The Key West Citizen Newspaper, May 8, 1953, Page 2

Page 2 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN No Commie Accepts USA Offer Friday, May 8, 1953 Of $100,000 For MIG Plane By ELTON C. FAY WASHINGTON (f—It beginsto Sook as if the U. S. will have to shop around.someplace other than the Korean War zone if it wants to buy a Soviet-made MIGI5 jet fighter. The $100,000 ‘offer Gen. Mark Clark made a dozen days ago for the first MIG delivered intact to the U. S. Air Force—with asylum for "the pilot—still stands—uncol- lected, with no takers sighted. Asked about the matter today, an Air Force spokesman had this im- GET RID OF YOUR DEBTS Consolidate Your Small Bills With Money from “TOWN FINANCE mediate reply: “‘no MIG has uesn surrendered yet.” Was a propaganda element in- volved in the “silver bullet’’ offer to any MIG pilot defecting from his Communist government and turning over himself and his plane to American custody? “We want a MIG,” said the spokesman. The Air Force has accumulated a highly useful amount of knowl- edge about the MIG, even without having an intact plane in its pos- session. But only actual test flying Almost daily encounters with the Red jets over North Korea during the last two years have provided American air tacticians and plane designers with a quantity of infor- mation about the speed, rate of climb, maneuver end firepower characteristics of the plane. To that’ information have been added deductions made by aero- dynamic designers from the wreck- age of a MIG15 recovered by Unit- Your Grocer SELLS That Good STAR * BRAND + AMERICAN COFFE and CUBAN ——TRY A POUND TODAY-— Fest, Dependable Freight and Bxprece Servies ep ‘ MIAMI AND saw x ‘Alse Serving ALL POINTS ON 1 .ORIDA KEYS (No Steps En Revie) LEAVES KEY SUNDAYS) Miami at LEAVES MIAMI SUNDAYS) at end arrives at WEST DAILY at 6:00 P.M, 106 o'clock 12:08 0’ (eXCEPT Arrives at DAILY SRI Laat Key West at 6:00 - Local Schedule VS) at 9:00 o'clock DAILY (ExcaPrT AM. and areives at Key Weet at S100 o'clock FULL CARGO INSURANCE MAIN OPPICR ond WAREHOUSE: Cor, faten ond Provcle Sts, Woe Are Prepared To Furnish You With Clear, Pure Cube » Crushed ICE Temp i a |To Be Handled — ed Nations forces along the Weefa Korean coast over a year ago. The item the Air Force would erin next best to a MIG is a MIG unist China Air Force insignia. For a time, the Air Force pri- vately entertained a now obviously * | vain hope that it might fall heir to a shiny new MIGI5 landed in Den- mark some weeks ago by a young Polish pilot seeking asylum, That hope went glimmering when the Danes sent the plane back to Poland on the ground it was the property of Poland, A Sovict satel- lite. The pilot subsequently came to the U.S. The Air Force has made inquir- jes at Copenhagen about the pros- pects of getting technical reports on the once-interned MIG. So far as is known ag such reports have Disagree On How Foreign Aid Is By JOHN SCALI WASHINGTON. (7—Teams of businessmen who toured 14 coun- tries are in disagreement over how the U.. S. should administer its foreign aid program. Teams which visited Britain, Germany and Italy. recommended that the State Department be given full control and that the Mutual Security Agency (MSA) be .abol- ished. Four other teams urged instead that MSA continue in operation with minor housekeeping changes. These teams visited Greece, Bel- gium-Netherlands, Formosa, The were the conclusions of the teams which went to France, Turkey and Denmark. They recommended that dations that his agency close shop. Stassen met with nearly all of, the 55 business leaders who made the cash yesterday. to tell them erlands, Denmark and West Ger- many, except for: West Berlin, Peek Is Given ; : i E re f ; i E E é i i 3 F : é i i f DR. J. A. VALDES OPTOMETRIST Duplication of Lenses and Frames OFFICE HOURS 0-12 — 25 9 DUVAL STREET (Upeteirs) TELEPHONE 278n HESTER BATTERY Ber Chev., Ply... re 12 MONTHS nn "5 455 exch, 18 MONTHS W135 exch. 2 YEARS 17.85 exch. LOU SMITH, 1116 White! Li New Communist Move May Mean End Of Latest Indochina Fight Plaine des Jarres and ‘Xiengk- houang to the south. Two reasons were advanced here for the Communist pullback: The Reds apparently had over- stretched their supply lines in their SOMERS a Free Dance Sat. 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