Lr- I - _ , _.A (') .A . QJ:Lr>. <, ,_ -'5~\..,. FORMOSA . / • ~ , ~ , -r · c<.... l-'7 -.J _ Secretary of State, John roster Dulles, today, came forward with proposals ___ that might bring about a conference with Red China. The principal poi~t in dispute has been the question - - - whether or not Bationalist China should participate 1n negotiations for a ••''lemena]n the rar Ea•~ · a the Bandung Conference, which ended ~ yeaterday, the roreign Minister of Red China made the suggestion - - • that hia government would welcome discussions with the United States. But Chou En-Lai declared - - - he would not go into any meeting with the Chiang ~ Kai Shek regime. That wa~ repeated yesterday by the Peiping Red radio - - - which rejected any conference in which the Chinese Nationaliata might be represented. Meanwhile, our State Department kept insisting - - - that we would not attend any such meeting without •ationalist China. FORMOSA . Today, at a ne 9 ~ w con~erence, Secretary Dulles seemed to cut - - - - that •G~rdian Knot•. He said - - - - Chiang Kai Shek must be represented at any discussion of the future of rormosa. But added - - - - th&t we might confer with the Chinese Reds alone - - - in the matter ot a cease tire along the China coast. &hioh might, presumably, include the 1qp11x•a1 1ubJect of those off shore islands, the Quemoy and Matsu groups. In other words, by leaving out the fate of rormoea, itself - - - we could go 1nt o a oonterence a ~ --,f!..,) U-4.) Rationalist China might not be repreeente':J/ This p roposal, advanced by the Secretary of State, was pro ptly echoed by Senator George 4-' of Georgia __ - chairman ot~Foreign Relations Committee. Who, all along - - - has been urging that we should look into the Chou En-.r- suggestion of a conference. sena t or George, in FORMOSA 3 fact, goes a bit fu~ther than the Dulles compromise, gtfere, ,,,a,,. He says - - - we can't possibly discuss the fate of rormosa without having Chiang Kia Shek in on the discussion. But he notes - - - - that we the a l g h t ~ a ~ = ~ - wlth the Reda &nd lat1onal1et regime sepa,rately. · In other words, confer with one - - - then with the other. That might seem to be a neat solution- since the Bationaliets, themselves, DU& declare they won't go into azrconference 1th the Communists. In this, they echo the Reda. The t : o hostile pa,rtiea - - ~ refusing to have anyth i ng to do with each other. So we might be - - - a sort of middle man. That would s e em to be the meaning of the proposal made by Seaa,or George. Secretary Dulles declares - - - we must have some evidence in good faith , before AUS T RIA Sovi t Russia, to d ay, agreed - - to a c nfer e nce of Ambassadors in Vienna. To draft a treaty for freein g occupied Austria. meeting to be held - - - on May 2nd. This Ambassadorial Conference was proposed by the Western Powers and Moscow eaye - - - - Okay. Th8, news was followed by word from the United States Embassy in Vienna - which has cancelled all leaves of absence for employees holding essential Jobs. Essential, that is, for t&ska to be done during the conference. Thie 'freezing• of key personnel extends a ll the way from diplomatic officials to stenographers. It even affects the Marines on guard duty at the United States Consulate in Vienna. We hear, moreover, thattthe Ar~y--iZc ~ s1milari. cancelled leaves of absence. Which might have s o mething to do with u lans for an evacuation of Austrian t a rritory. One p urpos e AUS TR IA Sovi t R Bsia, to d ay, agreed - - to a c nfer e nce of Ambassadors in Vienna. To draft a treaty for freein g occupied Austria. la-e- meeting to be held - - - on May 2nd. This Ambassadorial Conference was proposed by the Western Powers and Moscow says - - - - Okay. Th&, news was followed by word from the United States lmbassy 1n Vienna - which has cancelled all leaves of absence for employees holding essential jobs. Essential, that 1a, for task& to be done during the conference. This 'freezing' of key personnel extends all the way from diplomatic officials to stenographers. It even affects the Marines on guard duty at the United States Consulate in Vienna. We hear, moreover, that~the A r ~ y ~ ~ s1milar}y cancelled leaves of absence. Which might have s o mething to do with u lans for an evacuation o f Austrian tarritory. One p urpose AUSTRIA 2 of the May 2 nd c o nference - - - to arrange a withdrawal of all occupation troops } And tJ oscow, today agreed '' to still ta 1 k s w 1 t b Japan• • I 11111 another conference ~ e m e eting - to be held in London, negotiate for an end of the state of war. Which s till exists, formally- Japa.n. between Russia and PLANE A wierd aerial melodrama, abroad, ended today - - in flaming tragedy. Fo u r p e rsona killed, when a runaway plane crashed into a house. The melodrama began in England, when a half-trained air student sneaked off in a plane - - - making an unauthorized flight. A young Indian, named Man1k Agnani, who had taken several flying lesions. They say he was homesick for Ind1& - - - althought it seems hardly possible that he thought be could fly all the way to southern Asia. But, anyway, at a flying field near Portamoutb, he took off in a large training plane, and went on a crazy flight. Weaving around over southern England, at night - - - buzzing London. They could follow him on the radar screen, a •blip•-_ moving along. But then, after some hours, the blip disappeared. They thought it PLAII 2 meant - - - the runaway plane had crashed. But then word came - from rranoe. l plane - on an erratic flight. The Ind1a.n student had swooped low, and gone speeding across the Channel. Then came with a flaming crash 1 1nto a rrench home. Tragic loss of lives - - - including that of the runaway pilot. IIPL0SI0H There was a d1sasterous explosion at the Newport, Rhode Island, Raval Base today. In a building testing torpedoes, mines and depth charges. terrific blast Shory ~efore with-.,:;;: lives ., A noon - - - a ~ lost,/\f1ve persona injured. Re.,1 ■ Ns-l~•~ All - - - c1v111an employees. The explos1an knocked out one wall of the bu1ild1ng and blew the roof off. Cause of the accident - - - unknown. TBAPI The Senate Finance Committee voted approval today - for Pren1dent Eisenhower's tra d e program. The liberalized measure, without crippling amendments g ot an overwhelming committee vote, twenty-one to thr e e { , his is one of the moat controversial ot the bills pro osed by the President, and face1 considerable op p osition from conservatives 1n h1s own party. Today's committee action, howeve., wou / 2 em to 1nd1oati -- eventual paesage by Congr ACTRESS The Hospital report 1s that Actrees Susan Hayward is coming around alright. Recovering - - - from an overdose of sleeping pills. She would have b e en a goner however, if it hadn't been for her Mother- - - and prompt action by the police. larly today, the Mother of the aoT1e ao1resa telephoned the Hollywood pol1ce,and said: 'My daughter 1a Susan Hayward, and I am afraid she 1s going to 1•ns111 comm1 • suicide.• She added that her daughter had 3ust called her, and said,: •Don't worry, Mother, you will be ;aken care ot.• Whereupon, two detectives went speeding to Susan Hayward's luxurious home in C old Water Canyon. When they banged at the door - - - no answer. They had to break through a uoor , to get in - and found Susan Hayward sprawled on the floor, lip stairs, •■z■ her twin children, two small boys, were sleeping. ACT&ISS 2 It isn't clear what the motive wae - - for attempted suicide. But Susan Hayward had marital troubles, which hit the headlines. Quarreling - with her former husband, Jess Barker, over the custody of their children. In New Orleans, the former husband was much affected by the news - - - and_. k. ~ .. ~ fly to the bedside of the atriken actress. X ATOMIC The At o mic Explosion had to be postponed, again, today. We ther - - - - not right. Weather, in fact - - - all wrong. A gale, up to seventy ffve miles an hour. Whipping across the desert. Creating - a sand storm worthy of the Sahara. Along the highways, visibility - - - down to fifty feet. The violent wind, full of fine particles,- virtually sand blasting automobiles. The word from Las Vegas 1e that it seems unlikely that an atomic explosion can be staged even tomorrow - - - although the weatherman says the wind storm will die down during the night. This atomic news gives the cue to a weather r port for the Pacific Coast. Wind storms ___ all the way down from northern California.. In the Sierras - - - a blizzard. ATO IC - 2 The no e tendi far nland . In S lt La e Ct - wintry ecene ~ today . hea snowfall. The p a~ e e s in the w a~a t ch Mounta ns bloc ked by ~n ow . GLIDIR Over the High Sierras, v olent winds tore a glider to pieces. In it - - - the co-holder ot the world's altitude record of glider flights. Larry Edgar - - - on wings without has made many an exciting asc e nt a motor. (Including t ~ .. e time, i~ 1952, when he with a co-pilot - - - soared to an altitude of forty-two- thousand;- two-hundred feet, the world's he vlll never f o r ~ ~ over A: record. But the lofty aount&ins . ~ . ) He told the story, today.,r~- how he went / ' / \ •oaring up to thirty-nine thousand feet, 1n his big 1a11 plane. All - - - smooth and serene, until he wa~ on his way down . ~t fifteen thousand feet, gliding over the Sierras, the glider was hit by violent winds. The •lip-stream - ~hich blows up the steeo slopes of the mountains. ~sailplane - - - torn to pieces by the Tiolenoe of the blast. 'l'hs glider champ bailing out, hitting the silk. While the wind blew the wreckage of hie JLIDIR 2 glider, Larry Edgar came parachuting down - - - and landed ately. JJY<ll'IJ.X~ X B ' H s l l 6 . ~ ~ ~ u u u CIIJJll)IMff~ RUNNER I am in Sat Lake City, toni ht, where the athl e tic n ew s tells - - - of Roy Behunin, on the University of Utah Track Team. Roy is all s et for the race of his life - - - intending to • compete in the two mile event at a traok meet of the Skyline Conference. Roy - - - running on what they are calling •glass legs•. Wh1ch would aeem to be the r1ght word - - - glaaa ) Last year, they had a labratory explosion at the University of Utah. A highly dramatic blast. Roy Behun1n, a chemistry student, was experimenting with a chemical used 1n fuel for rcckets. When - - - the experiment blew up, with a thundering roar. By way of a strange coincidence, there was a Class lecture on the floor below the labratory. ,, a -1,e "--"'~ ~ _ on the Atomic Bomb. The professor w a 1 I R N R 2 d es c r1bin t o t e s udent s the s t up en do us r o ar o f t h e At om i c b la st - - - wh e n at that m om e nt, Ro y h ad hi s 11Jlllll~AX ex p losi o n on the floor above. The class 11sten1n to t h e Ato m ic lecture, thought - - - that was it. They say you nev e r saw so many students running so fa.st. As for Roy he was - - - - perfor a ted. His legs, chest and arms peppered by the 1a1aa1■ barrage of glass. They took him to a hospital, where the doctors extracted one · hundred pieces of glass from his legs &lone - - - the larger pieces. As for the smaller sliv e rs, they couldn't do anything. They just left them in Roy's legs saying - - - #T 1 ever run 1n a tra c k meet aga'in. But Roy thoughi otherwise. •1 deci d ed•, he says, •to i g nore what the doctors told m e. so I went out for the track team again.• W ith all that glass in hi m , he foun d it RU inJ.. u e e 11 to wal · • t , e ubbor 1 , he o "0 ,o o nd the c 1 eve .. , a . la~ ~ {ep t om in ou o f h d y . To ay e e a d : " Onl y te day I p ul ad o her piece of g la e out o f y left han d . I i a o one fourth of an nch lon • 11 o that ' ~ the colle e athlete, n ow train ng for the t o - m le race . o onder they s ay -- he runs on "le g s of gl ae s . 11 And now a f nal verbal sprint for you, Hugh.