. ljISINHO IR- CONFERENCE (T.-~ 1Jr.uL .. l.., 1 ~J 1 ?~. At today's White House Conference, Pre s ident Eisenhower said - he doesn't believe the American people suspect that he will blunder into any •appeasement trap.• At - the forthcoming meeting of the heads of State of the Big Four. He noted - there seems to be an idea develo~ing of a possible •neutralized' bloc of nation ■• dividing Soviet Russia from the rest ot Europe. H didn't say - if he was for or against it. We know, of course, that at the top-level meeting ; Soviet Rueaia will press for a •neutralised Germany.• Some western diplomata think saa thitight be acceptable - if the Soviets include their lurope&n - - satellites in a •neutralized' group. - Today, Prerident Eisenhower might have been referring to this. But he was cryptic in what he said. PJl ♦BKAHIIT The London disarmam e nt conference has recessed..,..... for two weeks - and w111 resume 1n New York, June first. The recess 1s to give the we ■ tern powers and Sov1et . Russ1a time to review the progre11 made in the London discuss fon1 of disarmament. ~oday, u.s. 8epreaentat1ve James J. Wad■wor,b said - that, in some point•, the Russian disarmament propoeals are close to prev1oua western euggest1on1. •the gape between us, seem to have been leaeened,• B&YB h ~ - ALGIBRu In Algier~, the French authorities believe North African terrorists may be led - by former French soldier~ who went over to the Commun ists in Indo-China. These might not necel.;;sarily be Frenchmen. The French Army - being mixed. Includ ng - North Africans, Senegalese, etc. It is known that prisoners captured in Indo-China were indoctrinated with Communism. And some of them were pursuaded . Also some were schooled in Communist military tactics, and trained - for leadership in North African rebellion. And there they were sent. The basis for this opinion is that the North African rebel bands show signs of being directed by leaders w i th professional training. SIIIJAPORE At Singapore, there's fear of - a new reign of ~ terror. The authorities.-( faced with a s1tdown strike by seven thousand Chinese students, under Connun1st guidance. Three Singapore schools - tied up. Pupils - 1n revolt. The connection between schools and riots - is only too plain. The mobs 1n the savage disorders, last week, were largely made up of students. Then, after order had been restored, the Singapore government ordered the schools to expel all etudent~dentified - as a having taken part in the rioting. that order i ~ e cause ot the sit- down strike 1n the schools. Defying the governnent - to carry out the expulsions. (The situation is tenee, and the belief is that theN may be a decisive show-down, between the authorities and the Red agitators. Today, all police units 1n Singapore were alerted - for possible new rioting. Military forces - reported U If I to be on stand by orders • } INDIA-UNIONS At Peiping, there's an "Asian-African Trade Union Conference." A Communist arranged follow up to that Asian African political conference at Bandung. Today, seven Indian delegates to the Peiping affair came home. Having- seceded. They say the Chinese Reds are trying to "Rope in" the labor unions of Free Asia and Africa. Abdul Serang, General Secretary of the Indian National Seaman's union, explains that the Chinese Commmiata ~~ are trying to organize a "united front~ actually - a disguise for domination by the Reds. He said - the example of Red China is no inspiration to tree unionists. "The country" he declares, "is in the grip of police rule." PLAIIS ~ Today, four U.S. Thunder jets . , - streaking through Far Eastern skies. On a record-breaking flight - from Japan to Australia. Tokyo to Newcastle, in Southern Australia - in twelve hours and two minutes. Four thousand eight hundred and forty miles.~Aalmost the distance from Rew York to Moscow. The longest ~ever flown non-stop by a single-engined Jet plane. A refueling job - the fighters refueled from B-29 tanker planes. Over Guam, Port Moifaby. New Guinea, /' and Townsville, Australia. ( At lewcaatle, Lieutenant General Roger Raaey, U.S. Fifth Air Force Comander pointed out the significance. He says - refueling can convert small jet fighters into long range bombers. Today's Thunderjets - capable of carrying atomic bombs./ EISENHOWER-AIR POWER The President rejects warnings from the Democrats - that the United States may be dropping behind Soviet Russia 1n air power. He noted our great initial advantage, and remarked: To say that we have lost, in the twinkling of a eye, all of this technical development and technical excellence, as well as the numbers in our total aircraft, 1a just not true.• RESERYI The House of Representatives voted an amendment, this afternoon, to President Eisenhower•• military reserve-~ plan. An amendment - to•••• bar racial segregation in the reserves. It was a tentative vote, sub~ect to further decision later. SUBMARIII The Navy 1a launching another atomic submarine. Thia one - the sea wolf. -- --- -- ..... Which follow• the success of the H&utilue, --- .... our first atomic submarine. Now the second - to be launched at Groton, Connect1out in July. BBAJI WASHING The Defense Department is getting up & •code of conduct• for soldiers who may bec o me victim ■ of Communis~ Brainwashing 1n an y future war. Instructi o ns - how to act, if taken prisoner by Reds. Today, Secretary of Defense Wilson named a ten-man comm1tt•e to draft what h calla - •a simple, easily understood code.• There's no indication what any such code might prescribe - for prisoners of war captured by Communists. IIBENHQWER - YAQCIQ President Eisenhow e r, today, commended Oveta Cul~ Hobby, saying - that she, as s ~ cretary of Health, Education and Welfare, has done a •magnifice job• in the••• handling of the polio vaccine program He refused even to discuss demands - that she be fired. Which suggestion w · s made by Senator Wayne Morse of Oregon, who charged Mrs. Hobby with •groae incompetency•. The President said that he wouldn't waste hie time considering the demand. 2 S'l'JYEBS 91 Adlai Stevenson, today, used a c uple of strong words -- •Trojan horse•. He s~oke of that kind of animal - in the De m ocratic party. Which might apply to the southern Democrats who support Eisenhower. For example, there's Governor Shivers of Texas, who bolted the Stevenson ~icket 1n Nineteen ~ Fifty-_!,wo --Aan Eisenhower Democrat. Recently, he said - he'd do the same again, if candidate) ••a•~••~■Ain Nineteen FiftY-2!_iX. ab o ut - Trojan horses. Stevenson were a So now Adlai talkl Coming home to Chicago, after a trip to Africa, Stevenson declared: •1 am 1• against loyalty oaths, but I am very much in favor of lo y altJ and g ood faith in politics.• He thinks a delegate at a Democratic Conventio n has •a serious obligation to abide by the majority decision. I don't believe,• he added, 'that there is any r o m for the doctrine or rule or ruin, o r for Trojan h orses. - ~ T»o3an h o r s e ~ De m ocratic donkey. ,A.. / I MISSOURI There's a virtual state of war between the two Houses of the Missouri State Legislature. The trouble began when representative Charles Poley - went over to the Senate Chamber, and started talking with the State Senator Patterson. Conversation - interrupted by the Senate Sergeant-at-arms, Turner Bryan. )ffio told Poley - ....,. ,) the chat he was having with Patterson was contrary to Senate. Rules. That began an arg1111en~~ley took a swing at the Sergeanb-at-Arllls. The State Senate - thrown into confusion. Foley and the Sergeant at Arms were herded outside llhere the argument began all ov~r again. _Fo!!Y - taik_1ng , ~ - fw..,., ,,,.;f- ~ RA#~ - ~.j,,,.,, ..... \N-, as,. ...:~ another swing;\ State Senators came ruahing out, and intervened. In the middle of the uproar, some Jokeater lit a firecracker. Which went off - with a bang. Leading to a belief - that a shot had been h fired. So that completed the pandemonium. MISSOURI - 2 Later on, the Lower House staged a march to the Senate - shouting and shoving their way in. 'Dlreatening retaliation - unless the Senate Sergeant at Arms apologizes to representative Poley. PLOT A news dispatch from Las Vegas - uses the word "elaborate". T 111 f " 11 e ng o an elaborate plot. Well it sure was all of that - intricate and skillful. The leader and mastermind - a police officer. The scheme - a:11dt a million dollar robbery. At Las Vegas, huge profits · from the gambling halls were shipped out by mail. 119M Q. million in cash - to be transfer1•ed from the local post office to the Union Pacific station. The money - in charge of a postal messenger. The robbers - intending to hold b1m up. The scheme was devised with an 1ntima~e knowledge of police routine. Not surprising - with a police officer in it. Just before the hold up, one of the robbers was to call police headquarters, and report a burglary. Which false alarm - would draw the police cars away from the neighborhood of the real crime. Then, after the hold-up, there was to be another tl telephone call, with a fake report - that suspects had been arrested. This, intended to confuse a possible pursuit. PLOT - 2 It was~borate all right, but there was one thing wrong. The police had a tip from an informer - a stool pigeon. So detectives had the plotters under observation. Letting them carry on - until a few minutes before the tille set tor the hold-up. ~ ~ r e "elaborate" than the plotters aver gueaaed . • At Newport Rhode Island, Robert Kearsey - was a - hero. Today - under arrest. - Twenty-one year ol d Robert dashed into a blazing roollling house, and aroused the sleeping occupants. Braving the flame and the smoke, he ran through the place - getting the■ up and out. But now, the charge is - that he also looted the place. The police claim that, while performing the brave deed - he swiped a clock, worth twenty-five dollars, and a box containing twentY-9ix dollars. A life-saving hero and •looter - all at one tille -So say the cops. BB.ITAIN-YIATHER ~ B r i t a . 1 ~ ~ ~ /'- weather • .l violent b 11zzar d - in M ay. w-a t II Snow drifts - as deeu as five feet. Temperatures - below freezing. The coldest May weather - in British history. Frosty winds have been raising havoc wlih ships at sea. At least fo u r shipwrecks - in the English Channel and the Irish sea. Half a dozen other vessels - reported in distress. Snow storms 1n s p r i n g - t i m e / - ~ ~ ~ "December in Hay'. OR G IST At Glencoe , a su burb of Chica o, here 1 s a c hurch or anist, wh o ce r ai nl y knows how to mak e soulful mu sic . To ay , in a Chicago court, t he story was told how Miss Harr t Davi s thirty-five yea rs agm o l , and her mother, w ere fascinated by the music of the fi ft y year old or anist, Robert Metzler. It be an in a Chicago Church, and caused embarrassment. Met z ler says - he quit his j ob there, to escape the two entranced listeners. He transferred over to the church in Glencoe - tJ:itf they followed him! He aays he was plagued and pursued. o he got an injunction - to keep the daughter and the mother from cbltllg coming to the Glencoe Church. All of which now comes up in court. Harriet Davis explaining - that she's not interested, personally, in Metzler. But she l o v e s ~ . _ . ¥ ~ t1I! ~~ • 11 There is something about it, 11 she says. ORGANIST - 2 ' Different from the music in any other church. I have an entirely different emotional reaction when I hear him play. 11 Qf/}_ + u U s h e s ~ ~ r e e words: "It sends me ! " Well, ~ hear how the jive sends the hepcatsJ ~ - (,, But now - the pipe organ\