GOOD EY£111G EV£l!BOD!: Tonight the 1ituation in Syria i1 confu1ed - an4 dangerou1. leport1 co■ln1 out or LebanoD aay - the ciwiltan head of the S7rian gowernaent h11 reaigaed. are told that Shutri £1 Iuwatl7 handed ower the 1o•e••• to the Bede - before he fl•• to £17pt on Sunda,.AooordiDI to tbia report, Iuwatl7'1 reai1nation ia bein1 kept eeoret iD Daaaaoua - to aYoid co ■plication1 about choo1in1 a suoce11or at thi1 point. The one thing that 1eea1 • • • - ia that 87ria 11 now under ttie control of a Coaauniat Junta, led by the Ar■7 Chief-of-Staff, General Afif El Bi1ri. In London, it's beliewed that the Soviet Union now has another satellite - wi, Ihrushchev ■oving to set up a aubaarine base on the Syrian coast. Thia would be a grave threat to the West - since it would put th• Buaaians right in the Mediterranean. MIAP - 2 lf th• lre ■ lin holda S7ria - tbe 1outlaern flank of lato will be iap1ril1d. And Turke7 will be flanked bJ Co ■■uaiat aatellite1 on three aidea - lu11ia to the nort ••11aria to the •••t, and S7ria to the 1outb. Tonlabt the nation, of lato and tbe la,bdad Paot •r• deep in ooaaultatioa. Aad diplo ■ atlc aourcea la London report - An1lo-Aa1rlcan talk• will 10 on uatll tbe SJrian 1ituation beco■•• clearer. One diftioultJ • tti• llaeahower Dootrlne ia not applicable to S7ria - because that nation baa aot been inYaded. The auddea coup, waa arranged fro■ th• inal4• - by hoae-arown Bed,. Th• aati-Co■auni•t• had no cbaac, to a1k A ■erioa tor help. Conar••• will be in ••••ion all of next week - an4 probably the tollowia1 week too. So annouace4 b7 Senate lepublican leader, lilliaa lnowland - tollowlDI a aeetiq with Pre1ideDt ii1enbower at tbe lbit• Mou••• Tb• CaliforDla 1 . epublioaD refa••• •••• a 1u••• - about wbea he aDd hi• oolleagu•• will be allowed to go ho••• Be aerel7 aaya, it will take a lot of break• - to allow Conar••• to adjourn, by the end of t hi1 ■ontb. Aa •• know, it'• the Clwil lighte Bill that i1 snarling things up. Q.O.P. l••d•r• told Mr. ii1eDbow•• thi1 aorni11 - the7 1 11 fight tor an etfeoti•• bill aaalaat diaori ■ ination - it ~oqr••• haa to ataJ iD Washington right into Septeaber. House Leader Joseph Martin, noting - the leader• of hi1 party are open to compromise - but they still refuse to go all the way witb •hat Martin called •the Southern led Horthern liberal•• in the House. . . . , •• - 2 . . Tba\'a the reaaon for the deadlock. The Soutberaer1, and their••• allle1 - 1a, •DJ atteapt \o pa•• a 1troqer bill - would aean, no oi•ll ri1ht1 legi1lation thi1 Jtar. The oppoaition ar1uina - •••• if the Ho••• pa•••• a 1tro•1•• bill - the Seaa\e will ao\ aooep\ it. 14We9A1 laD'• loageat tour into tbe 1trato1phere - baa ended . ~•Jor David Siaona ot the Air force - briDgin1 hia balloon down - after it had cliabed abo•• a huadrei thou1and feet. The MaJor •&J• be wanted to 1ta1 up longer - to coDtiaue hi1 bloloaical and p17cholo1loal experi■enta on hiaaelt. But he••• ordered dowa - whea the weather turaed bad. UaJor Si ■ODI not onl7i waat up a hundred thouaaad feet• but he al10 tra••led tour buDdred all•• aoro11 our Mid-leat. He describes the oeleatial pheDo ■eaa he 1aw as •indescribable - apectacular•. He aaw the aua rise in a burst of beautiful color. Be 1aw 1tar1 that neYer t•inkled. He rode throu1h the deep blaokn••• ol a atratoaphere at night. And far below hi ■, he watched lightning flashing in an earthbound stora. And he brought back a lot of new intoraation •••I the probleaa hu■ an beings face - when tbw get that f.ar up in the stratosphere. The flight b7 ■ aJor aiaona is a l&l&M1 - 2 ■aJor atep toward•••'• conque1t of oater•~•••• 11x1opuc,10112 ~.,, Ber•'• the late1t recoriiq by Lowell Tho••• - fro• deep in the Jungle of lew Quin••· It tell••• 10•• ■or• about a atone age people - Juat eapo••• to ci,ili1ation. L.T.: The I•• Guinea people of th• lar1• Sepit li••r ,tlla1• of Tiabunke, . 1awe J••t •••n their tlr1t ■otloa picture, except tor ao■• of th• aen, who 12 or 13 7ear1 ago, d urlng the war, went down to the ooaat and •••k•• for the Au1trallan1 or our people, at •ewak or ladaa1. A big 1oreen ••• huna bet•••• two tall coooaa•t pla■1, a projector aet up on a plattor■, and a power line run fro■ the s p ecial generator that ia carrled by on• of our ex-pearling lugger•• Bob Daugherty, the Assi1tant Dl1triot Officer, de1oribed what wae happening, on the acreen, to the crowd, in le• Gbinea pidgin English. The audience IIJ i All IA - 2 laqblDi at all tbw wrons place,. Soaeone 1bot, theJ laugbe4. Soaeoae 47ing, ther roared witb laqhter. th~ heroine fell oft her horse and waa about to be carried away b7 a ru1blag torreat tbe7 bowled witb delight. 1 •a• particularl7 iatere1ted in tbe wa, wort•••' up ri••r to Ti ■buate that plctv•• •••• to be 1h00 tbat e•••laa. ln the aid4le of the afternoon the ••••a1• •a• ·••t up 1trea■ fro■ th• Tlll•1• of Taabaaaa, OD tb• bt1 4ru, a hollowe4 tr•• trunk called the 1araaat, wht•• 11 •••4 all o••• ■•• Oulaea tor 1en4ing ••••••••· An4 the7 aua, ha•• a coapl1cate4 code, bee•••• ov Hklpp•• •spoot• Snoot 1a71 tb17 caa 1•t a••••••• to one particular natl•• in an area inhabited b7 thou1and1, do it Just by the wa7 tbe7 beat out the ■e11age on the big drua. •spook• also thinks that the7 are gifted •itb aental telepath7. His theor7 being that pri ■ iti•• ■ an ~ c . . . . . . 1 & . . . _ _ _ _ .._u, - ' u• qa1■st - , bad tbia r•■arkabl• 11ft, aad th•n loat it eh•• be b•o••• ct,1111•4- Mlaaionari•• ha••'••• ••1 o• thia, tbit ao-oa11•4 greateat of all th• oan•ibal 111••••• 1iaoe o•• oft~• fi•at, a di1tl•1ui1b•4 •••••••4 • Chal■•r• 101\ bi1 beat •••••• ••t•a lD th• r1, ll••r oo•nt•J• To411,, la \bil Unit•• latloa1 Maadat• Jart ot ••• Qui•••• th•r• are \wo t7p11 of ■i11loa1, oa• Catholio, • • tb• otb•• 7\b Dar Ad•••tlata, witb Lutl••••• la 10•• ooa1tal ••otio••• Tb• tor Catbollo p•r•oaali\J 11 a tall, l•aa, boat lo•••• fath•• L•• Arlf•l4, ll1bop of the Sepii llYer Diooe1e of the Ord•r of th• Ui•ia• lor4. Be oo••• froa tbe 1aall town of Barl••• in th• tall oorn countrJ of Sb•lbJ ~oaati in leatern lo••· Under bi ■ ar• aro•ad 100 other European•, prl••t■, nun,, · and ao on, of ••DJ nationaliti••· Once 7ou enter the Order of th• ViTiD• Word, which apeciali1•• la al1aionar7 work, you 1ta1 in the field tor the re1t of 111 _ qpllll - 4 your life. According to the ataadarda ••t b7 th• ~huroh of lo••• tbia 7oua1 Iowan aut be a rtaarkable •••• btcaua• h• becaae a Biahop when he wa1 oal7 ,,. Tea 71ar1 later he atill loota no old••· Muoh of the ti ■•• and all aloae, he fli•• o••r thi1 wll4 realoa of 1waap1, Jun,i•• aad aouataia1, pilotiag hi• aia1l• enaiae4 Ce11aa. Be ea7a that th• natl•• ohildren art ezoee41aalt bri1ht, plot up laa1ua1•• quiotlJ, aad appear to'• a1 inttlligent a1 aa, ohl14ren. But ht adda that whea tbeJ rtaob 16, or 17, or 11, that fro■ then oa, tor aoae reaaoa th•J ■ ak• ao further progr•••• Be •aJ• tbat aboye all the7 don't 11kt to •rk, and tbat if the White Ian pulled out it would onlJ be a ■atter of a 7ear or two until tbe7 would re•ert to their original ••••It atate. He belieYes the cliaate on tbia great equatorial ialand is largel7 responsible for thi•• Although we haYe visited several Tilla ~ •• where 11 l e m i s (! i o n a r Y or k i do n e by h ? th a y A v e " t i 8 t 8 , o f a r w h v n o me t a ny of th i I' re , re s e n t at i v e s • But their ville seem to b the cleanest - the best or a nized. Th re is al • ays that argument in the mission field a s to where em p hasis should be placed - whether p eople should be left in their natural state, or whether they should be given the sometimes dubious benefits ot what we ~all civilization. 1 guess no one has the final answer to that. So long. !LOTS --- The Ai~ Force a mits it may lose almost h a lf ot the men - ju·t beginnin their ilot training. The reason - that new p olicy 1n the ir Force - demanding that p ilot trainees sign up for five years instead or three. The order, a y: lying to aviation cadets, graduates or the Air Force Academy, ana members of the Reserve Officers Training Corps. The Air Force declares - it can't afford to train pilots, and then hav~ them quit after only three years of service. This old procedure, was too costly. Because it takes about a hundred and fifty thousand dollars to train a pilot. So now the Air Eorce wants to be sure that when it sends a trainee on a basic training course for pilots - he's going to stay with the Service for five years. At the same time, the Air Force started a survey - to see how the men feel about it. According to the s urvey, fifty-two , 1 er cent o f t os e new bein · tmined as p ilot s - wi ll k e e g oin. The rest, almo s t h alf - say t h ey' ll i v e u their flyin g c ar eers. The y'll t a ke roun d jobs in s te ad - o they'll be out o f uniform in tree years. The to p g ener a ls of the Air Force ~ oint out - the situation isn't quite as serious as it looks. 1hey told newsmen - they're sure of building up a back-log of men willing to serv five years. ln other words, the Air Force won't g ain as many pilots - but it will keep t h em a lot lon e er. The ~ ur eon .neral of the U . . Army, warns the Am eric n p eo p le - to ~ re . are for a p ossible epidemic of the Asiatic flu, th t i s now so p revalent in many 1 ces of the orld. General Leroy Burney told newsmen - the flu is ex ected to break out around tho. end of this fall. The urgeon General, µ redicting that it may sweep acrosa the country within six weeks. His estimate or the p ossible number of victims - thirty-four million. The armed forces are taking special precautions - against the Asiatic flu. Volunteers are being put through special tests - to see how they respond to vaccine. The noraal dose of vaccine - is one cubic centimeter. These military guinea pigs are getting twice as much - double shots of vaccine, to see if they will become immune. BOY -- Toni 1 ht the p o lice of C dar R a _ >ids, lo a, _ o. re J o ldin an ext o rti on i t n med Carl Ha rris. The po int is - he's on ly sixteen years old. e embarked on a ■• one- man crime ave - under his own , o w er. Dut he didn't g et very far. H chose as his victim - Marvin Selden, the Vice- P resident of a Cedar Ra ~ ids ~ank. He demanded twenty-ti hundred dollars from the Vice-President - threatening to kill members of the Selden family, if he didn't g et the money. The young extortionist, writin g to his victia, "Twenty-five hundred dollars is a small sum - to pay for a loved one's life, no?• Se lden turned the letter over to t h e po lice - who s et a trap for the extortionist. And Carl Harris walked into th~ trap. He says he w as the brains behind the plot - a nd feels quite ? roud or it, describing himself as •a erson with some intelli E ence.• e also says, he has no scruples against homicide - so the police are just aa happy they caught him - before his extortionist p lot _ ____ went any further. The a lle c ed mater s o y of Soviet es p iona e - eta a lawyer. James Donovan, assi ned to defend Colonel Rudolf Aoel. onovan, who hel ; ed . rosecute the Nazi war criminals a t uremberg. Now a member of the New York law firm of Watters and Donovan - he was recommended by the Brooklyn Bar Association. Judge Matthew Abruzzo, accepting the recommendation. So James Donovan will be the defense counsel when Colonel Abel goes on trial, September Sixteenth - accused of espi6nage, facing a possible death penalty, if convicted. T h e cro n > r i nee of t h e · a mst e rs Union _ has f i n al ly a 1 e r e d b efore the ' en at, e R a c k ets (.; ommittee. Jimmy H offa, c all ed a "study in brown" - wh en h e took the w i t nes c l air. H e w ore a chocolat e brown suit, a shiny brown tie, and li g ht brown shoes. He also carried a brown leather ca e. Unlike the P resident of the Teamstem Union, D ave B eck - H offa did not invoke the Fifth Am endment. He told the Committee - he was ready to a nswer p ertinent quentions, if he knew the answers. One of the first points that came u p - a company known as• H obren". It's a firm that leases trucks to Commercial Carriers of flint, Michigan. Hoffa, telling the Committee - his wife is a co-owner of Hobren. Ahd that the Com p any made a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars by leasing equip ■ ent to Continental Carriers, which had a contr a ct with the T eamsters. H off a in s ists he h as no J e rsonal connection with HOFFA - 2 _ __....-- H obren - doesn'l el p run it, a n d he doesn't own any tock. But he a mits he an ds wife ool their income - for income tax ; 1 urposes. Ana though he doesn't see any conflict of interests, he claims he's going to liquidate the connection between his Union an his wife's company - to conform with the ethical practices code ot the AFL-ClO. ~l vi s t r es ley did a lot of rockin g and rolling las t ni ht - only h e wasn't in front of the microphone. The hero of t h e bobby- ox bri ade - in a real life drama. lt started, hen the resley family were awakened by a ga ng og teen-agers who had sli ~p ed into the estate near · emphis, Tennessee. The invaders, carting off some of the lawn furniture - ~iling it in their car - then s p eeding off. But by this time, the star of the show was on st a ge. Elvis resley, racing do~stairs, jumping into his Continental - pursuing the thieves• car through Mem~his traffic. Near the city limits, he caught up with the■ - and forced them off the road. He says that the boys began to. cry - so he let them go - after taking down their license number. ~ut h e brought his furniture back - just like the hero of a movie, rounding up the cattle carried off by the rustlers. And now, let' shed a te ar for the teen- ag er who lost her ~ i g -t ils - to a shggy black bear. Sharonne 1 Gouch of Borris, Tennessee, was camping with h e r family in the Great s~okey Mountains. La · t night, the rest ot the Gouch family was suddenly awakened - by loud screams comin from Sharoone's tent. Mrs. Gouch hastily turned on a flashlight - and saw a bear nibbling at Sharonne's head. Mrs. Gouch pro ■ ptly rushed over - and socked the intruder on the nose with her flashlight. Then, in her words, •He sat back, rolled out of the tent, rubbed his nose, and walked away." But not before he had eaten the crowning glory of Sharonne Gooch. Tonight, she's recovered from the fright - but her p ig-tails are gone - swall/~•ed by that b~ack bear who invaded her tent, out there in the Great 'm okies of Tennessee. LTP.1957.08.20i.pdf LTP.1957.08.20ii.pdf