It may well be the bi news to night is - - we tber news. Reports from Korea picture cle a ring skies, o, brea~ of the cloudy, rainy murk that bas been oandi- cappin American Air Forces. As a result, we hear that the ~ air strikes••• 11; ti the most successful since the American Air offensive be an. In one day, one hundred and eighty-three sorties were flown. F1ve Red tanks were destroyed, a t least fifty-six trucks ahot into wreckaae as the American fi 6hters and b~abers hit the lines of trana portation of the Red tanks and artillery. Four enemy plane ( were ahot down. Six others were -- •probably destroyed•. ,... In all of this, not one Aaerican airplane was lost casualties were sustained. On the g round, not only have the Free loreana been able to hold the line of the Ban R1ver, but ~bey h~ve put on a successful counter~attack. Earlier in the day we beard that tt 3 y bad pushed forward and captured the d __ the airport of the captured Iiapo Flying Fiel •ord 1· 6 that they are in full posses- city of Seoul. Tonight" §ll§IlIQT~-;QliEA-~~z sion of the Kimpo Airport, backed by a •~•i bail of fire from American war planes. Tis -- in the face of Communist assaults •hicb were described as being •of increasing ferocity•. A late despatch describes the counter-thrust 88 driving a wed e in between Co ■munist forces in the sector of Seoul. • - - - - - i t 0 r ~· . i o in in , ( \ n . , · n i h : u fl n & ,:, a _ 1 1 V 1 1 ne . f he f Q n r ld . n ~ ~ ' ~ a c l ♦ QI 0 e e v e s e h_ f ' '> :i V e r o e ~ Re a r : fi Q ~ ~ • . e J e r o f a" . a e y k c: v e ee 0 eelt s:! t l o -:r a l i u e at he .:: ~ lev e o: r e 0 The u o wever, a goo hedge-hop ing too, and are described as harryin e the Red Communist fighter - • lanes in their , la ce f refuge. Air Force authorities in Was hing ton state they have no inform a ti o n abo t any bombin g of the ca ital of Re d Korea. W hich amounts to a denial of the statement ~ade by the Iore an Communists and by Moscow that American B-Twenty-Nines hurled three hundred bombs on the seat of the Communist Iorean regime. Air force authorities in Washington say that, ao tar as they k now, all American aerial attacks have been directed at targets south of the border~- the thirty- eighth parallel of latitude. lhich is in accordance with directions given by President Truman -- that the American air war is strictly against the invading forces that have pushed into Free (orea. FOLL O W K O REA ---~~------- The l ate t - from Formosa . Generalissimo Chion g K i Shek announces that he is re a y to send highly-tr a ined comb a t groups into South Korea to wipe u the Communi ts o n the ground. llacARTIIOR The SupNae Cc•1ncler 1 1 trip to tbe battletront bad tbe a LA NacArtht.lr touch ot the drallltlc. Be flew 1n b11 on plane, the BATAAI - that nue 10 •■orable 1n Doqla1 lacAn,hlftlW a career. Second World War, ,he Pbllipp1De1, tbe Detenae ot Bataan. The weather••• bad, the Yl1ibilit1 too poor tor an escort ot Air Poree tllbtera. So tbe BATAAI fl• alane troll Tokyo, oyer to lorea - an4 1oon tbtJ •re 1n the 1ector ot air battle. 'l'beJ could 1ee tipt1 between AMrtoan and--, plane,, an4 at one tlae a Red ttpter, a tat, ••aed aa it 1t atgbt be tbNatentq tbl Bl!AAI. "lfe•ll pt bta colcl,• Ulcl llaoArtblar, u Mertcan f1&1ltera oloHCI 1a. lilt tile BATAAI w.et 1peecllq oa, ad '-1 ••er 1aw what bappenecl to the tatrudt.nl Yak • .At tbl sm,ca air b&1e, ti. te1 to tba battle, tile S11prw co uMl•r took an a11taaoblle 1tralpt to tbe t l p t l q ltne - and there be 1toocl on a bill, wltllta a ■11• ot Seoul, the lorean capttal,DOlf 1n tbl band• or tbl Cc 111t1t1. JlacAR'l'IIOR - 2 Juat below waa the Ban River, that critical detense line, and McArthur noticed a couple or bridges. An atteapt had been •de to blow the■ up, but theJ still looked a1 it a tank ■llht be able to cro11. llacArtbllr gave an 1-diate ccn111nd - to blast the bridges. Which happened prOlll)tl1. Be bad bardlJ lett _ the hill OTerlooking Se011l; when hqe coluau ot IIIOD aroae - the br1dgea de•t!o e (11acArtllllr conferred wit Korean PrH14ent 8JJlpl.n Rh - and, • everywhere he went, be na cheered by Korean soldier,. Be aaid _ be thoqbt tbeJ looked okaJ, a 1n good ap1r1ta and ■oral• - bltoked up bJ tbe awltt amyal ot Aaerican :a~1r~•:1d:·:_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Then, leaving 1n tbe BAT.AU; he took ott troa tbe Smron airfield, a duproua place - becauae the Red Yak are tighter• tr, to aneat in when 11K .Allerioan planes" not arOWld. C011plete air cOTerap 11 ditticult, becauae tba tiptera and boabera auat ti, back to Japan to refuel. Tonight'• diapatcb - 11&cARHDR - J atat•• there 11 likely to be a ga1011ne a1rl1tt, 10 that A111r1can air power can ba-.e &nron tor a baa• ot operat1on1. Prea1dent Trullan aaya - "We are not at war." At a aewa conterence today, he toot the po11t1on that the Aller1oan Air Poree and la•11n Korea are ■erely ClllTJinl out a •nct•t• g1Yen bJ the United l&t1ona. A •.Sate - to dr1•• OQt wbat ta. Prea1dent called - •a bunch ot band1t1.• Be ba1e1 Mia Aaer1caa action on that legal foundation - that •••re not at war, bat are carr71ng out a police operation ordered bJ the world tl 'Y\ • - orpn1zat1on. I The newaaen que■tioned the Pre1ident about tbl po111b111t1 ot Aaerican ground troop• 101nl into lorea. Thia 11 talked ot aa a po111b1lit1 - 1n c••• the air aupport 1bould not be enoqb to bact up the 11.lbt U'IIUlent ot tbl IPree 1orean1 apinlt the t;anta and cannon ot the Reda. It 11 known, tor e.uaple, that General llacArtbur baa Wider h11 ca.and 1n Japan - unit• ot Aaerican araor. Which 11 wbat "ground tore••" would aean - Aaerican tankl and ■otor1zed artillery. President '1'rUIII.D retu■ed to ••1 an,tbinl on the - aubJect - IOll9tbtna be wouldn't talk abOllt. Bllt iraJ ott1e1all . 1n wa1h1ngton are q110'-d aa ••11.n& that General lllcAJ-tllur. baa ~ . not, 10 tar, a1lted tor authority to u•• "pound toroe1.w IIDIA The ■oat iaportant develol)llent on the dlpl0111t1c tront ••• 1n India today - where the gove1'11119nt ot Pr1118 11n11ter lehru decided to take tbe Aller1ean aide, ill eatorolllg the decree ot tbe U .I. IDdia - Joining the line-up ot liberal couatr1e1 agatnat the Red inn11on ot IPNe Korea. Thia 11 the aore taportaat~ becaue tbe ofticial polieJ of India baa been - neutralitJ. ,or 11011tba, tile re1tae . IAlbrll • • • • , ba1 a11erted - tbat tbeJ would not tan 11411 ' ln the cold war, IMat WOllld •1nta11l a ■lddle, neutral poaltbil. Tb.ii wa1 4rulat1zed 4aJ before 1e1terda1, nea tbl Qlleltion c - up before tbe Seo11rlt1 Coae11 of tbe United latlona, a propoaal tor the U.I. to 1 1 • • all 1t1 -•n to back AMrlcan ■111tal7 .... .are, 1n·1orea. !be ■otlca na carried - but the Indian deleption abatailled trca voting. The1 aa1d they couldn't act, ut11 tbeJ had received 1nltruct1ona tr011 h0111. TodaJ we learn the rea . . tor the dela1 - the lebrll &oYern■ent deep 1n deliberation, tr11nl to •Ice llP 1t1 ■ind. IIDIA - 2 A 411patch tr011 In Delhi 1tate1 that tblre were two -rpncJ cabtnet ■eet1Dg1 1n forty-eight hOlll'I - and tbe 1eoond, todaJ, bl'Olllht the 4eo1aion. India aNJldona 1t1 neutralitJ, incl accepta the U.I. re1olutlon to aupport the United State,. Toni ht was a t 1 ·me f or SO ffie oft e most intent scrutinizing on record --our St a t~ Department, the foreign offices of all the world, ~ a note from Moscow. The result of the scrutiny is one of those fascinating puzzles. ~ The reply is to"American diploaatic communicatio calling upon Soviet Russia to make the Iorean Reda with- draw their invasion • ..-rSo, is the answer yes or no? It is neit~er. By iaplication, it is a r -- but only by implication. Moscow replias~lk~~)the propaganda cbarg& that the war in Iorea · was started by the FTee Ioreans and laces upon them the responsibility -- also o the governaents that are supporting Free Korea. Which aeans this country, the United l a t i o n ~ the rally of the liberal g overn:.nts of the world.7/fbat is the answer to the Aaerican deaand';{!:'~e Soviets to do something about ~, ~ i t - - ~ l y an indirect answer. From this the conclusion ia drawn __ th a t the Soviet reply is moderate; it gives no hint of supporting the Korean Redsl . . bas no belligerent tone, and therefore would seem to indicate that Soviet Russia does not intend to turn the local Iorean war into a T _ hird World War.'f This reasoning, of course, does not imply that tb~ Soviets may not give tbe Communist invasion indirect support, perhaps with armaaent and munitions. But that would be indirect. Which · adjective applies to the whole tenor of the Soviet note -- indirect. Easing the tension • ·- thinks lasbington. PROPACIODA C n1et propaganda baa a n• Y1lla1n, and hie naa 11 • nAllea. Today, the loacow Radio am tit Red pollparrota all around the world, roared the charge that Jaer1oan "11lper1al1et aure111on" n1 1n1tipted by state Departaeat Ad•1••r John POater Dullea. 'ftle JIOICOW . . . . AgenoJ 'fall explalu b7 ref•rrilll to tbe trip Dullea •d• to Korea Jaat before t• Cw=-• blitzkrieg n1 la11nobecl - u4 led ftftlpapera print pllot~p• J tbe toraer Re;b11oaa r7. 1:11:I adYlHV lhOlf .,,.'(li a Nlle!li flt1i ~ N ioiltira. 'fall deolarea that D1alle1, upon returnlbl traa lorea, called tor ot peaceful unltlcatlon of lorth and South 1orea." 'ftaat expre111on "peaoetul Wlificatioa" 11 bec•inl a obeat1111t 1n Red propaganda • - - Wl1f1cat1ca 10 peaceful tbat i t • • laanohed wtth u aNONd blitztrtea. · f ... , &/41118tF1--illll:i..a - CCIIIJIISTS Pour c1tat1ona tor conte■pt ot Congre11 were 1aaued today. One againat Philip Bart, . . . . lng editor ot the • • torlt C011111n11t " Daily Vorlter", Who retuaed to anawer que1tlOD1 about an alleged take paaaport ring run bJ tile Reda. '!'be othera - aplnat three ac1•t11t1, no would not replJ •be• queat1oned about a reported atoalo eap1onap rtna at tbe radiation laboratory ot tlle Uat•eratt1 ot Calitonala. At the , ... tille, eipt loll,woo4 writer■ .. N (~•n or111Mllt, - e1llarpcl oonvtctecl tod&J. 'l'heN were 1••x••••••e► -•••if! fl I I with conteapt ot Congre11 - retulq to ...,.r tile 11n,-tou dollar q11e1t1on about beinl a Cea r •ntat. !Wo ••• alreadJ • • ant to pr1aon - ud ot tbe raainiJII •llbt, tour toc1a1 ••re it.•• a 7ear 1a pr11on. !Wo pt au IIOlltbl - lfb11• ••te•• waa clela1ed 1n tile ca•• ot two otbera. -- IA Jail, we • •peetee • I I 1 2011• Nlli' l:11• Pf llrt Ill - •• !ori, Nldilcil S4GWN Li • ., .......... ,to c,-,, .... .. , 1ete4 ee IH)w•M!Ms I Nt$1PS eC .g lbleli ••• ..,a ----- -- -■■-- , • • , 411, tADS The H0111e of Repreaentatl••• pa11e1 the tax Bill, t.7 an overwbelaing •ote - three bun4Nd and Mventy-tl•• to tom-teen. Vllicb lllu1trate1 tbe collapae or tbe Republloaa oppoaition. The CI.O.P. coaare■aan-- all 1a tavor ot · t • red11ctlon ot nlea tax••, tbe ..., 1••1•• on luuriea - alaabed bJ IION than a billion dollara a, .... Jut there ... loud R•puttlloaa PNte■t apt.ut ta olber bait ot t.be bill - &loll 1aoN&Na OOrpoNt1• - - · , ~•P to •n llP tor tbl aal•• tu Ndllot1an. !be CI.O.P. atrateo ••to••• eacll bl.lf of 1M i.111 eoaat.4eN4 &1111 •oted on aepuateq - 10 that tbl Nd110t1• ■lllat N aeoe,W, an4 tbl 1norea1e tllNild don. Bllt tlllJ loat • t • tbat, ad tbln - tile paeat •Jor1tJ of tbe lepubl1c- 111 COIIIN•• YOW tor tbe Tax 1111. 10111 In Oeorgta, 1•1'11111 Taladge baa been elected GoYenor apin - b1a oppoaent, 11.B.'l'bollpaon, conoed1Jla det•t tbla afternoon. Talllllqe waa tar ahead 1Jl unit Tote■ - aooordllll to tbl c011plioated •1•t• ot Georgia ele~tion, wblob taTor■ the rural population. Bllt tlla popular Tote 11 ■1Pt1 cloae. u till oowat a 0 - tn, '!bollpa• Nil CClllll■tenti, UNd - INat later !allladp pulled up to. Tirtul tle. ( Son ot old-tlM GIIM 'l'aJ.-.dp, be a111p11tpn1 • Id.I tatber'• tu111ar plattom of • lftllte 11&preaao1 - ud, altboqla tbl ,opular Tote 11 10 cloae, ta Wllt oomat 11 dee111T• tn 11•111& hill another ten u Gnel'IICII' ot 8ffr'IU) IIWlIICIBR At tbe town ot Great Cornard, 1n 11111.ud, t111 Oburcla btllr1111er baa lo1t h11 job. lot that be OOUld~t plaJ eloquent aaaic on the chiaea. - Ila couldt Great Col'll&l'd baa a tine old carl11on, Wb1ob tor lOQI r•an baa ccae tortb ~ a l&CNd Mlody, w1t~A ~ au1t&bl• to the ••"1oe1 1n the ,anab otmrob. '1'be bell.rlapr, who ha1 been tired, •••r tailed to pl&J aktlltull.J on the ch1M1. lllt, alu, lie deYelopecl an 111p11h aenae ot bulllor - idd.ob oan often pt a tell• tato trouble. At 1e"1oe 1n the church, u., bad a lpeolal oollHtl and the cblllea rang out - Wt not With an, YeneNbl• antblll. Tbat bellr1npr kn•• IOll8th1ns about Aaer1ean popular dltt1••· So, as the collection waa bet.ng taken up, tbe chlall pealed OGt •1th - •Put another nickel in." 80 that'• why tile bellrlnpr