CORlSBlliQI iT - ~ ~ Another disagreement -- concerning the forthcoming to p level conference of the Big Four. But, this time - not between the Soviets and the We s t. The difference of •~~•xq opinion is between President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Anthony Eden. The President has declared himself - in favor of a brief conference. Thin-1ng -- •two or three days• would be enough. Thia, has been rid1oule4 by Soviet propaganda, which says - it would be •tm p oesible• t■x to accomplish anything in eo short a time. And now - the British Prime Minister agrees w ith oscow. Today, he told an election rally that he ' < ? ~ favors more time than the•~ l ta4'.M1 ~ro p oses. Eden says t h er e s h o u l d b e ample time for t h e discuss1on1. BBITISH ILEQTIOJ There's no betting in Britain -- on the election. T~at is, no betting with bookmakers -- after today. The za••tt reason, the Conservatives - - are considered such a sure thing -- the bookmaker a won't take any more wagers on them. When they ahut down, the odds were ten to one, that Prime Minister Iden• s ... v' Conservatl•e government would win. > llect1on prospects seem confused a bit -- . by a strike situation. ~• 11ghteen thousand dock workers, in a big walkout haTe tied up five major British ports. One hundred and seventy four shipe -- unable to load or unload cargo. Moreover, the country faces a nationwide railroad strike. Some think these ' labor troubles may hurt the conservatives, if the government doesn't handle .... them skillfully. -- Qihers bel 1eve the Labor Pariy will suffer -- the public ~ss~a irritated by the strikes. ITALX The United ltates is making a r1tty Million Dollar loan, to Italy. The agreement - signed in Rome, today, by Italian Premier Scelba and U.S. Ambassador Clare Booth Luce. The loan, repayable in forty years, 11 on exceedingly easy terms. The money, to be used for improvements in Southern Italy -- where, economic conditions are b ad -- Communiem a . threat. Premier Scelba faces a critical vote in the Italian parliament. The American loan - expected to help him, and h11 pro-American policy. 14B EAST Indian E nvoy Krishna Meno n arrived in ~ Hongkong toda~ -- on his way home from• visit to ,.. Red China. Menon ie called -- a •trouble shooting• ambassador for Indian Prime Minister Nehru. So now, he'll give Nehru a report of t a , lks he had with Mao Tse Tung and Chou En Lai. In Peiping he discussed the rormosa question. Also -- the possibility of obtaining the release of the U.S. airmen. So what has~• he to say nowt In Hongkong, Ambaa~ador Menon seemed -- exceedingly optimistic. At a new• conference, he said: There will be further negotiations, and he expects favorable developments. He w•s asked -- how soon results could e expected, from negotat1on1 that India is carrying on -- conc e rning Formosa, and the imprisoned airmen. He replied: •tt should not be very long.• IBPIA ~~ India, a8 we know, . . t m odern - .. ~ , - to ~~~ --•"-abolishta:g st r an-ge--ou'stoma. m.S~ ~ d " f - - Y ~ ~ - A ~ , A The Government, for ex amn le, is now rescuing slave girls in the feudal state of Bhopa1.1'They are c a lled •Mankas•, -- slave girls, purchased in early childhood. I L Then t aken to the households of the feudal chieftains, wher e they a re trained to serve the daughters of the Lords, as hand maidens. They are like chattel• used for dowry8. When the chieftain'• daughter gets married, part of her dowry will coneist of 80 many •mankas•, the slave girls. The present campaign w a s incited by the story told by a young woman named Gitaba1. Who saye: that when•• she was four years old, she was part of a dowry, taken along when her mistress got married. Recently, she tried to escape, but was recaptured and severely punished. News of this got out, and the g overnment sent a party of police to the fortress of the feudal chief, where they had to fight a battle JJDI4 - 2 with armed guards at the stronghold before they were able to rescue the slave gir14..J14,.-R. YEST GERMANY West Germany says -- the western allies have nled ed themselves to oppose any move to neutralize a United Germany. The Soviets have indicated - they hop e to make Germany part of a buffer zone between Kast and West. But Chancellor A nauer 1s reported ready to give & special warn1n:f'!" A'n.y sort of neutralization is •would be unacceptable' to West Germany. S'1'41 At Hamburg, Germany, an astronomer reports the same thing that a Chinese astronomer reported nine hundred years ago. Of course, that star gazer of ancient Cathay didn't call it -- a •super-Nova•. He said 1t in Chinese - describing a star that suddenly flares in the sky. The new star -- appearing abruptly. The Hamburg astronomer Professor Hane Haffner, peering through a pow•rtul telescope, hae discovered a giant star in the Milky Way -- a star which had not been there previously. The •super- Nova• -- being a dark, invisible, star, which flames in some enormous explosion. This one - estimated several million times as bright as our own sun. But -- three million light y~r,'a1■ ~ay. Miles -- 1n the trillions. Professor Haffner says that in the paat, ~'74~W'~, only two other super Nova~ are on record. One - describea by that Chinese astronomer 1n the year STA& - 2 Onelthousand-and-f1!ty-£our A.D. The other, observed by European astronomers 1n Seventeen Fifty-Two. Big doings out 1n space -- the incredible flame of & new star. The news wire has been telling of demands -- that the government sho ld clarify the polio vaccine situation. In Washington, tonight, there was a big meeting of medical experts, something d e finite expected tomorrow -- an official clarifying statemen,. SUPREME COURT The Supreme Court has reversed the convictions of three witnesses, who took the 1ifth .lmend]llent. Left Wing Julius Emspak, and Thoaas Quinn of the lectrioal Workers union and Philip Bart, - ) former General Manager of the Communist Daily Worker -- upheld in refusing to answer. For one thing, the Supreme Court holds -- thats■ Congressional committees must warn a witness that it he refuses to answer, he may be subject to - prosecution. The committee must give him -- a chance to change his \ .r ( done\ mind, \lrhioh was no~ •••,;1 in the case of the three convictions -- which are no reversed. 4141%4§14 Well, the law has finally caught up with Albert Anasta•ta -- whose name figured so prominently in the a f fairs or •Murder Inc.• The fifty-one year old rackateer seemed immune from justice. Having beaten - four murder charges. Once -- narrowly escaping the electric chair. Rot counting-~ a num b er of lesser brushes with the law. Today, however, Albert Anastasia stopped fighting. In the court room, at Camden, Hew Jersey, he pleaded guilty. They had him up for ' income tax evasion, and Judge T h omas Madden asked •Are you guilty! •t e e, I am• replied the rackateer, who had beaten so many previousJlf raps. The~ncome tax evasic > s ~ g e t hlm -- t as much as ten years in prison. SJ§IIDOYQ-4IB lQBQI 0 Ilm in Washington, tonight, and here's one bit of local news. Or would ou call it localT •~• When the President signs a bill for an atomic airplane! The me~sure puts up more than thirteen million do lare for aeronautical research -- including work on an airplane to e driven by ~n atomic engine. Secretary of the Air force Talbott ■ aye -- the atomic plane 11 on lta way. The only question being -- how long it will take. BILLI Gl♦B41 In England, an ultima e seal of suoce•• -- for Billy Graham, the American Evangelist. -- to preach before The Queen and the Royal ramily. After which -- Billy and Mrs. Graham had lunch with ~ - - jw . 'Iii . . .,,,,,,, Her ~&lesty.j Quu~ • a oi1max for the BrltUh tour the preacher from Dixieland has been making. It began this year, in Scotland -- attracting enormoua crowds. Then, down to England where, however, Billy Graham ta ran into newspaper ctiticiam. Sophisticates of London ~• • journali1m -- l 1fting eyebrow• at his vigor · ous, vehement way of preaching the gospel. They thought it & bit crude, if not blatant -- thoae hell-fire sermons. Callin& the American rev1vali1t -- an •evangelistic Johnny Ray . .. All of which made no difference whatever - to the public in England. Saturday night, in · tondon, Billy preached to ninety thousand, from all over Graham ~\.J~. England.A BILLY GRAHAM - 2 Royal approval began when the Ducheee of Kent, an Aunt of the Queen went to hear Billy at Wembley Stadium. Then, yesterday, the evangelist from •••z1sa■ below the Mason and Dixon line conducted the morning service in the Queen's private Chapel, at Windsor. Bill~ kept it short & twenty-f 1 ve minute s e rmon. The congregation -- cone1st1ng of the Queen, and the Duke of Edinburgh, the Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret. And -- other members of the Royal household. There's a point of theological interest in ~~ this. Her Ma~eety The Queen 11.1'-head of the Church of England. Billy Graham is a Baptist p eacher. Quite a differ nee -- b A tween~nglican and Baptist. But, Billy's evangelism is entirely non-sectarian. The Church of England -- giving him implied support. An Anglican Bishop -- heading the committee arranging the Billy Graham revival campaign in England. BILLI GBABtH - 3 Billy - going eo well they might make him Archbishop ot Canterbury? M ~ ~ no.:t ~ ~•"-at 4 ~ . '.2r-.,.;t-~ ~~~~~ ~ - t o ~ ~ - 19¥4 SCOTIA 1l&m1ng news -- from Nova Scotia, Canada'• easternmost province having the worst forest fires 1n \wenty-five ~•~ years. Thousands of acres of timberland s w ept by the itiaze, as a gale blowe. Homes destroyed -- two towns threatened with destructio Liverpool, on the eouth shore - p:-;.:.;~ned out -- ... already, Thirty qe~~,,( Twenty 1 other buildings -- and eighteen fishing boats. The town of Bridgewater - encircled by & series of woodland fires - reported out of control. ISATHEB Washington, D.C. is not in Canada. But the report is the s ame. Toronto was blazing hot, yesterd&~ and the heat wave goes on today. Can a da -- having temperatures away up 1n the eighties. Unusual - tor this time of year. Thia morning, I left New York, where 1t was . medium cool in the sixties. Arriving in Washington, the weather was -- sweltering. But then - Washington 11 famous for summer heat -- and is now getting ••1111 summer temperatures, before spring is ever. ENDmG Ina Dellaf eld of Boston e ende me a line, Hugh, that m ght g ve so m eone a chuc k le. It 1 e from the Boeton Traveler , H h, and it reads as follows: "Dr. Urey, the nuclear wizard, thinks life is possible on other planet • 11 The BoetonTraveler says yes:- 11G1ven a little pea~e a1d quiet, life would be possible on thie planet . "