the ne s fro m Kor a i ntroduce s a new trick of 1a r - air 1nva i on by helicopter, Hitherto, the flyin m· chin with whirling blades have b e n used extensively to evacuate wounded f rom Korean battle- fields. But now - a fle e t of helicopters, carrying an inv as ion force to a point behind ene m y line~ 1eizin6 a strategic position - in an az ■ aerial inv a sion. This occurs in what they a re calling - the •battle of the hills•. That's in Ea st Korea, where - - for ays a bitter fi gh t has been going on for the possession of a line of summits. ltSt Little pro~reas is eing made on the g round. - the news to · ay telling m ostly of Red counter-attacks, masses of screaming Comm~ lun g in g forward to sto the UN advance. In a f e places t he y fore dour soldiers b ck. In othe r , they were . to p _ ed w ith sav a ·e loss es . All in all., t e allie - a rmy a in e d bitter ,, ,, g round to da in l!le ~attle oft e il l s. KOREA - 2 That was the situation which rought - aerial 1nv sion by helicppter. The arines did it - their obj ct1Ve being a commanding sum it northwest of ~ If they cou}j. capture that peak behindA enemy lines, they could dominate advance ositions held by the Communists. So a fleet . of wenty-one helicopteri1 was assembled - to c·rry a detachment of ,ea.therneck d.are-devilsj two-.hun r e ~and-twenty-e1ght Marines and ei ht tons of armament and sup lies. So, 1mat:,1ne th ., whirring noise of the big blades, a ~ the t •enty-one helicopters took off and went flyin~ cross the Com m utist battlefront. They w . re under fire, as they proceeded through the sky t o t eir obj e c 1ve - the mountain-top. T ere they landed, without the t■ a~s loss of a machine or a man • . On the strategic sum it, the two unared an tVienty-e1 ht £,eat.ern cks did a quick job of 1 g in 1n, setting u stron point from which t h y • r e a ble t rake the Red wit fire from the ■ azx re r. That w th~ situation at l a st reports IABIA - J from !_he ~attle of the .!':,!11s. - /J..n epic adventure for the arty of dare devil Marin . es. On the di lomatic side out there, ' Commander General Ridgway is expected to ~ ree to the Communist request for a resum t1on of the truce talks) Meet1nl!ts . between 11 . 1son officers result in a Re proposal for a renewal o! negotiations, long broken o~f. The enemy ignores the su e .· t1on made by General Ridgway - that the truce talks be held at some other place tan Kaes@g, that much troubled area, with all the charg s of neutrality violation. But the word t■ from Tokyo ton1 ht is that Ridgway 1s not likely to press the point, not regarding it as important enough to prevent a , •z••••*x&XJta renewal of negotiations • . A.. (The Alli . d Co m ana is of the opinion that the Com unist leaders really ant an armistice:) and ther J 's good reason to ~••J hope !or what a s oo kesman calls - so m e ~ort of cease-fire in Kor a. INSET IN KOREA AFTER DAREDEVIL MARINE~ (rhe lat t -- a powerful armoured assault on t e n en tral f ront. UN forces launching the b1g ~ est ank drive in the Korean war thus far.) A whole fleet of th• rmored monsters plunging forward in an attack with a •1im1ted oblect1ve•. (American officers explain - the armored offensive l 1s just intended to beat up the eds.) JB41 The tangle in the Iranian oil business b e co es more peculiar with a dispatch from London today, stating - that Great Britain has made a deal to buy oil from Romania. The An1Jo Iranian comyany has concluded an agreement for the purchase of two hundred thousand tons from the 011 wells of the Sov1e, satellite, petroleum- to take the place of suppllea cut off by the British-Iranian dispute. The last cou le of ttays we've been hearing of a Soviet barter deal with Iran - Ru111a to get Iranian oil, in exchange for Soviet manufactured products. Sounded like Moscow conniving against the British - and, at the same time, procuring the petroleum for Soviet use. But now the Moscow pu p _ ei , Romania, sells oil to the British. ,,. {,rh~ amount if not reat, two bun red th ousalll , , • -4' .;14 t on• , as c OJll par e d ~)Ah t r. i r t Y - t w_o and a lf million tons a . year frQm th e Ir a nian oil ~ells. But the whole ./ ,· / ' / , t~n does . · sound)curious, 1:f n t par a doxical. 111111 The •creeping• blockade of Berlin is beina callad off. So says a Berlin dispatch today, adding -- that this latest Russian ■ ove ia part of a deal. The Red authorities l ift . restrictions on •anaportation ••r•ing the western sector of tbe cit, -- •• a coaaercial agree ■ ent i ■ aigned prowidlng tor two-bundred-and- tbirty ■ illion dollar• in trade between the eastern and •••tern 1one ■ ot Ger■ any. All trade••• cut ott between the western allie ■ on Augu ■t first - in retaliation ~r tbe creeping blockade, which •aa then beginning. So now botb 1ide1 call off aeaaures taken against each other. 11YH4M President Trwpan says t a t , 1n dealing with Soviet Russia, this country must re'ilY on - force; which may sound like a menacing decl ration. But the Pre 1dent went on to ad , d that, by •torce,• he didn't mean war. Some people have been talking of a •preventive war• to check the Red menace. - ---- The ruman opinion is dead against that. He meana - that we must build up our defensive strength to such a degree that the Soviets will not dare - try new ag · re1s1ons. In that sense w e must rely on force, rather than diplomacy_,~ said he at fiis newa conference today. PIIEX ~ Gov rnor Dewey of New Yo:t:':rdressed a mess ge to memoers of the •downtrodden masses of America.• Also to the •v1ctims of American imperialism.• This follows the latest wonder of Soviet prop~ganda -- when newspapers in Ruaa1& printed a photograph of Tom Dewey in a strange scene. It must have puzzled the Comrades, and the interpretation they gave it is enough to take your •• breath away. During the Nineteen Forty-light Presidential campaign, Governor Dewey was in• Oregon, a.nd at Grants Pass was welcomed by - - the Cavemen. That' a a ~olly local outfit, the members of which amuse ,, ,cc.••·~ themselves by appea ing as men of the Stone Age. A Wearing animal skins and swinging clubs -- like tZl.£iJ•k cavemen. ~they captured the · Republ1can candidate, and a ohoto raph was taken~ show1n Tom Dewey surrounded by those Ore on troglodytes. osoow propaganda ot hold o! the picture at this late date, and here's what they ur1nted PIYIX - 2 underneath. "This is t e . icture of an organization prote tin g a1n t the cruel and vi c ious wall-street, bac~;hurch. Pictured with them~ t e caption continue■ ft f is T. E. Dewey, a well-known ant1-reli - 1ous leader.• Now where did they get that! The cavemen, with - animal skins and clubs re out against the wall- street-b a cked church; Tom Dewey, a well known ant1- rel1g1ous leader. So the Governor today sent a message to -fhe Cavemen of Grants Pass, re a ding: •The Soviet propaganda machine na bas admitted you to the exclusive club of the Downtrodden Masses of America.• He tells t em t a t they are in the Governor's words, •portra e d throughout Russia as the starving victims of American im er1al1sm.• QITAIB (xn Britain, the election campaign 1s getting off to a fast beginning) Today Prime 1n1ster Attlee started for Scotland - t o ~ the battle for h1a ~ party with a sneech before the Scottish Labor Party. Opnos1t1on leader Winston Churchill held a strategy. meeting at his country home. P~y planning W!_!S for a conservative triumDh on October Twenty-Fifth. Tfie first radio broadcast of the camnaign wae made tonight, by top ranking conservative Sir David Maxwell Fyfe - who told the voters that, if the Conservatives win, they will remove iron and steel from government ownership - turning that all- important industry back to private control. By implication, his address would seem to mean that the Churchill people would leave other nationalized industries just as they are, under government ownership Be said the Conservatives wold take co trols off dividends, so that private capital ~ould nour into industry for an increase of production. This had been ant1c1p ted, and there was a rush in the MJtAJI - a London Stock ■arket today. Buyers bought up British tocks, believing Churchill will win. Restrtctions on dividends - removed. Many political observers 1ay the race will be an extremely close one. But,(one of London•• biggest betting comm1ss10ners today wa1 offering three-to-one again . at a 1abor victory -- long odde favoring Churchill and the Con1ervative1.) 1111 In the stat3 of Washinton. the town of rorks is doomed to fiery de1truct10n. That ia the latest tonight - concerning the raging blase ■ weeping ~ through the woods of th~Olympic Peninsula. Earlier news was that the forest fire. driven by a hlgb ea1t wlnd. had ■■ reached the outskirts of t~e town • . Bow a dlapatoh p1ctur lng an exodue. Two thouaanct •••• peoule -- refu ees from the flamfng tempest. 0 Bt,RBARA fAJ'f DI Hollywood news about Barbara PaytoO is hi~hly contradictory. An eye witness declares that, l a t ni ~ ht she was back w.1th Tom •eal - w o ave Franc ot Tone so savage a beating. But this Barbara denie•, calling the report - ridlcusous. And says ~1.;! to marry Francho~ Tone as soon as he fljl•~-Mi~1n3ur1es he ••1t sustained in that battle over her affections. Nevertheless the•• eye witness' testimony 1s insistent - Tom Heal sen calltng at Barb ra•s house in the Hollywood Bills. The two-leaving the house to ay, dr1vin off in an automobile and return1n later. Som body obviously is atax••*• not telling the truth. IJDIA,NB The Sta e of California 1s taking historic action. Formally and officially - putting an end to th - \ Indian wars. Theyl.re abol1sh1n - - -~ the •Indian war fundw which the State has maintained for more than a century_. It has been & ~••longtime since - California has witnessed an uprising of the Redskins. But 1n the eighteen fifties, right after the beginning .. - of the gold rush, Indian trouble~ were a common thin. So the federal government came to the rescue - with cash. Con ress voted a quarter of a m1li1on doll rs as a fund for ~al1forn1a. TLat Indian w r fund still exists - amoun~ing to twenty-eight hundred dollars. Now to be abolished, effective on Friday - thereby brin 1ng to an official end those Indian w r of long ago. \ UltHP San Antonio, Texas, ba.s confirmed stories of a panther loose in the city. The latest indicates - an •awful big• panther. All of which derives from an animal hunt they bad today. For a week or more, there have been stories of a huge beast at large in San Antonio. One woman reported she saw, what she called •a cat as big a1 a yearling.• Which would be about as tall cs & ,.,. Ti ~ et. Another eyewitness says he was down ,. in the railroad yards, when ea■ saw a black panther 'jump over a box car.• Quite a leap. I today a posse· started out with guns and do - s, to 1ck up the trail 1n Comanche Park and the loo 1 river bottom 1 wh1ch led to a ridiculous anti- climax. The hound dogs picked up the trail, and the ch sews on. For two hours they kept oin until, fin lly, t do a dashed to tree, barking like m 1hen t e hun ers got tot tree, they s w - a bobc . t. A o r s, b t 1 tu e for t he 1 nt anther. n A tonio 1. not likely to be soared of bobc ts. So they had to start all over a ain, and the dos pick d up another tra11. This time the track• of the animal could be seen, and were examined by Ed Townsend, who knows &11 about the varm1nt$of West Texas. He said th e y were the paw prints of a panther, and added - an •awful big• one. So that's what theyl.re looking for in San \1t£~~ tonigh; - hunters and hound dogs on the trail. A