de th not bv accident but by the deliberate acts of Jugoslave authorities•. It furt er charges th t Jugoslavia' explan tin of t~e •x incident w~s w ol y un atisf~c ory ands ocking to the reople of the Unite Stater. LEAD JUGO LAVIA •2 --------------- Nor is t ere anyt 1n very 1 iplo ma tic about the mes s e t at a c rasten e d Ju g osl a v d i p lomat in W r in g t n before t he Unitm Nat i ons Security Council i f Ju g oslavia fails to ct it~in forty-ei g ht ~ours. Earlier today, in answerin g a mil d er sta e Department p rotest, Marshal Tito's Government responded by makin g demands of its own, on us. The note from Tito does not deny the shooting down of the p lanes. It even informs us just what happened to that second Army transport. That it was shot down by Jugo- sl v Fighters, and crashed in flames. The Jugoslav note says -- •caught fire and cr~shed.• What baprened to the people in it -- five Army men? The note from Tito states: •There are signs tat, unfortunately, victims fell in this accident.• The word is th a t two of the Americans got out by parachute, and the other three perished in t~e flaming crash -- burned to death. So here's wha , the Soviet Puppet demands that the United States Government is s ue what the JUGOSLAVIA - 3 ------=------ Dictator of the Puppet N ation states in a speech personally witnessed the shooting down1he first r-= that he American pl ane. Is he apologizing? Not at all. The Puppet is defiant. Tito says: •we do not want peace at any price.• le hear that the A•erican Aabassador is going to call on Tito, who is at a •••t vacation place. Ambassador Patterson will aake representations to the Coamunist leader in person -- remonstrate with Tito face to face about the shooting down of the American ~~ planes. h ~ n o t lik ely to get ·much satisfaction. · ~ Congress tonight seems ready to bac~ to the hilt the &a- -t:b-1-&-•td=@:: :o4- -t-tie- =as tR)c -Mlol+ ie .+l:Te W.la epar ment's latest protest to Jugoslavia. s otN- -d-e-f-i··&n•c-e--. S n at or Bridges of .Hew Baa pa hire a tat ed today that we auat, in his words, nBe prepared to use ailitary force against f i ) . ~ 'T ito'a Governme n t.• The benator called !ito -- •, Red Puppet dancing to Joe Stalin's tune.* And Bridges of lew ~ Hampshire added: •ThiSI» no ti ■e to puss7foot or write " s ,arp notes. It is a time for action -- action that Tito and Stalin will understand. I suggest that all relief to Jugoslavia be cut off immediately.• JUGOSLAV 2 ----~-------- di plom n t ic note c a ll s "strict or ~ er s ." Our g overn ~ eat i s to i s u e s tr i ct or er to Amer i c n P • i 1 o t s , a k e t b~ m keep a w a y f rom Ju g osl a v Ter itory. If t h ey don't t h ey'll b e shot down. When this note was handed to American t■~n• Ambas ador Patterson in Belgrade tod a y, he made the follo w ing bitter comment: A ye a r and a half ago•, siad he, •united States Aircra f t were a sked for and welcomed. Now they are shooting them, down." And her e 's t h e irony of it. From Ro m e we bear that the two planes w ere downed -- by American-built fighters, Mustan g s. In other words, lend-lease planes that we •R ■ X gave to Tito. Moreover, there's a report that the lend-lease Mustangs used a g ainst us were running on UNRRl gasoline. Most UNRRA stuff is provided by u s -- so Uncle Sam would seem to have hand e out t h e f i ~ ters and motor fuel used to shoot down our own p lanes and airmen. If to d ay's Jugoslav note be not enoug~, ere's somethin g f rom Tito him s elf. The Communist Dictator of the Pup et Nation states in a speech t h at he JUGOSLAVIA 4 lell, Senator, that would see ■ to be an idea.--llre we still sending charity and free gifts to the people who are shooting down our planes? Bridges thinks that if econo ■ ic weapou fail1, we should use ■ ilitary force. •we can; aays he, •ProYide fighter escorts for our•••' nonco ■ bat plane• -- and then, if these are atba~ted, we oan mate oar an••• ,..;, ► •=cp in the sty.• POLAND_ Great Britain intends to use economic sanctions against Soviet Puppet Poland -- if the Warsaw Regime does not per■ it the free election that was guarante~d by the Big Three Conferences at Yalta and Potsdaa. Econo ■ ic sanction nuaber one would be a British refusal to return the Polish gold reserve, taken to Lond · on when the •azia oYerran Poland. Th@ aaount ot the golJi reserve is only sixte•en aillion dollars, but laraaw is said to need the money badly. le hear that the Soviets are ottering a twenty aillion dollar loan te Poland, but there ia a s• twiater in that one. Moat of the twenty ailliona II . would go to pay tor the upkeep of Red Ara7 Troops in Poland -- the Poles to borrow aoney fro ■ the Soyieta to pay for the Soviet Military force that's enslaYing thea. !!llli Fiorello LaGuardia New York's storay · ex-Mayor, has stirred up mo · e than one tempest during hi ■ current s ■a• tour of Europe. First he didn't like the fact that the Czechs were aaking beer fro ■ what he thought was UIRRA grain. Yesterda~ he tired Britiah Lieutenant General Morgan as UHRRA'S Chief in charge of displaced p•aon~~day the Little Flower Nlll into " a a~inging rebuke froa General Joseph McHarney U.S. Ar■J Coaaander in Chief in Eueope. lcRarney is particularly inceued bJ what be oalla LaGuardia'• baseless charge that the aray question• the efficiency ot UlilRi wort. Aai--t,lre- A ■ Wh..,_• Qeawnl aake1 bO \eaua M 1•••••1, ■ ake1 ••boas,•~••• , ~ Be citea ~ardia'a s , / in Geraany ~ •ppoa e 5 the c inuat ion of " in the caA_e and of~laced pera .. •Jst ,•Says Mclarney. •1 ha•e been J- inforaed that UNRRA aight go out of businese~the end of this year. . -~ II n Tnu · would be a serious blow. le depend on UNRRA for expert aad protessional care in handli~g • argued with Ira Hirschman, LaGuardia's special representative in Europe, trying hard to convince him of the need for UNRRA to remain in business. •Yes•, went on the American General: "and LaGuardia sent me this message -- "Hirschman has just reported, thank• for your cooperation and understanding!• Pointing up the Army's ' problem with displaced persons in Geraany, Mclarney e~timatea that there are still a hundred thousand Jews . preparing to flee Poland with the majority of the ■ beading for the ' Aaerican Zone of Occupation. "liard-preaaed U. S. Aray authorities are already caring for five-hundred- thousand Displaced Persona, yet, •says General MclarneJ, •LaGuardia has gone so far as to sneer at ' our attempts to provide these infiltrating Polish D P's with rations and persuade the• to go hoae. today a report that a Russi been say red while working for HRRA. That's true and the ' e h ~ v ~ ~ a l e s t i n _ - ~ In the city of Tel Aviv, metropolis of Zionis ■ 1:6;1.o., ' ' the streets/\were strewn with pamphlets, thousands of them -- pa ■phlets conveying a &ape - rate threat. 'E:IRJy ' Warn~evary British official in the Holy Land to A consider hiaself ■ arted for death ... _ i t capit•l punishaent is inflicted on eightean Jewish Extre ■ iata, Condeaaed by a British Militarr Court The Zioniats under aentence of death were ■ e■bera of an underground raiding party that blew up railroad yards at Haifa, and tou1ht a battle with Briti•h soldiers. 'Phe7 are aatd to belong to the Stern Gang, the ■ oat reckless and dangerous organisation ot the Jewish Underground and · the pa■ pblets distributed in tel AviY today e ■anate fro■ the Stern Gange. That aeore~lJ conspiring group has threatened previously to take vengeance on British officials, if any of its ae■ bers were executed -- liYea - T G . ~ ~ ~ - ~ , 1 . a.-lbrrt/: ~4~ for lives. And now the cliaax of aeaace. ' 1, It was only recently that the British PALEST IIE - 2 authorities in a spectacular aove, seized and searched ' Tel Aviv, huntin~ through everj house, yet today the paaphlets of the . Stern Gang were distributed everywhere. And almost openly. They announce, a ruthleaa war of killing against Briti _ ah offi'oiala -- if' the death .s . sentence ar, carried out. And the · paaphleta use this phrase -- •The straet• of Palestine will flow with Britiah blood.• The situation is aade the aore de17erate by the apparaat reao~ve of the British authorities to ignore all · threats -- and carry o-at the execlltioae. Thia ia indicated in a dispatch froa Palestine today, the indications are_: new terror in the 8017 Land • • ILICTIO! Primary elections in any one city are not national news -- ordinarily. But the political situation in lew York is exceptional and there is countrywide significance in today's count of • yesterday's voting. For a long time lew York City politics ha•• been bedeviled by the Co■■unist iaaue,-f.e..-"Hl~~aa.w~ JiLliC't lQI - 2 The nu ■ ber one exhibit ia -- Marcantonio. In the previous elections, two years a10, be •••pt both Deaooratio and Republioan pri ■ ariea . -- and want back to Congress without opposition. Thia year, onoe a1ain, Marcantonio went into both priaarie1, aad toda7'1 ti1ure1 abow hi ■ beaten in oae, aad alaoat beat•• in the other. Be lost the Bepubiican ao ■ ina\ion to a ••teran, a war-ti ■• Ara7 Colo~el. In the Deaocratio Prlaar.7 tbe re1•lt i i aa e••n 1reater aurpri•• -- althou1b laroantonio ••• • \. Be YirtuallX bad to wia beoauae tbia Lett 11 . . er, 10 bitterly denounced aa a follo•r ot . the Coaaaaiat Part7 L · ne, bad the support of the official Deaooratio Or1ani1ation, Taaaany. In tbe Deaooratio Priaary be••• oppo1ed by a Teteran, tora,r Lieutenant Co ■aander Patriot J. Hannigan. Thia war tiae laval Officer fought a bla1ing EL!CTIQ!! - .3 election battle assiiling the Coaaunistsas anti-Aaerican worshippers of Stalin~and he ca ■ e within fi•e~hundred- , and--eixt.y -two Yot.ea of •inning.(1te-rc1t11~~:-e.-...w .... ~~ he Thia lew Tork election looka aa it it ~ltu..)Y~ aight haYe aore than a aere A:. A igniticance •• it it aight be a sign of the ti ■ ea, a aign of waning Co ■■uniat ILICTIQI - 5 iufluence eTer7where in this country. lhiob i ■ not 10 aurpriaing, coneidering the reaponae of At•rioan1 to the goinga~on headlined by the naae1 of Stalin, lolltoY,~ fito. The OP A will roll back June t hirtieth levels on September meat prices to So ninth. Aaaya Paul Porter, 0 PA Chief. Porter has been ••P~•ered by the Price i ■ DeControl Board to reestablish meat controls at any ti ■e beginning Friday. Be 1a71, bo••••r that he'll wait until September Rinth, to gi•e dealer• a chance to sell stocks they bought when all control• were ott. The OP A a l a o ~ h ~ l e a k warnina to -,t.t oonsumera:-~furtber aho~tagea of beet and other ■ eat1 ~ • expected during the fo~~"":'::th':". ~ o o k tor ■ ilk and other dairy products~i• alN pee1t ■ ,••t .. -., •••• tke---we-a.. Porte~~cotta at warnia1• fro ■ the li•estock indu1tr7 that the return ot oeilia1• ' on ■ eat will brin1 the black aarket back in a bil wa7. Be points out that the OP A now has twenty ti•• hun d red investigators watching meat prices alone, and says that •tor the first time i e have ao ■ e baaia for belieYing the black ~arket can be licked•. There were air~clea at Moline, Illinoi1 today, airaclee of escape fro ■ death. An airliner with twenty-six aboard, crew and paaaengera, cra1hed ath an iapact ao 1batterin1 that the cabin wa1 ripped wide opeb and wreckage wa1 hurled tor an area ot a hundred 7ard1. The pilot and co-pilot were tilled, ·but all the other1 escaped -- airaculou1ly. Soae ot the pa1sen1er1 were burled out of the cabin, •• it ~rasbed in two. One wa1 a ■ other with her baby in her araa. She and the baby were catapulted out ot t.he plane. !be ■other wa1 bru1••4 a bit, the obild unhurt. The new ■ baa ·been 10 full ot interaatloaal quarreling, and threat• of war, and tragedy tonight, \ba\ /frNla-0~ out./\ 9cc t•• ■ czll. Today In Paris, ecretary of State Byrnes took tiae out fro ■ the to •lk to the Jugoslav Delegate 1 1;ito•a v·ce Preaiar1 i>out the -o~t,in1 down ot Aaerican planes. le don't know what••• aaid, but the news dispatch • that Byrne• •11111■ onect• the Jugoalav. to indicate tut oar Secretary of State wa in no patient aood. g P A The OP A has just an ounoed hat oeiling peo le this principally to ■eat. The price ceilings)' June thirtieth to go into effect on Septeaber,/4'inth. QIRBA - .3 spy is now on her General lie been an Agents i Aaerican says UIRRS baa Russian Secret Geraan1 ~ It hasn't LEAD_l~QO~AVIA_- 2 is transmitting to his communi~! Marshal Tito ~ toni ht. The State Department even que tions Jugoalavb-- 1'- ~llegations that the planes had violat d Jugoslav-. territory. It says: •At no time was the United Stat~s govern11 nt inf or ed that if · on'e of its plaoee be forced a mile or so over the Jugoalavian boundary, the Jugoslav government would shoot to death the · occupants of the plane•. ibe final four paragraphs of the note tel11 Jugoslavia in the biunteat language just what•• ~ ■ x ■ expect her to do."The Belgrade goTern■ent ■ ust release i ■aediately the A ■ ericana now in its cuatedJ and insure the■ safe passage beyond the border. But the matter 11a7 or may not end there. Even if our demands are •••111i• complied with, ~hq State Department reserves t~e right to take further action to protect its flyers in the future. ihat could mean, of course, fighter escorts for ArmJ Tr.ansports fl7.ing routes in the troubled area. More o ■ inous is the threat to lay the matter