J I , p ~ / to Congress toda7 a aeaaur c of vital iaportance in the pramtice ot Aaerioaa gov rn ■ent. Be suggested a change in the presidential 1uc o easion. As things stand- now - it President Truaan should die or become incapacitated, the Secretary ot State would becoae President.- Mr. Stettiniua / - or · aoaeone el•• whoa the President, in the tut re, ai1ht naae ae Secretary ot State. I Taia, in tact, is exaoil7 the anal• tlat / the Pr aident eaphaaizea. Be notes that he ia in a position to app int hia own sucoeaaor to \he lhi\ leu••· le doesn't thiai taat thi• i• ri1ht • . It ia not in accord with de•• rao7. le tells Congreaa'that the Preaideat ahould aot be ia a poeition to naae hia own tilllt auooeaeor - b7 laite lo•• appointaeat. Be arguea that the aucoeaaion to the Presidency should go to an ottioial elected~, the people. / / So, therefore, he prop••• that the present - law should be changed - the law aating the Secretary - State successor to the President. Mr.Tr~aan proposes that ' I the succession should go to the •peater of the House - who at present ia Congre s ■ an iayburn of Texas. Then, next in l ine, the President pro te ■ of the Senate. Thia presidential proposal was placed before Congress shortly before President Truaan fl•• to Saa rranciaco ' -- to close the United lations Confereace, ---('1nd now we are presented with thia ex eedin1l1 h•••• faot: ' Presideat Truaan, taown aa an old line I Aaerican liberal Deaoorat, wanta to ~epri•• . hiaaelt et I one aeat iaportant power -- that of naaiag hi• own . aucceaaor, aheuld anything happea to llia. . I 1 •• - . I' lell, the whole thiag ia inTolTed in 10•• fascinating bits of Aaerican history.Tae Constitutio~ proYidea that a President ahall be succeeded by a Yioe President but who ahall be ~ext in line of suooeaaion te the Vice President? The Conatitutio~ leaTes that for Congress to decide -- saying that Congress should pass a law to . . . settle the aatter. SOCCIS§IQI - J Th first law that Congress passed on that question naaed the President pro tea of the Senate to be next in line. In those days Senatore were chosen by State Legislator• and not by the people directly. The arrangeaent caae to a draaatic cliaa• / / in the iapeachaent ot President Andrew Johnson, after the - Ci-,il lar. If the iapeaohaent of Johnson had suoceeded and e aad ~een reaoTed fro ■ offioe, the Presideat pre • ~ tea of ta• Senate wouldAbeo •• Pratdent of the U•ited positioa State,. The net rea•lt wa1 to put the Seaate in a ,aaii~ / to piok a President - had the iapeachaent gone thro•gh. / ~ After that, the la• was ohaaged - aakia1 . the Seoretar7 of State next in liae. * ■ I t l le • >a a d; Jf President Tr aan baa his way ~ ~-lloo I ~-- · .. a the Presidential auooeaaion will 10 I to the Bouse ot lepreaentatiTea, which is the nearest to the people,-a Congre1a elected after two years. - - llSI BOIER Around lew York, this past spring and / during the early ■ uaaer, the weather ■an has been a aalicious old codger - playing all sorts ot trick ■ wit chilly cold and huaid heat And today the prankiah . weather ■ an had a chance to play tricks with General / Eisenhower'• big parade. The aorning began duli.., aad drab, rain threatening. But the wet weather held ott . aatil ■ id-afternoon, and that waa a break tor Genera! Ike and the ■ illions of le• Yorkers who thronged ta• line of the li•~~~o•er procession. 1h• to~r ended at the Pol~ Grounds - ta, - / General going to the ball 1••~~ Then ca ■• the raia - bat by that tiae the streets ot ••• York had had tbeir opportunity to pay a cheering tribute to tae conquerin& coa■ ander hoae troa Yictory in lurope. OlL Here i• teatiaony in a question often / discussed - are the oil reserves ot the United States runniag low? Today in laahingtoa an an1wer waa gi•ea congreaaional coa ittee, and the anawer waa - ao. _,/' The witness was J. ldgar Pew, Yioe Preei••at of the Sun Oil Coapaay. Be ridiculed prediction ot a ooain& oil faaine. le eatiaated that the total known oil reaerTe, ia the United States was ■ore than tweat7- thr e billion, fiTe hundred aillion arrela • • / During liaeteen Forty-four, ~• indicate(, •~w oil auppliea were diaooTered ' to the aaount of aore / than two billion barrels. Tkat year,' la1t 7ear, tke / deaand tor Aaerican oil was the greatest in hi•tory - petroleua needed for the cli~a~ of the lurope~n lar and the upsurge of the conflict in the Pacific. leTerthe, / leas,' the new oil diacoTered exceeded that enoraoua deaand by nearly four . hundred aillion barrels. aii•••• Tonight's latest dispatch froath• Pacific / states: •Announce ■ ent of a coaplete •ictor7 oa Okinawa ia expected at an7 hour fro ■ !d ■ iral li ■ itz•. larlier th• Adairal aad stated that the end of Jap resistance ••• ia inent - the reanaat of the enea7 force beila1 ~-- / / corn red in a ••all •••th pooket on top of cliff• ••erlooking t • last China Sea. I I The news toda7 told of new ••ift !aericaa I ai•aacea •&•inst Jape who are so iisoraanised the7 oan•t •••n • a • t toaether for banzai auioide ohar1e1. Onl7 I 1oae two or three t~ouaand reaaia out of•• ""'"'!"'."'- ~ --...... .... ... ., Okiaawa 1arri1on of eigh~J-fi•• thousand. ., •• ,, The Japs ar~ reported to be eYacuating Bainan. That•a alarge and ■ oat i ■portant island off the I coast of southern China. Chungking states that ene ■J treops there are pulling out.They ha•e been abandoning / the nearby ■ainland pro•inces of China, (wangsi and lwantuna. And now the island too i• being giYen up. Bainan is one of the little known part• of the world. Also -- one of the ■oat 1trat~1ic sector• of the Pacific War, because it lie• jaat ■• off the aainlaad of South China aeparated by the Strait •f lainan. It do ■ inates the whole Gulf of Tonkin and would ■ ate acce11 fro ■ the aea i ■ poaaible tor the I was on the ui■ ialand 7ears •10 collecting luaeua of latural Bistor7. apeci ■ •na for the Aaerican / At that tiae it••• TerJ dangerous to go far inland because tribes of aaYa1e :,.,,._ ,., • " ' ' . J.. t· - - ...e, _........KA,& ~ f \ v.v--, natives liTed/\aaong the high ruaged ~ountains. I had . to work prinoipall7 along the coast. D be lven the few / aiasionaries there were frequentl1 attacked by the . aa nges i ~ ~ 1£.I /JA-r;. - ~/.I-+-.:.-~· u1111 - 2 ~---~ / I aeat on of ■ 1 1ouna I / ~ Cliffolld Pepe back into the ■ ountaina with a native who acted as a liaison between tbe aavaaea; / i 1 ■ ade a wonderfQl collection of reptiles an4 ■aa■ al• aost of which were new to science. All 141 The latest blows o! the air war against Japan haYe hit aoae leaser known places. lot headline cities like Tokyo, Osaka, Yokahaaak-7 " ' k ~ ,; ~ ~~ M. ~ ~ - J c ......_ ' 7 ~ r ,.,,_ e n • ear i ot Shizuoka : Fuk11oka : and Toyohaati -- on the islands o! Honshu and Iiushu. T~ese ;' ooaparatiYely little known cities are hiyes o! Japanese war industry. They were hit by between !our and fiYe h ndred B-29•, an4 the et r1 i1 the no• taaiLiar one o! boab1 o! jellied 1a1oliae 1tartin& teapeat1 et fl••• ia flia11 cities of wood and PQLES In Moscow the confessions continue in the I' trial of the sixteen Polish leaders ' _ just a1 contessio a were so profuse in the great So•iet purge-~riala ot half a dozen years ago. ~:..:...:...-------------....__i I' Today one itness was a ooa■ ander of the Poli1h Underground. He t stified that the Underground was ordered to prepare f r an araed struggle aaainat the So•ieta. And that story w a confiraed by one of the sixteen def ndants · _ JanJo sky, Yice Preaier of the ' ,, Poli1h•g0Yernaent-in-exil and foraer head of the underground cabinet in la / The whole tenor of this Moscow trial i• to / accuse the Polish go•ernaent-in-exile and to place an eaphasis of guilt on the princi~al ot the defendants - G neral Okulicki Co-ander of the Polish underground. ~ n e r a l Okulicki succeeded the legended General Bor, / lQLES - 2 who was the Chief of the Polish patriot uprising in larsaw which was crushed b7 the lazi~s~•...;;,- - - - - - J ~t ia alwa1a difficult for an A■ erican ,, to understand those Iosco• trials. iut ia this oaee ' tt ian't •• hard to fathoa the ■ otiYea of the Poliah • I underground. The7 kai ~een fighting the Iasis and tkea . . along caae tlle SoTiets de ■~nding al,out • half ~ ef / prewar Peland - •ot to ■ ention th, . oviet polio7 ia . sponsoring a Peliah goYern■ent of ita own choice. It ,,,, ••••• likel1 enouah · that the under1round, l,attling the / / Iasis, ••• ala• koetlle to the l~d Ara7. At an1 rate, that's the 1iat of the confeaaiona of the Polish leaders in the Iosco• trial. JPD PQLAU A latP 1tory tells of teaiiaony giYen b7 Okulicki hiuelf. The Poliah •• 1 ader waa coafrent with aany charges of Riiah Yioleace aeainat the led I' Ara7. His responses were bold and defiant. He didn't crinee ia adaittiag his part in the - Poliah •or.••••. / I le said, •the purpose of o•r or1aaisation ••• to tight - - for Poland'• iadependence. le ••r , / •he added•, / to that', deaaaded t~e led preaec t r •aleo aeaa tk• led lra7?• •Yea,• r91ponded Ok•licti. -------------.....,J LIOPOLD Iing Leopold of Belgi a toda1 announced that he is going to return to Brussels and reauae hi• - place aa the Sovereign of the Belgian nation. Taia puta an end to a lot ot ruao~s that Leopold intended t~ . abdicate - r nounoe bis crown. B lgi a has Deen in a state of political · / turaoil, wita 11 aorta of diaaen1ion ra1ing areaad t~• / question of the return of Leopold aa aoaaroh.The Cabiaet / in power waa against it - and now haa resigned i• . , protest. The Preaier : in 2 ■ ateppiag out ; indicate ■ that Leopold will return as soon as a new cabinet ia foraed. JIT PLAIES le are gi•en an explanation of •h1 las· Geraan1 did not aake ■ore aacoeaafal uae of Jet plaaea - which were ao treaeadousl1 fa~t 7ou could hardlJ aee the• coae and go. le are told t~at the prodaotlon of · Jet planes •a• 4eli~eratel1 sabotaged~, ,11 Geraaa iad•1tralist1. • I T b i ~ • ~een proo red 1 Uaited Pr••• Correapoadeat Jack lleiaoher froa an official who bad o ar1• ot the apecial train of laai lu~er Two•••• . ,,.,,.,- I Qoeriag. The official waa able to listen in,~~• hear thiaga -- we are told. ie 1aid the Geraaa iaduatraliat1 uaderateod clearly that t • war waa leet, and that t•• · I Jet pane - iaportaat as it waa - oould aot alter tae deoiaion. They thought -- why• wa1te 1uch a Yal•abl~ aeore~ on a lest oa•••T The1 would keep the oontraption fro ■ 1oiag int• production - and thereby be a\le to exploit the jet plane after tae war. ~ Research was pushed until the Jet plan~ / had reached a high degree of perfection, but production , was dela7~d, under one pretext r another - the JIT PLAIES - 2 industralists aaking all aorta of excuses. And one of these industraliats is said to haTe been a top-rankiDI figure ia the house of Irupp, the cannon builder f l1sen. , lell, the1 succeeded in dela7iag the · production of the Jet plane - so what happens•••? One bit of n••• teni1ht ia that Qeraan technician• questioned~, the Allies, are disclosing freely their secrete of Jet propulsion. Maybe they b pe they haTe , Here's a late story that tells of a new kind of lazi loot - enoraous. It has been iscoYered 1ft ~ I at Regensburg, Geraany - a treasuree-hoard consisting of the national wealth of Austria and BaYaria. It1 - Yalue • as estiaated is way up in the billions of / dollars a Yast stor~ o! gold and sil•a; foreign , securities, Jewela, and objects of art. / This treasure atory is accoapaaied by aaot er news dispatch• which tells ef the opening of , a secret Bitler strong ex at Berchteagaden. !aerican I ailitary ■ en haYe been searching the Bitar aountaia hoae / / and there they found a concealed alidiag panel near a ~ "" I / / window• this the7 opened and behiad it found a steel atrong box. Boy, but they were • excited! ~ he Secret Bitler hiding place aeeaed to proais~ the de~peat I of lazi secrets. They called an acetyline toroh expert, , and he burned through the steel strongbox behind the panel. lhat did they find? They nearly eollapsed --- with surprise and disappointaent. In the Bitler hiding place were eight sketches of women's dresses - eight I /' V faabion drawia&•· low what waa Bitler do i ng th ae th•••? Aad why were they hidden away in the atroagboz? laybe the house painter Fuehrer waa taking a whirl at taa~io ,,, ,, deaignin& - 1oin1 •Pin the world. It•• a 1u••• -- a a7ater7.