Today two more nations of the Middle E a st signed a mutual defense treaty. Egypt ands udi Arabia, agreeing to support one another - in the event of an attack by Israel . . The signing took place 1n C 1ro - Premier Nasser for Egypt, and Crown Prince Feisal for S udi Arabia. Last week Egypt allied itself with Syria~ now with the - ~ ~ S1-1,,tt/.i, ~ , 4,;. desert kingdom~ 89-These three nations wiD. work toward a Joint command over their troops, along the Israeli frontier. SAUDI ARABIA FOLLOW TREATY a~" /fR1(j. s · udi rabia is ,A - ::r41( - 'ln th e ne for ano t her reason - A.. that b a ttle yesterday at the Burailni oasis. For twenty years, , , . there has been much quarreling over that oasis - which is on the 1 ~ - ~ Ii!. border, nea~ikd~rsupported by Britain. Bu~ for some A time, S c:.i. udi Arabian soldiers have been infiltrating. Finally, troops from the n~ighboring nations, led by British officers, moved in. There was a brief skinnish - and then the Saudi Arabians retreated. Tonight all is quiet in the Burailli oasis. The British-led force, in control. BIG FOUR The meeting of the Big Four Foreign Ministers in '1-FAA~ Geneva, got under way today - with Pina~,as Chaiman. As expected, the W st promptly offered the Soviet Union a guarantee against German aggression - in exchanae for German reunification. Secretary of State Dulles acti;;fas spokesman for his ;.. colleagues) 118 told ~olotov tha the West understands the Rullll.an fear of German militarism. B k a t is no excuse for A keeping Germany divided - because the West will undertake to guarantee Russi+gainst any future German invasion. The word from Geneva is that Pinay, MacMillan and Dulles are not very hopeful. They'll be surprised if Molotov accepts the proposal. In other words, moit observers believe that, what is called, the "Geneva spirit" - is not much in evidence in Geneva this time. The atmosphere, not quite as cordial as when th 6 four heads of state met in that Swiss city last summer. PRIEST It was announced in Washington today that the Soviet Union is still stalling on the question of admitting an American C tholic priest - to serve the American Colony in Moscow. The Reverend Louis Dion of Worcester, Massachusetts, asked for pennission to go to the Russian capital last March. ~To""replace the priest who had been expelled by the Kremlin. ~ ~ "'-""-,, --~ Our state Department 9" an eye on the situation - A. j&M to see how sincere the Russians are about wanting to improve relations betwean East a.cl West. The case of Father Diof ~ s s u e compared with Geman reunification and 'I\ a ea l disarmament - but important as indicating which way the wind is blowing. R i ght now, it seems to be blowing cold. r he Kremlin, sti~l withholding permission for the American ~ riest to go to Moscow. VIET NAM \ , J ~ , ~ecoin1zei the new republic of Viet Nam. /'- /. our government, giving its approval to the regime of Premier Diem - who proclaimed the republic only yesterday, after a referendum had overthrown former Emperor Bao De. •. The republic of Viet Nam has also been recognized by Britain and Italy. One nation has conspicuously withheld its official recognition - France. Paris has always backed Bao Dai - ~ - , ~ and so far Premier Faure i s ~ ~ \ in dealing with the new republic that ousted m.-1£.e ~~ ~ . More shooting in the Fonnosa Strait. Yesterday, Red artillery on the mainland hammered Matsu Island for five hours. Today, the Nationalists took up the challenge - hurling shells at Communist vessels 1n the strait. The main target, a fleet of armed junks. The Taipei cc:nmunique says that one of the junks was destroyed - th crew seen jumping overb trd~ ""-P#, into the ••eP. A SHAH ---- Th e hAh of Per ~ ia erve hiP thirty-.ixth hirt d Y today. MohamPd Rexa Pahlevi celebratinp in the usual way i suinp an amne , ty for minor criminal~. Not inc uded in the amne~ty - former Premier Mos,ade~h. The weepy PerRian politician who ~ot so bope- le~ ly inv lved in the Iranian Oil tan~l • MosRagegb still he ten monthR to serve, of a three year sentence. S ays the bah of Shae, he must stay •t ri~ht where he is. Prison officials report that the one time lacromose Mossane~h seems cheerful - not at all concerned becauee he was passed over in the amnesty. Also that his con~i+ion 1 ~ od - and that he ween no more. Apparently becpu~e te T t now won't do him any ~ood ; the tearF that used to excite t dry-eyed Mossade~h. mob in Teheran. In hi . ~ell he'F the ARGEMTIN A In Buenos A ires, the first real threat from former Perontstas. The great Confederation of La bor, upon which eron once based his power, is threateni~a general strike within To forty-eight hours. ""' strike, to 150?altlact unless General L o nardi acts to get rid of the anti-Peron Union leaders who took ~~/.~ over after the revolution. '/ ~ Confederation wants back practically all of its privileges. It ad a gay time while ~aking/ Peron was in power - and isn't res i gned t o ~ a back seat now. So the threat to President Lonardt ;;:~he Confederation of Labor, or face a general strike. EISENH O R To ay P r sident Eisenho erbe an work o n his a nnu al state o h Union essa e . hat Denv e r annou ncement uhow s how e ll the P r eside n t is con v alesci n. We has P e ~ the point I\ ~ her e h e c a n ~ serious business. I'-- l\ad.~e job facing hi~ ts that State of the Union messa ge - ~ due to gO'"\.t&. Congress in January. ~ ' l7~E1senhower hasn't /\ he conf e rred ith his begun the aetual writing) iSl:tt today ~ J assistants f.- t a l ~ over ttm topics that ill have to be covered in the message. RESOURC S Th isenhower ad mini tration h a s not __ be n gi ving away ~ national resourc e s er, sa tM Y ,,,.. Secretary of the Interior, D ou las McKay. he ecretary, re plyi n g to a char g in th e "D em oc rat i c igest" - which ts pu b lish ed by the N a tional Committ ee of the mocratic ') arty. ~ Th a tAma g azin e accuses Secretary McKay of being, what it calls, "t he administration's give-away king". The article charging that the S cretary has turned too much public land over to private interests. The Secretary defends himself by saying the "Democratic igest II is playing "pure politics 11 • He admits that the Interior D e partment has disposed of some wildlife sanctu,lries. But these total only six thousand acres - and ~ were sold be cau se the upkeep was too high. Otherwise, says Secretary McKay, the Eisenhower administration has ad~ eight wildlife sanctuaries - and acquired eighty thousand acres of land for preservation. The allegation that public land is slipping away into private hands - Just politics. MILK - ittf> 'e 0 r e t a ry of A g ricu ltur~ has a f' l-& n f or ending the ntH-k c i 4 ~ S ee PCta~ Be nson d ~ that everythin g would ~ I , be i ~ in t h e milk industry - i f eve ryone drank t h e ~ ~ a biHGftee&--dtet. 'l'tre 5ecr~l11ts'-illl-t - lh a t t he r e i s r ea lly no milk surplus in this c ountry - t:t=t:a just that we d on't consume enough of it. Incid e nt a lly, e c retary Benson flatly denies that the E isenho w er a dministration is split over his fann policy. A f a rm maga z ine published a report that Attorney General Brownell, P ostm a ster General Summerfield, and Disarmament Chief Stassen - wanted to abandon the position of the Secretary of A griculture _..T><. 4 on price supports. But today/\Benson called a special news conference - and told reporters that ttlle Cabinet is behind him~ one hundred pe r c ent. FIGHTERS T he Chairman of the Gov e rnment Operations Sub - Com m i ~ ~ t ~ :as f d /\ no rau w e n the Navy bought engines for fight r p lanes - and then fou n d ~ they were no t ~ u f l , ) 1 . . 66 m!ll<e tthl l ' ~ e Ny-, We 've a-l:reaey heard how -~ ~~ mor e th a n a hundred jet e n g ines w e r e ~ ~ 1'1 ~•ti R \ ~ ng ouee ... m:g 'F,ive ~ planes crashed - and then the whole lot were gr ounde d . .ma i.ig 1 n e s ~ ';;Ja~~;eak--foP the 3 8 1,. T h e Navy says -tnftt th~\+est'i:tlghwee--eft8,inee were okay - ~ ~ w e r e intended for a lighter .errien ""et' ~ fighter plane~. P-ine.lly, they ""We Pe i,ttt iRte Re Mier planee - .!tld 4'ha-t WQI too ffltteh &GP them. -HeRee t~ QPQBA08, aR4 the !flOI.IAGifl8. 1'l!IR- Congressman Holifield o r ~ ' i i : : ~ /t tll;r;t.. it n:1' an honest mistake. The C a lifornia Democrat saying that undoubtedly there was waste in t h e ~ project - but ~here•e no evi d e nce of improper action,i~ bt:tying tReee-,wau.tQ Weei,inghoase en~tne 8 • 1, 'e dttet that the Navy was compelled to move fast durin the K rean w r - needed something to meet the Communist M' g , and in the ~~u..e_~o~~es designed for a diff erent type of plane than ~ ~ u s e d . ~ ~ =-- - =- - - -~/i -- - - ~ -~ - - - · - - - ·~ - · ~ · - · - · - · ~ · - • - • - ■ - • - ~ T a Prince .. ar p : in wen , to L b h P ] 8 C , e r ~ i ci ~ n c 0 he rch i hop f Ca b · n e r ury. o o opp h rem rr i a e f di d VOTCP o er . n . • 1 t. ' th r e '• noi:ki: worci f wh t th P rine s . e Arcrbi . hop ? nci vi e Prca. A r nu nci I , n,:fon t he fe 1in i . t t , t Pri nce . Q t () l d ~i. E" inenc e of C a nt e r b ury th t . e in t, nrled " mary Peter Town P O • Perh p whP w nt e g et s ome con o1ation fro the Archbi.hop - wh i . a clo ~ e J er r onal frien, ev n thou,:rh he cannot publicly a p rove the marria~e. fi e a nwhile, the British papers are becomin~ more cri ical of the roya rom , nce. ThRt Mar~aret i hurtinp herown reoutation a nd the dipnity of the Royal family. ' T he M n c b e . t er Gu a r d i a n i n an e di tor i a 1 , st a t e r that; th i ~ rom ce ha~ "~ha en the throne". The Guar ian i. not 0000. ed t o , e ine 8 of the m rri a J7e - bu t say~ that th e r e nt ~ ituation 1~ hPvin~ a b a n effect n he country. NOBE L PR I Z d 8 a t h f rom Sto c kholm st a ts tha h N o bel P ri ze for L t ra t thi Y a r - o a to Hal ldor Lru nes s of Iceland . he int e r stin g thing a bout the a w a r d is _ that Laxn:S ':'t as A won a Stalin Pri z . ~ 1'. b ec o mes the first 11&n. to win both the obe l ~ a n d Sta l1n.:l?rtzea. ~ ~ 14,t,1••···- 'h s~ovelist h a s~ pegalt~ istory. Me WdlJorn in Icelandc:: In Nineteen Twenty-Two, he entered a Belgian monastery- but left in l e ss than a y .. ar, and took up a writing career. In ~~ q..~ · Nineteen Twenty-Seven he ~ 1 ad1atttod tt1to the United State~ y ' I'- ._ tried -f:-:u~-■b. Hollywood. r ~ ~&=°4 I- I\ started writin g anti-American articles. lie aitaelt0dtJitterly ~ t everything in American l i f e ~ there were demands " 1, -~~~- that Laxn e ss be deported. •+ ler~, eefoc.e tut-hapf:le~ I n r ece nt years he has been a staunch supporter of the . arty lin e _ s~pporting the Communist peace offensive, ~ ~~ denounc lng Na to ~ n 1 ~r1 t le !zing America. ~ attUH.a &tte!J;f~~~~~..Le-..;i-.wt:a1~1'L~e~-Ue(€:d.--E:ftt-'""'!~~~~~~ brou ht him ~ - the t op g lory r:,t the So viet orld tb. _ fl Stalin rlze - ~ OBEL PR Z - ? T he S ish cademy says that it h a s co idered ~ rize eight times before. Bat always passed } A La.x n f o r a o b e l him u be c ause of his notorious C ommuni t conn ec tions. A spoke m an for the cademy adds that there was a long debate .R._ ~~ ov e r thm novellst~k before it was finally decided to give him A the prize. The citation states that Laxness "has renewed the ~~~:'!·4 - ' great narrative a rt of ! ... eland. II re Academy thinks thM. ~ ' ~~ obel ~~a man can be a fine novelist, - ~ 1, even though he's simple minded enough to mwallow 'oviet propaganda. i.heRe, er MelJcow Rlito IMm ~e. POLIC ft N - In Los eles , five o licemen are accused of bein g members of a bur lary rin g . Th e cha rge i s that they broke i nto i it hen they were o n duty. Po lice Chief Wi lliam a rk e r says that others may be implicat ed - in the worst s ca ndal to rock the Los A ngeles Police Department since Nineteen Forty-Nine, when several top officers were indicted for misdemeanors. w y ,0 · 1 f U ni d "PIF" , ?ke t;i y, irlin . • T o r minen ~ a year f r r L a Gu r cti a nigh ~ a t n ed an e r co r en y 0 en n a iva Pif Will be itizP.n of S alt Lake. ny year. no w, I h V f' bee n on h r fici'1~ met by a dca.tin~ fro Utah, • well a. spen in ~ . om i. me ii n~ in u ua 1 1 y . h a .atch Mount a ins. While in S a lt Lake I nd .o t ime with a ~ r o up nf well known untei n ers inclu i.nu t e brother Alf and ·verre En~en, Felix K ziol f the Wa sa , ch JonrrP . try ~ · ervice nd ~ on y Aw t r , A Prica'. num er one av lanche expert. The 1 ter in cii . cu . ~in.P' ave 1 anche nrohl ms saici, that for ome time t , h y h ad w n Pei o rain noJr . t o help in their hip-h nu ,c1 1n r ~ cue w rk. B ck nn Q uRker Hill a litter nf puooie~ had been or n on1 y a . hort tim before, ~ ired by "Time" and "· pace" wo Gr an shepherd~ elon~in~ t I my CBS en~ineer, Gene icks. Gene flt once volunteeffrl to . en d the . e aval~ . nche exp e rt, on f hi. do~Q - pick onP out for them when the pup s were a bit older. Whereupon all thiR was err a nFed. In f a ct Me s r i:: . water and Koziol even selected a name. What they call 'precipitation in ten . i ty fac or' 1 ~ the ~ ey to mu c he av a lanche problem. o they cho . e th a t m uthful for , h 00 '· n me. Officially they'd na me their Ge rm n s hPph r Precioitation Inten~ity F actor. Actually they'ci c nd e nse hat in to Pif. b '1 n t ic ciecen Gen ch o e a femple, lack a nd ilver - m c in~ h r ~ 1m Je trick ~ and a few commands . Her r a inin p en olPted, ? n~ w th c l d a nd ~ n o w h vin~ n l-t e W?. at ch ~' mm , i n s, "P 1 f" on i P.., t f 1 i e 0 alt 0 ~ n h V 1 n c e , r ::> 1.n'np. i v , n w . wi h I e l h O n r w y ,n • r,. in r V 1 nc e w r 1< J i C' t, ev r hav t, h 1 x ri nee. H nc r •I• . e wi 1 ive at an a ti , ude of n :1 h u. and fpe o r more. n that' the .tory f "Pif" who from thif-l tudi wi 11 1 e ve for La Guardia to fly , wo-thour-1and e ' ~ mile. t b come he fir.t ever trained for avalanche work. I wond er what adv ntures are ahead for Precipitation Inten. ity Factor. I hope I c Pn ~ive you a report on this alon~ in the wintPr.