S OV IE T . , I The wo rd fro m M o s cow is th at the Co mm unist lea de rs from th e Wet - h a v e let Br ez h ne v a nd K o sygin o ff the hoo k . How . By not p r essin g the demand - for pe rs on a l t a lk s with Khrushchev. The F rench and It alia n comrades, be f ore l eaving for Moscow - mentioned this as a n indispensa b le condition. If - B. and K . wanted their support. The new Soviet leaders - couldn't permit it. Not in view of Khrushchev's habit of defending - his own position. So they asked the foreign Reds - to take their word for what happened to Khrushchev. The men from Paris and Rome agreed - after much discussion. Promting the surmise in Moscow - that Soviet the t allen~leader will never be permitted to give hie side of the story. one foreigner 1s not asking to see Khrushchev - the Premier of Red China. Clou En-lai wanted the change - 1n the Soviet government. And his ~trategy now - is to wangle B. and K. away from the Khrushchev position. Especially from -the Communist summit conference that would render official the split between Russia and Red China. CITIZEN Albe t Smith of Hammer Vale, England - has just scored a 11 first 11 in Ame rican history. He"'1!1 the first per ao n ever denied I . \merican citizenship - for sleeping. The point being that Albert Smith doz~d off - in a Seattle courtroom. Or at leaet, such was the judgment - of the Bench. Judge William Beeks promptly wrote on the petition - "Denied, went to sleep in court." And suggested that the petitioner try again - in six months. The petitioner calls it - · a bum rap. Still, he has the consolation of uniqueness - as he waits for the next time around. Not even a citizen, and yet he occupies a footnote - in the annals of the Immigration Department. The only man ever denied citizenship for snoozing - Albert Smith, of Hammer Vale, England. LOWELL. JR. ----- -- ----- I knot Admi · ral i/acMilla11 , ill b e i'1l e rested i11 Ille latest nen s about 111) son ,nakin a forced landing at night in a remote cor11e " Y of Alaska - , ltich I didn 'l know a b o LI t 11.11 t i l I read the A s s o c i a t e d Pre s wire th is m or II in g. It seems that Louell, Jr. with a passenger along, his fr i e 11 d a n d c o l l ea gu e R e pres en ta ti v e Ji m Bink le y - ran out of gas between Rome and Fairbans; but the story says he got dow11 safely, which is all that matters - at night, i11 a lonely !,)art of Alaska - in an emergency l!lnding - in his ratller famous Cessna that he calls "Charlie" in which he and Tay have flown 100,000 miles or so over Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America. As for tliat political contest r,p there - we hear its still close. Ou t of a total of some sixthy thousand votes some 4500 abse11tee ballots due to be counted 011 Thursday will tell the tale. So says the A. P. wire. Then we will know who will be the Alaska11 to sit in the United States House of Representatives, as sole re(>resentative of a region 1/Sth the siz e of all 49 of the other states, Dick. WIL.50 Harold Wi lson's trip to W ashin g ton ne x t month - is being described as 11 an informal working visit. • Dip l omatic language wh i ch means - that t~ British Prime Minister will not be concerned with high level decisions. His main purpoee - to establish a direct liaison with President Johnson. The two leaders, to learn - each other's ideas. Making it possible for them to understand how international problems look - on opposite sides of the Atlantic. Thie, with an eye to the future when major decisions will have to be made. • SUDAN Those rio e in the Sudan have produced an odd variation - on the theme of i nternational antagonism. The mobs in Khartoum - attacking two embassies. The American - and the Egyptian. The .,Ji. first time, as far as I can remember - that tn~se two have been under fire together. Red Reason - the Sudanese violence is led by~ag1tatore) -wfio oppose America - for self-evident reasons. A'hd oppose the . > United Arab Republic - because Nasser has jailed the leaders of the Egyptian Communist Party. The rioting is still going on - in Khartoum. The danger or a Red take-over, growing by the hour - according to travelers reaching Cairo from the Sudan. FIHE Tonight, the fo r est land o f Kentucky - is closed to the public. Governor Breathitt, reacting to - the rash of forest fires that bave broken out across his state. Almost four hundred - in the first ten days of this month. ltlUulDlgxJl Ruining - eleven thousand acres. "Wild fires in all sections" - as the Governor of Kentucky puts it. cause - drought plus high winds. Drought, creating the dry brush - that quickly blazes up. Winds, whipping the flamee - through the tall timber. The fire marshals in Frankfort predict - that the fire hazard will get worse before it gets better. The danger to life and limb, reduced - by keeping the public out of the forest land.of Kentucky. POISON Here's another chapter in - the San Francisco poieoning ca~e. Last night - we were introduced to the charactere of the story. · And t!l:scovere-a - the ~ How Mre. Vanda Hoff Unger - contracted a mysterious ailment Affiich was traced to small doses of carbon tetrachloride - said to have been placed in her coffee by her nephew, William Cootes. vJ-- At the same time - 4Mt~thoueand dollars worth of J... jewelry disappeared from Mrs. Unger•s safe deposit box. Tonight• chapter of this thriller - concerns the gems. TheyJre beginning to turn up. Firet, a sapphire ring - in New York, Then, an unset diamond - in Los Angeles. The police say they'll recover more of the Unger Jewels - before too long. As for the poisoning - the. victim appeared before a Grand Jury last night. Mrs. Unger, testifying - about her • • nephew's visits to her at the hospital. And about the fact that her coffee - had a bitter burning taste • . The kind of taste associated with - carbon tetrachloride. - ~a MILLAN ou a alule lo 011 e of the grea/ exjJlore1·s of our lime . Thal phrase could be a cliche. Bui not when the lime in olved - extends ba k to the turn of lhe centur., . Not wl1e11 the explorer ' Ye/erred to - is the sole sur it or of the Pea1·.v expedition to the Nori h Pole. Tliat was - in Ni11etee11 Ni11e. Peary's chief assistant - a thirty-five-year-old New Englander named Donald MacMillan. MacMilla11 had charge of - the base camp. Too important an assignmmt for anyone else - in those days when the Arctic exploration uias rather fJrimitive. Dog sleds - where we now use weasels. And - so 011. Anyway, MacMillan was not will, Peary - on the final dash to the Ultimate North. In/act he had to wait half - a-centur, , -- to reach the North Pole - till Lowell Jr. and I ,oere witli him at the Pole in 1959. His twenty-five ext,editions took him all ot·er tl1e Arctic - mul made him a pioneer of ex(Jloratio11. Bid the Top of the World eluded him - 11ntil our High Adventure flight of Nineteen Fifty-Nine. MacMILLAN - 2 ~ w i t h us - Peter Freuchen, Bernt Balchen, Sir Hubert Wilkins. )nd - the veteran of us all The living ) link - with the heroic age of Polar exploration. MacMillan looked down on the Arctic waste - through which the Peary expedition had struggled for weeks on end. He recalled - the hardships, the endurance, the triumphant return of Peary and Henson. He had - at lorglast - the thrill of reaching the North Pole. Over which - we were flying at the time. But then, thrills are nothing new - to this pioneer ot the Polar regions. He 1 s had many of them along the way to - his ninetieth birthday/ ,,which he is celebrating - amid friende and a mountain of letters and telegrams - at his home in Provincetown, Massachusetts. So, here•e to the grand old man of Arctic exploration - of all exploration. Admiral Donald MacMillan.