GOO EVE'! EV~ Y y : O ur o s tmaster eneral has been g iven a re rieve. ' eanin - Arthur Summerfield may etthe money he wants - for his department. As we know, t e .M. thre a tened to make big cut backs in the mail service - if Con ress did not vote enough money for his vast de _ artment. We were told - of delayed deliveries - and p ossibly no mail et all on Saturdays. · ell, today the House A. p ro p riations Committee over-ruled its sub-committee. The full committee, p romisin g seventeen million dollars at once - for the P ost office de ~ artment. Thirty million more - may be voted later. Then ostmaster General Summerfield will not have to make all t h ose cut-baccs he sai might be - would be necessary. COM ERCE - The Ho u e A p ropriations Co mittee votes to cut the budget of the Commerce De artment. And its a big cut - about a quarter. Secretary of Commerce Sinclair K eeks - had asked for eight hundred million. The committee says - a little less than six hundred million - would be about right. ecretary : eeks had asked Congres1 to reduce his estimate if necessary - but he didn't expect a reduction of twenty five percent. AIRCRAFT A isp tch from Car on City , Nevada that ' a hi h y classifie II aircraft 1s missing. H e 'b o wn 1 somewhere in tRe ' 1:>1!-the -border etwaen-Cali~, Nevada~h-- The Air Force has ordered a security 8& L guard to be placed around t;h!s ai-N--- when,, ie found. That I s all.• lMGh No word s-t ali on 3Uft- what this "highly classified' aircraft is. KOINONIA Q ~ ~1n1s ter ~ to invest! ate Koinonia F rms, at urg s the Federal overnment ~ - Arn ricus The Reverend / ..... Clarence Jor an say1n, some wor from President Eisenhower would help calm the situation tu down there." Koinonia farm - an experL~ent in desegregation. It's made upof ministers and farmersr both-White and negrees. Jordan says that about a year ago - terrorists began to persecute Koinonia farm. They dynamited property. T~ey fired machine gun bullets into the area. They started an econom!c boycott. And the terror is still going on. The Reverend Clarence Jordan believes Mr. Eisenhower could help Koinonia Farm - by speaking out in favor of this experiment in desegregation. The Federal government takes the line - that it's the business of state and local authorities. ICHRUSHCHEV The boss of the Soviet union - gives a new twist to the Marxist dogma. Khrushchev, stating that Russian farmers should receive incentives to work. Even cash - prizes, for farmers who exceed the limit ln their production or milk and meat. That doesn't sound like the old Comun1et theory. • ~ We used to be told J Conaunists don't need 1noentivea .A They work as hard as they could - dU' because they weren't being exploited by capitalists. ~ Caarade Khrushchev says that 1 ~wrong interpretation, ~ ~ everybody needs encourage•nt - even COIIINlllats • .So- eP-~ ~ ~~ ~ - - L ~ AM =lie-,_,' 1 ' h t ~ , n u -,-to Ke, ~ pt'OthaC~ Ula & I NP tc I "" wf,J-~ ~ ' ATOMIC The Russians have just touched off another atomic So announced by the ATomic Energy Commission in Washington. According to Chalnnan Lewis Strauss• the explosion was detected two days ago. There's no word yet on how big a device was used. It could have been anything froll a tactical missile - to one of the biggest bombs. THREAT Another threat of atomic aM1hilat1on - broadcast by radio Moscow. T . one. directed at Holland. The Dutch. warned not to let America have bases within Holland - baaea from which atomic bombs might be hurled aga1nabRuaala. According to Radio Moscow. that would mean complete deatnotlon of all the American baaes - along with the Dutch c1t1ea nearbJ. ADENAUER The Chancellor of w ~ st Germany says his country - must have atomi c weapons. Ola . ncellor Adenauer, speaking at a news conferenc e - pointing out that Russia has almost half a million men in East Oennany. That's a threat West Germany cannot ft ignore - because they have modern equipment. Adenauer feels that West Germany won't be safe untll she haa arms to keep pace with the Coanunlsts. That's why he wants atomic weapons as soon as possible. Uncle S am to send some of the latest wea p ons - to south Korea. The reason - to hel p counter the Communist build-up in North Korea. e would have no right to send these latest eapons over there - according to the agreement that ended the Iorean war, were it not that the Beds have been flagrantly violatin g that agreement. ending all kinds of weapons into North Korea - including around six hundred jets. Altho many have demanded that we denounce the armistice agreement - because o~ Red violationa, ecretary of State Dulles has repeatedly said we would not do that - because it might lead to a new war. But, he now feels th a t we ought to match the Communist build- up by giving si ■ ilar weapons to our friends in South Korea. cAmo The capital of Egypt was blacked out today. Vw4' The streets of Cairo cleared~-" an air ra1d u drill. Israeli planes violated the Gaza frontier. But there were no incidents either in Cairo or Gaza. Meanwhile, Egypt accuses Premier Ben Gur1on or what are called, "continued provocations ' against F.gypt. And Nasser repeats - that Israel was a tool of Britain and Prance during the Suez lnvaalon last fall. MIDDLE EAST Accordin o the Frime Minister of Israel, the Reds are creating political chaos in Syria and Jordan. Ben u ion ca$1ng/this on repor she has from Damascus, capital of Syria, and Amman, capital of the Reds u making a strong big Jordan. In both countries, to seize powarrAlthough Syria and Jordan claini to be neutral Ben Gurion says both may become Soviet satellites over night - if the Connunista gain much more ground in these two Moslem countries. An~ that if Syria and Jordan were to go Communist - that would produce a major crisis b for the entire Middle East - especially since Egypt 1s relying on Moscow for military and economic aid. This at present 1s the official Israeli point of view. ~ISENHOIEI resident Eisenhower drove from as ington to Gettysburg today - his Secret Service driver keeping within the seed limits, all the way. The President and Mrs. Eisenhower, takin g two hours and fifteen minutes to make the trip; a half-hour longer than last weekend - when the P residential li ■ ouaine left three other cars behind. All those news ■ en who ••r• nabbed by the Maryland police. BOOK I've a copy of a newly published book - telling the story of a courtroom trial of long ago. The case - one reason why we are able to have newspapers and news broadcasts. The way we do - today. The book, by Vincent Buranelli, is called " h Trial of Peter Zenger". Which trial was the first legal teat - of the freedom of the press 1n this coWlti, · . Peter Zenger - who printed a newspaper 1n Colonial New York. Prosecuted - by an arbitrary royal govemor. The cue ending - 1n an historic vindication ot the treed011 ot the preaa. Making not only a fa taacinating - but an ever tillely story. ARSON Los Angeles police have picked up two suspected of arson. Two more sought. Four men entered a cocktail lounge called the 'Club Mecca." They began annoying one of the women 1n the lounge. She complained to the manager, Alton Welles, who ordered them out. Ill When they protested the four were bounced. Patrons lending a hand. Everything quieted down - until b a suddenly, the four were there again. This time one of them splashing a bucket of gasoline through the door. Another, threw a burning •as of paper atop the gasoline. Then they sped off in a car. The a gasoline not only went up in a blaze - there was a blast. An explosion shaking the neighborhood. Six persons burned to death. Three injured. Later, the police found two men asleep in an automobile similar to the one used by the arsonist~. The two admit having visited the bar, but denied setting the place on fire. WEATHER In mos arts of the countr~ · ton! t it's either snow or rain. A thunderstonn along a broad front- from Virginia to the Gulf of Mexico. A tornado at Big Stone Gap, Virginia demolishing a storage building. Another tornado smashing through a rural area in South Carolina, raising homes and barns. Floods in Tennessee, Alabama, and Mississippi. Here in the Northeast - snow all the way from Maine to Pennsylvania. All brought on by a low pressure area, leaving 1n its wake rain, snow, high winds, floods and tornadoes. The toll - more than forty dead, hundreds injured. GOLD / Here's a fol~ow up to a story we had a few weeks ago. That story told of millions in Spanish old - burled in vaults under the Kremlin. It was suggested then - that Spain ought to demand the return of that gold - which was smuggled out by Communists during the Spanish Civil War. The Reds, shipping it off to their comrades in Russia. Well, today Radio Moscow mentioned the Spanish gold. We are told - none of it ls left. According to Moscow, that Spanish gold was spent 1n support of the Communist rebels, who were over thrown by Franco. We are told that the gold was used for a series or u payments - to the Spanish Reds. Said Radio Mo~cow today, "the payments became so frequent - the m;: s o o n L ~ . 1 g o ~ ~ ) ~ t h ~ e n he story or the Spanish that gold under the Kremlin. ~ comrade Stalin spent it all - for his good friends the Spanish Communists. I VAULT Today in San Francisco, three youngsters said: , . it felt like Edgar Allen Poe. 11 Al though they seem a bit young to even know who F.dgar Allen Poe was. Cheri Stevenson, eleven; Dave Rude, fifteen; and Bill Moore, sixteen. They were talking about the hours they spent 1n a vault or an abandoned .nansion. The three were fooling around, in the mansion yesterday. Stepping into an open vault. One o f ~ their friends a slammed the door. The lock snapped - and, the three were trapped. They say they didn't get acared - until they banged a board against the wall. All they heard was a hollow boom. And then, says Bill Moore: " we began to think about Bdgar Allen Poe," the horrors he wrote about. The Pit and The Pendulum and so on. Meanwhile their pals did have sens e enough to go for help. When firemen arrived they found a tough problem facing them. A vault with walls a foot thick - ~ including VAULT - 2 heavy steel plates. First they tried sledge hanners. Then they took an acetylene torch to the door. But they couldn't get it open. All the firemen managed to do was pipe oxygen into the vault. Finally, an expert on safes arrived; Ila drilled a hole along side the dial. Cut off the pins. The tumblers f , , , , . . . . , - fell back - and the door swung open. Whereupon three subd'1ed ~ youngsters emerged after their Edgar Allen Poe adventure. f4IB \ s urprise announcement from P aris - one of the w orld's reat fashion houses g oin out of business. The H ouse built by Jacques Fath. Until Nineteen Fifty Four Jacques Fath created fashions worn by woaen around th• world. H e was second only to Christian Dior. However Jacques Fath died, suddenly, in Nineteen Fifty Four. His widow,who tried to keep the busin••• going, today she announced - she can't coapete with ready to wear dresaee. Fewer woaen are coming to her - for special creations. S o th• Jacques rath eatabllabaeat will pull down its abutters. Exce p t Henry, that it will continue to sell acce11oriea - whatever ladies accessories include. UR ANNOUNCER: And now Lowell Thoaas rec a lls. L.T. A year ago, today, our headline story concerned labor rac eteering. One or the most vicious cri••• ot recent years - the acid blinding of labor Colu■ nist, Victor Riesel. Biesel leaving a restaurant, the thug stepping up, thowing acid in his eyes. The first report that the labor columnist aight lose his sight. And he did. Victor Riesel is now blind. But one thing the columnist neYer lost - hi• courage. Be's still crusading against rackete•r• in the unions. All of which ties in with the g•eral picture of corrupt officials in unions - a picture brou ht out by the recent Senate investigations in W ashington. And So long until Monday.