0 h ~ l 0 . n ic ·t, J t · n 0 r s al T· ' s 0 1 n o vn y h sho o l gm of 0 t u m Ameri a n r ort . n r e . now m n ing n mnit'es f r the liv 8 th five eric n lo s t i he 8 ond of those attac s. E · rlier to y Wa h'ng on got a response from our ori in l note of protest. Tito as defiant - even threatening us with further incid nts if our panes ander off their re ul r course in flying from Austria to It ly. Toni ht our State Department cal~ed in the Jugoslav Char e D' f f ire s , h nded him aessage ••••~Kl hich presumably Tito, and erhaps St lin and Molotov are now pondering over. The American •• ■■ %i m mor ndum denied Jugosl v claims th a t Am e ric n pl n s , h a e some two-h ndr d- nd-seventy nu hori zed f igh s over - '- J 08 V h ix e s . ... n h n s h ire 0 o.L er n n a - n n e 0 g t e tres s ing. Perh i ry f l r of 0 her ountr e ' in end- · s e r t , Am t' n m de pan es h e 'v e g ven 0 0 r 11 i The wt e De rt nt oesn' 8 y what other country, or co D r ies. Bu th in!"eren e is pl in. in bat other nation i• that p rt of the or d was the recipient of lend-lease military e uipment? The answer is Russia. bowing how serious a vie it takes about this new crisis, the tate Depart ■ ent also handed copies of its ne note to Tito to the Fr nch and British embassies, both of which necessarily keep in close touch with us on all matters so vital to them s this. Hr is an ironic footnote: Either ina v rtan y, or thro gh cleric error, the State e • rtment announced tonight th t i t s new protest to Ju osl v· h d been baned to thew oviet charge ' ff a i " The rror c orre ct e d so o n aft r r e p rte ~ s received co ies of the nnouncement. vir / n fr m in / / on , , i t t h / re / / e had thou ht that the crisis ith Jugoslavia was about over, that arshal 1ito had yieldec and was making amends for the shooting down of American air transports, one of them downed in flaaes, five American airmen prishing in the fier1 crash. Tito released prieanera, sent bodies back, and made verbal promises. e heard ho• he bad given, a pledge , by word of mouth, to the •merican Ambassador, Richard Patterson -- pledgi ng that Ju os l v fighters would shoot down no mo e Ame ican fig ters. So all that remained, we were led to biieve, was a probabi.,. Amerio n demand for i•• in em nity, damages for the lives of the five airmen. a t o a , n h e r ' n a toni hjn f c . ~ o s la v Pr . s uot tat m n m y an m rican member o th joint ritisb-Amarican ommi sion on Palestine, Br ey Crum. The stat m nt w given to a London - --..J ne paper F Wit"- i confirmed by a London dispatch. Amwican del gate Bar 1 y Crum is uotes ass ying: •You kno , as wel as I do, that his Ju oslav incid nt is the end of a longs ries of reconnaiasanoe flights, in hicb we have been trying to photogr ph ft' . ' all Ju oslav1as secret defens s." That, fro ■ an 1-- american d legate on an int rnational coa■ ission. 1 ln •ashing ton today, f~ ,. 1 lea coaferences by officials of the ~t te Department, the aatt r was taken to the lhite house. President Truaan ~~~ . ~ just ,t_'• r"" fro• h1 s uc at i o: )"'i.-e~e,tk:--1wr-ipn.::.2Nte&eo11a.aa~l:--tllwawN• ia aealiag •i• h Titre' a aeu- ~ conferred wit tne -,,,,..,A Acting af ~ecretary of tate, nd"got on the Q trans-Atlantic telephone Nl';tt ecretary of · tate A J.QQ~ AYIA_ 5 · n re - · n s we r th t , nu t h v n n ended for t lin a s for it o . 0 onight' i patch from th tion 1 c ital speaks of wh t it calls " sho ed and ngry reaction in official W sh'ngton" - the tension that goes with the ne crisis. Along with this e hear that, over in Europe. Secretary of Stete Byrnes is going to make an i ■ portaa\ address on Aaerican policy• e is ta ing a trip to Germany, during the delay of the Peace Conference, and ■ i ■ i will speak at Stuttgart on Fridq. The tone of the dispatches ~ould see ■ to indicate that Secretary Ir Byrnes will do ao ■ e plain talking about Soviet Russia in general, and puppet Jugo~lavia in particular. I But, in 1 L i yie in by Tio, t ere r cont icti n d shil y - lyin St l in's t tryin, a r ntl , . o s i m out of the dema~ds w e • er makin, t he dem nds presented in the American ultimatum. And no e have a new sudden c ange, a ne turn arcun . d by Tito and the crisis i wide o en aga in . The new Jugoslav n o t ~ - Tito rej c t ~ l l re ponsibility for the A erican planet shot down, and that's an implied rejection of any American d mand for reparation. he Ju oslav Dictator ~ turn~down the contention of our government that the two planes, in flying over Jugoelav Territory, ere off their course baoause of bad weather. As for lito's romise to the American Ambassador that no more American planes ould be shot do n, th Jugoslav not state{ that ' J:ito haf forbidden his fi ht e r ilots to shoot at Americ n planes only on the condition that the united ~tats keepa its planes from fl · in ov r Ju oslav ' erritory. T e exo ption~tlr J_QQ ___ A_ - 3 b a r. This ctua ly d l i A a t rest to s oot 0 n mor h ric plan b the not " n s' c :· u chargeA th t s inc h revious attacks, American Army lanes a e thry-ty-t o flights over Ju oslavia •onautborize ant!} to no and deliberate", the note. o Tito hat easures the Unite~tates haA taken to stop such flights. '1 he note u e4". such ugly words a s • Br u ta 1 • , and s a ;.I , "no 1 o ng e r ca n be ,' :- tolerated•, and dem ndA •necessary m asures.• To give an idea of the tone of Tito's virtual ultimatum, here's ,# quotation: "The overnm . ent of Jugoslavia•, it sa;.I, •considers that these deliberate and brutal infringemeats ot Jugoslavia's territory can no longer be tolerated, and requests that the necessary measures be urgently · taken by the American overnment to prevent this in the future.• This diplom tic message as played up with banner headlines by the ewspap rs in Ju os avia R CE ________ ....,.,.........,. In r . . . c • , m rti · la i t r d, b c us o Co munist iat b no llowin the lection. Red Partis ns in Northern reeoe hav& r s . orted to viol nc , in rat , t against the ov r h lmin dec1 ion of th · voters to a . 1 back the Iing. The Communist o position i so serious that tonight the a.cting premier at ith~ns issued a to clamp on -artial l a . _li.Q fil!l - he t e D rm nt iv s verdict on t dee r t i de by Gener'l ac rthur ie rnin ainst com unism in Jap n. n the first nniver r of the signin of the Jap surren er, our com and r in Toy lated that the people of ~ apan might be victimized by h·t he calle - "a philoso by of the extreme radical left~. ac rthur point~d out that the Japanese people have lived for lon • time under conservative resimentati n. They were accustomed to espotism. o no the danger is that they might ea ily swing from one kind of regimentation to another - froa the despotism of the ri , ht to the tyranny of the left. That's the peril. The ~eneral made no reference to oviet Russia - but, when you warn against communia ■ in Japan, you mean the Soviets. In newspaper columns over here, the declarati n s decried with statem nts that it had surprise diplomatic officials. The acArthur remarks •ere tt ck d as bein contrary to the policy of the -IIJ1J9~999~ C RTH UR _ , _ , _ ._..._._.,,,.. t rtment nd irectiv s is a u , by Pre "dent Trum n. uo h t ha the t t Depart about th i? eta •• an oKay. In I a shin ton today the tate De art ent announced that the General's contenti na did not conflict with official policy. They re entirely in a ccord with the State Department vie s. "The General's COUl ents", says a spokesman for the de artment, n ould ap rently be interpreted fifteen different ways by fifteen differ nt people. 4 But, in so far as the Department is concerned, reports . that they violated est bliahed policy •• are ithout f o u nd at i o L • " • The ashin ton comment is that the hole thing would seem to trace to a clash inside the State Depart•ent. &ome officials, at lower levels, are said to be antagonisti~ to ard acArthur, but the to men re convinced that the Gennl is doing a god aob in To yo, and are for him. dr· t·c X 1 f t ri 0 abor tr u le is n a tr· t r t n to e off the f :., p of gre t city - l i e Ne Yor . And toni ht t metro olis of Am rica is n f cing just th t kind of crisis. Th truck driv r r out - t ·enty five thou an orker ho run the trucks on hich th food supply of the city i entirely dependent. That threatens, obviously, the gravest kind of short es - actu 1 f mine if the etri e ere to continue lon en uh. And it . a ems certain lo continue until Friday. ay 'Dy r nbounc ~ s hat the Union, A.F. of . ' il no i ' U s settl ent unt·1 after etin of the strikes on Thurs ay. hich means ne oti tions c · nnot be re~ume until ri ·y -- the alkout to last th t long. The union has guaranteed the delivery of perishable foodstuffs, and these came in today. nd yet the for.cast is that Ne York's mil sup·ly •iit wil bre down within t enty four h urs. That's becau th truckin stri e has halted the delivery o o 1 s · nd c nt in e sin • hich mil is tran p rted. 1 s tr i e c n have so an y an g 1 e S• !h e h o 1 e n at i n i s concern : i n the p rospect of a Maritime strike. Two A F of L unions a nnounce• th t el:!ety PN• sailors ill be cal e out in ev e ry American seaport on Thursday. eeks ago, when a general maritime strike of all unions as imminent, the threat*•• was that the shores of aiix•ai ■•• the United States would be completely tied up. The two AF of L unions in the present dispute say that their strike will have the sa ■ e result. f o u r b i 1 1 ion , f iv e h u n d r • -? d m i 11 i on s i nu 1 e d a .Y ' s 1 o s s - the shar est rice bre k since Ninetben-Thirty-Seven • • W jor reason for the break, acco_ding to large brokerage houses, is that large French and Dutch interests are unloading their accounts. With the wa r -tot-£, o~er, these foreign investors wantAtheir money home. Other all Street'observers say however that the average American investor is •disgusted with the trNl... ----~" outlook.~ year after V-J Da~ • ~ t a k i n g a particularly dim view of the poiitical situation overseas - ~ k . ~ ~ Ju&oslavia)~4PCA-C.J c--'l:-,,~~ ~ Ww1'J~J.J!I er~ ~.- ..c. ~._~. Whatever the reason, stocks f 11 as much as ten points today. Du ont went downs venteen . (lther c emic s w ere off more than six. Railro a d ten points and steels fell s t o c k s ~ ~ • do nward BUSIN SS . -- -- -- e r ' s . s o m e t in g w y u in th bi ll ions. ' o many b usin ess e nt r p ri se s wit h rea ource of a billion dollars or m ore do you t hi nk t h ere are in this country? 1 he an s w • r is forty-three. 4 nd that's exactly the same number as before the war. In this respect, billionair business has not changed. But today's list has changed, as coapara4 with the one before the war -- in that several corporations have dropped out, while others have t h eir places. Here's one f a ct that may sound like a aurprise -- one fir• that has dropped below the bil dollar aark is the 1''ord llotor Company. Bowe-.er, t.hat understandable, when you consider peat.war condition• in the •rld of automobiles. So Ford has declined a lit le below a billio n . The assets of General llotor1 have dropped too, though .II. · is still above the billion dollar level. These facts a r e disclosed · in a survey ■ ad by tbe United Press -- a survey of business e nterprise with assets of a billion i ■ ii dollars or more. in ei hteen moths or two rs - this s a nounced officially to y. All the rd is waitin fo the day hen th - atomic ir c e that produ d the omb wi l deve J o into a source of po er for peacetime use. hen? Ho lon ill it take? So now we have the answer. In from eighteen months t o t o years an atoaic power plant will be in o eration, producing electricity. The statement is made by the army and is in res onse to a declaration by a wedish scientist, Professor · iegbahn, chief of the Nobel institute - for. physics in Stockholm •. z■■•u•Mxpl• ■Sx•siasa /\ The professor said that United States would have an atom-driven ateaa turbine operating at the Oak Ridge atCllli.c research plant within a year. That's too optimistic, says the Army. ActuallJ no drawings of the actual atomic power plant have yet been made - they haven't got that far. And th~ atomic energy plant they are developing. will not be anything commercial - it will be for sa• experimental purµoses only. Th atomic AT ' IC ......,_._......, -~ .. ' p ower atati n at Oak Ridge will be . - e . rely a forer , ~nner and will •• start oper · ating with in eighteen Jaontha to two , years. And now Belson, my atomie friend - ill you start ope - ating at once. FLY!M I ) f It is jus~ a year and a day since Japan o~aally surrendered. An odd interval of time -- a year and a day. B ut it has a dr matic meaning at a athering in dew York tonight. Back in Ninet~en Forty Two, in the bitter days of war, a class of young flying cadets gr dua\ed - eh ... 11:J-S. at Maxwell Field, a hundred and fifty ot the•~ They er'fabout to be asaigned to va~ious outfits, and scattered aClbae the globe -- in various theatre• ot the battles ot the air. TheJ got together, · this graduating cla11 of cadets, and made a decision -- aade for the future. They vowed they'd get Just a year and a day after the final end ot the war. That is, as manr would get together as remained alive. The way the casualties ere running in the war of tba air, they couldn't a ke any guess of how many of the hundred and fifty woul d be there for that reunion. \,v.Jr.QQ --~- ■~xb meeting tonight,~~"!:: '7" A ,, . /AillR 'P_;e..,, ~•> ,... _ .. ~ - -· J ~ party is called -- the year-and-a-day flyer's reunion ,-.:. - - - - - - . FLYERS - 2 ._...., _ _... ____ Bo many of the original group are attending? 0f the hundred and fifty cadets who made the date four years ~ - (#1f't ~ ti ••1r4' ~ +U•~ .. lift.. A ~ i f t y are left, one-third. But there'll be a big crowd of ·war pilots at they ar and a day flyers' reunion -- becau • - -- - - the fifty aurvi¥ors made air •••8 com~ade £riend1 around the ilobe, and they've invited these •o• tar and wide. So there •on't be the••• ■ere titty ouf of the original hundred--and -fifty there'll be arriors of the sky trom all over the world on thi• occasion of. a year and a day. hat v r i ou . ty pe . e n t erpr ise would ou e x ct to find in the c t ory of billio n aire bu inese? el l . bank s com f i t. Of the forty three billionaire concerns, eighteen are b~nks. There are eleven in urance comp n1es, six railroids, five industrial corpor tions, and three gtilitiea. At the top of t he list is the Life lnau•ance Com p any and ith assets of sevenJa . halt billion dollars. eoon d is t~e Bell Telephone S7etea, ith its fabulous p~operties -- six biliion, seven hundred million. First amon~ the banks is that financial fnstitution on the Paci ic Coast, of laerica -- rt, and a hall billion. The total combined resouroee of the forty three billionaire business conc e rns is nearly one~ hundred and-two - billion dollars. ~ a..;t:""~~~~~~~~ ~ - ~ - ' · 1 ~ ~ ~ ii>-12. ...,.:xf2_, ..