U!U!lfil. ff-~. ' t u - - ~ 1tuv.d.ui,1 ()(;./. (~~~~~) The hite Hou s e has announced - a shift . in this week's Pr es idential Ne w s Conference. In Act - two shifts • From today - to tomorrow. From four P.Y., Washington time - to six P.M. Moreover, this News Conference - will be carried over radio and TY. The object, of course, - is to give President Kennedy as big an audience as possible. The inference being - that the President will have some dramatic announcement to make. Subject - Laos. That bedeviled nation of South East Atia - is causing grave concern inside the Administration. i1dap --- µ Ii c_, lhe Pres id ent 11 ordered increased American aid - to the pro-Weetern government of Laos. close to the White House believe• be - an a p peal to the members of from Communist aggression. At the same time, source • t h at the next step will A SETO to help save Laos ,, Presumably we'll learn a lot more about all thia - w hen President Kennedy meets newsmen tomorrow. The Allies in the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization - aren't just sittJug around waiting for the American President to speak. In langkok, Thailand, their delegates have begun to formulate - a coamon military strategy. Deciding how to go about it - if they coaait have to pn■■it their araed forces to a caapaign in Laoa. ~QNGQ In the Congo, the bone of contention at the moment - is Matadi. The Leopoldville Governaent has offered to let UN officials - back into the seaport. But only on pain of paying dut,es - on all UH cargo unloaded from incoming freighters. As a result, the UB hasn't accepted the is invitation to send representatives into already Uatadi - even though ships are said to be arriving/fro ■ , · the High Seas. AIOYlC ...... The Geneva Conference held a session today - lasting exactly twenty-three minutes. Just enough tia to let Soviet Delegate Tsarapkin make it clear - that he's not interested in the new Western proposals. Be simply shrugged aside - Arthur Dean's offer to let Soviet scientists inspect the mechanisa ot America's nuclear devices. France. Tsarapkin devoted his few remarks - m4inly to Paris is not represen~ed at Geneva -~which gives llos cow a good pretext to say •17et. • The pretext,, that u agreement would be meaningless - as long as the French are exploding Atomic bo■bs in the t· Sahara. £WiY.li£§~ . . . . . .. The two Bills that went from Capitol Hill to th& White Bouse today - d . on 't give President Kennedy everythin • be asked for. But both are good enough from the Administration point of view - to merit the Presidential signature. The UnemploymEtnt Compensation Bill - involves a billion dollars. Covers more than three million M-- d ~ Americans - who ••i:i1 •1■• thirteen weeks of extra " I I benefits, wliile they 're looking for work. And" could s t a r t ~ affecting the National economy - within two weeks. Government checks are expected to start moving - by then. The Fa r m Bill .. does two things the Administra- tion requested. It cuts acreage under cultivatt on - and raises price supports on basic crops. It's part of the Adm inist ration Plan - to solve the problem of agricultural surpluses. The Senate did one more thing - for President Iennedy. Approving his brother-in-law - for a top t · b Sargeant Shriver - to 1111 head of the governmen JO • r,_,...., Peace Corps. GQJAIII . . . . . . . The Administration probably won't uae a teapora tax cut - to beat the recession. So 1a71 lalter Beller - Chief Econoaic Adviser to the President. The Beller atate ■ ent ia a sign of optiaisa - that tbe rece11ion i• o tbe wa:, out. Our econoa, evidentallJ doeaa•t need - that kind of shot in the ara. Doesn't need a tax reduction - to let conauaer• have aore aone7 to apea4. DMI& .. . .. All five defendants in London~s espionage trial, drew stiffer penalties - than did Ilaus Fuoha.e;even yeara ago. The scientist convicted of spying for the Ruaaians - was sentenced to fourteen years in jaiJ,t' . Today, the 0 lightest sentence banded down in London's historial Old . . • Bailey - was fifteen years. That much of a penalty - for Ethel Gee and Henry Boughton. They worked at the Portland laval Base - and had planned to be aarried. They had other plana, too~ according to the prosecution. They were found guilty '6 gathering secret information about the Britiah lav7 - an-':, passing it on t~ their co-defendants, ia lhi• ••••~ The two Americana proaecuted - were aentenced to twenty year• each. The pair known in EnglanA as Peter and Belen Iroger - actually, llorri• and Dora Cohen ~ lew York. It was in their hoae - that the incriainating evidence was found. The short-wave radio - and so on. • • Finally, the man accused o£ being the llasterain4 of the Espionage Ring. Gordon Lonsdale - whoa Scotland Yard describe• as a Soviet Intelligence Agent. Lord DlAL - 2 .... Parker excoriated Lonsdale - froa the bench. Teraina this defendant - •a profe11ional 1p7.• Then 1eatenciD1 bia - to twent7-fiYe years in a British priaoa. ~g~■C!t..ialla!...Iilll& . . . . . . . . . . . ... The 1trange case of Arthur Roddey - ended in a , Virginia Court loo■ today. Bo, the strange part - ian•t the ■ entence of eight years. It's the fact that Ro4dtJ waa found guilty of stealing a goYern■ent docu■ent - which he wrote hiuelf. Be u11d to work - at the Pentagon. a11igaaeata ••• to draw up a top-secret lefence Oae of hi• Departaent report - called •The Application of Satelite• in Ueterololical leconaaiaaanoe.• This report di1api-arl fro• the files - and the fBI found it in Rodd17'1 po•••••ion. docuaenta. Along with two hundred other cla11lfied Thro111hout hla trial, BoddtJ in1i1ted - he waa A~•~ no 1p7. /lia defense, proYiDI iapregnable - on that point. Bia story waa, and ia, that he intended to prepare an oYerall aurTey - to show hie Pentagon su p eriors that they were being •aiainforaed•. Anyway, be••• found guilty - of illegallJ po•••••ing cla1aified docuaenta. And the critical docpent in the case~ was the one autbor~d bJ Arthur 104417. Any document iifu~r pauch p a c k, ~1ck. .. :, I'm - sure Lowell would want me to aay soaethin& • about - the death of Colonel Leslie Arnold. The Colonel, as you may have read in the obituaries - took part in the first flight around the world, back in Jineteen Twent1- Four. lell, Lowell was the historian - of that colorful episode in the ~ aviation. Bia book · · 1 • 'The First I orld Flight• - told how young Lieutenant Arnold teamed up with seven other of fie ers in a four-plan bid to circle the globe. Two of the planes, crashed en route. The other two - aade it. One, the old biplane - 1paakin8'i•• it waa, then - called •Chicago.• Aboard the •Chicago• - LieutenanteLowell Saith and Le1lie Arnold. They flew fro• Seattle, across the Pacific, Asia, Europe, the Atlantic, the U.S.A. - and back to Seattle. In later years, Colonel Arnold liked to point out - that today you can book the sue itinerarJ at any Travel Bureau. But in Bineteen Twenty-Four, a year's planning - · went into the project. The first world fligb a,xca - 2 .. . ... . •hich •••arousing success partly because of - Lieutenant Leslie Arnold. The young aviator who went on to becoae 1 Colonel in the Air Force - ud died yesterday at the age ~ , , h _ _ of aixt7-aix. Burial if in Arlington Ce■eter7 on FridaJ- with f'ull aili tar, honor a. Pallbearer• - Lowell Thoaaa. One of the Honorary