GOO VE N lN I'm ck o n the mainland of N rth America, tonight - ju_t in from another fli ht round the orld. An the fir t thing 1 want to do is ex . ress m7 heart7 thanks to Ch a rles Colling ood, ho 1 understand has done a particularly fine job w h ile 1 have been away. 1 hope, Charlie, th · t my recordings, from Ne al, the V le of Kashmir and elsewhere got through to y o u and I hoe the7 didn't complicate thins for you, your ay-by-day report on events it other parts of the globe. The first thing 1 notice out here in C a lifornia is that l h v returned h o me right at the peak of the crisis of the re-conv e ntion p olitical c am aign. O ut he re in C al iforni a r e ) ort toni g ht tel l of h A. VY vot e in th e ) rim r y e e cti o n. ne l a ce a fter a nother - ho in g hi g h ~ ercent c es of citi ze ns flocking to t he olls. i ghe r - than in r c e nt rimaries. The bi g 1urnout is ex ? la in d by erfect weather - a n d the hot fi ht bet een Adlai Ste venson and en a tor Ke fauver. Ea ch of whom w ag ed a ri p -snorting battle - the result of which c ou ld . ut either of t h em out of the ra~• for the Democratic nomination. The votin will continue until the µ olls close at seven P.M. Pacific time; - ten P .M Eastern Dayli g ht. SEAT N The Interior committee f the sendte dcte ln d hurry t od~ - ' Yi th a v o1c e ote. l'/hl ch okayed the Pres 1de n t 1al appointment ot Fred A. Seaton, s the new Secretary or the rntflrior. The c mm1t ee que s tioned him dbout ts views on electric p wer, and accepted his answers. A Ql 1ck okay on the floor ot the senate is considered certain. BUSES A fed rdl court at ontgom3rY, Alabdma, toddy ruled that racial segrelation on huses is unconst1tut1on4l. Which ot course, applies particularly to Montganery - where a negro boycott ot the city buses hciS been on tor s1X months. Protesting Jga1nst sesregat1on. The court gave the state and city two WHkB - to prepare an appeal. The case - likely to be ak taken to the Supreme court. HYDROOEN B<lm In Japan, sea captd 1 n de e lcJre · - thd t the un 1 te ct Sta tee exploded a hydrogen bo . b on 'iidY T'II nty-E1ghth. Japanese me teorolog1st s hJve been saying t 1e same th 1ng - based on record in s u of shock waves. . ,ashtngton net ther cont1rm1ng nor denyin g . The Japanese captain says - hts shtp wcJs s1xteen-hundred-and-s1xty miles from B1k1n1 - where atan1c tests .-Jre ~ 1ng held. Two ddy8'tter the dctte or the explosion, a ge1ger counter shoffod an 1ncrec1ee ot ~ , ~..d_.✓..• ~,."'1 w.«'r~ radio 111e«11 acttvt ty 1n the atmosphere, J\ torty-itve..., Tl, I tm twelve-hundred-dnd- r1rty. sos dYS the Japanese captain, and ptiys1c1ana tn Tok.Yo report - thdt t10 memiers or h1s crew show a det1c1ency or white corpuscles. ~ttr1buted to - radio act1v1ty. FRANCE The news from nris ives the government of p remier illet - " a victory in advance." That's virtuall.J ' what it amounts to. The ational A sembly giving illet a vote ol confidence - whether or not to sustain the aollet olicy in Algeria. Today, the Communists in the Assembly decided - to abstain from voting. Which assured - ~ victoey for the Mollet governaent. The Tote 271 to* 59. CYPRtTS-LOND J The most ~lreely guarded mJn ln Br1td1n, toddy, wets Sir John Hdr<U ng, Govern or or Cyprus He's 1 n London, conterr1ng w1th top otf1c1als, dnd J mtt strange thing happened - 1n anchester. Dur1n the night, an automobile went speeding to the downtown section ot the ctty - scattering mimeographed leaflets. Nh1ch stated that the Governor ot Cyprus was marked ror - death. •• bullet -N1t1ng • tor you," the leaflets told sir John. might The pol 1ce th1 nk this'°'-••& have been a hoax , ~ - 1t so, a mighty strange one. But they also suspect - - ther,'-Y t> e an attempt on Str John Hardtng•s lite, by Greek Cypriots Uving 1 . n Brl tain. 9JRMA Th re WdS a chdn · e or Prom1er ln Burmd, tod y - U-Nu res1tJ)1ng. H1a p 11t1cal position hJs been weakened by gains the CODIJluntst-backed op os1ti n made 1n an election last month. H1s succes or - U-B 8 -swe. 1fho promptly announced, -.e will follow strictly the neutral line". so Burmese neutralism remains• unchJnged - a middle position betwen East and est. However, Premier U-Ba-SWe decldred r1rst object or his government wt 11 be to \v1pe out ISLAMS --~ - The Chinese Nati nalists h ve sent a cu.le of arshi s to take ossession of those islands. Have you heard about the ■ ? In the Chine Sea? All of which ■ a7 bring about some really intricate international complications. The islands are the Spratleys, a small chain of islets and coral reefs, off the test Coast ot the Philippines, - and east of lndo-China - in the South China Sea. The S J rntley Islands are clai ■ ed b7 Nationalist China, Red China, southern Viet Nam, and the Philip p ines. Recently, a Philip ine lawyer led an ex p edition, and occupied seyeral of the ■• Clai ■ ing the ■ - as private roperty. Word is that the Phili n ine govern ■ ent offered a suggestion - that the United St tee arbitrate the com licated, conflicting claims. But the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa rejected that. Instead, they.re sending a mineswee er and a sup ly shi to take ossession This, e hear, was done by the C iang Kai S hek regime - with o ut the knowledge of the US Seventh Fleet, stationed in Formosa waters. 1, unex p ectedly, flew over these islands, on my way home. q ADD I SL . -\NDS You 111 remem :, er hdt JboJt two yedrS J o, dn a!rl1n r, D an unarmed pldne carry1n passengers tro . . Thai land to Hong Kong a · shot ct o\'11 over the Chlna coast, near the 1sl3nd or alndn. The Miga that did that dastardly deed then proceeded to compo nd their crime by diving on the survivors ho were struggling 1n the waters, ■ lk■A strafing these cterenseless people. It was en or the most savage acts or the·cold war. That was a airliner that belonged to a small c1v111an outt1t Cathay? called Cathage Pac1t1c. At that time Cathage Pc1c1r1c had just three a1rl1ners. Since then they hJve only had • two. On my way here I flew 1n one or the remaining two. And the sk1 1 per, to avoid a repet1t1on or thdt episode, !'lew us tar out acroos the so~th Ch1nd sea r1 ht over the Spratley Islands, and a cross Ncr th Reet, wh1~h ls well known to all navigators tn those p'Jrts. This r.Qs how I happened to ~et a look at these un1nhab1ted islands that are now 1n the ltmeltght claimed by tour or five overnments. - 0 .. .. .. "' hd e :- ..a.;!: C - 4 JDe e· .. =-~ # -· ·-- :-~3 " ► :i!. •• ... .:,~ , ~ .. ,. . e .i r.a, - .. : e s .J .... stra. ~..3 e. A~IENT PORT Syrian archaeolog1ts anno nee the discovery ~t J seaport - h1ch s c hol rs had b en try In · to 1'1 nct ror ye Jr ■• A Mediterranean harbor, on the coaAt r Syria, that tlour1shed 1n remote antiquity -Jnd Vdn1shed some twenty five hundred yedrs ago. 'Ille clue cine tran Egypt, rrom the Tel El Am8rna tablets - thc1t remarkable collect1on ot records assembled by one or the gredt Pharaohs. CldY tablets with 1nscr1pt1ona - telling or relations between Egypt and Syrta. In these, the scholdrs round prominent mention or the Syr tan port ot •sem1ra•. Which h1stor1ans had never heard or. so a search WJs/~gun along the Syrian coast. W1th no re~ult - until now. Syrian archaeologists have round the lost harbor ot "Sem1ra" - 4nd dug up anc1e~t articles, p ttery, clay tablets.) ;,,ni'ct1cat1ng- thdt "Samira" A. was a Phoen1c1dn seaport; rr h tor some reason or other, was abandoned dbout rive* hun red B.C. and_. covered by ~~. ~ WHM1 -e~R~ UR ...-nlili-..,, Ur aoston Grand JUr~ indict e d t hree men, ho r e se ta,ad yesterday ..,.. along with one hundred tho sand dollars, taken as loot 1n the record-breaking Brink's robbery, six ye-rs ago. The three are charged with being - acceasor1es after the rac t . TWO or the prisoners were arrested in Bos ton, one 1n Ba t 1mor~. zoo - The news tells or a r inc lot or h orRe tr-J u ers - 1n Chicago. A sc1ent1tic meeting, s ppoaedly - the eleventh annual convention ot the Internati onc1l union o t Directors or zoologtcal G..trdens. ff'From a 11 over ,too non-Cormnun1st world, the directors ot zoos have gathered - tor h1ghl.y ac1aPtit1c d1scues1on, supposedly. But ho1 do they spend most or their time!- talking up tradesj- my hyena tor your turkey buzzard! They sit around swapping dnimals - ltkaa bunch or horse traders! warl!n P rktns, Director or Chicago's Lincoln Pdrk Z oo 1s boasting or a deal th the clo sed with H. Hediger or the Zurich, Switzerlan d oo. So Whdt did he sw.,, I zoo - 2 - Protessor Perkins hands over two Americ~n Marmots, likewise known as woodchucks - or in other words, groundhogs. And I don't blane h1m ror crowingy1r he c~n trdde ott two ground hogs. BiJt what does he et 1n re turn? TWO Alpine mdrmots - Swiss ground ho~. I looked up the marmot ue tion 1n the encyc1opedl1 today, and SJ., a p tcture or ~n Alpine .f.Jrmot. It looked tlXactlY like our old r r1 nd, the Amer lct.Jn gro nd h g. So there's the 1nspir1ng swap~two ground hogs tor two ground hogs. ProteRsor Perkins has a11other bright 1dea, too. saying "1hat I'd red lly like to do 1s to trade ott some or our surplus rattlesnakes for a Canadian lynx.• He really 1s a~rse tr r - ho f f r J yo r · ttloqn kos. Now here's a p icture that certainly o uld seem like a strange one, if you ever saw it. Soldiers and sailors, but you can't tell them apart; an Army caap - dressed like sailors; On the deck of a warship - dressed like soldiers. How coae? Why the sa ■ e uniform f.or Ar ■y and lav7; also - Air Force and arines. That's the picture evoked in Congress, today, with Senator Ellender of Louisiana - echoing a propoeal made by Thoaas Finletter, p olitical adviser to Adlai Stevenson. On Sunday, Finletter called tor a coaplete consolidation of all our Araed Force. Make 'em alike. That is, a service - with one Chief-of-Staff. Today, Senator Ellender went that one better. Saying - that the different services should wear the same uniform. But, there are many - a g re a t many - who hope the day will never come - when you can't tell a soldier from a sailor - or an a irman from a marine. AlBLllES A C on r e s s ion a l sub-committee okayed a bill, to d ay - to ban the serving of li q uor on airlines. Amons the witnesses at the hearing were a irline host e sses, one of whoa declared that, on nearly every flight, •so ■• gentle ■ an with too much in hi ■• as she put it, triea to p in•• against the w a11•. Another ste ardess told the sub-co ■■ ittee - how she had to lock herself in the wash room to escape an inebriated ■ ale passenger. The •ill to outlaw the aerving of liquor on airlines now goes to the floor of the House; while 1 head for the air p ort to board a plane, h enry to see what my hostess on this night flight h a s to say about the subject!