GOO D EVENING E V E RYBO D Y: lt is now disclosed - that two rockets w ere fired from balloons out in the F a ~ P acific - at Eniwetok. The balloon launchings - representin g a new technique in rocketry. Earlier in the day, the news told of a highly successful ex p eriment. The rocket - reaching an altitude or a thousand miles. Probably - much farther. The missile - intended to reach fro ■ one thousand to four thousand ailes into outer s p ace. The data on this co ■ es trom telemetry equipment - which sends back radio information. The record will have to be studied aore closely by the scientists - before they can tell exactly how far it went. They p romise a report - tomorrow. The other outer space rocket also wa s fired, at Eniwetok, on Sunday. But there's no telling about it. The missile got ott all right, launched fro ■ a balloon at a hundred thousand feet - but the telemetrJ equip■•nt went. out of whack, so there ia no way of knowing juat where that rocket went. Tht balloon technique is thl1: iht7 •••d aloft a hug• 1•• bag - tbt poaderoua roctet slung below lt. At high altitude, where the at■o1phere i1 extre ■tl7 tbla - tbe rocket f'irea, and soar ■ upward throuah a chl ■ne7 ta tbe balloon. Thia, tbe7 1a7, point• the •&J - to a rocket reaobiag the ■oon. Laaaob it, not froa tbe 1rouat - but fro ■ away up there, at 6b• outer edge of tbt at ■o1phere. The auoce11ful experl••t at lniwetoi achi•••4 tbe higheat ■an bas •••r • • t aa obJect. Far higbtr - than the Buaaian satellite. Scientist• air•• that thia new exploit of ta oura is not aa apectaoular aa th• launahiq ot •sputnik•. But thtJ gope it will provide a bit of co ■ p etition for the Soviet ■ - in tbe ■atter of prestige. Yeanwhile, there's continuing activity at Cape Canaveral, Florida, where the Air force nas just staged a aucceaatul teat or ita inter■ ediate ballistic ■ iaail• - Thor. Which went s p eeding t,hro up the sky - along a fifteen hundred aile range, out over the ocean. Two daya ago, the Ar . ■y tired •Jupiter• - lite•i•• an inter■ ediate ballistic aiesile. That experi ■eat, alao 1ucoeaatul. All thia - part ot a co ■petitloa. The Arrq • veraus the Air force. •Jupiter• and •Thor• - rivals. The Uefeaae Depart ■ent ■ust, eventuall7, decide - whioh or the two le to be adopted•• our iaterae4iate ■isaile. Rot, ot course, intercontinental. That•a ao■ethiD& el•• again. W e hear that the Air Fore• baa launched Thor aucceaafullJ _ three ti••• out of eight atte■pta. The Ar■y •Jupiter• three ti ■es out of five. In la1hington today, - Preaident Eisenhower and British P riae Minister MacMillan continued their••• conference, and concentrated on plan ■ tor pooling ~ritiab and American resource ■ in the rocket and atoaio eneru field ■ - ordering their top aides to prepare plan• - which the Preaident and Priae Minlater will coa114er toaorrow. MIDDLE EAST Moscow says - Russian troops held atomic maneuvers near the Turkish fron't er, recently. Which announcement may be t a k en - as another trou ble-ma ki ng gesture. Following the appo ntment of Red Marshal Rokossovsky - to the command of the Soviet military f~rces along the border with Turkey. o'~ the other hand, two staff correspondents of the United Press made a tour ofhat o ~ frontier, regarded as a . / ' danger spot. il>ap ■111 lh1l:r Ulf a1111g Jhe line separating Syria and Turkey - where the Syrians have been charging Turkish mobilization. They report - they found all quiet, with 1 ttle sign of m i litary activity on either s i de. Damascus tells of an exchange of gunfire along the Turkish border, yesterday. But now• explains - that it was a clash w i th smugglers. ~yrian border guards - intercepting a g roup o f Turk i sh tobacco smugglers. Two of whrna were captured - r ve escapin • FRANCE There was a pitched battle at the French Atlantic port ~ of St. a :re, today. S i x thousand strikers - in a fracas with two thousand police. One 1 fe lost - a hundred to a hundred and fifty injured. The trouble came in advance of a nationwide strike - a twenty-fur hour demonstration. Unions demanding - higher wages. The twenty-four hour walkout - called for tomorrow. bedevilment - All of which is more"-...,.,raa - in the French political crisis. France without a government, now - for the twenty-fifth day. GUATEMALA In Guatemala - a military d ctatorship. The Guatemalan army - ta ki ng control of the government of that Central Amer i can repu lie. Early this morning, they tossed out ... the overnment of P1~ i dent Gonzales, and installed a three-man junta - consisting of three colonels. This results from a presidential election, in which the government candidate won out - MIIUIIIXlcmuic•YJPl"-DeMe•iXMWUJIYdftU - at least t according to the ~ f f l cial figures. But the opposition charged - election fraud. Resulting in popular disturbances - with mobs rampaging in Guatemala City. Last night, a threatening crowd broke up an emergency session of the Guatemala Congress. Which was followed by mil i tary action - the army - stepping in and assum·ng control of the government. %JPBQQI The island of Okinawa - waiting tor the big wind. The native population and fllty thouaand Aaerloan 1oldier1 - taking , all precautions, a• T7phoon •Jud7• roar• in. The tropical •tor■ - one of tbe aoat Yioleat, blowing 1teadil7 at oae hundred and fift1 ail•• an hour • with gust• up to two huadre4! Lesa than a ■ontb •10, the i ■ laad wa1 raked b7 T7phoon •ra,e•. Wblob tlllecl - lort,-aix people. low - another blaat fro■ the ator■ aoda of tlllPaolfic. HOBEL PRIZE Last n i ght, th e pred ct ion was - that the Nobel Prize for Med icin e w uld g o to a W is s-I t al i an scientist, Professor Dan i el Bove t . And, today, the progn s ti cat i on was verified. The new Nobe l Prize winner for med i cine has an 1 nte1Bting h i story_ llom in Switzerland - then transferring to " Par i s, where he became a laboratory head at the Pasteur Institute. There Dr. Bovet met a student• Senorina Nitti, daughter ot the former Italian Premier, Nitti. They were married, and continued - . medical research together. Having married an Italian wife, the Swiss physician moved on - to Rome. Where he a became the Director or Chemistry at the Italian Health Institute. · The Doctor - a prodigious author. Having written - s om e two hundred and f i fty books on medical science. Winning t he on anti-histamines. And - Nobel Pr i ze_ because of his workKn making medical use of cu are, the arrow poison of South Amer i can Indians. BOFFA A f e deral judge today rejected a plea - made by - Jam e s Hoffa, Pres i dent-elect of the Teamsters Union~- Hoffa as kin g - for a long delay before he's put on trial for perjury and a char g e of i l l egal w i re-tapping. Arguing - that he's been attac k ed in the news to such a degree that he won't get a fair and impart al Jury. Federa1 Judge William Herlands replied - there's nothing to show that Hoffa won 1 t be a controversial figure in the future. Still - attacked in the news. Leaving - no reason to delay the trial on the two charge .• I Another federal court has issued an order - restraining Hoffa from assuming his post as President of the country' s largest Union. He sure is having trouble - with the courts. · TEAMSTERS - The Teamsters Union made an e l eventh hour appeal to th e AFL-CIO, t o day. Ask i ng - for a year of grace. That much t · me - to r i d · tself o f alle g edly corrupt i nfluences. In Washingt o n, the $x Executive Committee or the AFL-CIO seems ready t o sus p end the Teamsters Union. And • recomcnd - expu l s· on . The Teamster officials argue that i t's the custom to grant accused un i ons ninety days of grace ~-ii7 before taking act i on. The Teamsters Union s o ~ would need a year. The Teamster &Ill . appeal was in vain. AF or L - C I O Council taldng a vote -- and expelling the giant union. The vote - twenty f i ve to four. The Teamsters Union expelled fPom the A F of L - c I o -- because of 1 ts failure to oust it's hffa/President Elect James Hoffa , and other officials accused or corruption. Bing Crosby - got ■ arried, tod11 ~ leading a Texas beauty to the altar - at Las Vegas, BeYada. Bing . - fifty-three year old widower. Bia bride - a twenty-three year old actre11, lathy Grant. & year youqer - than Bins'• olde1t 10n, Qar7. lathJ ••• a ai1bty little &irl when Bing ~roebJ roae to faae •• a crooner. Well, 11tre•a nothiD& lite ata,lng young - lather-. Bina? BQBIIIX At Fort Meade, Florida - t1a air age is really loo■ ing! But - in a flagrant waJ. A bank robbery. by airborne bandits. Two robbers, in a stolen light plane, landing in a pasture near the town. They kidnapped the Deputy Sherill, toot his automobile and forced hia to acco ■pany thea int, the local bank. Which they held up - swlpla1 t•ent7-1ix thouaand dollars. In the get-away, the7 droYe olt in the Deput7 Sheriff'• car - back to their a ■ all plane parted in the pasture, hopped into the oookplt - and took ott. A policeaan, firing pistol shots in Yain - at the speediq aircraft. No use_ putting the bloodhounds on the trail ot those bandits! PEACH LEAVES At Mil ton , Vermont, Arthur Cota sent a letter to the town fath ers, in Atlanta, Georgia. Requesting - a shipaaent of leaves from Georgia peach trees. Georgia being tamous - for peaches. But what does Arthur Cota want - with all those leaves? cit•• Well, h~ has a bald head - and/ad . . . an old reMdy tor baldness. Which reads: "Take a large handtul ot peach tree leaves, and you'll soon see new hair coming." ln Atlanta, City Clerk Joe Richardson 1a torwarding - a batch of peach leaves. So, no doubt, baldy will soon be call ed - curley locks. I I ACTRES S A t M i la n , I ta l y, American Mov i e Actress Jayne Mansfield •• of'tea was mobbed• ¥r • 'I\ hear the word "mobbed" used as a f i gure of cleacrlbiag s p eech - u•••~~an enthus i astic ovat i on for somebody . . . • - But Ital i a n crowds can be temperamental and exciteable - and here•s what happened, in Milan, to Ja:,ne . Manafield,~ film or hemwas open i ng at a cinema, and she came for a personal appearance. A crowd or three thousand young movie rans januned around her - cheerin g , shouting, grabbing hold or her. She never would have reached the door of the mov i e theatre, it the police hadn't cleared a way - plowing through the mob in Jeeps. But that wasn't the half of it. In the melee, Jayne Mansfield lost her shoes. Snatched from her• by enthusiastic fans - for souvenirs. She also lost - a diamond studded \ gar t er. Worth a thousand bucks - they say .... The garter - qu i te a souven i r f o r a m o v i e fan to get from h i s favorite actress. s o, when she finally reac h ed the stage i n the cinema - Jayne Mansf i e l d w a s in her stoc ki n g feet. And nothin g - t o hold one s to c ki n g up . ii••·· Haddonfield, lew - Jer1e7, haa a bank, loa1 plague4 b7 plaeona. The bir4a - flootln1 on theroof, cornlo•• and windowsills. So ■ebod7 caae ap with a wa7 to chase th• plaeon1, a nd bank trie4 it - rubber aloe! rourt••• doz•• of th•• - inatalle4 •••r1 place a pt1eoa ■ lght peroh. Th• theor1 beiq - that pi1eoa1 are afra14 of aloe. Beoa••• the rodeata - eat plaeoa ••••• ltll, the rubber alee 414 the trlot. The•••••• of pl1eon1 - fl.Jina awa, froa th• bant. Bo••••r, aa obaer••r ■ak•• th• follo•ill& report: •Last••••••• aa,a he, •th• pia•o•• ••r• llJlq to the Pre1b7terlaa Churob.• low, tor L.T. - So Loq Datil To■orrow!