DE GAULLE In the old French Province of Lorraine, the country of Joan of Arc, a sign was seen in the sky, today. The "Cross of Lorraine" - high in the heavens. Symbol - of the Pree Prench Movement, when it was led by General Charles DeOaulle in the Second World War. All of which may sound - like an apparition. Something for what the French call - the "m1st1que". Not 10 supernatural, , · ~\towever, but maybe significant in. a mundane way. The 11 cro1a of Lorraine" in the sky - a toru.tion of Jet fighters of the French Air Poree. Jets - giving Air Poree opinion of Qeneral DeGaulle I s ap . pearance in Par1a, todaJ. So, what did he say - at the newa conference called for an announcement of his policy? l huge crowd ot reporters - jamed in a large hotel room to hear the verdict of Delaulle. Actually, he did little more than expand on what he had previously declared.r, more informally. That - he was willing to take power in Prance, as the head of the French government. - But - legally, not as a dictator. A DB GAU~ - 2 Thia he emphasized by asking·. "Do yo bell that u eve , at sixty-seven, I would begin the career of a dictator?" Once again he backed the French in Algeria, civilians a.rd the army there - upholding the near-insurrection they have staged against the government in Paris. The call in Algeria for DeOaulle. "How can they help rising?" he deunded. "TheJ are now offering a magnificent spectacle of brotherhood - tbat can be either a political or moral foundation for an agreement." - 0 DeOaulle did not make it clear - how he might be called has head Gf the government. But one poaaibil1ty might be - for him to be auamoned aa Prellier. Which &UD11ona would have to come from the National Aaaeably - if the thing were done legally, as the General says it must be. There was a quick reply - fr011 Coanunist led labor unions. Transport workers in Paris - promptly staged a demonstration strike, which lasted for a couple of hours. Communist led factory workers in Marsailles - staging a strike DI GAULLE - 3 aa an answer to DeOaulle. In Lorraine, however, jet fighters of the Prench Air ~-,p Force ~ fonn1ng a "Croaa of Lorraine" in the aky. Prompt political response in Paria - a Cab1net •et1na called for tom n rrow. Premier Pflimlin - to confabulate with hia Ministers on the l>eGaulle declaration.b powertul Socialiat Party - meeting for diacuaaion this afternoon. Paria - quiet and expectant, under heavy military guard, following tht DeQaulle newa conference today. The French govern ■ ent has clamped down censorship tonight. ln Algeria, wild enthusiaa ■ displa,ed by throngs of French Colonials, when they heard of DeGaulle 1 s declaration. POLIDII DE GAULLE How, the incongruous touch - the absurd sort or thing that often attends a solemn, h1ator1c event. Qeneral DeOaulle, today, held his momentous news conference - by courtesy of "The French National Asaoc1at1on of Sauaage '41.nufacturers." It seems - they had rented the entire hotel where he spoke. The Sausage Makers - holding a convention. DeOaulle, 1n the past, baa &111111 held h1a news conterencea in~~ aw hotel. So the unutacturera ot the French~r~t ealaai A gave the General the use of the big room. Vive la Sauaap Makers! ALGIRIA In Algeria, meanwhile - military action. At leut, that's what the Twl1a1ans claim. Declaring - that a Prench armored column crossed into Tun1a1a, and raided two outpo1t1. The situation along the frontier called - 11 dangeroualJ ten•••" PANAMA Trouble, in Panama - but nothing anti-American this time. High school students - rioting against the Panamanian government. Because - school facilities have not been improved. A violent affair - three thousand boys, and some girls, stoning the police. Who replied - with tear gas bomba. Two students - reported killed. In the Canal Zone, U.S. authorities closed off that area - while the trouble was raging in nearby Panama City. Q. The Soviets don't say - why they/,le banning a u.s. diplomat, John• Baker, Jr., Second Secretary or the American Embassy in Moscow. He•s new in London, on a vacation with his II falftily.•forbidden to return to the Russian capital. The Soviet ;J don't explain why Second Secretary Baker has become peraonna non grata. But it haa to do - with his attendance as a student at the Moscow University. In London, Baker charges - that the only thing he did was make friends with Russian students. ~1ch, apparently - makes him unwelcome to the Soviet powers-that-be. ROCKET In Puerto Rico, an account of how they found the nose cone of the J 1 1pi ter missile. The nose cone - that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean a few hundred miles off San Juan, the Puerto ltMX••,tt•t1 Rican capital. A aea 1.' ch - by four Navy vessels and twelve aircraft. Yet it might seem surprising - that they ever found the relatively small object on the expanse of the sea. '!be answer is - effective communications~e Jupiter rocket - tracked ul the way by radar. The searchers - given a good clue of where the nose cone would land. That part of the rocket - which c - J down at an enormous rate of speed from outer space,,.-...1 O ,, didn't burn up in the friction of the atmosphere. A number one factor - in the hurling of nuclear bombs by rocket. TRUJILLO Word - from Trujillo, Jr. The son of the Dictator of Santo Domin g o, emerging from the silences. He's been more or less inc011111unicado - ever since the uproar over the sumptuous presents he gave to Hollywood actresses. Kim Novack - receiving a high priced foreign car. The same for IUxlaa Zsa Zsa Gabor, whom Trujillo also gave a fur coat. Some say - a seven thousand dollar min'J~hera - a seventeen thousand dollar chinchilla. Uproar - in Washington. Members or Congreae declaring - that TruJillo, Jr. has been spending a million dollars a year on high living in the U.S.A. While Santo Domingo. just gets about the same amount in foreign aid. Trujillo, a Lieutenant General in t11e Dominican military establishment, has been attending the General Starr School at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. On sick leave, at present - from his warlike studies. So what does he say? He declares - he's been p;1ying out his own money. "Every cent I've spent," General Trujillo - TRUJILLO - 2 says, "has come from my own personal accounts. Not a penny," he adds, "came from the taxpayers of the United States. ~ - ti of the Dominican Republic." Which, of course, would include the price of the gifts - to the movie actresses. BISBNBCIIIIR - MONTGOMERY At the White House, today, the word was - N~. A r1rm 1 negative - a detennined refusal. 'nlere•a one thing President Eisenhower will not do - when British field Marshal Montgomery visits him this week. General Ike will not show Monty oO: t • ,.. I El Alemein - another scene of a Civil War ba-tle. ( Last year, the two veteran soldiers were at Gettysburg, the presidential farm. Where Ike showed Monty - the far famed battlef1el~ere Robert E. Lee austai~ed - his decisive defeat. Ike - explaining the strategy, the tactics. Monty saying - that both commanders should have been sacked. The President - ag1'8eing, more or leas. Or, at least - not rebuking the blasphemy. Sack Robert B. Lee/- the South roared with ind1gnat1 at the suggestion. President Eisenhower embarrassed - having to make some sort of apology. so, this time, he won't take Field Marshal Montgomery - 3 t o J rchancellorsville. Where Robert E. Lee won his most brilliant victory. Monty might, once again, make a sour remark BISBHJl(lflR - MON'l'GOMKRY - 2 about the strategy or Robert B. Lee. Which certainly would start that old Confederate flag - ■••:ta a-waving! AU'1'0 UNION In Detroit - negotiations ... resumed between the Auto Workers Union and the "Big Three" of the motor car industry General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler. With the disclosure - that the Union has uked the Ford Motor Company to keep the plants going after June Pirat, the day when its Union contract expires. Continue operations - even though the negot1atore have not agreed on a new contract. The Auto Workers Union - having made the same suggestion to General Motors, laat •eek. The Union doesn't want a strike or any kind of shut-down -- not in these recession days. CARDINAL In Rome, this aftemoon, Cardinal stritch of Chicago - waa given the last rites or the Roaaan Catholic Church. Which ia administered only to one believed - near death. Cardinal Stritch - having suffered a maaa1ve cerebral stroke, today. Following the •putation of h1a right ar11, several weeks ago - because or a blood clot. The laat medical report, as followe: "The Cardinal'• condition 11 unchaged - no better, no worae. 11 In ~nicago, a farewell - tot omen. Or, so you might say. American industry - losing one. The world of exploration - another. The funeral - of Gene Mc~onald, who wrought the achievement of two men. American industry knew hi ■ - as the head of the giant Zenith Radio Cor p or a tion. Who had gone to work a1 an electrician - at the age of twelve. Lnd scored - re eated eLrly feilurea. Then - went ahead and founded a com any with aales of one hullred and fifty million dollars annually, during the past few years. lie was an early pioneer in radio - and a strong advocate of •pay-a1- you-see• TV. Explorers knew hi ■ as the big time industrialist - who went on an ex p edition of Arctic ex ~ lor~tion, Second in comman d to Ad m iral U~nald 'acMillan, ho was with eary on the trip leadin g to the conquest of the ,orth i ole. Gene· c ~ onald adventuring in the p olar regions as ~ic ard E. Byrd's su p erior officer. GjNE cDPNaLD - 2 - Later he was a backer of ex p loration - financing one ex p edition after another. l knew hia p articularly - for the su~ p ort he gave Ex p lorer Carveth ellea, and Count Felix von Luckner, the Sea Devil, and Admiral M acUillan whom he admired most of all. Gene W acDonald - two men, really. MISPLACED Here are two misplaced items 1n the news today. One, Rock 'N' Roll -- a:1d you'd never guesa. where. In the V tican. Pope Pius the Twelfth - featured in this Rock 'N' Roll itom. No, not the Pope and the Cardinals - but W I'd better not go too far with this. The news relates that the Ppnt1ff received, in special audience - "The Platters" - a Negro Rock 'N' Roll aingina team from the U.S.A., four men and a girl. • • ~ them - that popular singers have a tremendous following. Which impoaea on them - a greater duty to set a good example for youth. the The dispatch adds that/I I ll a l&el ■ lt prefers classical music like Beethoven or Verdi. Not - RocK 'N' Roll. The second item here, tells of a baseball game - also misplaced. Played - in Dtmandu, capital of the Himalayan land of Nepal. One team - local Nepalese, who Just learned about hitting the ball and running the bases. The other nine, consisting of members of American Aid officials, and - priests from a catholic missionary school in Katmandu. MISPLACED - 2 . • Well, I'll bet one of them was Father Marshall Moran• the Jesuit we met, while filming the coronation of Bepaleae • King Mahendra. When we made our Cinerama feature - Seatch for Paradise. Father Moran of Chicago - u. rugged kind or missionary in a strange land. D n? · So, •ho •on ~ . That's the pathetic part of it. The Nepa l~ ae beat the Americana by a score - of nine to afx. What•• wrong, Pather Moran, llhat happened? FROG' Warnln - from southern Flor da. Lo out - for s t ange ro s. They may be - poisonous toads from the West Ind es or outh Amer i ca. Today, Dr. Martin Miller, Professor of Zoology at the Un versity of Miami, stated - that, apparently, the tropical critters had been introduced into Florida. Mrs. Gertha Wallace, a Miami housewife, reporting - that aig a big frog Jumped at her l n er front yard. Her husband later killing three - brown in color and spotted with yellow warts. Another report stating - that a dog was killed - by one of the poisonous toads. The zoologist explains - that, actually, the toads don•t attack anythin. But, often enough, dogs are killed - ~n .,.,_ p - u - +- ~. by chewin on one. :X. -