UOO ' VE INJ EVE Y BOD Y: ln the er nberry u ro a r, th g overnment is moving to clarify the situation. Today, the Food and ~rug Administration announced th a t it's launching an extensive investigation; to determine - the extent of possible danger. One hundred inspectors and sixty chemists - to check in different states on use of the weed killer; which, they say - causes cancer of the thyroid in rata. Cranberry growers are irate at Secretary ot Health, Welfare and Education, Arthur Fleming - for the announceaent he made yest~rday; which has halted sales of cranberries - in one state after another. With local health authorities taking action - while waiting for the situation to be clarified. WHITE HOUSE The White H o use - in an indi g nant rep l yJ ID% T6 char g es made by labo r leaders , That t he in j unction to s top ,, the s teel stri k e was a "political pay-off", by President Eisenhower - to steel magnates, who made Republican campaign I contributions. Which accusation wae~eeterday by Emil Mazy, Secretary-Treasurer of the Automobile Workers Union. Today, Presidential Secretary Jim Hagerty told newsmen: "Such demogoguery leveled against Preside t Eisenhower is, of course - not really worthy of comment." To which Mazy replies by calling Hagerty - "a stooge of the steel companies." The president of the Steel Workers Union, . David McDonald, statee - he hopes a settlement of the st~ike can be reached by the time the eighty-day period named in the ~ . injunction expires. But, · 1r there I s no agreement - the ateel workers will go out on strike again. DOCTOR In New Yor k , no settlement of th e controversy - between Dr. S hamsuddin of India and the Knickerbocker H o spital. The ar g ument - following an emer g ency operation performed by the Doctor. When he amputated - one leg of the well known actor and singer, Martyn Green. Wno was the victim~ of an elevator acc i dent. The Doctor charged th~t the ambulance, which brought . him to the scene, was not equip , with proper instruments and medical supp ~ JS. No scalpel or tourniquet - no anesthetic or blood plasma. So, performing the amputation of a leg, he had to ~ use a policeman's pen-knife. Hospital authorities,..,,r angrf because he told this to news reportere. Which caused - a hot argument. ) ~Today, the hospital wanted to smooth things over. But Dr. Shamsuddin insists on resigning. Announcing - thate•s going to England, and continue his medical studies there. T h e U.S. has evidence that police protection was deliber a tely withheld in anam a City - wen a anamanian m ob at t a ck e d the U . S • Em b as s y a n d t o re do w n t he O . S • flag, The ? an a mani a n olice - receiving orders to stay a w a y from t he Em b as s y • Radio messa g es to the olice were intercepted and a written memo was found, and the U.S. is making a strong p~oteet. DeGAULLE Khruehchev will visit Paris, in the spring - March Fi fteenth. So announced by French President Charles DeOaulle, todayJ _,)(ho said: 11 we hope he will remain until the end of the month, if he so desires." Inviting the Soviet Premier for a two-week stay. M•••"I! Ihle; DeGaulle remaried - ttB.t Soviet Russia, 1'or the first time, is showing signs of wanting to ease international tensions in the cold war. So why the change of attitude? DeGaulle spoke !'rankly about that. He said that Moscow want• . .. better relations with the Wes:,- because the Soviets have not succeeded in winning the allegiance of the puppet states of eastern Europe. Poland, Hungary, and the others - not converted to Communism. Also - because China ie a possible rival in Asia. Still another reason for the change, the personality of Khrushchev - very d11't'erent ~rom the brutal, hostile charac~er of Stalin. &• . 1eya B1Qaulle, • i• . ~Mlfteea ••• eat, •• H a Pariea ;.Wltb::1,1p•1ee!"ne • ot Ujtli■ls■ o:,r a ) I ND IA . Kh r u s h c h e v - tr yi ng to ac t as mediat o r in t h e q u a r rel b etween Ind i a and R ed C h ina. T h e S o vi e t P r emier - in p erso n al commun ic ation wi th Commun i s t Peiping and Indian Prem i er Jawaharlal Nehru. Khrushchev - officially neutral i n the dispute. But, acting behind the scenes - in trying to b ring about an amicable settlement. Feeling - that the acrimonious controversy handicaps his current strategy of easin g international tensione. In India, the word is that the Chinese proposal we heard about yesterday - is not acceptable. The suggestion - that bot h .Indian and Chinese troope withdraw from a but'rer zone • t wenty-1'1 v e miles wide ,) A1ong -· the Indian-Tibetan border. But - that India will agree to the Chinese call for direct n e go tiation s b etween the Communist Foreign Minister, Chou En-la1 a nd P ri me Min i ster Ne h ru. Today, Ne h ru ma d e a st r on g declaration in an add r eee. e r i n n otice - t h at h e wi ll not ne g otia t e away land th at e longs to Ind i a. 11 \\ e canno t al l ow Chin a to .. e e p a foo t o n our c h e st , 1 said Ne h r u . A RICA Mo re t1t1a troub le in Afric a - that continent of strange disturb ance. This tim e - not so ferocious. Juet a mob sc ene - with a lot of di~appointed warriors of the tribes. At the town o f' Toncnka, in K enya, there's a mission school for native girls).,.who, it would seem, are at a premium - for wives. And, somehow, the rumor got around - that the mission girls would be put up for sale. Even the price was mentioned - seven-dollars-and-fourteen cente per _ bride. So that 1 s what interested the i1t■at warriors from the bush country of the dark tribes. Thronging into the town T6' purchase - wives. of Tononka. ., ,.YJIWKCUUXJJDU•MI / Much disappointment, when the school officials announced firmly - that the girls were not t'or sale. JAPAN At the imperial palace in Tokyo - silence. Oft'icial _ e - with nothing to say J ,.\'bout a poem - written by ~ ~ '-z.- the Mikado 'AH1rohi to. Published in the American uga11ne 11 1squire 11 - as a poem he wrote recently_,~pecially - tor that publication. The subject - peace. Which certainly 11 appropriate - nowadays. ait 1t tum• out - that the imperial poem-■ written by the Mikado nineteen years ago, Nineteen Porty. Which na - the year before Pearl Harbor. Giving the ilhole thing - a very different aapect. The veraes read as follows: "May all Baet and vest, laking friends with each other, Porever proaperl 'l'hus 11 orr~red a prayer As New Year ca.encea." Unfortunately, the Mikado's prayer was followed - by war between Japan and the United States. lAf61 - 2 lt seem~ that the verses came to •Esquire• - fro■ ia p erial circles in Tokyo, as - something new. So ho• did the mix-up happen? That's what the palace official• are silent about. Anyway, Dick, the prayer for peace between laat and lest - is altogether appropriate, under different circuaetancea - these nineteen years later. APARTMENT HOUSE In New York, the construction of a new apartment house - expensive and swanky. Four hundred workers - coapleting their Job. Finishing- the top floor. So they expected a party - according to custom. The usual beer and pret1ela. Por what is called - a "topping-out" party. So did they get the beer and pret1el1? lo, not at all. Why no,? Because the apart•nt house is to be 10 fashionable and exclu11ve. Rents - one thousand to tourtNn thousand dollara per year per 1'00ll. So the building coapany - - - decided - no beer and pretsela,- in the construction ot anything ao expena1ve. Instead, they aent chlapagne and caviar to the tour hundred conatruct1on workers. Por the tancieat "topping-out" party in the history ot ateel Ind concrete.