Tonight, what was once a thriving city in Algeria - is a heap of smoking rubble. Orleansv1lle, smashed by an earthquake. Two c a thedrals wrecked. The city hospital, the prison, the poline station, the post otfioe, the railroad station, the town hall, the courthouse - all demolished. A IIOdern seven stoey building toppled down with a roar. The quake struck at one o'clock this momtna. So the inh a bitants were caught in t h eir beds. Many crushed to death, as they slept - or buried under an avalanche ot atone• and ma1m,ey. Others disappeared into the huge t1aa11N1 that opened up in the streets. SOiie were killed b, tlylng debr11 or by gas leaks. The death toll, estimated at around a thousand - with man.v more injured. Tena of thousands . . homeless. The police chief says that about one-fifth of 2 Orleansville is completely destroyed. And practically all the _..... rest of the city damaged. A French pilot who flew _ over the area said, "I hawe seen nothing like it - since the Allied • IARTHQ" . - 2 advanc th ough Nonnandie 1n N1net en Jt'ort . -Four." This, the • result of the wor 3 quake to hit ... Algeria 1n forty . ears. c.1H f(c\ u ~ h , h O ,r( '1u•J '"-h• ,,.,.-$ And there's fear tha~ JAON tPefflblof'B ape an -Mle waj.. So " tAe ~ L,, , survivor■ are ordered to stav awav - . t:Kn.e. "~,~ from tla bu1ld1ngs.,wh1ch may collapsA af\ep baiRS 1taakeft bv the first Jolt. EDEN British Foreign Secret ar . Anthon . E n will make a r1,ing tour of E uropean apitals beginning S a turday. The purpose, to tr . to find some substitute for E.D.C. He's leaving at the orders of the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill. The decision, taken at an extraordinary session of the British Cabinet. Churchill is said to be anxious to keep the diplomatic initiative - because he's afraid that we may mak~ "agonizing reappraisal" d our foreign policy. So Eden will be off to the continent - begiming with Bruaaela on Saturday, and then Bom, Rome, and Paris. 'ftle Poretgri Secretary, to be back in London on Thursday. a r . o f "" Du le f o t o level talks w ith th J p an e s. He flew i n fr m F ormosa, after convers tio ns wit h C hiang K a 1-shek. In both Formosa am Tokyo he was as ed whether our S ev enth F leet would intervene in cue of a Rd a tta c k on the coastal islands off China. And in both places he made the same repl, - no c0111Dent. He al.llply reiterated that the fleet certainl~ would go into action U Ponaosa 1s involved. The Secretaey of State will be in Tokyo until t0110rrow. Then he'll fl~ haae to report to President 11eenhawer. JAPAN J pa . s becoming desper a te for 0°a 1- • - arkets. And Japanes industrialt ts are anxious tot h Communist . China. A dispatch from Tok o stating that 1t• a matter or economics. The Japanese don't like Mao Tse--""'- H "•a regime - but, the,'ve got t do something about their s 7 ~ s products. Japan 1s,A.1mport1ng almost twice as mc ~ as she exports. She had a deficit or almost seven hundrec! ■lllion dollars - at the end or the ftrst six rwonths o ,ear. pr- #w ' .' ~ One . leas on~ Mot enough s les .a. the es tern marke • That's whv Tokvo business men areAl.VUla..L&llg to the -- ~ ~ -tr ~ t;, . • Ch1neee mainlan~ The point out that in the les - the good old da . s when Japan ruled Manchuria - theY -•- able · to sell eighteen per cent of their trade in China. the amount was onl, one-third of one per cent. (li-ui , . . China ts the onlv big Asian -•-1:: pen to Jap n. That's because some of the other nattons. •ch as the Ph1llpp1nes, Indonesia, and Burma - still ha e - i nowacitton claims from the Second World War. ATTLEE Here's an odd !delight - indicating different wavs f thinking. Co ntra s t - between Western freedom am the Conununist East. The New York Times is running a series or article• b, Clement Attlee, in which the one-time British Priae Minister tells of that tamous trip to China. Made -- b, himself and other Labor Party leaders. Attlee waa interested 1n religious liberty, and had a discussion on the subject with a top Communist official in charge of religious matters. u tlohif The C011111Uniat irldicated A the~ l\dldA 1~ want an, Christian aiaalonatiea rrom abroad. To illustrate which - he put up an arguaent. ~1ch he considered -- unanswer~ble. 7fAi- i& 1 )le asked Clement Attlee - how would the people or Britain like it, if roretgn missionaries came in? Trying -- to convert them. "He was taken aback," writes Attlee, "when I said - t II we would have no objection wha ever. The Chinese Cormnunist couldn't understam this ATTLBE - 2 attitude of the British - or of the Americans, for that matter. If Buddhist missionaries came over here, to convert us, it wouldn't bother us a bit. • mmGE s Toda , enator St l e s Bridg e s of N e Hampshire sent a wire to Pr e sid e nt E isenhower a nd Secretarv of State Dulles. ~ , --a~ .J lwllt. ~ ~ urging 1rmned1at e sover e ignt ~ for W est Gennan y- . ~ he wants us to send m111t a r . assistance to help Chancellor Adenauer build up a strong arm ~ . Speaking to newsmen, the New Hampshire lepubltcan reaarked about the Oermans: ... "The ~ •ve got to be tree themselves - it the, are part of the fight against Coaaania." Be waa asked about the effect on France - if we followed bll advice. Bridges replied that the French would probabl, reaot in a way favorable to us. He thinks Paris would cooperate - once it became clear that German rearmament waa going ahead. BRIDGES - a d But an official statement from the Soviet Foreign Ministry warns the free world - not to permit the re-anument or West Germany. '!be statement declares that 1t Chan ellor Adenauer gets an army - the threat or a third World Var will bec01111111ch worse. And the Krellll1n adds that aermaa,, 1n 1ta worc:11, "would r-1n tom into two parts tor an 1ndet1ri1 te ~r1od or t 111•." McCARTHY The hearin in he Senate censure committee flared up tod.a . r - with enator McCarth, protesting that his defense is being hampered. The dispute came after McCarthy's lawyer, Edward Williams, wanted to prove that Vice-President Nixon once used an F.B.I. document in a way similar to that which is charged against the Wisconsin Senator. Attorney Williams declared that when Nixon was a Congressman in Nineteen Forty-Eight - he referred in one speech to an F.B.!. letter which was e~pposed t:':':e:S~~~~{-".:je~!t. Reporters 1 looking into the Congressional Record founi that the letter NI••••••• was one written by J. Edgar Hoover. And Nixon said that part of the letter had been obtained by an 1nvest1gater of the House Un-American Activities committee. That was two months after President Truman had ordered loyalty files to be kept secret. Senator McCarthv thinks that in using the letter, Nixon did just what he is himself accused of doing. But today NcCARTKY - 2 the Committee unanimousl . ruled such evidence out. 6ha1rman Watkins saying, that you could find a precedent for anything in Congressional speeches. And he added, "We•re just getting into a lot of diversions." Then McCarthy and his attorney blew up - cla1m1na that the1 were not allowed to make a proper detenae. 'Ibey called theuelvea "shocked." An,way. the decision ot the Ca1111ttee atanda - and the Wlaconain Senator is barred troll 01111 the Vice-Prealdent aa a precedent. WIRE TAP The Assist a nt Attorne y General wants the government to have the right to use wire tap evidence in its war on subversives. W illiam Tompkins gave his opinion in Atlantic speaking before a meeting of law y ers. Tompkins said that the Reda have things easter - because we ca,'t use tntormation gathered from their telephone calls. The Assistant Attorney General noted that wire tapping has been crittctzed as unethical - but he pointed out that evidence obtained b, eaveadroppera, in other wa~a - is considered legitt•ate, and 11 used 1n the courts. NAUTILUS. Th world's first atomic submarine will be commissioned on September Thirtieth. So announced b . the Navy Department. The U.S.S. Nautilus, to join the fleet at Groton, Connecticut. Her conanander is Eugene Wilkinson of an Diego, Calitomia. He's specialist in the a veteran of the subllarine fleet - and a use of atomic ~ ~ '::!.~ ~ "' ---·. - .. orrtcera, and etght~-five enlisted men.11fttler 114:e ee ••· The Nautilus will have an alllost unlimited fuel supply - which she will get from atomic power. She'll be able to sail around the world without cming to the surface. Her cruising range, 11.Jllited onlv b~ the endurance or her crew. The Nautilus ta the first unit 1n a who e fleet ot atcnic powered subs. Three others have been authorized. And one is alread~ under construction. .. , . , l I BELL (u n 0 o y lu e Iv e) s1xt n r ol- h oir l rl be ome the fi r st swimmer to conq ue~ Lake nt r ~o . M rilyn Bell, of Cana a, c overing the thirty-two mile ■axt marathon in j ust un er i u twenty.one hours. Maril y n entered the water at Youngstown, New York, an was taken into a boat when she reache the breakwater at Sunnysi e Beach, Onta io. By then her J• competitors had all fallen out - including American Champion, Florence Chadwick. Canadian experts say Marilyn set a new record for long distance swimming. A nice triumph for the choir girl•• who entered the race, as she put it, "for the honor of Canada." SWIMMER The nglishman who set out to swim the Channel yesterda . - has been swept out to sea. British and American authorities, calling qff the search for Ted MaJ - the first man ever to attempt the swim without an escort boat. May waded into the sea near Calais, in spite of the French police - who warned him that he could never make 1t. All he had with him was an inner tube, car~1ing rum, sugar, and cookies. Also a light. Some time afterward, the British decided to make a search for Ted May. And the search went on for th1~ty hours - without finding the swimmer. Experts say that no one could live more than twentv hours in the Channel, with the wind and rain of the storm. So the search was abandoned, and Ted May is given up for lost. \ Tha s ho otin in Elizab e th C ity, orth Carolina, ltt' '\. , : t "'9ne ~A · a n th persecution com p lex. Robert Jordan, described as ' sub je ct to spell of madness." nd it was an order to report f or an rmy physical that made him go berserk today. Jordan walked into the plant where he worked - carr . ing a twenty-two rifle. He entered the sales room, where two employees were talking - and killed both without saying a att,~ wor1. {A eleP~ was wounded ttjthe shoulder, as she dived under a counter. Then Jordan stepped into the corridor, where two /lrunJ other OMft•9'5&81 were standing. One fled. But Jol!dan killed " the other with a single shot. According to other employees, he fired a number of ~ •· , l-r---1\\ shots. Then out of ammunition, he ran into ss~\ho• eePridOP and locked the door. B~, this time the police hdd arrived. The~ argued through the door. And finally Jordan dropped his rifle and came out qui e tl . . SHOOTING - 2 hen 111 a• ■ asked what made him do tt, he replied: A."I 1 m r.tad at everybody." Later, the police discovered a note in which Jordan had ritten the words, "I am a sheep among wolves. Persecuted at ever, turn." This persecution complex drove him to kill three peesons and wound a fourth. BALLOONS Here's the stor . of a man who ~ent for a ride in a wooden tub - ride two miles up in the air . Garrett ... .Yl \, ... · .._ __,,__ C a shm a n of A lban . , New V o rk, hooked se ve nt " balloons onto his ✓tr;_ h l tt 1.1. , h b a olt .,b J " Lf J ~ · L - 1, . '" I <. , . · l / ' we--. Ai\Q ~P he w&nt. ~e flested acros s the Hudson River - carried along b . a westerly wind. In the meantime, calls began to come in to police headquarters. L o ts of people had seen something up there in the sky. Many J f them didn't kno w what it was. ,~ • av 0..,J,\.,~ f - I ~ ~ A - 1 - i ~ . . . ( . ( A ./ 4 - So the policy began to follow along1on the ground. And finally Garrett Cashman came dOW'n1 1n an apple orchard where he was picked up by the state·troopers. When he was asked what it was all na about, he said: "The day was ape sat i ef~ ian't pe~eale~.