LABOR n his speech befor e a Uni o n o vention in A lantic City - the head of t he AFL -CIO tlevo ted most of h is time to orrupt i on in side labor. George Meany d d not name anybody - but he obv iou sly had Dave Beck in mind. ~Meany, stating frankly that labor's biggest problem i s corruption in the Un i on - violation of the Un i on's moral code. Meany mentioned a number of things that Dave Beck refused to testify about - for example, borrowing money without the knowledge of the Union. Meany also mentioned the Fifth Amendment. Saying, anyone who takes the Fifth Amendment to avoid paying what he has done with Union fwlds - has violated labor's code of ethics. e S u 1 reme Co rt of ~ i s c o nsin rules - a Union J oes not. ~ve to a cce p t e g r o s a s m embers. The case i nvolves two bric kla yers, R ndol ph R oss a nd J a mes Ha rris, I wh o h a ve b een tryin for four years to g et into L ocal umber Eight - of the Bricklayers International. The U nion re . lying that isconsin has not made this com p ulsory. The Union, claimin g it has the ri g ht to choose its own members. Now the tisconsin Supreme ~ourt u p holds the Union on this by a vote ot six to one. The majority decision, based on the fact that W isconsin has not declared racial discrimination in employaent to be illegal. One dissenting justice, Thomas Fairchild - su p ~ orts the two bricklayers. He claims the ma jority o p inion is in O P i' osition to the Fourteenth Am e ndment to our Federal Constitution. AVALANCHE The aval 1~ h e that {il led t wo men near Empire, Colorad o , - had an ron c tw i st. The avalanche was started del i berately. They were shootin g a f i lm for Walt Disney. The aa cameraman, John Hennann of Salt Lake City. His ~ I companion, Wayne Whitlock of Empire; They were trying to get pictures of an avalanche of snow in the Rockies. The avalanche was touched off by a maintenance crew. They fired three rounds of howitzer shells - at a big mound of snow near one of the peaks. ' They got their ava1anllhtfi1 right, only it was much bigger than they expected. The snow, hurtling down on the men operating the camera. Before they could run, they were buried under twenty feet of snow. Rescuers dug frantically - in an effort to save the two men. But they were too late. The body of Wayne Whitlock - recovered last night. The body of Cameraman John Hermann, recovered today. Both ••~ victims - of an avalanche they deliberately started. MILITARY Th e e nat e a ppr ov es Pr esid ent E isenhower's reshuffle o f o ur m i l it ary hi g h command. There was hardly any debate after Demo c rati c Leader, Lyndon Johnson - commended Mr. E isenhower for h i s select i ons. S enator Johnson's colleagues put t he i r okay on all of the names submitted. You know them:- General Nate Twining to succeed Admiral Radford as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. Donald Quarles, Deputy Secretary of Defense. He in tum to be succeeded by James Douglas as Secreiry of the Air Force. General Tom White as the new Air Chief. Fred Bantz of Quaker Hill, New York, as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy. Admiral Arleigh Burke remains on for another two years as Chief of Naval Operations. MARI NE A cour t mar ti a l s tt n at Parr·s I sl and, ~ outh Carol i na - orders a Mar in e e utenant ~'-t>e d i sm i ssed from the corps. Lieutenant Wil l i am Conroy of New Yor k Cit y - found gu i lty of punch i n an enl i sted man. Lieutenant Conroy pleaded gu i lty. And the court martial gave h i m the equ i valent of a d i shonorable discharge - dismissal from the corps, w i th 1IHt loss of all benefits. --dif{l ~nn:8ftm.l....-t,IOR-rm,...7' sentence i~not final. It will be reviewed by the commaro.ing general of Parris Island - and by the j udge advocate general of the Navy. . I PO~ T OF FIC · A m m c o f t he H < 1us P s O ff· c Camm i t t e e a ll s f o r t h e pr o u ·o n - o f Po stmas t r Genera l , Ar t hur Summerf i eld. The demand, made by Democr a t ic Congressman Char l es Porter of Oregon. Porter say in tha t ummerfield should resign at once - and then he should be prosecuted - for spend i ng in the se c ond and th i rd quarters of the fiscal year - fW1ds which Congress ear-marked for t he final quarter. The attack on the Postmaster General was Joined by another Democrat, Clarence Cannon of Missouri. Cannon charging that Summerfield has acted i n an arb i trary way - by threatening to curtail the mail service.,ACannon claiming that Congress stood up to Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin - but has been stampeded by the Postmaster General. BUDGET The economy drive in Congress continued today - with the House voting a big cut in President Eisenhower's budget. '!be President , for the COIIIDe rce Department, had ' asked for eight hundred million. Now the H~use votes to slash two hundred million from that - a reduction of twenty-five per cent. Bringing to over a billion - the total the House has cut from this new Eisenhower budget. BRITAIN The new Brit i sh budget i s intended to rega i n prestige for t he Conservative Party. That•s the view of most observers in London - after noticing how Pr i me Minister ~ Macmillan has allowed cuts in taxes,{ everything from theatre ticl c ets to household goods. ~~ At the same time, th1s # British budget,l("'erNNlt'\.8 0-- lot of things - i n c l u d i n g ~ TV sets. That tax goea up by one-third • .MldrChancellor of the Exchequer~ ,. Parliament - his Party must make th1a budget work - or Britain will go into, what he called, 11 a drab decline. 11 UE Z Ca i ro re pea t s t hat Israel w i ll no t be perm i tted to use the S uez Canal. 1 ass o r de c lar i n g that Egypt and Israel are still at war - wh i ch g i ves Egypt the right to bar Israel i sh i ps. According to t•tzvtldarw• the Cairo Infonnation Office - Israel has been creating incidents along the Gaza border -which might lead to more fighting. At the same time, Nasser is trying to induce other - ~ ~ o J t l ~ nations to use the canal 1 ' ~~ /'Uf', ~il:8"'---fQlhwius a ...,.1,e■eat. -Ht-1in. flftlr.Mi -o Today a convoy or six ships went through from - ~ Port Said A bound for the Red Sea tenninus at Suez. The i ~ ships, led by a Belgian tanker, till a alil 11tia:11:IA t.l.t the ~ other e n d ~ five ~ lined up at Suez - for the run north to the Mediterranean. All these sh i ps pa i d their tolls to Egypt. thatJ11 ,,) one of Nasser's conditions.- CANAL FOLLOW SUEZ Our govemment is still asking American ships to avoid the Suez Canal. So announced by StateDepartment press ~ ~ officer, L i ncoln White. 18 told tae news conference that ,., ~ .( the question or the canal's operation is still Wlder discussion. And ou . r State Department hopes that American ships will take a different route - by-passllll- the canal, until the Suez problem is settled. ARCHBISHOP Makarios, on his way bac k from exile, is now in Madagascar. He arrived at that huge French tropical island off the I southeast coast of Africa, aboard the tanker that picked him 1q up in the Seychelles last Saturday. When he drove to the Greek quarter of the Madagascar city of Tananarive - he . found the buildings bedecked with Greek flags. 'lbe Archbishop, receiving a tumultuous welcome from the Greek• of Madagascar. He was also met by a British M.P., Noel Baker, the Laborite who acted as an unofficial mediator between the British authorities and the Archbisho~. Makarios will be 1n remote Madagasar for two days, and from there will fly in a French passenger liner to Athens - before going on to London. Although still forbidden to enter Cyprus, he says he'll continue his campaign for union of Cyprus with Greece. HUNGARY An Amer ic an military attache 1 i n Budapest-~ ~~expelled by the Kadar govemment. The American - Capta in Thomas Gleason - ordered to be out of that Co11111unist B dominated country - within forty-eight hours. The charge against the American officer? 11 0pen espionage." Which, however, the Reds don 1 t explain. Probably a follow-up to an incident last Saturd1.7. The American attache 1 was stopped by Soviet troops - and accused of taking photographs of their barracks. He denied this - and was allowed to ret · Jm to our Budapest Embassy. Now the HWlg&rian Reds expel hint. ... DOCTOR In London, the Attorney General announces that Dr. John Adams will go free. The doctor will not be prosecuted for the death of another of his patients. This announcement followed the decision of a British jury - that Dr. Adams is innocent of murder, innocent in the death of the elderly Mrs. Edith Morrell - with an overdoae ot narcotics. The trial took a seventeen days. The longest trial in the history of London's famous court - old Bailey. Longest - but it only took the jury forty-four minutes to make up its mind that Dr. John Adams was not guilty. .. I NIGHT CLUB Today, 1 Los Angeles, several witnesses identified the man - who threw that bucket of gasoline into the 11 Club Mecca," with six persons bumed to death. Today in a police line-up, witnesses picked out Clyde Bates, an ex-convict. He was identified by all of the witnesses, including the Club Mecca drink purveyor, and the service station attendant who sold the gasoline. Tomorrow, a grand jury will IIKi be asked to indict Bates and three other suspects tor arson and murder. It found guilty they are likely to get a death sentence. g ueen · izabeth an the Duke of Ed inburgh sailed in triumph don the S eine today - thru a vast h istorical ~ geant. French actors ana sin g ers in costu■ e - portra s cenes from ages pa st. uch or the history - concerning wars between Ehgland and France; from Joan of Arc - to a oleon and ,aterloo. A crowd estimated at half a million lined th• banks of the river - to cheer the visiting royalty. Fireworks overhead. Buildings gleaming in the glare of s otlights, and the pealing of the bells ot Notre Da••· During the day, the cltJ of Paris presented the Queen with an electric model of the Faria aub•&J• Said she: •It loot• a little complicated - but it will certainly amuse f1J husband.• SKELETON In Madison, Wisconsin, the State Crime Laboratory '7 t.66- tumill& a supposed murder victim over to the " anthropologists. A skeleton, discovered at a construction site - the skull battered in. Although it looked as if the worlonen had unearthed the remains of a murder, the skeleton puzzled them and was sent to the State Crime Laboratory. Tonight we have the explanation. Probably a casualty in an Indian war - perhaps long before the Pale FaceJIIII ever saw Wisconsin. The skeleton,· that of an Indian Brave - killed with a tomahawk. Oh yes, the Grime Lab says it waa done some eight hundred years ago. So that was many hundreds of years before any white man ever saw the region made tamoua by Milwaukee which 1n tum was made famous by something, I can•t remember what it was. Oh yes, the present day Braveal V MAGAZINE - 14, n.-c ..,~ - A famous magazine LLillol11o--111:MN-~~-.e-l'hMlt1-en - because 1~ /, Americans don•t go in for playing the piano, as they used to. The magazine - 11 Etude 11 - once lmown as • "the Bible of the musical home." "Etude" was started in Eighteen Eighty-Three - as an aid to music instructors. At its peak of circulation - 11 Etude" sold a quarter of a million copies. For some time now - circulation has been dropping - - dropping, dropping down to fifty ttR.tsand. We are told there no longer are enough customers - because Americans have stopped playing the piano: Instead, they tum on the TV and watch Liberace, or they switch on the radio and listen to - crazy Otto. And so,/(,Ava'J, 11 Etude 11 follows "Colliers" - into limbol Ah mel , . - AN UNCER: A n d no w Lowell Thomas r e calls. r .T.: A year ago today - the P resi d ent of the Soviet A cademy of A g ricultural Science - resigned. Lysenko - S talin's p et biolo ist - was caught in the campaign to discredit Stalin. Lysenko - who used the Communist ) arty line to inter p ret Nature. He denied the Mendelian theory of genetics. considered the cornerstone ot biological science. A year ago today Lysenko resigned under preasure. Now he seems to be back in the fold. raised by Khrushchev.