TORNADO LT Fargo, North Dakota• under martial law. The city, '- a wreck, after being hit b y ~ towering black ~~'""~ twister, smashing in off the plains.-i\devastating a hundred square blocks. :1tTurn~1nto matchwood, everything 1n 1ta ~ path, along a front thirty blocks ala long, and half a block wide. At least ten dead, more than a hundred injured, in Fargo. Three hundred homes, completely destroyed. '11111 ileH tragic case - the family of Gerald Munson. The Mir Munson children, home alone. The - eldest daughter, Phylis, sixteen, was talking to her mother over the phone. Phylis, screaming that the storm was coming directly at thUl. la The last word the mother heard, was her daughter saying, "its hitting us. 11 Then the phone went dead. Mrs. Munson rushed home - to find only ruins. Six of her children dead. The only survivor, Rickey, eight. ) \.tit otnet , •• ,, ••• failles ft8Q lheiP 9MN ~ 8 ~ . , , r,hen the tornado hit Fargo. CANADA Tonight, Canada has her first Conservative Government -e-. 1n twenty-two years. Prime Minister John Dlefe~aker, tak.1.ng over from the Liberals - who were 1n power for 1Jeaa, a generation. The new Prime Minister promises to continue the basic foreign policy set by the Liberal Party. - -8eoaal 411M ~ ~ policy was always bl-partisan. The new Minister of Extemal I ...... -6- Affaira - Prime Minister Diefer,laker hiJDaelf. He'll retain the portfolio - instead of naming~ to succeed Lester Pearson. The Prime Minister's first venture into foreign ~-6-f• policy-~ attend the meeting of Comonwealth Ministers " "/ ) ~ , ~ ~~•~Mk4'~, ~penI..s 1n London on Monday. ~ndon.'wlll b~ea11what Mlll'•'nd .~Q. Canadian Conservative - after 11e•n~•-- BISBNHOWER At the White House this morning, President Eisenhower's third informal breakfast meeting. ~;fi;;J.., ~ playing host to forty-' Republican Congressmen. As usual, the ,, '.:-d_~ President moved around, shaking hands - ~ ~g~e•t■, pereona-l~ Later, Congressman Ben Jensen of Iowa, told r e p o r t e $ ~ t ~ didn I t seu too disturbed e _ _.n -6-.., r- what Congress is doing to '8e budget. The President, pushing " ;..... hard for what he thinks 1s good for the country, but at the•- , time, a recogn.1z'1 the right of CongressJDen to mke up their ;. own minds. SURPLUS 14 P r e s i d e n t ~ won a victory in Congress ~ today. The House, voting to let ~e Preettle,rt sell our surplus /\ crops to Communist Poland. Opponents of the Administration tried to weaken the bill, d with an amendment that would have transfer-red to Congress the right to say whether or not a Communist satellite is dominated by Moscow. That amendment, rejected. After which, the House passed the bill by an overwhelming majority - three-hundred-and-forty-four to seven. The bill allows President Eisenhower to sell an additional billion dollars worth of surpluses - for foreign currency. So the administration can go ahead with its plan to help Poland remain at least partially independent of the Kremlin. GIRARD In Washington, attorneys for William G i ~ s k i e ~ Supreme Court - to release him from confinement 1n Japan. Earlier this week, Federal Judge Joseph McGarraghy barred the ~ ~ ~ t u r n i n g 01:rard over to the Japanese. Butt order the Army to release the soldier. Judge McGarraghy based his decision on the assumption that the American Army would bring its own charges against the -~ G.I. later,A.the - Army said this was so. ~ ~ lat Girard' s lawyers /\point out ,z,, he has not yet been charged with any crime, under the military code. He is still being heid merely on a presumption of. a future court-•rttal. So they appeal to the Supreme Court - to order him set tree. This appeal comes Just as the goverment is asking our highest tribunal - to overturn the McGarraghy decision. Atton111 General Brownell wanting Girard ~handed over to the Japanese for trial. KOREA Last night we had the prediction - that the United Nations would scrap part of the Korean armistice agreement I today. The prediction, correct. Marine Corps General"Homer Litzenberg, going to the famous tent at Panmunjom. Meeting Korean General Jung Kook Rok - across the conference table. In a brief statement, Genera+ Litzenberg said his command would no longer abide by the limitations of ••p•n weapons and equipment. The marine officer, g1~1ng the reason - persistent violation by the Reds - who have been bringing in jets and the latest weapons - also increasing the size or their army. The conference recessed for half an hour. Then General Jung Kook Rok - gave his reply -- little more than a barrage of Communist propaganda - charging America with trying to turn South Korea into a base for atan1c war. ~ - , - ,,_,.., -' "e111• -fc - The KremU~u•e- te ha11e-,.e apU1l peraon&:U:4;:, A with regard to yesterday's report from the United Nations. Tna:t--- . cieva13 tat i ng A report, telling of the barbarity of the Russians - 1n smashing the Hungarian revolt. So far, the peopie of the Sov.iet Union have not heard 1(,)t. a word about that report. The Sov.let press hasn't mentioned lt. A.. Neither has Radio Moscow -- in its home broadcasts. But,Radio Moscow~ mentioned the report all right, in foreign broadcasts. Radfo Moscow charg1ng that the report -- .....___ was drawn up at the dictation of the American State Department. ~ ..... ~ e.c& .!I-- The Red radt~ --. ....... ..-.the rebellion -A._"a Fascist uprising - /'C. ~ / - backed by Washington." • The Soviet broadcaster asked -- why the Secretary~ General or the United Nations -- refuses to visit Hungary. But the broadcaster doesn't mention the fact that Dag HaD111rakJoid -- wanted to go to Budapest last fall -- only to be turned down by Premier Kadar, the Soviet puppet. SHIPS ~ p-.u.e:~ Three more Soviet warships, sai~ing through the Dardanelles into the Mediterranean. Yesterday., a cruiser and two destroyers. Today, three motor torpedo boats. So now, the lremlin has a flotilla of six in the Mediterranean. Khrushchev "showtng the Red flag" at a delicate 1101Nnt for international relations. Nata forces are about to begin , .. ~of) ~ 1 maneuvers.~ the Soviet ships Ptgtt complicate~lttgtl..' A Tonight, some of our vessels may 9"I\ be within sight of the Rus~~f'1s - although our Sixth Fleet is anchored off the ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ - b , - 6 - ( , coast of Spain. 1 ,'fhexe~ no indd that the Nato colllD8.nders will change their plans. ~~ be interesting to see what happens, if the Commu,iists show up in the middle of Mato - maneuvers. stJBMARINF.S Russia admits selling three submarines to Egypt. ~ Radio Moscow, saying in an Arabic language broadcast A the subs will help safeguard Egyptian security. Radio Moscow insisting ~~ that the West has protested for no reason.I-Nasser/\ not to use his subs for aggressive purposes -- only to protect his country. So says r'-- Kremlin•::;:=~ ' ; , DfPLUEHZA The influenza bug from the Far East - has attacked the US Atlantic Fleet. A dispatch fran Newport, Rhode Island, sa y s that more than five hundred sailors, aboard eights. ips, are out with it. The Nav y calls the outbreak "mild". Many cases, recovering quickly. The flu not hampering naval operations. SATELLITE Today, newsmen got a look at one of the stations -- ~ ~11el/.. ~ which will track the man-made moon. After we pt.ti, it a,. into F- -,... outer space. The station, called 11 M1n1track". Located at Blossom Point, Maryland. One of ten that will cooperate in ~ following the earth satellite -- as it SG8111t around our planet. / ' Today, an old propeller driven Navy plane was used in place of the satellite. The plane, broadcasting just as the man-made moon will. Newsmen watched as antenna at the "Minitrack" station picked up the radio waves -- and automatically foll~~ed the plane. When the man-made moon begins to operate -- the messages picked up by one station, will be sent on to the others. All ten of the "Min1tracks" making sure they don't lose the earth satellite up there in space. HUMPHREY In Cleveland, the question ls: was(that sounds clumsy) was the ex-cabinet officer really stoped for speeding? Patrolman Sam Dinardo says- yes. liaxa His story is that he stopped the car - without \mowing who was in it. Didn't know it was Treasury Secretary Humphrey who ls retiring to private life. The patrolman was so impressed, he let the car go on without a ticket. 11 I guess I · was over-awed," says officer Dinardo, who today was reprimanded by his boss. Chief Edward Gaffne y o,claring that Mr. Humphre . should have had a ticket - even as y ou and I. Here's the twister - In Washington, Secretary or the Treasury Humphrey says it a must have been somebody else. That he was not the person involved! DOCTOR The American Medical Association criticizes the doctor who helped save seven year old Bennie Hooper.)/w.,,,:,t,f ~ ~ - - - ~ List month, Bennie Hooper was trapped at the bottom ot that well for almost twenty-four hours. Firemen and volunteers, battling around the clock to save the child. All the while, Doctor Joseph Kris stood at the top of the well -- sending oxygen down to keep Bennie breath~ anc; finally the miracle -- he was brought up alive. During the next week, Doctor Kris took care of the seven year old boy while he was in the hospital. Alll-fhat ~ seemed the end of the story. All those who had helped save A Bennie Hooper -- disappearing from the news. But yesterdey, Mr. and Mrs. Hooper received a bill trCII D1". Kris. The sum -- fifteen hundred dollars -- labeled, "for . II professional services. u '*-"' ~ t h e Hooper family didn't have the money to pay,_._ Mlet--W-U .... They talked to newsmen about it - an~l;~ h - ' • ~ ~ - ~ front page/....._ 2 •• The American Medical Association answers -- no. The Association, praising the doctor for doing his duty - helping to save a life. But the Association adds, "not one doctor in a thousand -- would have charged a re · e." A former President of the A.M.A. Dr. Elmer Hess, of Er1e,PeMsylvan1a -- calls the fifteen hundred dollar bill -- "absurd". A "' J-' / d ~ ~ J - ~~ , ~ Br5 llP, KPJ:a 4 a time he spent with Bennie Hooper would be worth three thousand dollars - at his usual tee. . ~- His bill, only half of what he might have claimed. ....,.___ -tiJ-~~~ /\ ~,withdraw the bill - unless the Medical Society Grievance Board rules against him. TBUMAH One of our former residents announces - he'll turn over to the government around half a million dollars w orth of g ifts that he received while he was in the White House. S ays he:- •If I hadn't been P resident, I wouldn't have received them!" r. Truaan testifying before a House Sub-Committee, , s p oke in defense of a bill to p ut the papers of former P residents in better shape - at the Library of Congress. He told the Sub-Committee, he wants to set a precedent for P residents voluntarily turning over to the governaent - their official p apers. Then he added that he intends to donate many, many things he received as p resents - during his two terms in office. The gifts, worth a fortune - Hen ry, but h e feels they really elon g to the Unit ed St tes - not to him p ersonally. o here's to Harry S. Truman. JAPAN A United Press report from Washington sa y s that the 1 •••t•• communique on talks Ill betweeen President Eisenhower and Japanese Prime Minister JCishi is expected to say that the United States will promptly withdraw its combat ground forces from Japan. ~ END The world of news 1s giving a birthday salutation, today. The United Press - fifty years old. Founded in Nineteen Seven - by the late~- w. Scripps. I, myself, have a particular reason for saying "Happy Birthday" to the United Press. Remembering - an early state of affairs in the history of radio. When the press services refused to sell news to radio. The radio networks - having to gather news on their own. This grew out of the belief that radio newscasting -- would hurt the newspapers. Which, as matters turned out - was not the case at all. The Unlted Press - the flrst to see the light. Changing .its policy -- and selling it's news service to radio. So U.P. -- was the first wire I ever had on this - '- ~ ' , program. An added r e a s o ~ ~ r t h d a y I;; Y""'-, ~ "-· ~-~ ~ ~~-~