LEAD EISE OWffi l f-1),i;j ~ . ~ ~ Th Unite State and Nest G rm y issued a oint statement today - challen in Soviet Russia to the unification of Germany. W st German C hancellor Adenauer, who is in this country on a three ay visit, has been conferring with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles - and they, together, made the declaration. Which criticizes the Soviets for what I the statement alls 11 t he brutal and unnatural division, which it has imposed on Germahy. 11 Tomorrow, Chancellor Adenauer wlll confer with ~ President Eisenhower, ~ Walter Reed hospital. Wfiere they'll A J have a discussion of the problem of the re-unification of Germany. EISENHOWE R i4the Medical bulletins c ntinued favo r able , today - P resident -relieved ~one annoyance that follows A A an abdominal o eration. A tube - through the nose into the stomach, for p ur poses of drainage. An awkward thing tv endure as any patient, who is pestered with on e , wi l l tell you. Today the tube was removed - to be employed only periodically. ~ The President - gl ad to be rid of it for part of the time, at least. Today, the) . Ki.axxu.kxriA President had his first food, since the operation. About half a cup of broth. Hitherto, he has been having intravenous feeding. - 0 His work day consisted of the s1gn1n of twenty seven documtnts, includin eight bills enacted by Congress. In addition to which - he dictated for a while to his secretary, Ann Whitman. Quite a respectable chore - five days after an operation. REFUGEES In W shin ton, to ay, a former Soviet airman appeared before a C o ng ressional C ommittee - and challened Red propa anda. In Nineteen Forty Nine, a Soviet Air Force plane landed tn the American zone of ustria. And the two airmen aboard, Pira g ov and Borsov - asked for political asylum. This was granted, the two came to the United States. Then a year later, Borsov went back to Russia - persuaded by the Communists. Today, Piragov testified that Borsov told him of a promise made•by Soviet Ambassador Panyushkin. Who said - Borsov would get only two yt"\rs in jail if he returned. He was lonesome for his wife and child. So he went - willing to serve the two years 1n Jail. His testimon y today, was accompanied by portions of a book b y Vladimir Petrov, the Soviet diplomat who deserted Communism. Petrov states - that, when Borsov got back to Russia, the secret police kept him in prison for eight REFUGEES - 2 months, questionin him. Then they shot him - without ever letting him see his wife and child a ain. This is denied by Red propa anda, and Piragov today said - let ua them produce Borsov. Let them bring him forward. ~ All t h i s ~ an investigation by a Senate A internal securities committee - which is looking into Soviet - - attempts to get political refugees to return to Russia. Priagov called these - a lure to death.) SUEZ - Today bro ht the zero hour for th e B ritish - at Suez. The last of the g arrison - taki their departure from the Canal Zone. Ninety-one men - boarding a ship at P ort \ Said. No ceremony, nob 1 a calls, no drumbeats,- depressing ~ occasion for the British. All of which rings down the final curtain on the British occupation of Suez - which lasted for seventy-four years. The French constructed the canal - in the days of i}?_ Lesseps. Later the British got financial control of the great waterway - through a stock market transaction, engineered by Disraeli and the Rothschilds. Then, in Eighteen- Eight~two, after a b~ttle with the Egyptians, the British jo k ~ssession of the Suez Cana! Zone. They came into control o all E ypt - but the be inning of the enu came in our time. The British giving up Egypt - ann now, the Suez Canal. ISRAEL Wor from Je salem , the I raeli se ctor, it - that forei n Minis e osche Sharett will soon resi gn . After which - he'll take the leadership o f the Mapai Party, the dominant political faction . Reports for some time have indicated - a rift between Prime Minister Ben Gurion and Foreign Minister Sharett. Ben Gurion, they say, has decided to make his own selection of ministers associated with him in his coalition cabinet. CYPRUS London is ettin protests because of the expulsion o the head o the ~x•••k reek Orthodox Church in Britain. The prelate Macheriotis - packed off in a plane, back to Greece. The Athens overnment has put u in a complaint, and so has Arbhcisho Athenagoras, who is 1n charge of the Greek Orthodox Church in Central and Western Europe. Archbishop Athenagoras declares that he was never informed that the ousted prelate had been engaged in political agitation. If so, he would have done something about it. Hence, he calls the expulsion "totalitarian. " In Parliament, today, an MP gave waming s.a that there may be violence in Britain - because of Cyprus. Laborite Kenneth Robinson represents a London district, hich includes a Greek Cypriot community. In which, he says, trouble may break out. CYPRUS UN At the U toni ht, G r e ece lo d ed a char g e - that B ri t ai n has institute d a r e i n o f t error on Cyprus. ao as to hol the Mediterranean Is l and - as a base f or protectin g British oil interests in t he Middle East. Greece is asking f or action b y the United Nations. The British reply, toni ht, was that the government of Athens has been inciting the Cypriots with " open violence' in order to assert Greek sovereignty over the island. HOLLAND From Europe - insistent reports of trouble in the Royal Famjly of Hollan. ueen Juliana - under th e influence of a woman fa ith h ealer . Which has brought about a rift between th~ Q ueen and her husband, Prince Bernhard. There's even mention - of the possible abdication of Juliana. The London Daily Express describes the faith healer as a "frail, tired-eyed little spinster of sixty-one named Greet Hofmans. 11 Whose hold on the Q ueen is because of Juliana's youngest child, a nine year old Princes~half blind, from cataracts. The story is that the faith healer promised a cure. The Queen putting so much trust in this - that she 11.stens to Greet Hofmans in matters other than faith healing. Political questior?- the appointment of court officials. Prince Bernhard does not share Juliana's confidence, and is troubled by the aith healer's influence. Members of the Dutch overnment, we hear, have urged the Prime Minister to take action in the str e situation. All - HOLLAND - 2 accompanied by talk of a possible abdication of Juliana. The story was published all over western Europe today - but not in Holland. )ffiere the people, today - were / electing a new Parliament. The statement is that the government made an urgent plea to the newspapers of the Netherlands - to refrain from any mention of the case of the Q ueen and the Faith Healer. FIRE - Stockholm - was a scene of a melodramatic fire, today. When flames destroyed the stable o f the horses in the Olympic Equestrian ames. For days, Stockholm has been the scene of superb horsemanship, il with riders putting thoroughbreds through their paces. The horses, from all over the world / • were housed in a stable behind the barracks of the First Cavalry Regiment of the Swedish Army. So that was the situation - when, the stable burst into flames today. Fortunately, it was u exercise-time and most of the horses were outside. Some, though, were in the stable - and ~ainers risked their lives 1n the blaze to save the champion thoroughbreds. Not one was lost - no injuries to human beings either. To make thin g s more melodramatic, the fire spread swiftly, to a nearby armory stocked with miitary munltons. d ~~ Soon cartridges were bursting~~ soldiers bravi(ta ~ ~ barra g e. ~ating down a door, getting m out shells d J bombs - before the fire touched off the heavy ammunition. ARGENTINA Mar s hall L aw has been li f ted 10 Ar entina, bringing to an end the ECllXixu execution of rebels. h There's a g ood deal o f public disapproval of the ruthless way the P eronists ins u rrection was repressed. Opinion -- divided. Fort y five of the leading Peronists in the uprising were shot, including General Juan Jose Valle, who was to have been made President if the rebellion had succeeded. Today Vice la President Rojas defended the harshness and said that documents reveal that President Aramburu and the Admiral himself were scheduled to be killed by the Peronists. MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 'The American Medical Association, today requested the government - to get out of the Salk polio vaccine business. The House of dele ates of the AM A voted a - resolution - asking the government to return the vaccine to general wholesale and retail business. Saying - the federal authorities should purchase the anti polio drug only for what the medical association calls "essential public health needs and for distribution to the indigent population of the nation." CHILDREN Angry mothers, in Brooklyn, picketed the excavation in which six children were kill killed in a landslide last night. About a hundred mothers marched along the rim of the excavation carrying signs -- demanding: Safety for our children. UNION New York District Attorney Hogan told an interesting story today - ab out life in a labor union office. The Union City, New Jersey headquarhrs - of the distillery, rectifying d}-tiil wine and allied workers union of America. ,wf\ere, about five A- - / years ago, the union secretary hired a woman clerk. Sol Cilento, near sixty - engaging the services of a former manicurist, Mrs. Edna Balbertadt Browning, a shapely blond going on forty. Her salary - fifty-three dollars a week. Her office hours - zero. The District Attorney says that, ' in the five years, Mrs. Browning showed up - only twice. Each " time - to help "whoop things up" at the annual Christmas party. Nevertheless, in the brief time, she got a raise - her salary increased to seventy-three dollars a week. On these wa g es, she lived on Park Avenue in a two-hundred-twenty,five dollar a month apartment. The DA says - the lady had other sources of income to pay expenses, including fancy clothes and Jewelry. UNION - 2 ~ ~~~ Th~ story of life in am: afi&\office is related as A I background for the fact - that, today, fonner Union Secretary, Cilento, was charged with looting the union welfare funds, dipping into the till for more than sixteen thousand dollars. Which says the DA was to provide spending money 11 for the lady. ~. r- - ( ' ~ ~ ~ The news from the Middle West i s ~ Jrhis is ~ ' the year of the seventeen year locust - and in northern Illinois, Indiana and Southern Wisconsin tho/~ have appeared by the millions. Actually, the seventeen year locust is not a locust at al~he periodical C i c a d a . ~ appeal in countless ; , \ ,I /\. numbers, Md,...,cover~ trees hon which they lay their eggs. I, They stay around for about six weeks. Then, seventeen years later, the eggs hatch for another swarm of the seventeen year locust. People out there say the~({.e being d r i v e ~ by t h ¥ - T h e noise - or the millions or them, In the ft, tree tops, the males, continually, sounding a mating call. An innumerable chorus - of loud whirring noise. The mating call - of the seventeen year locust. l n ' onolu u, . r. n d drs . v i T r k a re c nt u s 1 tic bout a ii. T ey'v e ju s t h a t eir t h ird so n - n d t he b a b y a s born o n t e birt hda y of a ii' s r ea t rrior ~ in g , W ameh m eha - a ncestor of o ur old rien u k e n a rno k u. S o they d ecided to name the b oy in a true Ha aiian ~ay. is first name - A l exander. - T h en they d ecided the second name ou g ht to be rea l ly awaiian. And how! In th ~ t isl nd of Pa radise, the polynesian onikem c o me lon g . u o the second name of little Alec Trask is - w ell, I won't try to , renounce it. 1 1 11 a . ell it - ikeikiok a l ha noo k eh~ eha. Ka y a h k ye l ee ok s al ha n a yha . I'm a fr a i I fum b led that - y o un g l e e's mi dle name ith 2 11 t ~ose t irty-three l etters. 1 wo n er h ow the b o y wil l . a n l e it w en he g rows u p . o · o u b t h e' ll me re l y b l e xan er ' . Tr ask . But e n ry - su ,, o s e h e h to s i g n hi s n a me in full!