LfT. — SUNOCO. MONDAY, JORE 14,, 1957 GOOD EVENIMG EVERYBODY: President Roosevelt today received from the Senate Judiciary Committee as stinging and sizzling a rebuke as was ever administered to any president of the United States. The Judiciary Committee made its final report on the Supreme Court reorganization bill. Seldom, if ever, has a committee report been couched in such biting, terse, unequivocal terms. "Ut­ terly dangerous," is one of the mildest descriptions plied to the President's program. J On the other hand, we must remember that this was a committee report. It isn't final. The bill still has to be considered first by the Senate, second by the House. Nevertheless, the Judiciary Committee hitherto has leaned almost invariably to the President's side of any contro- versy. The majority against him in fee Committee in this instance was not large, ten to eight LEAD - Z The most striking thing about the report is its language, such as: "We recommend the rejection of this bill as a needless, futile, and utterly dangerous abandon­ ment of constitutional principleAnd it goes on:— It applies force to the judiciary and would undermine the in­ dependence of the courts. It violates all precedents in the history of our government and would in Itself be a dangerous precedent for the future .'1 Furthermore, say the objecting Senators: "The theory of the bill is in direct violation of the spirit of the American Constitution. Its employment would permit alter­ ation of the Constitution without the people's consent or approval. Elsewhere in their report, the Senators say: "It would not banish age from the bench or abolish divided de­ cisions. It would subjugate the courts to the will of Congress and the President and thereby destroy the inde­ pendence of the judiciary the only certain shield of Indi- LEi^D - b ••. ...gdgSIllte vidual rights•M And. it goes on;— ‘'Its ultimate opera­ tion would be to make this government one of men rather than one of law. And its practical operation would be to make the Constitution what the Executive or legisla­ tive branches of the government choose to say it is - an interpretation to be changed with each change of administration." And, say the objecting Senators finally; "It is a measure which should be so emphatically rejected that its parallel will never again be presented to the free repre­ sentatives of the free people of America." Stinging phrases, as you may observel Will they stand up in the heat of debate on the Senate’s floor? That this debate will be hot, heavy and acrimonious, goes with­ out saying . The President, we hear, is undaunted and de­ termined to push for a decision of his plan. JESSES STRIKE The strike situation today grew rapi'dly no better. The whole business is in a deadlock. The independent steel men won't give an inch, John Lewis and the C.I.O. stand by their demands. And Lewis today contemplated a* new attack. Having called out the coal miners, he*s now planning a shipping strike on the Great Lakes, a tie-up that will prevent the Republic, Bethleham and Youngstown corporations from moving a single ton of their product. This wasnit announced but it is to'be inferred. For one of the significant events in Washington-was a long conference between Lewis and Joseph P, Ryan^ President of the International Longshoremen*s Union. The inference, therefore. Is that 2BE* Lewis is making overtures to the Longshoremen so that they will refuse to unload .y boats carrying iron ore to the independent steel companies. However, there*s a string to that proposition. Ryan and the Longshoremen do not belong to the C.I.O. but to th^AmericadiFederation of Labor. So it is assumed that Lewis’s efforts are concentrated in trying to seduce the STRIKE _ 2 Longshoremen from their loyalty to William Green*s A.F. of L. Lewis also called upon the federal government for aid. cFf- H ’•'Disarm and restrain Tom Girdler;*- he appealed. He described Mr. monomaniac Girdler as a "heavily armed^^aiiij^witti murderous tendencies who has gone berserk." Those are^Mt Lewls1 s own words. And he went oni ^Republic Steel and the Chicago police are already responsible for the murder of eight people and the maiming of a hundred others. If Girdler is not disarmed and restrained, he will turn the steel districts into a bloody shambles.11 In' anoth M js iigwic" charged th; G>r—Pnttery U co rrt i nu the ~ V financial coereicm^qp thg"^Hffffpendgnt ^co/iipgfflca-ta"'^—kc 'thoa. ~ZP* Meanwhile, it was estimated that as many as seven thousand, coal miners were on strike from the captive mines operated by Bethlehem, Republic and Youngstown Companies, fourtee out of STRIKE - 3 nineteen mines in western Pennsylvania and northern West Virginia are shut down. Others are expected to go out tomorrow. At Monroe, Michigan, everything was fairly quiet today. Mayor Knaggs Issued a friendly statement. "I^ve never objected to peaceful picketing," he said, "and I don't object now. But it must be picketing." At the same time, he declared that no mass meetings could be held without permits from his chief of police. wildr be* poeH»ifrlerHPhe^ . -41 The6ia^hing a roused -them wa s Black Legionr” At Anderson, Indiana, nine men were arrested, seven of them non-union workers, two of them Unionites. They were accused of responsibility for the shooting of nine people during the raid at Anderson yesterday. * Another event in today's calendar was a step taken by the National Labor Relations Board. It filed charges against the Inland Steel Company, Wagner Act. The violation, refusal to sign a contract accusing It of having violated the said the National Labor Board, was with the steel- workers^organizing-ggflMBxx committee. PAHSO NS / A new stage developed today in the case of the missing Mrs. Parsons of Long Island. It was heralded by the noise of a siren shrieking out a signal to the countryside to volunteer liremen to join G-men, state, troopers and local police in a search for the body of Mrs* JSTilliam H. Parsons. search. They are still at this moment scouring every square foot of ground, every thicket, every clump of trees. Until today the authorities had abstained from any active measures except the following up of leads. The efforts of the officers were concentrated chiefly in keeping people away from the Parson^ house. This, of course, was at the request of the family who implored everybody to keep the roads clear for any possible contact vita ^he lady’s supposed kidnappers. Prankr s-hrotherrts-W'ith'Mrw-Par sort*-* t oner-Broek a(>p™,Vtw^»£c,ture.c around the Parson’s estate at Stoney Brooky £*=»»» a signal Some two hundred men joined PARSONS -2 / Me- The many unusual features of this case make it one of the most baffling of all kidnappings. Several of the stories told by witnesses and informants conflict*! with one another. The air is rife with rumors. One of these is that Mrs. Parsons withdrew a considerable sum of money from her bank last Wednesday before she disanneared. There’s much conjecture about Mrs. ^ome of the things she is said to have tsx told the police, are reported to have been flatly contradicted by her ex-husband* Mr ■ ituprygndverv For one thing she is supposed to have told the police at first that she was a widow. But i: at that moment her husband was working tlsflCfactory at Long Island A City. Then the investigators are said to be puzzled by the fact that Tni^iryanQTrfc^.nd her eleven year old son went / by the name of parsons. nraXAbeen. A verp^n nhfv A characteristic taie coznes today from Kaaftfc* It comes by way of Paris, and some may be inclined to take it with a grain of salt* A good deal of publicity has been given to the friendship of Fuehrer Hiter for a dancer, Leni Riefenstahl. •tanflnrdsv ahe 1 s a beautiful creature with gorgeous red hair and one of the most sumptuous figures in Berlin. The Chancellor thought J so well of her that he gave her an official position as censor of motion pictures. She had first come before the public eye in Munich as a fan dancer - except that she had no fan. gav-e—ft-er^ixie^approval—and~,enoourag«4Uie’r‘to'!!rove where^3he became one of the most sought after, influential women in the Heich. People who did not like her, asked the Fuehrer how It was that he gave his official okay to a lady, no matter how beautiful, who was of partly Jewish descent. To that his advice Is supposed to have beei^i ^It is I who decide who is a Jew and who is not.” Be that as it may, the lady has fallen from grace. „ li'um Wiu -Uiml.......... ...... Guilin wn. And the I I 1 |]I lit I if . That1 s today’s story, 2 LENI - news was broken to her in as public and humiliating a fashion as could possibly be devised, ^o the story goes. The occasion was a reception at the home of Wilhelm Frick, Hitler’s Minister of the Interior. Among those present was Dr. Goebbels, the acid and l. ' '•C'Vtc vehement Minister of Propaganda. As the beautiful lagp entered — / m the room, Goebbels shouted in a loud voice: nI am leaving. I will not stay in any house that shelters a person who is not I Aryan!tt Naturally, this remark, at the top of the ministerial voice, shocked the whole assemblage, ydstm stood silent. ^ A Goebbels gaping*! then continued: RI have documents in my pocket proving that the grandparents of Leni Riefenstahl were not Aryan.” In the face of that. Minister Frick, the host, had no alternative but to ask the beautiful guest-to leave. When she arrived at her home, she found all her furniture piled into a truck on the street outside her apartment. Standing by was a detail of storm troopers who informed the red haired beauty that !| ! she was no longer permitted to occupy that apartment* The French newspaper which relates this charming little - LENI - 3 anecdote offered a speculation as to the reason. Leni has been superseded in not unknown to American 'pt&toZTQ fans afbhl-asg gbo e»ya>a mfo Parisy-d. Pola Negri. TURK A novel aly; bit of news comes from Europe. A dictator gives all his personal wealth to his country. What dictator? The Ataturk, Mustapha Kemal, President and absolute ruler of Turkey, the man who almost overnight changed his country from medieval Asiatic culture into a modern civilized WMXMJDSX nation. iHSTSfewtaiiar*-33: is no nas^gift that^ ~ML making to the country he rules. His personal fortune is Ijp estimated at many millions SPAIN ^ -jCz ext" '*L-& Tiie sarre^d^p^of Bilbao^ends the gallant and desperate but futile defense of the Basques^) Their capital l»»falli« to the troops that have already demolished, their sacred city Guernica ir ^ and' children’. ' G ene r al Franco himself headed the Rebel hordes that pierced the last 7p lines of Bilbao's crumping defenses. The leading columwas l composed chiefly of Italian troops. The final advance tuuQ&fiEa* ^ proceeded by the most complete and violent of all bombardments from the German airplanes on the Rebel side. With not only bombs but machine guns, they wrecked and riddled ifihal5rtwrtesr the beleaguered city. Late this "I afternoon, the Rebel vanguard marched throu^if•streets lined with through ruined houses from whose windows and doorways white shirts and bedsheets fluttered as tokens of surrender. Before the-filial -fTTirm f 3R was reported that the Basque capital had decided / to move to the neighboring city of SantandJK This was denied by Jose Aguirre, the Basque President. But his denial was hardly cool before the capital^surrender^^The first news of its yielding came from British warships lying off Bilbao. SPAIN - 2 1 ! •ft Howeve , with or without theii* capital, the Basques are ighters determined to go on resisting Francots to the / bitter end, StaxjDC Now, they say, they have no choice In if 1 the face of the ferocity and cruelty of the insurgent leaders. Before yCsL Bilbao, another consignment of Basque A A children was removed to French territory. One liner carried ill i 111 forty-five hundred, another took three hundred and ten. And a il 11 French steamer stood by ready to protect fifteen hundred more top j| Russia. The Spanish government now has only one large port on the Bay of Biscay. That Is Santanda^to which the Basque defense A has retreated, Aiw^the proepeobs 'tbcr re srrm,iiwiBia3il ^ baf ore allr-ltrto the’ mi9**9 hands of the Spain without tpsingle ^jfnrtr^on tfah -Bay of fi-f-Wiifty.. All British consuXt^# uot only in Bilbao but in $antand^ * w#r® cordered to leave and take refuge on board British warships, mocker I»m sorry to have to record the death of one of theSmost distinguished heroes of the World War. He had been decorated Viith the Distinguished Service Cross and with the Croix de Guerre His name was Mocker, Mocker was the carrier pigeon who flew through a hail of shrapnel to carry a vital message during the Battle of the Argonne. It was early in the morning of September Twelfth, Nineteen Eighteen. Mocker was one of a cageful of pigeons that accompanied an observation post on the advanced front near Beaumont. That observation post, way beyond the front lines, had spotted the exact location of certain enemy batteries. The information was written down, wrapped in a little tin case, and tied to Mocker»s leg. Not only shrapnel but machine guns raked the territory over which he had to fly. When he reached the battery of guns to which he had been sent, his right eye was completely destroyed by a shell splinter and he was covered with other wounds. But he flew artillery on, delivered his message. The result was that the^xxXtsxy^was able to silence the enemy*s guns withih twenty minutes. when the French War Department heard about this, it conferred the Croix de Guerre on Mocker and later on^ Uncle Sam for the first time in history awarded the Distinguished Service Cross to a bird. Aftta*f fr* -p, 11 n hnir ll mil of- tha h »fH>r<rti~.blrd5—s of- the-->»irTrarl~ Corpy-e^WhlArtiTninnt ther^> Two years ago, there was some talk of selling some three hundred of tftoww Signal Corps carrier pigeons because they had grown too old for active service. V»hen it became /Qiown that Mocker was one of them there was a roar that could be heard all the way across the country. Naturally, a rxjt ll P HI ■ ll 1 m pigeon entitled to wear the letters D.o.C. and G.D.G. a^ter it, VtrvO'^- , « i_ *. the ripe I could not be disposed of in that fashion.^ ~ u.- ^ • old age of twenty.