R AI LR S lT- ~ &S ur rise ~ toni ht - fro t w o rld A o f r a i lro a s . A me r er o f he enns l vani a and h e N ew Y or k Cen t ral - a nnoun ced • . h e tw o l ar gest r ail y t e rn s in t he worl d - t o c o m bin e . l1 ' o r m1n g - a s in l e s uper-gian t railroad. All th a t ' s neede d i s an oka y from the stockholders - an d from t h e g overnment a g encies regulating railroads. / atatement - Toni g ht's announcement comes in a jolnt A ••••••• b y James Symes, Pre s ident of t h e P ennsylvania, and Alfred Perlman, President of t h e Central. They say that preliminary studies have been made for a mer g er of th e Pensy and the Central. Studies showing - that, in their words, "substantial benefits to all c oncerned may result from s t.1 ch a merger." W h at a revolution in American railroading that promises to be! Wonder what they'll call the new combined line? Maybe - the P ennsyl vanla New Yo1 · !~ Central. MEANEY The resi ent o f the L - C I threatens to resign - if h i s or anizat ion oes not ress its ■l clean-up drive against th e Teamsters. G eorge Me ane y , telling a union conventlo~ in Wa shington - he will not stay on as President - if the Constitution of t h e AF L - CI O ls flouted by certain unions. This, an obvious referen c e to Dave Beck - who yesterday - defied suspension by the AF L - CI O. Beck, refusing to order a clean-up in the Teamsters - saying he intends to appeal. Meaney's reply, a threat to resign - if Beck gets away with it. PITZELE One of resident Eisenhower's campaign strategists - admits tha h e once worked for ave B eck. Merlyn itzele, telling the enate rackets cormnittee - he received fifteen thousand dollars ov r a three year period. The payments, made through Nathan chefferman - the Labor Relations consultant, n under investigation by the committee. Pitzele told the conunittee he regarded Schefferman as - Beck's "Chancellor of the Exchequer". This ties in with what Schefferman testified - that he used teamster funds to pay Beck's personal bill~ Pltzele says he took the,..._ job in Nineteen-Fifty- Three hoping he could help clean up the Teamsters. He quit . . in Hineteen.-Flfty-Five - after he was convinced that Beck would no nothing to prevent the rise of James Hoffa. Pitzele nfamnlx :-eferrlng to what he called, "festering corruption" 1h the Teamsters. Asked if it wasn't unusual to be paid by Schefferman, - PITZELE - 2 when e w s ire d y ec - ltzele answere d t h is ls an unusual ituatlon - an these are unusual people 11 • h e wa r c r i s is in t h e Uni ed N ation s - ls over. T e S y rian- T ur k ls d ispu te , ui etly bu rle d - wit h th e consent of bot h s ides. In d onesia a sk e d Sy ria an d T urkey not to press for a vote on th eir r■mamllll resolutions - and they agreed. S o the UN is past tun t h is hurdle - it won't have to decide now, what to o about bringing peace to one of the key frontier■ in the Middle East - the Syrian-Turkish frontier. SYRIA ~ S r ~ ~r t.J, ' for t ification wee k" , in a burst of A- - - el1r1um. An immense crowd ear General f1f Bizr i deli ver a fight! speec h - against t h e est . Bizri , calling on the S!rians to dig trenches and t ro w up roa d - blocks -- all along the Turkish b order. e told the crow, " they shall never pass. As he spoke, fierce tribesmen in flowing robes - waved their fi1 rifles in the air. Thousands of daggers _J glittered in the sun - and drums boomed loudly. Then the crowd surged out into the surrounding country - to work during "fortification week." - - A ER Th e tia n Minister o war - 1 in oscow. Ab el Ha im er, arriving to help celebrate the fortieth anniversar of the olshevik revolution, on November Seventh. He flew in aboard a Russian jet liner - Khrushchev sent to Cairo especially r or the flight. Amer, welcomed at the airport by the new Soviet Minister of Defense, Marshal Malinovsky. He'• expected to confer with the leaders u in the Kremlin - about how much support Egypt can count on - in other words, are the Russians willing to make good on their big promises? EI E NHOWER h e Wh ite House announces t hat resi ent Eisenhower will speak in Okla h o ma City on Nov em be r t h e Th irteenth. The first of a series - in which Mr . E isen h ower will describe American pro ress in the fiel of science. The President to ex plain why the So let " Sputnik " does not mean we are being left behind by S oviet scientists~ The schedule calls for Mr. E isenhower to fly to : / Oklahoma City in the early afternoon. He'll speak at the "New Frontiers Exposition" - then fly back to Washington that night. IN TELL I G CE O ur entr 1 Intelli ge nce enc knew t e Russia ns w e re oing t o laun ch th eir man-ma de m oon - knew it, ho ur s before the M oscow announcement. So revealed by d ocuments just made public 1n Washingt on. Th e prediction came from Dr. Herbert Scoville. Dr. ' OVille, prese nt u at a secret meeting of P resident Eisenhower's committee on science. Speaking at that meeting, h e said this country should be prepared to hear or a Russian man-made moon - ~ could be launched at any A moment. Dr. Scoville remarking, 'they won't announce anything• until they have it up there. 11 A few hours later ca.me that Moscow broadcast - telling the world that Sputnik was already in its orbit. o ni h he e 1 11 n o · o ro o co w - o e of •a rs al Z u o . O ne o r ts a · it t t e l n a con slon. ccording ls stor, rushc ev wants h i o admit e was guilt of n uct - wit h Z u k ov - sayin ' no'. In other wor s, t h e struggle may still be going on 1n e Kremlin. Zhukov, trying to hol """ on to power - efying shchev. That nl woul explain why we still have no lntornation - six days after Zhukov was removed from his post • as Minister of Defense. The Russian press still hasn't mentioned hilll. But t apers in Moscow are full of editorials -- about the need ror onununist party control over the military. The papers - condemning "swaggering military leaders 11 • Pravda, making o lnous references to past rebels against party discipline - w o ended up in front of a firing squad. United ress co respondent, Henry Shapiro, was allowe by the Mosco censor - t o file a story referring to Zhukov as "a former hero' ••• i 1 oc k , t h e Pre i n e loc 1 a ter of - . urren e r e to th uli c to ay . The R everend J . . C r·n a ' tor o the t . Plea a nt . aptist Church . lta){.JaUal He posted a t re e h un re ollar b on d - and was allowed to o home . He di not p ro duce t e recor s of h is organization. He ' s accuse o ~ v iolating an ordinance - ips that tax-free groups must produce t h eir records on emand by the authorities. BM~~,m~--ia • .._,.,., ~ ilttle • · ro re le , 11 o I on C nt 0 n h e o o l - w rlo s in ur e • J • l r co c k , a clo o 1 t - w with a p rt e orl lon 1c h n t olar ·ea. D . c oe k los h is oo in - an f 11 sixt feet into a crevasse. i companion mana e to get h i m out all right, but reported, h e's suffering from broke . n bones. He I s been taken by air back to Little America• and they hope he'll be strong enough to fly on to New Zealand. Dr . Schoeck, the latest casulaty in one of man's most hazardous occupation - exploring the Antarctic . CALDWELL Football lost one of its great ooaches - when Charlie Caldwell of Princeton died today. He was a Princeton man originally - played fullback for old Nassau in Nineteen Twenty Two. In Nineteen Forty Five he came back to his Alma Mater - as head coach. Over the years he compiled a record of seventy victories, thirty defeats, and three ties. In Nineteen Flrty Iii and Fitty One -- his teams were undefeated. Charlie 1 - ~ . - . at ,A Caldwell, - age., r1rty-aix. QUEEN Q ueen Elizabeth deacr1bed her visit to America - when the session of Par liament ended this afternoon. The Queen' address, read b y the Lord Chancellor. Her Majesty, not scheduled to appear 1n person, until next Tuesday - when she will preside over the opening of the next session. Speaking of America, the Queen says she received a friendly welcome everywhere on this side of the Atlantic • ._.. --~turn~ome convinced that the bonds between Brltaln and ~ I i America are still au strong. The rest of the speech, a general review of the events of last year - written, ot colll'le, by Prime Minister - MacMillan. It waa a -ntoua aesa1on - c o v e r ~ crlaea ,..,. ~ ~ the anglo-French invasion of Egyp · t ~ and the realgnatlon " or Sir Anthony Eden. Most spectacular of all, on the••• ,a.... side of the ledger - the American visit or ~ ueen Elizabeth. Now, let's fly over to Africa, for a cou le of minutes. Here's another page Crom the diary 1 ke p t. (~a■ els grumbling) Those are caaels graabliDg - a, caaela al•a,• 4o. lhere from tbi1 ti■•? Ti ■baktu - at la1t. 1 ••r at last, with a •i&b of relief. for 1 ha•• b••• lootiq forward l,o thla ao . MI& for ■ aa, long 7ear1. Lowell Jr. ■a4e lt bere wa, back in 19,3, whea he was with tbe ieYea loader• of th• lorld ex p edition, acoutlDg for Paul lant1 aacl er••· For oenturi••• Tiabuttu, on the aouthera •41• ol the Sahara, has been one of th• ao1t fa■oua p lacea oa earth. ~argely because of its re ■otea•••• Also bee•••• tor centuri•• it was th• cit7 deep in Africa, •h•r• the ciwili1ation of tbe real• or the caaei aet th• real■ ol the canoe and the paddle. And - because it••• the terainu• or the salt caravan• e ■ erging from tbe Sahara with great slabs ot salt from the &ncient mines at Taouden, 950 1 ■ due north of hare in the he a rt of the world'• greatest desert. Also, for centuries it was an i ■ portant Ioele ■ center. Just back of the palace where•• are atayin£ ia the great ■oaque of w1n1•r•1 Ber, bailt in tbe l4t.b \ientury. Al tor tbe ••lt alnea in the Sahara, Tiabakta• • ■ala aovce of wealth, the7 are at.ill operated J••t •• la anci•at tl•••· _, 1heer aoci4ent, •• ti ■ed oar Yi1ll perteotl7. Oae of tb• great aalt oaraYana arr.iYed rl1bl attar •• 414. Bear th• ca■ela? (SoaD4) There are ■ or• than 8,000 ca■ela uae4 in aar.r7lg th••• slabs of aalt fro• l'aoucaeai to Ti ■buttu. To think of that ,,o I ■• ~ourney by oa■•l across the bla1ln1 Sabara ■ akes tb• chill• ran up., spine. few ~uropeana ha•••••• it. In fact, no one tnowa ho• long the open aalt pita at Taoudeni have been worked. The salt is cut out ia TlgQgtg - 3 slabs about 3 feet long and a foot wide. tach weigh• approxi ■ ately 25 kilos. A camel can carry 4 of the 1lab1. This salt ia gre7 aDd exceedingly atroaa. Tbe people ot Africa think it bas unuaual aedicinal qualitl••• That•• •hi it atill sell• far ana wide. •hy tb• aalt cara•••• atlll coae to Ti ■buktu, uaually twice a 7ear, ln uece ■ber and June. All o••r Africa ••n beli••• thi ■ aalt baa qaaltLiea that aate th•• aor• Yirile. (~oaa4) WbJ bring thi1 ••luabl• aalt oat of the 4eptba of tb• Mahara , , caael cara•••• •• of old? ~a••l oar•••• la tbl• air •1•? lbJ aot load it on board cargo plaaea? 1,11, alaa, l 1uppo1• tbat will happen before loq. »at, it'• still alaoat i ■poaaible eYen to get to Tiabuttu b7 plane. •• ca ■ e in special trucks, with huae tires fo• tra•el across sand - fro ■ Goundaa. The lrench tried to get e s ■ all hospital p lane in here yesterday - and failed, with tragic results. IlMQlIQ - 4 The grey beard father ot the \;adi, the native judge of Ti ■buktu - was ill. HJ short wave a 11easage wae sent to General ~izaire, at Sebon, co1111andant or the liser. He wanted to get a plane here to pick up the patriarob. A sandato•• ■ ade it i ■ poasible, end the 014 aan died. !S ut th• ~·rench expect to build an airf iel4 btr• this 7ear. And then, tbeJ art talking about an airatrlp in th• ~ahara at th• ancient salt ain•• ot Taoudeal. lio••••r, the7 ••1 they will still in1iat that the aalt be brousbt out b7 th••• long caravan• - in or4er not to upaet th• econo111 ot the ~ahara. More about Ti ■buttu toaorrow. Aa the ca■ •l• aai 1 ••1 - Mo long. END Announcer: nd now, Lowell Thomas with a closing oddity. L.T. Lloyds of London issued an insurance policy today. That,pt~t., much of a s t ~ ~ s t a & old ~ firm has been issuing policies ever since the eighteenth - century. - But today's 1s something special. The policy inaurea a British housewife againstthe chance - that Sputnik will tall on her home. The Premium - around three 1111 dollara-.nd-titty cents a 1ear. The payoff, fourteen thousand dollars - lt thla client should get hit by the Russian satellite when it comea down.~loyds of London -moving into the space insurance business. t:J..,/ ,4. - -f- It - ~'-':fif\ f llonda,!