SUEZ L [ At the southern entrance or the Suez Canal, today, two German salvage vessels - dragged out a sunken ship. With stout cables attached, they pulled the wreck through the canal to the nearby "great bitter lakes " . Where they dumped - .._ ,_, ...... I the last obstacle 1n the clearin g or the~~ Canal. So now, the usual convoys can get through, and all that remains - is a lot or-• bitter argument. First and foremost - will Israel be allowed to use the canal'? The Egyptians are saying - no. The Israelis retorting - ~ that they'll send a ship through Suez. A Cairo newspaper, today, said - that such a vessel would be destroyed. The Israelis replying - that this would be considered an ' act or war. " The talk - belligerent. And, there's unofficial word 1n Cairo - that E:gypt is going on a/war footing. Army reserves - to be called up shortly. SUBZ - 2 Meanwhile, the Israelis are rejoicing over the arrival of an American oil tanker - which arrived nt the port or Elath, after navigating through the controversial Gulf of Aqaba. GAZA The United Nations has made a proposal - to set up a barbed wire fence along the border of the Gaza Strip. A barricade forty..-two miles long - to stop raida by Arab infiltrators. Israel - immediately accepting. Egypt reported - willing. So it lm looks like - the adoption of a major project for el1.m1nat1ng one constant cause or quarrel. ARABIA The State Department in Washington announces - an extension of the lease on the big American air base at Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. We stay there five years more - with our fleet of long range bombers, capable of atomic attack. The lease - renewed until Nineteen Sixty-Two. _, A general~reement was reached in talks between President Eisenhower and King Saud - when the Saudi Arabian monarch was in Washington, earlier this year. How - the signing of the formal documents. In return for the lease, the United States will undertake new training programs - for the Saudi Arabian Air Force and Navy. In addition to which - we will continue to . sell military supplies to the Arabian kingdom. Including, possibly - some jet aircraft for training. But that Ol3Y not be for some time. The Air Base agreement, u now extended, continues a highly controversial provision. Under which - Saudi Arabia bars th e entrance tu of Americans of the Jewish religion. ARABIA - 2 The go ernment in Washington doesn't like this, and has told the Saudi Arabians - the United States cannot condone any such policy or Jewish exclusion. To which the Arabs replied - that the question depends en the relations that exist between Israel ar1d the Arabs. Indicating - that the proviso baring the entrance or Jewish-Americans into Saudi Arabia may be revised, if Israel Arab tensions are eased. In Iran, officials express doubt about one item in the confession of Amad Shah . Who admits - that he, himself, / / murdered Mrs. Anita Carroll. Wife - of one of the two I ~ American aid officials killed 1n J bandit ambush. Amad Shah - brother of the~ brigand leader, Dad Shah. Who, he says, was killed in a skirmish with Iranian pursuers, April Third. That's the part the Iranians mistrust. Pointing out - that Amad Shah could be trying to trick the authorities into dropping t~eir search for the leader, Dad Shah. In any case, Amad Shah and other bandits were captured by Pakistan security forces - after fleeing aaroaa the border from Iran. INDONESIA The P resident of Indonesia ha s tak e n measures to put his ' guided democracy" scheme into operation. Sukarno, today - naming an emergency cabinet to set up a kind of totalitarian government. Abandoning western-type democracy. The twenty three man cabinet includes three ministers, considered Communists, or fellow travelers, at least. (This cabinet will begin by naming a ' national council." Which council will "advise" President Swcamo and his Ministers - in the business of government. Authority - to be taken away from the westem-type parliament, elected by various political parties. The ' guided democracy ' ' - a one party scheme.) All or which takes place 1n the middle of a crisis - that seems to be tearing the new nation of Indonesia into fragments. For weeks we've been hearing about revolts on the great islands of Sumatra, Borneo, Celebes. Where, at the moment, rebels are 1n control - defying the central government INDONESIA - 2 based on Java. To make matters worse, to d y's formation of the cabinet for "guided democraoy ir coincides .. with reports of outbreaks on the home island of Java, itself. Rebels, machine-gtumlng a police barracks at a town sixty miles east of the capital city of Jakarta. Seven policemen killed - in the first flare of revolt on Java. HUJIJARY Red Hungary - having its first showcase trial since the Hungarian revolt. Previously, freedom fighters have been doomed 1n secret proceedings. Now - a public trial, with crowds 1n attendance. Today, three freedom fighters - condemned. One of them - a young woman. The charge - that they killed a wounded member or the hated secret police. 'lbe young woman, a medical student - confessing. Three death sentences - while eight other defenda.~ts were given terms in prison • ... All - growing out of the Hungarian revolt, last year. DISARMAMENT The Untted State~ropose a new d1Jarmament measure, today. In wndon, U.S. delegate Harold Stassen told a disarmament conf er ence - that the United States 1s in favor of a program that would scrap twenty five percent of the non-atomic weapons of the major powers. Under - the supervision of the UN. One condition - tha t" the five major powers, including Soviet Russia, would agree to place ten percent of their conventional weapons 1n "disarmament depots", under UN guard. And - reduce their military manpower. This- to be agreed on aa a prel1Jl1nary to the larger program. ATOMIC Soviet Russia conducted another test of atomic weapons - on Sat rday. So announced by the tomic Energy ommisslon - in Washln ton, today. Previo usl y, the announcement had been - that the R ussians had sta g ed a nuclear explosion on Wednesday. So there were two - in three days. In Tokyo, Japanese officials declare - that radio active rain fell in Japan. Caused - by an atomic test, somewhere, "recently". The Russian explosions - reflected by atomiv rain in Japan. ( Thi!) was the _ ... cement or / ~ the anno to "a ~ies th~ - {o 1nd1v1dud1 shots. '™' Russians to have fil'e d forty e i ~ in al i. . United Stai1es - explod~ nearly ~ / be - seventy- t!'ve ~~e 1 American ; QUEEN Paris 1n festive mood, today - as only Paris can be, when there's an occasion to celebrate. Two hundred and fifty thousand people jammed along the Champs Elysee - as Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh drove by. British Union Jacks - everywhere. On top of the Eiffel Tower - a huge British flag flying. Paris u ringing with the shout - long live the Queen! The weather collaborating - wam and bright. The romantic ideal - or April 1n Paris. EDEN At the New England Baptist Hospital, in Boston, the w ord is - that Sir Anthony Eden pasoed a 11 good night ' sleeping well. s Today - a series of medical examination, to study his conditions. -G. There'.,t been a good deal of speculation about the nature of the malady that afflicts the former B1'1t1sh Prime fa 1 h. b'efo e ... and illness j Today, the United Press gives a report obtained from what are called 1 ' h1ghest medical authorities." Which would seem to settle - the rwnors. Sir Anthony - suffering, actually, from two maladies. A liver condition with (1ntest1ona1J complications - and 8.r)ib"'rbtu~1nflamat1on, with complications of its own. The up report says - the former Prime Minister EDEN - 2 ls not dangerously 111. The odds for his recovery - described as1'lvorable. All that - now depending on today's medical examination at the Boston Hospital. UNION The auto workers union, today, voted - a measure, without precedent, to guard against abuses. Such, for example, as were disclosed in the Senate Rackeeterlng In 1 1estigation. ~ They re setting up a board - to Ji police the auto workers union against violations of the AFL-CIO ethical practices code. A group - of seven prominent c~tizena, with no union affiliation whatever. Today, union President Walter Reuther declared - -4,-t_ "this is no window dressing." !le said;, · "it will be a - rl board with broad powers and respnnslb1lities. This is the aalxl real thing - with no ifs, ands, ·buts or loopholes," said Reuther. The following seven have agreal to serve: Rabbi Morris Adler of Detroit, Dr. Clark Kerr, Chancellor of the University of California, D~. Edwin Witte of the Iii University of Wisconsin, Judge Wade Mccree of the Detroit Circuit Court, Monsignor George Higgins of the Roman Catholic Welfare Conference of Washington, D.C., and Methodist Bishop Bromley UlfIOH - 2 Oxman, former President of the World Council of Churches. Quite a group - to sit as a board or public review of a union. SUPREME COURT The Supreme Court granted another stay of execution, today - for convict-author Caryl Chessman. Who ha3 been under death sentence 1n California - for nine years. During which time he a has written three books - one of them, a best seller. Time after time, Chessman has - won a stay of execution. Appealing to the Supreme Cou :~ • nine times. His latest eppeal - based on a technicality concerning his trial. The high tribunal - agreeing to grant him another hearing. WEA'l'Hm\ The Weather Bu r eau says - uxa we haven't had such a stonny beginning of spring nm in twenty years. Today - bringing the third major tempest. Heavy snows - allkhe way I from the Middle West to New York. Torrential rains -where 1t wasn't snowing. Rivers rising 1n flood. The deluge - threatening 1n various parts of the Middle West and South. All - attended by a new crop of tornadoes, ripping through southern states. Here's a graphic description fro r. Mrs. A.G. Livingston of C u llman, ' Alabama. · we heard a terrible whistling noise, and I saw a funnel cloud moving out of the West. There were four others in the house," she relates, "and we ran for the basement. But - had to stop in the kitchen, We lcneeled down, weren't hurt. But it blew our whole hoU3e away. ' Way u down south 1n Dixie - in the tornado season. WEATHER (insert) After the words, "From the Middle West to Hew York". J., In Bertoud Pass, Colorado, an avalanche today ,-. burled a truck - with two men in i t . And - a passenger car. The number of people in it - unknown. 'L1e avalanr.he - a h'f.- hundred yards wide, thundered down__. U.S. Highway Forty. ~~4-ttJ« Truck and auto - disappearing under the M l f j 9 ' ~ - - . I\ Rescue equipment- hurried to the scene. ROBBERY Today's dispatch from Kingston, Ontario, uses the words - "one of the most daring robberies in Canada's history." To which this reporter would add!- w h ~ just Canada? I'd call it - ~ about the most daring robbery anywhere. At Kingston, one of the principal stores in town ~"'-.-C...&/"'411_...~ • ls - Loblaw•s~ -- , ?icture the scene in the store at night. Branch Manager Harold Gilroy - opening the sate. Beside him - a bandit. The robber - having u abducted Gilroy from his home. Forcing him - to come to the store and open the sate. So there they were - taking a twenty bags or money out or the safe. At that moment, a police car drew up in front or th~ store. Two detectives, James Sheridan and Vil Kellen, getting out - and looking through the plate glass window. The bandit saw them, and gave Gilroy a quick conunand. Which Gilroy obeyed - under the c o n c e ~ ~ o ~ He ia wqved his hand in a greeting to the two detectives~ ~~~~. ROB BERY - 2 Th en the bandit ordered him to explain to the two detectives - that they were taking the bags of money to the bank. Which Gilroy did. The two detectives said - they'd escort them to the bank, with all that money. And - that happened. The bags of cash loaded into Gilroy's car - and they drove to the bank. The police car - following. But the bank was closed, and Gilroy, prompted by the bandit - told the two detectives - he'd have to take the money back to the store. The obliging policemen saying - they'd escort them back to the store. When they got there - the two detectives thought- everything was okay, so they drove away. After which - the robber made off with the money in Gilroy's car. I bet l b that robber had frazzled nerves - after all those ~~ complications w1th.,(~obl1g1ng detectives. MRS MEYNER Gov ernor Meyne r c New Je rs e· - often speaks to Mrs . Meyner. Which 1s a common custom - arnon husbands and wives. When he does, h e realizes - he's talking into a p pair of prize-winning ears. Today, the Society of American caricaturists ••■n•m announced an award - for the " perfect female face." The "' winnter - Mrs. Meyner. Well, we know that, a few months ago, the Hew Jersey Governor married - a good looking bridle. Those artists - now making it official. Halling Mrs. Meyner as having - the "perfect female face. 11 Q..~~, ~ it's the habit of caricaturists - to analyze A.. human features. So they anal1zed Mrs. Meyner's, and find one feature - super-perfect. Her ears - which are described by Joseph Kaliff, Director of the Society, in the following words: " Delicate and small, they invite you to whisper your innermost secrets into them. ' MRS. i."f ER - 2 _____ ...., ___ _ S oken l ike a n artist! - And, even a overnor, 1 su p ~ ose, may "whis p er i~nermost ecrets." And now Henry, into your saell - like ear may I whis er - that - you are not on your ear - you are on the air. E D --- · U N CER:- A d no w L o we ll T h oma v r e a l l s. --- 0 --- A ye a r g o to da y, t he n ew s was te l in o a bout fin a nci 1 con d i ~ ions in Chile. T he g overnment - ending co n trols on for e i g n exchan g e. The C h ilean ~ eso h a d been fixed a t t h ree h un d red to the doll a r. The fi g ure rising - imme d iatel y - to five hundred to the doll nr. Infl a tion - which h a s been the condition ever since. One reason f or the wild outbrea k l a st week. A nd it a ll started a year a g o today. nd solong until tomorrow. HENRY: W h ave a gu es t w i th us t o ni g h t , Lowel l . he's Ann Mosher, ed i tor o f TV RADIO MIRROR Magazine, and she Is here w i th a pleasant surpr i se for you. L ~ Iv, L!. <- ) L.T.: Welcome, Miss Mosher, j ust for var i ety how about doing my broadcast for me ? ANN: Thank you, Mr. Lowell Thomas. I 1 d be delighted. But I've been sent here on a special assignment. To tell you that in TV RADIO MIRROR'S Tenth Annual nationwide reader poll, you once again have been named the nation's favorite newscaster. And I hope you remember that this brings to a total of five the number of gold medals TV RADIO MIRROR has awarded you. Now this one - with our warmest congratulations. May I add that your listeners will find the complete gold medal story in the current issue of TV RADIO MIRROR, now at newsstands. L.T.: Miss Mosher - you are a most welcome guest. My thanks and a low bow to you, to TV RADIO MIRROR - and to your readers who have again voted me this top honor. r LTP.1957.04.08i.pdf LTP.1957.04.08ii.pdf