CONFERENCE (f. -~- ~. ~ /'/-~, The Geneva conference, today - collapsed. Though - with one qualification. The Foreign Ministers - to reassemble three weeks from now. Having decided - on a three-week a recess, a 11 cooling off" period. Thia followed a new aeries of demands - made by Khrushchev in Moscowj )'here, 1n a public address - he nailed a new deadline. a1v1ng the West - eighteen months to clear , ) ~ out of West Berlin. Which would be turned - into a•• "tree, /4 demilitarized city", as Khrushchev put it. Previously, the deadline had been - one year from now. Today's demand - adding an additional six months. But the western Foreign Ministers were not having - any deadline at all. So, after one more plenary aession in Geneva, tomorrow - they 1 11 be on t : : eir way home. . . . - e s r • 1 . - , 1D the e ounder or e ~ he Kingflah. ••• . . • a •. . . , • Today's news brings a clarlflca 1on en • or last night. ,When Govemor Long - refused to re•ln ua J 1n a mental hospital at lew 0rleana. Although he had reed - he would stay there. One report la that h was angry be auae they aai wouldn't let him uae a telephone. Making 1t 1aposa1ble - for him to place beta on horae racea. Earl Lof'R - a horae player, according to this report. So he left the hospital, ta'dng a patrol c ar. He lng • for the ■i■it state capitol in Baton Rouge. Tor ume hia ' LOUISIAKA - 2 ft. authority - aa Governor. Buth~ was out-maneuvered - by his wife, Mrs . Blanche Long. )'ho got to Ba ton Rouge in . / advance, and signed a warrant for the connnitment of the Governor to an institution. Whereupon the Govemor was intercepted by deputies. I Who dragged him - from his automobile. Earl - Long putting ' up a violent resistance - scre8111ng and cursing. Taken - to an isolation ward of a 11ental inatltutlon at the town of Mandeville. There, the phyalciana report - that the Govemor ot . a., Loulalana suffers from ach1zopren1~ and paranoia. 'Dle latter, one of the moat,.... dangerous of mental dlaeaaea. A paych1atrlat, Dr. Sparkman Wyatt, states that Earl Long has delualons of persecution and a morbid auaplc1on or everything and everybody. STRAUSS 1 it; Preside~t Eisenhower called a special n - u4, aaD L ~ . ~:- conrerence{and atate4:v'~t night the Senate ref111ed to !A /4 confirm the n0111nation or Lewis Strauaa, as Secretaey of Comaerce. I am losing a truly valuable aasociate 1n the business or governaent. 11 The President adding: 11 1:t 11 the American people who are loaera through thia aad eplaode. 11 Lewia Strauae, h1•elr, takes the set-back with cheerful phlloaophy. 'nlanking the President and the legl1laton who supported him 1n the bitter conflict 1n the Senate. IIPLlTIOI The coat ot living - at another all-ti■e high. Federal author1t1e1 in Wuhington announcing - that prlc•• roae one-tenth of a PII point 1n May. For a new peak or 1nr1ation. At the aue ti•, tlgurea are lllde public - ahowlng an increase ot the take-ho• pay and purchuing power or factory worker,, whoee earnings - roae to a new record high ,.:IM, lu t month. The booalng prosperity - accOlll)anied by inflation. STRIKE Proapecta are that a union••• meeting, on MondaJ • will okay the settle11ent of the New York hoapltal strike. The union leaders reaching an agree•nt, early today - with the hospitals. lew York's Mayor Wagner announcing - "all issues in the diap11te have been resolved." - AROIN'l'INA A grave political cr1a1a - in Argentina, where the word 18 - that the army connandera will aak President Frondizl to resign~ be succeeded - by Vice President Jose Marla I }. ,,,. Guido. With a call -for new general elections within one- hundrec:l-and4wenty daya. One report 18 that the army garrison at Cordova, third largest Argentine City - 1~ in open revolt. Thia follow• charges that Prondlzl, in hia election campaign) • • • • ~ •d• a deal with Peron, the exiled one-ti.lie dictator. In the Doll1n1can Republic, Beron releued a photoatat of a docWNnt, allegedly signed by Prondlzl - •king an alliance with the followers ot Peron in Al'gentina. Frondizi calla th• docwnent a forgery. But the military leaders clal■ - it enda his \lBefulneaa as President. CUBA - The government of Cuba - to take the sternest ldl kind action, against revolutionary terrorists. The Minister of Justice at Havana stating - that guilty persona will receive the death penalty. Prime Minister Fidel Castro declaring - that he has received many messages, .,)lrging the eatabliahllent of revolutionary tribunals - to send the terrorists to tiring squads. Thia follows nine bomb explosions in Havana 1n the past twenty-tour hours. Also - a sabotage attempt againat a large Havana bridge. A surge of terrorism - attributed to former soldiers and officers of the Army of ousted strong an Batista. £0MGQ l n t he new Con R b 1 · go e p u 1c - a violent outbreak. r itched battles - between taxpayers a nd non-taxpayers. An illustration - of the difficulties th a t can a rise in t h ose recently created . . ations of Africa. The new freedom - bringing a crisis in the Lari Tribe, wh l ch s p lit - into two factions. Divided ~ on the question of •modernizing• the Congo. One modern aspect being - the tax collector. f rogressives in the Lari Tribe - regarding taxes as inevitable in a modern state. W hich we all know is so true. But the Lari \,;onservat i vea argue:- what price modernism, if you nave to pay taxea? So they - refuse. They elao refuse - to vote. Which, they figure, bas some connection with ta~ e s. Lea d ing to riots - i:1 the ca it a l city of Brazzaville. The taxpayers and the non-tax p ayers - f i h tin g a ll o v er that city on the Equ : tor, Don. AIITARCTICA Salutations from President Eisenhower - to the scientists on the South Polar continent. Not only - to Americans. But - to the citizens of eleven nations, including Soviet Russia. W6o are spending the winter - at various Antarctic stations. The occasion for the Presidential message - "mid- winter's ~ , e;[f-, at day . 11 WheA ~ a ~1n1■UI' ~~ _.....c.-v"- fl'IRIII °,{ Antar~tica. June Nin~teenth - t,~:baa:ta& the depth ~A~~~r~,~~ of winter a l ~ 4&1 oP••II•• t, /\. fve \In the day-time darkness, and a. abysaal cold, the scientists of the eleven nations muat have welcomed today'• message ftmn of the President or the United States. Thanklni them - in the na• of huaan advancement.