L.T. SUNOCO. TIKJR^BAY. DECS j ^IBER 2 , 1957 GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: Vi/illiam Green and John Lewis staged their scheduled meeting today — head of the A.F* of L. and chief of the C.1,0., two men who for many a year were friends and co-workers and then split apart in the bitter rivalry of labor war. Today they faced each other again in amicable meeting, trying to settle the battle of their factions. Wha^s the result of their two and a half hour talk? Well, about the clearest and most explicit thing revelaed is in a statement of George Harrison, A.F. of L. Chairman of the Peace Conference. He says that Green and Lewis today achieved — ^ a meeting of minds.” I don’t quite know what that means,"when . minds meet.” Do they collide? Or do they exchange a mental kiss? When the two lards of labor emerged from that conference, John Lewis said that no definite conclusions had been reached. President Green declared: ”We held a very satisfactory and most interesting conference.” 1 11111,1111111 11 - -- ____ __________ _ .. . -.-r—- ---------- - I LEAD -2 That*s about all the illumination we are granted, so we*11 have to let it go as - a meeting of minds. With And another mental meeting scheduled for tomorrow' evening WASHINGTON In Congress today a man In a wheel chair rolled his way to the front, and signed a document. And that brings us to the fact that the Wages and Hours Bill was jammed to the front, the deadlock broken. In order to ••force that controversial bill to a vote within the next couple of weeks - a petition was necessary, a petition signed by two hundred and eighteen lawmakers. So today ***s*§g» th the congressn^'-fefc-^fifcga^the last one^was Representative Mansfield of Texas^J present In an invalid^ wheelchair. Sor~tt» rolled to the front, and wrote the two hundred and eighteenth signature - amid cheers. So now the Wage and Hour Bill is tossed into the maelstrom of congressional debate, JURY RACKET YQRIsp Ut Kansas City, court was in session,- Ihey were trying pat Willie Lugge, suspected of burglary. A newspaper reporter covering the case noticed a curious thing. The name of Juror Number Five was given as Charles G. Page, and the reporter knew him to be the president of a livestock commission company. But at the trial when Juror Number Five answered the judge - he said he was a painter. That struck the reporter as curious. and he pointed, It was thereupon revealed that Juror Number Five was really named Schmidt - he had given a false name, a false address, and, moreover, was under age - too young to serve legally as a the juror. He admitted he had bought ^ summons to jury duty, bought it in a saloon and promised to pay a dollar for it. That brought to light a jury racket in which various individuals had been buying jury summons issued in the names of other people. Their purpose has been to get the three dollars a day that is paid for jury service. The summonses have been selling in saloons and lunch counters for a dollar a piece^ - <^-C_ S' 0 , This curious crooked game traces to an ex-convict JURY RACKET - £ who got himself in as a sort of handy man around the courts. To him was entrusted the job of delivering jury summones to the right people. But instead he started a business of selling them. Charges were filed this afternoon against seven persons implicated, and it is believed that a series of court verdicts will have to be declared because of the dummies and A fakes who served on the juries. PAY-ROLL Buffalo's current political scandal is developing some rich detail. Today, the Investigation some curious testimony A A about padding the city payrolls. A snow shoveling job was in the spotlight with witnesses telling that more snow shovelers were hired than ware needed, that they were paid for more than the work they did, and some of them were paid without doing any work. One witness declared that he shoveled, snow for six days and was paid for eight days. Another swore that he got between fifty and sixty dollars for snow shoveling, although he was ht home sick in bed all the time. Still another said that so many extra men were sent on the shoveling job that he put some of them to work trying to find jobs for the others. The philosophy of the snow shovelers was expressed in this phrase:- "We took all the money we could get so the big-shots couldn't get it." It's not astonishing that it cost Buffalo a quarter of a million dollars to dig itself out of that snowstorm. Nor is it astonishing to be told that the payroll padding and excess hiring ROBBERY 3R I R P At Fort Worth Texas today a man walxed into the Onion Bank and Trust Company. WtfMflrtl. to the oaying teller's window * J A A There he held up a small vial filled with a clear fluid, displayed it significantly for Paying Teller Johnson to see. Sttaa "fne man urt*-«L pushed a note across the counter. The note read;- "Give me a thousand dollars or I'll blow you to blazes. I don't care if I die.ri What did Teller Johnson do? He remembered. Into his mind flashed a vision, of that day in 1931. Then he was employed in the Btockyards National Bank, when a- robber came in threatening to blow the place up. They refused to-give him the money and he hurled the bottle of nitro-giycerine to the floor. The explosion ripped the place apart and blew the vice-president of the bank to bits — also the robber. This evening Teller Johnson exp 1 ains^-The memory of that incident flashed through my mind when I saw the note, and he adds — I pushed out the money." He shoved out stacks of currency for the nitro-giycerine maniac to take -r not one thousand dollars ry but two thousand So the place was not blown up. The robber left with the cash. &■ BELGIUM Here’s one both late and important — a declaration by :kg± Belgium. It refers to the Franco-British plan to give colonies to Hitler, other nations to join in the giving. Tonight Bx Brussels gives warn London.1— Belgium will oppose any scheme x± that proposes to give away Belgian territory! Belgium will hot chip in with any colonies for jp Ma Hitler. And that means thw Belgian Congo so rich in rubber. A % The general idea is that if Great Britain and France want to ap ease Hitler by handing over colonies — they’ll have to haw® over their own^so far as Belgium is concerned. And,Portugal is worried. Lisbon Is making anxi^ous inquiries — because Portugal has some fat african possessions. CHINA The Japanese have been saying that Soviet Russia has been sending war materials to the Chinese. Today, the Soviet Russians. * said so. Soviet representatives In China declare that China is getting war planes from Moscow? by the hundreds. They*re being flown to China via Turkestan - a tremendous journey across inner Asia. But they say the squadrons of Soviet warplanes make It in fo r ty hour s. Meanwhile, the Japanese tell how the Soviet sky fighters have been flying out against them. They claim they shot down a whole string of them, when Japanese planes caught the enemy craft taking off Chinese airport. The Mikado’s flyers say they riddled the Soviet planes just as they arose from the ,A ground 'ONDQH iv O-^e . L »' __ ____ A new Imperial chief of staff has been appointed in ■England and the most interesting thing about it is the phrase- l!to meet the eventuality of war." Major-General Vlcdj^J'oort of the Grenadier Guards becomes Britain* s military chief. 3bt It*s part of an army shake-up which is explained as intending to meet the eventuality of war. aICKBY AQVSE ^here’s an uproar in Yugoslavian because of a revolutionary conspirator named. Mickey Mouse. Yes that same funny little fellow that figures on the screen. There’s a loud argument because the government censor has suppressed Mickey, won’t allow him to be sho.vn. The reason? A few days ago a Mickey Mouse cartoon appeared with some hilarious happenings concerning the overthrow A of King. You can’t overthrow kings in Yugoslvaia, not even if you are Mickey Mouse, bo down BmsuExkx clamped the censor —- and the fans are protesting in an uproar ft BABE RUTH Paul Bunyan is a mighty legend, but then Babe Ruth is a mighty legend too. When legend meets legend on the golf course what happens? The odds should be on John Montague the Paul B^yan of golf who has hit the headlines with his exploits on the links, and with his trial and acquittal on an old robbery charge. The Babe of course is renowned as a baseball player, but he seems to be a mighty golfer as well — so he says. The two legends have been around golfing together. The Bambino in an interview today related that he had played Montague four times. And each time the Babe won. «I was lucky” he explained modestly. Well I suppose you need luck against Paul Bunyan. JARRETT In the news tonight we find the theme of marriage aascfcrsfek* featured prominently. There1s for example the complicated affair of Eleanor Holm. Ehe's married to Art Jarrett. Ehe says she^ going to marry Billy Rose. And Billy Rose is married to Fanny Brice. It’s m- intricate, but they expect the divorce courts to straighten it out. The straightening; out started in Hollywood today when orchestra leader Arthur Jarrett filed a divorce suit against Eleanor Holm. His grounds are — mental anguish. He tells the court that he suffered from mental anguish when Eleanor drank the bubbly champagne which caused her to be tossed off the American Olympic team. Art says he was deeply humiliated by that. and then he suffered mental anguish because of an eighteen hundred dollar fur coat. Eleanor was away from home one night and the next day ’phoned Art and asked him if he had her coat. smixkK He didn’t. She wanted to report the loss to the insurance company. But he demurred, because he feared the publicity would cause him some more deep yx humiliation. Vvhereupon Eleanor went out and bought another eighteen hundred dollar coat, which Uaa*!? caussj^rliia^gre&t^bental anguish. JARRrCTT —A— The Jarrett^petition goes on with the mention of a certain man with whom he says Eleanor travels around. Could it be Billy Rose, whom mleaner says she is going to Marry? Itfs all mental anguish. ROMANCE The old time ballads of the Scottish border ring with the names of Douglas and R^rcy. The border wars, the struggle for centuries between Scotland and England, and the two names most -TzSe. celebrated In many a battle are - Douglas and Percy. Black Douglas on the Scottish side, and for England the great house of Percy - so celebrated by Shakespeare in the warlike person of Hotspur. ttxsqp**©#* Two powerful and most noble families in a bitter age long o feud. But the news today is different. It concerns a Douglas and a Percy - the Marquis of Douglas and Clydesdale, who is the eldest son and heir of the Duke of Hamilton , ygJmae premier peer of Scotland^ iLd Lady Elizabeth Percy, daughter of the Duchess of Northumberland. Married)-The border wars of long ago became a border wedding today. The Marquis of Douglas and Clydesdale Is that same Lord Clydesdale who rose to renown some years back as a boxer - amateur middleweight at Oxford and champion of Scotland and of the British universities. One can hear much about him from Eddie Eagan, our own former amateur heavyweight champion of the ROMANCE - 2 1 world. Eddie^from Denver^and his pugilistic lordship boxed and trained together^ at Oxford, and finally went on a fighting tour v around the world. In his book, "Fighting for Fun," Eddie Eagan tells one little story to illustrate the ancient pride of the Douglas, fie O was seconding Lord Clydesdale in a bout for the amateur British championship and the apsxlHgxwzx opponent w^s a Birmingham policeman. In the first round, smash, and ,the Birmingham bobby socked fiis Lordship a haymaker square in the mouth. Knocked two of his teeth out. Eddie says that he, as Clydesdale^ second, I was terrified - teeth getting knocked out of the mouth of the future Duke of Hamilton.**# premier peer of Scotland. When A ' Clydesdale came to his corner at the end of the first round. Eddie told him in a panic - "I’m going to toss the towel in," But His Lordship scowled and hissed through the gap left; by the knocked out teeth. - Douglas is a Douglas." And <7V\ went with a slugging attack and beat the policeman from Birmingham. Lord Clydesdale climbed to another kind of fame a few ROalAflCE - 5 years later - climbed high. He was foremost in the airplane flight over at. Everest, piloting one of the planes - whef^ the eye# of man first looked down on the topmost pinnacle of the world's highest mountain. Today at Edinburgh, in St.Giles Cathedral, there was a blaze of Scottish pomp and ceremony - the bride in heirloom jewels, the groom and his best man in kilts. And the wedding bells rang out for the union of Douglas and Percy - warlike enemies of old. 1 ■ — In London,- memories of old were evoked,in a divorce.court. -'' a J Recollections of the theatre and of aviation were stirred when Ethel Levy entered suit against Claude Graham White. She was a star of yesterday, a player of rollicking comedy. She made her debut s at the Weber and Fields Music Hall. She was a bright luminary of entertainment,when she married a similar luminary - George M. Cohan. SfemxBXJCKXB That was in the young Yankee Doodle days ofAGeorge M. Cohan legend. They; were divorced in Nineteen Seven - just thirty years ago. mmsM - 4 Later, Ethel Levy married Claude Graham White, one of the flashing figures uf the heroic days of aviation, he was one of the pioneers, made many a headline in the history of when airplanes were exaggerated box In Paris a trial began today - with a weird story of romance and aviation. The defendant is Madame Schmeder, who played a prank astonishing even for a French woman. Her boy friend was an aviator and she was taking a flight with him. They were high in the sky, when suddenly she hit him over the head with a hammer. And then she tried to shoot him, but the gun jammed. With the boyfriend knocked the plane was going in all directions, But Madame took the controls, and a landing - though how she did it nobody ever knew. The dazed and dizzy boy friend crawled out of the plane, and went staggering away. Thereupon Madame worked the controls again and took off. She get up in the air and just kept flying. She flev; across the English Channel, she went^g*4#i&flefcver England. She flew on and on, until all the gas was used up. Then the plane had to descend, which it did with a crash. But Madame came out of it alive. I I s. ROMANCE - 5 And now she’s on trial for that assault and battery on the boy-friend up in the sky. Her plea today was that she intended to commit suicide. Well, she went about it in a hij^ly exciting way. -vwvO ^ v^- ^2 - K- t- - WV,