us9iKJIER Presid en Eis nhow will leave Washin g on t omor r ow morning - ~~~~ for a two-w k vaca i o n ~ ~ ) Florida . o announc d by Pr ss t J H -tl!e_ PAO.;J._.~ Sere ary ams ag rty - who told newsmen that M ~ ~ /4- .s intended to leave by plane at ~ ~ '" ' -✓- --- Lla~- e igh t-thi rt y ~wash i ngton time_, 'f0'7 • , The trip follows the recolTITlendations of the President's doctors - who advised him to spend some time in a warmer climate, Y/J~ fresh air, where h~~ sun, and mild exercise. Only last we k, the President informed the Key West Chamber of Conmerce - that he probably could not get south this winter, - 6--'"l 9A,Wlfl/~ no farther south than Georgia. ~~!,t ~ 11hot ow, Qi•f c ... c,R4ve +.as l11&119@iri.is1Mft9o, ~ l,J.e.c:/-;;f- ,,Ji./!f ~. a l : n ~ ~ e , ~ his State of the . Union message - which goes to Capitol Hill on January fifth. - ~ ~ \he President had another confer nc with Sec~etary /\ -:r~.5~. ~ of State Dulles - the second in two days. .11.ll~agerty ~ say discussed today - but h what subjects were 1 revealed that usENH<JfE R - 2 yest r days discu s sion involv e d th Pop e 's 01 r istrna s appeal for a b an on atomic w e apons. / The floods in Ca lifo rni a are g tting wors • Rivers , bursting their banks for a second tim ~ ~~aJ~'-"T'"[ - as thy rise ~ downpour.&f Hard st hit, Y uba Cit y , wh r th Fath r Riv er is on th rampage again. Th flood, rolling down from the S i err as, putting half th town und r water - three feet d pin some places. Governor Knight has ordered three hundr d more National Guardsmen to Yuba C!ty - to help prevent the looting of homes and stores. The curfew is still on - no one allowed on th ~ streets after five - without a special pass. Th new flood at Yuba City ha? interrupted th e search for the ... ~ dead. The toll thus far - over fifty,~i,,mJ Northern California /\ and Oregon. The officials of Sutter County predict that the final t a b u l a t i o n ~ may N ~ go over a hundred. AAd ~L.Qamage already done ta estimated at one hundtetl million. Tonight there's another ealifornia danger spot - the D lta of the San Joaquin and Sacramento Rivers, at the e ast end of San iaa-/iioods ~ j ~ e o - as the waters of the - /J,... Francisco ay. two rivers collid e with a freak tide in th e B a y . Arm y e ngin e ers believe the tide will r is e at least ten feet - which will send a ~~ deluge over th e islands of th~ Delta. here are bundr e ds.of-tt,r.._ ,.1 fi AAi ahhoti(jb ~ , e s io 14:fe ¼s S168li-thousands of acres of rich farm l a n d ~ be ruined. Tonigrt, four hundred civilian .A and Air Force volunt ers are manning the dikes - p repared to build 1 rampart of sandbags wherever a break occurs. The question of who 11 rea Y runs East Germany may get a dramatic answer - from th case of an Am i 1 er can so dier, who ~as arrested by the East Berlin police last night, Sergeant Mike Kliman, of Brooklyn, was driving with his wife and son - when he was involved in an accident with another car. The Conmunists say that he was drunk)/ailed to stop at a main intersection, and was responsible for hitting the other car. The Red newspapers, describing Sergeant Kliman as a "Drunken Occupier". The police threw him inW jail., but allowed his wife to return with her son to West Germany. Mrs. Kliman's version of what happened - is quite different. She says tney were driving along on a dark street, and in pouring rain. Their car was moving at only twenty miles an hour because of the weather. She adds, that the intersection light was out. Suddenly a taxicab came str~aking along, doing about fifty. It ran into the Kliman's car. They were promptly picked up by the police - who were very th t Sergeant Kliman was an American. polite - until they found out a Th him ,iwe mu~t clear this up - and you must come along en they told ·n - ~ T - 2 with us• 11 They took the sergeant away, leaving Mrs. Kliman free ~~-~ to return to West Berlin. Now she's wondering u ,u~t--,t,e ~ to get her husband released. W i t ~ ~ the point, ,-\ A Our Army has appealed to Soviet headquarters - asking the Russians to send Sergeant K liman back. Ir. the meantime, the East Germans ay they' 11 put the A.. Sergeant on trial in their own courts - since the'l\re not under the «.s:s. ~, &ez.t1L~ any more. Under the Four-Power to hand American soldiers agreement, the East Germans are supposed ~~ over to the Russians. B u t ~ they don't intend to do that this time. ) IEST GERMANY West Germany appoints an ambassador to Moscow. This, ~ to establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Ambassador to Bonn arrived last we k. Md now, Chancellor Adenauer ~~"1~~-~j' ~ ~ Wilhelm Hass, a fifty-nine year old career diplomatj- at pre&ent, Bonn's Ambassador ' ' ,L.\-A •'- ~ i n t e r e s t i n g ... ~►- Ha11 accepted the Moscow post - after five previous candidates..,.... turned it down. Turkish narcotic agen s today seized half a million dollars worth of opium - earmark d for shipment to Am rica. Istanbul says th opium was discov rd in a small mountain village - apparently, the place wher it was prepared for transportation. h discovery, the result of cooperation betwe n American and Turkish agents. ~ f h e second big narcotic• haul in Turkey sine ~ November - ~~~ when four million ill morphin and opium were seized. It ' I I t, tJ ' I 1 , JND()~INA I ' > ' \ ~ Colllnunist r bels Ne attackmg. again in lndo-Olina. Since I- the end of the war, the Reds have been in control of many areas south of the truce line. And they stir up trouble whenever they can. This story/• from the province of Laos., Pt &ays that ten ' ~ILi thousand conaunists are ~ i A ~ j u n g l e t t about~ hundred miles from Dien Bien Phu - ~ scene o ~ p i c stand b1 the French A ·~ .,ye.,/ eighteen months ago. The rebels - down from the mountains• /I Friday night to strike at a national outpost - and the latest report states that fighting is still going on - with the government of Laos rushing ap troops to try-datem the Red Tide. " A bishop of the Ukranian Orthodox Church in outh America, charges that Argentine Co111nunists were responsible for that ~ Brazilian train wreck on Christmas night. The train was crowded with workers, w~en it was struck by four run-away freight 7Z_ ~ . cars. ~ killed ~~ .. ~ m o r e than one hundre~ Bishop Alexis Pelypenko said in Buenos Aires today, he has a photostat of a letter written by Russian agents in Argentine to comrades in Brazil. The letter urging a campaign of sabotage. Bishop Pelypenko adds that this train ~reek was part of that Coanunist campaign. The Bishop's opinion is taken seriously in Buenos Aires - Because he's a native Russian, and an expert on COIIIDUnist methods. Today. th e Se na t e I nt e rnal S ecurit y Subco nrn it tee issu e d a booklet. T ha t doesn't sound like much of a _ st or y - Congressional Coawnittees. ar e forever issuing booklets on almos t any subject ~ y o u ~ think of. But this one is something special - it's called 1 C . < z ~ -r~ ~ , c . e ~ s ~ , ~ ~'kL'-' and is intend e d to give Americans IWAe information about Conrnunism A . • Th e booklet points out. for example, that Conrnunism is not just another political party - because it demands things that no real party demands,- rigid discipline, restriction of membership, and control by leaders instead of by members. Here's how the Conanist Party is described - "A Russian-inspired, Moscow-dominated, anti- llllerican, quasi-military conspiracy - against our government, our ideals, and our freedoms". 7P -4 bookle~shows how to identify Communist front organizations. We are ~old that f h Party members and fellow travelers. a ront almost always as It blic tions It coopera t es with the gets publicity in Conwnunist pu a • Party with money, eith er dir e ctly or indirectly. party and suppli e s t he (Ollll'IST - 2 When threatened with e xposure, the front will deny being Communist, or change its name, or entice decent citizens into defending it. This publication of the Senate Sub-committee is one of the aost important of all - and the members of the Sub-conal:t.ee hope as many Americans as possible will read it. We can all get it from Washington on request. I■ Ye terday' s dismil prediction came true. As we heard over Ano o ver the National aftey Council e timated there would be ive-hundred-and- ixty deaths n the hiFhways. Until then, the record wa F five-hundred- nd- ei~hty-ei~ht. Both of those fi~ure s fall far below final tabulation - ~ix-hundred-and-twenty-one . afety expert say there are ju~t too many car on t~e road. They mi~ht have put it abother way- that our roads are inadequate. And there no doubt should be some new re~uletions. OJRTlCE Tonight the President of General Mt ~ o ors is accepting congratulations z from employe s, and tleffleet'+"'M /' the general public. ~ Harlow Curtice, named by "T~me Magazine" as the "Man-of-the- Year11 for nineteen fifty-five. "Time" points out that Harlow Cu_rtice is President of the world's largest manufacturing corporation. Also, the organization that becaae the first of its kind to make more than one billion in profits in one year. But the magazine says that this was not the reason for its choice. It decided to nominate Curtice because of his leadership that has pointed the way for American business. The pol•t being, that when there was a lot of "gloom and doom" talk about a possible depression - G. M. announced a billion-dollar expansion program. And that optimism gave confidence to a lot of other American companies. so, tonight, Harlow CuTtice of G. M. - is the "Man-of-the¥ear." (OflICTS Florida polic e ar e hunting for a group o convicts who broke 7C,,::t-~ out of j ail - in a way that hardly seems ethical. :They escaped while th ir f ellow prisoners were singing O\ristmas carols. a t - ( } ~ The mass break was well planned. First of all, someone on A /1-- the outside smuggled as the carol-singing in a hac~ sawJ inside a Christmas _---£,6 ,he•~ began _ . . . , group went to work A 1' cake. As soon on the bars of the window - and cut their way out. Then they made a rope out .J"fld.J_,.,. ~ i'>·M of mattress covers - and~ \te~ from their fifth floor cell. ,, Six of them gotMay - two recaptured within a few hours, the rest, still at large.