COAL --- A' John L.Lewia - no indication of wh a t the boss of the a,J "Miners stated kkM intends to do. l a t e ) ' ~ - . _ a · 1n fact,/Lunion apokeaman th t there would be no announcement today. So we are left w ith nothing bul silence fro ■ Lewis in th e f ace of the federal injunction ordering h · m to call off the soft coal ,strike aet for toaorrow night. (Lewis is required, by the order of the court { to c o u ntermand hi• announcement of Friday - terainatin& ~ the contract between the United Mine Workers andl\V. federal government, whiGh~ermination ia equivalent to a strike order. Time is runnin g short, only about t we n t y - ~ hours left until the deadline, tomorrc,•a ~night. Meanwhile,xa John L. Lewis givea no sign of eith er compliance or defiance.) However, t.he strike~•• hi::;..~ already I' COAL - 2 ~~- ••1--:::- A oday t e pre atu~e •il at walkout of the coal iners continugd - the miners beating t e gun. The latest today showed ninety-nine thousand soft coal diggers idle - that any out of four hundred thousand. ' ' And th~ strike-before-the-strike is cutting beaYilJ into 1, coal production. fill . they go back o work, if \he court order co~pels Lewis to call off bis termination of the contract? Or ~igbt not the rest of the miners go out, at the dead- · line ? Do u twas expressed today that even if ~••is were fo rc ed to bey, it mi g ht not prevent a coal mine strike. This, o ~ o urse, would cause a national industria1. criaia, and to da y g overnment officials went ahead with plans tor a brown-ou f e eastern states - to cut down the consumpti o of oal i t e area that uses so much of the fuel fro the m ines. ~OAL.: 3 From down belo w the surface of\t,he ocean, •• hear that President Truman feel• it necessary to take a fira stand against John L. Lewia. lo, there wa• no mistake about that dateline - down below the surface ot the ocean. A news conference w a s held today, three bundra feet under the wav•• of the Atlantic:f Preaident Truman is vacationing off the Florida~ Keye, and today he went to a nearby beach for a swim. While the presidential swim was being had, White Bouse ~reaa lecretar7· Charlie Rosa took a party of newsmen aboard a subaarina for a dive, and while under water he ■ail held a newa conference - in which he stated the President's belief th t the na t ional interest require• a show-down on John L. Lewis. ADD COAL ------- And the latest word on the coal situation coaes from the Army tonight --- the word that troops aay 10 into the soft coal fields if the Administration want• help in its fight with John L. Lewis. The lar Departaent says that troops are ready to ■ove if a call coaea troa Secretary of Interior lrug, who is still in char&• of the mines, for the Government. lo such request so far has been made by the Interior Secretary. STRIIE -~-- In Hollywood, the Grand Jury has ordered an investigation of recent terrorism in the continuing movie strike. The Grand Jury's decision followed by only a few hours today the firing of a shot at the automobile of a police officer patroling picketed stu,djos. -½ ~ ~~~'It.: . " t . B b t S l} • • I I II . • ~ 1 ■ ean 1me, er er 03re ~• 02@_ . a s:s e . I ' , union1 and twelve henchmen,~ere arraigned in the Yunicipal ~ r t on criminal conspiracy warrant~• 'they were relaaaect,;i Aon Five Thousand Dollar• bai~ •CM and ordered to re-appear on November twenty-second. ' The felony charges against Sorrell and his associates accusel them of willful disobedience of court order , , conspiracy to obstruct justice, refusal to disburse, and assault with deadly weapons. Sorrell, however, was unperturbed when he left co"rt today. Said the leader of a walkout which has.:::iiL homes b o m b ~ z ~ et ~~' / ~ ~ violence: "These charges won't stick and they will not stop our strikeJ•~ ~ . . 5 ' ~ IAIIE~AL The doctors have ordered Postma s ter General Bob H a nnegan to take a long r est. Hannegan, who ia ~l•o Chairman of the Rational Committee of the Democratic Party, ap pears to be suffering fro• overwork - and hi• phyaiciana have told hia to take time out for a couple of months - a coaplete rest:t'This, of course, increase• current specu l ation• on the likelihood of Hannegan resigning fro• either one of bi• two top ranking · poats, or both. The word bas been that he would like to step out aa Deaocratio Rational Chairman, but would like to bold on aa Poataaater General. Today's news about the doctor•' order• inc r eases, likewise, the talk about ho will succeed Bob Hann eg an, if he does resign. !- If he quit• aa Democratic Rational Chairman, his moat likely successor will be retiring Governor of Oklahoma Robert Kerr, or ••J- maybe Second Assistant Postma s ter General Gael Sullivan, l!ll!EGA!_- 2 or Price Administrator Paul Porter - not to mention atill others who are named in the Washington surmises. As for the job of Poataaster General, the best bet for a successor ia Senator Mead, who ga~e up hi• poet in the Senate to run unsuccessfully against Toa Dewey for the go•ernorship of Rew York in the recent election. "r\{.u.i_-w,:RP Washington opinion thinks t h a t ~ get the call..,.. if Hannegan should decide to resign both of hia po ■ ta - in the process of getting that coaplete rest. The news about I■ the Foreign Ministers of the Big Four is that Sovi e t Ruasia has banded a communication to Italy - about Trieste. Molotov bas inforaed Italian representatives that Moscow favors direct negotiation•. Italy has suggested that the problem of Trie1te might be aettled directlJ between the Italians and Jugoslav•. The attitude of Moscow bas been in doubt. but now Koloto• aaya okay. ].:JL. Today was rece p tion day at the United Nations, new members welcomed into the D.R. At Flushing,Long Island, . ~- three na t ions si g ned• - Swed ~ n, Iceland and Afghanistan. A 4 llsel put their signature on articles giving their adherence to the Charter of the United Nation• - and are now members. And action was taken concerning three other nations - Belgium, Columbia and Syria. The Asaeably elected thoee countries to meaberahip on the Security Council, according to the principle of rotating Security Council seats. Belgiua, Colombia and Syria replace Holland, Mexico and Egypt - which, having bad th e ir ter■ on t h e ~ Council, now step out. / z s· ro , Z 3S / f CO C 0 n t }"' e r t~e t There was a violent explosion in Jerus a lea today, when a mine blew up within fifty feet of the center Jewiah lgency. Th~••••~of the city was shaken by the but blast,~apparently there was only one caaualty, - a Jewiah paaserfll>J injured. The belief ia that the mine, · electrically detonated, was intended to blow up an armored police car passing along the atreet -- but it exploded several aeconds too late. The police car, with seven aboard, - passing on. AIRPLANES They are having bad flying weather in Europe, with news of several plane crashes. At a London airport, one plane came to grief, as it descended in the blindin1 tog. London is famous for its November fogs. I've stumbled and groped through aany of them. In France, a big airliner flew into a aountain. An American Army tr a nsport, carrying eleven persons - including high officers and four officers' wives, and a baby daughter of an American officer in Germany. Flyin& from Aunicb, bound for a French airport - the plane came to grief in foul weather among the Alps on the Franco-Italian border - crashin 6 into a suaait eleven thousand feet high. The bad weather, however, was good weather in a way - for that plane. There were heavy snows in Lhe mountains, a piling up of deep banks of frosty white - and the air tra n sport, with its passengers, crashed into a huge s n owfall. This cushioned the impact. AIRPLANES - 2. -------- Six injured - the rest unharmed - when the crashing plane plunged into the deep snow. The danger of exposure is g r eat. Rescuers are on the way. Among those aboard the plane was Generali. M. Haynes, head of the advisory group working with General ~ark Clark, and his wife. Also Mrs. Snavely, wife ot Gener,l Ralph Snavely, head of the American Air Force• in Austria. The General expects to pilot his own plane to that mountain top tomor~ow. , And just to complete this story ot air crash•• overseas, here's late news of an American B-17, boaber, plunging into the Suez Canal. What were the casualtiea? Or, at any rate - how aany ,ere in the water? Robody. This crash was not because ~f weather, the skies in Egypt being nearly always bright. The B-17 had engine trouble, and the crew and passengers - all Army men - bailed out, came down by parachute, while the plane went on to take a dive into the Suez Canal. bx t 1 M ~ fr om Idaho t o Seattle , and . south to Central aliforn ia, s tor m y weath e r for t h e second on ecutive nigh t. inds of ne ar-gale force are w h ipping the C alifo nia and Oregon coasts. Three vessels so far have had to call on the Coast Guard for help. Nine deaths so far are attributed to the storm. In Washington, snow from one to twenty-seven inches in depth covers much of the State. And through he Sierra \tountains, ice coats the highways. The California State Highway Patrol warns that chains are compulsory for all drivers, and that road conditions are dangerous. SOLDiiR -------- Ou"t in New Gui , th i C i n mia mal jun , th fuz zy - uzzy naive er tellin r cen ly of a hie ma n ndering about like a stran r e fu itive in ~ ' ~ the depth th e~ M a ~ ~ A hunt was made for him, and p r es ntly the searchers came u p o n ~ r a n g ~ • ~ J white man emerged from the folia e e of the green ~ulrwA and came unsteadily towards them - with a book in his band. 1fae muttered incoherently, half out of his mind. ABe was an American aoldi r, lost in the jungle, half craz&d with malaria. Be couldn'ttell them who he was, couldn't remember much of anything, after the ordeal of privation and fever. It'll take him some time to get etraightened out - get over the burning malaria. The book in his band? ' The book th a t he clutched ~ tho~e t , o years in the tropical wilderness what was it? ~ They looked and saw - ~ family Bible. ,... On th e fl¥ leaf as ,ritten the name - J.B. Stubblefield, Jr. Tody t Bil aboro, Te nn ss ee, a farm family, the Stubb lefi e ld , wer e informed of this. The moth r s id, •Yee, w e gav e our bo th~t Bible, wh e n he w ent into the army. Yes, th at mu t be our sen.• So in that w y, to . ay, the story comes - of an American soldier who has r e turned from the dead - returned from two years in the green hell of Rew Guin••~ MARRIA GE -------- Th e re e n w r ave us o r thAn o ne En o ch Arden story - a sol d i r r ep orted de a d..- coming hoe to find that his ~ife , thinkin hersel f i ow, h a rema ried. That can be a he a rt-bre a¥ in g dilemma - and today we have a story that presents what is perhaps the most classic ~ version of Enoch Arden story produced by World Jar Numbe " Two. At Los Angeles today, the law was invoked to Field was reported killed-in-action in Europe. Two people were grieved most of all by the news - the soldier's wife and bia best friend. Mrs. Field was inconsolable, and Joe Carroll had been the closest pal of lallac Field,fThe widow and the friend were drawn together b7 the feeling of mutual loss. This was the bond between them, and it led to marrtage. The wedding was like an act of allegiance to the fal l en soldier, who had been her husband and his be s t friend. Then W all a ce Field c a me back from the dead this in the form of a notificati n that he was a prisoner-of-war in Germany. When the news arrived, the wife who h a d re-wed and the best friend who had married her -- separated immedi a tely. Last Spring W allace Field returned from his prisoner-of-war camp in Germany -- and found the wife and Joe Carroll, bis best friend -- both deterained to solve as best they could the unhappy dilemma of the Enoch Arden story. And today in Los Angeles, Joe Carroll, the best friend, sought a legal annulment of his war-tiae marriage to the wife of his friand, Soli~er Wallace Field reported killed in the war. WIFE --- At Bou n, Texa s,~od Y, salvation app ared for a prisoner in jail - salvation in the form of a woman who came to post a bond for him, and get him out. All of which would seem to be a happy consumaation - but it wa&n't. The pr isoner; a shipyard wor k er locked up !or some misdemeanor or other, was led to the barfed window where he saw the lady making out the document for ' his freedom. The jailer guarding him, told him that - no•, be could go. - ~ ~ ' •Ro air•, replied th'e · p_risoner"-- •t•• not leavin& here. That woman is my wife.• So back to . the dungeon cell he went - happy and content. And now the band will strike up with those dear familiar strains of - •Home Sweet Home.• In ashington, rs. William M c G i nnis fell off a fourth floor fir ~ -escape -- and landed in th e bathroom of t. RobertALee - on the s ec ond floor. "'Rc-U, t., L 12 o--& Ima gi ne;... ~ surprise, if he hap ened to b e there - when th e lady came in through the indow! It wa s a miracle ,that') fallin from the fire-esce . pe, she didn't plunge to death on the concrete pavemer.t five stories below. But she hit a wash-line at the third floor hit it in such fashion that the rope broke, and one end of the roe wound around her legs, and awung her into the 0 ~ 1 R.o~. ~. L Q e.:ci window of the floor below - t · he window ofA ~'4 bathrooa. ~ ••;• in a hospital, Mrs. McGinnis ia being treated /\ for a few cuts and bruises and a sprain e d back, while~ -ti. z. bathll:0:0'.a owner Robert Lee is recovering from hie /' ;... astonishment. ( tta,:=a~~~ ~ . ~ I At B r df ord , en ylv a ni ' t o · ay , they've been havin g a cel e bration - a c elebr tion th t r ecal ls not only the eve n t ~ commemorated, but also something else. This is the Sev e nty-Fifth Anniversary of the Bradford oil field, and honor is being paid to the early wildcaters who brought in the first well of the Bradford " pool - which was followed by the historic Pennsylvania oil boom. It was in the Bradford field that an accident r presently happened - something as iaportano:e as that firs A discovery of oil, a mishap that turned into a great strok of luck. Water seeped in through a leaky casing of an oil well, the well flooded - and that looked bad. But Wt - 2 it was noted that water in one well was follo ed by an increa e of oil pro1uction in a neighboring well. That surprising fact was a clue that led to the procesR of - water-flooding. TM Peowlt of th-et-,H-oviaee a ~at-Mn~- • le•eea- ¼-ft the way -->vhinge ,ropk 011t in- the'-..J! ft l• e"- petrele1111r By means of natural pnduction, the Bradford field has yielded two hundred and fifty aillion baerela of petroleum. By means of secondary recovery, like water-flooding, that figure has been nearly doubled - two kundre4 and thirty-five million barrel• more, after the Bradford field was thought to be exhauated. later-flooding brought ab~ut a new oil booa - after the field was considered t:o \n, dea · d. And today it ie estimated that there are still seven hundred aillion barrels of oil in the eighty-five thousand acres of the Bradford field. Q!L- 3 All of which is background for the fact that, after our huge civilian consumption and after having provided motor fuel for the greatest of all wars, the oil resources of the United States are now placed at a higher figure than ever before. A con g ressi on al committ e e ton y turned ov e r to the A£torn e y General evidence in the case f the much talked of Missouri primary election - in which Congressman Slaughter was defeated for the Democratic nomination. During the p re-campaign period, the headlines told how President Truman took an active part against the Missouri Congressman ao near to the Presi ent's own home district. II~ Repre ■ entative Slaughter had voted conaistently against administration policies. The Pendergast political machine also opposed him, and he was defeated - the jubilation of his opponents, however, turning into dj■ t • ■txaai■azxxl•J••li•• and ashes when a Republican won out in the election. There have been ch rges o f ~ fraud in the primary ba t tle against Congressman Slaughter. The evidence was handed to a congressional committee, which today stated that there were signs of variou■ POLITICS - 2 ------ - - irregularities - - dishonest counting o! votes, illegal influence on voters, payments of money, co- ersi o n, and so on. So now this evidence••• handed today to Attorney General c1 ~ rk, for action by the Department of Justice -- if the Depa•tment should decide to act.