I - The Chinese Reda make a for■ al charge -- c o nnected with an incident in India two-and-a-halt m o nths a g o) ~ • , at Bo■bay ¥chines• C aauaiat. of icial asked for political aaylua at the Aaerioaa C onsul te. ~ ater -- oban1ing hi1 ■ ind, and 101aa bot to the Reds. ,Zn the course of which -- an laerioaa ,I Marine Cor p s sergeant was beaten at the Chine•• Communist Consulate. That•• the l■erioan wreion -- which the Chinese deny. GiYing their own account -- which 11 melodramatic. The · say th• Coaauniat official, Chana Chea-I wen t to the : . S. Conaulat• -- ••rely to 1•t 10 ■• in f ormation. But, at the Conaulate 1111 Americana a1ke4 him -- to &feet fro■ the Rede. lhich •- he retu114. • IIDIA - 2 l hereu p on they seized h im -- and thr atened to kill hi ■, if he did not ask for political asylum. So r- Chang Chen -Yu pretended to agree -- and made a declarati o n -- denouncing Communisa. One would guess that Chang Chen - Yu has ~xpla ining. been doing some tall 'y 7 stn•1r '. A " ' MIG There's nothing official from the Chinese Nationalists - about the rate of a Connunist pilot 1 ....wflo ,e 11Z1<-landed on • Formosa, today. Flying a Russian-built Mig of theph1ne1e Red Air Force, he detected - flying all the way to the east coaat of Formosa 1 ,Where he crash-landed - on a beach. Report■--f-, Formosa - aay '111A the pilot was killed. But the lat1onal11t authorities - are silent on that point. Nerely stating that ba de1erted the Rede - and flew to the Nat1onal11t1. sp,c1 France - to launch a satellite with a Soviet rocket. That's the prospect - presented at a conference of 1cienti1ta at lice. A leading Buaaian apace autboritJ stating - that frenob 1cientiats have aug1e1ted they'd like to get a powerful rocket from the luaaiana. lit,h whioh to put a lrenoh satellite into orbit. The luaalan repl.J Deing - okay, if it were p roposed officiall7, b7 france. At, lice, an Aa . erican acient 1st said thla woulcl be what he called - a •deplorable• deYelopaent.• But a top-rankiaa laerlcaa deleaate aald - that both Aaerioan and Russian rocket• would be u1ed b7 other coantriea, this 7ear, for lauaohilll aaa-aade aoona. Adding that the United Stat•• will p roYid• a rocket for a Canadian satellite. §Cl51c1 There seems to be little enthusiasm among the British scientists - for a : - roJect over here in the United States. An attempt - to co ■■ unicate with •intelligent being•• tar out in Jj~trial apace. At Greenbank, West Virginia, there's an obaer•atory - of radio-aatronoa,. lherethe,'v• announced the7'll tr7 to teat the theory that thinkina creatures might exist out there a ■ong the ■ illion• of star• - ■ any billions of mil•• fro ■ ua. The7'll aen4 aeaaage1 - hoping to get replies. However, the Britlah soientiat, Alan Slater, think• - t•••• hardl.J a chance. He doesn't araue against the existence ot life, i n ao ■ e tor■ or another - on other possible world score• of billions ol miles awa,. But be doesn't believe• that any living creature• out there have minds with intelligence. •There are,• he arguea, • about a million s p ecie• ofi ~CI E NCE * 2 animals, insects and reptiles, on our p lanet. Bu t only one of them -- llan b imself, has intelli g ence,• sajs he. Ad ding -- that evolution does not alway• lead to a brain. The s onges, for exaaple, have been alive for five hundred million years. But -- no brain. Bence he theorizes that -- if huaan life were • iped out here, intelligence on earth would die for all time. . . - - .. - ... "' - - _ ._ ._ . . -. _ .. __ _ E AGLE The American Eagle ia a noble bird. But Lon d on thinks -- there may be too ■ uch American eagle~ .,.0'tt top '1fr' of «x the new U. S. Emb a ssy in the British capital • .Jii fashionable Grosvenor Square they are · Jwd.,?i •■tllQ:a~f11'new residence for our Ambassador. A handao■• building, and the p lan is -- to h a ve an American eagle on top. A aagnificent bird with a wing-spread of thirty-five feet. An eagle -- coated with ~ld. I ■ pressive? tell, t~■ x ■ aybe too ■ uch ao -- for the residents of Grosvenor Square. Today, Sir ~utcombe Hume, a p rominent financier said: •It does seem to be rath e r vul g ar and 01tentatiou1.•1fother Londoners agree, and the ~ord i1 today that U.S. Ambassador John Hay ~hitney is becoming less and less e nthusiastic about that i ■■ ens e golden eagJ , • .J/1 Ii• 8: EllLE - 2 The bird is to be shi ped over -- from the United _;/- Stat es. Bit, in view of the controversy -- • 1 may " never happen. • Today a spokesman at tle London Em'fasey aid: • The eagle's future i1 a great mystery.• BONDS President Eisenho• er, t d y, asked Congress -- to remov e a limitati n of interest p aid on government · the b ond s. Change't- law -- w ich uts a celling of four-and-a- q uarter percent -- on long-term •••uritie1 The President rguing -- that the forty-one-year-old restriction -- handicaps the o p eration of government credit. CONVENT! N "t the Deaocr tic Nati nal Convention, t h is e &. r, one famili r figure will be missing -- from the p latform. TheJ'll ha ve -- another permanent ch a irman. lit the l ast three conventi o ns, beginning with Ninetwen Forty-eight, the Democr · ts have had as their perm-e.nent chairman -- Sam Blyburn of Texas, the Speaker of the House. Millions of television viewers -- (aort) havi-~ seen Mr. Sam presiding; with a dr~ ~ A ot dignity. But now -- there' 11 be a change. Today, Sp aker Saa ~ayburn announced -- that he will not accept the post again. Explaining in these words: •1 have a great desire to see one canvention -- fro ■ ti e floor.• He · a.nts to be out there -- with the Texas deleg~tion. of the There have been r umors -- th a t Hou c e ~ e f u s e to be p ermanent J.. A the Speak er chairman again. Because he••••• wants to be in a better position COBVEITlOI - 2 to back Senator Lyndon Johnson of Texas - for the Presidential nomination. The Chairman - having to be more or less neutral. Today he was asked about it. las his reason - a desire to be tree to caapaign for the no ■ ination of his fellow Texan? Mr. Sam aa good as admitted - 1••• that was the reason. Senator Lyndon Johnson got another boo1t today when hia fellow De■ocrats in the Senate rejected a challenge to hi• policy - ■ ating power• as Senate majority leader. A refor ■ motion sponsored b7 a 1roup of liberal De ■ooratic Senatore was reJ••4 by a thu■pin1 vote of 51 to 12. WEATHER Chicago can be an icebox - in the winter. Today, however, Chicago had - a heat wave. Temperature - up to fifty-eight degrees. The second warmest January day - on record With a downpour - of rain. The we~ther-man -- badly tooled - a having predicted a violent blizzard with fifteen inches ot snow. But. a freakish warm wave blowing up from the Gulf ot lllxico fooled the weat'ler-man -- and everybody else. The•- story - throughout the Niddlewes~~ warm weather - and drenching rain. At Horth Buckinghaashire, lqla tu haddon-Chase fox hunt - hae ~o,tpoae4 all tutu• tallyho and 7oick1 and all that. The rea1oat t~• tea hounds - have hay fever. lheesin1 aal •••••lq. Se how can they follow a trail? Today, a spokeaaao said: •Th• hou41 aa 1 \ a bone - let alone a fox.• Can't you Juat ••• the fox - laqhla, a\, •• hound• •i• ha, feYer?