~~!~-=-g~_- BRO A DCA ~ T ----.-.------ . . .. December 2 8, 1954 (C HARLE COL'IN G r o D ' UB ~ TI~UTING) c. c. : , GOO D V E NIN G V E R'YBO D Y! HAMYARSIJOLD ------------- The Secretary General of the United •ations announces that he will leave for Peiping on Thursday, Dag Hammarskjold to leave from Idlewild Airport in an Aaeri • can Ar■y plane. · First stop, London. Fro ■ t.here a British plane will fly hia to Jew Delhi, India. The Indian Government will provide hia · ;1th a plane to take ~ ; , , ,- at a to Canton, China, and at Canton a Red Chineae aircraft will pick bi~ up and take him on to Peiping. The Secretary General should be in the Chinese c a pital by the fourth of January. He hopes to ~ et down to work at once, c~nferrint iith Cbou !n-lai about *k•••• those A11ericans no, h~1ng held in Red Chinese j a ils. - 2 - AIRLINER -~---~-- A dispatch from London reveals that the Red Chinese Govern ■ ent has paid compensation for the BritiBh a12lta airliner shot down by Communist fighters last July. Ten persons were killed in that incident. Britain lodged a strong protest with Peiping. The Chinese Government apologized and promised to pay the compensation. According to the London dispatch, the check has arrived, amounting to more than a ■ iilion dollars; full amount that the British regard as satis- factory. It's not been decided yet how payment aho~ld be made to the next-of-kin because several nationalities were represented among the passengers. IEIDES-FRANC! ~~-------~--- In Paris diplomats declare that Premier Mendes- France i• confident as he faces two critical votes in the Cha■ber of . Deputies tomorrow. Those votes concern German entry into IATO and the lest Eu~opean Union. Last night the Chamber aporoved of ad d in~ Jest Germany to NATO, but they'll have to ~ive their final approval tomorrow. The issue of ~est European Onion*•• is more crucial because that was the one that ~ a~ defeated last week-end. It's up for final approval tomorro~, too. Will the Deputies reverse their stand against it? Mendes-France thinks they w ill so he'e described as confident of ~ettin~ what he wants, an 01 for each of his proposals. One reason for the Premier's optimiaa is that his opponents cannot vote it in a single block except for the Comaunist Party and the tellow-traveler1. The Reds voted against hi ■ right down the line, but ht •ot some sup ort among the representativee of each of the other Parties and he belieYes that•'ll oo■■and enough votee to win tomorrow. Today, a group of repatriated Austrian• arrived in Vienn~ f ro ■ the So•iet Onion, bringing word of three Am ericans still held capti•• behind the Iron Curtain. The prisoners are John Noble, of Detroit; Willia ■ Verdine, of Starks, Louisiana, and illia■ Marchuk, of Brekenridge, Pennsylvlnia. These three Americans ••re already kno~n to be in Communist jails somewh@re in the eaet. At least six not e s passed from Washington-to Moscow, demanding to know whethe r the men were in ~us ia. All of the notes were i~nore ~ by the - 4 - Irealin. So, the whereaboute of Noble, Verdine, an d Marchuk remained a mystery until today. One of the Auetrians, Johan ~ chiet, told reporter s that the three ■ en are in a ptison about three hundred ■ ilea from loscow. Johan Schick declares that all three uere in good physical condition when be saw the ■• They told hi ■ that they had just been transferred fro ■ a al••• labor camp in the Arctic and that they had been promised their freedom. That's the first information to co ■• fro ■ behind the Iron Curtain about those three Aaericana who have been ?rieoners of the Soviets for o•er five years. According to the Auetrian repatriat••• the new develop ■ent ia part of a change on the part of the Ruasiana, who are now treating prisoners fro■ the lt!t ■ ucb better than they had been doing in the past. Tonight Lowell Thomas co ■ ea in with another t avel story, this one featuring a ■ other an( her bab7 - the bu ■ an touch, on a long air journey. L.T.: Hello, everybody! Here•• are, still up in the air over Europe, altitu•• about twenty thousand feet, flying through the night a non-stop journey right across Europe, then over the Mediterranean to !gypt. Last night I introduced you to one of my fellow- - 5 - passen ~ ers. No w , let's continue do w n the aisle and chat with another one. Madam, •here are you and your sailin R bay going? ( B aby crying) SPEA[ER: We're g oing on to Aden, but it t1n•t our first visit there because we spent last winter in Aden. THOMA S : It has the reputation of being one of the hottest spots on earth. How about that? SPEAlER: W ell, it is. I think t i s in the aua ■ er. It's really • • • it's juat about the end and I think the au ■ mer is worse than we'•• had anywhere, far. worae than Calcutta or Bo ■ bay, because you get the 1ana blowing a1 tell as the hunidity. TBOIAS: And what is it like during the rest of the Jtar? SP!AtlR: The winter is absolutely delightful. It', lite the ■ oat brilliant !ngliab au ■mer ~~ , all the . • . all the winter round and in the e•ening you can 1it out in the ~iddle of the winter a nd enjoy an outdorr cine ■ a on the e d ge of the sea and rea l ly just sit in a cof f ee b a r and feel co m fortable. ,■tx,z ■ f ■ • perfect in the winter. ••ry ,-ay and lots of social life. It's a h solute l t Very friendly and A very frien d ly little place althou2h it looks most barren a n ➔ f o rbidding if - 6 - you just ass by. Are there v~ry ■ any different nationali- ties l iving in Aden? SP!AlER: Oh, yes, a g reat deal. There are a lot of It al ian p eo p le and (indistinct) and t h ere's a tre ■ endous Orient station, and t h ere's a lot of Aaeri- cans from the oil refinery at little Aden. In fact, they outnumber the Britishers at some tim~s, I think they do. TIOIAS: Another queEtion I'd like to aek you 11 - what do you do for fun there? SP!AlER: ell, there's sports, on• of the biggeat it••• in Aden. There's a lot of awiaaing and a lot of ••i ■ ming clubs with shark nets 10 that you can bathe quite 1af1ly in the sea, and then there's a golf course, if 1ou like playing on the desert, with a sort of (indistinct) and a ar. d green, and then t h ere's a polo club where they have Arab ponie1 and they ha•e races in the aesson and ca■ tl races an d children's dri•ing • clubs and even a donkey for the babies to ride, and then ther e ' s s a iling, a v~ry f l ourishing y a cht c l ub, a lot of d a ncin g , a lot of open-air cinemas, a n d I believe t ere' s fiQhin g . A lot of peo ~l e d o un 1 er w ater a,ear fi s hing, ivin g , an ' ~oggle fishin g , a n d all - 7 - that sort of thing. THOIAS: Y ell, what is the camel race like? sPgAKER: They're great fuo and it's the (indis- tinctt of living if you ride the camel and the7 race the■ on the desert in the big open courts where the ponies are, out at the Union Club Comaxa (?t, and it's really like a fair. · They have bandstands and brass bands and pretty well everything but ice crea■ and ( f . aded out). THOMAS: SPEAKER: THOIIAS: Is this your husband sitting over here? That's right! Ey the way, sir, I forgot to • • • I becaae ao inte~ sted in what your wife was saying that I didn't even bother to ask what her name was. Jould you be good enough to tell us? NICHOLAS: Well, ■ y naae is licholas, and she was born in South Africa and I ■ Y••lf · was born in Dublin. You know, we're quite a ■ ixture. Our children, one was born in England and the other was born in Rhodesia. (laughter) TBOIIA~: Thank you ~ery much Mr. Quig~an. - 0 - _ . T._ - _ l _ /_8/ 2.4 . T t co rn e r o f ia t • . . . r a 0 .-. l l o l ut i r o o r p r e o rt n d ike · to I) 1 a C , . . ;vbe s om e y s ou l ~ ; rite a lim e i t ~ . . ::- a youne ide f~II o _ den. "Till" ------ H r ' a s tory. "Time" Ma azin reve a l s its man-of-the-year, the in ividual cho en b the e<litors as o t influential in 1954. The man - John Foster . G ulles, our ecr ~ t a ry of tate. o ho ored becau e, in the words of the ma~azine, in the decisive areas of internation a l p olitics he played the year' mo s t effective role. mong the Dulles triumphs of 1q54, according to "Time", hi influence on the Manila Conference, which set up a common defense for s outhe st Asia, and on the C a racas Conference, which pushed throu h an anti-Communist reso l ution before the ov r- throw of the A rbenz re ime in Gu a temala. ' TAPP ._. ___ _ The fa test man on earth almos t went of the track before his rocket sled came to a s to p . Colo el John <-= tapp, tell i n~ a ue w s co ference in Los A nge es that he h ad only thi rt y -t · o feet left o f a tr a ck t h· t is - a - .r • thirt . - ~ V un r a t n - ' t n l t. In ot.11:?r ! v e nt re C ed He to 1 not the a t, rocket c le s to'"> e jus t ti. to sm . h-u . . u ri t e run, lonel 8t · n C: 0 ed f m : > re t o. n 1 X hu . mi le e re an u r. i ne c fer e c e t a t the di ficu ty ee , ut t . e slo, .- in do · n. H~ ca e to a dead sto 1 1:1 · econ - n d - -h alf from ix hun r G nd t hi rt -t o mil s an hour nd the shock was so 1Z r eat t at his eye i ht was af fec ted. "I coul d n't s ee any t in then," he s id, "except red and salmon color and him . Prin ov e ment e like a e .on looki g into an open ire," hut after a 1 hile is eyes came b a ck to norm al . rmy me ic a l men sa y t a t no erm ent dama ~e was one to them, ju iment ich is a reat relief to Colonel tapp who hol s the speed recor d for tr a vel on the urface of the earth and wants to break his on reco if he c an . LUCE ----- The situati n in Italy is much more hopeful th a n it a a ye a r a~o, s sys ou r Am assa or to Rome, rs. Clare Boothe Luce. r . .,uce took of r h"me today from Rome. t t h e air ort he spoke t o ewsmen who n t e d t O kn O v . , h e t 1 o r s he ..- o u 11 r i n b a ck n _. T . _ - __ 2 / _ _ 1 ,2 l oo t i i . tic r e a r t t · a i t 'J n . r . u c e r nl i t Eh . i s h e , ·3 iaht Co u ni s t . Then the 0 1 - G o r m~ n t • c:: un. t e, I 1 ' 0 ,. i io n ... in " uro pea n de en e s u i n t h e l r , · n t e ;> r oblem f T r ie~te s C · U ... i n n a cute C r i i . r s • L u c e t ink t t t h e e i .l i ul tie h ve v a n i h e :l d u r i n th a s t t w el ve o n · t s , re ma r in . " I t al y h a s cllri i' ied . it s • ,;holP. itu a ti 1 n," . d s h e w ent on to y "the outlook or t h e future is very ho efu 1, in ee d ." Mr s . Luce a mitt e d th a t It a ly i s til facin diff icult economic p roblems, but our Ambas s ad or fe e l c t h t the w or ~ t politic a l roblem s h ve a lre a i y b ee n L o lved a n d that' s , h a t sh e' l l te l l Presddent ~ i enho er hen s he v isits t h e Yh" te H ou e e a rly next month. OC T u ------- fi43r e ' s an oddity in the ne w s. A q u es t i on ••* for t h e citizens of , est Vir in i a . Ho 1 id a n octo p u s g et into one of t eir s tre a m s , t, , o h u n dred an d s ixt y iles from the sea? T h ere's no uestion about the octopus. Four boys foun d it y t e r a y in a stre a m near the to ~ n of Grafton, W e"t Vir in i a. Th e ys d i d n't kno~ wh at to do so they kille d t h e ~ tr ~ n ~ e - 11 - ere ture. They' nev r se n anyt · n l ik it, t hey di , n't k no, h a it s , n th e re w-as ju s t one r s'J n that they could t h ink of in Gr a fton ho mi ht be a le t o identify it - t h e do c tcher. They w e re right! The og c a tcher did kno. Be tol them th a t it wae an octo us. An , Hu . h th a t• the fir .. t octopus ever foun d i n th t s tr e m n a r G r f ton , \"est Vi l' g i n i a • •