p It NE ' LEAD COAL -------------- " i th i n hour, unless something hap ens-;;and nothing is expected to happen;-all the nation's soft :A coal miners will have walked off the• jobt. Meaning that we will be in the midst of another drastic coal 11ine strike. ~idnight - eastern tiae - is the deadline. Early this evening we had the word that about a hundred-fifty-thous~nd already had left their job• they came off shifts, streaain~ out to strike in advance. At the ~oment there seem• to be only one aan in this great land of ours with the power to prevent this national disaster -- John L. Lewis -- only one 11an with such vast power. In Washington today, Lewis wouldn't even •,eat to newspapermen. Oh, he did speak one word -- that word: •Gentlemen.• Just that, and nothing 11ore. From the Carlton Hotel, he drove to his ' ' ' colonial home in nearby Alexandria, Virginia. There, I ,, presu~ably, he is waiting for the zero hour -- the hour his strike order will go into effect, the order shutting down the soft coal mines, the order tying up the nation's industrial system. At the m oment nothing seeaa likel7 to bappeD to prevent the complete abut-down of the ainea. John L. Lewis waits out the time allowed hi• to coapl7 with the court injunction order served earlier tbia week. The Federal Court, which means your court and mine, aays that a strike now will be in violation of federal statutes; and that Lawi• can be held in conte m pt of court -- liable to a jail sentence. Bat the union leader••••• to be defying hi• own GoTera■ent. Last night I re ■arked that even if Lewie ahoal4 give in at the last minute -- even then a coal ■ ine strike might not be averted. The miners aight ignore a sudden capitulation by their chief - under coapulsion. That impression is still stronger during this final NEW LEAD COAL - 3. - · ---------- hour -- the i pression that a surrender by Lewis now ~ight h e ve little effect. Not that there is an7 sign of surrender. Nor is there any sign of surrender on the Government side. Word fro~ President Truman's party, vacationing in Florida, is, that the President stand• b7 his determination to fight it out. That the President believes that the welfare of the country deaanda a showdown with this one man, who does not represent the people of America but who defies the authority of Oncle Sam. The latest from Washington 11 that the Attorney-General has been conferring with lawyers of the criminal Division of the Departaent of Justice. Does that mean the Governaent will take legal proceedin1 and jail Lewis? Earlier today, union officials in the world of anthracite - bard coal - declared that, if Lewie were punished, then the anthracite ainera would go out !ll LEA.Q_,90!1 - 4. too, stage a sy m pathy strike in his support. The bard coal ~ ine r s are not involved in the soft coal dispute, but, J6hn L. Lewis is their chief', and they say they will take action to back him up, if he needs it. Also, the A. F. of' L., of which Lewis's mine union is a part, is getting behind him. A. r. of' L. President Green made a statement this afternoon in support ot Lewis and the miners -- a statement denouncing the federal injunction. Not only that but the c.1.0. steps out in hi• defense -- in defense of its lumber One eneay in the rants of labor. The C.I.O. baa in Tie• large plan• of its own -- wage demands, and, therefore, will back Lewis in his demands. The nation, meanwhile~ la trying to get set tor a soft coal strike -- taking eaergency measures to curtail lighting, heating, railroad travel, and all other activities where soft coal ia a •ital factor. NEW LEAD COAL - 5. - ~ · ~ Late word bas come fro~ Iey West _ where the President of the 0nited States is resting. That word, that every effort will be made to proaecute John L. Lewis under the Smith-Connally Act, if the strike goes through on schedule, less than an hour troa now. Those close to the President say that nothing baa altered bis determiDation to fight it out with Lewi• oa this issue: -- •l! John L. Lewis bigaer than th• Government of the United States?• Or 1• he juat another citizen, with the same right• and priYil•1•• aa an7 other citizen? Today a B-17 Flying Fortreaa took off from Vienna, and flew west above the Alps, he a ding for high aountain• along the towering border of France and Italy. Aboard the Flying Fortress were two American general• - lliM ■ liwa General Ralph Tate, Deputy Commander ot the laericaa Force• in Austria, and General Ralph Snavely, eoaaander· or the Ar■J Air Foree• in that· aaae area. General• Tate an4 Snavely, above tbe loft7 llpe, were ••arching tor thei• 11•••• and General Tate•••• in addition, looking for hie IOD. ~ Such i• ~~~-..;~eulin- follow-up to last /\ t( .. .s. night'• newe about the A11ei-iewa-a lr•1 plane that craahecl A d\1\-tt..e.~ in the high Alp• - crashed in deep snow, whlell k • •-~, . . . . ~ I f = , - ~ l f _ , , t J C , - 0 ~ fe-Qi. ~a., •hwk, t,he plane plowiag iat»o ••••• •aeel L ea ._ ~T.:-:;::::f f1 I L:t9L_ The radio of the plane waa able to work, and in the lowland• •••sage• were received, indicating that fi•• p+a•••• aboard had been inJured. Last night we were told that ~ aboaa 4.. the bomber, A &n t h ~ mounta1!7,1;..,~ pH■iaea1s lcnieaa elfioert ~hM t,be PEI General Baynes, head of the AdYisory Group to General~ Clark - ~ Mae 8eae1al •••••pa■~,, Ura. Baynes. Alao, lcl•~recent Chief of Staff in luatria, witb hie wife and their eleven year old daughter. 1'_ focu 8il1osl of draaa i• on the fact that the other passenger• are the ~ •i••• of General Tate and Snavely, who toda7 flew ■ earcbi for the wreck.- Q.id 1 the pilot of the plane that ora■bel in the sno• i• the son of General and Ira. Tate. c,ptaia Rtlph T-ate, Jr., wa■ flying · the boaber, aboard which bia •other waa a paa ■ enger. Laat ni~ we heard that rescue on the groun4 waa on its way, aearch partie• aating their way into the high Alpa. The rescue task, it now turns out, i• one of the most difficult - great blizzard• raging in the mountains. Today at least nine teams of picked aountaineers - ~rench, Italian and American, battled through anow choked passes, trying to get to the glacial =::r< ~=~ i,& '.~cene ofhe wreck, l;>ut none of the■ were able to ■ake it, ao far aa we know~;:: ), :.t:! !i~ • j i llJ ell -cF, a ts -Jo --.:"ail.....-.~""lt;'-' The scene of the wreck,'ranow c~Yereci-;im' I /\ .II i1 in an area of craggy peaks called - •the black - - nee4lea.• Villagers in - 0 a ... valley ~•~•----•~~•••t- i\ · I' •••••r report t~a, •k•• ••• aigns of eaoke and the flickering 1 ight of a dietreaa · flare - up there"'••: r I .t•• ,111t ■■ill••~ Last night a British R.A.r. plane, flsl■I - - ~ •rosA the Alps fro ■ Italy, epied •••• ,kc p:l:lob asll■• - •a taint winking red light on a aountain ridge.• Today a whole fleet of planes flew oYer the llpa in eearch, but were blinded ~or■~ falling anow. _A / .ll Aaong the ■ was the fortress iitb Generals Tate and SaaYely au1 - , one seeking his wife and aon, the other his wife. They were five hours over the area of the llack Beedles aa4 and caught never a glimpse of the fallen plane. •le went back and forth over the range, flying as low•• poa1ible,• said General Snavely upon returning, •but Yiolent winds and clouds obscured our view during the entire aearch. I'•• never seen such bad flying weather . an7wbere in the world before,~ he added. two nerala. - t 4 ~ ~ TonightA•1:1t; l&J\ waiting for ll•~•••k daybreak to continue attempts of rescue - as the e ■ergenc7 increases. The party of aerial casta w ays ia now spendin& its second ~ ~ food or means to keep war ■ . The teaperature at that -~ area was rated at twent7 above Zero today -~•uch colder at night.'flhen day breaks. new forces of w i l ~ e ette■pt to break throug~•• ■ ountaineer■ t•~• llaet lle411W. And another fleet of planes will aearch.a■n ~ «t:-·~~~ laong the ■ will)••• American lr■Y boa er~• r --twc,~• ·rei lwaerala --ll'rie nil- l11-ri1 }It e■H 11 ~£ ::... &l!Bh, •~•~'•• ••• t~s wt,11 et•••~••• It 10a 1f 1a10, The newa brin sword that the hum a n race h a s had ita loftiest look at the globe it tak■zit■ inhabits. Kan ~ - ATP? -- o see this earth from the farthest point awa7 - sixty-five miles. hat, ot course, ia not ■uch in inter-planetary teraa sixty-five ■ ilea high, 10• can see or ti■ea aa ■uch or t h e ~ a■ ••• •••r view of aotber earth co ■•• b7 ■eana of photo1raph7 and a rocket - one of tho•• Geraan Y-21 lauche4 into the reaotest ataoapbere, at the lhite 1roYing lrounda on the le• Mexican deaert apectacular newsreel pictures of thoae rockets that 10 roaring up into apace, and have been told that the7 carry acientific and photographic equipaent. Today bring• an illu■ tration of that, with the story ot a ■otion picture camera sent up in a V-2, aent 11P eixty-fi•• ■ ilea high. IPCIEI - 2 The roe i : t t ' , t - - ~ - a number of instruments, /\ aome of which w re desi g ned to procure data on the cosmic Y-~ ray1. After the •••ha~ had A ' passed its peak, and was on ~ its .w ay down, --., tiaing ~ mechaniam touched off an .... 1 exploaion which blew the scientific photographic equipment ~ /\ ~ of the falling4 ~ The gadgets, coming down, were 1cattered over an area of five ■ ilea 1tud7. TheJ~~chute■ - ,al reco•ered tor tor tha scatterea equipment, because we are told that the camera hit . the around at five htndred ail•• an hour. It landed on it• lena, which broke off, and the batteriea were a ■ ashet - aaga1ine but the~••~••*•';\with the tila waa intact, apeciallJ designed as it waa. They developed the tila, and found a Yiew of the g round, aa · the rocket ascended, fitt7 feet of aotion pictures, taken at four fraaes to the aecond, and covering four and a half minutes, as the rocket went speeding up - the climax being that highest gli ■ pae of the earth from an altitude of sixty-five miles. The picture shows the horizon seven-hundred-and- twenty miles away. Ro human eye has ever seen a horizon anything like that far, or a ■ 1.- fraction of that distance in all the years of history. Today, the following statement was made at the laboratory for rocket experiment: •If - ~ ~ > u u > ~ - there had been an observer i~ Jt,he rocket, eele ~e bo~ .,J~~~-ee,~ ~ - / ; o ~ ~n all directions at once, he could have had a clear view of San Diego, Salt Lake City, Kansas City and San Antonio. In other words, a human eye, able to look in all direction ■, could have h d a view of one million, six hundred thousand aquare miles of the surface of the earth. The familiar phrase is - birdaeye view. But now science baa had a look such as might be had from an drifting aateroid~l•■tta~through of t h i s ~ of ours. space, almost a planetary view VALENTINE WILLIAAS ------ A famous author passed away in New York today, Valentin.a illiua, whose mystery stories were read around the wo 2,!_ rl i d i:_ . _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Valentine Williams also was a soldier, and a veteran of both World Wars. In World War One, he was badly wounded, and then turned to writing. In the last . war, he was involved in special intelligence work, and then went back to writing, this time associated with Alexander Iorda, in the making of films. A talented author, and an even more talented conversationalist. Last ni g ht w e h a d a story of a pr e ferred ~ p r i s o n e d ,,,/a dun eon husb a nd who cell, to freedoa with his wife - if that could be called freedom. Tonight, let's h a ve another husband-and-wife story - just to show that this program has no prejudice against the institution of matrimony and the eholy etate of marriage. On a remote garGl atoll of the Fiji Islands, wild tribesmen found a bearded white man lying unconscioua on the beach. Be had been waehed ashore, ¥ t ! M B N t o ~ after a hundred-and-two days at sea...,...alone in a ■ mall boat. The fiji Islanders nursed the castaway back to health, ( hi• and got hi ■ back to civilization. Today the news gav~*~• identify - a husband seeking to rejoin his wife. John Caldwell, twenty-seven years old, is a Texa:;fta"!!:!!,.~...1;.. California. Re joined the Australian Air Force, and marri~d a girl of Sydney. After the war, he settled down in Australia, then, after a while, decided to go home for a visit. John Caldwell cam e back to this country, sp e nt some time ith the folks and then s t arted back to Australia, returning to hie wife, • home to the little woman. This w as last June, with t:lle shipping in a jaa. It was impossible to get . passage to Australia, so Caldwell traveled down to Panaaa - thinking be could there pick up a ship bound for the Land Down Under. Be waited and waited, and then grew desperate. Be bought a thirty foot cutter, and s e t eail in that eaall craft, all b7 biaeelf,' for a voyage across the Pacific - toge\ ~e•a t~ Yte littre w••••· You husband• will understand that ho■e-going connubial spirit which droYe John Caldw e ll on so venturesome . a voya • of danger. He w a s t s ea for a-hundred-and-two days. He r a n in t o a ty p oon, whic h lmo st c p . i 7. ed his t h irty f oot bot . H is . ext nt a n d co m p a s s w ere s m ashed, . e couldn't n a vi a te. He had brou gh t a l o ng enou gh foo a nd wate r for sixty d a ys, a nd w en t on the s ortest of rations. Th us h e man a ged to stretch his s upplie · s out to eight~ays after which he a x had nothing but an occaaon 1 aw fish. He f e ll into a state of collaps, unconsci us most of the tim e , and just went drifting -- until R t length his boat r . n on t h e beach of one of the outlyin g is l ands of the Fijis. Well, thanks to the c arity of the black islander s out there, John Ca _ d well is toni g t a t the Fiji sea p ort of Suva. He'll be o a y shortly and on his way by re g ular ste a s h ip to Austr a lia. Just to show what husb a nds so m etimes g o t h rough-- on his way ho m e ~i•x•ifax to his wife! And now Nelson, before y o u head du tif ully i n that dir e ction---- The soft coal stri k e has alrea d y the reality of the matter, although the st ike deadline ia not until ~idnight tonight. All day, continue~the proceaa of beating the gun on_.. strike in advance.lf With new walking out..,.. it is estimated that by n atreaming outJ of thousands one-third of the n a tion's four hundre thouaand soft coal ainers will be out. They~lea ing as fast as they I\ 411'tN/ . "off shift - and tomorrow the min a will be empty A and idle, unless something happen• in the meanwhile. lothing see•• likely t pen that could prevent the complete abut-down. L.Lewis i• still silent - waiting out the time - the tiae allowed -:fe,:hi■ to coaply with the order of the injunction. If he doesn't coaplyA reverse hia declaration of terminating the coal mine contract, Lewis is liable to a jail sentence for contempt of court. Last ni g ht we noted that if Lewis should give in - even th e n a coal aine stri k ~ight not be a verted. The miners might ignore a sudden capitulation by their chief - under compulsion. That impression was still stronger today - •is~xaxaazz■•i■z that a surrender by Lewi• might have little effect:f Rot that there i• any sign of surrender, as the gria union chief ■ ticka it out, in silenc/ [■or is there any sign of surrender on the government side. Word fro ■ President Truman'• party, Yacationing in Florida, ia1 that the President ia not changed in hia determination to fight it out. Be believes that the welfare of the ■ country demand• a ak~a~down th Le!i•. 7: ~- ~+ ~- ~ . ~ ~ . ~ ; - . ~ ~ So what? Will the government take legal L~? proceeding• to j a i l ~ Today union officials in the world of antracite, hard coal, declared that, if Lewia COAL - .3 ------ were punished, the anthracite miners would sta ea sympathy strike in his support. The hard coal miners are not involved in the soft coal dispute, but John L. Lewis is their chief, and they'll take action to back hia up - so said union officials this afternoon. Moreover, the entire A.r. of L., of which ' aia■xu Lewi•'• mine union is a meaber,-ifif"getting " behind him - A.F. of L. President Green making a atatement thi ■ afternoon in support of Lewis and the ainera - and denouncing the federal injunction. In addition, the e.I.O. steps forward in defense of its lumber One enemy in the labor rank• - John L. Lewis. The C.I.O. ia talking up large plan• ot wage demands, and therefore back• 11•1 ~• Lewi• in hi ■ demands. The nation, meanwhile, i• readying for a soft coal stri k e, with mea ~ ures to curtail lighting, heating, railro d travel, and other activities that ••ploy soft coal.