P resident Eisenhower has ut the question of disarmament - in the la p of the Russians. Ur. Eisenho•e~ telling his news conference - he doesn't see how any constructive step could be taken now - by the delegates of the West, in London. As Ur. Eisenhower phrased it, •soaething aust happen on the other side.• Adding, h•'• not very optiaistic that the Iremlin will come up with a new foraula - or suddenly turn around, and beco ■e agreeable. Meanwhile in London, the delegates of Britain, France and America, are prepared for the collapse ot the Uisarmament Conference. And they're sure, that if it comes - the result will be a major propaganda attack by the Soviets. _QM[ERENCE At his news conference today, ~ resi ' ent Eisenhower re p eated - he's tremendously d isa ointed in the Ei 1ty- Fifth Congress. He acknowled g es t h t a number of the measures he roposed - did get p assed on Ca p itol Hill. For exam le, the Eisenhower V octrine for the Middle East, and the Civil Rights Bill. But he adds, a number ot important measures were pigeon-holed at this session. He didn't get what he wanted in the way of emergency grain supports, flood insurance, or increased postal rates. And moat important of all, in the President•• view - Congress rebuffed hi ■ by cutting foreign aid too much. During the news conference, Mr. Eisenhower see ■ ed in good hu■ or. And newsmen who were there say - the resident may be disappointed, but he's not at all disheartened. He's glad he got as much as he did fro ■ the ~ighty-Fifth Congress - and he hopes to get more from the Eig ty-Sixth. fil:lill!!!M At the University of ~hica o, they're tearin g down part of the athletic stadium - and they had to call in a team of atomic scientists for hel p . The reason - the building in Stagg Field - is the lace where the atoaic age was born, r ifteen years a g o. lt was at Sta g g field that the late Enrico Ferai first triggered a nuclear reaction - on Vecember Second, Nineteen Forty-Two. Later, the atomic p ile was transferred to the Argonne Laboratory in nearby Lemont. The building, of cours e , remained radioactive - but it was no ha1ard, aa long as the walls were standing. But when Chic a g o Univ era i ty dee ided to pull down the building, and use the area for tennis courts - there was some dan g er of contaminating the atmos p here. So s cientists from Argonne. we re called in to help. Today, they carried away most of the radioactive ma t e rial. And · an end to one of the historic the University is . uttin §IAQ!Jll! - 2 spots in America - the west stand of S tag Field - where the atomic a g e be g an. ~ enator 1 illiam · nowlan o ens a p olitical tour of California - tha . will cover six we ek s. The Senator made h i s f i r st a e a r an c e i n R e d d i n g , to d a y • ie's got some seventy more ap earanoes on his chedule - that will take him up an down the state, fro ■ one end to the other. The California e p ublican says the reason for thia political tour is - he wants to re ort back to the people following the adjournment of Congress. At the same ti ■ e, he's sounding out grass roots sentiment among California Republicans. But no one on the est Coast doubts that Senator Inowland is beginning his bid - for the governorship. He's ex ected to announce any time now - that he will challenge Governor Goodwin Knight in Nineteen-Fifty-Eight. At least one erson in California is quitH sure about this. Governor · night imself. He says he ex µ ects · enator Knowland ~o be a candid at e for his job - and the present Governor is p re arin to fi g ht off the Knowland chAllPnP~. • : r si en is nho · er n Fir t L y ar all et to le v on t ir h oli y tomorro m o rnin • They'll fly fro m 1n ton to o rt, o e l 1 n - whe re they'l l be us s tour n a v al ba ~ e t ere. r. isenho · er wil l ha v e to t ake some work along , ith hi ■ - a number of cills he has n't ha a chance to act on. This inc udes the Civil Ri hts Bill. ' oday the residential wrist o t a good work-out, as Mr. Eisenhower si g ned a raft of mea s ures sent to hi ■ by ~ongress. The most im n ortant - the bill to p rotect the secret files of the F.~.l. te've heard a lot about this bill - because it was batted around in the House and the Senate. The lawm a kers, tryin to a g ree on how to minimize the u p reme ~ourt rulin g - th a t a defendant had a ri g ht to examine m at erial i n F. B .l. fil es - if it waa e vi den ce a ainst him by • V r L itness. · a p itol Hi ll ets arou n d t i s bJ saying - a jud g e may with old any evidence no t relevant to th trial in his court. The only thing the rosecution must produce - is direct. formal accusations, made by a governaent witn•••· With the ~resident's signature, this bill now beco••• law. §Q!lEI A dispatch from Moscow st a tes that the cities of the Soviet Union - are goin g in for new naaes. More than twenty districts throughout tl.e country - to be known under different titles. The reason - these district, were once called after Molotov and Iagonovich - the disgraced op onents of Khrushchev. Since the Coamunist revolution, the lrealin baa gone in for an orgy of name-changing - all over the Soviet aap. Naaes like •Leningrad•, Stalingrad•, and ao on. Well, so ■ e districts called the ■selves after lolotoY and Iagonovich. And now then think they ■ ale a mistat,~ We are told th& these twenty districts - are not going to be caught by another shift in the power alignment of the Soviet leaders. The new names, •~• p olitically harmless for example, •Volga•, ~oviet•, and Russia". We don't know just which districts are involved, butte idea is somethin g like thi s - a district in Leningrad, once called •Molotov• - would be called •Volga• from now on. And there won't be any change in the future - ecuase the Volga is a lot more per■ anent in Russia - than Molotov is. In Branford, Connecticut, they're callin g the new car designed by Father Alfred Juliano - •a safety expert' dreaa.• Father Juliano says he wanted to roduce an automobile - that would give the maxi ■ u■ of p rotection in case of accident. He built the streamlined body ot laainated fibre-glass - that will bounce back, if it 1 a dented less than four inches. he p ut hydraulic •hoot absorbers on both bumpers. He aade the seat, reTer.aible. Be put tour steel bars in the root - to prevent it troa caving in, i t the car should overturn. And he titted hi1 creation with six airplane lights. The designer says hie car should run for a lifetime - without a b reakdown, or even major repair,. H e'd like to see it in mass p roduction, but there's one ca t ch. An automobile of the Juli a no model - would coat around fifteen thous a na dollars. Our Under Secretary of State is on his way back to Washington - after a tour of the "iddle iast. Lo7 rienderaon, holding last minute talks wih the Turkish P rime Minister in Istanbul. Then, leaving by plane - to report to ?resident Eisenhower. As henderaon left, tbere was more sabre-rattling in the two ■ ain trouble s p ots of the Middle East - Syria and Egypt. ln Daaascua, the Syrian Foreian Minister Launched a bitter attack on Lebanon - because that coua\ is accepting help fro ■ America, under the ter■ • of the Eisenhower Doctrine. And in Cairo, the Egyptian foreign Minister boasted that hie country has doubled ita air strength - since the Suez crisis. He told the latioaal Assembly - ~gypt is now ready to ■ eet any big scale assault froa the air - by the restern imperialists. The Governor of Arkansas declares he sent the National Guard into Little Rock - to prevent violence at Central High School. Governor Orville Faubus saying h•'• not trying to p revant dese g regation. But he is trying to prevent bloodshed. He p oints out that he did not inter- fere when the town of Ozark integrated Negro students into a formerly all-White school. According to the Governor, Little Rock is a co ■ pletely different aituatioa - because he haa re p orts of both Whitea and iegroea buying guns and knivea - preparing tor a big tight. Tonight, two hundred and fifty Guardsmen and State Troo p ers are on duty at Central High. They moved in, end blocked off the streets leading to the school. They set up squad cars at key p oints. And they ca ■• p re p ared for trouble - armed with rifles, pistols, bayonets, clubs, and tear g as shells. Today a crowd of more than three hundred watched - as the children arrived for school. There was some jeering - and one ■ e ■ber of the crowd p araded around, waving a Confederate flag, until a Guardsman ordered hi ■ to put it away. There was no violence, p erhaps because no Negro•• turned up for classes at Central High. Fifteen of the ■ had registered to go to school with a thousand White students. They got a federal court order - defending their right to attend the school. But they didn't appear today - when the doors were opened. The coamander of the troops, Adjutant General Sher■ an Clinger, told newsmen - he'll keep his ■en where they are until Governor Faubus orders the ■ to leave. In Washington, President Eisenhower announced that Attorney General ~rownell is watching the Little lock situation very carefully. Brownell, to talk to the federal judge who handed down the esegregation order - and then decide whether the federal g overnment should take any action under the Civil Bights law. We've been able to get through to Alaska, the Elmendorf Air Force Base - to have Lowell Thoaas give u1 a report on the tragic death of Peter freuchen. The Scandinavian eographer and ex lorer, who gained nation- wide fame on the Sixty-Four Thousand Vollar Question. Lowell Thomas, on an expedition to the Arctic, took along a group ot polar veterans. Peter freuchtn - one of th••· So now - Lowell Thoaas coming in froa the Elaendort Air Force Base, Alaska. Peter Freuc h en. L ·- . . . Hello Ever body: l'm broadcasting from the toll center of Al a ska, A most the only to _ ic of conversa t ion up here today has been the sudden, dramatic p assing or our Vikln1 com p anion, eter Freuchen. hile we were at breakfast here at Elmendorf Air Force Base, General ~en Gibson, in command of the base came in. Also Admiral Ira Hobbs who is nav a l commandant of The Alaskan ~ea Frontier. The Admiral w ho, becau s e of the weather, is unable to get to his own headquarters over on Kodiak Island. They sat with us and listened s p ellbound, as Arctic ex p lorers D onald MacMillan and Bernt Balchen tol d stories of the a d ventures of eter Freuchen. 1 too h ad k nown h im for years, aroun d The E x lorers Club, in Ne w Y o rk, w here w ith his beard, his --, - ooden leg, his ~ aiety an ni breezy style he as easily the most colorful amid men who are all colorful. But Admiral MacMillan anu Colonel Balchen ha known hi ■ and lived with him on the Greenland lcecaJ. And l wish you all could have been listening in! P eter Freuchen, as you ~erhaps have heard a few hours ago, here at Blmendorf Field, suddenly spun round on his peg leg, keeled over and never regained consciousness. His young wife, Dagmar, who I believe i1 just half his age - Peter was seventy-two - has asked u1 to drop his ashes over Thule, the great Arctic airbase in Greenland, which was given its name, Thule, by Freucblll - named ~hata long ago - forty or mcme years ago - when he was associated in Greenland with the eainent Danish ethnologist and explorer, Knud Rassmuson. Thule, as you will recall, was a mythical place in antiquity, which the hoenecians said was at the end ot the world, the lace where you would fall off into space, if you ever got there. Later it was thought to be somewhere to the north, in turo e - Scotland, at one ti ■, then Iceland, and finally Freuchen put the na■ e on the map. 1 t was •~re he s ent many long years living among the olar Eskimo, whom he knew better than anyone. It was a heart-shaped p lace, a by on the nor.th•••t coast of Greenland. The Eaki ■ o called it Umanak. Then tor years it had the naae North Star Bay, for lhe Borth Star, a British vessel, that on an expedition in 1850, was the first to spend a winter with the ?olar Eakiao. The Horth Star was taking part in the draaatic search for Sir John Franklin and hia party, who were never toun4 Peter Freuchen, who went there first in 1906 - ao he told me only yesterday - changed the na■ e to Thule - today, as you know, is our largest Arctic air base. So i t w i 11 b e a p ro r i ate to t a k e et er ! ! ' re u ch en' s ashes and drop th~m over Thule. FOLLOW BICQRDJHG Thank you, Lowell, and it seems altogether fittiD& - that the ashes of Peter freuchen should be strewn over Thule, which he aaaed, for the ancient symbol of the ultiaate north. The Soviet claim to have p erfected an*•*•••••**• intercontinental missile - should not be t a ken too seriously. So says P resident Eisenhower. The President, speaking at his news conference - callin g the BuaaiaD report, •aost evasive.• Mr. Eisenhower p ointing out that ■ any R~asian claias in the past have been unreliable - and that this one really doesn't say very auch. All•• have ia the boast - that Soviet scientists can hit tar1ets anywhere in the world. Still no word about the scientific basis of the claia. Mr. Eisenhower added - whether the Soviet aisaile is a reality or not - it •ill be a long ti ■ e before lhrushche• can get it into ■ aaa production. And until then, in the P resident's opinion, the major wea p on is the intermediate bomber. That train wreck in Jamaica - was caused by a defective wheel. The train, en route to ' inaton froa Montego Bay. The engine, flying along - w h en it hit a curve. And it went off the rails - with the c ara behind, piled up in a aass of wreckage. The death toll, around two hundred. Many ■ ore, injured. One of the passengers says she saw bow it bappeae4. Pauline Vonald caae out of the wreck unscathed. She \o14 newamen that, as the train went around the curve - •h• saw fire flashing troa thw wheel. lt began to slip - and then flew oft. After that - disaster. Tonight reacue squads are still searching tor bodiea. [RSUCli~I P eter Freuchen was one ot the last ot the great Arctic ex p lorers. lhen he was twenty, he left the University of Co p enha g en - to sail as an ordinary seaman, on his first ex p edition to the North P olar regiona. After that, he gave his life to filling in the ■ apa ot the Arctic and Antarctic. lie was honored by great scientific institutions - like the ioyal D anish Geographic Society. And he••• awarded the Danish Order of lerit. Be wnet to Alaska this tiae, with an expedition headed by Lowell Thoaas - and including other ta■ ou1 explorers like Bernt Balchen, Sir Hubert Wiliiaa, and Donald B. MacMillan. for P eter Freucben, it••• hi• last Arctic ex p edtion. He died suddenly, following that heart attack in Anchorage, Alaska.