Aside from the coal strike the big story toctr again as been that pl ne crash in the Alps. Hope is hi i that with in not ny hours seare r parties at last wi l have re ache d tiiat AmeriOlll Army plane that crashed on an Alpine summit. The news today was of picked parties of Swiss mountain••~ toilin g up the slopes of the step .etter orn; -- a mountain almost as dif _ icult a .h er sisterpeak -- the atter rn. Before lon g they should rec the twelve thousand foot shoul der of the mountain, where the plane is in the snow. The survivors are all beli ve d to be ~live, eleven of them -- inclu d in women and~ child and con diti ns are m uc better for them tongith t~an t ey werP la . t ni ht. Al d y lan . roppe sup - lies to th m, foor , clot in , e at. in . e u i e nt, m e dic 1 m teria l . , ~ ven a rR<1 i o r i ,. n lin . fo to l · g t t ey av , ne ~ r l y every n , i n P ' n 0 keep alive and a . , comfortable as oa i ble in an air lane half buried in the snow on a twelve-t ousand- foot summit in the Alps. The story is one of the bedevilment of wrong places. The eleven aaro o ne . u~vivor~ h~ve had so ELARE - 2 ~~ longAan ordeal because the search for them was being ■ aie in the wrong pl a ce. It was a search great and beroi~ -- but it was a hundred and fifty miles fro ■ where they really were. The very first news of the Alpi• crash in the Alps had a strange element of ■ isplace ■ent. The first bulletin that we 1ot over here st a ted that the Aaerican Army t~ansport had been forced down on a lofty summit near the city of Entraigues in France. I looked up Entraigues on the aap and found it to be in South Central France where there were no suoh lofty mountains, so iar as I knew. The whole thing sounded like the Alps, but ·1x Entraigues was a long, long way from the Alps, 441.....,.ut't.~~~~ ... 1f" Then the latijr news said -- near Grenoble. That was more like it, Grenoble being at the foot of lofty Alpine summits. ~ search wa• concentr a ted, and f o ~ days -- the quest *k•* was in vain. What seems to have happened ~nding was that the pl ane in the lofty sno~ ~•~x• faint radio mes ages, misplaced its position -- by a hundred and - PLANE~_l_ - fifty m i l es . T oday the searchers rm desper a te ~ ~ another signal from the wrecked pl a n e / - -- a pitiful p lea for help. The signal this time wa s picked up at three pl a ces, and a ••laaat calculation was t(_ w- m a de -- ~riangulation. ' This indicated t;Mr. position ,;( nowhere near the Grenoble section - but away up to the ~~~ Jjort~ \ Berne. So the search was immedi a tely shifted£. that direction'?'Fleets of ~ ~ plane~flying over -- and they spotted the wreck. The - ~ f i r s t ~ ~ ~ R.A.F. plane, the p ilot of which " . the saw a wing sticking out of/snow. Then immediatay afterward an American flying'fortress located the same ~ ~ '\f thing -- that wing ~eiH118' 0 1 2 ~ ~ snow. The fortress was piloted by General Snavely, American Air Force · Commander in for his wife. Austria. ~eneral Snavely~ looking I She w-a-e one of the passangers. ~ ) Th-feneral immedi a tely flew to a position to drop supplie s , and out went a stream of p u ckages that flo a ted down by - - £L A NE _=._/i_ parachute to th sn owfield on the s um m it, i here the wreck , as. L a ter pl a ne s , in a s imil a r ~ ay, delivered other &ai cargoes -- an d spotted a nd counted survivors. From the ~r ecked plane the radio re p ort wa s that five ere injured. But searching airmen to d ay spotted seven or eight walking a round. Others inside the plane, presum a bly. o it looks as if what threatened to be a ... grim tragedy-.'iifi being averted in high style, with I\ -tl..A Swiss mountaineers scaling the slopes ofAWetterhorn. They say their principal difficulty will be a lofty cliff that they'll ha e to climb. Moreover, groups of paratroopers are preparing to descend to the marooned party as soon l S morning breaks over there. Among these -- two medical officers.ti,/ tomorrow is likely to bring word of triumphant rescue. I ■, But there may be d a rker word too, because I late news indic a tes that a search~n plane may h ve c r ashed __ a distant explosion noticed among Alpine peaks. ~ - In d u st ries t h rou g h o ut t h e n a tio n a r e m aking p l a ns to curt il o p e ra tio ns , i n s ome cases , shu tting ow n. T : e F e era l G ov ern e n t has o d e r ed a swe e ping d i ~ ou t ov er t w e nt y-on e st a tes; a ls o f or the District of a d i ~ out ~ o r e d ras tic ~han in warti m e. To conserve dwin d lin su p plies of fuel in areas where coal is used to produce electricity. Restrictions affecting all northeastern and middle-Atlantic states as far west as \linne s ota, to t a ke effect at six p. m. Ea s tern T i 'll e · , ' .J onday. No elect icity to be used for lighting store windows or si g ns or fo r any unnecessary air-conditioning and r efrigeration. A t .. enty-five per ~ent reduction of li gh t for streets, offices, and buildings in general. Onle s the st r ike is over by Christmas, all Chr i s t as tre es , in d oors a n d out, will be without light e x e p t f or c andle s . T he~ e , i l l be a f u rther cut for p o w er companies w h en thei c oal st o ck s ar e don to a fifteen- d ay supply, AD.Q_Q~1 - 2 • - an then a third c ut if s t~cks of coal decline to a ten-day supply. Ho w c ooly John • Le •is is taking thi s clash w ith the federal g ov er n e nt is illustrated by his attitude today toward ne w smen. He wasn't sayin g anything, ~ s geni a l a bout i t , w ith good-natured r e m a r ks of -•no ~ co m~e nt." With the news cam er amen the beetle-browed boss of the United Mine Workers was graciously obliging - posin g for as many pictures as they wanted to take. That recalls an incident in the Ne w sreel shop last night - something that goes back to another time when Lewis posed for cameras - and had something to aa7 for the sound track. At Movietone Newsreel last n i g h t , ~ were lookin g at film dating back to last Spring - the time when the government took over the soft coal mines, and Lewis si g ned the contract wbima i ■ now under dispute. In pu t ting together motion pictures of the present strike, Movi~tone Producer Eddie Reek wanted to cut back ·i th fe " s nes o f th t p revious a e n. And wh t proceeded to hap en as dram t ic, whe n you c o nsider the pr~sent point of arg e n t - the gove rnment con t ent io n tha t the contract which Le w is si ned last Spring was for the duration of government operation, and cannot be Pictures f l ashed on the screen, and up cam e a scene showing Lewis shaking hands with Coal Administratof Krug - congratulating each other on the contract that had just been si g ned. After whicH, Lewis spoke briefly into the microphone. Here's what he said in his gruff, sententious tones - a nd a bit of lewsreel dram a tic ■ it was~- •A contract,• •rumbled the union ch ief , •ha• just been e x cuted in the lhite H ouse, covering the n ati onal bituminou■ industry. I t settles for the period of overn ent operation all the questions at issue.• So there was ewis, putting on motion picture reco rd , a sta ement that the contract he had just si g ned was fo the duration of government operation.- ~d to ay that's the government contention - the conclusion drawn be i ng that Lewis h as no legal right to call off the contract, with government operation still o Well, today John L. Le w is once again posed for newsreel camerae - but this time he didn't say anythint-ejust posed in silence. A He e' . d ide light: - In Glenridge, I 11 in o i , on - u n re - twenty . n it1 _ rs are on st r i k e ag a ins t the r selves. Of course, they are striking in support of the nationwide walkout. But in Glenridge, the miners own and operate a ollie r y that happens to be the town's only industry. It was forned as a cooperative in Nineteen Forty, at which t i e the owners gave it up as unprofitable, and the ~ iners took over. So the e ~ ploy e es of the colliery in Glenridge, Illinois, are on strike tonight, striking against their bosses, who, by an odd quirk of fortune, happen to be themselves. c.1.0. ---------" Th . u r ray - wh term. . r • h r s relected its Pre i ent,Philip ch o s n unanimously to y for a sixth I The Atlantic City ~ Convention of the C.I.O.Aadopted a resolution, denouncin1 Communism, n~ alao voted in favor of a demand that the United States stop piling up supplies of tomic bombs. All o hicb produced an argument - Jack Altman of t h e ~ United Retail, rholesale and Department Store Employees Union declaring that the anti-€ommunist resolution was not strong enough. He wanted something . ~.,c;,_u.:~~ •'•A1t9X against the Reds. And there were complaints that the atomic bomb resol~tion did something l~ss than justice to tht-s country of ours. lt took two votes before the resolutions 'ere declared adopted. ~ ~ / " Anot r ex lo ion in B rlin -- ah nd grenade, int e cou tyar of a buil i hou i. the head uarters of Soviet occupati n authori ies. :ormerly the head uarters oft e Luft affe, whi hall trough the war somehow was missed by allied bo , bs. When the grenade went off t day, fifteen German workers inside the building were badly injured. There is speculation that the explosion may signal t e openin of Werewolf activities against the ussians -- activities similar to Nazi attacks against he Americans in ou~ zone. Recent bo bings in Stuttgart, in the American part of Germany, are ~till a mystery. Of course, the Russians are investigating. And the Russian-controlled radio in Berlin promises that the culprits will be caught. Russian justice, as we know, is swift. MONSTER ----- For several days the news has been giving us ~ ~ r p e n t yarn. Remember the Monster of Loch Nes s , in the days before the • ar? Well, it's that all over again, this time in It . ly -- the Monster of Lake Como. Well, I admire Lake Como• that beauty spot of earth; but/long ago, I got tired of those mon ter ~~ whoppe r s, and for two days I passed up the leviathan ~ of Lake Como. Today however, t=lle scientists are in the story, geologists and pal~onto ] ogists. So what can a fellow do? I don't pay much att e ntion to tales told by fishermen and fellows out hunting, but ita different when the professors talk, tbe geologists and p aleontologists. A diapatcb fro oY-e thHe states that -k ~~~~ scientists gathered at Lake Como i:1id !l y,,,.. th& , tlucb /\. impressed by the l oc ~ l sea serpent scare. Fishermen and hunters, a fire brigade and••• a dredging barge, ~ were out on the lake, looking for the monster. MONSTER - 2 _____ ..,.... ____ _ The Scientists listened to storie of local w 4 ~ inhabit , nts,{_to have seen the fea~some critter. The ~scriptions a s ent along ·n the news today, --- incr ~a se in weirdness a monster a hundr~d feet long, A like a gi■a oiant fish . - green with black stripes, big red eyes that glare dolefully, and bum o s on his head. That may sound ' like som e body's nightmare, or a drunkards delirium ter.m~n~, but to the rofessors it sounded like - lariosaurus. They think there's a possibility that the m~nster of ~-at~~~ Lake c~J!~ft • aurv1v1ng s p ecimen of a per-historic amphibian, an - - - L ~ I ancient land going fish -lar1o•baurus. Years ago, t<. the fossilized skeleto~ of a lariosaur.us was dug up along the bore of Lake Como, and today's description more or leas fits the id&a the professors had of the pre-historic amphibian in the first place. So that's the story of the••• monster of Lake Como. I don't put any stock in ■x sea •erpent yarns, but what can a fellow do when the professors speak up -- the geologists and the paleontologists. Well, th er e won't be an o ther Army-lotre Dame Ga■• this ye - r - th a t f am ous nothing-to-nothing tie will not be played off. Today at West Point, the Army team Toted - No. They won't appear in an7 post-season game. 111 auggeations of a bowl game are out. - Those might,Cadets, headed by Blanchard and Davia, an4 Tucker, · would have gone to the Rose Bowl - if they had been asked. But they weren't. That fabulous Aray tea■ woul4 have been the greatest attraction the Rose Bowl eYer ha4, but the Paciflc Coaat Conference aigned up with the B11 line of the Middle lest - giving the Big line the Rose Bowl ga ■ e every ye~r, including this year. So that left the Army out. All of which produced an uproar on the Pacific coast, with popular outcry demanding that the ArmJ tea■ --~ be brought out there for the game - Rose Bowl, ~ so•e w here else. Plans were hastily improvised for [QQ!~!11 __ i_ another bowl fiest -- m~yb~ at Sn Di g o. Ther w 8 talk of a • rotest bowl.• An hope . ere mt er tained that maybe they ig t het, not only the Amry -- but also Notre Dame. ighty expection Rrose- t at m vbe on the coast, the Ar my and Notre Dame woul play off that historic tie. Notre, Dame which had previously rejected all sugg ~ stions of going to the Rose Bowl. now indicated an interest. Yes, they . wou d follow the Army's decisi • J n. They'd play the· Army o n~he coast. play off the tie-- if the Army so desired. So. it wRs up to West Point. And today the football Cadet• voted~- No. They rejected all proposals for a bowl game. • At Norfolk, Virginia..,today, a forty-six year old woman la nded from a boat and I suppose she ought to be satisfied. She ~ as lookin g for material for a novel - and a pp arently ahe got it - enough m te~ial for a whole string of novels. Ira. Bertha Vera Brightman of Ra7nhaa, laaaachusett•, wanted •omething to write about, and •he wasn't selecting anything aoft and p1uahy. She enli•te4 a■ a steward••• aboard a three-aaa~chooner for a Yo7ag1 to West Africa. To ay, upon getting back, she aade charge• against the captain. The achooner was na■ed t~• •1uck7 Evelyn• - but •Evelyn• was not ao lucky, not on that particular voyage, anyway. Th• lady noveliat ••1• living condition• aboard were frightful, she bad expect4d thing■ to be rugged ■ailing on a three-aaater, but theJ were wor■e than 7ou'd need for anJ noYel, The •tuckJ Evelyn•, bound for lest Africa, !£112S2ll!L. 2 put in at the Cape Verde Islands, and that first bit of land looked m ighty good to *k■xl Mrs. Bertha Vera Brightman. She wanted to end the voya g e right there, and asked the captain to give her a discharge aa atewardeas. The skipper refused - whereupon ahe alappe4 . hie face. I Today she said: •I slapped hi ■ to ive hia the reason for discharging me.• B•t the skipper, inetead 1 ot firing her and sending her ashore - he socked her back. She says he alugge4 her. Today the captain declared that he acte4 tbe way be did only because she was a woaan, otherwiae be would have put her in iron• for insubordination. So be onl7 punched the lady. fee, thieg• weN F•&IN ••eaN \he ■ L••kf lrc.e11'h"4 1e'~1il&Hf■-' ho• unluckJ ■he could be, on her return voyage from West Afric a b a ck to t She broke down, drifted at a a sending out he U.S.A. ~~ROQ __ R __ l distres signals, and was taken in tow by the O. S. Coast Guard. On t~at return vo . age the unlucky Evelyn w sixty-one days a sea. Al of which complete the material that Mrs. Bertha Vera Brightmm wahte for a novel -- enoua~, and more than enough. And when we hear from you Nelson, we'll have had enough -- but!!! more than enought My sponsor s , the Sun Oil Com p any, sustained a grievous lo s s tod a y - in the de a th o f J. Ed g ar Pew. He was a dist.inguished member of the f a mily ii.I- r ounded and di r ects the Sun Oil Compan7 - a c o uJ!,t' of the br o ther• l\. J.11, J. Boward._., and J.A-..., PewA He was f ore ■ o•t in petroleum technology, and was known as the fath e r of atandardization in oilfields. J. Edgar Pew wae eeventy-aix, and only two week• ago waa honored at the end of hie fift7-fifth year of w;d ■ erYice ta••• Sun Oil.Gi p1q, Be began his career A with a Job a• a pluaber's helper. I knew J. - f - , , ~ ~ t Edgar P•~x•1 ► • ~ knew him to a ■ aD who bad a way of getting along with othe~ aeD be of all sorts -- fro• the rough oil fields of Texa• to the ligh counc ile of industr7. ■• •• fJ great aenae of hu■o:, a■t the ~ n who life and gives ~ I I to A- .A. g e t • ~ . : , : ~ out of life. • down li of ao c o a l ~ uel, t r ~ o ~ N•t•ie~e«, ftottse heating di ■ tni1ari, The•• aetbodical preparations to get along during the cri1i1, are an indication of the goyernmen• determination to stage a finish fight ith John L. Lewie and hi• Union. Today United ltate• marshal• aerYed Lewi• with papers ordering him to appear in federal court o Uonday - to answer charges of contem p t Lewis, of cour ■ ' l,(_,.s, baa defied aAcourt injunction. federal judge ruled A. that it was illegal for Lewis to~erminete the contract his Union had with ~@'-"'~ma~~11A._.-.. ........ ~ . and ordered him to cancel the termination. Lewis defied that, and now faces penalties of imprisonment or a fine, or both. So be must appear in court on Monday • ....,..."11>da1, meanwhile. he appeared to be entirely unperturbed b7 the prospect of facing the judge.