L. T. .& G. " 0 G UUD VEr 1 u EV E YBUUY: DY , JO NE 2 , 19 49 a mpa, Fla. 11 the ·ay rom lorida t o nite. I'm broadcasting from the ·est Coast -- here ooking out oYer the Gulf of exico -- or r a ther Tampa By. I flew a 1000 miles today to be with my father when he receives a Doctor of Laws degree. All of which gives me an opportuniy to look at the news from ~he Deep South where every newsman shoa!4 come eYery year -- of oftener. Th e to ic E nergy om i s ion a nno unce it has fo un d th a t p int si zed br own bo tt l e c o nt a ining Uranium oxide -- w ich a s m issing from the A rgonne Atomic Laboratory near Chicago. The f irst thought as theft b (.\ n enemy gent. o the FBI 1 as c a lled in, and they conducted a se a rch, which r esulted in the f oun d in a dump of radio a ctive waste. ------------ ....... -~ ...... - The Argonne plant officials are now convinced\ none of the Uranium product w as ever in the hands of an outsider -- that the bottle and its precious content• were always within the carefully-guarded area of the laboratory TRO AN P res ident Tr u m n s ay s h e is g ing to tic· at is des a 1 su er - a lon 0 er , if necessary. ith no let up in hi endeavor to e t th e adm ini s tr a tion program through C ongress. ut he adds that he has shelved that ide of stumping the o untry--to make a pe rson al appeal to t h e electors if Congress doesn't d o what he wants. H e' l l stay right at bis desk -- no matter what the W ashington heat is like. A nd it can be endured in air- coo l ea quarters such as all top officials have. Administration e ders say they hope Con1ress will be able to call a halt some time in August. Get everything out of the way by then. Two air-Moe stories tonight. The senate has paaeed a bill oreat.1.ng a speoial. medal for the aen llho :t'lew the erlin Ur litt--and broke the SoYiet blooka.de. 'l!le Medal of Hwnane Aot1ona, to be preaente4 b7 Preaident Traan--u he thlllka tit • • . t::> And. 1 tocl~ in IIUblngton, General Arnold who 001111an4e4 the Air loro•• 4ur1Dg World war 'l'Wo-•h• waa .aa A1.'llq -.tAeer then, --.....,,.... wu grantecl a apeoial oCIIUll1aa1on. A fiYe-atar general 1n the Air loroe--now a ••»•rate aemoe. General Rap Arnold ea• ef • • an AaiJ tleneral no lonaer. - I I Lowell Thom~ I Te.rr$0 e Hotel 'l'empa I OTB· I - • ( I the ollowin story about th• ,co o•e in 1 late from esp. I I I , /Ir Pale~ aka it we CO\l~d use it. I 8' " aen41ng it !lere,,Wl. th / I I am 14.ll al.ep uk P oa to do a to /if •~• R96 le ' , ,, ,- / 0 ,'1th. The feleral OQlllll\lnicationa Collmiaaion--The body whiall control• ~,-.-, ~•':ti~ braodoutiq, arr1 n4 at •• tape:••• 4eOP,to1-.,. To 11n tbat eigh,-7ear-ol4 ban againat editorial.i11ng b7 radio atatiou. The ,ac nYera1D1 by a vote ot t•o to one the tamoua 11&7tlowei- ruling of nineteen-forty-one. UD4er the Mayfiower ruliq 1t wu 4ec14e4 that a broa4oaat1Dg ■tation aut not be an a4YeOa\e : tor the oaun tbat i t newt aoat faYOrabl7. fte ruling, howeYer, 414 not apply to new• analy•iata and 00111Dentaton: I Mn 0D17 to the radio •tationa. Now that •• &11 off: and the lloeua•• ot a radio station wlll be allowed to air hi• peraonill Y19WJ)Olnt. ProY14e4, ot ooune, that it 1• not too partiaan, or too one a14ed. That 1• bow the JOC puta it. r c o-1 ••••• 11 u S Paley, OBS ohairman haila t.he decialon as one ot right ot a broadoaater to editorialise in his own n•e--to a\q)port the party or oauae that he tavora • .And ao, add.a the CBS ohair11BD, •now that the ,cc reoognisea thia right, oolwabia - in enda--trom tiae t.o tirae--to 'broadoaat radio editorial• in 1 ta JUUlle.• N L , AD- T S.. • • was a mystery man in New York federal court today at the trial of Alger Hiaa_,, for perju1·y. !!verything surrounding hia appearaJX>e druatio. Aooording to a CBS oorrea ondent, detenae attorney Paul Stryker suddenly oomplained that the ohair in llhioh he wu aitting waa too uncom.fortable. 11lereupon an uaher brought the attorney another chair. And then. in the crowded oourt, there appeared the man whoa the reporter• are calling •The ayate1°y aan ot court ro011 two.• - Mew lfie •••• e••••••ins thing about that chair., wu ite ~~ poeition--direotl7 in tront of lhittaker Chambera, 1 gi'fing eYidenoe. flle ayetery man, wearing glasaea, and wr1t""'1ng in a note book. After a fe,1 minutea, the proaeouting atto -·n ey, 'D1011u P MUrph7, uked: •I would like to know, who 1a this IIUUl!• At which the defense attorney said: •'l'hi• ia the gentleman we talked about in C .,8ballb ra. • Whereupon the judge heightened the au.apenae b7 saying, •we wl.11 have no turther word.a about him. Not at present.• And so the oase continued, wl. th the mystery aan ot 2ourt room two taking notea-preaumably w~iting 401111 everything....., Y,h1ttater - Ohambera aai cl. • ~ .L L D- L ' ~ 1~ ------------ · --- t th e nd f t he hearing, the reporters followe him int o t he c ridors. u e es ca p ed, his · dentity stil :nys t. ry. ', e only c lue : he 1 er i~s reeted im ffectio ately o ut i e, . he c a lled hi octor. · he r porters, we hear, are onderi g - is the mystery man a p rominent p sychiatrist? nd ill his testimony play an important p a rt in the trial? Lli H " S ----- ---- t e ju e rd \h i t er Cham b ers tell o f I is 1 , i . et en-T h irty- ... ive f o urt ee n ye rs ago p oduci n& of ici 1 o cu ent o O . . m unitions to be to Rus~ia. -- u it ion !"> de i 1 35. hitt ak er Chambers, who admits he h im self a ten com unist, d escribed how h e intr od uced Biss to one Colonel _ oris By~ov -- in nineteen thirty-seven. d he went on to tell the court ho w he had ex p l a ined t o iss t t Bykov was the bead of the underground set-up with which Hiss was to be put in contact. The meeting between Hiss and Bykov , according to f hittaker Chambers, was ar ra nged in a Brooklyn movie house -- in the b c ~ of the meuzanine, w.ere Bykov was seeing a film. At the ap ointed moment, Bykov came up to the mezzanine and spo e to Biss - t h e interpreting being done by · hitta er Chambers. t hitta er Chambers al o told the court that Biss obt a ined some secret documents from Th e · t te D epartment in the name of t he ' enate Junitions Investigating Committ Tee o cu e ts, sa id am ber on oa th, Hiss as ed for in bis offici 1 c apa cit y · c o unsel for t h e LG R BI. ------- Y E om itt e e - t h e S e a te rou p . Ch a ber s a id he er onall hoto ra ed t h e d o cuments a n ave copies to J • _ e t e r , a .t 1 e ~ e d to be the e d o f t be U . '- ' . c o mm u n is t Ut ergroun at t h t time. Biss doing a_l this to help ussia combat fascism. · hitt ker Chamb e rs is t e government's chief witness in this effort to convict lger i~s of perjury; prove the former st te de. artment empioyee ied to the Feder a l grand jury, when he said he had not turned over any government pa er to any _ussian agent. 11 e ··es t e r o rei i n i s t e r s a v e i s cover d t ' ec e c i s v (.. luabl e ,ea ~o rei gn i n i s t e r i h i J I n r i v · t e , i . 1 i l l ap p arently a e c once s 1 o n i ns te ad of s t ic in to R u s ia' s o i in e l de and s. t i n p ub ic, r t this Big Fou r .a ri s e c l on , e er e ly sm i les a n d wi ecr c k s and g ives n o thing. S o tomorrow t e m ee tin g in the P ink Pa lace in Paris, will be a ec r et one, t o discuss a five-poin t plan for unified contro l of Berlin. It is our plan, and it c 1 1s f o r a n e lection for a ll o f erlin, B e rlin to he under four- p o w er control • . ne w city constitution to be drafted; a nd res tor at ion of t h e o ld f o ur- p o er command. Vi hen Vishins k h e a r d this, e romi s ed to study i t nd c al l J c ow t o ni gh t f o r i s t r uctions. S o th e re may be an a r gu e t t o mo rro r- nd bec a u e t h ey want to g et s o mewh ere ith V i sh i ns · y , h o s ti 1 a:nt a in s a c omp r om isin ma:d , t e e s t e r n P o we r ~ i ni ters ha v e agr e ed to a ecret e ss i o n. N u b l ici ty h i le Vish i ns k y ar g ues , te o r i z es or c o ne des on the a - i p o rtan t atte o f a u n i f i e d ~o v e rn ment for a l ! e l i n . _1 1 JLUQ _ e r ' o n of p eci a st to the me r ber n e r of t h f cu t . he t t .1.v ers it of Tam p a , and a ll rofe 'O ,.. V r ere .i n f· ct to l l f J. 0 ly ing u . o w. t o I I (1. p 1 ea t e l te t l ;; e o f the u letin of t e t o:n ic ' cientists. I it I f u o ethin 6 at a rtling th t s n t i n g what v er t o do with a tomic science. It's a bout iology. ' ' h e nuclear hysici s t s of Am er·ca devote t eir 1 hole agazine t t e la te t oviet purge - - of the ussian Biologists. in the a rtic le~ erican biologists try to ex 1 in t h e strange t ,ister o science in t h e Red Utopia. olitics and natural It ' s 1 1 involved in co lic a tions of genetics and t eories of heredity, but ther e are some angles dramatic e ough to floor the ordinary citizen. The of the Atomic cientists r i n ts a fu 1 account of a aJ c ong ress of b i olo gists in oscow, t whi~h Ila purge was launched n u this turns out t o bet e ind of drama th a t n ds w·th a knockout o unch line. . The star performer . a o talin' et biolo g ist, Lyse n k o • s been es troyin g . is o on ts in cie ce, ha vi t . em o usted, S . 1 <' i btr ia. I h is a .. e..: t o e scien tific - th rin , ? ro a sor e o ~ e a a repo t bla tin the u s i an b i o 1 o g · ts · ho d i f fer e d w i h h · • ·:he re u p o n they go t u nd re 1 i e , re sen t ing their o · arg ument s , efe in g t e i r o w _ oi ,t ~ .>f vie , nd a s· iling the . u s ar it w s all cienti f' c i e ri e o f ysen o. a ccording t o o yle, t e us al yo a sc i e nt i fic congress a debate in which one presents a theory, and attacks other theories, nd t he others reply. Bot then, at the end, cam the kicker! ------ ---- - ----------------- ------- J After his oppone ts bad presented their view, ~ Lysenko had on e final thing to sa '· In a quiet off-hand a , to ma!~ e it more dram at i c , S t a 1 in ' s e t b i .> lJg is t announced that bis report . ad been okayed by the LJentral Com~ittee of the Communist P arty. _ha t w a s t h e bo bshell, and Lysenko's ant gonis • ere fl at t e ed! O ne after another, th se biologists got up nd too k bac e v eryth in the d sa id. The y confesse t hey had been wrong, nd agreed with ysen · o n al l p oint y ie ld ing a j ectl to ~ l in's p et biolo ist and the Cen tr al Coru i ttee of t h e '' o · t "' .un i . rty. ·· ich, ho ever, i n ' t th t oo uch =>oo h r c o 1e sions 01 error · ere est ee nut e u g h, d t e e re urged, ou s ted ~n ae 1t to 1 bo c p the talin ictatorship forcing the s ci e ce of i olo y o c n ·a rm to t h e pa rty line. B ut what' a th shootin about? : hat is the oint at issue ? That go e s int o complications. But, in en er a l, it's the q u a rrPl a bout h eredit. the Soviet Government is now enforcing doctrine c lled "I'he In ~ eritance of c q uired Characteristics." But biologica world science is b sed on the Je delian theory -- that inheritance is contained in the germ cell, and varies . . r----..1 according to combinations of heredit ry factors. Yor ---- ------- instance, if you cut off a dog's tail -- that being an acquired cha~acteristic -- the dog does not have bob-taile p u ps . r - ta ea blond c o u le with fai~ skins. They are in the sun a lot, maybe a tropical sun; they become tanned t he ir · in growin dark. So, will th at darkening of the sin -- an acquired c aracteristic -- be trans n itted to th eir children ? O r wi l l the chil ren be born with the me f 1· r co p · . . ex 1 on , the f a i l h 0 · ed it y rtho dox b i olo g olds th t t e t n a c q ui r by t he p arents wi l l not aff ect t he sk i n color the ch i ldren . O f c o urse, the i n erit ce of s i n color varies, on e ch il d with a l ittle ore p 1 ment than another - and ~a t v a riation i s tr an smitted b y heredity. P erhaps the one wit h a little more color will get along better under a tropical sun, and will ha ve a better chance to live and reproduce, - a nd t her eby tran sm it the inheritance of a darker skin. S uch is the view of V orld biolo g y. But why do the oviet s reject this view ? Because they ay, the inheritance of ac q uired character- istice is in accordance with the political doctrines of arx and Lenin! Th ey he l d t ha t, b y changing conditions in l ife, you can c ha nge the he redity of peo p le. Eor exam p le, if a b a c k ward peo p le, livin g in poor conditions, ha ve d lo her edity - a_l yo u h vet o d o is im rove their l ivin g c o nditio ns , and t hei r heredi t y wi l l impr ve. hie its t he Party Line. ' IO L U' Y - 5 --------- ti 1 fu rt he r, .,h e · oviets have i deas th a t this c n be p l i ed t o t e im pro ve m ent of a gricu ture. They sa yo u can a ter the heredity of plant s by changin g the con d ition s in hich y o u 0 row be plan ts. ln th a t way you can p erform miracles in ag riculture according to the th orie s o f L ysenko, ' t al in' s pet biolo g ist. It's now th P arty L ine. nd for those who disagree it's off to ~iberie.. ORA.SH.•••• The mystery ot that shoe king air crash o! the Jlll1111p1ne Air lines p lane on May sevanteenth, was cleared up today • .And 1 t provea to be a drama ot paaaion and illlci t love. In Manila tonight two men have b een arrested by the lbillipine w-eau ot Investigation. Both ex-oonviota, they have oonteaaed '-hat were paid about one hundred American dollar• by a man and a woman to place a time bomb aboard the u.rllner. So it would oruh am k:11 l the waaan' • huaband who waa a paaaenger. And the plot wu auooeaatul. fifteen people perishing, among th• the unluoky and unloYe4 huabaDll. •r AMP! ow about Tampa for a moment. a m Brumbaugh, fro u ar e ~ounty, U hio am l or was a al of A nnie uakley -- has just been te l lin g me how this Tampa Bay area has grown b y over one hundred thousand since the war. And no wonder. It seems like a tropical paradise to a northerner who has been spending the winter amid the snows of the Hookies and High Sierras snow thirteen feet deep in Vonner Pass. and marooned in My father, who is eighty years old this week, i getting an Ll D tonite at the University of Tampa. And l couldn't miss that. y father retired from actiYe practice as a physician and surgeon at the age of seventy nine and this year bas been on th e faculty, teaching at N. Y.. Oniversity. All my life my wo~k has brought me in touch with the remarkable men of our day -- and none more unusual than my own Dad. 1 ho p e I'm half the man that he is when I'm eighty! Tampa University is one of the newer universities of the country -- with a student body of TAMPA -2 some thirteen hundred -- bui t u l ar ely by the driYing force of its i resident, v r . . c. Nance. 1th its pal ■ trees and its moorish architecture i might be the palace of the 'ultan of . orocco. Hut it seems to be gro wing fast in this one of our fastest growing states. edic 1 cience co~es u with a cure for a ever that' n ot listed i n any medical ictionary. But it's a fever all rig t. It' s not hay fever, typhoid ever, or malaria. o, it's the gambling fever. And they say they have a drug to cure it. In Los Angeles today, a forty-nine year old housewife appeared before the judge -- on her second charge of passin bad checks. 8he has seven children, and, ample ~ousekeeping money. But she could never make ends meet, because of the gamblin fever. ~he could resist gaaes of chance. And the children went hungry, after the checks their mother used to buy food came bouncing bu. In court today she tearfull told the judge, "I j u t c 't ~e p i t . I have to amble. I ove those one-armed ban41t1! .nd I c a n't resist the r aces !" · hereupon the Los tngeles county physician, who as in court, deci ed that the mother was un d er a hypnoti urge to bet, so he told the judge th t e wa willing to cure he r by the use o f a n ew drug, gl utamic liCid. Ulutamic cid, we hear, incre as es the sup ly o~ ox ygen to the brain cells, an d thus enable s our thin in g functions too erate b ette r. S o successful has been the use of the drug in the case of backward chol r s and people under hypnotic influences, th a t the Los Angeles ~ounty doctor told the judge he was sure he cou l d cure the lady of her gambling fever, and restore her to the roe of a d evoted and har4 working mother. Nelson -- sha l we pass you the glutaaic acid?