) ' - . I I c l e r a out h o c o m o e • o oy - is he xt 1 men o i ra i a th er transp a ren • s a 1 he orl o te - h pick ing of the s rate g ic oment . he Soviets - ha v ing jus completed an extensive series of atom ic tests. Winding up - ~h.!!,_r current program of nuclear explosions. \ /. The United States, ready to begin - a series of its own. In the far Pacific, Eniwetok,-this year's quota o f atomic experiments. So, in between the Moscow announcement~- the Soviets, acting on their own, gpe discontinuing atomic explosions. Won't hold any - in the near future, at least . . Actually , the declaration made by F oreign Minister Gromyk o, at the final session o f the Supreme Soviet - was con i t ional. With a big 11 if ~ . The statement say he Soviets expe ct the United tates and Britain - - o follow suit and discontinue their own a t omi experime nts . n d if they don't .........-- - 2 el I h n t h u ns , 11 r con r r· h ir ci on . L eaving them free - ore u e nuclear tu tes H j st le l -.. their erie of tests, it oul be so e ti e , anyway - before they 1 sta r t another . While t he United States - is just be g inning i ts own series. Great - f or a big line of propaganda talk. Moscow saying · • . \ we 1 re stopping, but they won't. So no wonder Washington promptly discounts the whole thing - calling the M oscow d eclaration by its right name "propaganda~ . London - echoing the same opinion. We such a tricky maneuver. o r 0 c1en f c r cle 1s ou forthcom n om c in h ar ci ic my re 1 1 a efense s in rcont n n 1 mi s le alle - ~ atomic ra 'I efense . The ide bein - o t~uch of a 1 ~ .... n ' r mi sil 0 - t he blast J I J .J of neutrons . S u b - ~ ... ' (. .,- .,..+-4 ,.. . , S - o f a in r' . ~ u 1 off an at omic explosion. Streams of n ' ons 10 ., - tnere.fcite detonate the nuclear charge in an approachin g m sile. This, they say, 1s one reason for the Soviet move - announcing a suspension of Russian atomic tests. If they could persuade us to call off our own tests, they'd block the dev elopment of an Am erican 11 atomic ray' defense. KHRUSHCHEV - CABINET The new Khrushchev cabinet pictures the rise - of a new power 1n the Kremlin. Koslov - named First Deputy Premier". Second only - to Khrushchev, himself. Koslov - hitherto not well known to the outside world. Of course, he's a Khrushchev man. But poor old 8Ulgan1n - recently so prom1nen as a - member of the partnership of Band K after being ousted as the /\ Soviet Premier, and replaced by KhrUshchev - what kind of Job does he get? One supposition had been - he might remain in the cabinet. But no - Bulganin, today, was named as Prealdent of the State Bank. He's Just a banker now. SUMMIT The western big three, today, made their proposal - for the arranging of a summit conference. Britain, France, and the Uni t ed States - 1n identical notes to Moscow. They suggest - NI Lhe 11 prepara tory work" 1l1ou1d be done through II diplomatic channels '' . Talks - to begin in · - - Moscow, during the second half of April. Then, if arrangements progress in a satisfactory way, the foreign ministers would set the time and place for a meeting at the summit. The British note - accompanied by a personal letter from British Prime Minister MacMillan to Khrushchev. The first message from a weatem govemment - addressed to Khrushchev 1n his new dignity, as Moscow Premier. BBC Over across the Atlantic, BBB annoWtces a ban on jokes concerning several subjects. British comedians on television and radio, forbidden to get off humorous gags - about a summit conference, atomic weapons, and British st•smen. - Seems - like an odd combination. Well, solellD'l al statesmen, I suppose - don't like to be tu•...., laughed at. Likewise, atomic weapons - are no joke. And, to sum it up - a sU11D1t conference 1a an important PRINCESS Group Captain Peter Townsend - in " exile" again tonight. Back in Br u ssels- which is to be his residence, apparently, while out of England. He flew from London, today. without having seen Princess Margaret again. London papers are full·of rumors and speculation - about a "showdown 11 interview yesterday, between Margaret and her sister, the Queen. Her Majesty - driving to the country house of the Princess. Where they talked - for an hour. The prevalent rumor is that the Queen gave Margaret a "reprimand" for having met the former RAF war hero - in that much publicized meeting last Thuraday)~en Townsend and Margaret - had tea together. The meeting that stirred up a fanfare of publicity. But, actually, nothing definite is known about the "showdown" interview. The only significant fact being - Peter Townsend back in exile, tonight. CUBA - The Cuban police report the seizure of a huge consignment of arms and ammunition. Smuggled 1n - for the Cuban rebels. Apparently from the United States. Shipload of armament - landed on the North coast of Havana province. Taken - to a private house along the beach - the police getting wind of this and staging a raid. But the rebels in the house also got warning - and escaped in the nick of tlq19. Just before the police arrived - and seized that · arsenal. ECONOMICS The House of Representatives, today, passed an Eisenhower anti-recession bill - permitting the administration to spend eight hundred and forty million dollars, this year. FUnds - appropriated for the fiscal year of Nineteen Fifty Hine. The money - to be used for the purchase of government auppllea. FARM - President Eisenhower, today, vetoed the bill - to freeze farm price supports for one year. The measure, introduced by the Democrats - to forbid Secretary of Agriculture Benson to lower the level of price supports. Republicans in Congress expressed the fear - that a Presidential veto would hurt the chances of the GOP in the November congressional elections. But the President went right ahead - and vetoed. In Congress, there's talk of passing the bill - over the presidential veto. But the general opinion seems to be - that there's little chance of mustering a two-thirds majority, which would be needed. SUPREME COURT Today, the Supreme Court - rejected appeals from two former officials of the Truman administration, Matthew Connolly, one time White House aide of H.S.T ✓- and !Amar Caudle, former head or the tax division or the Department of Justice. Both- convicted of conspiring to fix a tax case. They were tried and given prison sentences of two years each. Which - they'll now . have to serve. BOMBS A t Idaho Falls, the 11 mad bomber 11 scare has been solve d . Last week, the town was terrorized - by a series of explosions of home-made bombs. Apparently - the doing of a maniac. Not much harm done - except in one case. A bomb - blowing up an automobile driven by Mrs. Rene Gasser - twenty four years old. ,Wtio - was injured by the blast. Today, the police declare - it was a weird murder plot. Two young men, Monty Moore and Charles Feely - planning to kill Mrs. Gasser, for h•t■ . insurance money. She - having taken out a ten thousand dollar double-indemnity policy, with Monty Moore as beneficiary. Believing - they were to get married. so they staged th6 "mad bomber !' scare - as a smoke-screen. To make it look as if Mrs. Gasser was the victim of a maniac. The police declare_ the two accused have confessed. r I AIRLINERS The news, this morning, told - how an airliner nearly collided with another plane over m--New Jersey. Later in the day, the word - that the other plane was an airliner too. B>th - belonging to National Airlines. A big one - with fifty-eight peil'IWII aboard. Bound - from Palm Beach to Hew York. The smaller plane, flying the other way, from New York to Norfolk, Virginia - ._. fifteen persons aboard. A total - of seventy-three b• 111 lives at stake. A collision averted - by the fast action of Captain Jack Guthrie, pilot of the huge Palm Beach to New York a1rline1) ~o threw his ponderous plane into a steep dive - shaking up the passengers. But - averting a disaster. OIR~ Here's a st0ry - with an element of historic reminiscence. Tak ing us back - to a tragic event of classical antiquity. Its about - three little girls, at Knoxville, Tennessee. Beulah Mae Caughron, seven years old. Betty Sue Caughron, five years old. And Mary Jane Cole - seven. Attacked by a mysterious malady. Which had the doctors - baffled. The children - stricken with a burning 1n the stomach. 'lben, chills - and finally, convulsions. The symptoms, a puzzle - until Mary Jane told what happened. Saying - the three little girls had found things that looked like small potatoes, floating in a stream. So they ate what seemed to them - small potatoes. Then the doctors recognized what the trouble was - the wa~r hemlock · . ) "Hemlock" in one meaning - s1gn1f1ces a tree. But the name also applies to a family of plants - with poisonous narcotic bulbs. GIRLS - 2 History tells how the Greeks of old inflicted the death penalty - with hemlock poison. And Socrates - drank u the hemlock. There's no known remedy for the poison, and the physicians at Knoxville could only try - what they thought 1 might help. Today, the three little girls - getting well. Recovering from that poison - of tragic historical memory. The hemlock! BOY - In the Manomet Swamps , near Plymouth, Masaachuaetta today - Boyd Hayward was battling h1a way through a tangled thicket. When he heard - a dog barking. And a small ch1ldlah So that waa the happy ending or an eighteen hour search for four year old Dwight Davia, who vanlahed • tl'OII hia home, yea terday. One hundred and tltty aearchel'I • coablng the dangerous Cranberry bogs J ,l'ntil the dlacoveey - Blade, today. Standing 1n the underbruah - the tour year old. Bea14• him - hie black Spitz, 1'111194 Toby. ~1. t. t The dog - barklng. 'ftle child - 2 7 I "lror llaw1. A A DUKE - In 10nd0 n, the announcement that the Duke or Bedford 1s going to take a a cow to lunch. Next Wednesday, at one of ~he swankiest of London hotels - ._Grosvenor ""' . ·u c.c; House • 1 The Dwce , and his guest - the cow. A cynic lllight aay - the cow hu 110N aenae than the Duke. -£~~ Bu~ F2 I as l\ ot Bedford - explaina it 1n a logical way. The luncheon - to be held by the British milk marketing board - the milk d11trlbuton. So the Dwt• arguea: 11 1 thought it only right that there ahOllld be a repreaentatlve - of the milk producers at the lunch." His Grace hal a tour year old Jersey cow named SKIERS A popular ovation - 1n Yosemite Hational Park, today. People of the valley tum1ng out - to welcome a helicopter. Returning - from an exploit of rescue. Four skiers - marooned at high altitude 1il the Sierras. One ot them, Wllllam Pope, a student at Stanford University - having fallen 111, unable to go on. '1'he other three - standing by with h1111. The helicopter, an U'11Q' "tlJlnS banana" d14 an expert Job. Bringing out the aroone4 1k1er1 - llhlle to1eidte valley cheered. l