_ MONDAY , JANUARY 18, 1957. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: President Roosevelt sprang a new surprise today. His first message to the Seventy-Fifth Congress? led everybody to believe that he meditated no campaign to curb the Supreme Court. Not for the present, at any rate. The tone and text of his message indicated that moral persuasion rather than legislative force would be used upon the members of that high tribunal. Now it seems we misunderstood him.( Mr. Roosevelt is going to hold a conference ?/ith congressional leaders to discuss laws to curtail the veto power of the justices on legislation^) But supposing the justices pronounce the laws to curtail their powers unconstitutional What would happen then? A visit of Senator Minton of Indiana to the White House broke this news to the astonished capital. Senator Minton has made a specialty of reforms in court procedure. yeap~4H»--HaAde,.-£!_publicforfrte'Thangoia. gad LEAD - 2 em 9 « 4M»riic As he left the White House, the Senator said he wasn't privileged to reveal the details of his make it impossible for the Supreme Court to declare any law unconstitutional, except by the vote of at least seven of its nine members. "That," said Senator Minton, "is one way we can obtain legislation we have been seeking." And he added: "Everything wd have been fighting to get around today was the result of conference with the President. However, he did say that 9 five to four or six to three decisions AVIATION For some time it has been an easy prophecy that this was going to be a stormy session of Congress for all the over­ whelming numbers of the Democratic majority. But the storm hitherto unforeseen will be whipped up by a new measure 4 introduced in the House today. Its author is Representative Mark Wilcox of Florida, who wrote th« Wilcox Air Defense hct of Nineteen Thirty-Five. His latest idea not merely promises, but is bound to, revive the most hotly fought over argument in ftsuc army circles. Representative Wilcox throws back into the lap of Congress the proposal to take Uncle Sam1s army Air Corps from under the domination of the General Staff. What a sweet rumpus that1s going to create! His bill aims to establish a new officer in the War Department, a Chief of Aviation, a chief with two assistants. vO This potentate 'Wi-i# not.be subject to the orders of the Chief of the General Staff but w&l be of eq^al rank. In time of war', army pilots not* take their orders from staff officers. The Aviation Chief t M* cooperate with the General Staff. \ Thc-lr chief no^be responsible to any ground generals but AVIATION - 2 only to Secretary of V/ar himself. As Congressman Wilcox puts it: «My measure would establish the Air Corps within the War Department on somewhat tne same basis as that on which the Marine Corps fexists within the Navy Department.” iT’Zwsdt'' it has to 4i tin# truce in the automobile stride is^all off. The negotiations «<«•► back again where they were last Thursday. «*^situation e-in-^el is, if anything, worse. Tonight the Onion strikers are still sitting down in the General Motors plants at Flint. ) In consequence, William S. Xnudsen, Executive Vice-President of says: ’’The Union A has broken faith, the conference is all off. And until the strikers evacuate the plants, there can be no negotiation with the Union.” The fight has now become three-cornered. At one angle the United Automobile Workers of America, at another the General Motors Corporation; at the third the Flint Alliance, the Non Union organization of General Motors employees. Governor Murphy of Michigan still declines to give up hope. ^Twenty-three hundred National Guardsmen are still encamped at Flint. Mat Murphy was about to board a train for Washington to attend the President’s STRIKE - 2 inauguration when he received the news - conference postponed. adjourned- Indiana became a new center of labor trouble over the weekend- Terre Haute tonight is without street car or bus service, and the walkout of Indiana railway employees may .spread all over the state./ And in Toledo the Industrial Peace Board was / A doing its best to arbitrate between the Gas Company and its employees. Edward F. McGrady, Assistant Secretary of Labor, was expected to be on the job today but bad weather detained mew- him in Washington. People in Toledo^a^gas service only jdc by means of emergency crews ~3Uksr7 ) Gy I M0RA1 (IISTRO) Science han its great adventures, and one of the greatest of all was the exploit of "thehuman guinea pigs" whose heroism helped the U, S. Army Medical Corps wipe out yellow fever. That was way back in Nineteen Hundred, when epidemics were killing American soldiers by the hundreds in Cuba, also civilians by the thousands in New Orleans and other southern ports. A great surgeon. Major Walter Reed of the Army Medical Corps, became imbued with the idea that yellow fever was spread by mosquitoe. bite. But he had to prove it. Half a dozen soldiers offered themselves as subjects for the experiment. It was the first time in medical science that human beings were used as guinea pigs like that. And it was brilliantly successful, and without casualties. After a lapse of years. Congress awarded a Medal of Honor to those human guinea pigs. One of those Congressional Medal of Honor men is John J, Moran, Managing Director of the Sunoco Compania of Cuba. I heard he was in town and asked him to drop in for a chat.about that world-famous experiment. m. MOKAJi & L,T« y/ ^ L^T^:- ^r. Moran, tell us about the time when you and those other chaps allowed yourselves to be bitten by those .it, dred yellow fever mosauitoes. A —o— MORAM:- V.hat I remember most is the fact that I had a bet with another fellow, a tar heel named Walter Jernigan. I was bitten by the mosquitoes on December 21st and again on the 22nd* My Tar Heel friend bet me I wouldnft eat Christmas dinner. W© put up five bucks xxex apiece. —o— L.T.He supposed the fever would have you by then. Did it? —o— MQEAM:- ies. Major Walter Reed had told me to keep track of my temperature. At ten o'clock Christmas morning it started to go up. I was getting the fever. But I was determined to win that bet. It wasn't so much the five dollars, I just -r 4-y,niT to do because a man with wanted to win it. it was a mao tl a , g MORAM & L.T.:- 3 yellow fever shouldn't eat. But I ate that Christmas dinner from turkey to plum pudding. luXi*~ Then v.hat did the Tax* Heel say? You won* And he paid. But what did he say? MQRMj- He said5 "That just goes to show you can11 kill an Irishman.n i — 0 - L.T.What did Major Walter Reed &x say? __o— MORAN:~ The Major came around at four o'clock and xa^ctf said: "Any news?" I answered: "Look at my chart." He looked at it. Saw the fever, then rutted his hands and dx said: "Johnny, this is the happiest day of my life!" L.T.:- And you with the Yellow fever! 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An: : m the aai-galn anoiner pas :>rs; iexter was yesterday fro- every Oataolic .^: _ •: xo-- ciuesblon of aarr. age and . . •: rUo ,ou?^ evoiaec any polixacs imlplt it je'-iua: s stron lea * re ^<r.' dif i eredo^ r x vu:' - ^ - a y fex x ex i epo' : .> •» - ^ ' '*■*'9**' 1 ;r A - ,' r - r- • p- < ■ - aan nan. a r „ £ ^ jen^-ra jfefex: ex Hix i**: POPE - 2 improbable than that the pontiff should consent to receive the man believed to have been the prime author of so many rigorous measures against Catholics. There can only be one purpose to such an audi­ ence, a concordant between the Holy See and the Nazi regime. EUROPE The Spanish Civil „’ar has reached a new stage# Barcelona today was the chief object of rebel attack, k rebel warship sent by General Franco steamed into the harbour and fired twenty- five shots at the government naval sea^te*^plane base in the Catalonian capital. Apparently no serious damage was done and the batteries of historic Montjuich castle drove the attacking cruiser out to sea. Elsewhere, Ivladrid was bombarded again, the rebels claimed more successes in the soutlj^near Malaga^and Franco’s army was reported reinforced by more battalions of Moorish troops. BLIZZARD A story from snow bound Nevada brings memories of the historic narrow escapes of the firstto cross the Rockies* | k.Ml < -^tc of | a real Bret Karte tale earnished with a modern^____ ^ A A. fs* a automobiles and airplanes* The characters in the drama are Mrs* Lee'Ptettyman, whose husband owns a mine at Yucca Pas, Nevada} her'brother named Poe, and his wife; her Negro cookjand a fifth member of the partyj- Fred Miller* The day after Christmas they left the mine to drive to Las Vegas* The^hadn*t gone far when It began to snow. Presently the storm became a blizzard* Drifts covered the road and before long the car stalled when the ■gasoline gave out* For three nights and two days the blizzard blew and raged around that stalled motor car, all six people huddling together with their two cats and one dog, with sub-zero temperature out­ side the car* On the third day, December ihirtieth, Fred Miller said; wv,'e canft stay here^ "feerefs a cabin seventeen miles away* I *m going to try to make it." The other*"protested: "It’s suipidgA*1 Ke replied: "It’s suicide to stay here." ELIZSAKS -2 3oon after he started another blizzard set in, worse than the one before. Two days passed with no sign of rescue for the snowbound five. Mrs* Prettyman’s brother, Janes Poe, took a can of beef and followed where Fred Miller had started* After eleven hours of bucking the snow and wind he came upon a piece of cloth on the surface of the snow. After a few min­ utes digging he found that the piece of cloth was the coat of Fred Hiller, frozen to death. It took James Poe another eleven hours before he found that cabin seventeen miles away from the snowbound automobile. The inhabitants of th*i cabin were astounded by the sudden entrance of the storm-beaten man, holding a half-filled can of beef^ who ran around and their living room crying; "Here kitty, here kitty." Then they realized that iin their unexpected visitor was delirious and imagined himself back feeding h^s <H small rescue party set out in a truck. After two days search ins in tho/'snowy wastes they found the stalled automobile with BLIZZARD - 3 three women, the dog and the two cats. They had been there seven days and a half, exposed to the bitter cold within that automobile. All in — desperately ill. They were taken to the cabin 17 miles off and made comfortable. The nest day, the first clear one in more than a week, an airplane went out to search for the auto full of missing people. From aloft the pilot saw spread on the ground outside the cabin a bed sheet with words painted on it. The words were: ^One dead, three seriously ill, bring medical aid." And today was the first day since Christmas that the mar­ ooned people reached Las Vegas, warmth, food and comfort after twenty-two days of suffering. FLOODS Tonight*s weather forecast brings threats and terror to hundreds of people in the middle west. More rain, says the weather man, and already the Ohio River is flowing over its banks. Five people in Ohio and Indiana are dead, drowned In these terrifying premature floods. The river is two feet above flood stage In Cincinnati and experts are predicting that it will rise another six feet or more. All through the valley of the Ohio, the people living in the lowlands have been moved out of their homes to higher ground. The Red Cross has already established relief headquarters at Cincinnati. When you think of floods^you thin* of Folks thereA«i^a«*e3Sfe3ayt|r worried as they watch the Johnstown. waters A climbing up. MURDER Oscar Wilde used to say that art doesn’t copy life, fct’s life that copies art. Here’s one that happened in the ball room of the Manhattan Opera House, New York, last night and this morning. Seven hundred guests were at an entertainment there. Among them Grover Whalen, former Commissioner of Police, supposed to be next Tammany candidate for Mayor Of New York — and President of the Worlds Fair. In the middle of the gayety, a violent quarrel sprang up. Plates, glasses and bottles flew. When the fray was suppressed, a young man lay dead on the floor, stabbed twice. The New York Police were promptly on the scene under the command of Inspector Michael McDermott, famous in the detective world as the man who broke the Snyder-Gray case. He immediately ordered all doors closed. For four hours not a guest was permitted to leave, not even McDermott’s ex-boss, former Police Commissioner Whalen. And there ensued a scene which I’ve seen described several times in fiction stories but never before heard of in the actual operations of police officers. Inspector McDermott staged a reen­ acting of the crime, an act with six hundred and sixty-seven actors. That ^enabled the Inspector to determine that six persons had left the building before he had ordered the doors closed. Thereafter, by MURDER - 2 eliminating xirst one and then another, the hunted narrowed down to two people, two now under suspicion of murder. It wasn't until half past three this morning that the guests were allowed to go home and to bed. And SO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.