PHI L 12 , 1 55 G OOD Today wa s o e of the mos t e x c iti n dayq i n the history of ich an Un vars i ty. A cro ~d of stud nts , arourtd Rackham Memorial Ha ll . Movie, neisreel and TV cameras - grinding away. Fla s h bulbs p opp i ng - as a stream of people entered the build ng . Everyone waitin to he a r the anQwer to the question~ has the scourge of polio been conquered? They got the answer in three words of the official report by Dr. Thomas Francis - "th e vacc ne wor ks ." Then Dr. Franc is went on, "It s sat.a , effective, and potent ." A Dr . Fran c is read hie report of the experiment that involved almost two million ch ildren - the he o of the e,ent ,as ~itting on the p atform. Dr. Jona~ Salk , who t ~overe d the vacc ne . It wa~ his discovery that had to ~tand the t e~t o f th e b , e~t e ~p er ment n med i ca l hi~ tor y - LEAD - 2 the verd i ct, the 11 Sal k solut i on" wor ed i n from eighty to n nety er cent of the case s tested. When Dr. Salk rose to read hiQ o~m report - he received a thunderous ovation. Then he went on to tell how the vaccine wae developed - and how he thinks it should be ueed to eave humanity from the affliction that has crippled cotntless children. Acro~ e the nation, health d e art me nte are g ett i ng r eady to i ve s hot e of 11 Sa lk e olution 11 to millions of children. D octors are placing ordere for the i r share of the life- s aving flu i d. F ortunately, drug manufacturer s did not wait for an official go-ahead, they 1 ve already got m i llions of ehots of the vaccine in refrigerated warehouses. It was a bit of a gamble, because the "Salk solution" might not have turned out a success. But the gamble paid off - with today 1 s announcement that Dr. Salk has found a cure for polio. ISE NHO W R Pr e si den t EiEa nhower m a de a p ub l i c app e a r a nc e n S outh Ca ni na tod ay - h is f rst in t h at etate, sinc e the e l ect io n c a m p a j gn of ni neteen f i fty-two. Mr. Eis enho w er stop p ed at one of the nation's olde s t m i litary co l le g e s - The Citadel. The President of the colle g e i s General Mark Clar k , who Eerved under General E isenhowerdurin g W orld war Two. Following today's parade, Mr. Eisenhower was gi ven a brief reception at General Clark's quarter::. Then the presidential plane was off for Augusta, Georg i a - to the National Golf Club, where the President w i ll rest for a wee k , with a bit of golf to help out. S ecreta ry of S tate Dulle e declare that t he ' ::en hower adm inis tration has been e loring an approach to the F ormosa er i s s - which s very c ose to the one urged by Adla i S tevenson. The leader of the Democratic Party has said that we and our allies should pledge to defend Formosa - while handing over Quemoy and the Matsue. Stevenson, also coming out for a United Nation declaration against the use of force in the Formosa area. Today Secretary Dulles told his news conference that the Administration has been trying just that approach. Dulles pointed out that he himself has said numerous times - that we are not pledged to defend the coastal islands, unless Formosa or the Pescadoe s are in danger. In other words, the Admin is tration would be quite willin g to use ••xl•J the tevenson approach - and was trjing to do so even before Adlai made that speech. Dulles did crit i cize Stevenson on one point_ F ORMO - 2 ~u p ort fo r ationaliet C h n a. our S ecretary of State e ay ng, that S teven so n is too w lli to rebuff Chang Kai-ehek -- one of our most fai~hf ul allies. Apart from his attitude toward Chang, st eveneon has, i n the words of Secretary Dulles, "endorsed the main features of the Admin1 s tration 1 s p:rogram in relation to Formosa." Ge nera l is .. imo C h i a ng K a ' - ... he lc visit s Quemo y. The lat. on al i t l ea d er , a accompani e d by Madame Ch i ang, an d h iQ Chi ef- o f-Staff. The p arty, fly ing i nto Q uemoy. Durin g the vis i t, Chiang was briefed by h i e commander on that island . He i nspected forty thousand nationalist troo ps - dug in to meet any invasion by1he Reds. Chiang, sp end i n g more than six hours on Quemoy. '1 1 he Generalissimo I e visit came after two days of artillery exchanges. The Reds on the mainland, and the Nationalists on Quemoy - bombarding one another with their big guns. The Nationalists declare that they drove back about ten Conununist junks - apparently headed for one island in the Quemoy group . The latest report from Taipei reveals that Mao Tse-tung now hae one hundred and fifty tho\lBnd men massed alon g the so-called "invasion coast" opposite Quemoy. And the Reds have drawn up their artillery alon g an arc - facing Quemoy on three sides . Everythin pointing to a big attac k - if Mao Tse-tung wants one. INDO -CHI NA I n S outh Vie t Nam, the r ebell i ous rel igi ous sects ar e thr e aten ng a i g o n - w i th the fateof ancient Rome. The r ebe l rad o declar i n g that the capital c i ty will be sacked by the rebel troo pe - i f fighting brea k s out a g ain. The radio a ddi n, that if th is happens - Sa ig on will look like ancient Rome, gi ven up to the fury of the Army. The Communist radio says that the civil population should evacuate S aigon. And thousands are obeying that waming - the roaas out of Saigon, full of civilians trying to get away. Meanwhile, Emperor Bao Dai has cabled again from his villa on the French Riviera. The playboy monarch, appealing to both sides to extend their Easter truce. Bao Dai declaring that h is country is very close to a full-scale civil war. But he doesn't say anything about returning from the Riviera - to handle the problem himself. So far he 1 s done nothing - except sen d cables, be ggi n g his people not to fight one another. The arm force ... o f t e e 1 t ret1·eat to the h e - n ca e e of a o et attac ba d on the ... atellit e nat on .... o ... tat y the Com mander of or armed forces in uro e, General Anthony McAuliffe . General cAuliffe epoke at a meet n of the F ore n Pree ... As .. oc at on n Bonn. He said • . that here are to man reaQon ... hy the eet should stand ts ground no matter what happene . In the fret place, the addition of twe l e German v eion ... to the defense - will make enough troop~ available to meet c,viet ag g ressioh. Secondly , General McAuliffe noted that our troop s in Gemany now have tactical atom c weapons - wh ch enable them to hold a more extended defense line than in the past. General McAuliffe told his audience that "we now prop ose to fight - for every i nch of the g mmd we hold." he P em _ er of y t rr d i e, Delh_ today - and a t.; re the Pr e Mn ~ter of Ind·a . as er, from arach - ad met by Nehr at the airport. Nas~er ~ on h· ~ way to the Afr i can-Asiatic Conference in Band n, In one ia . He spent three days in arachi - conferr n i t the Prime Mini~ter of Pakistan. ow he 1 11 confer w th Nehru - and then the two political leaders will leave together on Friday - they 1 11 be off for the Bandung Conference. I m t ·o to r u po ra - ~ t r n 0 0 t f y b o . u c tary o f ~t t ullee nd h .... fo tant, Ed a r o · , r h he m dle . Dulle s tol h . ~ re co fer en ca today that Corsi was n ot qual f e o run the refu ee ro ram . And the ecretary c ha rge ' that Cor si nt to take ove r the n ..-=trat on of the m rat on la - h ch would have been lle al. Secretary Dulls added, ~ hat the di ~m i sal of Corsi was not a result of charge ... made by Congre~ .... man Francis Walter - charges that Corsi had been a member of Communist-front organizations~ Our ecretary of state declar n, that there was no question about Cor~ as a security rs • About that n ne · ty-day appo ntment - Dulles adm tted that he did not tell Corsi about the t me limit. But he went on to say, that anyone wor i ng for the State Department should be aware of the general rule - that a job is on a ninety-day ba~is, f secur ty nvestigation is not completed within that t me. I - 2 ompt a rep l o he rear o f a • To the char e t at h as n t q a l i e Cor.._ · n~ ,, red h a t n . wenty-r· e r~ o f ub · c 1or , he eerve d en 1 e erb rt Hoo , r n 1·n Roowevel , ad Thoma~ • Dewey. Corsi a u·n, that f h e were nc om p etent, men that would not have em p loys h • The ousted ass is tant sad t w ~ completely untrue that he tr ed to co trol mmigration. And ~e charged that the r e1· er pr o g ram ie not wor k n well - because it ha ~ brought in l eM~ than one thou s and refugees in seventeen months. I o 1 ..:. 1 , a . C n .. n o nt o th e o .. ~ ert · 0 t er n o u r el n e C e • Pr . vate · 1] · h f m ar , o rr to n,Pennsylvan _ , a eared fr o h ~ un . e ruar t , neteen o ty-n ne He ~ a~ n the hand~ of he Ru~ a un 1th y returne h m n January of this year . Part of h s t me a~~ ent n Vor ta - the ov et sy~tem of ~ ave abor camp s L n the Arctic. Private Marchu snow accu~ed of 1v1n information · about American Intelli ence - iving t to the Russians during t e years they held h m . The prosecut i on told the m i l tary court today that Marchuk new the information would be used against the United STate~ . Mar~huk insists he' innocent , and the defense declares it will prove he is tell ng the truth. PLANE Te Peiping radio charges that agents of America and National is t China - sabotaged the plane that crashed into the South Ch i na Sea yesterday. The Red Radio, aeeerting that the motive was - to kill Communist delegates to the Bandung Conference. • According to the Peiping Radio, the chier object or the sabotage wae Chou En-la1 -- although the Premier or Communist China was not on the plane. Peiping apparently believes that agents or the democracies placed a bomb aboard the plane - because the radio says that the plane exploded before it crashed. In Hong Kong, the manager of the India Air Lines declares that the communist charge is just a rumor. So far, no one knows just how the accident happened - the accident which 1ert just three survivors. Apparently, all of the minor Coaaunist officials en route to Bandung, were killed in the crash, or else lost at sea. ROOSEVELT The announcement of a cure for polio was made today for a special reason - it 1 s the tenth ann i veersary of the death of one of the moet famous polio victme in history. Just ten years ago today, Franklin D. Roosevelt died. He was crippled with the disease as a young man - but co quered it sufficiently to become a major figure in American history. P.D.R. was known tor hie efforts to help the search tor a cure. He •as the founder of the National Foundation tor INfant1le Paralysis. He supported the "March of Dimes" - which raised most ot the money used in the Salk experiments. One man has been President of the Foundation from the beginning - Basil O'Connor, once Franklin Roosevelt's law partner. And it was Basil O'Connor who urged that the announcement of the Salk cure - be made today. It was a kind of commemoration ceremony for F.D.R. - who did not live to profit from the cure that he did so much to achieve. FISHERMEN A dispatch from Tokyo reveals that the Rueeiane are waging a "war of nerves" against Japane e fishermen. The "war" involving the crab fishers - the fleet that works the eea off Japan's north island. The season opened on March Fifteenth. And since then, the Soviets have seized nineteen Japanese crab boats. Twelve of theee have been released. But three others were seized on Sunday. So it looke as if the Ruseiane don•t intend to imprison the JJpaneee crab fishermen permanently - the Kremlin 3ust waging a "war of nerves." The excuse the . Ruseiane use ie that the Japanese boata are operating in Soviet waters off the Kurile Islands - which were turned over to the Soviets at the Yalta Conference.