V . l 'f : r t o f 11 · t o i c c o n ' e r en <;e s .1 • u n er ay - in e nev a , · i tze r l nd . it rese n tive s ot i x ty- six n a tions a re e re t ' en ev a ' s .c>a lais d es ti o ns, overlo ok in L ~ k e G ~nev a - w it h ~ rofessor r ncois errin of Fr a nce i n th e chair. Te . e a s of overnment o t h e Bi four - all sent ho p eful messa es, and c o n ratu l a t ions. a c i 11 an , .lJ eG au 1 K rushc h ev, an d ~isenho~er - cal in g t h is conference, a major ste p towar d an interna t ional settlement. The Russi a n a el e t e ann o unced t h is a fternoon that his country is removin g a ll secrecy a bout~ viet efforts to harnass the ener g y of the H-bomb. r . is, a fter t ~ o s im il a r m ore by B rit a in a nd the U nited S ta t es o ver t h e wee k end. FORMOS On Form , t t 01 11s s cl im to have destroyed - a lot of sm 11 vessels belonging to t he R ds . ccording to this report, gunboats , motor j unks, a nd oth r light craft - were gathered in the area of A moy. A s soon a s the y were a discovere Chiang Kat-shek 1 s m e n unltmber·ed their bi guns - and sank around fifteen. ~ Meanwhile, Communist aRU shellin g of t he i,tssde goes on - although not quite as heavily. Today, only about four hundred shells fell Qn uemoy and the islands near it. P r e s i n Eis o w er r .. ei v 1. t he l a t e st blfanaw informa io n about F o rmos s tu a ti o n - hi s v a c a tion headquart er s in ew o r t , R h o d e Is l a nd. Th is morning, the President spote w i th hi Wh ite H ouse st f f secret a ry by telephon The call l a s t ed t wenty minutes - with Mr. Eisenhower being briefed about d a ta from the State Department, the Pentagon, a nd the Central Intelligence Agency. Press Secretary N James Hagerty told newsmen at Newport - that reports from the Far East are being sent on to the President from Washington - as soon as they arrive. ASked if the reports are "disturbing" - Hagerty replied "I had better not use any adjectives at all - they are full reports." one newsman raised a domestic problem. He asked about the statement of Governor Faubus - in which the oovemor of Arkansas said the White H o use "required" him to call the Supreme C ourt ruling on integration - the law of the land. To the question of whether the Faubus accusation is true - Hagerty retorted th a t he would not comment, because anything he mtgnt say would be un p rint a ble. 1: # , ... , t,;Q • ' . t 0 D a: ·t to ct . J • n · o i:g en a < t•' · 1,' • t t em , f'o t our a a a l · . T •·lo re e ento e Arm - Bu and Am a ixJJi i e • 1 o p ue t - Gene o. l Verne Mccaul, ct Com a d n o· th e , ar e C o s. T Ma r ne Commandant s ts non eet·n e s e one - ~ enever the Leathernec · s ma be a 'f ec ted b 1 an d ee son ta en. Wh ch could indicate - that t e posJ b i l t was a sed toda - of the Marine Corps on into act on n t e ormosa trait . Later in the day , the White House announced that Secretary of tate Dulles - will fly to Newport, for a Thursday conference with President Eisenhower . Press ecretary James Hagerty refuses to call the situation - "an emer ency" . But he po nted out the o b ous fact - that the meeting nd i cates some concern over the F ar East - on t e part of both the President and the ecretar of state . QU MO on l t , Q u o i l oc a ed b . Com n Pe in clam a i and ea commun ca on be~ween F ormosa and the of -shore ~land - &ve been ro en. Taipei den es this - but adm its h a t · nan a ttempted reinforcement of uemoy - only thirty Nat ona li s t troops, out of thr ee hund~ed, mana g ed to get ashore. -Nor does Taip e i aeRy - tl::lat tl::le aeds may be At the same time, Mao Tse-tung 1 s men are continuing their "fatigue bombardment•· of Quemoy and the neighboring islands. Today almost three thousand high explosive shells - landed in the area. It's called the heaviest shelling - since last Friday. After observing the barra g e, one American colonel remarked: "I have never seen such a concentration of artillery fire." The Pek i n radio has been broadcasting all day - sendin out surrender appeals to the Nationalist forces. But Cha i n Kai-shek • s arm y repeats - it w ill fi ht to t h e death for Quemoy. LODG • ' nr ab o t o d · e 1 dr t t e m r c L on Conven t n h ca o - ,.,a a a o o l c declarat i on f or t e Un ted 'ta e • ode t o l d s aud ence - h e 1as ea k n as a personal e resentat ve of th e Pre ident .ef the United States, He descr bed Pre dent i se ower as muc concerned - about nat onal rivalr es be n pro ected nto outer space. And so the President as instructed Cabot Lode - to brin the problem before the next regular session of the U.N. General Assembly. Lod" did not ve any deta ls - of the Eisenhower plan for outer space. But he did sa y , h ew 11 as his colleague at the international or anization - to wor k to ether - instead of each nat on send i n up spaces 1 s, as fat as they become practicable. isenhower and Lode bot h bel eve - space can be conquered more qu c~ly and more effic entl - on an intemation basis. And Lode hopes to persuade t h e Un i ted Nations - to go alon g . t O W C nee C o a , v e O v rno of A ansa sa d e a ... formation - ta e doral overnment s assembl n a cor of e ut marshal • Accord n to Governor Faubus, the Eisenhower adm n i trat o n nt end to use these deputy marshal - to enforce int e ra t on at Central High chool , if the Supreme Court so orders . u ~ • • x Nltn•• xx lo of th I m 0 :{ I •10 ta t - h 1 0 0 ol 0 0 i n · o H aro l • G bb o l,c t e o t • to R ttee den ed , v 0 tat e e er I 00 a .... 0 C - a - 0 enforce Un on e c ~·on. A one o : nt , Com ttee o el Robe enned t c ~ ed off - some team ters o too p ar n a ~t .Lou s taxi str ke five years a o. Kenned char ed ta t t e e men ad lon police records - includin everyth'n from robbery to ~ayhem. In reply, Gibbons adm tted he told h s men - "et the cabs off the street." But he denied that th i s meant violenc • Gibbons, tellin the Committee - he expected the Teamsters to use persuas on - to conv nee non -str ikin r ca b dr ,ers t h at they ought to sto o e at · n . To wh i ch Kenned OJI retorte d arcast ca l l - by as k n · w a t nd of p ersua o n h e expe ~ e - , t e ca e of men w t h crir na cord . 0 u 0.0 1 · 1 11 tt e coa C ) • , e orm I e an d " t rr onl to e ro l en u b: t e mounta • Te force oft e w i nds a dropped - to around f m e an our, muc less tan hurr cane force. T h e eat er u eau sa s there•~ little chance of 1t raisin to urr cane proportions a - a in - even tho h "Ella" is expected to k eep steadily alon g at s xteen miles an hour, for most of then ht. This is ood news for Florida and the Keys. They had been warned to et ready for a gale - of about sixty miles an hour. But now the ale warnin s ave been taken down - and in their place, are small craft warnin sA- • • • ••e about the mildest si s t h at all is not normal out at sea. ,. SOUTH CA T h e new n t o o ut fr a - a tron sere at n t. H' D r . ndr Verwoerd - w o wa M i nster of Native A fa rs n the la st overnm en t . Dr. Verwoerd has always stood 1or aparth i e d - e out h A f r i ca n ve rs on of sere ation. Under aparthied, the t h ree m l l i on w h· e nhabitants of the nation - are strictly separated from the ten m illi on other South Africans. In his acceptance speech today, Dr. Verwoerd pledged - to carry out the policy of aparthied - just as his predecessors did. e • nd • s e he 're o e ter a ene a , f h nat ons a , a e a n ear a ena. l > n r v e in i-; 1 c e ur 1 ·· ~ · t 1 ... > • rt fr Ill I i on ; ver a lo o l t nt - oun · in t rrit ry. n ello E verybody: - From Southwestern Arabia•• have just flown another 2500 miles to the he a rt of Africa, the ~ongo. lith three stops, to refuel a nd the usual cuatoas and assort formalities. First, a _ roxiaatel7 a thousand ailes from Aden across the Red Sea to the African coast and on over the desert and mountain• ot &thiopla, to Assaara at seYen thousand feet, with ita perteot cliaat~ - the Eritrean capital !or which Uu11olini bad a■bitious dreaaa. Here we gassed up and our Aden Alrwaya plane fl•• ua on oTer the Blue Ille country to Ihartoua, and Oadur■ an in the Sudan, with their ■ emorie1 of Cblneae ~ordon, the Mahdi and his Fu1z~ lu11le1, and the caapaign that brought taae to Iitcbener. Here near ~ h• junction of the ~lue and the hit• Niles, we dropped down on an airstrip built by Americana during the war foe our Horth African air a ir cam a ign. After a twenty mile trip over the desert and through a snort st retch of water from a receut Nile flo ~ d, we drove through native O mdurman, th e largest all-black city in Africa, across the ile to Khartoum. My first stop here in forty years. y 1st visit was w h en 1 had coae up the Nile, then to head east across the desert to ort .:>udan aDd on Yia the Red Sea to the Bedjaz to join T. ~. · Law~ence iD Arabia. And ay arrival in Khartoum had been aade unforgettable by two things: one a huboob, a dark rolliq wall of sand that •••pt down upon us fro ■ the Southern Sudan. 1 have never seen a atora like that huboob. The other an afternoon 1 spent with a Sudanese Arab chiettala, a relative of th• Mahdi whose fuzz7 Wuzziee •broke the Britiah Square• and killed the legendar7 General Charle• Gordon. He prophsied the day would come when the British would lose the Sudan. Well, the British now are gone. And this vast land th& is so im ortant because it includea nearly all of the u er reaches of the Nile, is under native rule. Khartoum, as hot as ever, and more gri ■ than •ever. Over nig . ht, and then l2CO miles south, to the Equator, right over the pygay country, the lturi foreat, to Stanleyville on the Congo River. This flight with Sabena, the Belaian airline. Here we were met by a 7owag Belgian who told ua he had Jut been capturing gorillas, to send out to zooa, and who wondered if we didn't want to fila a 1o~tilla bu\ Thanking him and telling hi ■•• were off to joia our own expedition at the foot of the Mountains of the Moon, we boarded a aaaller plan~, flew back acrosa the lturia forest to ~unia - high in the aountaina. Bunia is only thirty years old. lt now has a native population of 6,000, and 700 Europeans. Its existence due to the fabulous Congo gold mines of Iilo L,I.-A lJ iN_,!Q BUNIA - 4 Moto, some 20 north, where 23,000 blacks and 700 whites are working in the mines. Our destination, the S emliki P lain, Lake Albert, elephant, buffalo, lion, crocodile and hippo countr7 above which rise the glaciers and snowfields of the Mountains of the Koon. That's where we are now. And l wonder if you can hear the night aounda of the Semlikl - as 1 say, So Long. P C E O\ ere ' a e t ·o n fo r ronaut • ' h ould the ' rst m a n no outer space - ave h . i r l fr end alon · with h m. T he quest i on came up t oda y at a meet i n g of the American Ps y c hol o g cal Assoc i at·on n wash ~on. Professor Wilse Webb - / pointed ouy space travel i s liable t o seem awfully lonely - for men used to dail l fe on eart h . o the Professor wants to aee all astronauts teste1/to see how much t·ey can stand. The test would be des ign ed to answer suc h questions as - "should the first space man have feminine companionship? 11 And, "should he have a cocktail every evening ?" / Well, I don't know how the l earned psychologists - will interpret their a 1 scientific data. But space travel is going to be a lot less lonely than ~e t h i r if every apace man can entertain his gi rl friend o cocktails every evening.