GOOV V EN lNG EVERY~ OD Y: ln l est Berlin, a W est Uerman official uses the word - •stag ering•; referring to - the flood of refugees from East Germany. Eleven thous a nd - in a week - since August First. Eighteen hundred - today alone. iith hundreds more said to have ■ en turned back - by Communist border p atrols. The reason, is ,hrushchev's speech yesterday. The Bosa of the Kremlin, refusing - to drop his threat,. Repeating that he'll sign a peace treaty with hi1 East Ger■ an puppets and then give the ■ full authority OT.er - the access routes to West Berlin. The Khrushchev talk raising the fear - that the £ e st German regime - m a y seal the border. bnd that fear, in turn, has produced t ~ is race for freedo ■ ; iaat Germans, frantically trying to reach the West - before they are trapped for good behind the !ron Curtain. The exodus termed •staggering•. b major problem - tor the West German government. Also - for the East German govern ■ ent. lenator Hubert liu ■phrey suggests - that another East ueraan rebellion may be in the making. A rising similar to that of Nineteen ~itty Three - when the people poured into the atreets to attack their Red bosses. Senator Huaphrey, who has conferred with Ihrushchev in the Kremlin - believes this is the danger Ihrushchev wants to head ott. RUSK ~~1 Secretary of Stat~usAasked our Western Allies to 1ncrea~e their military strength - in the face of the Soviet threat to Berlin. Dean Rusk, addressing the Nato Council in Paris - noted that negotiations with Khrushchev are useless. Jhat is - tli8J 1 PI useless if the West appears weak and divided at the conference table. 'ftle Ruak formula - calls for prompt action~- Fill all the gaps that now exist - in the Nato armies. Add contingents - wherever there ls a / weak spot. Knd build up firepower - all along the line from ) Scandinavia to Turkey. The Nato Council, voting on the Ruak proposal - 5 backr it unanimously. Europe, as anxious as we are - to make Europe safe trom Red aggression. MILITARY FOLLOW RUSK Meanwhile, America ~ ..,,.,,,t:-e. ~ ~ • /\. ➔ er.ire getting our military forces into shape - for anything that may come. In Washington, the Army announces i•ediate conversion of three n training divisions - into combat divisions: - The first Infantry - at Fort Riley, Kanaaa. / The Second Infantry - at Fort Benning, Georgia._,,xiid the ,,) Second Armored Div1s ion - at Fort Hood., Texas. Three famous fighting outfits - getting ready for more fighting. If - it becomes• necessary. In Groton, Connecticut, the Undersecretary or the lavy aaya - he has cOlll)lete faith in our nuclear auburlnea. ~- Paul Pay spent the night cruising down in the Atlantic - aboard the "Nautilua." Pay, surfacing to tell newa•n - the Polaris subs are everything the Navy hoped for. One of our beat deterrents - to war. Farther South along the Atlantic coast - para- MILITARY FOLLOW RUSK - 2 troupers in action. The Eighty-Second airborne, bailing out over Id South Carolina - in their biggest exercise sinoethe war. Five- thousand men, floating to earth by parachute - followed by their equipment. Then clashing in a simulated battle - across the Carolina back woods. Incidentally, the men of the Bighty-Second Airborne - seem to have achieved one objective. Farmer Charley Hlcks claims they were right on target - ln his watermelon patch. He's presenting Uncle Sam for a bill for a mountain of watel'llelona - that a lot or thirsty soldiers just couldn't pass up on a hot August day ln Carolina. EMBARGO The American people are shifting to the idea or- an embargo on trade with the Connunist empire. "paled today ~~-~re Secretary of Corrrnerce/s~ Hodges, telling a Washington news conference - that the popular feeling ls reflected in export licenses. The number of licenses, dropping - with regard to products headed for the Soviet Union. Here's an example. Some weeks ago, the Co1111erce Department ruled - that subsidized farm product■ could be sold to Russia. How any export licenses - do you suppose the Depart•nt has received? Answer - none. Not a single American shipper, asking for the right to trade - behind the Iron Curtain. The newsmen e x p el l e d from · o s co w to d ay - 1a a ccu s ed of dis pa ra g ing ~h ruahchev. B otho L irsch, ot ' st ~ ermany - who ha s been writing critical articles for the •Frankfurter iundschau;• one of the top news apers - in Europe. ! hru s hchev d oesn't like to be criticized - anywhere. So, its tbebums rush, for ootho iirsch - journalism's first casualty in Moscow since the ~ovieta lifted their censorship ,1 six months ago. ROCKET The rocket en g ine tested in Cal i f ornia - is of interest f or sev e ral reasons. The most important of which i s thi s . For once, we're not just trying to catch up - with the Russians. 'nlis use o f solid fuel 1s original with our scientists - who point out that the Soviets are concentrating ~ - t f · ~ on liquid fuel for their big missiles.• our space program /\ 1s more diversified - in the basic quest for rocket power. massive 1i; Mutoover, This solid fuel engine win have~ the . I ~ __e,,"2,"I thrust we need. -1118~110~ can be joined in a cluster - with a drive of three million pounds.~ough to .I orbit a space ship - three times the weight of Cosmonaut Tltov's. Our big problem - to hamess this remarkable new rocket to space eXJi)rat1on. OPERA Por opera rans .... good newa - •Jbe. lew York'• t11u,111a Netropolltan Opera aay not atay a cloaed thla aeuon - arter all. Not, tr llayor v..-r • can help it. ~ ~ o d a y ordered hla aldea - to aee 1t the lapuH can be broken. 'ftle lapuae betwHn the opera houae and•••• tt•a orchestra - on a dlapute about wages. leedleaa to aay. aualcal lew Yol'k la atlll ahuddertng - f'roll yeaterday•a announce•nt. The announoftlllt that la being called - "acandaloua. brutal, a dlagrace to the ~ ~ cltJ." !Prom tar ott Safisburg, Auatrla. - a deaarid that 1, / j \ Secretary or Labor Goldberg atep ln. VbJ Salftburg! that' a 11here LeontJM Prtc• - la atnglng. Leontyne, who'• glorloua aopnno •olce la due to be heard ln the Net - on opening nlght. It - the llet baa an opening night. LION The New York SPCA has Just handed out - one or the moat remarkable s111110naea in its long history. Citing Dick Plynn or St. Louia for cruelty to - a lion. A circus perfol'lller called "Klng Kado". Plynn WU on hla way to a llarJland country talr - when he declded to atop o•er ln llew York. Reaaon - 1011e unflnlahed bua lneaa wlth Laurette Bua, who la known ln ahow bualneaa u "Bon Bon". yo-<) ~ - " B ~ ~ ~ Wlli Dick Plynn parked hla white cadlllac near Penn. Statton, chained "King lado" 1n the back aeat - and cllaappeared in the dlrectlon or "Bon Bon" • You can 1lilgtne what he round - on ht.a return. A btg crowd, atarlilg ln - at the lion. Alao an SPCA an - wltb a ~vs ona. !he charge, cruelty - for leaving a llon ln the aun, without nter. To llhlch Plynn retorted - "ltona live ln the veldt 11MN ltl a hundred iii and twenty degrees. Ita only llnety-one here-~ ., he'• very c011tortable. By thll ti•, "Bon Bon" ftl in the back aeat - petting "Xtng lado". Showing more.,.. affection tor the 1,!QI - 2 lion - than for his owner. A sight that apparentl7 made up - Flynn'• aind. lie said he had no aore buaineas in Mew York - and was read7 to head South. So - the polio• aped hia on his way. The car, swinging into the lu4aoa River Tunnel. The laat vi•• of the rear window - vtot - showing - a lion'• tac• looking back. ProbablJ lookin1 back tor Yoo Boo Bon Bon. So long until toaorrow.