GOOD EVENING ~VERYBODY: The Army has cancelled its military show - the one originally p lanned for the weekend of May Third. So announced by Army Secretary Brucker. The exercise was to have been a demonstration b7 tanks of Fort Inox. The Ar ■y had offered to take Congressmen out to Fort Knox - rovide the ■ with rooaa and meals - and brin g them back to Washington. Also s ecial transportation - for any who whanted to stay for the Kentucky Derby. Protests beg&n to come in - almost as soon as word of this got around. The Army, accused of merely wanting to g ive members of Congress a trip to the !entucky Derby- at tax?ayera' ex . p ense. Allot which was flatly denied, IRIIIIIIIIIIIXIIXIIHXIIXXX»IHIIHIXIIIHIIX by Army Secretary Brucker. But p rotests continued. So now the military exercises at Fort Knox are cancelled - until a more suit a ble time - after the Kentucky Derby. AIR FORCE FOLLOW ARMY - - - - - - - - - As the A nny controversy dies down - the Air Force ls involved on one or its own. Generals of the Air Force accused or going on a hunting trip in Alaska - under the pretense or holding a conference on strategy. 'nle charge made by Keith Hart, a former employees of the Air Force - 1n a letter to Chairman Clair Engle or the House Interior C011111ttee. Chairman Engle, calling the charge " very serious. " According to l.eltb Hart, airmen gathered 1n Alaska last August, under the co•and of General late Tw1nin8; . , . ruous for mountain sheep and caribo11. The hunting aeaaon had Just opened. Allrt-'ccord1ng d . l . . <C I to this accuser, the officers made the moat of $t.. ; , ,I( . ~ 1zj , General Twining, amor.g those who went out loeklng for sheep and - caribou. Hart says he heard one officer / • - that General Twin~ng killed two sheep - one more than the legal limit. ,,) AIR FORCE FOLLO - 2 the party - relaying by radio the atest me &L&llill on he Repub lean and De cratl~ Nationa Conventions. Genera Twining denies the enttN ator,. He aaya he did attend a conference 1n laska last year - and did go hW'lting. But ne ,.,. he did not violate any of the laws regarding the uae of government equipaent. dldll'' violate-,: gaae laws either. ,, NAUTILIUS The world's first atomic powered submarine - ls at sea again. The Hautilius ' now running on its second load or nuclear fuel. The sub returned several weeks ago - after cruising more than sixty thousand miles - on its first radio- active fuel. It's expected to cover the same distance - on its second load. Meanwhile, the Havy states that our second atom submarine - la also at sea. The "sea wolf " • also running on nuclear fuel. And we are told that our third atomic age U boat-· will be launched at Groton, Comect1cut, 1n May. SUB MAIL Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield - refuses to call off those cuts in mall service schedule d to go into effect at midnight. The Postmaster General, sticking to his original decision - in spite o ~ e by the House Appropriations committee - giving him forty-one lll1111on dollars. IPtal..ha only six million short of what he asked for. /j' ~ - - ;j ~ ~ "'-'~oaittee~,the missing six million covers ~ equipment purchases - which~ be postpooed. Members I of the connittee claiming that SU111Derfleld could maintain the full Post O t t ~ • s z : ; : ~ • --~---• ~ ;;;;:;r~ doean I t t ink •••• Ille ~ ~11tanl•1a Ro llllli~.f satiilrday - except ._, special delivery, and things like medicine and perishable goods. PDIANCE The Senate Finance Committee votes to hold a full scale investigation - of the financial structure or the United States. The vote - unani.Jlous. Chairman Byrd of Virginia announces that the study will begin - as soon as the coalttee hires a starr. This inquiry follows a proposal by President (. M:w....,_. , - in his state or the uraion message Nr. Eisenhower asked Congress to set up a coanlssion - to study our tlacal policy. BUDGEI The House A pp ropriations Committee - still economJ minded, today slashed more than a hundred million more from the Eisenhower budget. Cuts affecting the State De artment, the Justice Department, and the U.S. Information Agency. CANNON - - A nother weird international mystery. Lucien Cannon, chief of the Canadian Truce dele ga tion - found murdered in his bed in Saigon. At the international com p ound in Saigon. A compound made up of seven villas - surrounded by a high wall - guarded day and night by Viet Nam police. The crime was discovered this morning when a servant went in to wake him - and founJ hi ■ dead. The dispatch says killed by •se•eral mortal blows.• , Premier Diem has ordered a government investigatiCIII - in cooperation with Cana d ian authorities. Does the criminal live in that international co ■ ~ ound - or d id he sneak in over the wall? - without bein seen. JORDAN The King of Jordan calls on a Conservative politician to form a new govemment. King Hussein asking Abdul Halim Nimr - to succeed Nabuls1. Abdul Halim Nlmr, a member of the last govemment - also a Socialist. B u t ~ regarded ) generally as a conservative - rather than a leftist. The capital city of Amman is described as quiet - but tense. This was the Moslem sabbath, and there were no pro-Nabuls1 demonstrations like those of yesterday. A large crowd attended services at the main mosque in Annan. The streets were crowded;~ut there were no outbreaks of violence - even though political leaflets were circulated through the crowd. Jordan Later tonight a report reached Beirut in Lebanon -- that Abdul Halim Nimr has been unable to form a government. According to this report, he told King Hussein -- that only c.¼~-- Habulai can get Lebanon out of this crisis. YllTID NATIONS The Secretary General of the United Nations ha1 not made any concession to Egypt - no deal in the stationing UN troops on Egyptian territory. So stated by a apotesaan at the UH headquarters in Hew York - referring to an Alsop story, to the effect that Dag Haaa,r1tjold had agreed to let Palestine police acco ■paa, ~ U I patrol• - along the border of the Ga1a Strip. According to Joe Alsop, the Egyptian trained Palestine police - would haYe the right to uae weapon• duriDI tho•• patrol• with U I troop• denied the ea■ • right. The U I apote1 ■ an flatly deniea the Alsop 1tor7, and says that •no conceaaion was made by the UR - to the government of Egypt.• And he added that final arrange■ ents will not be made - until Israel answer ■ a request that United Nations troops be allowed on her side of the border. CAIAL ( . The United Nations issues 1:W final progress report - on clearing the Sues Canal. 'ftle report notes that all s 1ltllt wreckage and other obstruction • have been cleared tro■ ) ') the channel. 'ftle •n who did the work,~ preparing to go hOM - tour-hundred-and ...fifty or th•, tro■ seven na t1ona. ,, ' ( General RaJIIOlld Wheeler, who supervised the clearance operation I - saya he all cloae down hia headquarters at Ia•111a - on • April twenty-ninllll. - - ffie final coat or clearing th , a.s Canal - le11 lt than eleven ■illion dollars. Bio 001...-• f below unotticlal - z+ eatlaatea or laat Deceaber, which put tllu4_.. at forty ICBL~ Today, another threat rrom the Soviet Union, thl1 one, directed at Iceland. Radio Moscow saying- that Iceland must expel American troops - or race the consequences. Iceland la threatened with at011lc ~il1latlon 1r she retuaes. In the words or radio Noacow, "the withdrawal ot Aaerlcan troops troll Iceland - la the only wa1 to insure her aecurlty." So that island up__. the Arctic Circle - bece11e1 I the lateat obJect ot Soviet threa\1. Allot the nationa 1n alliance wlth Aaerlca IN■ to be on the Soviet schedule. \ ~ . l ~ ••l'f ~ warnlnp • • •• aw.i11 ••••• - troll Iceland to Clilll!l■-•1 JJtl: r... :.-- l · - u. l ct , AIJIIIR.M! The COlllll8.nder or our Seventh fleet says his taak - \ force is ready to fight an atomic war. Admiral Wallace BeakleJ - speaking before the foreign correspondents club 1n Tokyo) ft &I I ! told his audience - he's ready to tight a ·-tlt-!u · conventional war - with old-tuhioned weapo/ But~ alao ~ 4. ,.. atoaic llliaailea. Jhd b 1 1 1 ready to uae th•-- - lf v.111118••· AMQTI . . . . . . Asked about hia duty in the Par Eaat -· Adairal BeakleJ replied he baa only one cGlllltaent right now - to go to the aid or nationalist China - if Nao Tse-Tung triea an -- 1nvuion ~ h e •inland. comms President Eisenhower opens the Go p campaign or Nineteen Fifty-Eight. Republicans are meeting in Omaha - to detel'lline how they can take control or Congress..., rraa the Democrats. Mr. Eisenhower gave them a pep talk by telephone. The president urging hia party to make itaelt a representative of all the people. The way to do thla, in Nr. E1aenhower•a worda - "to bring theG OP dcnm ' to the District and precinct level. " After 11aten1ng to the Preaident, the Republican leadera • t 1n a cloaed aeaalon, under the leaderahip or Republican National Chairaan, Meade Alcom. On hand - repreaentativea tr011 Nebraska, Kanaas, Iowa, Colorado, IUmeaota, Oklah011&, and the two Dakotas. §%PIM . . Tonight Oklahoaa is suffering tro ■ quite a winter atora - one ot the latest in the history of that state. A maaa or Arctic air - ■oYing down fro ■ the lorth - with snow, sleet, and rain - right across Otlahoaa. Lasting until to ■ orrow, so we hear. LIOPARD The people of Miami are a little Jittery tonight - because a leopard la prowling the streets. It belongr. to Mrs. Bonnie Tindall - who says that her pet pa• gnawed through its chain yesterday - and disappeared on the outak1rta or 111aa1. The leopard 11 brown with black apota. It ••igha about thirty pounds - and 11 thre► and-a-half reet long. Mrs. Tindall clallla that the leopard 11 t - - ~ won't hurt you, unless you act atra1d. ..,,.....r-wnM». a coatortlng ~ - - A though~./'-f'f' - ~ leopard walks up to you - you're all right- •• long aa yoll show you're-not scared. PllTBER Meanwhile in the upper Michigan Peninsula - they are coabing the woods for a panther. A big cat that baa clawed to de a th - at least thirteen deer. So the State ha• hired an old-ti ■• hunter, Charles Frazer - who tonight has hie hounda on the tract of the panther; whioh haa been seen a dozen ti ■ee near the town of St. lgnanoe - but 10 tar ha• eluded hunter,. fBEACBII Now here's a question: - is nitler alive, in the mountain• of Kentucky? A preacher of those mountain• - lill Johnson of Kiddleboro - has ••n calling hiaaelt the raerer - only he spells it - furrier. And he has sent out word that he has a hundred secret factories - producing, •invisible space shipa.• He aaya h•'• Adolf Hitler, and is getting ready to overthrow the U.S. governaent. Well - th• world ia full of people lite that. Many of thea anyhow. Too ■ any. fARTI Staid old London had quite a arty last night - hundreds of feet underground. More than a hundred members of the rock-'n-roll set - invading the subway. One of them, a cousin of the Queen - the Honorable Gerald Lasalles, who is well known in London's high society. The group bought their tickets - and then rode the entire length of the route - ln a roct-'n'roll session. One had a guitar, anoLher took up the beat on a snare druai a third banging away on a minature piano. A pretty blonde took oft her shoes - and started to dance. Soon they were all at it. They even had waiters on hand - to pour cocktail• and they kept th t subway train ju■ping - right up until midnight. What about other passengers? Oh they enjoyed the show and joined the frolic that ended at midnight - • en the train stopped running. They say, enry - it was one of the gayest arties London has seen in a long tiae. Rock-'n-roll in the subway. PIAIO - EID ~ I recall that, several days ago, I told or the demise or the musical magazine " Etude". The news coMectlng this - with an alleged decline of piano playing 1n the h0111e. But now Prank L. Reed or the Piano Manufacturers Aaaoc1at1on informs me that, last year, more pianos were st,1pped - from the factories - than in almost thirty years. Twenty Jlillion Americans play the p piano - and, 1n schools, there•• a shortage or piano teachers. If there was a piano here, I'd play a piece - it I could play the piano. And aolong until Monday.