pU,RIDA L.T.-DELCO. 'IUESDAY, MAY 29, 1956 (Given by Chas.Collingwood) Today's primary in Florida - attracted only a small turn-out of voters. Ite 1 e expected, that when all tM »etearns ge 1R = 9Rly about one-thtrl:1 or thoee ctualtf1.ed to caat ballots, ~11 htne done s,,.. (One reason for the lack of interest- is that there was no run-off contest for governor, or other top offices. For the G.O.P., it was a case of Eisenhower versus Knowland once again • • The senator from California is in the contest - because hie I name waa entered before Mr. Eisenhower's position to run tor a second term. But, of course, the Knowland opposition is only token. No one doubts that Mr. Eisenhower will have a tre11endous aaJority .) ) The interesting part or 1111s primary concerns the Democrats. Stevenson versus Kefauver. Both of the Democra t ic hopefuls did a lot of campaigning. They delivered lots of speeches_ and shook thousands of hands. nd they enlivened the proceedings_ with some personal ■:•••• criticism. (Otherwise, /they didn't have much to argue about - because they're in basic pUJRIDA - 2 I agreement about internal problems and foreign ool1cy .) This II could be a key primary for Stevenson and Kefauver - because Florida carries a lot of prestige in the national picture. PARM - Congress votes almost two billion dollars to run the Agriculture Department for the next year. It's a record sum, even larger than President Eisenhower asked for - larger by five million dollars. Congress giving Mr. Eisenhower more than he wanted - for the fourth straight year. ITALY £ The Italian C01m1unist Party suffered a severe setback in the elections that ended yesterday. Th , returns are nearly complete, and they show that the Reds received - a million less votes than in Nineteen Fifty-one. Nost of the center parties increased their strength. But some or the former Coauniat votes went to parties on the Right - Fascists and Monarchists.(,or ex1111ple, no one gained an absolute majority in Rome, Milan, Venice, nor Genoa. In those cities, the center coalition may have to work with Fascists and lonarch1ata, in order to keep local goveriaent going.) CYPRUS On Cyprus, civil war seems closer than ever - with conflicts between the Greek and Turkish inhabitants of the island, getting worse. Today there was a battle involving four hundred pe rsons - touched off by the funeral of a Turkish p oliceman, who was killed by the Greek underground. The British army had to ~1:o;Rt in to restore order - and there were A over twenty casualties, ltth some dead, and more seriously injured. And there was a gangster style killing on one of the Cyprus roads - when a car forced a truck off the highway. To men, apparently Turks, jumped out of the ear - and shot the two Greeks who were inside the truck, killing one and wounding the other. In L o ndon, the Daily EXpress repeats - that Turkish army officers have arrived in Cyprus - disguised as civilians. 11 tte1~1ao tb The London newspaper claiming, that Turkey~llellff .. move lf the British ever left. into Cyprus _ _..__ • It •av■a• t1•ae111ua, RUSSIA A dispatch from Moscow sounds like a throw-back to the days of Stalin. It tells of executions - the liquidation ot former Communist leaders. The executions were carried out in the state of Aierbaijan - on the border of Iran. The victills, the former Premier of that state - and three of his lieutenant,. They're linked with Beria, the tormer Soviet police chiet, who wu executed almost three years ago. And the indictnaent ha• all of the old style c01111unist Jargon - calling the detendant• , "enemies of the people" - and saying that they c011111itted "terroristic acts againat the soviet motherland." BAST GERMANY The Premier of East Germany claims that his police have arrested one hundred and thirty-seven ft.m erican agents. Otto Orotewohl spoke before the Communist Parliament or East aermany. He stated that a defector tr011 the west supplied the necessary infonnation - atter which the agents were rounded up 1n a mass arrest. Orotewohl informed his Parli111ent th,t there 4N -,, now confusion ~ong other Western agents inside the Iron Curtain - because they don't know when they are to be arrested. • The Red Premier's advice to the so-called agents - - ts that theyl might as well give thellselves up now. And in line with the new softer policy or C01111uniam - he promises taunity to those wbo surrender. pOWLAND Senator Knowland of C lifornia says - he hopes General '!'Wining won't attend that Moscow air show next month. -..~aa !llX«ctnW l4!1MXlf,_blllllffJ!lt&&ZillwXllRHll!ttfllG ff!IH Knowland charges that if the General goes to Moscow - we will have to invite a Russian officer or equal rank to visit this country. And the California Republican believes that the eventual Kremlin idea - 1a to wangle an All8rican invitation tor Bulganin and Khrushchev. senator Knowland doesn't want the beginning or a build-up for the firm ot B.& K. - ao he urges General '!'Wining to turn down the idea or a visit to Moscow. .ATOMIC President Eisenhower is asking Congress to authorire ■ore money - for our Atomic Energy Program. The President, ~ - requesting more than a hundred million dollars l,e1ide1 tbe •ea• . ~ ~lPcady vo,ed. The President's message states that we should take advantage ot new develoJJHnts in nuclear weapons - which remark has touched ott speculation in Washington that Mr. Eisenhower is referring to the H-bomb tests now going on in the Pacific. The President has already called the teats - succe11tul. And that apparently 1s the meaning ot hie new 111ea1age . . " Congress - about " recent technological advances. ~OOOCTION TO L. T. RECORDING In tonight's report from Katmandu, Lowell Thomas tella us about a cou p le of Americans he met in that far ott corner ot the world. L. T. REC ORD ! G For ye a rs there is a question that has been put to me endless times, one that I found rather difficult to answer. Young men, who sus pe ct that I have had a lot of fun and some excitement on my journeys to all parts of the world, are forever asking me how they can do it, too. Usually I have told them that, so far as I know, there isn't any one fomula, that there are at least one hundred and one ways to do it: Join the Navy and see the world, sign up with the Air Force and become a pilot or crew member on planes that fly everywhere these daya, be an archeologist or a naturalist or an explorer or foreign correspondent or missionary or a diplomat or a cameraman - it 1 s endless! Here, in one of the most remote cities of our planet, I have just been spending an evening with a young couple who certainly have found their way to see the world. Bob and Eileen Welsh were marriethen they were students at W a shington state College, out in the Pacific northwest, at Pullman, Washington. That's theoollege my colleague and neighbor, Ed Mu . rrCM, attended· And how did L. T. RECORDING - 2 Bob Welsh make it from the Wenatchee valley, in thP. State of W ashington, to K a tmandu in the H1malayas? H o w did he become the King's mining engineer? After they got their degrees their first stop was at a copper mine in Arizona, near Globe. Next, ten thousand feet up on the Continental Divide at Leadville, Colorado, where Bob worked in nearby Climax on the world's greatest molybdenum mine, then to Butte, Montana, to the famed Anaconda copper mine. From there his mining career took him to four continents. The Anaconda Ccnpany sent him to one ot the most rem o te spots on earth, the desert of Atacama, a waterless region where it hadn't rained tor fifty years. A1though in the distance they could see the live volcano of southern Bolivia, they w e re living in the extreme northeastem part of Chile on a high plateau, the Alti Plano, beyond the Cordillera, at Chucquimata, said to be the largest open-cut opper mine. After spending a short time mining for gypsum in Iowa, then came the war and Uncle Sam sent Bob to Bt,azil on the trail of t ly needed in the manufacture of quartz crystals so despera e L.T. RECORDING - 3 machine tools, to a regions th f ou o the Amazon at Campo Formosa, west of Bahia. A fter the war, an ot her gypsum ooeration in Montana, then for a time with the Hercules P oWder Company because of his wide experience with explosives. It was at this time that his brother sold him on the idea that he could find more gold in the apple orchards than in the mine. A s an apple farmer for two years, things went okay, then came two bad seasons aoo Bob headed for the hills, or, rather, this time the jungle. The U.S.Geological survey sent him to East Africa, to Embeya, in Tanganyika, near the northern border of Rhodesia. Following two years deep in the heart of frica he transferred to the U.S.Bureau of Mines and was sent to Israel with his headquarters in the new Israeli city of Tel Aviv, but his work was in the Negev, the Sinai desert, where Moses and his people wandered for those forty years. P hosphate deposits there and around the Dead Sea near the ancient city of Beersheba were his domain. One of his operations in fact was in the area where once stood the ancient L. T. RECORDING - 4 cities o f Sodom and Gomorrah. There he often passed a certain p illar of salt. Remember how the ible tells us that when Lot and his family fled, at the time of the destruction of Sodom and Gomorr a h, how Lot's wife disobeyed the Lord, turned and took a look, and was transformed into that pillar or salt? In the Sinai Desert, Bob also worked on a copper deposit that long ago was one of King Solomon's mines. Now, it's Nepal, Katmandu, riding elephants through the jungle hunting tor minerals in the Himalayas. So far he has rour+, large deposit of iron, hematite, 90% pure iron, so there is the answer to those of you who want to see the world and have adventure. - .. -- COLLINGWOOD: Well, Lowell, that sounds like pretty good advice and you probably recruited a good many explorers and globe-trotters or at least geologists right now. PLANE The Navy announces that its new plane - the Skylancer - has flown seven hundred and sixty miles an hour, excedding the speed of sound. Test P ilot, Robert Rahn, flew the Slcylancer at its record speed. This is the plane the Navy 1a depending on as an 1ntercepter - because the Skylancer can take off quickly, and zoom up to high altitudes, to meet advancing b011bers. It will carry the most modern weapons - including rockets and guided missiles. sUJIURINE FOLWW PLANE ( The Navy also armouncea more power beneath the sea. The keels for two more atomic subnarines were laid at Groton, Connecticut, today. One of the subs will aa weight six thousand tons - which will make it twice aa heavy as the Nautilus. This new giant will be the key of an at0111c subllarine task force. } JOE LOUIS A Congressman from New Jersey thinks that Uncle Sam ought to forget about the back inc011e taxes that Joe Louis owes. Representative Alfred Sieminski introduced a bill today_ to let J o e get out from under the burden of more than a million dollars claimed by the Treasury. {w e all know how Joe Louis ruled the heavyweight division for years. He made a fortune with his fists - but he couldn't hold onto it. And now he finds himself in debt - instead of living in high style as he used to when he was champion.) The ex-champ has been wrestling - in an effort to pay off what he owes. But he can't make enough that way to pay off a million dollars - unless he sticks at it for a~•!;;,- ~. -,e"a .. {Today, congressman Sieminski pointed out that Joe Loui was a great champion - and a model for American you th · Also, the Brown Bomber served in the Army - and was always willing to t h he was asked. The Congressman thinks help the governmen wen JOE LOUIS - 2 that's enough. And so he asks the government to relieve Joe Louis of that burden - a million dollars in unpaid income tSJCeS.