L.T. SUMOCQ. TFIURSDAY. AUGUST 4. 1958. GOOD EVENING EVERIBBDY: Today ended the attempt of the Railroad Comapnies and railraod labor to come to an agreement on the subject of a wage cut. The Companies went to slash wages fifteen percent. The Railroad brotherhood are against the cut. The two groups after a long meet! \g and debate announced today that they were as far apart as ever. The Companies announce that they are going to ask the Federal Government to mediate the wage dispute.- Whereupon H.A. Enochs, representing the Railraods siad to George F. Harrison representing Labor : - MWill you join Jis In asking for mediation?1* Harrison answered that he would have toput that question to a vote of the Railroad Labor leaders. Whereupon Enochs declared that the railroads in ny case would ask for federal mediation. «Bu1;," he observed, ”we think it would be better If the application were made jointly.* So asit stands tonight the Government will be asked to mediate the wage question, wi11 be asked either by the Companies or the Companies and labor jointly. oi ty-siz letters have been sent out in /ashington, letters to holding companies of public utilities# In this fash.ion the securities and eaciia:ng.e coimission calls upon the world of utilities to comply with the law concerning holding companies - the law which contains the death sentence against the holding company kind of combination# The Companies are asked to present to the S, L. C. their plans and suggestions for breaking up such systems of utilities control as do not comply with the law ■L j-t-Qj.X, . In this next bit of news two terms are mentioned - six year terra mid third jcas: term.. This net ion has talked for many a year about elect.tog a President for one six-year term, no reelection. ^nd today Senator Burke of Nebraska announced that he'111. push, the idea during the next session of Congress• Senator Burke has already introduced a bill, for a six year term, and now he says heTll reintroduce it - and drive for action, Hefs all the more concerned about it because of the growing discussion of that other kind of term - third term, lie’s worried about the possibility that President Roosevelt may run again. He doesn’t believe the President would be reelected* but thinks he might almgst be, nl don’t think any man could be' elected for a third term,” Senator Burls declared today; "President Boosevelt would probably come as close as anybody, but he would be defeated,” The point of worry that bothers this Democratic Senator is - what would it do to the Demo oracle party? "Split the Demo'cratio party into a thousand pieces ,” are the words spoken by the gentleman from Nebraska today -J- ^ P"e ^-l4; 'v-'" _ l"-' " relor. ir irr^ai^.u to-, UttVr n.-.‘£;'.l o' ri j!P. ne>' ’.o r t- Garial* Tlie Prer I ■--o’.pr'rox'ri-; enu'.- jli, ^c!:e O'f the rood n^tehror p^li 0- s and s-.ld ‘ c wea t. -s oo-s , ^ech less inporto.nt1 so: o '■ no vitfal icanee, hardly worth mentioning - is the story, of hew our flsliliig President hooked- a sailf i sh and in the e:ns^ trig battle another sailfish atnok his no-e into the tu.a.|jle. The ronult .-as that thv thiyping line i^rapped itself l .refund the beak of sailflsh ntmiber two, ith such e snarling tie urn that the Ivr©sident Jsanded. saiIrish nunioer two, a hundred pound fightar. The news dispatch cm Panama doesn't say what happened to saiifish niiaber one, which was hooked in the first nlac©: - whether it get away or whether the Presidential f i s h e rm■ n 1 a n d e 1 t ii em btli * FENNH-YLVAKIA, At Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, todays dilemma was dramatized, ^atfs a man going to do when one authority says "Yes do it” and another authority says, "No dont." One authority happens to be the Pennsylvania Legislature and the other is the Court of Dauphin Covinty, Todays event brought to a focus the clash of Legislature and Court. They are both out to investigate Pennsylvania's little New Deal run by uovernor Earle. The Governor charges that the Grand Jury investigation in Dauphin County is merely an attack by his oolitical enemies. So the Legislature, which supnorts the Governor is staging an investigation of its own. The Earle opponents claim that this Legislative investigation is to be nothing but a white-wash. Anyway the Legislature called upon the District Attorney of Dauphin County to hand over what evidence he had against the Governor, records, documents, affidavits, exhibits. The Dauphin County Judge told the District Attorney to do no such thing - ordered him to hold the evidence for the Grand Jury investigation. ■-'-m^YX^ANTA - £. So today the District Attorney, Carl B. Shelley, was called before the Legislative Committee, and rut on the witness stand, end told to testify. To which he answered - Yes, he would testify. But he added this qualification. He would testify so far as he could without violating the order of the Judge commanding him not to testify. And that was a rather paradoxical bit of testimony. They asked him - had he brought along the records and the documents that he had been ordered to bring. He replied nNo,T, saying j|y quote: ,TI am bound by Court Order not to turn over such records." Unquote. Some more contradiction. The Committee of the Legislature tried to get him to say he was refusing to obey the Legislative order. That would make him guilty of contempt of the Legislature, But the District Attorney wouldn’t admit any such thing. He merely insisted that he was obeying the Court Order. It was all a fine spun point of law - he would testify to anything except -to, what the Judge told him not to testify^ and that was everything. JAP AN. The Soviet rei>ly to Japan is stiff and uncompromising. Foreign CoRynissar Litvinov today told Japanese Ambassador Shigemitsu that Stalins Government insists^^!%t all Japanese troops fr0m the disputed corner in Eastern Asia before Soviet Russia will consider any agreement. Todays events began with Tokyo making a move for peace, calling upon Moscow to negotiate and stop the fighting on the three cornered border of Siberia, Manehukuo and Korea, In the Soviet capital, the MikadoTs Ambassador went into a long conference with Stalins Commissar for foreign affairs. There, the Japanese peace suggestion was formally made. And there likewise the rigorous Soviet answer was returned - get the Japanese troops out. Moreover, Litvinov mentioned a significant oriental word - hunchun. The Soviets take their stand on the Hunchun agreement of eighteen sixty nine. In that year the then imperial Russia made a pact with the then celestial empire of China, a boundary pact. In this, China and Russia agreed upon a JAPAN - 2 boundary in the now disputed area. Such is today’s contention of the Soviets. The Foreign Coraraisar told the Japanese Ambassador that Russia was willing to negotiate minor points concerning the boundary, but insists on the general terms of the Hunchun agreement. And the Japanese troops must get out. It is now up to Tokyo to yield or not to yield, up to Japan to decide whether or not to continue local fighting in the disputed area which might so easily turn into a regular war. JAFAK - 2 boundary in the now disputed area. Such is today’s contention of the Soviets. The Foreign Commisar told the Japanese Ambassador that Russia was willing to negotiate minor points concerning the boundary, but insists on the general terms of the Himehun agreement. And the Japanese troops must get out* It is now up to Tokyo to yield or not to yield, up to Japan to decide whether or not to continue local fighting in the disputed area which might so easily turn into a regular war. REFUGEES. Today the delegates to the Refugee Conference were asked - how many refugees would ichiK their respective Nations accent from Germany and Austria? The Committee, which came into being at Evian and is continuing as a permanent body in London, was eznected to start a general discussion of the problem of opnressed minorities today. But instead each delegate was asked for figures - state precisely and in detail how many of the German and Austrian minority his country is prepared to admit. American delegate Myron Taylor told the Committee that the total persons for whom new homes should be found was six hundred and sixty thousand, nine hundred. That includes a hundred^&nd-ninety—eight thousand Jews in Germany, and a hundred-andwo thousand in Austria. Also, two hundred and eighty five thousand non-Aryan Christians, seventy five thousand of whom are Catholics. He said that during the year ending June thirtieth, the United States had taken in seventeen thousand refugees, and was willing to admit twenty seven thousand more during the coming year. Sep,will_ the other ? 7 countries accept their share’- and^how many. I‘ aeens to .,e \-htit titers* s u turn f Irony in. the story of Pearl „hite. They say she lost all interest in films during her later years, She didn’t like the w-y they made pictures any more. 3he scorned stars that flashed after her era, 3he called them - kissers. Because kissing was all they could do - no action,, no hair raising thrills, such as £ ssex W x Pearl White used to produce in the ’’Perils of Pauline” and the ’’.adventures of Blaine." No more of the wild bareback ride by the girl star, the leap from the moving train, or the rescue of the beauty as she clung to the diazy ledge. Pearl White preferred the kindui kind of acting she used to do* Yet they say it was that same old time Pearl-White— kind—of—movie-acting that impaired her health - injuries she sustained ' n studios and on location, making the ’’Perils of Pauline’* and the entures of ^laine.” 3h- retired from the pictures rich, but oiling ~ and no she has died at lorty-mne. Her kind of acting ruined her health, but she preferred it to any other kind Tile onxy thing to do ^hout the hot .ve&ther is - be ■ hilosot-hicaj. about it. Of this we have an object lesson froni Fhiladel’nia. There william ..artnan celetratec i is hundred and second birthday today. He has seen a lot in his life of oiore than a century, including a lot of weather. So when he was askex how the heat-wave affected him, he answered; "I’ve seen too much weather to pay any attention to it." Of course .ve who haven’t, seen a hundred and tv/o summers may not be quite so philosophical about it, but there isnTt much else we can do. There's a bit of weather news from Italy which is rather more on the exciting side. In the District of Savona, they'd been having a drought, the farmers short of water for their eroos. There's s local irrigation reservoir, the water supply in it running low - not enough to supply the fields. So the farmers of two different areas got into a row about the right xt to use the irrigating water. Today, with the drought at its driest,- the feud flared into a pitched battle. Hundreds WEATHER - 2 of farmers were battling long and lustily, when suddenly it began to rain ■ it rouped. The fight for water was broken up by a regular deluge from the sky. Fields were drenched, and the irrigation reservoir rapidly filled up. With nothing any longer to fight about, the embattled farmers quickly made peace and staged a celebration - urt'tli- with water but with wine. A sue hub j jo LOI Today > t Baton Rouge, the Governor of Louisiana dz-ove __ to a factory where h strike was on - a box making factory, A walkout called by an affiliate of the American Federation of Labor, The official car drove up to the picket line, where a hundred •nd fifty strikers were on patrol. The Governor asked the pickets what they had been getting, how much 'were the wages they •/ere striking against. Fifteen cents an hour, was the reply. Whereupon the Governor declared: ’’No man in Louisiana has to work for that » age ^nd then what did he do about it? He hired the wives of the strikers at twice that wage, kith the state paying them thirty cents an hour, he had the wives go to ork in a soup kitchen, preparing meals for the strikers. Then the Governor called a conference of representatives of the Company and the Union - trying t- arrange a settlement. ..g>.--.i x ^ ju '^1 • Anybody - ho has ever arranged any sort of yubllo event knor-s the danger of - conflicting dates. Two imposing events staged ut the same time conflict. In the same city - conflict* In the same hotel - conflict., ixiia non we hear of two conventions scheduled, for the same time, in California, and at the same Hotel. One - the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, The other - of conflict. here those two clashing events staged simultaneously right there under the same roof? And. If not - who gave way and postponed? Did the Women’s Christian Temperance Union, headed by Its President, Mrs, hi la Boole, bow politely to the bartenders and say: nYou first, my dear Alphonse?” Not at all. The Christian Temperance ladies marched right in, stem and unsmiling. It was the bartenders who gave way - got out of the way, Chen they learned of the titanic conflict of dates, the International mixologists instantly postponed their convention for two weeks - by v/hich time the W • C* T. U. rixixx will have ha a. plenty of the Bartenders International Alliance, opportuniip to denounce demon rum and go home. In a way I’m jrWiiM . -- L sorry the stupendous oonfliot of dates oasn’t carried right through* I don't suppose the ladies of the »,* G, T. U* would have shown any interest in the bartenders' discussion of new cock1ails and the way to shake them. But the bartenders might have founcjfit improving to listen to some of the W. c. T. U* speeches* Bor example, today they might have heard the address V u. o. T. U* President, ^j's* -11a Boole. ’’Young people,” she declared, "are beginning to revolt again,r. drinking alcohol as they learn what its effects are.” And then she went on with a suggestion for women, a suggestion on the important subject c£ throwing a party. ”v/e suggest,” said she, ”that hostesses v/ho serve cocktails offer their guests a choice of non-alcoholic beverages. Many peoi)le actually prefer them. It Is no longer considered bad form to refuse an alcoholic drink,” said she. And that would seem to be a new G. C. T. U. slant on the prbhibltion question. It used to be a case of prohibition of hard liquor. How they're campaigning against a prohibition of soft drinks