om Lon on we hear - that B ritain has proposed a four point pl n. To bring about - a top level conference 1th Soviet Rus 1a. The Four Points - agreeing with President Eise nhowe r' s vie ' that t here should be plenty of preparation. Not - 1th the suggestion made by Prime Minister hurch111J Who thought the Western heads of State should go into co n f eren e 1th Soviet Premier Bulganin, without any .-"' pre,11m1nar1es. oint number one: Talks by American, British an French diplomatic officials. Who - would arrange for J a conference of the Foreign Minister of the Western countries. Point number two: the western Foreign Ministers, ettin g together, would make arrangements for a meeting between themselves and Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov. oin t Numbe Three: The Big Four meeting of the I F oreign Min1strs would lay the groundwork for the climax - tf-<~~~-~- ~ . Point Number Four: The big s h o w - ~ - . - ~ - Edgar Faure-Bulganin conference. ~ Chur c hill Those four points should provide all the preparation that resident Eisenhower considers necessary - if a top level meeting is to accomplish anything useful. CHURCHILL n a r l iament today, Prim e Minister Winston C h urchill gave an indi c ation - that he will be succeeded in of f ice : l :o :::::. s: ::e;. 2h:::s~::e::::::1:e: understood A has c ome out with it 1n publi. His declaration~ - was oblique. A Labor Party MP asked the Prime Minister - about the way his su cc essor wou · d c arry out the Churchill poli yon Formosa. Sir Winston replied: 11 No one, in the whole world, has worked so hard as the Foreign Secretary to steer this matter out of the danger area. 11 C4,/~ ~ ~ referr, cleai-ly, to Eden - as his official su cc essor. But, at the same time, Churchill steered clear of any hint of when he, himSelf - may retire. WHITE HOUSE flt $Pf' the Wh ite House, today, leaders of the Senate foregather~ w1t ~res1dent - - ~ - - -- At 1 h d f / \ -....-.:,~• • unc - an or a c onference. Su ject - the cris is alor.g the China c oast. Yesterday, the P resident met with the leaders of the House of Representatives - for the same purpose. Up o n merging from the meeting today, Senator George of Georgia said he hear - 7U' "not hing alarming." ~ A he was aware of no immediate crisis in the Far East. Lindon Johnson of Texas, Democratic leader in the Senate, gave his impression in the followin· words: 11 The u estio n of war or peace in East Asia - still unsettleci. 11 The Pres ident, they eay - g ave them no indication if this country wo uld intervene, should the Chinese Communists attack the o f f-shore islands. Senator R ussell of Georgia, C hairman of the Senate L arme d Services committ ee, said: " If the y know what the y ~re g oin to do about uemoy and Matsu, they di n't tell us. " ee. . . - ... e .. i. ... ee · an e ea e e e re s 4 1 · as • - e e a . ' .. he ~e :. e e _ s ·1sc s o a r 1 a o. e a e o e e . Pur ose - o r e s w ho 0 e a ta an iss e a . . I 1 e e e e BERLIN ,) ,,, ,, ~~.,,._..I T he western alliesA•v•,.frotestee sharply to Soviet R ussia - because o f a sort of Red " economic " blockade of West B erlin. All traffi c w ith West Germany has, of course, to cross O ommunist areas. And the satellite government of East G erman y is resorting to financial extortion. Raising the tax - cha rged on trucks. Which carry - nearly half of the food suppl y of W est Berlin. //1therto, · the ro.te, for a round a. trip, ha s been - ~ dollars per truck. Now they~re hiking I that - to one hundred and fifty-five dollars. A boost of - - -- -- --- . I eleven hundred percent. This is being called - a " tax blockade 11 • The West Ge r man Parli ament asked the Western powers to intervene. 0 lt.: · ------- os cow an ounces - a huge plan to boost Hussian agricultural production. e've been hearing that all is not Vfell - d own 6n the 1::>oviet i ' arm. hi ch is only con f irme by the project we her about no. ~ounds like esp erati on - a scheme to send thousands of U ommunista party o ficials to collective farms. here - they'll try to make the crops grow better. ror a remedy - experts to be sent, a huge lot of them. llrushchev, using these words: "Some tens of thousands of particularly experienced workers of party and government organisations. •Including - agricultural sci e ntists". INDO C HINA T he tension has ease d - in Indo C hina. One powerful religious-political sects -no w switching over to the side of Premier Diem. Th li e D " e ao ai. - with a membership of a million;-five-hundred-thousand in southern Viet Nam. :ta~ And-~ private Army of twenty-five thousand. It's a strange religious cult - founded as recently as Nineteen Twenty-nine. The story - an odd one. A civil - servant a minor official - getting a revelation through the medium o f a Ouija Board. Which told u him of the " all seeing eye " , the Divine power of the universe. The Ouija Board revealing, moreove:r:, that the 11 pope 11 of the new religion was to be a minister of the government, Le-Van Trung. That nomination was a stunning surprise. Nobody more astonished _ than Le Van Trung. Who was widely known - as a g a y ch ara ct er. He loved a f estive cup of win e - and the harms of dan c ing g irls. ut Le Van Trung a c epte d the - INDO CHINA - 2 Je dership of the new sect - and, overnight, changed his of life. Becoming - as aescetic as a Buddhist monk. r "Cao Dai' the cult o f the 11 a11 seeing €.ye 11 is a ay str ang e mi x ture of Buddhism, Rome C tholicism, and mystical tendencies u of one sort or another. Curiously, one of its semi- ivine personalities is the French author, Victor Hugo. In every temple of 11 Cao Dai", there's a statue of Victor Hugo. Which receives - religious veneration. Today, in huge ga dy temples monks of the sect were chanting thanks to the 11 all ~eirg ~e". Thanks - for - lessening the danger of Civil War. "Cao Dai" with its private Army - going over to Premier Diem. PALESTINE Ano ther important ar c h e ologi c al discovery - reported in alestine. An e x pedition, sponsored by the government of Israel, finding - the palace of King Herod of the Bible. Exc avations - at Masa a, near the Dead Sea. Histo an Josephus tells how Herod the Great . who reigned in Judea from thirty-seven B.C. to four B.C. -- - - built a palace of magnificent splendor. Josephus - giving descriptions, which are now borne out by the unearthing of the ruins. A pala c e - built like a fortress on the edge of a hi plateau. Floors - of superb mosaics. The greatest wonder- four cisterns, with a total capacity of forty thousand meters of ~ater. Where the water came from - a mystery. Co nsi ering - how dry the desert countr y now is. This pala c e of the great, wicked King of Judea, h ad a spa c ious terrace, with a giant collonade. The columns - G ree k in tyl e, Ionian and C orinthian. Whi c h takes us - to the hum an t ou c h. PALESTINE - 2 A name found - engraved en one of the columns. /4i:Jl~~~a... The name of a Roman soldier - who scratched e-t11aeftto~ A column in the palace of Herod the Great. Reminding us that Judea w as under Roman dominatio, at the time when the New Testament begins. BWS S o v i e R ussia reports - American wild ducks, found in R ussian territory. Birds - banded 1n this country. P art of the study - of wi ldlife and the migrations of birds. The Rus sian Embassy reported the matter to the U .S. fish and Wildlife Service. S ying, about two dozen - American-banded in tailed ducks were shot u or captured - in Siberia. Also, a few snow geese and brants. Nearly all 6Wt had been baned i n ~ Western States. Most of them - u on the West Coast. ~ Tfis is the first evidence that birds 1n the U nited States migrate across the North Pacific - to Russian territory. PULIT ZE A m ember of a great newspaper dynasty_ has departed f rom thee 1torial offices of this earth. Joseph Pulit z er, p ublisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. of t he legended Joseph Pulitzer Who, 1n the old New York World - id o much to establish popular Journalism in America. He trained his son 1n the newspaper art, and the younger Joseph Pulitzer became - a dominant figure 1n American Journalism. He died suddenly in St. Louis - at the age of seventy. Meanwhile, Colonel Robert R. McCormick lies gravely 111, at the u age of seventy-four. Publisher of the Chicago !.ta Tribune, and one of the leading personalities 1n the newspaper world. EXPLOSION e , :p lo sion . A Notre Drune Pro ~B sor was killed, today - b y an small buil ing, 1n hich ' rocket fuel experiments were held - blew up. Four Senior students, working in the building, told Dr . John Treacy, Assistant Professor of Cherrtical en ineeri - th t somethin g had gone wrong with an e periment. They were standing thirty to fifty feet away from the building, when the explosion occurred. Hurling debris. A flying metal object struck the professor - like a dea ly missile. unharmed. s The four student star11ng with him /\ DUST S TO 1 A hu ge dus t storm - sweeping a c ross five south western st~tes. C alled - one of the worst e\er. As bad as anything in the plague of dust storms of the Nineteen Thirties. T he m\ll"k y tempest - u blowing on a four humred mile front, from southern Colorado into Texas. '!he dust - e xt ending upward as much as four m1 lea. Blown - by frosty winds at sixty miles an hour. All the result of a cold front - moving eastward. The chilly bree z e picking up the soil - and whirling it along. Visibility - virtually zero, 1n many place~. An Oklahoma State Trooper says: 1 The dust was so thick, aa I never knew when the sun came up. II In the Texas panhandle, the tempest of dust collided with snowstorm. The result, a heavy fall of mud dy snow. T h Ma or of D earbor n , M i c hi g an, lans - a c ity ar ri a e B ure a u. ay or O rville Hubbard believing - that the to fathers shoul ai p eople who seek mates. His Honor_ inspi re d by ' lonely hearts advertisements be sees in maga z ines . He says - that, since the proje c t was announced, the response has been tme enthusiastic. Hundreds of people writing - that a ity marriage,,Bureau would certainly promote the c ause of mat~imony. One ja lady, a middle-aged spinster, praises the project on the grounds of - saf&ty first. She says - it's angerous to go out with me~)unless you can be sure about '" them. Her letter stating: "M ost of the men, nowadays, that d II o out - just can 't be truste. Well, that ' s cautious all right. But - is it the / way to c at c h a husband?