HERTER Secretary o f State 91a tabla Herter came back from Geneva, today. Describing the failure of the conference of the foreign ministers in exprssive words, He said - theJ 'handed up 11 the Berlin crisis to Eisenhower and Khrushchev. Gromyko, he said, blocked all evidence of a a settlement at Geneva. Nevertheless, he thinks the conference, in his words - "moved ws in the direction of an agreement." In any case, they "handed up" the problem of Berlin to be considered in the talks between the two top leaders. Soon after h1s arrival, the Secretar, of State went on to the White House, to give President Eisenhower a first hand account of the Geneva negotiations. The President, this morning, having received a personal report from Vice President Nixon - on his talk s(with Khrushchev 1n Moscow. We hear that Hixon advised the President about the right way to answer the Soviet Premier, if he talks tough. Talk tough - in retum. HERTER.- 2 Meanwhile, Secretary of Defense Neil McElroJ aa,1 • he's willing to show Khrushchev some of our formidable rocket 1natallat1ona. ;ro let him know - something about American armed / power. MOSCOW - BOOKS The a news has been telling about the removal - of a hundred books from the American exhibition in Moscow. Soviet authorities claiming - the volumes contained ant1- C00!1Dun1st propaganda. The controversy now settled - bJ a sort or compromise. It waan•t at all clear Just how the books offended the sena1b111tles or the Reda, and I don't find thil llllCh Cleare toda, - after a blast in a Moscow magazine. Which naaes - one of the culprits. The World Almanac. The Magazine article accuses the World Almanac of - "gross, libelous fabrications against the Soviet goverraent So today I took a look at that standard reference book - turning to the article on Soviet Ruasia. Which left• - more puzzled than ever. The article - no livelJ bit of entertain ment, a lot of dry facts and figurea. But, I couldn't find " anything anti-Soviet in it. Any of those gross, libelous fabrications~ Maybe I should read the entire World Almanac, or - you do that. TANGANYIKA Another British colony in Africa - to become independent. Tanganyika - along the great lake of that name. In London, Julius Nyerere, the nationalist la ~ leaderi)has been conferring for a month with Colonial Secretar, Alan LeMox-Bo:r~ 4nnounc"" today - that Tang1111J1ka - will soon become self-governing. Independent - within ten au years. The East African leader, pin fact, saying -"I cannot imagine the British continuing to govern Tanganrlka for 110re than five yeara. 11 And ao the Br1t1ah empire - continues t o ~ ~ EISENHOWER LABOR In his radio-TV talk tonight, President Eisenhower will declare - that's there's a overwhelming national demand for effective labor legislation. To wipe out what he calls a national disgrace. 'ftle kind of corruption - exposed by the Senate Rackets Comittee. The President advocates the Landrum-Griffin measure which la the toughest under cona1derat1on. He calla it 11 a law to protect the American people from gangsters, racketeers, and other corrupt ele•nta, who have 1nv~ the · labor-management field. MEANEY FOLLOW EISENHOWER AF L - CI O President George Meaney, tonight - argues against the labor bill backed by the President. Two L ~ hours after th~ Eisenhower radio-tv appearance, Meaney.A#IP! go on the r a d 1 ~ - that he's all 1n favor of legislation to check union racketeering. But contending - that anti-union forces are conspiring to impose punitive lawa on the entire labor movement. ROCKEFEL L ER "Draft Rocl t efeller " headquarters - to be set up in the middlewest, possibly Chicago. So announced by Congressman Stuyvesant Wainwright of New York. Who says - the New York Governor must become active outside his own state. I _ )(~ make hlmsel f better known as a political personality - throughout the country at large. Consequently, supporters backing him for the Presidency will soon establish a "draft Rockefeller " headquarters. The Congressman says the "unofficial •a,tl• captain" of the organization ls Judson Morehouae, chairman of the New ;;-~ York State Republican Committee. But he adds thatAMorehouae has been getting, what he calls, "very shabby" treatment from the nationel party leaders. Who, reportedly - are for Nixon. ' Particularly - following the Vice President's impressive trip to Soviet Russia and Poland. To prove his charge of 1 sha"1 11 treatment, Congressman Wainwright showed newsmen a letter on the stationery of o op National headquarters. Informing him - of his ROCKEFELLER - 2 nomination to a post at the Re~ublican Presidential convention. Appointed 11 assistant in charge of music. " Well, maybe the Rockefell~r leader could play the convention organ. What would he play'? Maybe 11 rock-a-bye-baby. 11 FLOOD It rained at Fort Madison, Iowa, todaJ - and within forty-five minutes people were fleeing from their hoaea. Escaping - the deluge. Thia - to be explained bJ the topographJ or the town. Three creeks - flowing through Fort Madison. Ordlnarllr ••11 - and as peaceful as the babbling brook. But Fort Madison, todQ, got a downpour or raln - aa if the sklea were openlhg. lfine aa and a half lnohea - or ~ ~~. rain)( tlz&;lc turned thoae three cree1ca/\--~• . . •~-"'1---'1111~i-.-•••11a11.,-. . 'lbelr waters converging - and overwhel-1ng parts ot the oltJ. A fluh flood so sudden - that people had ton• in a wild hurr,. No 11vea lost, apparentlJ - but Mrs. Iva ~~ Hoaburd had a 111ghtJ narrow escape. ~•pt off her front porch bJ the surge of the flood~ waa Juat u able to catch hold of a chair. Hanging onto the chair, aa if it were a life- Jnt preserver, ahe was swept aw11. Later• - rescued. BOY - In the wilds of northem Ontario today, a search party found 'leap pistol. Which, to them - was like a marker on a trail. They were hunting - for a missing bOJ. Seven year old Mike Vanreek - who disappearing five da,a ago. ~ e r i / wandering off - into the wild bu•~ count~ )"'ile pla,lng a ('),,-- sea - of cowbop and Indiana. · Nike - a two-gun .n_;)'f th two Did cap pl1tol1 - one ln each hand. 6J..I now the ae1rche~d - one of the to, 1U shooters. 'lben, prettJ soon, they found Mike. Clutched 1n hla hand - the other cap pla tol. He might drop one gun, but he I d need the other - because that's bear countr,. Abounding - 1n big brown be~. Mike - 1n - good ahape. He'd been eating - blueberries. 'Dley took him to~ hospital for examination and - all the way he held onto his cap pistol. Self protection - as you understand it when you are seven. Y\.4'\J~. GUARDS Newspapers in London - rallying to the cause or the guardsmen at Buckinghu Palace. 'ft'lose maJeatic aoldiera - in tall bearskin hats) ,,who, on sentry duty at the Palace gate - stride back and forth all day long. Solemn - and imperturbable. Ignoring - the reaarka and antics of crowds or alght-aNra. But even the patience or a r07al guarda•n can becOlle exhauatecl. Private Victor Footer or the Cold Streu Ouarda - charged wlth a grave otrenae. Private Footer - anno,ed bJ an American WOiian tourlat. So Footer put hla toot out - and tripped her up. taa ..f;::.111 London papen; ts: 1• • came out 1n defenae or private Footer and hla footwork. The Newa Chronicle, for eXU1Ple, deploring the wa, the guarcta - are treated by would-be hwaorlata. "Banana sklna...,. put in their path", declares the ea( newspaper. "Tricycles,{ wheeled over their boots. People -~ singAout the wrong marching time. Cigarette packets - ... hung on their bayonets. II GUARDS - 2 So m&Jb• Jou can't blame 1a Footer - for plaJ1ng ~footsie with the American woman tourist.