(_ . , I We can ring down the curtain on the Suez Canal drama - at least, one phase of it. Today, France litted its boycott don the waterway - completing the victory for Egyptian Premier Nasser. Britain was reluctant, but accepted luaer•a terma last month. Prance- holding out with stubborn indignation. But French vessels do want to use the Suez Canal, and toda7 the governmer.t 1n Paris said- okay. Followed 111Ndiately by notice 1'rclll a Prench maritiae cOlll)any that 1ta vessels will, pranptl7, begin paasq through the Suez Canal, on Egyptian terms. IBRUSHCBIV Khrushchev - throwing cold water on proapecta tor disarmament. The Russian ColllllUllist Party chier - ll&klng JHrlng reurka at the American c0111promise plan ror •open skiea" inspection. Calling it - " comical." lhruahchev and Bulganin, today, ended their visit 1n Pinland. lhruahchev - talking to newa•n Juat before he left. They aaked him - ldiat about that lateat vera1on ot the Biaenhower plan? Which would begin aerial inlpection operationa - in areaa or the Arctic. lthruahchev said: "'l'hat · aounda quite c011ical - to . - think or an inspection zone in the area or ice and snow." •v t14. '9 Which might indicate, the Soviets will reJect ••• I, experimental beg1nn1ng - 1n the Arctic. Meanwhile, Harold Stassen is back 1n London - tor a resumption or the disarmament conference. Retuming today, with a denial - that he had been "reprimanded" 1n Washington) IHRUSHCDV - 2 J"ecauae of his••••• p~ate conversations with Russian I ., n&,,.,.....,....,...,..i ..... delegate~ tilling them - rather more than he told the British and lrench. Secretary of State Dulles - disapproving. Today, the Democratic leader 1n the House, McCormack of Musachuaetts, declared - he has the 1mpreaaion that Stuaen hu been trying to "under-cut" Dullea. "I've also had the illpre1s1on, 11 Congre1111BD McCormack went on, "that Secretary Dullea waa giving Mr. Stassen enough rope to hang h1118elf." • The Unlted States will take no action - tollowing yesterday's episode ot an American plane hit by Red anti- aircraft fire. The State Deparment aaJing- the carrier bued tf!:::aeeu to have been fly1ng off course. Too near• the " coaat or Red China. AnJwaJ, little dawg,. m done, no caaualt1ea. O IRARD PRBSSURE Over 1n Japan, Private Girard states that the Army has been putting pressure on him - to agree to stand trial in a Japanese court. Making this declaration - to the United Presa in Tokyo. Saying the same - to hla brother at Ottawa, Illinois. Girard q\1oted as declaring - that they've been telling him he'd• get a lighter sentence 1n a Japanese oour~ 'rhan - if tried before au s co\lrt martial. Well, it's likely enough that the us AfflJy IIOuld like to have Girard end the l1proar - by accepting a Japanese trial. The official view being - that tJte United States might have to close down many ot • its overaeaa bu••;~ the deciaion - is that G I'a a cannot be tried 1n tore1gn courta. t / e n t a T0/1f ch is nt revo lonal •7a1on, ita dee ion to le GIRARD IISBRT 'Dle Army 1n Tokyo states that Private Victor Nickel of Inkster, Michigan, has asked to be placed 1n "protective custody." To keep newa•n away from him. Hickel - reported to have said that he helped Girard "lure" the Japanese WOIIIID to closer range. By throwing out scrap metal tor her to collect. The Army .i. retuaes to coanent on this. The Ja p anese girl friend, Hiru Seyaaa, called •candy•, according to today's dispatch has written P resident Eisenlower. The young Ja ? anese woman - begging the P resident to intercede for her American s oldier fiance. GIRARD A dispatch from Tokyo states - that the U. s. Arfq, 1n Japan, made a aeries of experiments. With reference to the cue of Private William Girard, the soldier accused of manslaughter. The tests - conducted about six weeks ago. When the iaaue tirat came up - whether or not Girard should be tried in a Japanese court. ~ '-IL a t ~ - 1iRe f e e ~ woman - killed f--. by an empty cartridge. Ho bullets - involved. So the Army investigated the possibility - of an empty cartridge being uaed with fatal effect. The whole thing - revolving around a weapon called a "grenade launcher". This - a short met;al tube, clamped on the muzzle of a rifle. A grenade - inserted in the tube. Then, when a blank cartridge 1s fired 1n ' the rifle - the explosion hutls the grenade. Girard - inserting an empty cartridge, instead of a grenade. The Army wanted to find out - if an empty cartridge could be thrown accurately 1n that manner. Hence the exper1.JDent GIRARD 2 ••• - 1n which twenty empty cartridges were hurled from a grenade launcher - at a target one hundred and fifty feet awQ. Eighteen or the twenty - striking the target. 'ftle teat, showing further - that the empty cartridge could be deadly at close range. Which was the caae, in the killing or the Japanese woman. PLOOD Lmll'l' An Army investigation - requested 1n a weird sort ot case. Soldiers, in World War Two, made sterile - by flood lights. The demand - made by Marshall White or Chicago, a former Major who commanded a special force or tanks. )Cquipped - r!J..A.?<-~ / for flood light strategy > {Acting - in behalf or men who served 1n his tank unit. The New York Daily News has a story - that a number ot soldiers are believed to have been made sterile. One, 1n Connecticut - trying to collect veteran's disability pa.y.nenta, for that reason. All or wh~ch, today, brings about a disclosure - or a military secret of World War Two. An Army project - to use arc lights with fifteen million candle power mowtted on tanks for the purpose - of blinding the enemy temporarily. The theory being - that, at night, American troops could advance in the -~ darkness. Under the cover of batteries of floodlight~~bllnding beanf- thrown in the eyes of the enemy. 2 ..• Actually, says the Army, the flood lights were never used 1n exactly that manner. The right situation - never showing up. But they were used 1n one battle - in Europe - providing illumination for the crossing of the Rhine. M / ,lhe complaint now 1a that the tlood light■, a,unted on tanks, were so powerful - they spread raya of intra red. Which type or radiation - did the damage to American aoldiera 1n the tank units. LOIIDOI London had its day of pomp and pageantr-1 - the celebration of the Queen's birthday, her 'Durty-P1rat. Peatured by that stately military ceremony - the trooping of the colors. Perfect June weather - as a quarter of a million people watched the Sovereign take the aai;;r the regillental guardaj ,,zn their brilliant un1fol'll8 ~,~ tall bearskins. The Queen - a A regal figure on horseback. But, on this festive day - the hard of tragic tatalit7 struck. A ghastly bus accident, ln London - when a ponderous double-decker got out or control. Plunging into a crowd or people - who were waiting for the bus. Moat of the■ - 1n London for the Queen's birthday celebration. Seven killed, nineteen injured, when the bus plowed through the crowd and slanned into a wall. Sub accident At Fort Campbell, Kentucky, a motor crash- killing at least fourteen soldiers. Men of the rar-raed one hllndred and first airborne division. The outfit - that •de history • in the battle of the Bulge, 1n World War Two. A truck, with twenty five soldiers, on a ia training exercise - went out of control as it rounded a curve. Plranging -twenty-tive feet into a creek. In rescue operations, a helicopter tle~to the scene - and raised one end of the truck. The whirly bird acting aa a sort of derrick. IARCOTICS In Chicago, the FBI set a trap - for a gang of drug peddlers. But the mobsters of the underworld countered with a trap of their own. Yesterday, FBI agents John Ripa and Ralph Eckhart, posing as dope addicts - arranged to buy three thousand Jollars• worth of heroin. Agreeing - that they'd pick up the drug - at a roadhouse. So, u early today, they appeared at the tavem, sitting at the bar - waiting for the ' delivery of the narcotics. But the mob had got wise. Knowing who the two federal agents were. 'Dle suspense ending - when the tavem owner, named Argentine, whipped out a gun. Shooting agent Ripa - in the back. The victim - in critical condition, tonight. Immediately afterward, an automobile drove up - an alleged narcotics peddler in it.FBI men were there, and the shooting began again - the gunman wounding federal agent Jack Love. The gunman, shot in the head - in critical condition tonight. NARCOTICS - 2 It all ended with FBI men riddling the roadhouse with bullets, and filling it with tear gaj - 1n case any 110re dope sellers were 1nsid3. But they found the place deserted, and then a started a round up of Chicago mobsters 1n the narcotics racket. Among the pr1,oners arrested - the tavem keeper, Argentine. Who shot federal agent Ripa. Another prisoner - Joe Bruno, described as 11 the big wheel 1n the Chicago area narcotics traffic." MAYPLOWER The Mayflower Second - finally arrived at Plymouth Rock, today. After that voyage marked by contrary winds - which took the Pilgrim fathers' ship down toward the tropics. A spectacular welcome, touby. Plymouth harbor - crowded with private yachts and exc\lraion boats. On shore - thousands of townspeople and to\1r1sts. At the dock, the skipper, Captain Alan Villiers, was greeted by Ellis Brewster, a direct descendant or Elder Brewster) 0'ne of the moat renowned of the Pilgrim Fathers - in Sixteen Twenty. Captain Villiers - dressed 1n Pilgrilll a--l costume. a. was Ellis Brewster - who spoke 1n Pilgrim language. / A "Welcome, Master Villiers, 11 said he, " as you land here, you re-enact for us what took place on this very spot more than t . .l'ee hundred years ago. 11 However, the re-enactment was not exactly one hundred~rcent. The original Mayflower navigated - under ur~~- her own canvas. Yesterday, the Mayflower second was towed into rovincetown. And today - towed across to Plymouth Bock. Hauled alon g - by a coast guard cutter. Merely because of modern harbar p roblems that didn't exist in 1960. The P ilgrias landed in their n own boat. today Captain Villiers and his crew were t a ken ashore in a boat, sent out to fetch them. Not an exact reproduction of history - but, anyway, the latter day p ilgri ■ s landed at Plyaouth Bock, today, and they made the Atlantic crossing many days faster then the original Mayflower - even tho' they did get pretty tar South on their way over. to Alan Villiers, that doughty Australian sea captain turned P il g rim. PAT - And nowti§a it of science. Everything being - ~ ~ scientific, nowadays. ~ chemist will,Lanalyze the fragrance ot the rose - into molecules and hydro-carbons. Another acientl1t - will reduce the song or the nightingale to decibels and frequencie~ ~ow - something worse. A scientitic explanation - ot the fora divine. Those graceful curves - and seductive contoun. ~ Professor Stanley Garn or Antloch College analyses the rea1n1ne figure - 1n terms or fat. P-A-T, fatj ---- The Professor has made a laboratory study of the differences between men and women - in terms of the rat content. How much - and where it's placed. He finds that women - are Just naturally fatter than men. The ratio of female fat to male fat - nearly two to one. In the male corpus, the fat comes to sixteen and eight-tenths per cent of the total. In the female form - twenty-three and seven-tenths per cent. Which ac counts - for those graceful curves and lil - 2 seductive contours. The rrofessor explainin g ~e fora divine in the m a thematics of - fat. l'a shocked - even tempted tc say that anyone who gives such an explanation is a fat - at any rate, Professor, how oould you? ANNOUNCER: And now Lowell Thomas recalls ••• L.T. A year ago today, the headline was - President ~ Eisenhower making a favorable recovery from~ abdominal ,±.Rf operation. That attack of - ileitis. Today, no news,,<.about the --tf.t-~ President f..along the line of health. Graphic indication - of how quickly and easily he recovered from that upset stomach on Monday; Tfi'! attack - of blueberry pie .LJ ~ W a.Pl ~~ ~~. And so long until tomorrow. 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