lllli At Rangoon, today, the Premier of Bur ■ a held a news conference, at which he repeated the word_ that Red China is willing to discuss the ques~ion of the i■prisoned American air■en. Pre■ ier ~u said the Chinese Reds have offered to receive an unofficial American delegation - for talks. The D t ••••'•• ~ e_, tJ J. ~~~~ that, having received this ~nfor■ ation fro ■ China - he passed the word along to A ■erican Secretary of titate • John Foster Dullea) ""'o - was in Rangoon on Saturda7j .$top _ ing for a visit - following the South last Asian Conferences at Bangkok. Be didn't 1a7 what the Dullea reaction had been - favorable, or unfavorable. ~u shied away fro ■ giving details - and the whole proposition is left vague and• indecisive. The word evokes no enthusiasm in Washington where it is pointed out - that UI Secretary Dag Hammarskjold went on a mission to Red China. But aee ■ a to have accoaplished ■ ighty little - in procuring tbe release of the airaen. If, now, an Aaerican delegation should go - it would be the first direct talks between the United States and Red China. Maybe that•a what the oo ■ munista •ill are angling for - using the case of the el•••n air■ en, and two ci•iliana i ■priaoned on char1•• of espionage. Thew ole country is gapin t th a e case or those two Americans, who, released from 8 Chinese Communist p rison\ a re s outin g the praises of the Reds. At Hong [ong today, Malcolm Bersohn of Bew York, and Mrs. Adele Rickett of Yonkers, applied for passports, to return hoae. The passports will~• · granted -- in a general air of amazement: l"\Al~t'J A4JJ!L t\Bersohn and lire ;\l.li.ckatt, fresh out of Jail, repeated their stateaents -- that they were guilty of espionage~rom th• way they -talk, you'd think th• Chinese Reds were angels. The news dispatches ·are noting -- the way the two.._ released Americans repeat the Chine•• Communist Party line. Like parrots. Here are a couple of line• of the diale1ue. Today, Bersohn was as~ed -- was he a Co mm unist? Be replied: •1 cannot be honored like that.• rs. Rickett was asked wa she a Communist? She replied: •1 am not a Communist, because I cannot be 80 honored.• The dispatches call it -- the result of Chinese brainwashing. The mystery of the British ato ic scientis, \,--------./ Pontecorl'o, is no~ cleared u!;-J The Italian-born psyicist - who disap eared fro ■ Britain several years ago. Be was reported to have gone to Soviet Russia, but that was not confirmed - until today. When articles appeared in two official Moscow newspapers. Articles signed by - Pontecot"fo. Who co ■ ea out with an argu■ ent for a world wide ban of ato ■ ic weapons. The Su reae Court refusee a be a ring - in the c a se of the thirteen eecond-string coaauniet leader, ~ ,t'ho petitioned for a new trial - citing the turn-coat witness, Harvey Uatusow. The1 presented an affidaYit, signed by Matusow - in which he swore his teati ■on1 against the thirteen co ■ munists was false. But the Supreme Court refuses to take up the case. In which, of course, a number one question would be - was latuaow•• evidence vital in the verdict of guilt1? laa the testimony, which he now callee false - nece11ar7 to*' convict those co ■munist leaders of conspirin1 to over- throw the govern ■ ent? ~ • turn-coat •itne11 was in a hot session, " today, with the Senate Internal S curity 1■■ subco ■■ ittee fi 1 ~ g e d - that congressional co■mitteea had co■pelled " hi ■ to become a •lying stool pigeon.• Under queationin1, he admitted that no co ■mittee ■e ■ber bad eTer pressured hi ■• But said - they had created ••n at■■■ at■oapber• of fear and hysteria• ~ ~ about co■11uni••· ,Aheat,-n•publio pressure•. Which caused Matuaow to beco■• a 'lyi1g stool pigeon.• He added - he didn't care whether the publishers of hie forthco■ ing book ••r• coa■unista..,..-or not. Charlie Chaplin ha1 ended hi1 last financial connection with the ~nited states. Selling_ his sh a re in the United Artiste Coaporation. lhich concern was - a pioneer in earl7 ■otion pioture1• Back in _!!neteen .!,.lneteen lk11ll\ Chaplin, at the height of his fa■• as a co ■edian, oo ■bine4 with Mary Pickford, Aaerica•s ••••thear\, and Dougla1 Jair~ant 1washbuckling hero of the til■•; ,.7ounclin1 - their own coapany. Which produced a long string ot worlcl-wlcle hits - in the silent til••· Including - 10 ■• of 11 ll Chaplin's greatest aucc•••••· Douglas Fairbank• died, and that left Chaplin and Mary Pickford as owner• - together with• aanage ■ent group. United Artists - retaining ownership of a treasure of old pictures. II.a.lie --~~~- Chaplin. left this country in ~A 111111 UAPLII - 2 nineteen fifty-two. Deciding - neTer to co ■e back. - - - Announcing wb the called an •unhealthy• political atmosphere. Chaplin - often chargod with haTing pro~ . coaaunist sy■pathi••· So now h ~ h • final financial tie - by ••l~in1 , hi1 twenty-ti•• peroea\ interest in United Artiats. Subat\tute !Ali§ The Democrats in the Senate ha•e picked a witness - to answer Secretary of the Treaaur1 BJ ■phre7. Who, today, put up an argument against the bill for a tax cut of twenty dollars per peraon. B• . pre1ented President Eisenhower'• contention that the reduction would be the 'height of financial irre1pon1ibillt7.• Arguing so strongly - that the De■ocrata on the Senate rinance Committee decided - the7'd oall a witn••• in rebuttal. So the1 delayed Co■■ i,t • proce ding• for a da1, looted around for a witne11, and found - Leon teyserling - who was an Econo■ ic AdTiaer to the Tru■aa Adainiatration. He'll testifJ toaorrow. Ber~1oae figure■ froa the world of business - figures telling of a stupendoua payroll. General Motors report• that, la1t year, the co■pany had • ao re than f 1 •e hundred and •••enty-• iz .. t,bouaaad e ■ployees. Their •••rage earnin1 wa1 about ninet.y-one . dollars and a half a week. r11ure out the arith■etio, and it co ■es to a total payroll, for the year, of two billion_. eiz hundred and ten ■ illion dollar,. In lew rork, the disclosure that the telephone of DeSapio waa tapped. Th T e •••any Ball chief - who is a Democratic lational Co ■■ ittee■an and is lew York Secretary 0 1 State. Th -' •wiretap - in connection with a ■urder inveatiaation. In the back- ground - alleged political purposes. This coaes fro ■ lillia■ Ieatin1, toner assistant district attorney., who i1 now coun1el f of the lew York City Anti-Cri ■e Co ■■ ittee. Re 1aya that, in nineteea forty-1evea - -- --- - . torty-.,!.ight, while he wae an a1ai1tant diatriot attorney he was in charge of an investigation of the ■urder of one Anthony Bintz in the course of which, a court order was obtained for tapping DeSapio's wire. DeSapio then - a Tammany district leader. [eating says the court order was obtained •on very fii ■sy facts.• Indicating - political reason,. There's no indication of what the tappin1 of DeSapio's wire aay have produced. The diatrict attorney Frank Rogan, who waa in office at the tiae saya - there were no political reaaona in thi1 or any other wire tapping, with which I had an7thin1 to do. TOSCAJ!ll!!l• - --- Maestro Toscannini arri•ed at lew York, thie ,,OAui_ afternoon,,\ was asked about - a ru ■or. lotab ng about conducting an orchestra in this country, but about - marriage. The report being - that the ei1hty-eight year old ausician planned to aarry hi• secretary. The prospectiYe bride - looking eo ■ething lite fifty or sixty. But the ■ arriage ru ■ or i1 denied. To1cannia'1 son, Walter, telling the n•••••n - •you can deny it•• . just rida'culous.• A In Chicago there's a building which, they said, would las t for a thousand years. c t t d ona rue• 1event7 .' nin1 1ears ago. _,2! -- to be torn down.I In Ei g h een Seventy-six Marshall Field, the••••~• merchant prince, built hia famous ■ anaion -- at a coat of ■ore than a million dollars. The first Chica10 ho ■e, to have electric lights. Scene -- of the ■oat elaborate p•rty in Chicago history -- the •Mikado Ball• in Eighteen Eighty-six. - The building, so ■ aaaively constructed -- they aaid it would last tor a thouaaa4 years. The location -- Prairie Avenue on the lest Side. Then -- the center of wealth and fa1hion. But that NOD changed. Prairie Avenue left N~ an ordinar1 sort of neighborhood. The last of the Marshall Field family aoved out -- lafore Wineteen {en. i of tenant s • .._ Followed -- by a ser 86 Th• latest -- an aviation school. lhich now -- is aovin. The ■anaion -- to be replaced b7 an office building, apparen~ly. So the wreckers are g1ttin1 rea47 to tear down the•house that was to last tor a thouean4 7ear1.• , snows, From Italy, news of atoray weather. ~ gales - and flooded ri•era. A Beavy In Roae, a vident hail atora - a torrent of . Aleo - soaething reaini1cent of tboee ancient ruins in fl: Ro ■e. In the high Appen•lne1, the blizzards have driven packs of wolvea - down on to tbe plains, in the neighborhood of Ro••· Faaiehed wolve1 - raiding the far ■ a, killing sheep. Well, the wolf was the ayabol of aaoieat Boae. Re ■eaber - ho• Ro■ulua and le■u1 were cared for \ And there's that faailia by a she-wolf? ~•••■11aszaztka anc en aoulpture_. .the lolf of the 8apita1? Twenty-fit• centuri•• have gone by. ~ a.., once again, the Ro ■an story i1 - wolf. i1\ with Pri ■e Minister Churchill ha1 been pre1ente4 a portrait of hiaselt - and a nother uproar••••• likely. The pr~vious picture, a birthday 1 1tt,wa ■ eriticized angrily. People aaying - it ■ade Sir Win ■ toa look like a •snapping turtle.• So what•1 wroDI with this new one? Painted by a well-kDo~~ artist - 14wara , Ardizzoni. Presented to the · Pri ■e lini1ter - by parlia■ entarj _ newa correapondenta. It 1how1 Churchill pose, as be addre A ••a Parlia■ent. lothing ••••• aboat • that - so wh a t's the trouble? W•ll, it's the other people in the picture Sir Winston) d IP' •~•»•kilt ;(~hewn along with cabinet ■ iniateta an •• efu t, ~ ~ a , ~ - ~ U \ ~ ~ ~ - - 7 CHURCHILL - 2 - Fore1,n Secretary Anthony Eden looting bored. i Obancellor l of the Exchequer R. A. Butler - vitb bie feer on ,be table - a l so bored. Defence Minister Harold MacMillan sound asteap , apparently - and that would t ■ply being bored. Various M.P'e slu■ped in their aeats. Bugb - ao■ e of the - dozinl ojff- all bored! foreign Secretary Anthony Iden •taaauaxu1x1a11a1a, ~n!J "s•xif A°o red. Chancellor of the lxchequer R. A. Butler - - ~ ~ , with his feet on the tableA Defenae liniater Barol4 == '. - ~ ~ ~ ~ - ~ ~ MacMillan, aound asleM_parentl7A larioua IIP'• - , slumped in their seats. Soae of the ■ - do1ia1 off.-- o..JJ. ~!j A ,; · •■•• ••=-• •• 11111••tlilg11s111llilll._lliltlllll,;,=-2-t•s •s ... th•s•tN&•l1tl•s11u---. , ""