L.T. - W. MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 195~ GOOD EVEMIMO EVERYIDDY: President Biaenhower sent two messages to Congreaa today. One - on tarm policy. The other - on labor policy. ) Both stirred 1.nmned1ate opposition, the beginning ot political battles. As ■1ght be expected • in the case or auch controversial 11auea as tarm-price-eupporta and chan&e• in tht Tart-Hartley Law. FARM The P resident proposes "flexible" supports, inste of "rigid" supportsi for farm prices. He says the present "rigid" system was left over f m wartime - when conditions called for a maximum produo . on of agricultural products. ion to Congress is cautious - 1n the matter of reducing ta price supports. Reduct1oll8 to be limited to five per nt a year, and not to begin~ until Nineteen Fifty-Five So the present system would continue tor another year. The queetton of"rigtd" versus "flexible" 1a one of the hottest in American politics. And the attack comes immediately - from Republicans as well as ~mocrats in Congrea Bepubl tcan Senator Langer of South Dakota charges that t . he Pres i dent, in his election campaign, promised "rigid" supports - and 1s going back on that promise. However, the President has the support of both Democrats and Republicans, who take a moderate position in the farm controv e rsy. TAF'r-HARTLEY President Eisenhower's Taft-Hartley message to Congress is attacked 1.nnediately - by Union leaders. 'they say the changes in their favor are insufficient - and are hostile J to one alteration proposed by the President. A tart-Hartley mod1ttcat1on - which comes as a surprise. The Wh1 te House wants a proviso inserted - wh1 . ch would have strike votes conducted by the govemaent. That is, it a walkout is planned - have the Union members decide, tn secret balloting, supervised by federal otrtciala. Hitherto, the strike votes have been run by the Unions theuelves - Union officials polling the members. we hear that this change tn the Tart-Hartley Law was urged by the Secretary of Co111Derce, Sinclair Weeks. ) _,-A'nd that - there was a good deal ot argument against it. Some leaders in Congress - trying to talk the adm1n1strat1:on out of the notion of government-conducted strike votes. -.tt;:t-- Prestdent Eisenhower, in his message today, said~nothing affects a worker more vitally than - "the loss of his pay when TAFT-HARTLEY - 2 be 1 . s called on strike." So the proposal was put into the 11st or Taft-Hartley Law changes. Anlong those alterat1ons..r. tntended to benettt the Unions, is one that would forbid employers to seek a Labor BOard election - during a strike. Also - a modification ot the tnJunct1on and or the secondary boycott provisions ln the Tatt-Hartley Law. ATOMIC The first preliminary talk 1n President E1sehhow•r• plan or atoms-tor-peace was held in Washington today - Sovtet Alllbaaaador Zarubin in conference with Secretary ot State Dulles. Dlacuasing - possible arrangements for a top level atomic pariey. The session lasted tor half an hour - in secret. The idea being - to illll conduct atoatc talks without the glare ot publicity, and public argllllent. The Jtate Department MNl announcing - "no final dectstons were reached." The Ambassador rnd the Secretary or state - to meet again, tietore the end of next week. They'll have to reach dec1aions, if posalblP., betore .:secretary Dulles leaves for the Berlin Conterence ot the Foreign Ministers. Although, at the moment, that Big Four event 1s all snarled up 1:n argument over where the Foreign Ministers shall meet. Soviet Est Berlin - or Allied West Berlin? The preliminary negotiations have not been able to get by that minor point. KOREA Washington says - we'll probably accept the Rid proposal for a resumption of talks 1n Korea. The Communists have suggested that n got1at1ons~to make arrangements tor a peace conference,- be started all over again. They said this in an ott1c1al note, handed to American representative Kenneth Young, in Korea. The State Department tn Washington makes no p~tilic announcement of our attitude. But the word is that we'll accept, and the preliminaries will be resumed - looking toward a full dress parley tor peace in Korea. The Reds keep on saying - they want Soviet Russia to sit in the conference, as a neutral - and that was the point which brought about the deadlock, in the first place. We won't admit any such thtng. sei:1'18 ba1l1 i-'a ••• •al:lee en a11ange1aentsr Our view being - that the ..:>oviets must take their place on the side of the Communists. Admitting - Russian responsibility in the Korean War. ~ ~ anwhile, Pre~ent isenhower, ~ today - submitted / , ,,/' securi~aty to the S e MED~ Today five heroes were decorated in Washington. Their heroism - something new in warfare. New - because ot atrocious practices introduced by Comm~nism. Those five Rarines - who, under torture, refused to squeal on fellow prisoners. Or - "confess" charges of germ warfare. Secretary of the Navy Robert : derson, in piming medals on the five Leathernecks, called their courage - a "shining moral victory." The Secretary stating: "They stood ready to die, rather than comproatise their faith, or bear false witness against their country." Meanwhile, there are intimations of a stern attitude by the milttary authorities - toward American prisoners who did yield to Cornmunism. The Army-Navy-Air Force Journal says there may be court-martial proceedings against Americans who tumed pro-Communist in Red prison camps. MERCY SHIP A mercy ship is getting ready to sail trom a California port - bound tor Pusan, Korea. Aboard the veaael, a massive cargo or relief supplies for Korean retugeea. Left homeless by the huge fire that virtually destroyed the city of Pusan. The total reltet cargo - four a1ll1on PQ11nd1. All - the result or a ctiegraa aent by Eighth Arlly coaaander, General Maxwell Taylor, 1.n Korea, to aeneral James Van Fleet, toraer Eighth Army coaaander, now Chair.lllln ot the Aller1can-Korean Foundation. The Govemors ot the forty-eight states cooperated, and the result ia thf. Mrcy ~ ship, which wlll aatl on the Fifteenth - w lth its tour 111:lllon pound relief cargo. P~eaident liaenhower today no ■ inated For■•r GoYernor, Earl larren of California, aa Chief Ju1tice o the United Statea. lbich ••Y see ■ like ancient biator - but the fact i i that Chief Justice Warren ha• been 1ervin1 •nder a Rec••• Appointaent. low, na■ed officiall7 - the P~••ident asking for the Senate approYal. There will be no difficalty about that. Today's action bein& - a necessary foraality. CRASHES The British have grounded their fleet of Jet airliners. Following the disaster, yesterday - when a Comet plunged into the Mediterranean, 0~1 the island or Elba. All live~ lost - thirty-five. The Jet liner was lost tn ideal eather, 1n a mishap so sudden - the crew had no tille to signal a radio warning. The cause - a mystery. With an 1nvest1gatton - now going on. The British are grounding their other Jet 11nera, seven ot them, as - "a measure or prudence." This 1a temporary, while a technical study or the Comets is tie1"'8 made - to see if anything is wrong, mechanically. It was a bad weekend for air crashes - seventy-two lives lost. Twenty-two - when a passenger plane came to disaster in the Republic of Columbia. In this country, the President of the Braniff irltne killed, with eleven others, ) lliPr=:w:a-e on their way home from a hunting trip in Louisiana, when their plane crashed. ADD CRASHES In West Germany today, three American Jet fighters crashed. They were lost in a snowstorm and ran out ot fuel. But the pilots, all three or them, came down safely by parachute. WEATHER In Washington today, a Congressional Committee cancelled a hearing, because of - snow. The national capital• clamping on emergency restrictions on traffic. Washington - getting an ample share of the blizzard, which has tumed the country white. all the way dCMn into Dixieland. The eastern half ot the United tatea getting a snowfall - up to fifteen inches. Cities in the grip of a blizzard. By one P.M. thta afternoon, New York had nearly nine inches or snow. An army or ten thousand men - sent out to clear the streets. And the weather-man says - there I s more to come. Strange complications - tn the case of the attempted assassination of Walter Reuther, President of the c.1.0. Today, the uto Workers Union revealed - it paid a reward or rtve thousand dollars to Donald Rttchte, the missing witness. Who - was supposed to have provided a solution or the five-year old mystery. But the witness, after getting the five thousand dollars, escaped - back to his native Canada, it is believed. At the same t1.Jle, today, a warrant was issued at Detroit - charging ltts■liap Rttchie wttn attempted murder, in the shotgun attack on Reuther, when he was President of the Auto Workers. Complications - 1n an affair that has a stranger sound all the time. BASKETBALL Another scandal brewing in bas etball. Jack Molinas, the brilliant star of the Fort a yne team - suspended for betting on games. He insists he placed bets on his own team - nothing else. But we hear that gaabling circles in New York have been buzzing for sometime with rumors of peculiar doings 1n games played by the Fort Wayne basketball aggregation. WEDDING t Madison, ·1scons1n - a Romeo ani Jultet wedding. Th~ father of the bride - a political enem of the father of t1e bridegroom • .:3ometh1ng like the feuding between the Montagues and Capulete tn Shakespeare. But this turns out better - because poor Romeo and Juliet never did succeed in getting married. Wisconain's newest Ccngressman, Lest~~ Johnson, was elected in the R1nth District last tall. He's a Democrat, and among the Republican leaders who tried to beat hllll was Duane Hottllan, a contractor of Black River Falls. Hottman campaigned mightily againtt Johnson. Nevertheless, the wedding 1s announced - Peter Hoft'lllan, son or the Republican stalwart, to marry Jone Johnson, nineteen year old daughter of the Democratic lti■ n•••nxl•MfY• Congreaa•an. Actually, it will be - a double wedding. Congressman Johnson ha9' two daughters, twins, a named Jone and Jane. And they'll be wedded at the 881118 time. But_ not to the same ~ridegroom. That would be too much~ WEDDING - 2 Romeo and J ltet. Jane will espouse - Charles Siefe1•t. ' about So wha~u• his olitics? Well, he's a basketball player. Former star - at the University of Wisconsin. So there you have the romantic pattern. One Democratic daughter marrying - a Republican. The other Democratic daughter, marrying - a baseketball player. Today, Jone and Jane said: "Ve can't let politics 1ntertere." Romeo and Juliet ■tgl I •••• telt the aw way- -but EA RI, ., -------- ecords ar e bein r e al t.h i ' d o • t. he record for - earri J 0 • The baubl s t al ladies han onto the i r ear-lobe er - i he la r est ever. ever before in history - ha ve earrings been so i g . This is t he re ort from United P re ss Fashion Expert Eliza e th T oomey, who made a survey of new s~yles in costume je elry. I w onder if i t could be the Tibetan inf uence, The Avon Publi hing Com pan y, this week, is bringin g out a handsome inexpensive edition of Lowell Jr.'a Tibetan look, out-of-t : i orl d . ln it you • ill see . many pictures of !ibetanu wearing earrings just as long as the ones Americ a n women are no g oing for. on- der if we started it ? Anyway Amerio n women are championing earrings - such as a large blob of metal, hanging all the way from the ear-lobe d o w n to the collar- one - that's the ne rage. be weight mi g ht stretch m'lady's ears - i n the style of the Afric · n ele p hant. Ah no! All becau e of - a new triumph of science. Elizabeth Toomey sa ys the record-breaking earrin 1 s •ould hP imnnAoiple - exc~pt for the develonaent of a EARRINGS - 2 light alum1num~aper thi/i ) d a proc of ttntt aluminum with gold. Which make the m.onstrous earrings as light and 80 filmy as a soap bubble., :lllli you • can W · ear them, ladies, ' without stretching your ears to shoulder length. __...They give, wbat the t · rade · calls - the 11 dt-1ppy look." The gal Just drips with earrings, . and charm - pre . sumably.