PIAFZ L.T-1'-.°'= . o/ Aw{. /~ - l"l~"I. ( Secretary of Dtfenae h-Oll• Karsball aaked Congress today for~eeplng pro ram that would combine the d r a f t ~ uniYeraal military training) The plan would be to ca1,-(ip eighleen year 0141 and make them 11&ble to as active service for twenty-seven months.They would ~e &lven four monlh1 of military \raining, and then might be kepi in service for the remaining twenty-three aonth1. However, 1f the present world emergency 1hould ea•• off, the President could cul the period of twen11- three months, reducing it po1slblJ lo aero. the el&hteen rear 0141, thu1 drafted aa4 treined, would-.. then be 1n the reserve f r • l!lree to six years. lo, lhe purpose 11 two fold - provldla1 an 1-edlate supply of aoldiere, and a•surlng lhe nation of a large force of · trained manpower in . reserve. The draft-combined with universal m111tarr service. Also, the new program would affect draft••• of all ages - making the term of service twenty-seven Pl ♦!J - a ■ ontha, 1na\ea4 of : wenty-one, ae a\ pr e sent. One reaul\ would be to leasen the 11kel1hoo4 of drafting ve\era.ns, husb&nda and talbera. Allo1e,her, a measure of ,weeping importance, presented bJ Secretary of Defense George Marshall, to Congreas 104&7 DQI PBIQI Late news from Washington -- the propoae4 freese of wage• &n4 prlce1 tor a period of thirty days hae been cancelled. The plan was announced a week or so ago but now the lcono ■ lc Stab111see - Alan Valentine states that there 1a no staff available to enforce a wage-price fr•••• for thlrtJ 4&J. Moreover, there are •other po110J rea1on••• lo ,u whole thing ha• been cancelled. . ♦PP IAQI- OJAI The \hlrty day control plan had been propoeed bJ econo■ 1c d1rector D1 Balle, and th1a eTenlng he a&I ln on a new• conference, at whloh Valentine told of the abandonment of the wage-prloe tr••••· Valen\lne 1&14 Iha\ control• will be applied on a regional tia111, not on a nallonal IC&le. Dl l&lle &gree4 that th1• W&I •aoun4•. (In ~orea, the oounter-attaok that recapture WonJu - haa been toroed back. Thia occurred when & mu of ten thousand ~orean Reda, backed by reserve• of twenty thousand, hurled•-•••~• themAelvea forward 1n a hu1e ae1aul~again1t American troop1..,_ reinforced br rrench and Dutch cont1ngenta. These, w1th Americaa tank■, out down wavea of the &11aulting Rede - -;(.., anolher c1r.,, back, to give the · &rtillery a chance. Whereupon, the~annon hurled a rain of ■tee &ad fire lnto the rank• of the Co-unieta. But the7 kept ooa1ng on, only to run into a cro1a-f1re of uohine-1une,-- ~ut that dil'n\t 1top the•·)•o the M,t\, 1pearhead, whlch had driven to Wonju, waa pushed baok five ■ ilea - by thoee ene■y u■IU t&otloa of lurohln1 forward 1n ma1a ae1ault1, with no regard for loase1. ( The battle va1 fought in a bliazard - a 1reat enowfall 1n aoae of the wildest mountain■ of ~re&,) Which gives a clue to a nightmare of w&rtare. Winter ■ cenes that might be a dream of snowy summits and valleys - but a nightmare of white for an army 1011♦ - a conducting military operations. Tough on transport, with vehicles of ever7 ■ or\ ■ l~~ng on 1oy road ■ and bogged down ln bank■ of 1now. Air operation•• called off for the daJ - t ,wr - . war planes grounded, ceiling zero. A A• tor the aaln force, the lighth Ar117, there wa1 bitter fighting toda7 - a110 no retreal • . •obod7 1uppose1 the present po11t1on repr ■ •en11 a per ■anent line of defen••• which the7 will trJ lo hold. But the fact ia that the lighlh Ar ■J ba.1 halle4 1t• withdrawal. 11&0Arthur 1 1 headquarter• report■ a ■aa11n1 of &ed foroe• · - gathered, apparenl17 for a big offen1iTe. APP 1911♦ The laieat from ~orea 1iatea thal an &11- out Bed drlve down through the mlddle of the penln1ul& 1ee ■ 1 to be 1hap1ng up - the Bede io the south ot VonJ• be11nn1n1 an attack today. r ilZI rrom London we hear that Britain may trade a nu■ber of Canberra ~et bom b ers for American ~et fighters. The Canberra 1s considered by Americaa experts to J e the best light bo m b er in the wor14, and our A1r roroes have indlcated that we ma7 uae 1, instead of the American B-51. So now London report, a swap of t h oae Canberra• for American jet fighter,. Of the se , three h u ndred to f1•e hundred are 1&14 to be involved in the swap. L Thia word about Brlt~eh jet bo■bera 11 pointed up by newa from the c1v111an side of aviation - a record~ uua•&11~bre&kin1 flight by. a Canadian jet airliner, flylng from Chicago to Bew York. Tl■e, one hour and forty-two ■ 1nutea - which clip• ■ ore than an hour fro■ the usual t1 ■e. Speed fOUl'-hundred--e.nd-flfty- nine milea an h o ur - a record for the run. Winging alon g at thlrty-11x}houeand feet, the jet airliner set a new U.S. altitude record for commercial transport•• JETS - Also - a r cord f o r ~ rate of climb, rising to thirty-thousand feet in twenty-two minut s. GHOST In B rit a i x••~• tonight, the g ost hunt by tel e vision - w ' s a failure. At historic Hampton - Court S■ UJ they had thre TV cameras, together with infra-red 11 ht1n g - in the palace gall e ry, said to be haunted by the sh de of Catherine Howard, the 111-fated fifth wife of Henry the Eighth. The bluebeard monarch had two of his wives deheaded, and Catherine Howard was one - and tor years h . r ghost•• has been & sort of national taasttt 1net1tut1on in lngland. But tonight the television camerae tailed to pick up any sign of a spook. The attempt made & reat stir, with two million T.V. viewer• at their sets. But all they got was a travelogue &bout Hampton Court palace - no ghost. "1 SINCLAIR LEWIS It is tynical, in a way, that Sinclair Lewis should end his life in Rome. Th e re was nothing more American than the author of 'Main Street• and 'Babbitt• the tall gangling, freckled-faced, r•d-head, - ~ ~""""'"" .. ~ ~ J ~ 9' born at Sauk Centre, Minnesota. His fame was for ~ ) ~ . satirical portrayal of the middle class in small town nwd.. America. But~•••A of his active life waa paeaed ~~a~."~ abroad, and he wrote his best known booksA1n Italy. During recent years, he suffered fro■ a heart oond1t1on, and a month ago contracted pneumonia. He waa 1n a~•• hoapital in Ro■e, and h&d a relapae ~ today. At atxty-f1ve -- the end of the 1 ~areer of lhe author ot •xa1n Street• and"!abb1tt•. DOOMS DAY Well, th ~, world did net come to an end at Xeremeos, in Briti c h Columbia. So the •children of - light• have call e d off their vi g il - waiting for - ~ Dooms Day. They blame the continu e d existence•• of .. ,, this planet on outside interference, the way people kept butting in. They're an ry about it, because I\ If this outside interference prevented - the end of the The •children of light• are an off1hoot - - -- of the Pentecostal Churoh,Awith strong beliefs abou, the day of~• ~udgment. On they gathered in a farmhouse, to await the end of"all. This they figured, would happen yesterday. Soae were so sure about it, they sold their worldly po1seas1on11 at a lose. Thirty-nine people were crowded in the farmhouse, they prayed and sang hy ■na, lived on brown sugar, rye bread and water, and slept in relays on blankets. Local Canadian officials declared the whole thing was unsanitary - a menace to uatt•x DOOMS PAX - 2 • health. The Can ad ian Royal Mo ~ted Police tri e d to ~ do som e thing about 1t. But couldn't, under the law. Crows of curious p eop le came nosing - the whole thing a local phenomenon. Today's explanation w a s given by the cull leader, Mrs. ~gnes Grace C a rlson, a former D eaconeee of the Pentecostal church : lg• She says the Lord - was to have appeared in a ball of fire rolling down _,,,_.. the mountainside - behind the farmhouse. The,-, fro■ within the ball of fire, a vo1oe would speak, ,4, announcing Dooms Day. But all that was prevented. •outs14e interferenoe and conetant interruptions• declare• the Deaconess, •hae spoiled our chances of receiving a message fro■ the Lord.• So tonight the world has not come to an end. SWITCH ENGINI A late story tonight gives the clue to a freak railroad accident n ar Herlong, California, a southern Pacific switch en~ine had a collision with - a flat car, and th~ two trainmen in the oab of the switch engine were killed. Whereupon the looomot1ve started on a run backward, which carried it tor elgh, miles at high speed. If this bad happened on a maln line it might have caused a disaster -- but the tracks were a secondary branch, little used. The clue 11 in the faoi that, when t~e sw1,oh engine h1t the flat car, not only were the two tr&ln- men killed - but the throttle wa1 thrown lnto full reverse. Vhloh •••• 1ent the locomotive running backward at top speed - with two dead men 1n the oab. It ran racing for eight miles, until derailed b7 the speed -- jumping the tracts near Wendell, California. ACCIDENT We've hard of e scapln death by an inch. Well, n ar Birmingham, Alabama, Jack Buchanan scaped death by a foot - his own foot. Be was driving alon g the highway above a cliff, near the crest of Red Mountain. A oar came speeding around a curb on the wrong side of the road - and, to avoid a colllsion, Jack swung the steering wheel 1n a hurry. His car swerved to the edge of the cllff, got out of con~rol, and over it went. The drop was four hundred feet, straight down - and the automobile crashed into tangled wreckage. Then Jack Buchanan opened h1s eyes, co ■1n1 ~ 4 lo &tier being elunned.,,.~-;_anglln~ ~•-..SM.._ - ~°""~ fro■ a tree overhanging the ha ~When the car plunged, he was thrown out, fell for sixty f e e t , ~ __...;.~ "' ~ Mien Ill& ~ tree ~ growing . . the side of the cliff. /\ One f o ~ = g e d in lhe fork of two branches, and that held hl~ - kept hla from falling lhe rest of"""'- 'ft-eµ. tib&s"'-r;t_ Saved by a foot. PQIH re&dy t I 111 n s p r 1 so , t re co vi ts , a p e, cele ra ed t e1r a __ roa 1ng etaway - with a poem 'Ille Tel' e •• ■a.p ne, ~• -tlae l'e•fee._ a-r• ef i,eet•y, . ,at ~ "e,. -weie' to ~he point. One stanza reads: •ve could have escaped long ago If your deput 1es we wante · d to f ighl, Bu\ we didn't want to hurt no one In Taking our unlawful flight. So we'll aerely tip\oe out In the ■ 1dat of th1a dart night.• lhe d&rtne•• for 11p-toe1ng out waJ to h&Te been last night, bu\ the warden becaae 1uaplc1ou■ - noticing that the convlcta in question were doing & lot of wh1apering &aong themselves. So a search was made of their oella, and the poem was found - g1Tlag ~ the whole plan away, in rhyaea and stansaa. They chould have escaped first, and written the poetry afterward. ~IYQRCI Here it is, and t s ppose . 1t had to happen - a television divorce. At Detroit today, Harley Grigg sued his wife, charging her with neglecting him for T.V. He says she stayed up so l a te at night, watching the household television set, she couldn't get up Sa in time to cook breakfast tor b1 ■ - which often made bim late for wort. He ohargel that, 1n her devotion to video, she re arded him a1 •an uniaportant and annece11ary adlunct to the hou1ehold. • To thi1 Nrs. Grigg replied b7 saying: •■r. Gr11g appeared actually 2ealou1 of the teleT111on eet. When I turned 1t on, he'd 1ulk 1nto the •••z■■a be4roo■.• Bubb7 1ee■1 to feel - he was cut out by ,.v. ¢e, ~--- - ~ , - ~ ~ ~ 4-~ - o..J ~ 1i1 J ..,,n-J ~ •• -· l ~~~~·