CONPIRBNCE Word from Washington - that there's a change of opinion about the prooer place to hold a summit conference. The U.S. government - now in favor of Geneva. Re~ting suggestions - that the top level palaver might be held in ashington. Something of a reversal - of opinion. President Eisenhower having indicated, previously - that he thought Washington might be okay for the summit affair. Especially - if it was gong to be a long drawn·out lot of talk. For a short conference - the place didn't make much difference. But that presidential oplnion has changed - according to administration officials. The argument now being - that, it the b'g international show was held in Washington, it ~ould boost the prestige of Khrushchev. Who has been shouting for a meetin of the heads of state. ma ifest·ng much enthusiasm for i t. As for the date - October or ovember seems about r ght. At wh ch t·me - t e General Assembly of the United CONFERENCE - 2 Nations will be n session, in New York. &,d a summit conference in th s country - might get all tangled up with the proceed ngs at the U.N. Which would add elements of confusion - according to op non in Washington. All of which adds up - to Geneva. Neutral ~witzerland - a natural place for East-West proceedings. Meanwhile, - · n London, they released the text of a ote sent by oviet P emier Bulganin to British Prime Minister Macm llan. Concern·ng t e prospects of a summit conference. Bulganin expressing, what he calls - "definite anxiety". ~ay ng - the oviets are worried about the development of armament n the west. Belie~.1ng - that the Western powers plan to go to the conference - backed by somet i ng new n the field of weapons. CONFERENCE - 3 That seems to be the gist of the Bulganin 11 anxiety". Which might possibly have some relation to word in Washington - that the American att tude on disarmament may be affected by the new atomic tests in the Far Pacific, during the summer. Experiments - that might indicate how far we can safely go in a disa111ament agreement with Soviet ussia. Agreement, for example, on a two or three year ban - of further at01Dic teats) PRANCE In Pa r s, today, Premie r oa·1 1 ard rece i ved a set of proposals - for a settlement of the d i spute with Tunisia. Proposals - presented by American and British mediators. The outloo k ! Not so favorable - largely because of a political development ins de France. 'Phe ~reposals, pPeaented by tbe Br1t1ab-.Amer1oan -u.a"""" - - fu· 1.t-i.c.1,~L\l - ---~MMi~'- come from Tunisian President Bourguiba. A compromise - callin g for the French to recognize Tunisian sovereignty over the great naval base at Bizerte. The French, however - to remain in Bizerte, at least for the time being. The French - to g i ve up Tunisian air bases. But - with neutral supervision to ma K e sure the bases won 1 t be used in flying suppl ·es to the rebels i n Algeria. P ev i ously, Bourgu i ba had been demanding - uncond i t i ona l w thdrawal from Bizerte and the air bases. W o d from Par·s i s that Prem i er Ga i llard w~d be -tl~- w ll i n t o ra t · r y the se t e r ms. But A i s now fa c ed w i th a sudden ol ~ t i c 1 rev olt . H i s coa1 · t on g o ernme n t _n cludes ,WCE - 2 Ministers belongin to a Conservat ve partyJ .wfiich threatens - a 'if~ to turn against Gaillard, if he accepts tbs- compromis~ • 1 I 94 they claim, would be a blow - to French prestige. If the Conservative Ministers should withdraw from the Cabinet - the G · illard government would fall. ECONOMICS Today w s a busy one n as n to - with action in the battle against the recess on. Congress - completing its work on a bill to put up one-b~llion,eight-hundred-and-fifty-mill on dollars for new housing construct on. The House passed the bill, unanimously, today - sending it to the President. Who, meanwhile - released more than two b · 11 ons of government funds, to be used on housing and rural electrification projects. The Army - announcing that it will place a hundred million dollars in defense contracts with the automobile i dustry. ) slump. re·ive operations in plants - hit hard by the Measures to reduce unemployment - while, at the White Huse, the President conferred w·th eight Governors of states. ) iscussing p oposals - for e.·pand·ng unemployment compensat·on. ) I creasing - the benef ts for the jobless. ) Whose numbe - snow t e · hest ins· teen years. ...... . - , , , , 1 : 1 '1 BCOIOMICS - 2 After the conference, Governor Knight of Califomia state~ - that the President intends to ask authorization from congress. Permitting - the use of government money to finance a thirteen-week extension of unemployment co~pensation programs. Administered - by the States. RACKET.:> Testimony before a Congress onal Committee, today, brought the promise - of a ibel su t. Hearings have been goin on for days - concerning the Kohler Company strike at Sheboygan, Wiscons·n, a lon, bitter dispute. The witness, today - Lyman Conger, chef strike negot·ator for the Kohler Company. Who made remarl s - about Robert Burldlart, the ne ot ator for the Auto Wor era Union. He said - that, in stri e negotiations, Burkhart•s attitude was that of, what Gonger called, a "confirmed Commun st." ro which the witness added: 11 ! believe he still S • n Whereupo the lawyer for the Union promptly challenged ~ • ~ltii5JB to repeat the statement - outside the Committee room. ome place, that ·s - where he wouldn't be protected by Congressional immunity. C bl . ed Outs de the Comm i ttee room, he o on er o 1 • repeated the charge of Commun i sm. ay i n g : "I stand on 1 t." Wh i ch br n s the prospect of a l i bel suit - in RACKETS - 2 addition to all the b tter argument ·n the Kohler hearings. Today, for example, the charge that the Auto Wo~kers Union ran an "Iron Curtain reign of terrorn during the strike. PRIZE These are days of contests and quizes, and here's a new one - announced by enator Watkins of Utah. A prize - offered for an essay explaining the meaning of one single sentence. The sentence - in a go ernment booklet on how to prepare your income tax return. The Senator calling the conglomeration of words - "a masterpiece of incomprehensibility." Saying - he has shown 1111rf the single sentence to a number of peop1e,.,A)f6body - able to figure out what it means. So maybe you'd like to enter the c,ntest, and win the prize. J:R:tt ■IY U - a book called "Simplified English." In which case - you might want to know what the sentence is. hall I re~d it to you? Not on your life. That one :slTELLITE '1, ?,,f American sc i ent i sts A thin k n g of a man-made moon, · ne hundred feet in d·ameter. Approachin g the size - of a c ty block. All An overgrown giant - compared with the satellites now g o ing around this earth. This new plan is disclosed n testimony before a Congressional Committee - made public today. Scientists having told the Committee - how they thought they could send up a man-made moon of that size. ~ounds fantastic to think of a rocket streaking up, and on its nose - a ball a hundred feet in diameter. But it wouldn't be that way at all. The rocket, on its nose, would have - a small pac age. Which could be inflated, making a large balloon - of pl astic, of some sort, coated with aluminum. When the roe et gets into outer space, a cartr dge • would fire in s i de the . ackage of plastic - letting off gas to flate t e balloon. h ch would then o int o an orb t - a satell te as ba. PLAMB Here' another "flying saucer" story. But - the rea th n , th s time. At Weymouth, Massachusetts, the Navy, today, put ts o n "flying saucer" on display. It "flies" all ht - but, p y-back, on top of an observation plane. The latest thing - in radar detection. The plane carry n - a "radar dome"~ , Thirty-seven feet wide - and shaped 11 ke a saucer. The radar dome, on top of the plane - rotates. The magic eye - scanning the skies all around. The "flying saucer" - the latest thing in radar detection. Capable - of spottin objects in the sky, all the way from sea level to an alt tude of a hundred thousand feet. Giving advance waming - of any attack by warplane or missile. TICKS Here's a poss ble picture - of the future. The orld inhabited by - ticks. You know, those pestilent little jiggers that burrow under your sk n - and raise red lumps. They may be t e future inhab tants of this planet. o says Lieutenant Colonel amuel Hill, Chief Entomologist of the U •• Army. H~-::f;;:;';f.j&?( the possible all-out effects of atomic \ ~ ~ ~ ' - 8 : - Wll&\AThe human race - destroying itself. Destroying - all the higher animals, in fact. Killing everything, except the insects. The settl ng of DD radiation dust - lethal for everything, except the bugs. Experiment shows that radioactive poisons have the least effect - on insects. The conunon wood ticks sho~p - as the most resistent of all. A human being, for example, can absorb no more than four--hundred-and-fifty to six-hundred un·ts of radiation. While the wood t c ·sable to take sixty-thousand units. Remaining al ve nd he lthy, st·11 burrow·n under your skin. 0 you see the scientif c deduct on. If there's enough atomic ar, enough radioacti e dust, the ticks might be the principal survivors. lot in left but a world - of ticks. The world is .ot goinb to the dogs, its going to the ticks - says the eminent etomologist. TREE -- At t e old town of Worcester, in Bngland, the author t es are keeping rs. Dorothy Parkes - in Jail. won't let her - go home. Although - she wants to return, and resume housekeep ng. Today, a police official told the magistrate: "The I believe, residing in a tree trunk." Strange kind of home - a household in a tree trunk. But that•s the case. Mrs. Parkes and her husband - occupying one of the most curious dwelling places on earth. If asked for the1 address, they can say - "The big elm tree on the Bamford farm." The elm - large one, thirty feet high. The massive trun of which - was burned out several years ago. Leaving - a are blac ened cavern ns de the tree. Into which - Mr. and r • Parkes moved. Ma n th·ngs tidy - by cover ng the 1 C e ed w 1 ~ { _ ,, , w th/\ aa I If A The door - a hole n the s de of th tree trun · • ere the made themselves comfortable - Home weet Home. ~ "'1. T mm- 2 ---- All going well - until Mrs. Parkes was arrested, tor #~i swiping a pair of boots. The astonished authorities~ learning, a.J for the first t'me, about th stran g e res1dencc//l,P(tc1ding - to hol d Mrs. Parkes, rathe r than let her go back to the hole in the . tree, Although she told the court, "I want to go home," 1f'ft(t- ~ c\'\ Mr. Parkes - still residing in the t r e e ~ , ~ he'll keep house, until his wife returns. Well, t e old song tells us: 11 Be it ever so humble, There 1 s no place like home." IBWSPAPER In Banning, Californ a, the local newspaper - denies that there's a recession. At least - so far as that publication is concerned. The editor - expressing h i s opinion in a practical way. Wantln - to stop recession tal k , recession thinking among the reporters, the pr·nters, .._ the office boy. Everybody on the paper. Th i s week - an extra five dollars in every pay envelope. To prove - that things are going well. To make the proof ~ore graph c - silver dollars. Glittering evidence - that there's no recession in journalism, at Banning, Cal 1 f orn a. ~V-.Z.. i-f U!\-t-- '{-o. L "- - 4- "'t,; ' t:i ,.'~ _c JC"-u ~ ttj- l1 •-Mfr.,,)t~·· H\.ll.H Vi.W,t-:t~~;Jh ~ ··tf~~"2..-7. 1.'1"° ,.,,..,~'--fl,:;, ~ A-. -lt - f-- JH.