BISENHOWER There's to be a meeting of three North American heads of state - resident isenhower, Premier St.Laurent of Canada, end President Rui2 Cortines of Mexico. So announced - at the vacation ' hite ouse tn Georgia. President Eisenhower issued an invitation - for late next month. Wanting to have talks - with the chiefs of our two neighbors, north and south. The purpose - to kno each other better, and discuss matters of common interest. Meanwhile, the presidential staff. 1aa~•• a new L{_..a-...- .Me.-(. 4~ ' denial - that the President haa~IMNA-ln cations that he'll run again. Today Presidential Secretary Jim Hagerty stated - that h e ~ 4 o r a fact, that Mr. Eisenhower has not c unicated his second term decision to anybody in aahington. However, he didn't SJY - anybody down there in Georgia. VBST INDIAN FEDERATIO In London, today, signatures . - on an agreement, which 111 set up a .,Caribbean Federation." Consisting - of a chain of British islands extending from the West Indies toward the ~~r .:.?8!t of South America, . Jj . uu1ch :elands as , - Barbad . os, Trinidad__; A ~ l ~ , ~~~- The agreement - signed by Colonial Secretary Indian connun1t1es. Creating - a new nation of the British COIIIIOmt • e al th. The C ribbean Federation - to hold elections early in tu - ~u::~ -t...t- Nineteen Fifty-Eight. ~ form a government A~. ~ string of tsland . s. What will be the • Capital~ ef 1'htl new l&'IIPl'll8M' Not d: selected - as yet. A committee to study the question - G\. ' ~ of what c . ity shall be the capital of ..,. west Indian Federation. - ~ ~ ~ . PRAMCE. The French government announces - a new Dis-Armament Plan. Called - "a compromise," to relax the tensions between East and West. Foreign Minister Pineau says - it's a "blend" of Russian, British, and American proposals for dis-armament. The French plan to be placed - before the Dis-Armament COlllllittee of the UN. BRITISH SU114ARINE Britain is building - its first atomic submarine. So disclosed - in the House of Connons today. The First Lord of the Admiralty announcing - that the new British atomic submarine will be merely a start. The eventual goal - an atomic navy and merchant marine. Shades of Lord Nelson - and his men-o-war! Majestic sailing ships - tacking in the wind. Now it will be - the Queen's Atomic Navy. BRITAIN A dispatch from London begins as fo!lows: "The government announced - it will not promise murderers a holiday from hanging." Meaning - there will be no suspension of capital punishment in Britain, pending the formal abolition of the death penalty. L e st week, the House of Conunons voted - no more hanging. But a bill to that effect must be enacted - before the decision can become law. The parliamentary vote instructed the Conservative gvvernment of Prime Minister Eden - to introduce legislation. But Eden and his Cabinet oppose the abolttion of capital punishment. So they refuse to bring forward - a bill of their \ ~a.L~ ~ own. Instead\ •t..'°t-iit.)1s offered - a measure introduceq,, a while ago by a Socialist M. P. , Sidney Silvennan. put blocked, J until now - by the government. Prime Minister Eden saying - the M. P .s can vote on that. the death penalt :ll arge, tha~ t:his is a . / / _,,, ... n the Ho~ of Lords· - The Upp~se has BRITAIN - 2 tor a..Mhile. " 11 r o d ¢ e d ~ ~ Meanwhile, three cases of capital puniRhment - are pending. Sentences decreed by the courts - with appeals to the government. Today, H o me Secretary Gwilym Lloyd George declared these capital sentences will not be affected by the proceedings in P arliament. uEach case," he said, "will be considered on its merits." Shortly after the parliamentary vote last week, an atrocious murder was committed in LOndon. An arrePt - •ade. Which adds another element of the dramatic - in the proceedings to abolish capital punishment. BERLIN Another international incident - in Berlin. Which results - in a monumental hangover for a couple of Red Army soldiers. The two Russian warriors appeared at the home of a W e st Berlin policeman last night. They forced their way in, am - t:c-l,~ 1£. ..... ~ compelled him;::...~--..,,"' u~ their last bottle of vodka. The German policeman obeyed - in fear of his life. Or, maybe - he didn't mind the vodka so much. But he did object - when the two pie-eyed ~oviet soldiers began to wonder ! / Athat was under the linoleum on the floor? To find out - they ripped up the linoleum. Whereupon the German policeman - was able to get in a telephone call to the authorities. That happened in the French Sf : ctor, and this morning - a Soviet officer appeared, and asked the French command - what happened to those two Russians? The French replied - tley were sobering up. And the soviets could have them - hanaovers and all. PALESTINE Israel charges - further incidents along the shore of the sea of G a lilee. Declaring that Syrians made a couple of separate attacks on Israeli fishennen. Jhooting at them from shore, while the fishermen worked with their nets. No casualties - a minor incident. But any trouble can be disturbing in those areas of tension. SUDAN Rioting - at Khartoum today. Students on the rampage - protesting against the "black-hole-of4!alcutta!L horror, about which ~e heard last night. One-hundred-and-ninety tenant farmers - perishing of suffocation. In a room - Jammed with prisoners. The news tells of the killing of one-hundred--and-fitty others - in a battle with police. All - the result of diaputes between tenant farmers and cotton growing companies. Officials charging - sux1l that the riots were inspired by COllllllunists. However, the new Sudanese ..... , - , government 1a blamed bitterly - for favoring the big farm companies. In bringing about - inhuman events. PHILIPPI N E S A news dispatch from the Philippines relates - that Rodrigo Doles, the principal of an agricultural school on Negros Island, had his dinner, and felt fine. Then he went to bed, apparently in the best of health. During the night, however he started thrashing about in his sleep. And - never woke up. All of which is entered in the medical book - as the moat recent . inatapce of a mysterious malady. Which they call - "the nightmare sickness!'. It occurs in the Philippine Islands and in Hawaii. And afflicts - Philippinerales only. Striking them while asleep - with a fateful regularity. In Hawaii, Dr. Niles Larsen, a H o nolulu physician, says - ~hat, in H waii alone, one-hundred-and-thirty Filipinos have been victims of the "nightmare sickness•~ iR t.iM ~a•t Medical evidence rules out food poisoning, indigestion or anything like that. It was thought, once, that the trouble might be_ rice. But other orientals, Chinese, Japanese» Koreans, PHILIPPINES - 2 who have the same rice diet as the Filipinos - are never afflicted by the mysterious malady. The Filipinos themselves call it "bang-utot" .Neanina - WhieR ■eaAa -"they dream themselves to death." Which, according to American physicians, might be as good an explanation as any. Fatally stricken - by a nightmare. Dr. Larsen suggests that the cause of the malady may be - fear. A sub-conscious fear, so powerful - that, coming in a dream, it stops the circulation of the blood. He says - there's medical evidence of this. Dr. Larsen points out that saae South Jea islanders are - especially vulnerable to fear. Which explains - the sinister exploitspf South Sea witch doctors. Who, as is known, can cause a victim's death - by placing a curse on h1.Dl. Actually, it's fear that kills - the terror evoked by the curse. This might give some hint - in the Philippine mystery of the " nightmare malady. " Labor and Management had a high level pow-wow, today - and disagreed completely, on the very first item~fta, eae ap Qar eieettee~ The meeting was proposed by George Meany, head of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Who suggested - "peace talks" with the National Association of - Manufacturers. o that was today 1 s event ·· at a luncheon. When it was over, Mec1ny and Charles R. Sligh, Chaiman of the N.A.M • . told reporters - that, right off the ~ bat, they couldn't agree about labor contract, requiring workers to join the Union. Deadlock - and stalemate. They did agree on one thing - that further talks would serve no useful purpose. aBNBRAL MOTORS And now, while we're groaning about the inevitable approach of income tax day, le t 's thank heaven we don't have to pay one billion, three hundred and fifty-three million dollars to the tax collector. Which is the Nineteen Fifty-Five aount - for one taxpayer in this country, General Motors. We 1 ve heard how O.M. did a record-breaking business last year, and had a record-breaking incahe. Which also means - a record-breaking tax bill. So disclosed in a report to O.M. stockholders - all five hundred and sixty-five thousand of them. The report adding - that, in the past ten years, the Company has paid the government, in taxes, eight and two-thirds billions of dollars. Which may console us a bit - as we make out our tax return. ALABAMA A huge meeting of protest is on - at Montgomery, Alabama, tonight. Following - wholesale arrests of Negro leaders) ~arged - with inciting a boycott of the city bus line. TWenty-six clergymen were among those arrested - am released on bail. One of them, the Reverend R.D.Abernathy, called tonight's mass meeting in his B a ptist church. He says he , expects ten thousand - coming "to sing 'l nd pray." The church won't hold a fraction of ten thousand. In fact, they'd fill the church-yard. Meanwhile, the bus boycott goes on - in the protest against racial segregation. WRECK. Ther a s a railroad wreck on the Pennsylvani a - this evenin g . The cr a ck train, "THE MBASSY" derailed between Washington and Baltimore. five to thirty - injured. At least four liv e s lost. Twenty - "THE EMBASSY" was on its regular run from Washington to New York, when the ace ident occurred - neat· Bern, Maryland. Three cars went off the tracks - including the diner. Medical help rushed from all sides - to take care of the injured. - ~WYOOK In Y rk , it ~ ~ s a tough day for a host of office orkers. First - a mornin tie-up in th of Grand Central Station - a train jumped subway. Where, south the track~the A middle - of the rush hour jam. Trains all along the line were stalled. Thirteen persons - fainting in over-crowded cars. Half a million office workers - late for their jobs. Three hours - before subway service was back to normal. On top of that, in a downtown office building - an elevator failure. TWo thousand workers arriving - only to find, 1 o no elevators running.( ome climbed the stairs to their offices on lower floors. But 1t:i)a twenty-seven story building {and most of them waited for the elevators to get going. Which didn't happen - until two ?. M) The Jam in the lobby became so serious the cops were called, to maintain order. Pity the poor office workers who were caught, first - in the subway tie-up. Then - in the break-down of the elevators. FARMER Daniel Webster Harvey of ppin g , e Hampshire_ should m ake a speech about this. Following the example of his reat namesake - Daniel Webster. He's a farmer. But - a flying farmer, who travels in his own plane. While attending - to his agricultural business. Yesterday, he flew from Epping to HYanis, Massachusetts - to deliver a plane-load of smoked pork. And then - started home. He was winging over Boston harbor, when h11plane - ran out of gas. And he had to make a forced landing - ~ on Brewster Island. Which ls uninhabited J. this time of year. So there was Daniel Webster Harvey - marooned, in freezing weather. He built a bonfire, and fed wood into it for \ eight hours - until a coast Guardsman rescued the castaway. And was Daniel Webster happy? No, not at all. His chief worry - still on his mind. He said: "I've got suety-nine cowo - a nd my wife isn't able to milk them. he's got five youngsters to tend - - FARMF.R - 2 and she never did any milking, anyway. 11 So what did he find when he g ot home? The cows - all milked. ut not by Mrs. Daniel ~ebster H rvey. Milked - by the local preacher. The Reverend J hn Gilbert, Harvey's Pastor, took care of the cows. A flying farmer - and a milking preacher. I DREAM Here's a story of a dream - which didn't come true. Mrs. Lura Evans , o f a n Diego, iii California - was ,. born and rear ed in Hawaii. Her mother, Mrs. Mabel Lee - lives in H w ii. So, for ten years, Mrs. Evans planned - she'd make a trip to Hawaii, visit her mother, and renew scenes of her childhood. That was her dream, and it almost came true. Everything was arranged, and she boarded a ship - at Los Angeles. Her husband and two of her four children were along - to see her off. They escorted her to her cabin. Then, shortly before sailing time, they told her good-bye - and started back for San Diego. So there, in her cabin, was Mrs. Laura Evans, and her ~ dream w a s coming true - right down to the last minute. The call sounded - the ship was ready to sail. But Mrs. Evans was thinking- of her home in Sn Diego. Thinking - of her husband. A nd of the two boys - Eric and Harold. And of the two girls - Susan and Mona. She rang for the ste ard, aoo told him - get her ashore. luggage f off the ship in a hurry. He did -and she hurried t ; DREAM - 2 Th 1st seen of Mrs. vans, she was sitting on a suitc a se - wa iting for the San Diego bus. And saying: "I'll wait until my whole family can go. I think I can catch a bus that will take me home in time to get supper." And ~~e~p the band and play - A "Home Sweet Home." LTP.1956.02.23i.pdf LTP.1956.02.23ii.pdf