SOVIET lT - Word from Washington is - that u. s. military officials do not believ S ovi t R i ' e uss a has an inter-continental missile. But .. it they'r not ruling~out • ....___,1....t._,~.- , , -··~ ~v~ Not -after the way the ~ Russians developed~ atomic bomb • .,,ea➔ ~ ,- " a _ . "pM-atie~.., They came out with an A-bomb two years before our experts~ thought they would. Then, later - a lilvNNtt hydrogen bomb. so we can't be too sure~ about a Soviet inter-continental guided ; ! - missile. Although, probably, they haven't got.,...,._~.~ yet • .I' Such is the quick reaction in Washington to a declaration in Moscow, today. A£t111al:~•e•~...a.ht~pl'biftt nata~ ~ n d i r e c t vague MH-11f hint. ~ Before a session of the Supreae Soviet, Premier Bulganin called for a ban on atOllic weapons. Also - rocket weapons. Speaking of rockets, he used these words - "recently developed into weapons of inter-continental power." He didn't elaborate - merely made that oblique reference. But the question of rockets is of ianediate intere1t in .Jashington. During this present 11YJnth, the 2,efense !epartment 5GYlET - 2 promoted its own rocket program - to top priority. In a happier time, a few years ago, rockets meant - fireworks on the fourth of July, children thrilled - by those wh11zing, brilliant, bursting sky-rockets. I Yes, those were the days. D11IGRATl<l'J • The Administration will ask for a modification of the irrrnigration law. Word from Washington is that President Eisenhower will present suggestions to Congress_ possibly in the ltate of the Union message, next week. He wan{to pool unused i11111igration qugtas. Some countries, lie B ritain, Ireland and Germany, could send more irrrnigrants over here than they do. So - give the unused part of their quotas to nations in S uthern and Eastern Europe. Which would include Italians and Slavic refugees from · Conwnunism. That's the Presidential idea, and we hear Congressman Walters of Pennsylvania is ready to go along. He's chairman of the House Innigration Sub-Colllllittee - and co-author of the present inrnigration law. Congressman Harrison Williams, a New Jersey Democrat, says ~•11 submit a bill, providing for a "unified quota" system. He decries the present quotas - which favor one country over another. Calling them - "legalized snobbery." i l rigins" proviso of our immigration law, Under the "nat ona o DIIIGRA TI~ - 2 many anti-cormiunist refugees from Eastern Europe are excluded. Which leads the Congressman to say:"out of one side of our mouth, we talk of liberation from enslavement. While out of the other side, we say - you're not welcome here." A t th Unit d ations, th sugg e stion - that ev ry session ope n wit h a pray r. Right n th b CM y egin wit h a minute of silence - perm! ting s ilent prayer. B t t d i u ~ o ay, Amer can ;!_elegate Cabot Lodg e said - "I propose that God should be openly and audibly invoked at the United Nations." He noted. that - among the seventy-five member nations of the UN there are a number of religions. So he called for prayer - to be invoked by Priests of the various kinds of religious faith. Well. there would be quite a variety - India with Hinduism. ~ Of which there ar'}\numerous cults.-of various divinities. There ~ are two great branches of Buc:Wism. Two principle sects of Islam. A Add up all the nations at the UN.tlld you have quite a pageant of religions. But what about the connunists. who profess opposition to all religions. Conrnunist metaphysics being atheistic. Molotov would be an odd figure - at a prayer session. l]SOIEV hrushch v to o a fling a t Presiden t Eisenhower today - but he was polite about it. Criticizing th Pr sident for his Christmas message - which e xpressed the hope that the peopl es of the Red satillites in Europe would be liberated. Kru schev calls th is - "crude interfere~ce in th internal affairs of th se count rie s." B ut h e expressed the highest regard for President Eisenhower 1 "'-h•; said he1 "I respect so much. 11 Adding - that his criticism of the President was made "unwillingly." But he was quite willing in hurling a blast at Secretary of State Dulles. Also, at Governor HarTiman of New York. Intimating - that Harriman wanted to restore capitalism in Hungary, because Harriman had properties there,t,, before Hungary was taken over by Soviet Connunism. I S RAEL Prim e ini s te r o Gurion of l ~ r a 1 I C V l. d t h full .,I ndors m e n t of hi s party. !k- w~ hf!-ftA!tu! P'ltmt M6Ra.&t e ;.. oo full responsibility for the ~ \ attac on S yrian gun posi t o n s , o v e mber ~enty:!_even•J • wwe:etrr of-Spi■a. weae-111:Jrh41; ~~e action WIN denounced by th e ll • .. , , Chie Armistice Commission, Major Gen e ral Burns of Canada. IA z ,al, etas• AM b•~ ••lWat : of ehati ••-••• • • Ps:J,ae Mtt . . , Cl I &tieR ••as th fall supp rt 2 i 7 J t ¥, l!l:c M■ p: ■ t:. C'{PRU S 7 In England, a moth r has made an appeal to Qu en Elizabeth - to sa ; f r son. A soldier kidnapped by terrorists in Cyprus. Th fear is that he will b killed if the B ritish execute a t rrorist convicted of killing a policeman. So the soldiers moth r in London begs the ~een to prev ent the carrying out of the d ath sentence on the terrorist. G un s we re hu nderin toda y off th C hina coast. Formosa r e po s lash between g u nboats} Whil.,.. u• tltE sa:~ t!m'E', ct 6&.aae~r~e.._..'"I'~ an exchang~ of cannon fire e tw e n Nationalist islands and th R e d mainland. lh ■ I'@ 7f ha& e e e ~ ~ Jn c asy quiet out ther -Z. 1 1 brok e n y th thunder of guns.~ella~ JOJIESIA Trouble - in the married life of President Sukarno of Indonesia. Previously, there had been political difficulties because of his maritial affairs. Now_ domestic. Wh n he becue head of state, Sukarno had - one wife and five children. Then, last year he took - a second wife, young and pretty. Which was his privilege. under Moslem law. A husband - entitled to have four wives. But this resort to Islamic Polyg•y arouaed criticism among progressive people in Indone1ia. Particularly - among waaen w1th western id•••• So, what's the trouble now? Well, today, the Indone1i1 government announced - that wife number one deund1 • divorce. The Minister of Infor■ation says - she wants her freed011. Word has been - that Sukarno gives preference to wife number two. However, there's a catch in this.· Under Moslem law, a wife may apply for a divorce. But she can't get one unless her husband gives pel'llission, and we hear, Sukarno will hot give permission. Disturbances - in the Cuban sugar fields. Hundreds of workers - arrested on charges of sabotage. One man killed~ when rural guards broke up a demonstation. Sugar workers~ taking possession of public buildings. One sugar town declared a "dead city". Everything tied up - with soldiers patrolling deserted streets. So what's the trouble. A bonus for the new year - which has been the usual thing. But the sugar coapanies have decided - no banus this ~ew year. The workers - protesting. Conferences are being held 1 1nd Pre1ldent B1ti1t1, the strong man, says - he'll 1ee to it that the 1ugar worker• get a bonus. The Canadian Government is advertising - "Please come and get your money." finance officials declare - there are millions of dollars worth of securities. piling up for years. Which people have never bothered to cash in. More than fifty-three million dollars worth of matured securities belonging to Canadians. More than three hundred thousand dollars worth - to citizens of the United States. The unclai■ed C.nadian securities 10 back to the first World War. back to war bonds issued in nineteen fifteen. Today. at Ottawa, Finance Minister Walter Harris, ordered a publicity d:ive - to get people with such securities to come in, and get the money. CJJINTUPLE TS The four surviving Dionne Quints declare - they want to go home. They deny - the¥'ve broken with their family. Although~ Papa Dionne was thoroughly displeased wlen the girls did not show up at the family household for Christmas. So says a spokesman of theirs, manager of the Montreal bank - which handles their million dollar fortune. He says the four remaining quints regard the wh~ thing as a - "tempest in a teapot." And they intend to go home for New Years. ~RA~ - ARNOU R Golf, as you have heard, has swept to new heights of popularity in r e cent years. The Pr e sident's in t er e st in the royal and ancient game of S cotland has had its effect. Well, t oday I dropped in at B oca Raton to spend a little time with B yron Parks and Meyer Shine; and they turned me over, for part of the da'l to a legendary figure in the golf world - TOlllffly Armous, whose book recently sold a half a llillion or more copies. Reporters, after years of contact with people of every sort, get so they can, fairly easily, tell an out&tanding human being when they meet one. Tc,ay Armour i1 one of that sort. ~ Half the fun of goinO around with hi■ i1 • listen,\to him talk to his caddy. As we were coaing ••into the eighteenth Armour said - "Tanny, see that flag waving on that pole?" "Yes, suh." ''Well, Tanny that stands for freedom for you and me, for two meals a day, and the right to do just about anything we want to do." "Yes, Mistah Ahmoh." "You know what Mr. Uncoln said, T ci nny? He said God lllUSt have loved the common ~ f them. You're a colllllon man, people, because he made so many O I'\ Tanny, and so am I - hi lf l ub in my hands!" except when I hold t s go c -,,;A RATOO - AIUIOUR - 2 "Now I'm going to drive this ball - a 200 yard shot - right toward that American flag, and just before it gets there it's going to start turning to the right. And it's going up on that green, near cup!" And he made it do just what he said it would do - almost. Said the caddy: - "Mistah Atunoh, you disappointed me because you didn't put the ball right in that cup!" Toimny Armour could have been a giant in any one of many things. Just to play a round of golf with him is an experience that every golfer ought to have. From it you get a combination of philosophy, sportsmanship, how to relax - and, many things. As we all know, men who deserve to be called "Maestro" are few. But, Tomny Armour of Unlithgow, Scotland, and Boca Raton, Florida, is one whom the word maestro fits to a "T". the t\ Wu av be ::rps d6et1&lie ~ . _ to ncko flEedfsUeM •~~ Wu&::.. 1'uwa ••lying en the l • .s a._ ladies, here's your future•- / for ~ineteen !_ifty-six. h may sound like fortune-telling, but \ • 1 t I s based on - "'' S • government figures. If you're twenty years old, ~~likely to be a bride in ~ineteen fifty-_six. Your bridegroom - three years older than you are. Al\( You~ likely to hive I job, probably employed in an office. And, most likely, you'll keep on working for a while after you get married. The salary you earn - a thousand dollars a year leis than your husband get1 on his job. for women, in general, irrespec t'i ve of 1ge, the prediction for nineteen fifty-six is - that she'll buy four new drHaes - - during the year. And ahe'll have - four head colds. But if married, she'll be healthier than her husband. If the lady is fi fi the Chances ~re one in four - that sh •s 1 past fty- ve, widow. The government adds that the average woman is five-foot- three inches tall. Her measurements - thirty-five, twenty-nine, thirty eight. I'm not sure I know what those figures mean - but, maybe the lauies do. GIRL Things are turning out all right for the girl we heard about la st night - the sixte n-year old who spent the Christmas weekend locked in a department store. Trying on_ the dresses, the hats, the jewelry, the cosmetics. ~rimping for hours - before the mirrors. The department store officials at Davenport, Iowa, say - they won't do anything about it, no prosecution. And the girl may keep - some of the articles she was taking w,,ay when they found her. She had packed a couple of suitcases and a hatbox with a "dream wardrobe." Today, her father came to fetc~ her, and told her that she could have a twenty-five dollar cashmere sweater and the fancy Bermuda shorts. He'll pay for them. She was wearing these articles of merchandise, when · they found -;.1--,J~- with the "dream wardrobe". ~/ ' ~ ~ - - ~ . I\ . 7 . Cl , ~ ~._ . - ,cl · " IJ ~-LC v'- !1:111 sweater and ermuda shorts l,,; 9tlppe&e, een be her departing C. h L. ["-( co n s idered~, a fraction of a dreamjwhich is about all anybody ever gets in this world, anY!'ay.