L.T. - DELCO. FRIDA~, APRIL 8, 1955 GOOD EVENIJfG EVERYBODY: Good Frida, in the Hol . Cit,. A solemn procession made its wa, through Jerusalem toda, - ten thousand p1lgr1u, following the steps of the Savtous on the wa, to Calvarv. The pilgrims, moving along the "Via D9lorosa" in the old cit~. The procession included both Catholics and Protestants, from manv lands - some trom America. Each national group stopped to prav in its own language - at the so-called stations of the Cross, which historians and archaeologists sa, are not authentic. The pilgrims ended their Journe, at the famous Church of the Hol, Sepulchre. BUUlANIN T he S o viet P re m ier rece i ve d In d ia's Ambassador to Mos c ow for a conferen c e toda y . B ul g anin and Menon, apparentl y dis c ussi ng Nehru ' s e f forts for a cease-fire in the ormosa Strait. Some diplomats in London believe that Bulganin and Menon were setting the stage for a meeting between Nehru and C hou En - Lai at Bandung, Indonesia. EDEN r t ain 1 s ne P rime nister , 1s etti his go vernment un er way jn a hurry . Sir Anthony Eden, inviting binet mem bers to be his eekend gu ests, a; 11 Che uers 11 , official coun tr y residence o f Prime inisters. E en has sent messages to both resident Eisenhower and Secretary of St ate Dulles. In his message to bJ"'\ T~~"!:e Minist~::-:t ~&- ~ A.. , ..... close co operation 1th America, just as in the past. And ~ _,--='). - to Se c retary Dulles, ieefl Perna1111Ee&: "I look forward to A c ontinuing our friendship. · " Tt:::e U4--c.A ,f, Meanwhile, Secretary Dulles has sent a message of his own to Britain's new Foreign MD Secretary, Harold Ma Millan.~ w elcoming MacMillan to what our Secretary I terms, "the hardest w orking labor union". Meaning - the union of Foreign Minist ers. CHURCHILL ~ .....0 ~~~~~J;;;.- 1 ~ 'Pwo members of C on ress & P e ~ to introduce A.. :A legislation~ to make Sir Winston Churchill af an Honorary C iti z en of the United States. "Wi--haa ;p,g: 1asc &g , ~ And t o n i g h t ~ the reactions of some of the~olleagues, Senator Sparkman of tt■u• Alabama is enthusiasti'l •~•~t ,he Hea-.-+le says he ' ll vote for the proposal if it comes up 1n the Senate. ~ Senator Mundt of South Dakota is doubtful. He declares he'd like to see Churchill saluted by Congress - that to give the former Prime Minister Honorary Citi z enship would cause complic ations, unless Churchill wants to move to this country. Senator Wiley of Wisconsin he dg es on his opinion. He says he ' ll w ait to see how the bill looks eefore he ecid es ho to vote. INDO HINA Another tru c e in Indo C hina, as Premier Diem prepares for a c onferen c e with leaders of the rebellious religious sects. In W shington it ' s reported that a high level conference will be c onvened later this month - with French and American representatives on hand to try and work out some onunon approach to the Indo China problem. FORMOSA C ommunist C hina has a t least f orty R ussian MIGS on a new air f ield, j ust north of Formosa. A nationalist newspaper also says the Reds are building a new air base at Foo ow -- thirty five miles est of the Matsus. K OWLAND ~ Senator Knowland s t ate today that we s h o u l ~ on the man pow er of our allies -i n ealing w it h loc 1 w ars. The C alifornian thinks that the old ar m ay last for fifty far years - and the financial strain fu too great for us if ~ we c ontinue as we are now - so many men under •n••.arms. The Senator 's statement is u an answer to Democratic critics of the Administration who say it is wrong to sug est reducin g our armed forces now - when the possibility of small wars exists. S nator Knowland however, agrees with President Eisenhower on this. He's for the reduction. Rely more on our allies for any future Kumax Koreas. SEC RET S Pre si dent Eisenh o wer believes that mili tar y secrets have been revealed unwi tin ly thro h information made available tone smen. This came out today, when Press asked about an order issue d by Defense Secretary Wilson - an order that no information wast e given out without clearance by the S ec retary ' s office. Hagerty said that President Eisenhower does not believe in censorship - but neither does he believe 1n -fi.t giving information to the enemy. S o J ~ ~ • • • wants secret data kept from the press - whenever it would be -- helpful to a possible abroad. Secretary Wilson will be uestioned directly about his order - at his news conference on Tues ay. MACARTHU ' The Defense Departm e nt announces that it will make publi c some of its information - on h ow G ener a l MacArthur felt about Russian entry into the wa r in Nineteen Forty-five. We have heard how former Defense Secretary, Forreetal, in his diary h ad a note to the effect that the General ~aid at a meeting with the Secretary, that the Soviets sbould be brought into the fighting against Japan as quickly as p■•i possible. But General MacArthur has denied tut also that the note in the Forrestal diary was not 1n Secretary Forrestal 1 s handwriting. Other discrepancies too. Now the Defense Department says it will contribute something to the c onbroversy. ~ome tJltD information to be • made public shortiy. Meanwhile General Ma cArthu r insists there should be either public atio n of all information on this - or none. 1 COR SI Secretary of State Dulles declar es that he has no doubt at all about the security status of Edward Corsi. Last night Corsi said that his job as C onsultant on refugee problems was being taken from him - and u-.a.1ALthat he was shocked.•~ C ongressman Francis Walter of Pennsylvania had accused Corsi of past association with Conununist front organizations. Corsi and the State Department both have denied the charge. And now Secretary Dulles lb reveals that he is offering his consultant a new Jd>- one involving land settlement for 111D1ligrants in Latin America and !ft other areas. During the day, Corsi was summoned to the State Department to confer with the Secretary. They were still talking, when the Dulles announcement was handed to newsmen. The next step is up to Corsi - to accept the offer of a new job, or not. B ANK ~ 4J/ ..u. T~ big g es~ank r o b b e r ~ may have occurred because of failure to hee d an FBI warning . The branch of the C hase-Manhattan Bank in Woodsi d e, ueens - wae robbed of more than three hundred thousand ollars on Wednesday. e crime taking place - only a month after J. Edgar Hoover A9&-warned the banks of the nation about an upsurge 1n robberies. Q ~~ \ - lill,e,~-11,-1 wu~ent to nearly thirty thousand ~. banks,~,an. and other ~IPRe..Qtia.e,-n11 wae ea The warning said that every bank should have a special alarm system - along with a tear gas mechanism. 1o The FBI u calling these "essential" m protectlftg BatdM ~ ) against robbers. The warning_tdded that employees should be given stag g ered lunch hours - and that deliveries of ll. c ash sho~ld be on an irregular schedule. ~ ~h~ FBI warning went out as part of a nationw1 e campaign to stem the tide o f bank robberies - the fi ure BANK - 2 now the highest in history. J. Ed ar Hoover declared that banks are the o b vious target of men - who want a lot of money, 1n a hurry. But that C hase-Manhattan, in ueens - had neither an adequate alarm nor guards. And, the robbers got away with three hundred thousand dollars! A record. UA C HE Here 's a d ispat c h from R ui d oso, New Me x ico, that mentions a f amous name. Geronimo - who led the Indians of Mexico, New Me x ico an d Arizona - in those savage Apache wars of the Eighteen Seventies and Eighties. Today ' s dispatch says that Geronimo ' s nephew has ju.st died. Asa Daklugie, eighty-three years old - the patriarch of his band. He remembered the Apache wars - when his Uncle was on the rm war path - Geronimo, terrorizing the southwest. After his warpath adventures with Geronimo Apache Daklugie was sent to the famous Indian school at Carlisle, Pennsylvania. And then he used his education to help his fellow Apache tribesmen understand the strange ways of the white man. Becoming a man of peace. Now dea d at eighty-three. One o f the las t links with Geronimo, and the Apaches, who tried d es p erately to drive the white man out of the southwest. CAR A boy and a girl were saved from drownin g in a river near Bristol, New Hampshire, today. The story is an odd one - because Alfred Paine and Nancy Witley- were trapped in a car that swerved off the hi hway and dove into the river. There water pressure locked the doors, tight. Alfred and Nancy - their heads out of water, trapped - watching the current swirling around the car. And they ua were not in there for mere minutes, or even hours. There they remained for two days, until a passerby - a high school friend, just happened to ap spot them out in that nearly submerged car. Hurrying for help firemen were soon at the scene, and the pair were rescued after an ordeal that almost cost them their lives. In a a car - 1n the middle o f ~ river - for two days! DRIKK The ma11 man brought a book to 11.v desk, today. The title - "Man Takes A Drink." Subject - the tacts about alcohol. The author, the Reverend John C. Ford, Jesuit Proteaaor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at Weatoa College. What caught my eye was a b1t of rhyae, printed on tbl Jacket - "An adage froa the Orient." w6ich goes like this: / At the punch bowl's brink Let tbe thirsty think What they aa.v in Japan: npirat a ■an takes a drink, Then the drink takes a drink, Then the drink takes the man. " Sounds like the wi1d011 of the Orient, all rllbt. GAMBLER A lot of things have been lost i~ gambling - but here's one of the strangest. A load of shrimp - worth more than twelve thousand dollars. Robert Brewer was driving the shrimp by truck from Brownsville, Texas, to Debboit. He drove as far as Houston, Texas'- stopped for a moment, and got in~o a poker game. First he lost his money. Then he offered to put up the shrimp - and the gamblers said, okay. Brewer's luck - still bad. He lost and lost - until that whole load of shrimp was gone. After that, he tried . to bet his truck. But the others in the game refused. And so Robert Brewer drove oft. Now the FBI 1s hunting for him. The gamblers who won, were picked up - after they sold five thousand dollars' worth of shrimp to dozens ta of restaurants in '!'exas. ALBANIA An Albanian refugee, who managed to escape from his Communist dominated country - says he ' s not too pleased with the West either. For an unusual reason. Mehmet Metalia has two wives - which he finds · is one too many for the free world - at least one too many. Mehmet Metalia got as far as the International Refugee Camp in Trieste - he and the missus - I mean the two missus. All okay according to the laws of the Prophet. But at the Refugee Camp not okay. There they aske him to give up one of them. Furthennore Albanian'Mehmet Metalia wants to come to this country - and Uncle Sam says he can only bring one to the Land of the Free. All of which he doesn't understand at all. At home he's a respected man. Doubly so with two wives. He didn ' t like Communism. So he fled to the West - thinking he would find freedom on this side o f the Iron C urtain. ALBANIA - 2 Today he remarked: of one ~- of my hel - the "Now they tell me to get rid Q little wom"'n - a1 one of them. I ask you, what kind• of w is that? 11 said Mehmet Metalia ua sadly. And then he added: "There is a terrible )'-... /~onfusion 1n this world. 11