March 6, 1958

2d US earth satellite which failed to orbit carried special testing device conceived by Dr Van Allen and developed by Iowa U grad student G Ludwig

Controller Levitt repts S I Rosenman, ex-Gov Poletti, ex-Budget Dir Appleby recd payments in last 3 yrs, lr to Sen Erwin and Assemblyman MacKenzie; Repubs seek to show Harriman advisers got payments similar to those given some Legis employes; Levitt says Rosenman law firm was paid for advising Banking Dept, and as special counsel to NYS Power Auth, that Poletti was paid as Budget Bur adviser, '55, and as Temporary Educ Finances Comm assoc counsel, that Appleby served as Budget Bur consultant, '57; says no payments were made to F D Roosevelt Jr; other payments made to Young Dem pres Moskovit for Commerce Dept pub relations work and to Citizens Union exec dir Hallett as Temporary Com on Const Conv adviser

Skate in Portland, GB, making crossing from New London, Conn, in 8 days 11 hrs, fastest West-East submarine crossing of Atlantic; illus; Calvert hails voyage; Navy, confirming record, says Nautilus still holds trans-Atlantic record

Syrian intelligence chief charges plot by King Saud (Saudi Arabia) to assassinate Nasser

Eisenhower repts personal message from USSR leaders proposing, out of deference to Eisenhower's const duties, that summit conf be held in Washington, news conf; reasserts desire for conf but insists on likelihood of accord; US embarrassed by proposal for Washington conf; cool to idead of entertaining Bulganin, Khrushchev; fear false impression cold war has ended