PRBSmENT L 1 President Eisenhower has ceased to be a heart patient and begins to look more and more like a candidate for the White House. That's the opinion of United Press correspondent Lyle Wilson - who points out that yesterday's announcement by the President's doctors - has changed the whole political picture. Not long ago, many observers cloae to the Pre81dent were convinced that he would not r n again. 'Ibey thought he waa afraid of a physical collapse - that would make him an invalid. And Mr. Eisenhower himself has repeatedly indicated - that he would not want to leGve the country facing the critical difficulties that would arise - if hs should die 1n office. . But yesterday's announcement - makes the chance of a collapse very rem~:,te. According to the doctotts, Mr. Eisenhower is physically able to continue as President. So opinion in Washington has swung around - to the belief that PRESIDENT - 2 Mr. Eisenhower will acce t the Republican nomination again. Then there's the political ar ument. The campaign for the Democratic nomination, as we know, ls well under way. Stevenson, Harriman, and Kefauver - all attacking the administration. Lyle Wilson says it's obvious that President Eisenhower resents some of the thin g s that are being said about him. He believes that his administration has been good for the country. Moreover, GOP leaders feel sure they could win again with Mr. Eisenhower. They're not so sure, that they u.lri could win with any other cand!date. Which means just one thing - if the President wants to be certain of a continuation of his policies - the safest thing would be for him to run again. So Washington opinion looks like this. There 1s no medical reason for President Eisenhower to reject a second term. There are strong political r asons for him to run again. So the belief is - he will. STOCK MARKET The st oc market is boo min - all because of the news about r esiden E isenhower. After the President's illness in ~ 4 ~ Sep tember, mi buyin slip ped - traders weir& not optimistic )- about the future. But they are now,as a result of the medical word that the President is in fine shape - okay for a . more years of full scale activity. ~~ ~ \4ews ~em1- te-..aH«e •mp brought a nationwide wave of optimism - which has affected that economic barometer, the stock market. I EI ENHOWER ~ r e s i d e n t ~ fle w so ut h to Ge or ia today - for a fe w days, duri which he may make up hi s mind about a second term. The re side ntia l plane, C olumbine the third, landed at Spe nce Air Force base near Moultrie, G eorgia. The re it was a sunny day , as the P resident and First Lady were greeted by a crowd of several thousand at the air field. Among them the famous speed pilot, Dick Merrill, who remarked that they 1111■ were greeting a man who would go down in history as the reatest President. To which Mr. Eisenhower replied: "Well, it won't be for lack of trying." From the base, the Presidential party drove out to visit S ecretary of the Treasury Humphrey. All along the way, there were school children, let out for the afternoon. Shouting greetings, and waving flags. The President smiling, waving back. Th0 treasury Secretary was all set to take him quail huntin • \tthin a few minutes they were off on that mission. EISENHOWER - 2 The dispatch notes that the Humphre y home is called 11 Milestone.' Surely an ap ropriate name for the place where the President is to make one of the momentous decisions of his life. A decision that is discussed tonight from coast to coast. A decision that dominates the headlines. S EATO The maneuvers of the outheast Asia Treaty Or a n izati on moved into hi h ear t o ay . More than fifteen tho u sa n d m e n, fro ~ s i x n a t io ns - c a rr y i n ~ Q. thousan d Am er ica n o ut exe rci ses on la n d , sea an d ~--to t4 ~ p aratroo pe r s ~ over the air. air p ort at B a ngk o k , T h ailan d - alo ng with other p aratroopers from that country. ~ . There was a bit of a scare tod~ritish destroyers si g hti ng a stran g e submarine close to the Gulf of Thailand. The entire Seato task force went on the alert.-liut the - _ -I,-.= ~-,e,,""'-•-t\..... • ~ sub did not appear ~ P thatt. Apparently, it left, 1't"''""u - - " r- - it was not discovered after a long search by Seate ships. ALLEN To a 1 s a emen b ss istant ecr tary of Stat e eor e Al en - is the most pe simistic that any of our leaders has et made . eor e llen, tel11 a roup of British, French and American newsmen - that the danger of ~ . war in the Middle E~st has become serious/~ He denied that a shooting conflict 1s ~evitable - but_,tt& added,that both sides are tense - and even a minor incident might touch off war. Asked about the Israeli appeal for American arms,~,~. ~ Allen said that there are arguments for and agains;i~ .....J ~ ~ went on to point out that since Egypt has received arms, Washington is more favorable than it WAS to the - Israeli request. IA The news from Al er a off h 1 , between Arm and rebels, as the politicians in P ari t alk over the roblem of a settlement . 1 errorists ambu hed two convoys - killing one rench soldier, woundi others - and then etti away . t anot er place passen ers of two busses robb d , and then bot h set on fire . PAR! The i e t ree - f o r - all that the Par is As se mbl -- has ha n everal ye r ,- t hat ' s how they're escribi the fi ht bet een Comm uni s t and Pou adist e uties . T he iolence r o e out wh e n th e ss e mbly was ea ting whet h er to un - se a t on e fo llowe r of ou ade . H s c ollea ues i mmediately be an to sc rea m that th e speake r sh ould res i g n. T he ~~ C ommuni s ts came to ~ d e f e nse . An in a moment, the two ,. p arties were involve d in a battle ro y al - punchin g one another1 a n d ~ ~ wooden stools t hat stand around the speaker's ta desk. At one point, somebody fired a cap p i s t o l : ~ ~ Deputies jumped for cover, under the impression 'k ~ i l < ~ ti?:...~ that ~ W H - s p r & y i - f t g ~.~tmEt,. ,- FINLAND The F . nnish Assemb l y elect a new Premier - Urho .... - ~ K ekkonen, an anti - Co mmuni st ~ a close fi h with a I \. Left ist. The fi nal mar in, j ust two votes ,- on&-hundred-and- fifty....one to one,hundred-and-forty-nine. Althou h Kekkonen is anti-Communist in his domestic pol~ h e is called P ro- R ussian in his foreign policy. But, ~ in Finland, that merel y means that Ke kk onen is lf"8P! conscious ;( -( of that Russian bear just across the Fi nnish frontier. He A it, .J.A C)O ~ ~-t/J- liloesn1t want ~ t · --e Bear. And so he I ' I' advocates a policy of trying to g et along wfixXlu with the Kremlin - tryin g not to anta g onize Khrushchev. MA LEAN A r or t o d a y that o ur S tat e D e rtment ha no t un ov e r a n v en ce that the u T wo B riti h ex - iplomats - i e o R ed China to our plan durin th e Kor ea n War; s ch a r e eneral ac rthur. The ener a l a i he was convince tha Re China intervane in th e Korean War after et t ln inside information that the U forces in Korea would not e allowed to counte r-attac k be ond the Yalu . Mao Tse T un sure that his 1 anchurian sanctuc:1ry 11 would not be hit by Ma cArthur's planes. General MacArthur believes Mao ot this from MacLean and Bu ress when they were fairly hi h up in the British iplomatic corps. We hear however that the State Depar tment doesn't believe the char e - Secretary ulles, hol in there's no evi enc e o thi . A i tc h r o m Cleveland has a t or y tha t sounds l ik e s omethin o u t of a tf.'J.-&n-:--; t • be g an wh e n th e d ir e ctor ~ - o f a h istor y museum, C olton St o rm, w as fo und lyin in the Museum, u with a ineteenth C e ntur y Knife in h is bac k . had been taken from a d is p l a y ~ h e was prepari J... exhibition. for an S torm told Police that he was attacked by a mysterious stranger - as he was workin in the Museum after hours. But the police found scratch marks of a swinging door - just about the hei ht of the 11k knife wound. And then they confronted the director with their evidence - he broke down and confessed that he had uone it himself. He said he was despondent about the burdens of his ~~ job. ~ decided to kill himself i n ~ way. ) iwfOok the kni fe from the exhibition, placed lt against his back - and then swung the door a ainst it, attempting to stab himsel f to death. MU EUM - 2 But , t the last moment , he lost his ne rve - n tried to ch eck the door . The r e sult , a u erficial woun in h s back . After t hat, he coo ked up the iJU.UIDl int ru der . o ry abo~t th e mys terious A strange stor y , that would have come from Conan D oyl e o r S.S. Van Dyne . QUEEN In Ibadan, Nigeria, the Queen of England today shook hands with a tribal chief. Which doesn't s ound like much of a story - except that this chief &ll claims to be one-hundre~ and-thirty._seven years old. It happened after Her Majesty had formally opened the Parliament buildings of West Nigeria. After the ceremony, the Queen received tribal leaders from all over that part 4 • /\ And among them was one who says he's one- hundred-and-thirty-seven. Whether 'he:1J."e true or not - A. it's certain that he travelled 9fte hundred-and-twenty-five ~ ).. miles Hren the bush to shake hands with the Queen. 11a /4. ' Tu~up resplendent 1n a long robe of orange and black. ~ \ h o s e colors sound familiar?- ..,"'M'The Nigerian ,. ~ ~~ "! >to-~•~ chief M.~ ~ .. ,ne ~S)krinceton man. -,,e~ -,.. ,, ~ N i l ' ! ~ the oldest Nigerian_, ..r£.o ~ 0 0 /l ~~- ~ ~ , £ ~ . SUN SPOTS The director of the University of Colorado's observatory - warns the owners of television sets that they can expect "ghosts" on their screens over the weekend. Dr. Walter Roberts, saying that these freaks will be caused by sun spots - gigantic magnetic storms on the surface of the sun. Dr. Roberts says that more than sixty sun Qt spots have beeu counted - three of them big enough to swallow the earth. Their temperature - seven million degrees fahrenheit. And they're erupting in tremendous explosions of glowing gas. Sunspots interfere with radio and television - becaJlle the earth is bombarded by x-rays and ultra violet rays. The earth will have a severe bombardment over the weekend - when the sun rotation aims the center of its spots directly at the earth. That's why Dr. Roberts warns us to prepare for . ._ ._. ' "ghosts" on our television screens. T"t:.e --•~IZ.~"l._. ~ \;, ~ ~--' ~ . . s ~ J ~ a - J ~ w - { ~ ~ - t - ~ . CADETS Three hundred cadets at the Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, New York -have invited Prince Rainier of Monaco to pay them a visit - and do it in a hurry. 'lhe point is that these cadets have demerits marked against them - and they hope to get rid of those demerits before vacation begins. ~M It I s part o f / \ ~ custom - that permits members of Royal families visiting this country - to grant amnesties to students at academies like West Point and Annapolis. The Merchant Marine Academy falls under the same rule - and this kind of amnesty is the only thing the three hundred cadets can hope for - otherwise, they'll have to stay on during vacation, to work out their demerits. So they got in touch with the State Department in Washington - to find out if any visitor now in America can help them. They got the answer - just one, Prince Rainier of Monaco. CADETS - 2 How to get the Prince to visit them? Well, the cadets were cagey about that one. They contacted John Kelly of Philadelphia, who has some influence with the Prince. The cadets, hoping that Grace Kelly can get her fiance to stop off at the Merchant Marine Academy. And the cadets promise the Prince a real welcome if he shows up - the full treatment with uniforms, bugles and drums. No wonder they're w1111ng to roll out the red carpet for visiting royalty - if he can get them out of such jobs as washing windows, swabbing decks and chipping paint. If he can get them home for the vacation. ) BELLEAYRE Here's an odd bit of information from the Catskills, the mountains associated with the story of Rip Van Winkle. The State of New York has a winter sports development on a beautiful mountain called Belleayre, a short distance West of the Hudson, at Kingston. The Park Superintendent is Arthur Draper, a former New York City newspaper writer and executive, who fed up with the canyons of Manhattan, fled to one of the most beautiful mountain ranges in the country. You might think that the wild life of the forest would resent the intrusion of fifty or sixty thousand skiers. Arthur Draper tells me it is just the reverse. That the grass covered ski trails actually serve as a veritable wild life super-market. Deer, a cvmmon sight, bear tracks here and there, raccoon, woodchuck, grey squirrel, rabbits, weasles, grouse fairly abundant. With pm porcupine too plentiful. In fact, they have a p porcupine problem. They actually BELLEAYRE - 2 climb the tall steel chair lift towers and gnaw what are called the rubber sheave liners. WEATHER y\ The Rhi;_e ~ froze today - backin g up the river for thirteen miles, near the famous "Lorelei rock." The Rhine, rising fifteen feet in some places. The water rose slowly enough to allow evacuation of the threatened areas - but the police were not able to break the lee jam. The Kattegat between Sweden and Jutland is frozen , ,A ~ - t i t ~ . 5 ~ ~ ... ~ over - twenty-five feet deep.A In Switzerland, thousands of swans, with frozen feathers, had to be rescued from the lakes. A mountain of ice SB grinding its way down through the Danube from Hungary Into Vienna. And far south, in Sicily- water pipes froze and burst. The whole c o n t l n b . i n g for the third week 4ihPG'""...gti- the worst cold w a v ~ t o r y - ~ ~ I' ' 1 - 4 - . ~ ~ ~ ' -- LTP.1956.02.15i.pdf LTP.1956.02.15ii.pdf