MACMILLAN L.T.-DELCO.•~ • F..d, • 'f- '..>'"'ff'", \'\ Word :m. London ~ - that Prime Min ster Macmillan rnay go to Washington for ur ent conferences with Pres i dent Eisenhower. Topic - the summit meetin of chiefs-of-state, which oviet Russia is demanding. ,, oned to / soytet P ,,,/ / •iden; / Eise ~de a study / One interesting aspect - the travels ot Pr1• N1n1aar . 01{ Macmillan. Who, right now - is in Australia. A I ••1f a tour - of Commonwealth possessions in the Pacific and in Asia. So, returning home - might he not make a stop at Washington? In London, today, British officials declared - that this was not part of the plan. But conceded - there might be a last ~~/4e minute switch. The Prime M1nister 1 ~111,~ a detour - to Washipgton. INDONE IA Here•s a dispatch stat n g - that~ group ot· young Indonesian anny colonels has handed an ultimatum to Indonesian President ukamo. Demanding - that he g et the Communists out ot , his government at Jakarta, Java. If he doesn't get r1~ or the Reda, they 1 11 set up a revolutionary anti-Communist regime - on the island or Sumatra. Thia dispatch comes from Tokyo, where Sukamo 11 now on a vacation. The story being that, in Tokyo, he was visited by an Indoneaian _ ~rmy colonel, spokesman t'or the anti-COIIINllilt oft'icera. Today, .Sukarno aald - yea, the colonel had called on hill. But eXJ)lained - it was a mere matter of 11 courteay". Denying - that an ultimatum had been presented. However, there•• insistent word that Sukamo was told - he'd have to scrap hi■ totalitarian kind or government, with all the C01111Uniat1 he put in. Or the army would set up - a new regime. SPACE - WHITE HOUSE President Eisenhower is planning - a National Space Authority. A centralized agency - to handle missile and satellite programs. This developed at a White House meeting today. The President - confabulating with o.o.P. leaders ln Congress, Who were briefed by Dr. James Killian,White House advisor on scientific matters. President Eisenhower - to present Congreaa with plans to reorganize the Defense Department - in a way to meet the demands of the Space-Missile era. The President adding - that he hasn•t made up his mind whether to recoaaend civilian or military control of the new Space Authority. VANGUARD H i gh i n the sk above Cape Canaveral, thirty to forty thousand feet above the Florida coast - tAePe aN winds of hurricane veloc ty. What . . s called the "jet stream" - blowing at a couple of hundred miles an hour. - ~ Result - US delay ooutin••t in ~ launching llf' A ~k_,,~ , tlJ the Navy's artificial satellite. The Vanguard missile to -i.a.l. A .._ man-made Moon - still standing there in readiness. While the Arrny•a Explorer - goes on circling aa El the world. Last week, the launching of the Explorer was delayed, trom one day to another - because of WM tempest 'IP in the stratosphere. The successful attempt - made only lB cauae there was a break in the Jet stream Friday night. Enabling the ll'llly rocket, the Jupiter, to take off. But the break was - brier. The stonny wind at high altitude - soon blowing again. All the more dangerous - for the Vanguard. Which 1a highly compl■x - an intricate, fragile sort of rocket. Compared with the Jupiter, which is called "a workhorse". iUll!it; VANGUARD - ?. Well, Jupiter, the ancient g od of Olympus - was a - rugged sort of character. L ke the rocket - now named after h i m. ~ - ~ - , ~,.. J ~ {~-L' ~ , , u - c ~ ~ ~ Li A - ~ -- ,,L·1 ~ ~ , . 51 Clu, ~ ~ -tJ ~ 4 I ~ ;a,_ µ y,tA~. ANTARCTIC The British Antarct i c exped 1t ·on, le d by Dr. Vivian Fuchs - h as h alted at a po int one-hundred-and-seven miles from .- i ts nex t i mmediate oal. Overhauli n equ i pment, f i xin g up the 7 snow tractors - which have had m igh t y h eavy oin. In preparation for t h e crossin g of one of the most dan g erous areas on the South Polar continent. A stretch of ice and snow - w criss-crossed with !lap treacherous crevasses. Inrwhich - men and equipment mi g ht plunge. It seems, now, that the Fuchs expedition will accomplish its adventurous purpose - of making a complete~- ~ crossing of Antarctica, via the South Pole. They reached Ch4l't ~ American South Polar ¥1.llage on January Twenty-Pourth - and kept going. Averaging - one hundred and thirty-five miles a day, ever since. Headin g - for a supply base, created by Sir Edmund H i llary of New Zealand, conqueror of Mt.Everest. Hillary - to meet them at the base, about five hunared miles from the Pole. After whtch - the Fuchs expedition will have seven hundred miles more to g o, before the reach the Antarctic shore, at Scott base I UIARCTIC - 2 Today 1 s halt will delay them a little, but they'll probably complete their monumental Joumey by March Second or Third. Arriving at Scott Base - in time to catch the laat ahip out, before the Antarctic winter closes 1n. 111 the way across the South Polar continent - rrca one coast •to the opposite coast. One ta of the greateet 118' exploits - 1n the history or exploration. IDUCATIOI At Yale, a conference on education ended ita proceedings today - with an appeal to the public and the government. Wake up to the dismal state or science in thia country - aaya President Eiaenhower•a Comittee ot Sc191'lt1■t■ and Bngineera. Speakers - highly critical or our educational ■J■tea. Dr. LN Dllbr1dge, President ot the Calltomia Inatitute or Technology - calling tor an e11111nat1on or 11111 aourN■ 1n 1ohool1 and college■• cut out the oourH■ - in bulmt ••n111 1114 autoubile dr1Y1ng. W.11, • do drtft autcaob11H • but llby the - - l UHITED FRUIT The United Fruit Company - to do an interesting, it 4- ~ notA paradoxical, thing. ";1ant or the banana industry - to create a competitor. Set up a rival company - to oapete witb United Fruit in the business or bananas. Sounds odd - like a fellow creating an enemy, who will give him a battle. But it 11 I • f I • • t, • • • by agree•nt - between the United Pl'llit CCIIIIJMlftY and the U.S. OovefflJlent. Pour years ago, the Department ot Juatice tiled• anti-tl'llat auit - againat the t i ~ the blnana trade betwen Lat1n•Aaer1ca and the United Statea. 'ftll CGlllplnf charged with running a monopoly, controlling nearl1 all tba banana growing land in Central AMJlca. Which enabled • United Prw.t - to fix prices. '1'he lep]. procNd1nga - going on ever 11nce. Ending, finally - in a "consent" decree. Whereby the giant concem agrees to take a aeries of anti-monopoly •uurea. First and foremost - the setting up or a competitor. United Fruit to provide assets• for an independent UlfflD l'RUl'f • 2 company. Enl1rely separate - from M United Pruit. Capable ot 111porting nine million at911s or bananas a year into the united states . . . United Fruit - to tum nver banana producing landa 1n the tropics. llao - ahipa for transportation. Everything - thit a coapet1tor will need. So the r1 val cOlll)8ftY will not have to 11ng: "Y••, • have no bananu. • - • - Pit -Four. - h at er the preset t ~n at a 1 n Cba1nun Doerter l - h t f\ had been a ■iatake. Intend d - t ot airline t1cketa. Which had a . ctua ly Station l WT V. •bur• h1• r r " p 1 r r y Thia tranap1red in the coura or an nv t I charging PCC ott1c1ala - with"• ,conduct." Pl' • SWAPS And now the question - did the reat thoroughbred "Swaps" ever go on relief? Eati~ts - provided by the u.s. Government? The race horse - that won the Kentucky Derby in Nineteen F1fty-P1ve. "Swaps" - a champion money-uker, eun1ng eight hundred and i·orty-eight thousand dollars during hi■ for racing career. It hardly aeema proper~ a great IIOMJ hone to have been on relief. ~ The charge ill ll&de by Senator John V1111•• or A Delaware. 'l'he Departllent ot lgriculture, today, replyillg. Telling •hat happenN, and expre■aing doubt - that •swape• ever IIUl'lched govenllll8Dt oat■• !be great thol'O\lghbred WU OIIMd by two brolhlN, Rex and Oene Blla110rth - llho have an lr1zona ranch, near 8eligun. Country - hit by the drought. The Departaent ot Agriculture - handing out free grain and hay, aa drought relief. The Ellsworth ranch - given twenty-eight thousand dollars• worth. The Department argues, however - that "Swaps" SWAPS - 2 probably didn't g et any or the hand-out. A spokesman declaring: "That ranch is in dry cattle country, and I can•t imagine a race horse being stabled there." No, if you've seen that part of Arizona, 1t•1 hard AIJ to v1aWll1E9 ..._ Kentucky Derby winner - browaing on the apane ,,. vegetation. Kentucky blue graaa - •'118 more like it. Bilt there•• one other point. The Departaent ot Agriculture - trying to collect from the ranch omera tor the drought relief. Investigation indicating - that the7 wre 1Ml1glbl• to receive 1t. The ownera or "swapa" - mach too wll ott. V1 tia II horae - tliat IIOn eight hundred and rort1-•1gh1/ Iii t s a ,--i_ thow111nc1 dollar•.~ •-t1111 • tt1e pr1• ' - • 19t '9• 11 &-,1" .... tae, Mid➔ So the £0Yeffl111Dt . . a refund for the free grain - twenty-eight thousand dollar•• EISEHHOOR President Eisenhower has a cold - with a "slight aore throat". So stated by Presidential Secretary Jim Hagerty, who adds - "no fever. 11 The cold - not i nterrertng with the Eisenhower work-schedule. Hagerty adding - that he was telling the newa reporters about the "slight sore throat"; lb cue - the Prea1dent aounda a bit hoarse, when he holds hia n••• conterenoe toaol'l'OII. AUTO An automobile - sold in England at the town or Blackpool, today. A car - with a background of wicked h11tory, American history. Scarface Al Capone 1 s -- bullet-proof 1111ouaine. Back in the prohibition era, that aut011obile - tigured pl'Ollinently in accoW1ta of the Chicago gang wara. Scarface Al - riding 1n a 11neteen 'lwnty-11ght IIOdel, with al'IIOr plated ■idea and a bullet-proof gaa tank. &110 - a rear nn~ow that could be reaoved, to pemit the tiring ot ta.yguna. Saalbow or other, that Al Capone auto wu taken to England - where, tor years, it wu put on exhibition, u a sort or a1de•abo• teature.Ji:.n - sold at auction, lut 8111lth. Fetching - tour hundred and twnty clt,llara. low purohaHd - for twice that much, by a Canadian. Called - a "mystery un.• Nobody having the slightest idea - what he 1 ll do with Scarface 11 1 1 bullet-proof limousine. FASHION The ladies, these days, are all talking about - the "sack look." That latest fashion from Paris - so ne•, so different, such a novelty. Or is 1t1 Today, the London T1.lllea published a note showing - the neack lookn 1n women•s fashions 1s at least two hundred and ninety yeara old. How can they tell? Well, the newapaper entry troa the diary ot S1111\Mtl Pepy■• Dated - March seoond, Sixteen s1xt1•B1ght. When Pep,a wrote the tollow1ng in h1■ t•oua diary: 1ft n11y wite th1a day put on her tiret Prench Sollft • callM a nc. Vh1ch - becaaea her wry wll." ~ Par1a turned out tbe naack look" back 1n tbe Seventeenth Century. One husband, at least - giving hi■ appl'Oftl DOLAND over in England, in the town of Stevenage, the Minister or Housing of the London government visited a building site. Three workmen - on the job. Housing Minister Henry Broolcl, offering to shake hands with them. But they refused. Angry - becauae the Housing Minister had annoWlced a plan to reduce conatructioo activities. The retuaal to shake hands - 011barru11ng. So the Houaing N1n11ter uttered a dignified remonatrance. Vbich, 1 • 1 4 think - would have made thoae worklllen uhaaed ct theaaelve■• "I'■ sorry," eaid be, "that you won't 1bake handa. I thought - w •re all Bngliataen." '!'he trouble waa - he thought wrong. '1'llo ot the worlalen .,.,... Patrick Sullivan and John Namey - both Iriab. -