The Senate F orei n R elations committee, today, voted - to restore the six hundred m i l l i o n ~ in President Eisenhower's Foreign Aid program. Which represents - a u preliminary victory for the White House. Today's vote was tentative • ...i lhe committee will take up the matter a g ain. Then, if it confirms today's vote, the bill will go to the floor of the Senate - where prospects are still in doubt. President Eisenhower has been urging- that the llJp huge slash voted in Congress woul · cripple our foreign aid program. EISENHOW West Ger an Chancellor Adenaue r - was astonishe . He ha a conference with resident Eisenh ower today, Secretary of S t a t e ~ Dulle s sittin in. fter the exchange of pleasantries, the Presiclnt go own to business an told Adenauer - the action that is needed to liberate ••x•iu seventeen million Germans now under Communist rule Knd - bring about the reunification of East and West Germany. Which opinion - did not astonish the eighty year old Chancellor in the least. It's the regular doctrine. But Adenauer said ari afterward - he would not have believed it possible, the vigorous way the patient participated in the mts■s discussion, so soon u after major surgery. In Adenauer's own words - "p ossible for him to look that way, and talk that way, and pa rticipate so vividly in the conversation. 11 The visitor said: 11 I have asked the doctor to EISENHOWER - 2 explain this miracle, and he has explained - it 1 s a healthy, strong organism that helps one overcome an obstacle of this kind. 11 ► C !VIL RIG HTS Con ress had one of the bitterest committee wran les today - on the subject of civil rights, which so often raises ructions. Before the House Rules Committee - President Eisenhowers bill to provide a series of new safeguards to protect minorities. The chairman of the committee - Congressman Howard Smith of Virginia, who is opposed to the bill. The question - how to get the racial rights measure out of the rules committee, so the House can take a vote on it. This produced a revolt against the chairman. Committee member Congressman Bolling, a Missouri Democ~at, insisting - on action. No more delay - the bill to be taken up next Thursday. T he dispute was hot and heavy, and then the committee took a vote. The majority - six to four in favor of the Civil Ri hts bill. Those in favor were four northern Democrats and two Republicans. Those opposin - three southern Democrats and one Republican. POSTAL The Democrats in Con ress have shelved President Eisenhower's bill to increase postal rates. The measure 1s on the White House list of urgen~ly needed legislation, and would increase mail rates about four hundred and thirty million dollars a year, and help reduce the post office department's annual deficit of about four hundred and seventy million. Today Congressman McCormack of Massachusetts, Democratic leader in the House, declared - the Democratic Party leadership has o intention of putting the bill on the ~ legislative schedule. 11 At present time or in the foreseeable ) 1' future," said the Congressman. Two top officials of the Truman administration were convicted of a conspiracy - in a case of tax-fixing, today. Mathew Connelly, appointment Secretary for fu former President Truman - and Lamar Caudle, who am was assistant Attorney / iiinn•~ General in charge of the tax division. The two were put on trial, on a charge of collaborating with the Kansas City Attorney, to enable a St. Louis shoe broker to escape criminal accusations for income tax evasion. Today the jury said - guilty. Both Connelly and Caudle - facin g possible sentences of five years in prison. The case - to be cppealed. COMMUNISTS ome astonishin testimony was g iven in Washington today - on the familiar topic of Communism. Dr. Bella Dodd, a former leader in the Communist party, named a number of people - whom she 1 entified as Communist Party members. The list she ave to the Senate Security Sub- committee includes a confidential Secretary of former Mayor ~ O Dwyer of New York. Also - a former New York City Welfare commissioner. And - R former Democratic Congressman. -5-ee~ ~ named several Republican political figures - as Communists. AnotheP witnea~, today, ia thPeatened w1ta pPoaegution neis an ordained rabbi. But not attached to any , $yilagogue. EAST GERMANY The Soviets issued another invitation, today., This time - to a marching out ceremony in East Germany. Some wile a g o, Moscow announced - a huge cut of aitt military manpower. Including the removal - of thirty thousand Russian troops from Connnunist Eas t Germany. So now u western officials and newsmen are ~ invited to attend the withdrawal. T o d a y / . ~ ,, -tl,f-- Soviet Commander in Chief in Germany, announced(\ the barracks will be thrown open to representatives of the West. The first time - the Russians have offered to let westerners witness the disarmament moves they've announced. RUSSIA AMERICANS Vienna has word of three Americans in Russian slave labor camps. One - a U.S. Air F orce P ilot in the Second World ar. The other two - army u men. Austrians, returning from Soviet imprisonment, say that the three Americans were held 1n the notorious Vorkula slave labor camp, in the Siberian Arctic. Recently transferred to a camp in the Ukraine. The Air Force pilot is identified as Edward Reitz- Stocknoth. They say he told the Austrians that he flew i n ~ • bombing of the Jmanian oil center of Po~esti, in Nineteen Forty four. That his bomber was shot down by the Nazis - and - he parachuted out, safely. The Germans took him prisoner, and then he fell into the hands of the advancing Soviet Army. A war flyer of Russia's ally, the United States - but offhe went to Siberia! The other two Americans are identified as Bob Goldman of New York - and Jack Koarelsky, whose home town is not given. TRAIN WRECK Fran c e had a train wrec k to d ay - a fantasy of mechanized violence. Ten lives l ost, one-hundred~and-forty injured - when the :Ab Paris-Luxembour g express piled up on a bridge. Speeding through the champagne country, at sixty- five miles an hour, the train of twelve coaches was crossing the bridge; .when - the coupling of the fifth car snapped. The ~ar swung over, and smashed into the piers of the span. Th ~ seven cars behind - piling into · the twisted wreckage. Coaches m were torn to pieces. Debris r1f"or yards along the tracks. Rails twisted upward, huge hunks of stone torn from the bridge in a scene of havoc. TRINIDAD The London overnment a rees to the sale of the Trinidad 011 ~om pany , one of the g reat British oil concerns. The purchaser - the Texas Company. Price - one-hundred-and- seventy million dollars. There's a good deal of opposition - from Conservative and labor M P's, with complaints - that the Americans are - monopolizing the oil resources of the English-speaking world. The company has oil fields and a refinery on the island of Trinidad. Still more to the point, the Trinidad company owns about a fourth of all the service stations in Britain. Which, under the sale - would n~ belong to Texaco. The transaction comes under the heading of private business. B t the London government is able to intervene - because of British currency controls. And the government - would benefit. Texaco would pay in dollars - directly to the British treasury. Wlich, 1n Qm1J1+ turn, would pay the Trinidad stockholders in British pounds. TRINIDAD - 2 Today's official consent 1s given - with conditions. Providing - that Texaco shall operate the Trinidad oilfields and refinery in much the same way a they have been operat~d in the past. CEYLON A dispatch from Ce y lon d escribes the capital city o f Colombo - as an armed camp. T he g overnment - afraid of riot and insurr e ction. There's trouble between the native Sinhalese - and the Tamils, who are of Indian ori g in. For days there have been clashes between the two factions - a dozen persons killed. The cause of the disturba 1 1ces - a question of language. The Sinhalese talk the old native tongue of Ceylon - a language descended from ancient Sanskrit. The spoech of the Indo- Europeans - who conquered India more than three thousand years ago. Tamil is a Dravidian language. Descended - from a tongue spoken by the abor i ginal inhabitants of India. In a recent election campaign, Prime Minister~ Bandaranaike ple d ed - h e'd make Sinhalese the official speech of t he is l an d . The Sinhalese people are in the majority - and he won. S o ow he's puttin g his campai g n pledge into ef f ect - a nd t he T amils a r ~ up i n a ~ s a ainst him. SUBWAY New York's hottest day of the yea ' would hardly seem to be the time - for a subway tie up. Tet, that's what happened - a strike of motormen. The thermometer reading - ni~ety six. It's a wildcat strike, which began at one PM. Motormen walking out on the BM T, then the Independent. The strike then spreading to the IR T. You can picture the confuslon - crowds piling up in swelterin subway stations. Especially - people traveling to Brooklyn and Queens · . AR the rush hour approached, things got worse. The city - rushing to organize an emergency bus service. The strike of motormen seems to be lnvolved in a dispute between rival uni~ns. Anyway, in the New York subway today, a hot time was had by all. But you can say much t~e same thing for two-thirds SUBWAY - 2 of this nation - in the rip of a heat wave. Record-breaking temperatures in the middlewest - the mercury over a hundred 1 many places. Kma However, the weather bureau says a co 1 front is moving down from the northwest - promising relief. - A F or B r ; , .o r t h a ol n r 1 , te · 1 r Le w has een recommen e for h So ld er ' al , then on ' s hi hest non - comb t aw r . riv· te L w s n n that branch o the servic wh ch, net to war , t lf , has hem ximum o f hrill an ex temen . } The E i hty - ~c o nd A r borne iv sbn was h avi a ma ss a ir m nd - ou we n t the soldier fr om T oledo . His chute opene , an eve r yt hin was o kay . ~~ The trou le wa s - P iv t e Char les Harper o f E au / \ Clai re, Wiscon sin , who um ed ri ht after Lewis . Harper's ' a rach ute - failin to aa ope n . Down he plun ed, 9nQ'tlan d ~ ;;; · o n to p o f Lewis ' chute . D i in into the billowin fabric - and slidin down . Hea d in , ap a rentl y - for the open spaces a ain. But he rabbe a susp ensi on line , and yelled - for Lewis to hol d him. Which Lewis dtd - rabbin a firm hold of his comrade. - ? So own he woof he n . The p rach te overloade ,- 1 a sp e \ ~ a urn . - oh safe . r to arth . They lane R O BB y T h e In i 0 ol ce h v e been UP.st ' on ln a p r s o n e r - ho he ay as st b o r n an d l l en a y the y 'v ve r 91 ea Jt w th . u er h o of n e rro at on not a wor - mu m um . On M ond Y , here w a a ba1 hol - p at S outh or t , a su b r o I n n a o l s . A unman - f ore he Pre ident o f the ba nk too en th v l t . T he band it - makin g off with si x y - six tho sa n oll ars tie secon l ar g est ank robbery in In ana Histor y . u icion fell on o d o l h rake, an ex - conv i ct and • despera o . His automob le had been seen in the nei hborh o o of the bank , just before the hold - up . Then, last ni ht, there was an arrest - on a traffic ch · r e . A s t on wa on - runn i through a stop who Sin . The driver - a sh ap ely blonde / ~ turne o t to be Mrs . Roy R dolph Dra k e , wife of the suspect . In the a t ai station w on the cop s found eighteen thousand olla sin cash - be l ieve t o be part of the l oot from the ban k . - 2 o tha s wh n the ue ton n g e an . Today the o ice reporte : 11 She won 1 t ve u nyth ng more than her name nd ad res . For ho rs , he merely sat the re - stubbor n an silent, mute and mum . An .ta&A t he y s y - women talk ! cl r 2 . s chu tts h f ntast c s h es e r ay - a man on ath le s nt at . . h e top o a o ne - • ~ hun re - a n h - V f oot chu rch tee le ' ./. n an elect r cal I storm . Fo a1 hou an a-half he cut capers at the top o f the sire o f t. P ul ' s C thol c ch c h in H rvar Squa re. H e sat on the ro , and ate a s a n w ch an an oran e , a nd ran k a pint of n . A t ime s , h e ' s~ n b one hand , h ol 1 ont o the a rmo r th e o s . All the wh le - 1 1 htnin g fl ashin g , and a ro a r o )1{J Cf thu n der . ~ man on ~ flyin tra eze / , ~ as 1lOt A h a lf so spec tre ula . Finally, he de scen ded, per suaded by h is brother . He tu rns out to be Go f rey qh erman, an elevator operator and an amat»rRX ~ a ctor. To e xplain , he said : 11 obod y l oves me - I ' m disillu s one . 11 / -fu ~ pose his ch u r c h x!dd< ,{ steeple esca pad e < will make an yb ody love h man y more . - - . . i : , . . ~ ~ ~ ~ . , l r } ' . " n f i ! ~ ~ ...... LTP.1956.06.14i.pdf LTP.1956.06.14ii.pdf