| Show I THE Kremlin Fliers TT IT T ISN'T pleasant to contemplate but the inescapable fact is that Russia is not only us in planes but is building up p a reservoir reservoir reservoir res res- of tested battle-tested pilots to fly them The blunt fact tact is that the Kremlin is using Korea Korea- as a gradI graduate graduate grad grad- I school to train Russian pilots I how to fly against American planes Rotating classes of Russian pilots have been manning the MIGs MIG's over Korea and learning American combat techniques first hand The I present class showed up in Korea on November 1 I is now about ready to graduate Each class takes the same prescribed prescribed prescribed pre pre- scribed course The first month is spent making navigational flights across Korea KoreLl The second month is spent observing American formations formations formations forma forma- at a safe distance During this period the MIGs MIG's will vail occasionally make a pass at a bomber formation formation formation forma forma- tion but it is all in practice They never fire a shot The MIGs MIG's also take care to keep out of the way of ot air force F 86 during their in breaking period By the third month however the Soviet student-pilots student begin to tangle with American fighters fighters- preferably with slower F 80 Shooting Stars and F 84 Thun- Thun As the Russians gain experience experience experience ex ex- they mix it up with our crack F 86 squads The result is that the green Russians Russians Russians Rus Rus- are shot out of the skies sIdes at atthe atthe atthe the rate of 13 to our one But the survivors become tough skillful pilots baptized by fire and able to hold bold their own against our best Note In In contrast we send only our crack pilots to Korea give our new pilots no battle training Reason is that we are so short of F that we cannot risk letting greenhorns greenhorns green green- horns fly them in combat Messages to Moscow A lot of schools all over the country country country coun coun- try are LIre taking advantage of ot the arrangement arrangement arrangement ar ar- whereby the school children children children chil chil- dren of America can broadcast via the Voice of America to school schoolchildren schoolchildren children behind the Iron Curtain Many newspapers are also cooper cooper- In Charleston W. W Va the Gazette is running a week four-week contest among school high children for the best Messages to Moscow The winner of each weeks week's contest will willbe willbe willbe be announced weekly and at the end of the month the final winner will be given a trip to New NewYork York to visit the United Nations and broadcast broadcast broadcast broad broad- cast personally over the Voice of America The Los Angeles News and the Wichita Eagle are cooperating with California and Kansas schools in running similar contests The messages should not be over words should tell about conditions conditions conditions condi condi- in American schools and how the youngsters of this country want peace and resent the artificial barrier to friendship imposed by the Kremlin Since the youngsters of today will have to carry out the American foreign policy of tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow tomor tomor- row this is an opportunity for them to help mould that foreign policy polley now Costellos Costello's Friends For the first time in years a senate senate senate sen sen- ate committee will defy the unwritten unwritten unwritten un un- written code of congress and question question question ques ques- tion congressmen Specifically Arnold Bauman of the senate D DC D.C. C crime committee wants to know why certain congressmen congress congress- men have been so chummy with racketeer Frankie Costellos Costello's Washington Washington Washington Wash Wash- ington lobbyist Murray Olf T-men T have actually traced long long- distance phone calls caUs to Olf from Costellos Costello's partner Dandy Phil Kas Kas- tel Olf OU also kept racketeer Joe Adonis overnight in his hotel room while Adonis was hiding out from the senate crime committee Olf OU himself has a criminal record Yet this same Off Olf has been living in style at the Congressional Congressional Congressional hotel has entertained at least 50 congressmen at cocktail cocktail cocktail cock cock- tail parties A handful of congressmen congressmen congressmen con con- gressmen have been extra close to Olf and at least one ono has actually actually actually ac ac- ac- ac run errands for the rack rack- Bauman intends to find out wh why He personally will call on the congressmen congressmen congressmen con con- gressmen and take their state state- ments Among those who can expect a visit are Morrison of Louisiana Note Fear Fear that something like this would happen was one reason why the senate crime committee had a hard time getting gettin its work extended Francos Franco's Successor SuccessorS S Secret e c r e t agreement has been reached among the principal advisers ad and supporters of ot Spanish Dictator Franco to make Martin Artajo present foreign minister the presumptive heir-presumptive to the dictator when the generalissimo retires retires- which will probably happen early arly in 1954 Franco himself took the initiative in this decision and md backed Artajo as his official successor Until recently recently recently re re- re- re Franco dreamed of a dynasty |
