Secret ry of State John Fost er Dulles declare - the shootin own of a U .S. Navy lane, 0 r Alask a last week, will not imperil the Bi Four to p ta level at Geneva. A t news conference toda y , he announced "trigger happy" Soviet lots, who attacked a Navy p lane over Bering Strait. expressed "regret". Which is believed first time the Soviets have ever apologi ze d ln a e of this kind. The Russians offer to pay damages - of half the value of the bomber. We want full damages. But Secretary Dulles, today, stated that he and President Eisenhower want further facts - bef ore pressing the claim. At the same time, the Secretary of State adds -- he d oesn' t th nk there's any g roun for an American protest again st t hat incl ent of yesterday. Chinese Reds - attaacking DULLES - 2 an eric n built airliner, chartere by the Chinese ational1 ts . The plane hit - ut landin safely . In this case, the plane assailed was, legally, nder the flag of Nationalist China. $0LOTOV Molotov ta lun c h with Be~nard Baruch to ay - an od assor met o host and uest. Bruch, the elder Statesman, wa he author of that famous Bruch lan for the con trol of atomic weapons. Wf(1ch, earlier in the cold war, the Soviets rejected - with scorn. Nevertheless, Molotov, who was in New York today, called Bernard Baruch, saying - he'd like to see him. So that brought about the luncheon engagement - at Baruch's home on Long Island. They talked about the question of atomic controls, and spent what is called - a "jovial social hour together." MOSCOW FOLL O In o cow tonight, an extraor inary s i ht was to be seen i the Hall of Columns -- favorite place for stately &3 Communist events. In the Hall of Columns -- a hue American fl g with a band - playing the tar Spangled Banner. o why all the courtesy for Uncle Sam? Well, they were holding the ceremonies to begin the Soviet-American chess matches -- an American chess team - in Moscow, to compete with a powerful Russian team. Previously, such a thing would have been impossible back in the grim days of Stalin. But now -- the American flag and the Star Spangled Banner in the Hall of Columns. CLERGYM This countr offers to le Soviet Russia send a cler yman to this country - if the 1 1 1 erm1t an American churchman to be station ed in Moscow. The offer has a tone of irony. 'fle State Department sayin - that maybe Moscow now "considers it desirable that a Soviet cler ym a n be admitted to the United States, in order to minister to the religious needs of Soviet nationals." The reli ious needs of Communists I - That 1s an irony . • INDO CHIN At Sai g on, Indo China, an anti-American terrorist threw a born, today . A iming, it - at a window of the United tates Information offices. Inside, twenty Americans were a ttending a b irthd ay party . It ml ht have been a tra g ic birthday party - except for the fact that the grenade struck the wall b eside the window, and exploded there. Rebel elements are conducting an anti-American campaign in Saigon. Because of American support for Premier Diem. ARGENTINA h fro m B ueno ir s e r be s - a wave o r el ou f e v o r n A r e n tina . all ow n the revo l t that a l e . Wi Whi v h revo l was incite b y the anti -Church policy o f Pr e 1 e P e ro . Ch ch were bu rned by Anti -Chur ch mobs, an these are n ow - . la c es of ptl rima ge . Es eci a lly the church of the Dominican monastery, The interior of whic h - was ruined by fire. The main altar completely bu rne d own. In its pla ce, now stands on ly - a rough cross made by two fire-blackened pieces of wood, tied with a piece of rope. In f ron t of which hundreds a1a1 kneel, a lly. Many placin g flowers a t the ba se of the improvised c ro ss . And many pick p small fra ments of ruined statues and paintings - to carry away anxrl:b as re l i c s . C0URT MARTIAL Last year, Corporal Harold Dunn came home to B rooklyn from a Red ! : orean prison camp - and received a hero's welcome. Shortly afterward, he was crowned King of the New York State Fair at Syracuse. Today, he appeared before a court martial - charged with having collaborated with the enemy. And pleaded guilty - the first time there has been a guilty plea in such a case. After his return home, he testified against a former fellow prisoner, Corporal Claude Batchelor - convicted of aiding the Reds and sentenced to prison. Now Corporal Dunn, himself, faces a prison term, on the same charge. LATTIMORE The Department of Justice has dropped its case against Owen Lattimore. Attorney General Brownell deciding - there's no use going ahead with the perjury case against the Far Eastern expert, a-ccused in connection with Communism. That's the final decision - following rulings handed down by Judge Luther Youngdahl. Who twice - dlsll1aaed two key charges against the ,hns Hopkins University proteaeor. The Depart•nt of Justice could have taken the case on up to the Supreme Court, but Attorney General Brownell B~A*~-b~~- now thinks .. that I s useless. '111111.:p 1M still insists - that Lattimore served the Communist conspiracy. CONGRESS The House and the Senate passed legislation, today, e x tendin g the regular draft for years. And - the . "doctor's draft" fBIUCIUI for two. This - in accordance with the recormnendation from President Eisenhower. A t the same time, the House armed Services Comittee approve d a compromise version of that Eisenhower program for a compulsory military reserve. Which measure - had been held amendment. up, a f ter a fight over a racial segregationt-----~· The conunittee okays a bill, which makes no reference to racial segregation. ATOMIC SHIP The Senate gave President Eisenhower a sharp defeat tonlght - voting - to sink his atoms for peace J merchant ship. The Senate, by a close vote oft■ forty two to forty one, confirmed its rejection of twenty one million dollars - which the President wants for constructing an atomic powered vessel which would sail around the world as a demonstration of atoms for peace. LID ION T h "r e ~rty ...and-eight" plans to secede from the - American Le g ion. That fun-making organization - dedicated to the memory of those French railroad cars in the first World War. Forty men and eight horees. The cause of the quarrel is the way the leadership of the American Legion has been trying to control the "forty ... finance. and ~ight..,." in matters of membership and~tum. The fun makers are not laughing at all. 'fheir cry - "dictators·'" Today, the Legion Commander, Seborn Collins, declared - if the mirthful auxiliary wants to go its way, it's welcome lb to do so. So, tonight, we see those French railroad cars, forty men and eight horses, chugging and whistling their way out of the American Legion. STEEL The steel industry began banking furnaces today, and cooling coke ma ovens, in preparation for a possible Jl&i.18JlX&iU nation-wide steel strike at midnight Thursday. The negotiators are negotiating at high speed - seeking a settlement before the deadline named by the steel workers union. Their hope is for an agreement, but the steel industry 1s making ready for a strike, Just 1n case. PRISONERS In Washington, the statement that the prisons are full o f - lawyers. No, it isn't that attorneys are going to jail. The KUUK convicts are becoming amateur lawyers. So says Congressman Murray of Illinois - sponsoring a bill which would keep inmates from appealing to the lower federal courts. The Congressman says - the court calendars are januned with petitions from convicts. Demanding their freedom. ~any prisoners pass their days - pouring over law books and court decisions. Searching for loopholes - to shorten their sentences. When they think they've discovered something, they learn how to prepare a legal document - and file an appeal. It's a custom for prison libraries t o ~ procure books that convicts want to read. Also - Q to provide means for writing. Congressman Murray says that the Illinois State Prison had to bring 1n scores o f law bo o~ s - an d four PRISONERS - 2 hundred typewriters. To handle - a rush of amateur lawyers. "Bl k t " " ac s one, says he, has replaced the count of Monte Cristo, as the hero of the•• convicts." Well, Blackstone wrote the famous law book - and the count of Monte Cristo, of the Dumas novel, made the reaarkable escape. Legal study - instead of Jail break. EISENHOWER President Eisenhower, today, confessed - utter defeat. A d mitti ng - he was licked. In Bangor, Maine, /\ "Th he spoke of: e only things so far as I know that completely whipped me.'' So what were they - that sent the President in ignominous flight? "Midges" - that's what he said. I didn't know what a 11 1111.dge " might be. But the President explained - black flies which pestered hilll during his fishing aXJGl expedition - in Maine. or course, he was fishing with flies - casting them for trout. Maybe that's what anno,ed the "midges." Anyway, they made life lliserable for f1she1'118n Eisenhower. PLYER A new trans-Atlantic speed record_ made today. The pilot - takin g a desperate chance, so as not to lose the record a t the last minute. British war ace, Squadron Leader Ivor Broom - flying a Canberra Jet bomber from Ottawa to London 1n six hours, forty two minutes and u twelve seconds. He crune in over the coast - with only five minutes of fuel remaining in the tanks. After a thirty-three hundred mile flight. What was worse, his London base, the West Malling flying field - u was shrouded la with a heavy fog. This he learned by radio. Also that the Biggin Hill Air Base was clear- no fog at all. - Bi gg in Hill - fifteen miles nearer than West Malling. So that, of course, was the easy way. But it m would not have been_ Ottawa to London. So squadron Leader Ivor Broom took the tough chance. FLYER - 2 He cut off one motor of his jet bomber - conserving fuel for the longer distance. Then - came into the fogbound air base at West Malling, by radio. They talked him down. But he made it, landing safely. Risking his life - but not risking that record. PAN AM ERI C AN This afternoon, an airliner took off from New York b ound for Paris. What's new about that? Nothing at all, not a thin g . That's the point. It was the fifty thousandth Trans-Atlantic Flight on Pan .American Airways. Sixteen years ago, back in Nineteen Thirty nine, - Pan American pioneered comerc1al flying across the Atlantic - the first airliner winging fran the United States to Europe. Since then more than two million passengers have been flown across the Atlantic - for a total distance of twenty million miles. Which is the equivalent of moving the entire population of ,u Philadelphia to the moon - not once, but eight-hundred-and-seventy times. Of course, you may ask - why move the city of Brotherly love to the moon? Maybe, the man in the moon mi g ht like to meet a few Ph1ladelphians. PLAN E Of the c o ast of Japan, a life ra ft has bee n s i h ed . I n i t - a U.S. Marine. Either Lieutenant David Winton B ell , son of the President of General Mills, t11u,m incorpo rated. Or Captain Hodgen Montague of Jackson, Missi ssipp i. Two Marine Corps fliers - whose plane was forced down at sea. One survivor - now sighted by a search plane. END - Ton i ht , let's end with some news from Indonesia. Tel li ng - o f a p oliti c al cri s is at Djakarta. T he Indonesian A rm y h a s t wo chi e fs of staff, and the government ~4s to get ri d o f o ne of to t hem - that's the difficulty. The regime of President So~kJ1o named Major General , .... Ham b an U t o y o as Chief of Staff. The Army, however, insists on t aking or d ers from Colonel Zulkifli Lubis, who is Deputy Chief of S taff. The Army maintains that Major General Hambang Utoyo was promoted improperly - over the heads of Senior officers. So, therefore, military officers boycotted a ceremony_..- y esterday~ installing him as Chief of Staff. I Whereupon, Polonel Zulkifli Lubis, was suspended y Mini s ter of De fen se Iwa Kusa'inasu.fusCitri. T he political crisis came to a head, today, with an a nn o un c em e nt from the Chairman of the Defense section ' or t he I n d on e sian P arliament_ Chairman Z ain u l Baharuddin. END - 2 - Who says he will introduce a motion of non-confidence against the overnme~;· / rftUJC,'-- So it all adds up to the ' following. Major General Hamban Utoyo is defied by Colonel Zulk1fl1 Lubis. Who, in turn, defies Defense Minister Iwa Kusamasumantri. While criticism is uttered by Chairman Zainul Baharudd1n.