The Mayor of Is Los Angeles orders an inquiry int;~~';;"reck of t{!'fas':e;;;;;r tra1n.yea,01daf• Mayo · No11ia Poulson, demanding to know if "criminal negligence" was involved. The Mayor, acting ao public criticism grows - • • t h i s ~ the worst train ,.(_ /( wreck in the history of California - twenty-nine dead, and one-hundred-11nd forty-two injured. The train was on its two-hour run to San Diego - a full load of one-h~ndred-and-eighty-eight passengers together with a crew of four. The train jumped the rails on a curve about one hundred yards from Redondo Junctton.- the crackup, so ~rrifio that nearly three hours passed before the first oar could be lifted. hit that 9u'rv • the / was ' trav. llin~ way ove7 / / hirty-fi~e mi¥es an ,, / urv, and fifteen / 6n ,,, / el irie t e t ~ng Engineer Frank Parrish says he "blacked out" just before; the train hit that urve . The S anta Fe railroad reports th t the tr a in was travelling way over the peed limit - w ich is thirty-five mile an hour Just before the curve, and fifteen on the curve itself. It seems that the train was actually doing seventy. .,,, ..... ~ S enator Knowland of California~ officially __..."""'--''-----· -u.J /\ at the Illinois Republican Primary - in competition /4. with President Eisenhower. The President's name bad a lready been placed by Governor S tratton - who acted t6 with out ~ Eisenhower~ consent, al though the President told his News Conference on Wednee~ay. that ~ be did not objecti even though he has not decidedAto run again. The Knowland supporters of Illinois said they wo· , 1 run their candidate no matter what happened. And today the California Republican's name was entered by Mrs. Ruth Troyak of Chica o. Mrs. Troyak and Mrs. ~ Marion Cleveland are t:. leaders of the Knowland ~ Movement. They say they have more than four thousand si~natures on their petition - which is all they need. i '8 So1as far as the Illinois ~ official 1 y Eisenhower · •8•1n• t; ~ Primary is concerrm Knowland. ~~ ' A - - -·· - . ,_,.·-·· POLICY. - Today's meeting between President Eisenhower and inator George of Geor ia, concentrated on one maO<r point - the dispute over Foreign Policy. The President conferring with the Chairman of the 8enate Foreign Relations Committee - about criticjsm of ~ecretary of ~ - t ~ ~ tate Dullea and that "brink of war" article in LIFE. / , 'f ~, K!!:i Ei nhow-er is distur ,, mainly because it as b&~n along par y lines. Tb& Demoot ts " bonde1Dning Dulles -. the Republicans, defendt.i g him • . For exa,Ple, tevenson accus~the Secretary of,"as ;<. / it - "playing Ru"Si an Roulette with American J'oretgn / Policy." While Senator Knowland de tary stands for ''peac with hon " ' v b t ~ i b e ~ sible approach o intern~ ional re\ations. l7n£4 ~ Eisenhower wants to get back to a strictly A. bi-p~rtisan Foreign Policy. That was the reason for the visit to the White House of enator Reorge - who 1, I E . ( ~ ; Democrat~ ~ , FLOOD INSURANCE ~ Civil Defense vo.-e-r~ Administrato1/,wants a flood insurance plan ri ht away. ¥el Petez son; Testifying before the House Banking and Curr~ncy Co ■ittee,-fuk admitted that such a plan would not be companies. reluctant to do anything because the high risks involved would demand extremely high premiums. ~l~~~? m:z:::t:::e:e::S:a~t!i!ll~wcnt on to say that Congress should come up with a plan - and then offer it to the companies. Oth~rwis•. families living in flood areas will continue to face the th~eat - of losing everything. whenever the rivers spill over their banks. Te ad of our orei~n perations Administrati n is scribed as "uncoooerative". The enate Inv st1gat1ng Sub-Committee, using that term A ~~: - fisc~.a~@ - ' ntw1•1•tng to hit. t s t i r n o ~ e v a t o r s for Pakistan. ~ Stassen testified last April - wen the Sub-Committee was f. considering the wisdom of those elevators. TM ma1A potnt, the Aontract went to the high bidde~tassen is accused of being "uncooperative", when the ,mi& members of the Sub-Committee 'it; asked him abou1:.-{llliilc. ~hey ended up by saying that he used bad business m e t h o d s ) ~ " t ~ ~ ~ ~ a u t , Atc} tee ■ rn; ltl have •ene &M&d w16b t n, except for the investigation - wh ch, according to the Sub-Committee report, saved American ta.X ~ yers almost a million dollars. .aut t ub-Committee is not unanimous. Senator nder of Ohio refused to sign the report - call1~ it "inaccurate and unfair''. And Senator Mundt of outh akota said the comparison of bids was not sensible - because details wer ifferent in eac case. apota of the id d le East. Premi e r Nasser i n Cairo. Fir s t, he oenferred with ~ Then he flew directly to Tel Aviv, for a conference with Isrfl.1 diplomats. Plnally, ~ : . \ . O n to the old city of Jerusalem, which is under control of Jordan. Q v . . . J ~ ~ µ~it~ . ~ ~ L 1l1:£b~cretary Genera~•• twip •~d •• tiff'. Be aaya , 1L')t •continued opti■ia■" ~ chances for a s•ttlement of Middle East "1-QW- He I a continuing~ A l discussions with/\General Oauacla; tbe head of the UR .lraistice Commission. I V olen~e n India ~prea to the State o f o r ~ s a - today . obs runnin l d , attac i o ern m en t b u il d n g s and o ffjc als . Th e y even bu r n e d sev e r a l ra i lro a d s t ati ons . T his , n cont nun prote ta ain~t th e ove rn m en t p l an f o r re - arran n th e d str cts politi c ally . Bu t Pr im e Mini ster Ne h r u s a i d t h at pro ram \'O uld g o a h ea d a n ywa y . He ord ere d tr o ops in to Ori ss a - t o put down d em o n s trat io ns - p a r t i cu l arly i n t h e c i ty of Pur i , on t h e Bay o f B en g al . Pur i i s a h oly c ity - ,hom e of the g o d Ja gg a n at h , o r Ju erna u t - who dwe ll s in a lofty p h a l l i c temple . The B l ac Pa g oda , stran e~t o f all the tem p l e s in I n dia , is near B om b ay. Ca l m - after seve n day s of vio l ence . The f n a l t oll th e re , for t h e w ee k - s eventy - one dead , and more than f v e hu nd r e d i n u re d . B ut shops and s c hools are o pen a an _ an d factory w o k ers are b a c k on t h e ob . L i fe in teem n Bomb ay, almost b ac t o normal . JETS. The world's fastest planes - added to the defense of NATO. Our Air Force announces that i t ~ sending ~uper-eonic jet fighters - which hold the world 's speed record of eight hundred and twenty-two Rto ~~ miles an hour. Th~'ll replace the older sabre jets ~ ,A now on duty in Europe. 1o o t e com1 t~lks betwee P r e s1d t 1senhower and j rime ini ter E en. ravda, predicting that nothing much w111} ~ . I L J;- ~A'I~ 4 ·, ~ ~ u,-e% ~ com or;t t:11c,se taib~·~Tt1e.Mbscow paper s ya 't't at Br~ta1n 1s now fraid of JUBerican influence in the Middle --~ ast A- 1nd • ' \ the tw nations will not be a le to work together in that area. JI.Ra taa; rrn ■eaw., tboa.P infhtenee eeee11ee leee a:fx•td7ll 8¥8Pf d&y too Middle saet, sstermtued Ito tt,ea, •::-of:f wlaet r»a¥da- e Moacow newspap~F reterri to / of Secretar}'. of State , Dul of ruling out appeasement / C<(mmuprst wo a. Pravda d_9e'sn' li)'e that ¢'e e ti 1at i.t t~ti ■ il. ._ ULTAl Te ult a n f o rocco nn nee n amnesty for p litical " prisoner. i d ~ o amed n Youssef - sayi~ that a un re - ~ ~ w-enR ;7: ~ nd fifty-a ven w 11 be r le sed ~ - In ap!te o~long sentences or anti- rench activity. / we.a ""prisoners were a;:3; sentenced during the Sultan 's ~~ ~ ai exile. fore he returned, he demanded~ amnesty - ad A tR8 Paris go,er1111nt agreed, in order to get him back on the throne, an4-n contz·ol of oroccan nationalism. ' l ' i P « H a ~ ~ o d a y 1 s anno>1ncement from the .r,}.lo/ palace in R bat. The Sultan add~ tuat he hopes the remaining · c - ~Q...,dLG\. political prisoners will be released soon -Au a12;Uw~iJ1ove to keep the peace in the troubled French protectorate. PA S HA. One of t he mo st c o lorf u l men in the world d ie oday.- the Pasha of Ma rrakesh. E l Glaoui, who CTV-t- 7 ru l ed ~t wo million Be rber tribesmen f or more than forty years. The Pasha never knew he exact date of his birth - it wa s in the late Eighteen eventies. In Nineteen Twelfe he became Pasha - when the Treaty with France was signed • At once he began l11minating riv~la .. - :and he often us~the pretext that they were anti- ) French. He was so successful in this, that he became ~~~ ODe o~ th~ most powerful -.n in Morrocco. When France fell in Nineteen Forty, El Glaoui refu s ed to allow Hitler's Armistice Commission to set foot in Marrakesh. After the war, he was prominent in ousting Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef. Then last year, he made an about-face - and paved the way for Ben Youssef' s return. All during those,fqrty ~~~~ {~ ~ing et1ai~b;1 out of the "Arabian years, he resembled a:: Ni gh ts." He had four palaces - with a harem in each. He owned half of q PASHA - 2 arr kesb, houses and apart ents in many other MorrocClll citjes, n fabulou oil and mining concessi ns in the Atlas Moun o , ins. He had slav s , dancing girls, and solid gold c~t•• dishes. He once flew a troop of chorus ~irls from Paris to Marrakesh for a single performance. Once when he was visiting the French capital, he attended the Lido night club for twenty- seven ni~hts in succession. He liked big American cars, antique French furniture, and big combination safes for bis gold and jewel&. He was aclc ■ e friend of many world etatesaen, including Churchill. But El not ~ Gla oui, the Pasha of Y.arrakesh, was ~L:.=__~~~-t4~-i-l • orrocc°f. He had to defer to the Sultan, and that was the reason for his humiliating journey to PRris - when be begged Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef o fo,ige him. Ye had the story then, of bow El Glaoui prostrated himself at the feet of the ands id, "I am Your Majesty's slave, and ask forgive- ness for th~ harm I have caused ,:our Majesty.• J,i£lf'1"11 ~ ~ ~ lo~~ - ~~ - ~ ~ ~ ~ t f ~ l . - t ~ - ' P HA - 3 Obs rvers n arra esh eay , the humil ation bro e El Glaou 1 ... sp t . That he appe ared eldom in publ c after that . ow the f nal announcement - El Glou, Pasha of Marr eh, he d of th e f erce Berbers, ha departed for t he d el hts of the o hammedan parad se . And another colorful chapte nthe hi tory of Morocco comes to an end . n , another spectacula · r· re paQ~es from the London cene r l e x nder Ko rd a , a Hun a ian who became a Br t e h k n ht. Kod a, the producer wh o put the British movie indu~ try on t feet . orn n Bud apest , sixty - two years a o , the son of a poor farmer, you lee started work as a cub - reporter on a Budapest newspaper . He ro~e to the po~t of ight Editor - but , became fed up with jou r n a lism . He wanted to mak e m o tion p ctures - the new art . So he built hims e lf a hut , turned out se ve ral 1' lm s, and made h s first hit with one called - 11 A Modern Dubarry . 11 Amer can scouts were interested, and Korda went to Hollywood . o success there , he left with only twenty dollars in h ~ poc k et , saying h e wa s throu h with the U . S . A . or H oll ywood , for oo d . In London h s luc k was b ett er , and he turned o ut m any r· m~ - ncludin g a stunn n succes~ w th KORDA follow PlSHA - 2 «~ "The Private Life of Henry, the Eighth." ~ ~ ) -t{ ___ l- ~ ~de /- Charles Lau hton famous. was revived sixteen times in /\ a,,J! America alone, and grossed over six million. ~ t h that picture, Korda put British films on the map. In Nineteen Forty-T~~in~-~~::ge the Sixt• knighted hi ■ in reco ni tion of,f--lFA 1:.:: ~ Sir Alexander Korda, worked an eighteen-hour f... day.,, 11 t, 11 r I e g II I 1 , • He was about to leave with his wifeJfor o vacation - when he died 1 toda~ of a heart attack. G T nig t, ami police are search1 for the former o of ix t , Al bama - t e so-called" in City" tat nc wi e open for service men. Clarence R vel built up LA,~-& l!>ambli~ mpire 1 1n hoenix Cit~• an~ ruled t:t for a decade. as a ccused of beill6 implicated in the assassination of Albe rt aterson, after Paterson had won the nomination for tate ttorney G neral - on a pledge to clean up Alabama's 11 in City. " ~ hortly after that- murder, th National Guard moved I in - nd Clarence Revel fled. He's been under cover for more tan b year. Recently, the police got word that he was living i Mi~i, under an assumed name.~ squad of policemen rushed to the ouse. ~ Ravebe~ as they pulled up. Tonight A e's at large - and t e warni is, he's armed and dangerous. ou ewife The most astonished person of the episode - the l vlng ~d~ knew ~:te,oJ fu ~~ / \ l 1, - 4 ~ the community. Arn< she says elte was /1 to see him aw:clae11ly scurry fr m is ~ - V ~ • CULTU • AAteric· . Te oviet Minister of Culture ia soling.to visit ikolai Mk ilov, ccept1 an inv tation from and Bess'. That ershwin opera ,/ n enormo success dtiriR& ~ Russian to= - and Breen told Mik ilov he hoped the Russians would come to American for a ~ - at other American musicals. ow the 11111wer 1s - lN{l( /\ Culture, w vi:sit us in person. 'fo ••• ow::r /.... first and lo k the 1n1ster of