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THURSDAY SCORES
National League
Milwaukee 3—Pittsburgh 2
St. Louis 8—Brooklyn 3
American League
Chicago 7—New York 5
Boston 5—Cleveland 4
Washington 2—St. Louis 1
Philadelphia 5—Detroit 3
Coast League
San Francisco 7—Portland 2
San Diego 8—Los Angeles 7
WEDNESDAY SCORES
American League
New York 9—Cleveland 4
Boston 3—Chicago 0
Philadelphia 2—St. Louis 1
National League
Milwaukee 11—New York 1
Coast League
Seattle 4—Hollywood 0
Portland 3—San Francisco 0
Oakland 4—Sacramento 1
Los Angeles 3—San Diego 1
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Eisenhower is The First
Chief Executive To Hold
A Pilot’s License
President Dwight Eisenhower is
the first pilot ever to land in the
White House.
This fact is revealed in the May
issue of Planes, official publica
tion of the Aircraft Industries
Association.
The story came to light when it
was discovered that the man who
was Supreme Commander of Al
lied Expeditionary Forces in
World War II has the honor of
being the first President in his
tory to hold a pilot’s license.
Coincidentally, President Eisen
hower assumed the highest public
.office in the United States in the
same year the Fiftieth Anniver
sary of Powered Flight is being
celebrated throughout the coun
try.
President Eisenhower has been
a pilot for 14 years. He learned to
fly in 1939, when he was stationed
in the Philippines as a Lieutenant
Colonel on the staff of Gen. Doug
las MacArthur. The last time he
piloted a plane was in 1947.
The plane he “checked out” in,
an Army Air Corps PT-13, was a
far cry from the swept-wing jets
of today’s Air Force. This was an
open cockpit biplane used almost
excusively by the Army Air Corps
for primary training at that time.
The plane’s 220 horsepower en
gine had a top speed of 125 mph
and the gross weight was about
2,600 pounds.
M’Carthy Demands
Apology for Cheap
Attack by Attlee
WASHINGTON, UR —Sen. Mc
Carthy said today Britain should
apologize for what he termed a
“cheap” attack by former prime
minister Attlee on President
Eisenhower and the American
people.
Conservative Party members of
the British parliament, McCarthy
said, sat silently last Tuesday
while Attlee made “one of the
most insulting speech ever made
in the legislative body of a recip
ient nation against an ally which
has been pouring out her econ
omic life blood for her.”
In a speech prepared for Senate
delivery, McCarthy declared:
“The American people are en
titled to an apology for this cheap,
uncalled for, fantastic attack upon
the President and people of the
United States.
“We are entitled to an explan
ation as to whether the majority
party in Britain agrees with Mr.
Attlee, who was rejected by the
British people.”
One by one McCarthy took up
Attlee’s reported declarations that
“there are elements in the United
States that do not want a truce
in Korea; “that the presence of
Eisenhower or any American
might hinder” direct peace talks
with the Russians; that “the Am
ericans Constitution was framed
for an isolationist state,” and that
“the Americans do not wish to
have anything to do with Eu
rope.”
McCarthy’s prepared text con
tained no mention of Attlee’s
statement that “One wonders”
whether Eisenhower or McCarthy
wields the greater power in U.S.
foreign policy.
“What shocked me,” McCarthy
said, “was that no members of
the majority party arose to con
test what he had said.”
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Attorney Awarded $50,000
Damages In Libel Suit
Against Drew Pearson
WASHINGTON, UR — A federal
court jury awarded Norman M.
Littell $50,000 compensatory dam
ages and $1 punitive damages to
day in one of his two $300,000
libel suits against columnist-com
mentator Drew Pearson.
The jury failed to reach a ver
dict in the other suit, and U.S.
district judge Charles McLaugh
lin discharged it.
Pearson told reporters the case
will be appealed. He said he had
obtained additional evidence
which was not available in the
trial.
The verdict in favor of Littell
stemmed from a column by Pear
son in April, 1949. It said that the
Rained-Out Games Nets Rainers
Half-Game Lead In Standings
(By the Associated Press) i
They didn’t swing a bat or
throw a -ball, but Seattle’s Rain-;
iers climbed another half game
ahead of the pack by watching
the raindrops in Sick Stadium on
Thursday night.
Seattle is four full games in
front of -Los Angeles in the Pacific
Coast League standings because
(a) Los Angeles lost to San Diego,
8-7, and (b) Hollywood and Seat
tle were rained out.
Justice Department had received
reports Littell was acting as a
propagandist for the Dutch gov
ernment although not registered
as a foreign agent.
Littell denied that he ever
worked for the Dutch govern- '
ment.
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