L.T. - SUNOCO. MONDAY. -APRIL 5. 1957. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: The sit-down strike problem is producing as many head­ aches among Congressmen as it is among employers of labor. For days it has been a vexed question not only in cloak room argu- ments but on the floor of the Senate. Quite a few senators, led by Senator Byrnes of South Carolina, are vehemently opposed to this latest sit-down epidemic. For politicians, of Course, it’s a problem full of dynamite. Administration leaders in Congress have wanted all along to keep it in the background and avoid trou­ ble, Rut Senator Byrnes from South Carolina didn’t care whether it was full of dynamite or not.. He introduced an amendment to the Guffey-Vinson Bill, the bill to regulate the coal industry. That amendment would make sit-down strikes 11 illegal and contrary to sound public policy.^ The Senate passed this amendment. As Senator Byrnes had forced the issue, the admlninstr- tion leaders found themselves compelled to meet it. Bo it came to a show-down this afternoon. The Senate, under the earnest coaching of the party whips, turned Mr. Byrnes' amendment do™. STRIKE - 2 While this was going on,in Washington, union leaders in Kansas City were jubilant over what they claimed Is another victory. After a one-day sit-down, the workers in the Ford Motor Company plant at Kansas City returned to work. Every one of them lined up at the pay window, including the three hundred who had been laid off. The lay-off of those three hundred was the cause of the strike. With Governor Murphy presiding, John L. Lewis, head of the C.I.O., and Walter B. Chrjisler, Ghairman of the Board, resumed their conferences. A decision is expected anytime now - perhaps this evening This is the fourth anniversary of the establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of the first and one of the favorite new organizations created four years ago at the suggestion of President Roosevelt. Robert C. Fechner, Director of the C .C.C., has^SiM^sent in his report to the White House, setting forth the accomplishments of the Corps. And the most important thing in it is a plea that the C.C.C. be made a permanent institution. The President is in full accord on his recommendation to Congress. stitution. with Mr. Fechner and The C.C.C., he says, has fully demonstrated its usefulness and has Mang-wxtkxt met with general public approval. Mr. Fechner sets forth some interesting facts. The nuiiiBi'Ta tFrn Civilian Corps has taken care of one million, seven hundred thousand young men, young men who otherwise would have been on relief rolls or work projects. They have sent home to their families more than three hundred and sixty million dollars. They have helped fight fires, they have helped to wipe out insects and plant diseases over fifteen million acres. They have 2 c.c.c. - built eighty-seven thousand miles of tenafc trails through forests, to say nothing of roads, highways and park roads* They’ve put up more than forty-five thousand miles of telephone lines, built more than three thousand fire lookouts and observation towers. They’ve planted more than a billion trees and done invaluable work improving forest lands and state parks* <*vv. e.c C. SUPREME COURT Another session of the Supreme Court, another session which baffled and disappointed a crowded audience ® | in the marble chamber where the nine justices sit. What xxx they had hoped to hear was that long expected decision on Senator Wagner’s Labor Relations Act. They hoped in vain. However, one minor ruling which they made public is interpreted by lawyers as a straw which may show which way the wind is blowing. An employer corporation had asked for an injunction restraining the National Labor Relations Board from hearing a case in which it was involved. The Supreme Couit refused to hear that request. That refusal, it is believed, indicates that the ilaurBrng. Court, or at least a majority of the.Justices, are favorably inclined towards the Wagner Act. However, that is mere conjecture and may be upset completely a week from now. i*fUi The court’s opinion on another case was slightly A favorable to the New Deal. It declined to consider a new test of the Municipal Bankruptcy Act, an act which was passed to relieve k ±X±± b cities and towns that are in financial SUPREME COURT _ g difficulties. Still another opinion, handed down today, was considered * decidedly encouraging by New Deal partisans. It concerned the Tennessee Valley Authority. The Georgia Power Company had brought ! suit to impede the T.V.A. from expanding Its activities any | further. The government obtained an injunction against the Georgia Power Company, restraining it from pressing that suit. | The Georgia Power Company appealed all the way up, and now the Supreme Court declined to interfere with that injunction. There was just one moment of drama in today*s proceedings, a sly dig by a couple of the justices against their j colleagues. The case itself was unimportant. But, a remark made by Justice McReynolds spoke volumes. The suit concerned a law applying to the District ■ of Columbia, which provides that certain petty offenders may be tried without juries. The majority of the justices upheld that law. But Mr. McReynolds and Mr. Butler dissented. The minority opinion was written in red by McReynolds, who quoted the sixth SUPREME COURT - S amendment to the Constitution, the amendment v.iaich guarantees everybody a trial by jury. After he had read his dissenting opinion. Justice HcReynolds raised his head and said: MWe believe in the Constitution as written, and not as whittled away by tenuous reasoning.” auto -grrfliHfr As a member of the Blue ^unoco family I heard something this afternoon which set me thinking. I was told how one of the boys in the Philadelphia office of the Sun Oil Company had won a prize contest. You know, one of those competitions where you figure something out and get a reward. In this case it was a Studebaker affair — theorize going to the one who provided the best name for a piece of music conducted by Richard rlimber, the orchestra leader -- also a twenty-five word slogan for Studebaker. The award is captured by a young man of Sun Oil who I believe doesn*t yet know of his good fortune _ Foreman Norman Harkins of the Blue Sunoco sales office. He wins a spic and span asw Studebaker for turning in twenty-five words. It sounds like good business. I figure that in my six and a half years on the air I have reeled off about five million words. At the rate of an auto for every twenty-five words, I’d have collected two million cars. Howevegf I wgm'UTtBhf an autencrbile for uttering another^ tweiity^five-words, and oo tiH MURDER There’3 no revelation of evidenee New York police ^ A may have found in the triple murder that for days has been the sensation of the metropolis* They say they’re sure they’re about the break the case9 but add that the> must refrain from publishing their clews. This is the police attitude, as the Department has sent out an alarm for the arrestof a sculptor, a New York artist who makes shapes of marble* They’ve asked his arrest in a demand flashed through eight states* This — as the dreadful triple murder, with its romance of the slain artists’ model, continues to make sensational headlines* SPAII^ One bit of news from thejSpanish Civil War tonight carries a touch of grim humor. You remember that ill-fated freighter, the MAR CANTABRICO, the ship that dodged Uncle Sam^ Ooast Guard, Spanish government? And you remember the jubilation of the Rebels when they captured the MAR CANTABRICO with Its precious load of deadly war munitions? One of the Rebel generals has a wry tale to tell about that glorious victory. It seems that in capturing the MAR CANTABRICO, they did the government forces a good turn. For that cargo of airplanes and munitions was nothing but a hoax, a gyp on a gigantic scale. The vessel was supposed to be full of the latest things in fast motor cars, modern machine guns small cannon, up-to-date rifles. General DeLlano said the cannon were of use only as ornaments. There ware about a score of machine guns. But they were such old models and so rusty, that they would have exploded in the face of anybody who would have with munitions of war for the attempted to fire them. There was, to be sure, one Douglas SPAIN - 2 motor in the cargo. But it was so old that when they put it in a Spanish plane, it flew to bits. Then there was quite a haul of bayonets, but they were bayonets that wouldnH fit any type of gun that the Rebels were using. The only part of that captured cargo that wasn’t a com­ plete loss, said Gerneral DeLlano, was a consignment of two million bullets, dum dum bullets which the General says were manufactured in the United States, YAGQDA It1s always ironic when a policeman who has sent his hundreds to prison, is himself arrested? But when i^who has sent hundreds, perhaps thousands, to execution. is sent to jail, thatls irony of the highest order. ^Nobody knows how many men and women were lined up in front of a firing squad for treason by Genirkh*Pagoda, former head of the Ogpu, the Russian secret police. Only last January, we learned of the treason trial in which Yagoda sent thirteen former Bolshevik big-shots to their death. -And now he*s in prison himself. The latest news from Moscow 'is that this man, the t^-O-erA terror of Russia, will stand in the dock charged with the same offense of which he convicted so many others^ It is said that his predecessor, Memchinsky, signed no fewer than JliLcJ^gLnZ thirty-five thousand death warrants. And the^»«y^that Yagoda throughout Russia is "Yagoda the Terrible." There*s also an Interesting story of intrigue and as**. has bloody a record,. His name politics. It*s a story that goes back several years. Some YAGPDA - £ I : time ago, the runs, the tremendous power of the Ogpu began to strike fear even into the heart of Dictator Stalin# He decided to do something about it. And, he determined, Yagoda was the man he had to get rid of* tte* tried7^ ? twice!— In Nineteen Thirty-Three and again in Nineteen Thirty-Four. He had Yagoda fired from his job as Vice-President of the Ogpu. Button neither occasion did'he stay fired. Each time he came back stronger than hr iirrcj1 before. Last August, after the famous trial is Leon Kemeneff,X3 b 4 Gregory Zinovieff and fourteen others, the trial which sent sixteen men before the firing squad, Stalin /\ again decided it was time to get rid of the formidable chief of the Ogpu. So he tried to kick him upstairs, made him Commissar of Communications. But he couldnft keep Yagoda in the bacivgro;Und. At the January trial, in which Karl Radek, the brilliant editor was the principal figure, Yagoda was again argarj-unglc the official principally resonsibie. Each time Stalin removed Yagoda, transferred him to another job, there was trouble in that redoubtable secret service. r I I I I 1 YAGODA 3 This time, however, the betting is on Stalin, Even the most redoubtable secret service chief and executioner becomes less redoubtable when he's in prison. Personally, he's a man of mild, rather diffident, appearance^ clean shaven except for a small black mustache, modest in manner. In short, he looks like anything but the bloody Robespierre that his enemies make him out to be.^If he meets the death that he handed out so i freely to others, they say there will be few tears shed throughout the Soviet Union AIRPLANE Ihe mystery of that lost -Douglas transport plane, missing somewhere in the mountains of the west, may be solved before long. Ever since It disappeared on Saturday, with eight persons aboard, 7 ^ oyrJcJ >y ed mmmmkmiaaa searching parties have surveyed fc-territory all the way A from Burbank, California, to Albuquerque, New Mexico. This afternoon a piece of wreckage was found which is believed to be the remains of the ill-fated airship. Some forty-eight hours ago New Mexico reported a rancher brought in the report that his young son had seen a plane battling desperately with a blizzard and finally crash into the side of the mountain. He took the information to the sheriff’s office at St,Johns, Arizona. When the sheriff and his deputies learned that it was based on a child’s story, they refused to believe it. Later on, however, both the boy’s parents declared they too had seen it. Other persons besides declared that they <e? had observedplane flying dangerously close to the ground, its motors missing. Eo this afternoon a searching party was sent out. It was tough going, since the ground where the plane was sighted AIRPLAY - 2 is rough, broken, difficult to cross. Finally, the searchers sighted the wreckage of an airship in the White Mountains, a mile and a half from Alpine, Mew Mexico. ant <yv\ t£jlAh ~to HUGHES A new job has been found for Howard Hughes, number one speedster of the air, holder of two trans-continental records, aviation engineer, millionaire movie-producer, theat­ rical angel, and last but not least the nephew of the Novelist, Rupert Hughes. The man who has found the new job for him is Grover Whalen, President of the New York World’s Fair of 1939. They want to make flying one of the features of the exposition. So Howard Hughes will try to induce representatives of the great air forces of the other nations of the world to comehere in 1939 and contribute their bit toward the success of the Fair. LIMDBE.RGH Colonel Charles Lindbergh has just had a novel ex­ perience on his way back froin India. An encounter with a re­ porter who outsmarted him — with the Colonells innocent assist­ ance. And, it wasn't an American newspaperman, it was a Jugos­ lavian. Colonel and Mrs. Lindbergh landed at Zagreb, and , as usual, found a bunch of journalists waiting. And as usual, the Lone Eagle declined to give an interview. c d>o he and Mrs. Lindbergh went to tea at the home of the manager of the airport, an Englishman. I'he most enterprising of the reporters followed them, climed through the kitchen win­ dow. Lindbergh caught him, grabbed hold of him, pushed him into a room and locked the door. There the newspaper man was, im­ prisoned while the Lindberghs were teaing and chatting at their ease with their hosts. After the tea was over and the Lindberghs haci gone to their hotel, the reporter was released. Judge of the Flying Colonel's surprise w'hen he learned that his entire conversation was published In a Jugoslavian news­ paper the next day. Lindbergh didn't realize that the walls of houses in Zagreb are almost paper-thin and that every word he had said had been overheard. And CO LONG UNTIL TOMORROW.