GENERAL 1-:--r. ?"'9..:J,fo., ~'f,l'f-5>,.(~) (The case of General Dodd remains about the sa m e toni g ht -- the General stil l held as a hostage by R d pr 1soners of war 1n the camp he com m anded) He 0 is unharmed and com n unicates with A m erican officers outside the compound -- by m essage, by tele n hone. ~eneral Dod d se e ms to b e n eg otiating for h • own relea F e and has passed along c emands made by th Com m unist prisoners) Demands odd item of a thousand sheets -- which include an of paper. This peculiar requirement becomes clearer when w e demands -- {he Communist~ insistin g h-- ar about other that they be give the right to have telephone com m unication with other com ounds where p risoners are kept. And -- the pr t V 11 e g e of or g a.n 1 Z 1 n g those O the r c a : o t 1. Ve S ) Sound 8 as 1[~· demand for naper had some thin g to do with ~ Communist organiz a , t 1 o n ~ • The prisoners w h o seized General Dodd as a osta e are a hard cort of Red fanatics, -- non- Communists having b een t ken out of t ha t co m o und, and 2 l a c ed ·n ot h r ca ~ s o o j e I 1 an . Th e r d b e e n vi o l ence and b r u t a li ty -- the o m m u n i s ts att e mo tin to k ee o t he o t h r s i n li ne , t he pa rt y lin e . S o now, holding Gen e r a l Do dd as a h ost age , t h e w o u ld se , m t o b e using \ situation to win the u r1v1le g e 1ststi•~• the ~tt•txatt•attaaxaax& Y mK&11axst~t•atK1x*•« •K ■ of c om m uni ca tin 1th ot he r o rison e rs - - for pro~a ga nda, int1m1 ation, or whatnot. Eighth Arm y C o m m ander General Van Fle e t i s pr epa red to use force as aaaaxtxaxt•••••••x•txlaaaaxtaaalt&axx asajhe was authorized to do y top command t r Gene r al Ridgway, .,who 1s l ea ving -- turnin g over his post to General ark Clark. General Cl a rk is noted as a. soldier -Va, 1 diplomat, accustomed to difficult problems. W ell, he certainly was handed a hot uotato, as he takes over the Fa r Eastern command. Today General Van Fl e et st a ted that the demands of the Commun1st \ ur1 soners a.re -- mt 1 mposs ible. The Reds have b een t1aK■ informed that Gener a l Do dd is no lon ~ er Commandant at Koje Isl a n d -- h e h as b e en GENERAL - 3 super ceded Y Gen a l Ch · 1 r 1 s Col so , Chi e f of t a f f of the F irst Corp 5 in K or e . T he R d s a re told t ha t t he ir h o s ta e, t he G eneral, now sp e a ks onl y as an individual s o ldi e r. Ther are sign s t ha t · th e Red ne ot1ators ti in the truce tents at Pan Mun Jom will take advantage of this e ird episode -- of a prison camp commander captured by his prisoners. Today the Chinese Red ~ad1o s a id that the . affair of General Dodd was proof that all the nrisonera of war in Southern Korea want to be returned to Communism. In the truce tents, the enemy negotiators toda y were repeating their old contention that the Americans have coerc~d tens of thousands of prisoners, compelling them to say -- they don't want to go back. - So, rebelling against that, the prisoners captured the G e neral. - That sounds as if it would be the Red line. JAPAN - SO LDI E RS O v e r 1 n J apan, t h e r e's a G I w h o really is 1 n rouble. re g i m ental cu t -up, to o funny for w ords -- a n d you kn o w w h t a m ispl a ced ense of h umor can do. This comedy-lovin g GI was 1din 6 the ta.11 of an a rmy truc k w it several co m panions -- when along ca.me a Japanese on a bicycle, pedallin g along behind the truck. llU~ Yutaka Tomono was minding his own business, pumping away at the pedal• -- a.nd you how funny a guy on a bicycle oa.n seem. Especially a solemn Japanese. The GI, always tbe life of the party, thought he'd make a rea.1 b1g laugh out of 1t. He a rope, he m ade a. 1&880, and roped the Ja.paneae on bicycle -- Wut a ka Tomono yanked off his bike and drag g ed along. know -- took the We ll, it sure was a · 1augh. But, with Ja.pan a soverei g n independent nation again, under the ~eace tr ea ty -- it was also an international incident. T h e GI jokester really was out of luck -- JAPAN - SOL IERS 2 b ee use in th crowd th t w tnessed t he ~ , was his bat t lion com m ander;who jumped into acti o n, helped to get Yutaka Tomono unlassoed, apologized, and sent an officer to Tomono's home offering all possible help. • •save~ disciplinary acti n"1s promised, and I suppose the faceti o us GI will spend a while in the uard house. He sure nicked the ,rang time and the wrong place to get funny with a lasso. PHILIPPINES In the Ph111o n1 nes , th J re is excitement over a letter urinted in a A anil a newspa _ er today, a 1 tter signed with the name of Luis Taruc. Wh ich name 18 only too familiar in CL-f<J1 the Islands Taruc,A.leader of the huks, that outfit of rebels dominated by - oommunlsta . ~ The message 1a addressed to Philip 1ne President Quirino and states that Luis Ta.rue ha.a ~~ broken with the .reds} . ~ a conference on land reform, ' fWHl cal ls himself a Christ ia.n, troubled only by the plight of the Philip ine peasants. He wants to help them -- and ts through with communism. 7t' But the whole thing 1s complicated by a question. I1 the signature on the letter, ~rinted by the Ph111pp1ne rree Press, really that of Luis Ta.ruoT A hand writing expert thinka no. ~ 1 n 1 a t e r of the Interior believe• the signature 11 genuine, and will make move1 for negotiation ■• If the letter 1a what it seems to be, it might well mean the end of bitter troubles in the 2 Philip ines. ~ second 1n com m and of the huk outla•s, Luis Taruc has become a symbol for the peasants without land. They regard him as -- a Phili pp ine Robin Hood. So, if he has broken with communism, it might well swing the discontented country people against the red leadership of the huke • • BR I:i ' AI N e s from Lon o n 1ctur e an o t h er e lection defeat f o r t e G onse ·v· .- 1ve Party. he conte ts were local -- Br1t1sl towns electin t h e ir m unicipal councils. In al 1 os t v r y one of three hundred and ninety one councils the Labor op n os1t1on x■ made gaina, and captured twent one from the Conservatives. They elected •••••tta councilors in some towns which had never known a Socialist councilor before. All of which confir . s the verdict of previous local elect1ona -- that Churchill's Conservatives have lost in oopular favor, because of the bleak program of greater austerity tow ich they have to resort. WA.SP ~he oav · 1 in uiry into the dis a ster at sea New Jersey today ) The first witn e ss - Li utenant William Hoefer, ~anking last week be ga n t Bayonne, officer am on t he sixty-one survivorsr Of the luckless Destroyer Hobson. He stated that the skipper of the Robson, Li•utenant Commander Willi.am Tierney, saw the collision coming - the great bulk of the carri9r WASP looming in the darkness of ni ht. Instantly he gave the or · er -- emergency speed &head. But it w&a / too late. {;he WASP struck the destroyer and cut it in two)- Lieutenant Command ltsax Tierney being one of the fne hundred and seventy-five t.Mt perished.) ( 71.c. ~ 1 collis1on oc c urred while t h e g iant aircraft carrier and the pigmy destroyer were 1n a comnlicated ma.neuve~ which called for sharp accuracy of steering an intricate course, and of tim1n. Something went wrong -- with either the course or the timing. R AI LROA UNI O N ---~----------- To d a . t hree rai l roa d union be g n le g a l a ction, tr , in g to d o wha t the y sai d t h ey'd do -- t ha t i s emul a t e the teel in d ustry. They w ant to g et an injunction a ainst the government seizure of the railroads -- so as to have authority to call a strike. If the steel industry can get an injunction•~•*•• against federal seizure, why can't they ? So today, three railroad unions asked the federal Court of Appeals, for a decision against the •no strike order•, issued by the Federal authorities. Also -- for permission to go to the Supreme Court an d ask that the government seizure of the railroads be ecl a red uncon s titutional. MC GRANERY The Senate Jud1c1 ry Committee votes k ~ ~ for Federal Judge James c G ranery, as Attorney General. The vote 8 to 4. Appointed by President Truman, th Judge was uest1oned b the Com m ittee on the much disputed subject of stlel. He was reluctant to declare himself, but indlcated1 in a round about way/that he thought a Taft-Hartley law injunction would have been bet · ter than the Pres1denf~ seizure of steel. At least, that's what his remark• were interpreted aa meaning.) ! (1n a •rt hearing '-as day befo~~ yesterday, wiineesea aga st him test1fle4 tbai, ae / a rederal Judge, 1n7'11adelphi&, Mo~tanery had ebown :/' what , was called : _ ''lgnorancJ-~ the law.••A~d -- / / ,I n the · ench.' • / ' But other wi tneasea / ~ and,. t , he Sena. te Comm ttee ratifies he appointmen as / 0 RESERVE O F FICER At Detroit, three reserve officers of the Air Force are on trial, charged with bribery together with a sergeant, accused of having taken crooked money. All part of the problem of reserve o !icers called back to active duty, Which, on one hand, produced the • •stay-down 11 s tr ik9 -- fliers refua1ng to fly. Others, trying to bribe their way out. Today Lieutenant Gordon Cook gave hie accoun,. - --~~~ He served in the aeaond World War II ~ as a Navigator in a Bl? Bomber, 41dn~ want to go back ,.._ into the service. He says -- he had family rea1on1, wife and two ••11aa1 children. Moreover, he wae not 1n fit physical condition. Called before a Reviewing Board, he ~~ proteated,~was approached by a soldier who aald: ' ' I hate to see you get oalled back. I think we aan flx yo~ up. Of eourse, there will be a fee.'' He says the fee wae SlOO.OO, and he gave it to the soldier. He doesn't know but what he mi ht have RESERVE OFFICER -- a b n tricked out o f the mo ney but, for wh a tever reason, he w a s n otifi e d in a few days th the was n hysically dis ual1f1ed for actives duty. / Prosecution charges that, through bribery, medical records were altered and falsified. The sergeant on trial -- accused of th a t offense. l SERGE NT At U . r m le a d u r t ers Fr · nkfort, ermany they a ve id e ntifi e d the Se r g a nt. e's a e n e ral. B ut you'd ha r d ly guess t he Ar my in which Sergea nt Russel Ha i ht of D e nver, holds his high rank. Kashmir, the fabled land in the Himalayas. There, four y ea rs ago, he was the com m anding officer of a rmed force& in battle. He's a natural born soldi e r of fortune -- who, at seventeen, enlisted in the Can a dian Army for W orld Wa r Two. He was badly wounded in that famous Diep p e Raid and, when th e war was over, decided on a civilian career. But 1n an exciting part of the world. Takin g a job with an American firm, doing survey work in Afghanistan. Nearby was K a shmir, where M ohamDB1an tribesmen were in revolt against the &ltl• G overnment of India. A British newspaper m an introduced him to the President of an 1nsurrecto regime in the mountains -- President S a rd a r Mohammed Ibrahi m Khan. Who of · ered Rus ~ ell H a ight a commission in his army as Captain. SE EN T a T h e n a t ur a l born soldi e r of f o rt u ne could no t resist -- a n , the n e x t th in g ou know, h e w a s in comman d of some two thous a nd ' ' b order · u a rds.'' h i c h w e re, i n a ct, P a th a n tribesmen those fierce w arriors who for a ge s ha ve disturbed t h e peace in the re g i o of I~ Khyber P a ss. A weird o utfit -- only half armed, w ith rifles, s wo rds a n d home-made spe a rs. But he led them to victory against Indian troopes, and captured a string of towns 1 n K a shmir. He was decorated with a couple of Kashmiri medals for ~K heroism on the b attlefield, and made a Brigadier General. W hich wa s good going for Ru s sell Haight of Denver. But your Uncle Sam step p ed in. The war in Kashmir was a ••tt ■ tx delicate international uestion, and U. s. diplomatic officials did not w ant an American General com m andin g an Ar m y of Pathans a g ainst India. So word was sent along that under the law, he'd loee his American citizenship if he stayed on 1n the E HG E A NT 3 111t a r se rvi c e of a fo re1 n ow r . Bae t o De nver h e e n t -- b ut he stil l llAIIII hankered for t h e life o f a ~oldi e r. By no w he was m a r ried •• h is wife an E n g lis h g irl. So, with British g o o d s ense, she said t o him: •~ou al aye se e m to be IIIKIIS fighting in so m e f oreign army, wh3 not try your ownt• H couldn't ver y well enlist as a General -- so the o ~ e-time com ander of an army of Pathans in the Himalayas, joined u p as a p rivate. Soon promoted t o t e rank of Sergeant. Which took him to Germany, where the newsmen have now discovered the Sergeani who wa s a General. H e a nd his Missus now h ave two children, and today he sai d : • i 11, it's rather quiet, but this - - American Army life is g ood for the family.• t a U C m m 1 t t e e , e t 1 n t o d y , ! 'J c ow e le ate alik u o te an old Russi a n r o ver b . At least, t at's w la t he c a lled it. The ov t s no w-a-days ' are c l a i m i n g ~ everyt 1n 1n c lu d in rover b s. So alik, a d essin the com . ittee, said: "To quote an old Russian . roverb 'a bird in the hand is worth tio i n t e bush'." Well, even we A~erican1 have hard someth1n like t a t before. But let's not imitate the Soviets and supoose the proverb is our own -- or even En~l1sh. At tle UN meeting, the French delegate spoke u and reminded about - a bird in the alik thaythe •• old wheeze ,; hand 1 s ~ e s o p , the Greek ;....._ - fable writer, w o coined the phrase some twenty-five hundr e d years ago. Or, maybe it was an old chestnut ~ n Aesop's time. LTP.1952.05.09i.pdf LTP.1952.05.09ii.pdf