.lISENHO\ t.R - The ~ dr m i o cu rr e to a , a n w al l kn o 1ts im ort a n ce . Bu t h g u 1 1 thi w as th at e rs o n a l angle. How did the t wo g r t e ch ot h e r, the P r ident a n d the General - after th lam-b n o e l ct ion e rin, n 1 hich Trum a n went all out agains t E i se nh o e r, nd w a s really rough ? talk Thy h a a p e r s o n a l . ~ in privat e for twenty and, for lhis, our minutes A••-~, lOll90tx uis& x£.Qrn.h~~ ~Wl mlaaoac.~i••~ source of information ~-•■ L,Maa, cad« is an ws photographer , assigned to make pictures for a pool, one cameraman operating for Qll the news people. He says the President and the President-elect, seated at a desk, were deep n c onversation - but he couldn •t hear w'1at they said. H only sa th a ~hey smiled, as they talked) Another ( news photograph e r took a turn at the job, and he g ives the sam 1mpress1on,(the Pre tdent and the General shaking hands for the camera, and smil ng in cordial amity. Ne sign, anywhere, of any l i n ge r n r se ntment left ov e r from th e bitt e r p olitic hostiliti . ) EISENHO ER - In h f o rm c n f r e nc e , he a dv e r wer - e r e tary of ·ta t Secretary of Defense on the Truman side . h ·on ,H§l ec r tar of t h ~ Tr asury nyder, Lovett - Averell Harriman - , c n a to r Henr· C abot dge of Massachusetts a nd inane 1 1 E x per Jarp s M. Dod e on the isenhower side. The top 1 vel meetin l as ted for sixty-five minutes - and, when · 1t issued, was over, a saying~ jo int Truman-Eisenhower statement was have discussed some of the most important problems affecting our ountry in the sphere of international relations. · e hav worked out a framework of liaison and exchange of information between the present administration and the incoming administration.'~~n follows a significant statement: "Genera 1 Eisenhower," 1 t says, "has not been asked to assume any of the responsibilities of the presidency, until he takes the oath of office .. , '·.'hich bear oot a p revious Truman decl ra ion - th t the President assumes full responsibility for verythtng done, until his administration ends. Th W shington re e tion for an r a l Ike is d scribed as arm and friendly, ch ering mu l titudes ining the str ~ ets, as he dr o ve fro the air ort. But - without the note of hysterical enthusi a sm that a iled him when he r eturned in Nineteen F o rty-five, a the c o nquerin hero. To da y, in ' ' / shington, half a mil l ion people turned out, greeting the resident-elect - in spite of cloudy, threatening weat her . I lhile the General was at the White House, Mra. Eisenhower was taking the opportunity to go to the laltei Reed Hospital for a check-up - just routine. The doctor• found the only thing wrong with her••• - two pound• owerweigbt. She aained that during the atrenuoua political caapaign, in which Mamie accoapanied Ike on those exhausting whistle-stop tours. She aee ■ ed to thriYe on it, the doctors told her to alia down to her ,a... usual poundage - little under one hundred torty. A TAF'r - Senator Taft ay h e has made some recom en d tions for an Eisenhow r C b i ne 0 In Washin ton, h e told a news / conference that the ( n eral aske him for s u gges tions. So he handed in some nam es, but he do e sn't know if that will result in appointments to the Ca bine . The Senator put it in these words: "The G e ner a 1 was kind enough to s a y he would be glad to hav e m r e commendations. If he will follow them or not, that's another m a tter. That's his privilege," says Taft. H went on to another subject - taxes. Will there be · a tax cut in th E isenhower administration - with the Republicans in control of Congress? 0he S nator 'intimated, strongly, that the new President and the new Congress would be unable to reduce taxes before N,neteen Fifty-four, the year after nex 0 hil G r 1 Ik · ,a e n ct ·n h v ac ti o n, and get tin g down to b siness - Go v rnor l a 0 t v e n so n as doin the same. He fl w f rom n ou ting in Arizona , al l a nding in C hicago - a n d aking a noth er plane to ringfi e ld, Illinois. • While the G neral makes read to assume the presidency, Adlai St J venson winds up his term as go vernor, attending to final business, before ..;tepping out. The difference bet,,een winning and lo ing. Today, h e was asked t he inevitable qu es tion - what are his plans? He said he'll o back to his profession as a lawyer. He's titular head of the mocratic Pa rty, so will he act as a spokesman? To this he replied: "I would like the privilege of expressing myself, from time to time, :l on important issues - and I would like a hand in straightening out the weak spots in the D · moc r atic Part . • ( He di dn't say how he'd like to ex pr e s h s views, but there may be a cue to that - in the form ti on appearances on t of c ommittee to fin a nc 1 vision and radio. ) d 1 i · tevenson STEVE!! SON - 2 ( H e w a s as k ed th at oth e r inevitabl e question - does he hope to run for p r es ident a gain in inet e en Fifty- ' ix ? To ~hich he gave an a nswer that h e has given b e fore: "Examine that man's head," said the Governor.) !ll!t-B&Q~II Washington reports an international wheat racket. lhichaay touch off one of the first in•e1ti1a- tion• in the new Congress, as the Eisenhower Adainistra- tlon takes office. federal authorities declare that 1harper1 fro• Texas have been bayin& •1ow-arade• Caaadian wheat - then using it as filler for Aaerioan wheat ahipped abroad under a pro,ra ■ aub-1idi1ed by the United State• Governaent. Putting bad wheat in with 1004 wheat - that's the International Racket. ~ I n \_ I New Y o rk's rime inv stigation,)oda y , produc d a story fit for a mockin g stir - first class for a parody on the ways of politics, corruption, justi ce. t the hearing,(a - former Assistant United tates A borney testified, Frank J. Dufficy, alld here's what he said. Back in Nineteen Forty-Sev e n, he elated, he was riding in a taxicab with William Conn~lly, Tammany leader of New York's Eighth Assembly District - and the conversation gt around to an appointment as Municipal Judge. Dufficy says tat \ se~l hi9¥' Connelly offered t~~ Judgship of twenty-five thousan dollars) Explaining, in the words of tie former U.S.Attomey, that "it has always been the policy" of Tarmnany Hall to ask "afeast one year•s salar (twenty thousand dollars) and a campaign fund of at least five thousand." To .rhich he added, according to Dufficy, that a nother Att·orney had a lready offered a personal gift of f i fteen thousand dollars, with a a m paign contribution of ten thousand. o what h appe ned'? CORRtlPTION - 2 The post of Municipal Judge, we are told, went to Cornelius McNamara - who still is the Judge. Dufficy says that, right after the appointment, Tanmany District Leader Connelly showed up with a new automobile. Dufficy Joked with hi.a about it and quotes him as saying: "It didn't cost me anything. It was McNamara's money that paid for it." The former U.S. Assistant Attorney · was followed on the stand by Connelly, himself, who denied that he offered to aell the Judgehip. He said he had only given Dufficy an eattmate of "campaign costs", about five thousand dollars. Whereupon evidence was brought up to show that, in Nineteen Forty-Seven, Connelly bought a car with money that he borrowed trom McNamara - thirty-five hundred dollars. Judge McNamara calls the story told by the former Alaiatant u.s. Attorney - "ridiculous." Dufficy stated later that he was told:- Tammany put a price of one hundred thousand dollars on the post of Judge in the Statu Supreme Court. Alfi-TRUST - Court proceedings in Chicago give us Just about all the synonyms for - magnitude. roday the government opened the biggest anti-trust case in the history of American courts - against the DuPonts) The federal prosecutor stated: "The sweep of monopoly exercised by this combination is marked as the greatest in the history of jurisprudence, and involves the greatest aggregation of industrial power." (The government claims that · the DuPont family and company control both General Motors and U.S. Rubbe . r.) The anti-trust suit making the demand - that the Dufonts be compelled to sell their interest in those two giant corporations. we are told that the DuPont Company, together with General Motors and u .. Rubber, have combined assets of more than five billion dollars. Their net sales - ten billion. Het profits after taxes, in Nineteen Fifty, more than one billion. or the fabulous DuPont brothers, the prosecution says: Al'l'I .. TRtJ ST - 2 - •over the last half ce ntury, they have constituted a partnership unparalleled in the history of business and finance. 11 • A t m ipe r Ride , a " hum an s ea ' i m a s s ing. Th a t's the ne w s from K o re a t od ay - a new Red a s sau lt in th e making. This follows a successful at t a ck b y t h e South K o reans, who captured a stronghol d a lled 'Rock y olnt." In hand-to-hand fighting, they drove off th e C o mmunists - who, in turn, are making ready to strike back w ith a counter-blow - the swarm of th e "human sea. " Sniper Ridge 1s a strategic maze . of crests and bitter summits, where aAbattle has been going on for weeks. "Rocky Point" is/cne important hill. • 11ile, northward, there is a spur the G.I's call - the ' y9ke". That has been in the - are possession of the R e ds a ll the time, and that 1 s w here the:,'mBS massing now. They · 've honeycombed the "yoke" w ith bunkers, - · trenches, tunnels, a n d t hrough these enemy forces make their 4 way, g ather i ng for a n offensive. So, t o d a y, the " yoke" wa s like an e ru p tin g inferno, as Americ a n ar till e ry hit it with a storm of shellfire. Tanks moved up, i n point -bl nk ra ng e , a nd b l aste a w ay . ' arpl a nes IOREA - 2 - swept over, de lu ing th 'yoke" i th bomb s , rock e ta/ , . ,fm1n g napalm. All - intended to s mash th e Chinese, as they mobilize forces from that m a z e of bunkers, trenches, tunnels, in t he "yoke. 11 (rn the air - a novelty. Russian made Migs shot down by Navy planes. It isn't often that the jet fighters from the carriers get a crack at the Migs. But today a force of enemy Jets made a dash out off the coast of northeast Korea. Panther Jets from the carriers z oomed aloft, and shot down two, damaging a third. It was the more dramatic - because the Migs appeared (warships.) over waters that swann with American,( ,,.._ CORONATI O N --------- At the old city of Braintree, in England, two women are weaving p urple velvet - in a sort of competi- tion. Each is making twenty yards of royal fabric for the Coronation robe of the ueen - though only one length will be used. The other - to be bald as a spare. M iss L ily Lee and Mrs. Hilda Calver have been chosen as the most skilled weavers in Engladd - working on hand looms, dating back to another c1ntar7. Each one hopes her own velvet will be worn by the uetD - but neither will ever know. At least, according to the I direo*or of the weaving concern. Who says: •Not evea the two woaen will be able to distinguish between the two lengths of velvet. they'll be exactly the aa■ e. . But Lily Lee does not agree, saying: •That's what everybody thinks. But I'll recognize ay velvet all right, if her Majesty wears it. Nobody,• she explain•, •••aves exactly the saae piece of velvet.• Mrs. Calver chiaes in, saying that she, too, •ill know. So there's the curious competition - neither of the two agpposed to know who wins. lbe will kllC>W. But each says - GHOST go ne. McK e ' s R oc ks, e nn sy lv a ni a , the 11 g host lady' has ' The spook that hau nt ed th h om e of Frank I orrenb ch er will never appea r agai n - o frigh ten and a ma ze . The "gho t l ady' ca me every n g ht, a we ird light on one wall of th back po rch - the fi ure of w om a n, with her head bowed. P e ople would crowd a t night to look an wonder. They flocked from nei g hboring towns. Some said it was the spectre of a woman who hanged herself a hundred years ago. Another version was - that she shot herself. In any event, iometfifiig - ··-·- tragic had happened - and the ''ghost lady" haunted the house. It got so bad that the · family couldn't sleep at night. Dorrenbacher complained to the town authorities, and finally an investigation was made - what was the "ghost lady?" The answer was found, and last night the Duquesne Li ght Company turned off a street lamp down the line. They're putting in a new reflector. The old reflector was bent, knocked ou t of shape somehow - and a distorted mirror e ff ect threw s t r a ng e beams o f light on the back porch of the hou se . That wa s the sp ooky, luminous form of the "!host l d . " EIISTEIN (Professor Einstein Jeclines to become - resident Israel. The offer was made, asking him to become the success r to or. Chaim Weizmann, the venerable Zionist leader who died \ recently. But Einstein says - he doesn't feel equal to the post. ) / The offer was made four days ago, transmitted through The scientist of • o ~ ~ the Israel Ambassador to W?shington./' _ i\says he 1s deeply moved by the honor, but adds: "I have never undertaken tasks which I cannot fulfill to the satisfaction of my eonsc 1ence • " His view of himself in relatton to politics is interesting. "It is my belief," he declares, "that I am not gifted with any talents to conduct human relations. I have some understanding of the domain of nAture's materials, and 1t is my ardent desire to continue wa~ching this domain without any diversion." Einstein saying - he may know something about the stuff of which the universe is ~ade, but not so much about human beings . IIISTEIN - 2 So he won•t become President of Israel - won't try to apply the theory of relativity to politics. Nelson - any connnent from you about politics - or relativity? 0