L.T.-OLps~, THURSDAY, ~UGPSI 4a.l260~ . . GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY: A heavy vote today in Tennessee. Some aeYen hundred thousand turning out - to decide whether Estes Kefauver returns to the ~enate. This priaary - decisi••· The winner uong the ~emocrats - al ~ ays electei in Tennessee. During the caapaign, segregationist Andrew '!'aylor has been charging that Kefauver is just like a northern liberal; defending - federal power in the states.Taylor, proaising - to uphold state's rights. Kefauver, retorting - that Taylor is against TVA, and public aoney for internal iaprovements. Or as Est•• ut it - •against - prosperity in Tennessee.• · If Iefauver wins it will be his third tera in the Senate and will give him seniority - on several Senate committees. !1101 I Today, the Vice P resident did some island hoppin1. r. and Mrs. Mixon making the rounds of the islands named for the Earl of ~andwich, the islands of - [auai, big and Maui, and, the/island - the one that g awe its na■ • to the entire chain - Hawaii - if you don't call the ■ the Sandwich Islands. Then back to Oahu and Honolulu. The Vice President, making good hie pro ■ iae, to campaign everywhere - in his bid tor the presidency. Speaking many tiaes today - even on lauai, to a crowd of two hundred for five minutes in a tropical downpour. KENNEDY grass ~~~ ~ e m o c r a t i c Candidate for President)\ ill=II roots;~ to capture the farm vote. Senator Kennedy, conferring with Govemor Loveless of Iowa on a possible agriculture policy -- should Kennedy ta win in November. Governor Loveless tabbed to become Secretary of Agriculture - if and when Kennedy forms his cabinet. NOTE The latest American note to Moscow - concems the RB - 47, shot down over the Barents Sea. ~ a&!! State A Department again calling the act - "Piracy". famand1ng / the release of the two survivors. Accusing the Russians of keeping the Americans prisoner - 1n Ila order to prevent the ~ truth from being known. The truth j- that the plane was over international 11b waters when the Russians attacked it. ~ ADD NOTE ~ The Soviet reply can be~!••ess'- - from today's note to London. Khrushchev insisting that the the R B-47 was a spy plane - inside Soviet Air Space. The boss of the ~ Kreml1nAthreatenlng to attack Britain - because the American plane took off n from a British base. In East Germany - •political failures and economic unrest.• Admitted by the Red bosses who say collectivization isn:t going the way theJ, planned it. Agriculture, becoming - inefficient. farmers on the collectives - unable to meet their quotas. iesult - a severe food shortage in East Geraany. The East Ger ■ any Reda don't admit the syate■ ■a, be at fault. They bla ■e ~fficials in the Oo ■■ uniat hierarchy tor being •incompetent.• Two hundred ot th••• now given the familiar Communist treatment. Purged. Booted out of their jobs. Heraus. MEN The United States Ila may have - a " Burgess and MacLean " on its hands. Remember the two British diplomats - who disappeared in Nineteen Fifty One? Tuming up 1n Moscow - five J• years later. Burgess and MacLean - defecting to Communism. Tonight, the suspicion - that tw~ricana ';;{ be doing the same ti 1 Bernon Mitchell and William Martin I - -- who disappeared from the National Security Agency. Tracked to Mexico City - then to Havana) ~they r on their way to Moscow. .. the belief~~ CASTRO Tonight the dictator of Cuba is convalescing - at a hideout near b Havana. Fidel Castro, taking his secretary and a group of advisors - also a bodyguard of fifteen soldiers. Castro, installed 1n a house - near one of his favorite fishing J8 spots in the Caribbean. Officially - he still has ua a touch of pneumonia. But rumors persist - that his health is so bad, he may step down. )(urn the .,) government of Cuba - over to his Communist brother, Raul Castro. NEWS MEN. The Cuban governm ~interferring - with /\ American news men. So charged by~••r State Department. Spokesman Lincoln White, 1a referring to the case of Charles Wiley who was held for eight days without any charge laing placed against him. ,.then -- deported, without any ) explanation. Wiley, the eighth American newsman - to be harassed by Castro's agents. TRUJILLO The Dominican Republic appoints a new head - of its United Nations delegation. Rafael Trujillo - the strong man himself • .Dictator - of the Island Republic. )(ow heading ) ) his delegation - ton the General Assembly. Giving as his reason - that affairs touching the Dominican Republic will be under discussion. Those charges - that the Dominican Republic is controlled by a dictatorship. Charges to be answered by - the dictator himself. COIGO A dis atch from Elizabethville says Iatanga rovince - is beginning to resemble the rest of th• Congo,with white settlers - streaming in fro ■ the buah, besieging the airlines - for passage back to Druasela, afraid of an outbreak of anti-white violence. The task of preventing violence is up to Ralph Bunche, tonight. Bunche, arriving in £lifabethvill• - as the United Nations representative, to prepare tor the entry - of U I troops, a move that Kataoga's Pre■ ier Tshoabe still says - will touch off civil war throughou\ his province. When ialph Bunch arrived he found latanga independence flags flying at the Elizabethville airport. JEATHQ The weather picture for ■ oat of the country - rain and floods. A ainor deluge fro ■ le• England thnq the aid-west - to the great plains of Montana. And in the South - rivers over their banks. At Ta■ pa, ilori4a, a hundred fa■ ilies - evacuated fro ■ their hoi••; daaa1• up to - two million dollars. SPACI The House Space Coamittee to investigate - our •Mercury• project; the plan to send an astronaut - into outer apace. The project - behind schedule; last •••k - failed to launch an Unmanned space capsule. The Hou•• Space Committee ai ■a to find out why. RECORD At Edwards Air Force Base, California, Pilot Joe Walker told newsmen - what it felt like. Setting that record of - two thousand, one hundred and fifty miles an hour - in an X-15 over the Mohave Desert. In the pilot's words - "rm sitting up there, - watching the needle go around - and saying, go, go." And his p rocket-powered plane went all right. Making Joe Walker - the world's fastest human. The only roan ever to travel - three times the speed of sound. BUTLER Today, the butler said stiffly -- " I did not exchange b l ows with Mr. Jones. 11 Well, British butlers don't usually go ~ ~ t ~ e m p l o y e r s . a~~ ,1 A ,a1e; the very idea is enough to shock staid old London. The Mr. Jones is All Anthony Armstrong-Jones -- ~L4. Princess Margaret's husban~ ~id to be ruling th.eir royal establishment - with a rod of iron. At least, that was how it seemed - to butler Thomas Cronin, .)tho wasn't allowed to ~ . ""J: things - according to tradition. Anthony Armstrong-Jones, refusing to let the butler - handle the staff of servants - taking over that Job - himself. Telling the butler - to mind his own business. Also, ordering the butler to call him 11 Sir" instead of "Mr. Jones". All of which was too ' much for - Thomas Cronin. The butler resigning. Referring to his former employer -- c t 4 ' ~ as "Mr. Jones." Accusing Mr. Jones of acting lik,,.m ~- absol11t• wu112uh-.. But, did the two 11en ever come to blows? )- BUTLER - 2 " Not at all, " says Thomas Cronin -- in the slightly frigid tone of a British butler. Her e a r. t he measureme ts o · -- a na t ive o f In an . Length - thirty- f ive f eet. eight- i teen f eet. Wei ht - welve tons . that roame what is now Indiana - ten thousan years a o. The skeleton, u.~earthed while they were digging a pond - at Medary ville. The skeleton - onl y six feet below the ground. ~ l;)boovuraQ , in perfect condition. C l R ~ f ' - ~ i P l ' t tn11abltur1ts = 1i mastadon o f the ID Ice A ge . LTP.1960.08.04i.pdf LTP.1960.08.04ii.pdf